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Andrew Herron — 24 Patents

Microsoft: 24 patents #1,281 of 40,388Top 4%
Redmond, WA: #445 of 8,547 inventorsTop 6%
Washington: #3,621 of 76,902 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Andrew Herron has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in September 2019. Andrew Herron ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Andrew Herron in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2012.peak 51997: 1 patents19971998: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents2012: 5 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 5 patents20142015: 3 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10416932 Dirty data management for hybrid drives Mehmet Iyigun, Yevgeniy Bak, Eric M. Bluestein, Robin A. Alexander, Xiaozhong Xing 2019-09-17 $66,894,000
9946495 Dirty data management for hybrid drives Mehmet Iyigun, Yevgeniy Bak, Eric M. Bluestein, Robin A. Alexander, Xiaozhong Xing 2018-04-17 $52,531,000
9626126 Power saving mode hybrid drive access management Mehmet Iyigun, Yevgeniy Bak, Eric M. Bluestein, Robin A. Alexander, Xiaozhong Xing 2017-04-18 $38,106,000
9524300 Heterogenic volume generation and use system Shiv Rajpal, Juan-Lee Pang, Sarosh C. Havewala, Surendra Verma, Karan Mehra +2 more 2016-12-20 $47,770,000
9323460 Assigning priorities to data for hybrid drives Mehmet Iyigun, Yevgeniy Bak, Eric M. Bluestein, Robin A. Alexander, Xiaozhong Xing 2016-04-26 $32,829,000
9262313 Provisioning in heterogenic volume of multiple tiers Sarosh C. Havewala, Karan Mehra, Ankur Kasturiya, Shiv Rajpal 2016-02-16 $29,091,000
9141626 Volume having tiers of different storage traits Shiv Rajpal, Karan Mehra, Shi Cong 2015-09-22 $38,392,000
9116904 File system operation on multi-tiered volume Neal R. Christiansen, Daniel Chan, Rajsekhar Das, Juan-Lee Pang, Malcolm James Smith 2015-08-25 $40,227,000
8990441 Assigning priorities to data for hybrid drives Mehmet Iyigun, Yevgeniy Bak, Eric M. Bluestein, Robin A. Alexander, Xiaozhong Xing 2015-03-24 $16,695,000
8910192 Application programming interfaces for transacted file and registry operations Dana Groff, Jonathan M. Cargille, Surendra Verma, Dragos C. Sambotin, Christian Gregory Allred +2 more 2014-12-09 $33,808,000
8862643 Use of delete notifications by file systems and applications to release storage space Senthil Rajaram, Daniel Chan, Ravinder S. Thind 2014-10-14 $29,078,000
8812744 Assigning priorities to data for hybrid drives Mehmet Iyigun, Yevgeniy Bak, Eric M. Bluestein, Robin A. Alexander, Xiaozhong Xing 2014-08-19 $30,011,000
8706984 Delete notifications for an entire storage device Karan Mehra 2014-04-22 $23,747,000
8683145 Packed storage commands and storage command streams Nathan Steven Obr 2014-03-25 $29,958,000
8402069 Use of delete notifications by file systems and applications to release storage space Senthil Rajaram, Daniel Chan, Ravinder S. Thind 2013-03-19 $16,508,000
8321701 Adaptive flushing of storage data Nathan Steven Obr 2012-11-27 $16,695,000
8261030 Using delete notifications to free related storage resources Karan Mehra, Senthil Rajaram, Darren G. Moss, Gregory J. Jacklin, Ravinder S. Thind 2012-09-04 $22,808,000
8234316 Nested file system support Senthil Rajaram, Neal R. Christiansen, Malcolm James Smith 2012-07-31 $28,011,000
8225390 Licensing protected content to application sets Kenneth D. Ray, Pankaj Mohan Kamat, Charles W. Kaufman, Paul J. Leach, William R. Tipton +5 more 2012-07-17 $17,052,000
8156300 Delete notifications for an entire storage volume Karan Mehra, Senthil Rajaram, Darren G. Moss, William R. Tipton, Ravinder S. Thind 2012-04-10 $17,388,000
7716187 System and method for transparent storage reorganization Dan Teodosiu, Brian K. Dewey 2010-05-11 $12,269,000
7636946 Unwanted file modification and transactions Surendra Verma, Dana Groff, Jonathan M. Cargille, Christian Gregory Allred, Neal R. Christiansen +1 more 2009-12-22 $30,053,000
5812784 Method and apparatus for supporting multiple, simultaneous services over multiple, simultaneous connections between a client and network server Colin Watson 1998-09-22 $159,150,000
5682478 Method and apparatus for supporting multiple, simultaneous services over multiple, simultaneous connections between a client and network server Colin Watson 1997-10-28 $167,689,000