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Brian MacDonald — 18 Patents

Microsoft: 18 patents #2,027 of 40,388Top 6%
Bellevue, WA: #657 of 6,950 inventorsTop 10%
Washington: #5,373 of 76,902 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Brian MacDonald has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in December 2018. Brian MacDonald ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Brian MacDonald in Bellevue, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10162869 Table of contents for search query refinement Mira Lane, Javier Garcia Flynn, Paul Ronald Ray, Evan Malahy, Derrick Leslie Connell 2018-12-25
9652537 Identifying terms associated with queries Sanaz Ahari, Xiaoxin Yin, Farid Hosseini, Sarthak Deepak Shah, Adam Troy +3 more 2017-05-16 $30,274,000
9619554 Domain specific query-completion suggestions Xin Liu, Nitin Agrawal, James Francis Gilsinan, IV, James Brian Lawson, Mairéad Áine O'Donovan +2 more 2017-04-11 $44,947,000
9436764 Navigation to popular search results Paul Ronald Ray, Steven William Macbeth, Mira Lane, Laura Kern, Rodney C. Edwards +3 more 2016-09-06 $27,018,000
9405856 Task-oriented query-completion suggestions with shortcuts Daniel Marantz, JEFFREY R. KELLERAN, Derrick Leslie Connell, Samir S. Pradhan, Sanaz Ahari 2016-08-02 $47,886,000
8769399 Aiding search-result selection using visually branded elements Daniel Marantz, ALEC JOHN BERNTSON, Darwin Yamamoto, Christina Koehn, Steve Ballon +4 more 2014-07-01 $33,016,000
8694505 Table of contents for search query refinement Mira Lane, Javier Garcia Flynn, Paul Ronald Ray, Evan Malahy, Derrick Leslie Connell 2014-04-08 $34,914,000
8626784 Model-based searching Scott Beaudreau, Derrick Leslie Connell, James P. Dierkes, Jr., Brian Scott Otto 2014-01-07 $21,622,000
8572074 Identifying task groups for organizing search results Sanaz Ahari, Xiaoxin Yin, Farid Hosseini, Sarthak Deepak Shah, Adam Troy +3 more 2013-10-29 $25,404,000
8335784 Visual search and three-dimensional results Zachary Gutt, Paul Ronald Ray, Rodney C. Edwards, Darwin Yamamoto, Hady Moustafa Abou El Kheir +1 more 2012-12-18 $33,421,000
8190601 Identifying task groups for organizing search results Sanaz Ahari, Xiaoxin Yin, Farid Hosseini, Sarthak Deepak Shah, Adam Troy +3 more 2012-05-29 $15,522,000
6993563 System and method for composing, processing, and organizing electronic mail message items Andrew T. Lytle, Andrew G. Carlson, Scott A. Thurlow 2006-01-31 $25,520,000
6549950 Method for automatically tallying voting data in e-mail systems Andrew T. Lytle, Andrew G. Carlson, Scott A. Thurlow 2003-04-15 $167,020,000
6243721 Method and apparatus for providing automatic layout capabilities for computer forms Nicholas Paul Duane, Suryanarayanan V. Raman, Scott A. Thurlow 2001-06-05 $418,247,000
6057841 System and method for processing electronic messages with rules representing a combination of conditions, actions or exceptions Scott A. Thurlow, William James Bliss, Douglas E. Stumberger, David R. Goodhand 2000-05-02 $586,257,000
5946691 Method of presenting, storing, and updating a filing identifier for a data record Se-Wai Lee, Kenn M. Takara, Jonathan Gibney 1999-08-31 $313,854,000
5923848 System and method for resolving names in an electronic messaging environment David R. Goodhand, William James Bliss, Scott A. Thurlow 1999-07-13 $427,321,000
5917489 System and method for creating, editing, and distributing rules for processing electronic messages Scott A. Thurlow, William James Bliss, Douglas E. Stumberger, David R. Goodhand 1999-06-29 $401,189,000