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Christopher B. Weare — 35 Patents

Microsoft: 34 patents #680 of 40,388Top 2%
RTRovi Technologies: 1 patents #95 of 111Top 90%
Bellevue, WA: #272 of 6,950 inventorsTop 4%
Washington: #2,054 of 76,902 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #96,288 of 4,157,543Top 3%
35 Patents All Time
Christopher B. Weare has been granted 35 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in October 2016. Christopher B. Weare ranks #96,288 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.3%). Patent records list Christopher B. Weare in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2009.peak 72003: 1 patents20032005: 2 patents2006: 6 patents20062007: 5 patents2008: 5 patents20082009: 7 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 2 patents2013: 2 patents20132014: 2 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 35 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9460092 Media asset recommendation service Shawn Murphy, Christopher A. Evans, Chad Gibson 2016-10-04 $10,774,000
9176214 Proximity detection for shared computing experiences Doug Berrett, Mike Albee, Cory Cirrincione, Sean Kollenkark, Joseph McClanahan +1 more 2015-11-03 $50,275,000
8706856 Service directory Advay Mengle, Shawn Murphy, Jeffrey T. Pearce, Brian J. Fox, Stephen Craig Schertz 2014-04-22 $23,747,000
8640163 Determining user-to-user similarities in an online media environment Chad Gibson, Jessica Zahn 2014-01-28 $35,401,000
8621028 Content-recommendation message Eric J. Hull, Thomas Forsythe 2013-12-31 $17,332,000
8572098 Client playlist generation 2013-10-29 $25,404,000
8082279 System and methods for providing adaptive media property classification 2011-12-20 $15,735,000
7909238 User-created trade cards Gary W. Flake, Blaise H. Aguera, Brett D. Brewer, Steven M. Drucker, Karim Farouki +5 more 2011-03-22 $15,289,000
7756874 System and methods for providing automatic classification of media entities according to consonance properties Jeffrey Hoekman 2010-07-13 $16,921,000
7599916 System and method for personalized search 2009-10-06 $25,836,000
7590612 Blog map for searching and/or navigating the blogosphere Brady Forrest 2009-09-15 $22,769,000
7574276 System and methods for providing automatic classification of media entities according to melodic movement properties Jeffrey Hoekman 2009-08-11 $34,426,000
7548934 Auto playlist generator John C. Platt, Christopher J. C. Burges, Alice Zheng, Steven E. Swenson 2009-06-16 $26,863,000
7532943 System and methods for providing automatic classification of media entities according to sonic properties 2009-05-12 $25,255,000
7526476 System and method for generating attribute-based selectable search extension Ramez Naam 2009-04-28 $32,077,000
7523109 Dynamic grouping of content including captive data 2009-04-21 $25,262,000
7444313 Systems and methods for optimizing decision graph collaborative filtering Christopher A. Meek, David M. Chickering, Pradeep Kumar Gupta 2008-10-28 $20,407,000
7381883 System and methods for providing automatic classification of media entities according to tempo Marc Daskalovic 2008-06-03 $22,353,000
7376672 System and methods for providing adaptive media property classification 2008-05-20 $37,918,000
7333985 Dynamic content clustering 2008-02-19 $39,124,000
7326848 System and methods for providing automatic classification of media entities according to tempo properties Marc Daskalovic 2008-02-05 $67,592,000
7313571 Auto playlist generator John C. Platt, Christopher J. C. Burges, Alice Zheng, Steven E. Swenson 2007-12-25
7296031 Auto playlist generator John C. Platt, Christopher J. C. Burges, Alice Zheng, Steven E. Swenson 2007-11-13 $32,869,000
7266548 Automated taxonomy generation 2007-09-04 $26,539,000
7240207 Fingerprinting media entities employing fingerprint algorithms and bit-to-bit comparisons 2007-07-03 $23,375,000