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Kenneth Norton — 26 Patents

Google: 13 patents #1,866 of 22,993Top 9%
YHYahoo Holdings: 9 patents #123 of 2,500Top 5%
EIExcalibur Ip: 2 patents #80 of 667Top 15%
Salesforce: 2 patents #1,836 of 4,319Top 45%
Redwood City, CA: #325 of 5,061 inventorsTop 7%
California: #20,975 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Kenneth Norton has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in January 2023. Kenneth Norton ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Kenneth Norton in Redwood City, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2017.peak 62010: 3 patents20102011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents20122013: 5 patents20132014: 3 patents20142015: 3 patents20152016: 2 patents20162017: 6 patents20172020: 1 patents20202023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11556544 Search system and methods with integration of user annotations from a trust network Qi Lu, Eckart Walther, David Ku, Chung-Man Tam, Kevin Lee +3 more 2023-01-17
10726019 Search system and methods with integration of user annotations from a trust network Qi Lu, Eckart Walther, David Ku, Chung-Man Tam, Kevin Lee +3 more 2020-07-28 $67,170,000
9852187 Search system and methods with integration of user annotations from a trust network Qi Lu, Eckart Walther, David Ku, Chung-Man Tam, Kevin Lee +3 more 2017-12-26
9760870 Systems and methods for scheduling events Philip Charles Nelson, David Marmaros, Joseph M. Ashear 2017-09-12 $19,142,000
9741020 Conference room scheduling based on attendee locations Justin Min, Mark R. Thomas 2017-08-22 $19,881,000
9721233 Just-in-time conference room scheduling Charles Wiles 2017-08-01 $11,442,000
9648097 Cloud-to-device messaging for application activation and reporting Andrew Oplinger, Ken Leftin, Philip Cheeran Verghese, Joseph LaPenna 2017-05-09 $15,844,000
9576057 User interface for navigating a keyword space Chung-Man Tam, Jianchang Mao, Zhichen Xu, Adrienne Bassett, Ashley Hall +1 more 2017-02-21 $35,867,000
9503861 Determining a geographic location of a mobile device Philip Cheeran Verghese, Kenneth Joseph Leftin, Andrew Oplinger, Joseph LaPenna 2016-11-22 $14,269,000
9479474 Systems and methods for establishing or maintaining a personalized trusted social network 2016-10-25
9191456 Systems and methods for establishing or maintaining a personalized trusted social network 2015-11-17 $36,339,000
9131462 Determining a geographic location of a mobile device Philip Cheeran Verghese, Kenneth Joseph Leftin, Andrew Oplinger, Joseph LaPenna 2015-09-08 $18,899,000
8949307 Cloud-to-device messaging for application activation and reporting Andrew Oplinger, Ken Leftin, Philip Cheeran Verghese, Joseph LaPenna 2015-02-03 $8,180,000
8845436 Location-based map game mechanics Charles Mendis, Taj J. Campbell 2014-09-30 $10,831,000
8788492 Search system and methods with integration of user annotations from a trust network Qi Lu, Eckart Walther, David Ku, Chung-Man Tam, Kevin Lee +3 more 2014-07-22 $30,705,000
8761797 Location accuracy based on map viewport 2014-06-24 $15,089,000
8504404 Distance and location-aware scheduling assistance in a calendar system with notification of potential conflicts 2013-08-06 $30,679,000
8375034 Automatically schedule and re-schedule meetings using reschedule factors for conflicting calendar events David Marmaros 2013-02-12 $29,909,000
8359295 User interface for navigating a keyword space Chung-Man Tam, Jianchang Mao, Zhichen Xu, Adrienne Bassett, Ashley Hall +1 more 2013-01-22 $21,416,000
8346589 Just-in-time conference room scheduling Charles Wiles 2013-01-01
8346590 Automatically schedule and re-schedule meetings through search interface Philip Charles Nelson, David Marmaros, Joseph M. Ashear 2013-01-01
8190724 Systems and methods for establishing or maintaining a personalized trusted social network 2012-05-29 $33,654,000
8055634 User interface for navigating a keyword space Chung-Man Tam, Jianchang Mao, Zhichen Xu, Adrienne Bassett, Ashley Hall +1 more 2011-11-08 $11,041,000
7797287 User interface for navigating a keyword space Chung-Man Tam, Jianchang Mao, Zhichen Xu, Adrienne Bassett, Ashley Hall +1 more 2010-09-14 $27,249,000
7761436 Apparatus and method for controlling content access based on shared annotations for annotated users in a folksonomy scheme Chung-Man Tam, Jianchang Mao, Zhichen Xu, Adrienne Bassett, Ashley Hall +1 more 2010-07-20 $35,099,000