Patents by Inventor Vinod Krishnan
Vinod Krishnan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12353496Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining contextual objects related to web content. Web content may include one or more elements, which may be extracted from the web content and analyzed to identify any contextual objects. The web content elements may be hyperlink elements, and contextual objects may be identified based on the hyperlink elements. A dominant entity may be identified for the web content, and contextual objects relating to the dominant entity may be identified. When a request for web content is received, contextual objects may be provided with the requested content. Personalized contextual objects may be selected from the identified contextual objects based on data associated with the request for web content. Selection of a contextual object may result in navigation to a browsing environment associated with the selected contextual object.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2024Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Marcelo M. De Barros, Manish Mittal, Vinod Krishnan Koduvayoor Subramanian, Prateek Tiwari, Ayan Banerjee, Samir Bathla
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Publication number: 20250124923Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to phasing-out of vehicle computing device versions while ensuring useful responsiveness of any vehicle computing device versions that are still in operation. Certain features of updated computing devices may not be available to prior versions of computing devices because of hardware limitations. The implementations set forth herein eliminate crashes and wasteful data transmissions caused by prior versions of computing devices that have not been, or cannot be, upgraded. A server device can be responsive to a particular intent request provided to a vehicle computing device, despite the intent request being associated with an action that a particular version of the vehicle computing device cannot execute. In response, the server device can elect to provide speech to text data, and/or natural language understanding data, in furtherance of allowing the vehicle computing device to continue leveraging resources at the server device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Inventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Vinod Krishnan
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Patent number: 12277590Abstract: This disclosure is directed to, in part, mobile carts and/or associated computing devices that are configured to determine their respective location, determine an item in a facility that is associated with an item location that is nearest the location of the cart, determine one or more items that have been designated as similar to the nearest item, and output recommendation data corresponding to the similar items. In some instances, items may be ranked according to similarity based on a comparison of text data associated with the items, based on a comparison of location data associated with the items in other facilities, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Albert J. Morello, Vinod Krishnan Kulathumani, Lawrence Lindstrom Page, Tyler Allan Hendrickson
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Patent number: 12217457Abstract: This disclosure is directed to, in part, mobile carts that are configured to determine their respective locations based on analysis of image data generated by cameras mounted to the respective carts. For instance, an example mobile cart may include at least one camera of a field-of-view directed substantially away from a cart and substantially towards an outward environment of the cart, such as toward an inventory location that houses one or more items. The mobile cart may generate image data representative of items housed at an inventory location adjacent to the cart and may use computer-vision techniques to analyze the image data and determine characteristics of these items. The mobile cart may then use this information to determine which section of multiple sections of a store in which the cart is currently located.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Bruno Miranda Artacho, Vinod Krishnan Kulathumani, Sreemanananth Sadanand
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Patent number: 12175980Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to phasing-out of vehicle computing device versions while ensuring useful responsiveness of any vehicle computing device versions that are still in operation. Certain features of updated computing devices may not be available to prior versions of computing devices because of hardware limitations. The implementations set forth herein eliminate crashes and wasteful data transmissions caused by prior versions of computing devices that have not been, or cannot be, upgraded. A server device can be responsive to a particular intent request provided to a vehicle computing device, despite the intent request being associated with an action that a particular version of the vehicle computing device cannot execute. In response, the server device can elect to provide speech to text data, and/or natural language understanding data, in furtherance of allowing the vehicle computing device to continue leveraging resources at the server device.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Vinod Krishnan
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Publication number: 20240361983Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate an automated assistant that provides suggestion elements at an OEM application and/or third-party application that is accessible via an OEM vehicle computing device, which employs restrictions on communications between local applications. The automated assistant can render suggestions via OEM vehicle applications and/or third-party applications, and initialize actions for performance via the OEM vehicle applications and/or the third-party applications—despite the limitations. The suggestions can be rendered at a graphical user interface of a vehicle, and include content that, when spoken by a user, causes the automated assistant to initialize such actions. Actions that are suggested by the automated assistant can be performed by third-party applications that are different from a third-party application that is rendering the suggestion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2024Publication date: October 31, 2024Inventors: Vinod Krishnan, Vikram Aggarwal
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Publication number: 20240354355Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining contextual objects related to web content. Web content may include one or more elements, which may be extracted from the web content and analyzed to identify any contextual objects. The web content elements may be hyperlink elements, and contextual objects may be identified based on the hyperlink elements. A dominant entity may be identified for the web content, and contextual objects relating to the dominant entity may be identified. When a request for web content is received, contextual objects may be provided with the requested content. Personalized contextual objects may be selected from the identified contextual objects based on data associated with the request for web content. Selection of a contextual object may result in navigation to a browsing environment associated with the selected contextual object.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Marcelo M. DE BARROS, Manish MITTAL, Vinod Krishnan KODUVAYOOR SUBRAMANIAN, Prateek TIWARI, Ayan BANERJEE, Samir BATHLA
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Publication number: 20240354822Abstract: Automatically selecting a proxy processor for handling requests for information related items in a data feed to avoid navigating to a third-party site. The data feed includes displaying a scrollable list of items for selection. The disclosed technology generates recommendation scores associated with respective proxy processors. A recommendation score is based on a weighted sum of parameters associated with acquiring an item using a proxy processor. Selecting a proxy processor includes ranking the proxy processor using the recommendation scores. The selected proxy processor communicates with a plurality of item providers and retailers for a consolidated acquisition process. The disclosed technology further maintains the user on the data feed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2023Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Samir BATHLA, Wei FANG, Vinod Krishnan KODUVAYOOR SUBRAMANIAN, Marcelo M. DE BARROS, Sayalee Arun BHANAVASE
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Patent number: 12050659Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining contextual objects related to web content. Web content may include one or more elements, which may be extracted from the web content and analyzed to identify any contextual objects. The web content elements may be hyperlink elements, and contextual objects may be identified based on the hyperlink elements. A dominant entity may be identified for the web content, and contextual objects relating to the dominant entity may be identified. When a request for web content is received, contextual objects may be provided with the requested content. Personalized contextual objects may be selected from the identified contextual objects based on data associated with the request for web content. Selection of a contextual object may result in navigation to a browsing environment associated with the selected contextual object.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Marcelo M. De Barros, Manish Mittal, Vinod Krishnan Koduvayoor Subramanian, Prateek Tiwari, Ayan Banerjee, Samir Bathla
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Patent number: 12039227Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate an automated assistant that provides suggestion elements at an OEM application and/or third-party application that is accessible via an OEM vehicle computing device, which employs restrictions on communications between local applications. The automated assistant can render suggestions via OEM vehicle applications and/or third-party applications, and initialize actions for performance via the OEM vehicle applications and/or the third-party applications—despite the limitations. The suggestions can be rendered at a graphical user interface of a vehicle, and include content that, when spoken by a user, causes the automated assistant to initialize such actions. Actions that are suggested by the automated assistant can be performed by third-party applications that are different from a third-party application that is rendering the suggestion.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Vinod Krishnan, Vikram Aggarwal
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Patent number: 12020282Abstract: Systems and techniques for displaying advertisements on a digital display and gathering impression and view data related to the advertisement that may be used to refine or score the advertisements for greater effectiveness. The impression and view data may be used to identify effective portions of advertisements and subsequently to train a machine learning model to predict impression data for advertisements that may be used to iteratively improve the advertisements.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2023Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Abhay Doke, Vinod Krishnan Kulathumani, Austin Reiter
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Publication number: 20230410156Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for increasing user engagement using incentivized user task completion. In some embodiments, the incentivized user tasks relate to game related tasks in exchange for rewards, also referred to as “gamification”. Such gamification techniques entice user interaction by involving introducing user specific games, rewards, and prizes into the online shopping experience. As described herein, such functionality relates to identifying user specific features, identifying a list of prized products for the user, introducing games for the user to engage with, and rewarding the user for successfully completing a game. The games and rewards may be presented to the user in an interactive visual display incorporating the game modules and rewards throughout. The gamification process may be a collaborative endeavor between the online shopping platform and online sellers to develop games and rewards which market products directly to specific users.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2022Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Marcelo M. DE BARROS, Manish MITTAL, Vinod Krishnan KODUVAYOOR SUBRAMANIAN, Prateek TIWARI
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Publication number: 20230409657Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining contextual objects related to web content. Web content may include one or more elements, which may be extracted from the web content and analyzed to identify any contextual objects. The web content elements may be hyperlink elements, and contextual objects may be identified based on the hyperlink elements. A dominant entity may be identified for the web content, and contextual objects relating to the dominant entity may be identified. When a request for web content is received, contextual objects may be provided with the requested content. Personalized contextual objects may be selected from the identified contextual objects based on data associated with the request for web content. Selection of a contextual object may result in navigation to a browsing environment associated with the selected contextual object.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2022Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Marcelo M. DE BARROS, Manish MITTAL, Vinod Krishnan KODUVAYOOR SUBRAMANIAN, Prateek TIWARI, Ayan BANERJEE, Samir BATHLA
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Publication number: 20230343335Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to phasing-out of vehicle computing device versions while ensuring useful responsiveness of any vehicle computing device versions that are still in operation. Certain features of updated computing devices may not be available to prior versions of computing devices because of hardware limitations. The implementations set forth herein eliminate crashes and wasteful data transmissions caused by prior versions of computing devices that have not been, or cannot be, upgraded. A server device can be responsive to a particular intent request provided to a vehicle computing device, despite the intent request being associated with an action that a particular version of the vehicle computing device cannot execute. In response, the server device can elect to provide speech to text data, and/or natural language understanding data, in furtherance of allowing the vehicle computing device to continue leveraging resources at the server device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Vinod Krishnan
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Patent number: 11727934Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to phasing-out of vehicle computing device versions while ensuring useful responsiveness of any vehicle computing device versions that are still in operation. Certain features of updated computing devices may not be available to prior versions of computing devices because of hardware limitations. The implementations set forth herein eliminate crashes and wasteful data transmissions caused by prior versions of computing devices that have not been, or cannot be, upgraded. A server device can be responsive to a particular intent request provided to a vehicle computing device, despite the intent request being associated with an action that a particular version of the vehicle computing device cannot execute. In response, the server device can elect to provide speech to text data, and/or natural language understanding data, in furtherance of allowing the vehicle computing device to continue leveraging resources at the server device.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Vinod Krishnan
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Publication number: 20230230425Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to various techniques that enable an improved automated assistant suggestion service for vehicle(s). For example, implementations can initialize and perform a recurring system health check service to ensure a connection is maintained between at least an OEM application of an in-vehicle computing device of a given vehicle and the suggestion service accessible by the in-vehicle computing device of the given vehicle. By ensuring this connection is maintained, the suggestion service is less prone to failure and suggestion(s) may still be provided in situations when the suggestion service does fail. Additionally, or alternatively, implementations can utilize a versioning API to ensure compatibility between at least the OEM application and the suggestion service. By ensuring this compatibility, the suggestion service for the vehicle(s) is more robust to version updates and the applications need not be fully compatible.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Ankur Aggarwal, Vinod Krishnan, Sriram Natarajan
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Publication number: 20220246152Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to phasing-out of vehicle computing device versions while ensuring useful responsiveness of any vehicle computing device versions that are still in operation. Certain features of updated computing devices may not be available to prior versions of computing devices because of hardware limitations. The implementations set forth herein eliminate crashes and wasteful data transmissions caused by prior versions of computing devices that have not been, or cannot be, upgraded. A server device can be responsive to a particular intent request provided to a vehicle computing device, despite the intent request being associated with an action that a particular version of the vehicle computing device cannot execute. In response, the server device can elect to provide speech to text data, and/or natural language understanding data, in furtherance of allowing the vehicle computing device to continue leveraging resources at the server device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Vinod Krishnan
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Patent number: 11315559Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to phasing-out of vehicle computing device versions while ensuring useful responsiveness of any vehicle computing device versions that are still in operation. Certain features of updated computing devices may not be available to prior versions of computing devices because of hardware limitations. The implementations set forth herein eliminate crashes and wasteful data transmissions caused by prior versions of computing devices that have not been, or cannot be, upgraded. A server device can be responsive to a particular intent request provided to a vehicle computing device, despite the intent request being associated with an action that a particular version of the vehicle computing device cannot execute. In response, the server device can elect to provide speech to text data, and/or natural language understanding data, in furtherance of allowing the vehicle computing device to continue leveraging resources at the server device.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Vikram Aggarwal, Vinod Krishnan
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Publication number: 20210255828Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate an automated assistant that provides suggestion elements at an OEM application and/or third-party application that is accessible via an OEM vehicle computing device, which employs restrictions on communications between local applications. The automated assistant can render suggestions via OEM vehicle applications and/or third-party applications, and initialize actions for performance via the OEM vehicle applications and/or the third-party applications—despite the limitations. The suggestions can be rendered at a graphical user interface of a vehicle, and include content that, when spoken by a user, causes the automated assistant to initialize such actions. Actions that are suggested by the automated assistant can be performed by third-party applications that are different from a third-party application that is rendering the suggestion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Vinod Krishnan, Vikram Aggarwal
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Patent number: 10996925Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate an automated assistant that provides suggestion elements at an OEM application and/or third-party application that is accessible via an OEM vehicle computing device, which employs restrictions on communications between local applications. The automated assistant can render suggestions via OEM vehicle applications and/or third-party applications, and initialize actions for performance via the OEM vehicle applications and/or the third-party applications—despite the limitations. The suggestions can be rendered at a graphical user interface of a vehicle, and include content that, when spoken by a user, causes the automated assistant to initialize such actions. Actions that are suggested by the automated assistant can be performed by third-party applications that are different from a third-party application that is rendering the suggestion.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Vinod Krishnan, Vikram Aggarwal