Patents by Inventor Vivek Sekhar
Vivek Sekhar 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: 9836490Abstract: There are disclosed systems, method and tools for facilitating group collaborations. In an embodiment, collaborative ideas are represented in a modified tree data structure in which ideas are stored in nodes of the tree (an “idea tree”). Each node may be associated with data storage means, such as a table of records, in which different kinds of data can be stored. Data stored in the idea tree, or a part thereof, may be created, modified, deleted or organized by using various types of collaboration tools. A participant's interaction with the idea tree, or a part thereof, using a particular collaboration tool may be mapped as a transformation of the idea tree from one state to another. Other participants may simultaneously or successively interact with the idea tree, or a part thereof, using the same or a different collaboration tool. A coherent representation of collaborative ideas can be developed and organized without excessive manual effort.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mark Greenberg, Wojciech Gryc, Nicolas Picard, Vivek Sekhar
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Patent number: 9667631Abstract: A method includes receiving a wireless connection request at a backend computing device from a user device to allow wireless connection of the user device to a network through an access point located at a venue. The connection request includes a user identifier. The method includes validating the user identifier and granting wireless access of the user device to the access point when the user identifier is valid. The method further includes transmitting a venue-specific notification to the user device when the user device connects to the network.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Alexander Rybak, Alain Ayoub, Ezra Gorman, Priscilla Dao Pham, Vivek Sekhar
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Publication number: 20160269413Abstract: A method includes receiving a wireless connection request at a backend computing device from a user device to allow wireless connection of the user device to a network through an access point located at a venue. The connection request includes a user identifier. The method includes validating the user identifier and granting wireless access of the user device to the access point when the user identifier is valid. The method further includes transmitting a venue-specific notification to the user device when the user device connects to the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Alexander Rybak, Alain Ayoub, Ezra Gorman, Priscilla Dao Pham, Vivek Sekhar
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Patent number: 9374664Abstract: A method includes receiving a wireless connection request at a backend computing device from a user device to allow wireless connection of the user device to a network through an access point located at a venue. The connection request includes a user identifier. The method includes validating the user identifier and granting wireless access of the user device to the access point when the user identifier is valid. The method further includes transmitting a venue-specific notification to the user device when the user device connects to the network.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Alexander Rybak, Alain Ayoub, Ezra Gorman, Priscilla Dao Pham, Vivek Sekhar
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Patent number: 9336747Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are herein disclosed for controlling a display brightness based on user action or user interest in the display. In particular, the display brightness can be dimmed upon identification of a first marker indicative of a user action such as a request for a webpage. The brightness of the display can be increased or returned to its original state upon identification of a second marker indicative of completion of a user equipment activity triggered by the user action. In some embodiments, another brightness state between these two can be used as an intermediary and is triggered when a third marker, indicative of a progression of the user equipment activity, is identified.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.Inventors: Kavitha Vallari Devara, Shyama Prasad Mondal, Ashfaque Mansur, Vivek Sekhar
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Patent number: 9311424Abstract: A computing device comprising a transmitter/receiver adapted to communicate with a network and an application adapted to send a plurality of object requests through the transmitter/receiver, wherein, the plurality of object requests are placed in an order dependent upon at least one of an object size and an object type.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated Center, Inc.Inventor: Vivek Sekhar
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Publication number: 20160066134Abstract: A method includes receiving a wireless connection request at a backend computing device from a user device to allow wireless connection of the user device to a network through an access point located at a venue. The connection request includes a user identifier. The method includes validating the user identifier and granting wireless access of the user device to the access point when the user identifier is valid. The method further includes transmitting a venue-specific notification to the user device when the user device connects to the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2014Publication date: March 3, 2016Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Alexander Rybak, Alain Ayoub, Ezra Gorman, Priscilla Dao Pham, Vivek Sekhar
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Publication number: 20140379439Abstract: A method and system for aggregating opinions on questions from participants. The selection of a category is received from each participant for each question previously presented to each participant. The selection is a category into which each participant has placed an idea associated with each question. A percentage vote, which is calculated for each selected category of each idea, is a percent of participants that selected each category of each idea. A winning category is selected for each idea, based on the calculated percentage vote for each selected category of each idea. A next idea, consisting of the idea having the lowest calculated percentage vote of the ideas's winning category, is determined. A next question associated with the next idea having the lowest calculated percentage vote of the ideas's winning category is determined and presented to a new participant.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventor: Vivek Sekhar
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Publication number: 20140172787Abstract: There are disclosed systems, method and tools for facilitating group collaborations. In an embodiment, collaborative ideas are represented in a modified tree data structure in which ideas are stored in nodes of the tree (an “idea tree”). Each node may be associated with data storage means, such as a table of records, in which different kinds of data can be stored. Data stored in the idea tree, or a part thereof, may be created, modified, deleted or organized by using various types of collaboration tools. A participant's interaction with the idea tree, or a part thereof, using a particular collaboration tool may be mapped as a transformation of the idea tree from one state to another. Other participants may simultaneously or successively interact with the idea tree, or a part thereof, using the same or a different collaboration tool. A coherent representation of collaborative ideas can be developed and organized without excessive manual effort.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2014Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Mark Greenberg, Wojciech Gryc, Nicolas Picard, Vivek Sekhar
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Publication number: 20130311601Abstract: A computing device comprising a transmitter/receiver adapted to communicate with a network and an application adapted to send a plurality of object requests through the transmitter/receiver, wherein, the plurality of object requests are placed in an order dependent upon at least one of an object size and an object type.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: QUALCOMM INNOVATION CENTER, INC.Inventor: Vivek Sekhar
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Publication number: 20130141453Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are herein disclosed for controlling a display brightness based on user action or user interest in the display. In particular, the display brightness can be dimmed upon identification of a first marker indicative of a user action such as a request for a webpage. The brightness of the display can be increased or returned to its original state upon identification of a second marker indicative of completion of a user equipment activity triggered by the user action. In some embodiments, another brightness state between these two can be used as an intermediary and is triggered when a third marker, indicative of a progression of the user equipment activity, is identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: QUALCOMM INNOVATION CENTER, INC.Inventors: Kavitha Vallari Devara, Shyama Prasad Mondal, Ashfaque Mansur, Vivek Sekhar
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Publication number: 20070099162Abstract: There are disclosed systems, methods and tools for collecting opinions from group collaborations. In an embodiment, each participant may be asked to answer a small subset of questions, where each subset of questions presented to a participant may be different from a subset of questions posed to another participant. Data processing system implemented methods, systems and tools may be used to prepare each subset of questions to be asked, based on which questions require a larger sample of opinions, and to aggregate the subsets of opinions to infer an aggregate opinion for the group. This may significantly reduce or eliminate the need to subject a participant to the onerous task of expressing an opinion on each one of a large number of questions that may be collected in a group collaboration.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2006Publication date: May 3, 2007Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Vivek Sekhar
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Publication number: 20070094601Abstract: There are disclosed systems, method and tools for facilitating group collaborations. In an embodiment, collaborative ideas are represented in a modified tree data structure in which ideas are stored in nodes of the tree (an “idea tree”). Each node may be associated with data storage means, such as a table of records, in which different kinds of data can be stored. Data stored in the idea tree, or a part thereof, may be created, modified, deleted or organized by using various types of collaboration tools. A participant's interaction with the idea tree, or a part thereof, using a particular collaboration tool may be mapped as a transformation of the idea tree from one state to another. Other participants may simultaneously or successively interact with the idea tree, or a part thereof, using the same or a different collaboration tool. A coherent representation of collaborative ideas can be developed and organized without excessive manual effort.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2006Publication date: April 26, 2007Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mark Greenberg, Wolectech Gryc, Nicolas Picard, Vivek Sekhar