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Alan Ward — 24 Patents

Apple: 19 patents #1,739 of 18,612Top 10%
TITexas Instruments: 4 patents #3,300 of 12,488Top 30%
Thornton, CO: #18 of 517 inventorsTop 4%
Colorado: #1,520 of 40,980 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Alan Ward has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in November 2021. Alan Ward ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Alan Ward in Thornton, CO, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11178121 Secure software updates Christopher R. Wysocki 2021-11-16 $241,630,000
11039219 Content rental system Hiro Mitsuji, Mihailo Despotovic, Sam Gharabally 2021-06-15 $253,822,000
10521812 Method and system for upgrading a previously purchased media asset Tracy Pirnack, Patrice Gautier, Debra Ameerally, Hiro Mitsuji, George Campbell +3 more 2019-12-31 $109,024,000
10432593 Secure software updates Christopher R. Wysocki 2019-10-01 $90,896,000
10104441 Content rental system Hiro Mitsuji, Mihailo Despotovic, Sam Gharabally 2018-10-16 $96,757,000
9948617 Secure software updates Christopher R. Wysocki 2018-04-17 $62,412,000
9665878 Method and system for upgrading a previously purchased media asset Tracy Pirnack, Patrice Gautier, Debra Ameerally, Hiro Mitsuji, George Campbell +3 more 2017-05-30 $83,886,000
9489496 Secure software updates Christopher R. Wysocki 2016-11-08 $55,629,000
9075882 Recommending content items Patrice Gautier, Garrick Toubassi 2015-07-07 $59,915,000
8984442 Method and system for upgrading a previously purchased media asset Tracy Pirnack, Patrice Gautier, Debra Ameerally, Hiro Mitsuji, George Campbell +3 more 2015-03-17 $91,673,000
8782521 Graphical user interface with improved media presentation Christopher Laurence Bell, Colin Meldrum, Timothy B. Martin 2014-07-15 $75,773,000
8677430 Content rental system Hiro Mitsuji, Mihailo Despotovic, Sam Gharabally 2014-03-18 $81,295,000
8631241 Secure configuration of computing device Christopher R. Wysocki 2014-01-14 $110,472,000
8214648 Secure configuration of a computing device Christopher R. Wysocki 2012-07-03 $211,685,000
8166508 Content rental system Hiro Mitsuji, Mihailo Despotovic, Sam Gharabally 2012-04-24 $158,775,000
8135865 Synchronization and transfer of digital media items David Elias Fleischman, Christopher R. Wysocki, Payam Mirrashidi, Sean B. Kelly, Charles J. Pisula +3 more 2012-03-13 $160,947,000
8117309 Re-download management of previously acquired digital media assets Payam Mirrashidi, Neale Patton, Colin Meldrum, David Neumann, Hiro Mitsuji 2012-02-14 $128,701,000
7809949 Configuration of a computing device in a secure manner Christopher R. Wysocki 2010-10-05 $111,667,000
7774708 Graphical user interface with improved media presentation Chris Bell, Colin Meldrum, Timothy B. Martin 2010-08-10 $80,134,000
6922829 Method of generating profile-optimized code Reid E. Tatge, Jonathan F. Humphreys, David H. Bartley, Paul Fuqua 2005-07-26 $18,728,000
6799266 Methods and apparatus for reducing the size of code with an exposed pipeline by encoding NOP operations as instruction operands Eric Stotzer, Elana D. Granston 2004-09-28 $12,669,000
6754893 Method for collapsing the prolog and epilog of software pipelined loops Elana D. Granston, Joseph Zbiciak, Eric Stotzer 2004-06-22 $14,063,000
6718544 User interface for making compiler tradeoffs Jonathan F. Humphreys, Reid E. Tatge, David H. Bartley, Paul Fuqua 2004-04-06 $28,865,000
4867493 Door stop 1989-09-19