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James Gardner — 36 Patents

ATAT&T: 25 patents #654 of 18,772Top 4%
WRWrethink: 6 patents #1 of 3Top 35%
General Motors: 1 patents #9,441 of 18,328Top 55%
Qualcomm: 1 patents #7,593 of 12,104Top 65%
Palm Springs, CA: #3 of 147 inventorsTop 3%
California: #13,468 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
James Gardner has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at AT&T. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in July 2025. James Gardner ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list James Gardner in Palm Springs, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2013.peak 41985: 1 patents19852005: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072009: 1 patents2010: 2 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 4 patents2014: 4 patents20142016: 2 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 2 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 4 patents2024: 1 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12354406 Methods and apparatus for determining the date of a scanned photo from face data and using such date information 2025-07-08
12067047 Methods and apparatus for detecting duplicate or similar images and/or image portions and grouping images based on image similarity Christian Thierry 2024-08-20
11748509 Methods and apparatus for automatically controlling access to stored data, a storage location of stored data, and/or ownership of stored data based on life event information Arlene Harris 2023-09-05
11741699 Methods and apparatus for detecting features of scanned images, associating tags with images and/or using tagged images Arlene Harris 2023-08-29
11714961 Methods and apparatus for suggesting and/or associating tags corresponding to identified image content and/or storing said image content in association with tags to facilitate retrieval and use Arlene Harris 2023-08-01
11580083 Scoring members of a set dependent on eliciting preference data amongst subsets selected according to a height-balanced tree Manas Hardas, Lisa S. Purvis, Kate Bennet 2023-02-14
11381693 Multi-purpose/multi-function portable electronic device Arlene Harris 2022-07-05
10887391 Remote cloud backup of data Darrell G. Freeman 2021-01-05 $25,728,000
10715837 Determination of a service office of a media content distribution system to record a media content item with a network recorder 2020-07-14 $38,901,000
10545938 Scoring members of a set dependent on eliciting preference data amongst subsets selected according to a height-balanced tree Manas Hardas, Lisa S. Purvis, Kate Bennet 2020-01-28
10506270 Method and apparatus for transmitting media content 2019-12-10 $38,546,000
10419240 Method of bus virtualization in computing machine intercommunications 2019-09-17 $32,568,000
10148756 Latency virtualization in a transport network using a storage area network 2018-12-04 $44,385,000
10084614 Method of bus virtualization in computing machine intercommunications 2018-09-25 $47,773,000
10044805 Asymmetric data mirroring Darrell G. Freeman 2018-08-07 $49,911,000
9900643 Method and apparatus for transmitting media content 2018-02-20 $30,529,000
9344502 Asymmetric data mirroring Darrell G. Freeman 2016-05-17 $33,927,000
9331868 Method of bus virtualization in computing machine intercommunications 2016-05-03 $66,266,000
8892982 Method and system for network latency virtualization in a cloud transport environment 2014-11-18 $13,272,000
8819479 Asymmetric data mirroring Darrell G. Freeman 2014-08-26 $13,049,000
8677190 Comprehensive end-to-end storage area network (SAN) application transport service 2014-03-18 $17,259,000
8665953 Redundant data dispersal in transmission of video data based on frame type 2014-03-04 $18,782,000
8458528 Comprehensive end-to-end storage area network (SAN) application transport service 2013-06-04 $22,322,000
8442115 Redundant data dispersal in transmission of video data based on frame type 2013-05-14 $26,859,000
8443229 Asymmetric data mirroring Darrell G. Freeman 2013-05-14 $26,859,000