Jaz Banga

Jaz Banga, also known as Jasminder Banga (born August 5, 1973) is an entrepreneur who lives and works in San Francisco, California.[1] Banga's most high profile work was a project that intended to deliver Google Wi-Fi for free to the city of San Francisco during Gavin Newsom's tenure as mayor.[2] In 2011 Banga co-founded Connected Patents, a firm focused on patent portfolio development.[3]

Career

Banga's first company, UnWire Now was awarded the first Wi-Fi contracts in the city of San Francisco.[4] In April 2005, a billboard was spotted advertising free Wi-Fi in Union Square offered by UnwireNow and Google.[5]

By October 2005, Banga’s company Feeva, was handling the San Francisco Wi-Fi project.[6] He was working under the guidance of the late Dr. John Freeman, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business Incubator, when Freeman unexpectedly passed away.[7] Banga served as CTO and President of Feeva Technology.[8] In 2008, Feeva was named as a runner-up for a Spiffy Award by the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley.[9] In 2010 he resigned from Feeva.[10]

As of January 2011, Jaz Banga was working on a new company, ProximityWare, Inc. at the Founders Den in San Francisco.[11]

Banga founded Connected Patents, a Silicon Valley consulting firm aimed at helping entrepreneurs protect their intellectual property. The company brainstorms with clients, lawyers and writers to develop defensible patent portfolios for inventors who want to protect their ideas from patent trolls.[12]

Patents

Banga is listed as co-inventor on patents and patent applications including:

References

  1. ↑ Miller, Lee. "Legion of Honor's Man Ray". San Francisco magazine. Modern Luxury.
  2. ↑ "San Francisco's first official Wireless Hotzone". PR Web. Retrieved 4 October 2004.
  3. ↑ Finn, Holly (April 20, 2012). "A Patently Obvious Problem". Wall Street Journal.
  4. ↑ "San Francisco's first official Wireless Hotzone". PR Web. Retrieved 5 October 2004.
  5. ↑ Fleishman, Glenn. "GoogleWiFi". WNN Wi-Fi Net News. Retrieved 22 April 2005.
  6. ↑ "Google Offers to Unwire San Francisco". Internet News. IT Business Edge. Retrieved 1 Oct 2005.
  7. ↑ Maclay, Kathleen. "John H. Freeman, business professor and entrepreneurship pioneer, dies". Berkeley.edu. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 7 March 2008.
  8. ↑ "Feeva". Crunchbase. Tech Crunch.
  9. ↑ "25 Global Carriers Recognize 7 Telecom Startups with SPIFFY Awards". Web Wire. 3 March 2008.
  10. ↑ "CTOsOnTheMove.com :: CTOsOnTheMove.com @feeva.com CTOsOnTheMove". www.ctosonthemove.com. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
  11. ↑ "Founders Den a new spot for startups". SFGate. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  12. ↑ Finn, Holly. "A Patently Obvious Problem". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  13. ↑ Banga, Jasminder; Shah, Nitin; Patel, Brijesh; Patel, Amul (Oct 23, 2008), Systems and Methods of Network Operation and Information Processing, Including Data Acquisition, Processing and Provision and/or Interoperability Features, retrieved 2016-02-24
  14. ↑ Banga, Jaz; Shah, Nitin; Patel, Brijesh; Patel, Amul (Nov 23, 2006), Directed media based on user preferences, retrieved 2016-02-24
  15. ↑ Banga, Jasminder; Shah, Nitin J.; Sampat, Miten (Jul 17, 2008), Systems and methods of network operation and information processing using persistent/anonymous identifiers, retrieved 2016-02-24
  16. ↑ Shah, Nitin; Patel, Amul; Sampat, Miten; BANGA, Jasmider Singh (11 Nov 2009), Systems and methods of information/network processing, including tag-based insertion and related features, retrieved 2016-02-25
  17. ↑ Yu, Hongtao (Apr 14, 2011), System for delivery of targeted advertising to internet users, retrieved 2016-02-25
  18. ↑ Sampat, Miten; Banga, Jasminder; Shah, Nitin; Cook, Don Lloyd; Patel, Amul (Dec 30, 2009), Implementing consumer choice in a targeted message delivery system, retrieved 2016-02-25
  19. ↑ Banga, Jaz; Shah, Nitin; Patel, Brijesh; Patel, Amul (Apr 23, 2009), Developing customer relationships with a network access point, retrieved 2016-02-25

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