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Qi Lu — 28 Patents

IBM: 22 patents #4,922 of 70,183Top 8%
Microsoft: 4 patents #10,758 of 40,388Top 30%
San Jose, CA: #2,229 of 32,062 inventorsTop 7%
California: #19,067 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Qi Lu has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in October 2025. Qi Lu ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Qi Lu in San Jose, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12449400 Detection method based on battery defect detection system, system and storage medium De Chen, Peng Fan 2025-10-21
12174839 Relevant passage retrieval system Jing Bai, Yue Liu, Jan O. Pedersen, Mao Yang 2024-12-24 $262,656,000
11076007 Multi-modal conversational intercom Thomas Matthew Laird-McConnell, Lili Cheng, James H. Lewallen, Justin Brooks Cranshaw, Craig Jensen +3 more 2021-07-27 $207,843,000
10691292 Unified presentation of contextually connected information to improve user efficiency and interaction performance Derrick Leslie Connell, Darren Shakib, William H. Gates, III 2020-06-23 $123,189,000
10587708 Multi-modal conversational intercom Thomas Matthew Laird-McConnell, Lili Cheng, James H. Lewallen, Justin Brooks Cranshaw, Craig Jensen +3 more 2020-03-10 $83,394,000
10547382 FSO communication system Jianghua FENG, Jiabo Xiao, Qinghua Quan, Tairan Zhang, Guotao Jiang 2020-01-28
8549023 Method and apparatus for resorting a sequence of sorted strings Yu-Hsuan Guo, Jin Fan Zhu, Zhi Bo Zuo 2013-10-01 $5,042,000
7003735 Calendar desktop graphical user interface (GUI) for computer workstations, personal computers, and personal digital assistants Stefan B. Edlund, Daniel A. Ford, Joseph Gebis 2006-02-21 $6,384,000
6993290 Portable personal radio system and method Joseph Gebis 2006-01-31 $6,009,000
6822638 Pointing device for navigating a 3 dimensional GUI interface Joshua M. Dobies, Matthias Eichstaedt 2004-11-23 $4,043,000
6674452 Graphical user interface to query music by examples Reiner Kraft, Shang-Hua Teng 2004-01-06 $7,683,000
6654735 Outbound information analysis for generating user interest profiles and improving user productivity Matthias Eichstaedt, Shang-Hua Teng 2003-11-25 $5,480,000
6577329 Method and system for relevance feedback through gaze tracking and ticker interfaces Myron D. Flickner, David Bruce Koons, Paul Philip Maglio, Carlos Hitoshi Morimoto, Edwin Joseph Selker 2003-06-10 $13,477,000
6563494 Cut and paste pen for pervasive computing devices Matthias Eichstaedt, John P. Lazarus 2003-05-13 $15,835,000
6519699 Method and system for voice guided secure entry of private data in a public setting Shang-Hua Teng 2003-02-11 $11,665,000
6480830 Active calendar system Daniel A. Ford, Tobin J. Lehman, Udi Manber, Ron Yair Pinter 2002-11-12 $19,603,000
6385619 Automatic user interest profile generation from structured document access information Matthias Eichstaedt, Shang-Hua Teng 2002-05-07 $13,479,000
6282553 Gaze-based secure keypad entry system Myron D. Flickner, Carlos Hitoshi Morimoto 2001-08-28 $18,210,000
6225546 Method and apparatus for music summarization and creation of audio summaries Reiner Kraft, Shang-Hua Teng 2001-05-01 $28,625,000
6218958 Integrated touch-skin notification system for wearable computing devices Matthias Eichstaedt 2001-04-17 $20,042,000
6219667 Efficient large-scale access control for internet/intranet information systems Shang-Hua Teng 2001-04-17 $20,042,000
6182085 Collaborative team crawling:Large scale information gathering over the internet Matthias Eichstaedt, Daniel A. Ford, Tobin J. Lehman, Shang-Hua Teng 2001-01-30 $13,187,000
6169989 Method and apparatus for parallel profile matching in a large scale webcasting system Matthias Eichstaedt, Shang-Hua Teng 2001-01-02 $72,115,000
6137488 System for creating structured fields on electronic forms Reiner Kraft, Ron Yair Pinter 2000-10-24 $26,546,000
6112225 Task distribution processing system and the method for subscribing computers to perform computing tasks during idle time Reiner Kraft, Marat Wisebond 2000-08-29 $31,033,000