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Chad Walters — 20 Patents

Microsoft: 14 patents #2,871 of 40,388Top 8%
COConnectix: 3 patents #1 of 5Top 20%
YHYahoo Holdings: 3 patents #543 of 2,500Top 25%
Bellevue, WA: #565 of 6,950 inventorsTop 9%
Washington: #4,680 of 76,902 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Chad Walters has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in October 2023. Chad Walters ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Chad Walters in Bellevue, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11803596 Efficient forward ranking in a search engine Knut Magne Risvik, Michael J. Hopcroft, John G. Bennett, Karthik Kalyanaraman, Trishul Chilimbi +2 more 2023-10-31 $411,327,000
10437892 Efficient forward ranking in a search engine Knut Magne Risvik, Michael J. Hopcroft, John G. Bennett, Karthik Kalyanaraman, Trishul Chilimbi +2 more 2019-10-08 $58,075,000
9959347 Multi-layer search-engine index Hui Shen, Mao Yang, Lintao Zhang, Zhenyu Zhao, Xiao Wu +3 more 2018-05-01 $53,440,000
9424351 Hybrid-distribution model for search engine indexes Knut Magne Risvik, Michael J. Hopcroft, John G. Bennett, Karthik Kalyanaraman, Trishul Chilimbi +2 more 2016-08-23 $31,125,000
8959077 Multi-layer search-engine index Hui Shen, Mao Yang, Lintao Zhang, Zhenyu Zhao, Xiao Wu +3 more 2015-02-17 $31,357,000
8738598 Checkpointing iterators during search Lukas Biewald, Nitay Joffe, Andrew Alan James 2014-05-27 $33,362,000
8713024 Efficient forward ranking in a search engine Knut Magne Risvik, Michael J. Hopcroft, John G. Bennett, Karthik Kalyanaraman, Trishul Chilimbi +2 more 2014-04-29 $28,448,000
8639708 Fact-based indexing for natural language search Martin Henk Van Den Berg, Daniel G. Bobrow, Robert D. Cheslow, Barney Pell, Giovanni Lorenzo Thione 2014-01-28 $35,401,000
8620907 Matching funnel for large document index Knut Magne Risvik, Michael J. Hopcroft, John G. Bennett, Karthik Kalyanaraman, Trishul Chilimbi +1 more 2013-12-31 $17,332,000
8316036 Checkpointing iterators during search Lukas Biewald, Nitay Joffe, Andrew Alan James 2012-11-20 $16,799,000
8280721 Efficiently representing word sense probabilities Rion Langley Snow, Giovanni Lorenzo Thione, Scott A. Waterman, Timothy M. Converse 2012-10-02 $22,613,000
8229730 Indexing role hierarchies for words in a search index Martin Henk Van Den Berg, Giovanni Lorenzo Thione, Richard Crouch 2012-07-24 $20,829,000
8229970 Efficient storage and retrieval of posting lists Giovanni Lorenzo Thione, Barney Pell, Lukas Biewald, Brendan O'Connor 2012-07-24 $20,829,000
7984032 Iterators for applying term occurrence-level constraints in natural language searching Giovanni Lorenzo Thione, Barney Pell, Richard Crouch 2011-07-19 $14,062,000
7827523 Query serving infrastructure providing flexible and expandable support and compiling instructions Nawaaz Ahmed, Robert Travis 2010-11-02 $13,064,000
7634466 Realtime indexing and search in large, rapidly changing document collections Daniel E. Rose, Jianchang Mao 2009-12-15 $46,525,000
7594258 Access control systems and methods using visibility tokens with automatic propagation Jianchang Mao, Zhichen Xu, John C. Wang, Albert Meltzer 2009-09-22 $271,058,000
5768593 Dynamic cross-compilation system and method Jorg Anthony Brown 1998-06-16
5699539 Virtual memory management system and method using data compression Jonathan Forrest Garber, Jorg Anthony Brown 1997-12-16
5617552 Lossless data compression system and method Jonathan Forrest Garber, Jorg Anthony Brown 1997-04-01