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Andrew Birrell — 27 Patents

Microsoft: 13 patents #3,175 of 40,388Top 8%
DEDigital Equipment: 9 patents #89 of 2,100Top 5%
HP: 2 patents #7,666 of 16,619Top 50%
CCCompaq Computer: 1 patents #854 of 1,604Top 55%
ATAlstom Technology: 1 patents #766 of 1,544Top 50%
Los Altos, CA: #446 of 3,651 inventorsTop 15%
California: #19,967 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Andrew Birrell has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in November 2016. Andrew Birrell ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Andrew Birrell in Los Altos, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9501237 Automatic mutual exclusion Michael Isard 2016-11-22 $43,983,000
9286139 Automatic mutual exclusion Michael Isard 2016-03-15 $43,879,000
8930961 Automatic mutual exclusion Michael Isard 2015-01-06 $23,359,000
8458724 Automatic mutual exclusion Michael Isard 2013-06-04 $20,420,000
8239954 Access control based on program properties Edward P. Wobber, Martin Abadi 2012-08-07 $11,434,000
8201142 Description language for structured graphs Michael Isard, Yuan Yu 2012-06-12 $20,322,000
7987365 Subscription-based computing implemented in hardware of computing device Charles P. Thacker, Michael Isard 2011-07-26 $29,172,000
7908265 Transactional memory with dynamic separation Martin Abadi, Timothy L. Harris, Michael Isard, Johnson Hsieh 2011-03-15 $22,634,000
7716734 Systems and methods for pattern matching on principal names to control access to computing resources Edward P. Wobber, Martin Abadi 2010-05-11 $12,269,000
7660993 Cryptographic puzzle cancellation service for deterring bulk electronic mail messages Michael Burrows, Edward P. Wobber 2010-02-09 $23,520,000
7529834 Method and system for cooperatively backing up data on computers in a network Mark David Lillibridge, Michael Burrows, Michael Isard 2009-05-05 $25,251,000
7480761 System and methods for an overlay disk and cache using portable flash memory Edward P. Wobber, Muthukaruppan Annamalai, Ulfar Erlingsson 2009-01-20 $33,255,000
7398349 System and methods for an overlay disk and cache using portable flash memory Edward P. Wobber, Muthukaruppan Annamalai, Ulfar Erlingsson 2008-07-08 $28,005,000
7380051 System and methods for an overlay disk and cache using portable flash memory Edward P. Wobber, Muthukaruppan Annamalai, Ulfar Erlingsson 2008-05-27 $21,072,000
7273345 Method for operating a turbo engine and turbo engine Armin Busekrose, Olatunde Omisore 2007-09-25
6718321 Web-based electronic mail server apparatus and method using full text and label indexing Edward P. Wobber, Michael D. Schroeder 2004-04-06 $11,728,000
6332175 Low power system and method for playing compressed audio data William Blake Laing, III, Puneet Kumar 2001-12-18 $111,138,000
6189026 Technique for dynamically generating an address book in a distributed electronic mail system Edward P. Wobber, Michael D. Schroeder, Christopher Melling, Simon Jaffer 2001-02-13
6185551 Web-based electronic mail service apparatus and method using full text and label indexing Edward P. Wobber, Michael D. Schroeder 2001-02-06
6098936 Portable ergonomic work station 2000-08-08
6092101 Method for filtering mail messages for a plurality of client computers connected to a mail service system Edward P. Wobber, Michael D. Schroeder 2000-07-18
6029164 Method and apparatus for organizing and accessing electronic mail messages using labels and full text and label indexing Edward P. Wobber, Michael D. Schroeder 2000-02-22
6009462 Replacing large bit component of electronic mail (e-mail) message with hot-link in distributed computer system Edward P. Wobber, Michael D. Schroeder 1999-12-28
5805803 Secure web tunnel Edward P. Wobber, Martin Abadi, Raymond Stata 1998-09-08
5446901 Fault tolerant distributed garbage collection system and method for collecting network objects Susan S. Owicki, Charles Gregory Nelson, Edward P. Wobber 1995-08-29 $8,270,000