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Brian Smith — 23 Patents

Microsoft: 9 patents #4,919 of 40,388Top 15%
SNSnowflake: 8 patents #108 of 448Top 25%
IBM: 4 patents #21,783 of 70,183Top 35%
NBNavteq B.V.: 1 patents #54 of 115Top 50%
Hillsborough, CA: #38 of 358 inventorsTop 15%
California: #24,547 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Brian Smith has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in October 2025. Brian Smith ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Brian Smith in Hillsborough, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12445499 Data platform with unified privileges Jen-Hung Chen, Unmesh Jagtap, William Pugh, Xunjin Xu 2025-10-14
12411850 Metadata search via N-gram index Lin Chan, Tianyi Chen, Benoit Dageville, Yiming Kang, Jun Luo +2 more 2025-09-09
12235985 Privilege based access checks for query results Damien Carru, Thierry Cruanes, Subramanian Muralidhar, Nicola Dan Onose, Ryan Michael Thomas Shelly +1 more 2025-02-25
12010147 Data platform with unified privileges Jeremy Yujui Chen, Unmesh Jagtap, William Pugh, Xu Xu 2024-06-11 $57,083,000
12007997 Metadata search via N-gram index Lin Chan, Tianyi Chen, Benoit Dageville, Yiming Kang, Jun Luo +2 more 2024-06-11 $57,083,000
11816239 Privilege based access checks for query results Damien Carru, Thierry Cruanes, Subramanian Muralidhar, Nicola Dan Onose, Ryan Michael Thomas Shelly +1 more 2023-11-14 $158,601,000
11636110 Metadata search via N-Gram index Lin Chan, Tianyi Chen, Benoit Dageville, Yiming Kang, Jun Luo +2 more 2023-04-25 $183,099,000
11507685 Privilege based access checks for query results Damien Carru, Thierry Cruanes, Subramanian Muralidhar, Nicola Dan Onose, Ryan Michael Thomas Shelly +1 more 2022-11-22 $125,880,000
11270020 Privilege based access checks for query results Damien Carru, Thierry Cruanes, Subramanian Muralidhar, Nicola Dan Onose, Ryan Michael Thomas Shelly +1 more 2022-03-08 $78,727,000
8781736 Data-driven traffic views with continuous real-time rendering of traffic flow map Christopher D. Cera, Robert M. Soulchin, Jonathan K. Agree, Gregory A. Auxer, Brent R. Matzelle +3 more 2014-07-15
8244868 Thin-provisioning adviser for storage devices Lee Charles La Frese 2012-08-14 $4,482,000
8156093 Memory object sharing for just in time compiled data Sergiy Kuryata, Michael McLaughlin, Steven J. Pratschner, Ramesha Chandrashekhar 2012-04-10 $17,388,000
7246346 System and method for persisting dynamically generated code in a directly addressable and executable storage medium Seth Mitchell Demsey, Scott M. Corbin, Michael D. Smith, W. Michael Zintel 2007-07-17 $44,202,000
7203941 Associating a native resource with an application Seth Mitchell Demsey, Scott K. Holden, William Michael Zintel, Tuan Huynh 2007-04-10 $36,355,000
7127709 System and method for jointly managing dynamically generated code and data Seth Mitchell Demsey, Scott M. Corbin, Michael D. Smith, W. Michael Zintel 2006-10-24 $47,982,000
6377991 Method, computer program product, and system for migrating URLs within a dynamically changing distributed cache of URLs Hans Hurvig 2002-04-23 $123,327,000
6345337 Method and system for determining a cache single reference residency time Bruce McNutt, David A. Short 2002-02-05 $11,026,000
6341311 Directing data object access requests in a distributed cache Vinod Valloppillil, Hans Hurvig 2002-01-22 $1,225,250,000
6311216 Method, computer program product, and system for client-side deterministic routing and URL lookup into a distributed cache of URLS Hans Hurvig 2001-10-30 $518,332,000
6073226 System and method for minimizing page tables in virtual memory systems Scott M. Cutshall 2000-06-06 $373,922,000
5606688 Method and apparatus for dynamic cache memory allocation via single-reference residency times Bruce McNutt 1997-02-25 $16,631,000
5581736 Method and system for dynamically sharing RAM between virtual memory and disk cache 1996-12-03 $136,211,000
5561421 Access method data compression with system-built generic dictionaries Mark Anthony Sovik, Pong-Sheng Wang, Nancy Y. Young, Ahmad Zandi 1996-10-01 $9,792,000