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Anthony M. Downes — 12 Patents

Microsoft: 12 patents #3,517 of 40,388Top 9%
PIPicturetel: 4 patents #4 of 48Top 9%
London, GB: #530 of 11,041 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Anthony M. Downes has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in July 2008. Anthony M. Downes ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Anthony M. Downes in London, GB.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2001.peak 61999: 3 patents19992001: 6 patents20012005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7404014 Method and system for transmitting and determining the effects of display orders from shared application between a host and shadow computer Christopher J. Mairs, Roderick F. MacFarquhar, Kenneth P. Hughes, Alex Pollitt, John P. Batty +1 more 2008-07-22 $55,055,000
7088871 Method and system for transmitting data for a shared application Christopher J. Mairs, Roderick F. MacFarquhar, Kenneth P. Hughes, Alex Pollitt, John P. Batty +1 more 2006-08-08 $31,016,000
6911987 Method and system for transmitting data for a shared application Christopher J. Mairs, Roderick F. MacFarquhar, Kenneth P. Hughes, Alex Pollitt, John P. Batty +1 more 2005-06-28 $94,981,000
6304928 Compressing/decompressing bitmap by performing exclusive- or operation setting differential encoding of first and previous row therewith outputting run-length encoding of row Christopher J. Mairs, Roderick F. MacFarquhar, Kenneth P. Hughes, Alex Pollitt, John P. Batty +1 more 2001-10-16
6285363 Method and system for sharing applications between computer systems Christopher J. Mairs, Roderick F. MacFarquhar, Kenneth P. Hughes, Alex Pollitt, John P. Batty 2001-09-04 $532,888,000
6271839 Method and system for sharing applications between computer systems Christopher J. Mairs, Roderick F. MacFarquhar, Kenneth P. Hughes, Alex Pollitt, John P. Batty 2001-08-07 $405,531,000
6268855 Method and system for sharing applications between computer systems Christopher J. Mairs, Roderick F. MacFarquhar, Kenneth P. Hughes, Alex Pollitt, John P. Batty 2001-07-31 $463,026,000
6223212 Method and system for sharing negotiating capabilities when sharing an application with multiple systems John P. Batty, Kenneth P. Hughes, Roderick F. MacFarquhar, Christopher J. Mairs, Alex Pollitt 2001-04-24 $510,884,000
6216177 Method for transmitting text data for shared application between first and second computer asynchronously upon initiation of a session without solicitation from first computer Christopher J. Mairs, Roderick F. MacFarquhar, Kenneth P. Hughes, Alex Pollitt, John P. Batty +1 more 2001-04-10 $397,580,000
5949975 Method and system for negotiating capabilities when sharing an application program with multiple computer systems John P. Batty, Kenneth P. Hughes, Roderick F. MacFarquhar, Christopher J. Mairs, Alex Pollitt 1999-09-07
5874960 Method and system for sharing applications between computer systems Christopher J. Mairs, Roderick F. MacFarquhar, Kenneth P. Hughes, Alex Pollitt, John P. Batty 1999-02-23
5864711 System for determining more accurate translation between first and second translator, and providing translated data to second computer if first translator is more accurate Christopher J. Mairs, Roderick F. MacFarquhar, Kenneth P. Hughes, Alex Pollitt, John P. Batty +1 more 1999-01-26 $509,182,000