"Computer Related Inventions (CRIs) in India" - Presented by Nitin Nair, BananaIP Counsels at Centre for Ai & Robotics (CAIR), DRDO, Bangalore

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Computer Related Inventions (CRIs) in India
Nitin Nair BANANAIP Counsels
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Drafting (specification claims)
PATENT PROCESS

• Filing (respective Patent Offices)
• Publication
• Prosecution (claim amendments/response in
  response to office actions)
• Maintenance

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PATENTABILITY CRITERIA

• Subject matter
• Novel
• Inventive step
• Industrial application
• Disclosure

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SUBJECT MATTER

• Product or process
• Exclusions
• A mathematical or business method or a computer
  programme, per se or algorithms
• literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or
  any other aesthetic creation
• a mere scheme or rule or method of performing
  mental act or method of playing game
• a presentation of information
• topography of integrated circuits

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EXAMPLE CLAIMS

• An apparatus comprising
• an elongated flexible member adapted to be
  removably inserted into an enclosure
• a dispensing mechanism operable to selectively
  dispense and retract said elongated flexible
  member
• a counter configured to determine an amount of
  said elongated flexible member dispensed by said
  dispensing mechanism
• a controller configured to receive said amount of
  said elongated flexible member dispensed from
  the counter and determine a rate at which said
  elongated flexible member is dispensed and
• a display in data communication with said
  controller, wherein said controller causes said
  rate at which said flexible member is dispensed
  to be displayed in relation to a visual
  representation of said enclosure on said display.

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EXAMPLE CLAIMS

• 1. A scheduling system for scheduling operation
  of a device, the scheduling system comprising
• a touch screen based user interface adapted to
  display a plurality of scrollable, selectable
  options corresponding to different settings,
  different modes of operation of the device to be
  scheduled and different time zones for which the
  device is to be scheduled for, said touch screen
  based user interface further adapted to display
  the different settings, the different modes of
  operation of the device for the different time
  zones as selected by
• a user to define a particular operation schedule
  for the device
• a selection module adapted to facilitate
  navigation and selection of the options from the
  plurality of scrollable, selectable options
  displayed on said touch screen based user
  interface for selectively defining a particular
  operation schedule for the device
• a storage memory adapted to store data
  corresponding to different
• settings, different modes of operation of the
  device to be scheduled and different time zones
  for which the device is to be scheduled and
• a communication network adapted to facilitate
  communication of different
• settings, modes of operation of the device
  corresponding to different time zones in
  accordance with a particular operation schedule
  to the device for controlling the device as per
  defined operation schedule set by the user for
  the device.

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EXAMPLE CLAIMS

• A method of classifying in real-time objects
  present at a location, the method comprising
• Capturing (302) in real-time, by an imaging
  device, at least one image at a location and
• performing, by a single board computer connected
  to said imaging device, the steps of
• detecting (304) presence of one or more objects
  as present within the captured image and
  generating a geometrical representation for the
  objects
• shortlisting (306) at least one object out of
  said detected objects based on at least one of
  generated geometrical representations a number
  of pixels and an aspect ratio
• classifying (308) said at least one captured
  image under at least one category based on the
  shortlisted object, in accordance with a pre-
  defined class-prediction criteria.

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EXAMPLE CLAIMS
A system and the associated method to search for
suitable area for one or more than one usages
including construction, location and/or operation
of one or more than one type of physical objects
in a surveyed geographical terrain, comprising
acts of representing said surveyed geographical
terrain as a spatial system comprising of one or
more than one data points where each surveyed
geographical terrain point is mapped to a
specific data point in said spatial
system addressing each of said spatial system
data point entities through one or more than one
co -ordinate systems which include Cartesian
coordinate, military GRID coordinate, polar
coordinate, spherical geographic coordinate,
simultaneously grouping and addressing one or
more than one subsets of said spatial system data
points as a specific addressable object which
mayor may not have one to one correspondence to
real world objects as described in the surveyed
geographical terrain depicting each of said
addressable objects in multiple resolutions as
chosen by the operator of the system defining
and storing a set of one or more criteria for
evaluation of suitability of an area for the said
physical object enabling an operator to choose
a subset of criteria from the stored set of
criteria and searching said spatial system
representation of said surveyed geographic
terrain using the subset of criteria to decide
on suitability of an area in the said surveyed
geographic terrain for said physical object.
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EXAMPLE CLAIMS

• A method of scheduling and displaying an online
  presence status of a user of an instant
  messaging (IM) application, comprising
• setting, by presence management server (PMS)
  (500) containing a processor and a memory, a
  routine online schedule of the user, the routine
  including a start time, an end time, a time
  zone, and a routine status that indicates a
  preference of the user to appear online or
  offline in the IM application between the start
  time and the end time
• determining, by the presence management server
  (PMS), the online presence status of the user in
  the IM application as user and a current time,
  wherein the online presence status is set to be
  equal to the routine status when the current
  time is between the start time and the end time
  for said time zone regardless of the user being
  on line or offline in the IM application, wherein
  the online presence status is not equal to the
  routine status when the current time is not
  between the start time and the end time, wherein
  the user appears online in the IM application if
  the user desires to appear online according to
  the routine status even if the user is offline
  in the IM application, the routine online
  schedule of the user being stored to enable the
  determining of the online presence status of the
  user and
• displaying, by the presence management server
  PMS),the determined online presence status of
  the user in an IM control panel (350) of other
  users.

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EXAMPLE CLAIMS

• A system for managing and monitoring prenatal
  image data across a network comprising
• a plurality of ultrasound machines distributed at
  various geographical locations, wherein each
  ultrasound machine comprises
• an ultrasound engine to scan the prenatal images
  from the ultrasound machine and
• a master-data storage to store the prenatal
  images scanned by each ultrasound engine in the
  master data storage of its corresponding
  ultrasound machine and
• a remote server linked to each ultrasound machine
  of the plurality of ultrasound machines to form
  the network such that the prenatal image data
  can be managed and monitored from a remote
  location by authentic users.

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EXAMPLE IDEAS

• Prior art Optical image stabilization (OIS) and
  electronic image stabilization (EIS) are
  existing independent methods for reducing
  movements during video recording.
• Invention Optical stabilization first helps to
  stabilize the shot through mechanical means
  without any loss of image resolution. That input
  is then fed to the electronic stabilization
  system, which detects any leftover shake and then
  crops/aligns the footage to further stabilize
  the shot.
• The phone compares position data of the OIS
  camera with position data from the phones
  built-in gyroscope to further stabilize video as
  you record.
• All this happens automatically during video
  recording and in real time.

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EXAMPLE IDEAS

• Prior art A manually flight control system
  comprising a mechanical circuit which links
  cockpit controls with hydraulic circuits,
  wherein the cockpit controls are controlled
  manually and the hydraulic circuit controlling
  one or more aircraft systems based on the inputs.
• Invention Taking inputs from sensors present in
  the aircraft (inputs such as accelerometer, air
  data, gyroscopes, and so on), flight control
  computers create second order equations that
  calculate corrections to be made to actuators at
  each control surface of the aircraft to
  stabilize the aircraft. According to the
  calculations, the flight control computers send
  corrections to the aircraft's control surfaces
  to enhance the stability of the aircraft without
  the pilot having to act.

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EXAMPLE IDEAS

• Video 1
• Video 2

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