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Kim Silverman — 34 Patents

Apple: 34 patents #889 of 18,612Top 5%
Mountain View, CA: #505 of 11,022 inventorsTop 5%
California: #14,619 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #100,737 of 4,157,543Top 3%
34 Patents All Time
Kim Silverman has been granted 34 US patents while listed as an inventor at Apple. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in May 2017. Kim Silverman ranks #100,737 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.4%). Patent records list Kim Silverman in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2013.peak 52000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 2 patents2004: 3 patents20042006: 1 patents2007: 2 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 4 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 5 patents20132014: 3 patents2015: 3 patents20152016: 1 patents2017: 2 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 34 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9646614 Fast, language-independent method for user authentication by voice Jerome R. Bellegarda 2017-05-09 $59,435,000
9612728 Graduated visual and manipulative translucency for windows Thomas Bonura 2017-04-04 $87,907,000
9507501 Graduated visual and manipulative translucency for windows Thomas Bonura 2016-11-29 $57,183,000
9218809 Fast, language-independent method for user authentication by voice Jerome R. Bellegarda 2015-12-22 $123,067,000
9098166 Graduated visual and manipulative translucency for windows Thomas Bonura 2015-08-04 $59,170,000
8949728 Graduated visual and manipulative translucency for windows Thomas Bonura 2015-02-03 $71,266,000
8775442 Semantic search using a single-source semantic model Jennifer Lauren Moore, Devang K. Naik, Jerome R. Bellegarda, Kevin Bartlett Aitken 2014-07-08 $79,304,000
8712776 Systems and methods for selective text to speech synthesis Jerome R. Bellegarda, Devang K. Naik 2014-04-29 $74,889,000
8645137 Fast, language-independent method for user authentication by voice Jerome R. Bellegarda 2014-02-04 $72,050,000
8583418 Systems and methods of detecting language and natural language strings for text to speech synthesis Devang K. Naik, Kevin Lenzo, Caroline Henton 2013-11-12 $110,833,000
8396714 Systems and methods for concatenation of words in text to speech synthesis Matthew Lee Rogers, Devang K. Naik, Benjamin Andrew Rottler 2013-03-12 $106,410,000
8355919 Systems and methods for text normalization for text to speech synthesis Devang K. Naik, Jerome R. Bellegarda, Kevin Lenzo 2013-01-15 $114,427,000
8352272 Systems and methods for text to speech synthesis Matthew Lee Rogers, Devang K. Naik, Kevin Lenzo, Benjamin Andrew Rottler 2013-01-08 $91,537,000
8352268 Systems and methods for selective rate of speech and speech preferences for text to speech synthesis Devang K. Naik, Jerome R. Bellegarda 2013-01-08 $91,537,000
8103505 Method and apparatus for speech synthesis using paralinguistic variation Donald James Lindsay 2012-01-24 $131,781,000
8036894 Multi-unit approach to text-to-speech synthesis Matthias Neeracher, Devang K. Naik, Kevin Bartlett Aitken, Jerome R. Bellegarda 2011-10-11 $119,102,000
8027837 Using non-speech sounds during text-to-speech synthesis Matthias Neeracher 2011-09-27 $97,490,000
7856479 Method and apparatus for filtering email Jerome R. Bellegarda, Devang K. Naik 2010-12-21 $150,187,000
7849141 Training a computer storage system for automatic filing of data using graphical representations of storage locations Jerome R. Bellegarda, Scott Forstall, Kevin Tiene, Bertrand Serlet 2010-12-07 $105,706,000
7836135 Method and apparatus for filtering email Jerome R. Bellegarda, Devang K. Naik 2010-11-16 $76,297,000
7778819 Method and apparatus for predicting word prominence in speech synthesis Jerome R. Bellegarda 2010-08-17 $88,905,000
7640305 Filtering of data Bruce Arthur, Paul D. Marcos, Greg Christie, Jerome R. Bellegarda, Scott Forstall +1 more 2009-12-29 $145,138,000
7343562 Graduated visual and manipulative translucency for windows Thomas Bonura 2008-03-11 $137,832,000
7313523 Method and apparatus for assigning word prominence to new or previous information in speech synthesis Jerome R. Bellegarda 2007-12-25
7289950 Extended finite state grammar for speech recognition systems Jerome R. Bellegarda 2007-10-30 $213,651,000