Patents by Inventor Vivek P. Gundotra

Vivek P. Gundotra 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).

  • Social network collaboration space
    Patent number: 9876827
    Abstract: A method, at a client device associated with a first subscriber of a multiplicity of subscribers to a social network, includes presenting a social network page associated with a second subscriber of the multiplicity of subscribers to the social network, the social network page including a link to an online collaboration space associated with the second subscriber; receiving a user input activating the link, the user input made by the first subscriber of the multiplicity of subscribers; and in response to the user input activating the link, presenting the online collaboration space and adding the first subscriber as a participant to the online collaboration space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Chee H. Chew, Vivek P. Gundotra
  • Triggering social pages
    Patent number: 9275421
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for information retrieval. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a search input including one or more search terms; determining whether the search input includes a particular token; in response to determining that the search input includes the particular token, determining whether the one or more search terms are associated with a particular social page; in response to determining that the one or more search terms are associated with the particular social page, providing the particular social page without providing search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan C. Horling, David M. Byttow, Pavan K. Desikan, Pavani Diwanji, Ronald Ho, Sagar Kamdar, Sara Su, Vivek P. Gundotra
  • Integration of carriers with social networks
    Patent number: 8913723
    Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for receiving, at a server system of a social network and from a telephone service provider, information identifying members of a preferred calling group for a first user that is associated with the telephone provider. The sever system of the social network identifies the first user as a member of the social network. The server system of the social network identifies one or more of the members of the preferred calling group as being one or more members of the social network. The server system of the social network automatically defines a social network group that includes the one or more members of the preferred calling group who are members of the social network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek P. Gundotra, Matthew E. Waddell, Shimrit Ben-Yair, Jonathan Terleski
  • Integration Of Carriers With Social Networks
    Publication number: 20140126709
    Abstract: In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for receiving, at a server system of a social network and from a telephone service provider, information identifying members of a preferred calling group for a first user that is associated with the telephone provider. The sever system of the social network identifies the first user as a member of the social network. The server system of the social network identifies one or more of the members of the preferred calling group as being one or more members of the social network. The server system of the social network automatically defines a social network group that includes the one or more members of the preferred calling group who are members of the social network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek P. Gundotra, Matthew E. Waddell, Shimrit Ben-Yair, Jonathan Terleski
  • SOCIAL NETWORK COLLABORATION SPACE
    Publication number: 20140019882
    Abstract: A method, at a client device associated with a first subscriber of a multiplicity of subscribers to a social network, includes presenting a social network page associated with a second subscriber of the multiplicity of subscribers to the social network, the social network page including a link to an online collaboration space associated with the second subscriber; receiving a user input activating the link, the user input made by the first subscriber of the multiplicity of subscribers; and in response to the user input activating the link, presenting the online collaboration space and adding the first subscriber as a participant to the online collaboration space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Chee H. Chew, Vivek P. Gundotra
  • Smarthwatch with a user interface
    Patent number: D920990
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: AliveCor, Inc.
    Inventors: Melissa McClean, Alexander Vainius Valys, Conner Daniel Cross Galloway, Vivek P. Gundotra, Frank Losasso Petterson