Shiv Shankar

Shiv Shankar

Sunnyvale, California, United States
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    Sunnyvale, CA

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    Sunnyvale, California, United States

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    Sunnyvale, US

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    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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Publications

  • Rethinking Consumer Email: The Research Process for Yahoo Mail 6

    MIT

    This case study follows the research process of
    rethinking the design and functionality of a personal
    email client, Yahoo Mail. Over three years, we changed
    the focus of the product from composing emails
    towards automatically organizing specific categories of
    business to consumer email (such as deals, receipts,
    and travel) and creating experiences unique to each
    category. To achieve this, we employed iterative user
    research with over 1,500 in-person interviews in…

    This case study follows the research process of
    rethinking the design and functionality of a personal
    email client, Yahoo Mail. Over three years, we changed
    the focus of the product from composing emails
    towards automatically organizing specific categories of
    business to consumer email (such as deals, receipts,
    and travel) and creating experiences unique to each
    category. To achieve this, we employed iterative user
    research with over 1,500 in-person interviews in six
    countries and surveys to many thousands of people
    around the world. This research process culminated in
    the launch of Yahoo Mail 6.0 for iOS and Android
    devices in the fall of 2019.

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Patents

  • Method and System for Providing Recipe Recommendations Based on Item Purchase Receipts

    Issued US IPCOM000263747D

    A method and system are disclosed for recommending recipes to users based on items (for example, grocery items) purchased by the users. The method and system allow the users to create a shopping list and curates great recipes that are potential matches based on prior grocery purchases but maybe missing some additional ingredients. In addition, the method and system suggest recipes based on the dishes ordered by the users and receipts pertaining to purchased items and creates shopping lists…

    A method and system are disclosed for recommending recipes to users based on items (for example, grocery items) purchased by the users. The method and system allow the users to create a shopping list and curates great recipes that are potential matches based on prior grocery purchases but maybe missing some additional ingredients. In addition, the method and system suggest recipes based on the dishes ordered by the users and receipts pertaining to purchased items and creates shopping lists based on the corresponding recipe suggestions.

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  • Method and System for Invoking Conversation Reminders to Email Senders Based on Historic Response Rates

    Issued US IPCOM000258475D

    A method and system are disclosed for analyzing the historical response rate of communications between one or more users to remind an email sender of one or more potentially missed actions. The method and system surfaces one or more emails not replied to on top of the email sender's email list (inbox), thereby enabling the email sender to follow up during circumstances demanding an action.

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  • Method and System for Providing Contextual Response Toolbar for Commercial Emails by Analyzing Email Conten

    Issued US IPCOM000257574D

    A method and system are disclosed for providing a contextual response toolbar for commercial emails by analyzing email content. The method and system utilize a user interface (UI) element in the toolbar which enables users to initiate useful actions such as, share, save, print, and unsubscribe the commercial email content.

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  • User Interface Techniques for Moving Folders

    Issued US IPCOM000256985D

    A method and system are disclosed for utilizing user interface techniques for moving folders. Folders are virtual container which includes groups of files and other folders within a digital file system. The terms parent and child are often used to describe the relationship between a folder and subfolders. Folders may contain child items that may also include other folders (e.g. subfolders). The method and system utilize a user interface technique that allows the moving of a folder from…

    A method and system are disclosed for utilizing user interface techniques for moving folders. Folders are virtual container which includes groups of files and other folders within a digital file system. The terms parent and child are often used to describe the relationship between a folder and subfolders. Folders may contain child items that may also include other folders (e.g. subfolders). The method and system utilize a user interface technique that allows the moving of a folder from within a single menu instance in a software application.

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Projects

  • Manhattan

    - Present

    Manhattan is a server-side Node JS hosting environment for Mojito-based applications running on Yahoo!’s Cloud.

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  • Cloud Serving Engine

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    Yahoo’s on-demand infrastructure that deploys your code, connects it to other services and infrastructure, and maintains its health and capacity.

    Responsibility :-
    • Designing and building distributed and scaleable Cloud Gateway and Cloud Router with 99.99% availability
    • Successfully on-boarded 3 major Y! Products – Media, Profiles, Mail ‘My Photos’ Apps
    • Helped in product roadmap/features, & validated with internal customers
    • Created product on-boarding lifecycle, FAQs…

    Yahoo’s on-demand infrastructure that deploys your code, connects it to other services and infrastructure, and maintains its health and capacity.

    Responsibility :-
    • Designing and building distributed and scaleable Cloud Gateway and Cloud Router with 99.99% availability
    • Successfully on-boarded 3 major Y! Products – Media, Profiles, Mail ‘My Photos’ Apps
    • Helped in product roadmap/features, & validated with internal customers
    • Created product on-boarding lifecycle, FAQs, & customer’s guide
    • Delivered on the goal of broad customer adoption via technology evangelism
    consisting of webinars, live presentations
    • Led large-scale effort to migrate all of Yahoo! Properties from legacy platforms to the new cloud serving engine

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