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Alan G. Bishop — 12 Patents

Microsoft: 5 patents #8,859 of 40,388Top 25%
Oracle: 5 patents #2,558 of 14,854Top 20%
WNWebtv Networks: 2 patents #34 of 95Top 40%
Campbell, CA: #403 of 2,187 inventorsTop 20%
California: #51,404 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Alan G. Bishop has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in December 2015. Alan G. Bishop ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Alan G. Bishop in Campbell, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1998.peak 41998: 4 patents19981999: 1 patents19992003: 2 patents20032008: 1 patents20082011: 1 patents20112013: 2 patents20132015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9209987 Social media playback Eric R. Soldan 2015-12-08 $46,233,000
8572375 Device pairing based on graphically encoded data Eric R. Soldan 2013-10-29 $25,404,000
8462997 User-specific attribute customization Bradley R. Pettit, Eric R. Soldan, Nosherwan Minwalla, Nicolae Surpatanu 2013-06-11 $24,362,000
8073673 Emulated memory management Martin Taillefer, Landon M. Dyer 2011-12-06 $11,336,000
7403887 Emulated memory management Landon M. Dyer, Martin Taillefer 2008-07-22 $55,055,000
6614804 Method and apparatus for remote update of clients by a server via broadcast satellite Andrew T. McFadden, Mark Wagner, Wei Huang, Dean J. Blackketter, Michael A. Killianey 2003-09-02
6532517 System and method for reducing disk chatter from disk-based data storage systems Mark Wagner, Dean J. Blackketter 2003-03-11
5935242 Method and apparatus for initializing a device Peter W. Madany, Graham Hamilton 1999-08-10 $70,156,000
5835958 Method and apparatus for dynamically sizing non-contiguous runtime stacks Dean R. E. Long, Nedim Fresko 1998-11-10 $22,190,000
5826082 Method for reserving resources Graham Hamilton, Theron Tock 1998-10-20 $22,945,000
5765174 System amd method for distributed object resource management 1998-06-09 $13,872,000
5758186 Method and apparatus for generically handling diverse protocol method calls in a client/server computer system Graham Hamilton, Peter B. Kessler, Jeffrey D. Nisewanger, Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart 1998-05-26 $18,186,000