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Aidan T. Hughes

Microsoft: 34 patents #674 of 40,388Top 2%
Redmond, WA: #235 of 8,547 inventorsTop 3%
Washington: #2,036 of 76,902 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #98,677 of 4,157,543Top 3%
35 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–35 of 35 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7503072 Hardware ID to prevent software piracy David Pearce 2009-03-10
7379918 Method and system for single reactivation of software product licenses Xiaoxi Tan, Caglar Gunyakti, Ravindra Nath Pandya, Kristjan E. Hatlelid, Yue Liu 2008-05-27
7346585 Computer software and services license processing method and system Ferdinand Jay Alabraba, Matthew William Pearson 2008-03-18
7308542 Data integrity protection for stored data R. David Chicks, Jay Ferdinand N. Alabraba, Jr. 2007-12-11
7302590 Systems and methods for providing time-and weight-based flexibly tolerant hardware ID Pratul Dublish, Caglar Gunyakti 2007-11-27
7296294 System for binding secrets to a computer system having tolerance for hardware changes 2007-11-13
7290149 Verbose hardware identification for binding a software package to a computer system having tolerance for hardware changes Ferdinand Jay Alabraba, Caglar Gunyakti 2007-10-30
7278131 Compact hardware identification for binding a software package to a computer system having tolerance for hardware changes Caglar Gunyakti, Ferdinand Jay Alabraba 2007-10-02
7257712 Runtime digital signatures Joel Downer, Raymond Fowkes 2007-08-14
6243468 Software anti-piracy system that adapts to hardware upgrades David Pearce 2001-06-05