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Michael Brown — 5 Patents

IBM: 5 patents #18,770 of 70,183Top 30%
Austin, TX: #5,567 of 18,064 inventorsTop 35%
Texas: #28,633 of 125,132 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Michael Brown has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in March 2014. Michael Brown ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Michael Brown in Austin, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1997.peak 11997: 1 patents19972005: 1 patents20052009: 1 patents20092012: 1 patents20122014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8671179 Dynamically adding best suited servers into clusters of application servers Faheem Altaf, Dharmesh Bhakta, Kumar Ravi 2014-03-11 $12,004,000
8296438 Dynamically configuring a router to find the best DHCP server Brian Keith Howe, Radhakrishnan Sethuraman, Manuel Silveyra 2012-10-23 $6,526,000
7552202 System and method to uniquely identify identically configured branches in a distributed enterprise Brian Keith Howe, Radhakrishnan Sethuraman, Manuel Silveyra 2009-06-23 $5,277,000
6880126 Controlling presentation of a GUI, using view controllers created by an application mediator, by identifying a destination to access a target to retrieve data Peter C. Bahrs, Raphael P. Chancey, Barry Alan Feigenbaum, Manish Mahesh Modh, Sean Michael Sundberg +1 more 2005-04-12 $5,340,000
5673403 Method and system for displaying applications of different operating systems on a single system using the user interface of the different operating systems Lester Brooks Hickerson, Colin Powell, William Chapel Tims, Robert Leonard Tycast, Richard Lee Verburg 1997-09-30 $18,961,000