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Robert L. Shields — 9 Patents

COCombinenet: 9 patents #3 of 19Top 20%
Pittsburgh, PA: #922 of 7,570 inventorsTop 15%
Pennsylvania: #9,298 of 74,527 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Robert L. Shields has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Combinenet. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in August 2013. Robert L. Shields ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Robert L. Shields in Pittsburgh, PA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2012.peak 42008: 1 patents20082009: 3 patents20092012: 4 patents20122013: 1 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8515814 Automated channel abstraction for advertising auctions Craig E. Boutilier, George L. Nemhauser, David C. Parkes, Tuomas Sandholm, William E. Walsh 2013-08-20
8195524 Items ratio based price/discount adjustment in a combinatorial auction Tuomas Sandholm, David L. Levine, David C. Parkes, Subhash Suri, Vincent Conitzer +1 more 2012-06-05
8190490 Overconstraint detection, rule relaxation and demand reduction in a combinatorial exchange Tuomas Sandholm, David L. Levine, David C. Parkes, Subhash Suri, Vincent Conitzer +1 more 2012-05-29
8190489 Bid modification based on logical connections between trigger groups in a combinatorial exchange Tuomas Sandholm, David L. Levine, David C. Parkes, Subhash Suri, Vincent Conitzer +1 more 2012-05-29
8165921 Dynamic exchange method and apparatus Tuomas Sandholm, David L. Levine, Subhash Suri, Christopher M. Cole, Richard James McKenzie, Jr. +3 more 2012-04-24
7610236 Method and apparatus for forming expressive combinatorial auctions and exchanges Tuomas Sandholm, Subhash Suri, David L. Levine, Andrew G. Gilpin, John Heitmann 2009-10-27
7577589 Method and apparatus for conducting a dynamic exchange Tuomas Sandholm, David L. Levine, David C. Parkes, Subhash Suri, Vincent Conitzer +1 more 2009-08-18
7499880 Dynamic exchange method and apparatus Tuomas Sandholm, Richard James McKenzie, Jr., David L. Levine, David C. Parkes, Subhash Suri +3 more 2009-03-03
7353191 Method and apparatus for selecting a desirable allocation of bids in a combinatorial exchange setting Craig E. Boutilier, Tuomas Sandholm 2008-04-01

Frequent Collaborators

Tuomas Sandholm9 shared
Subhash Suri7 shared
David C. Parkes7 shared
David L. Levine7 shared
Vincent Conitzer6 shared
Yuri Smirnov4 shared

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