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Christopher J. C. Burges — 36 Patents

Microsoft: 36 patents #614 of 40,388Top 2%
Bellevue, WA: #263 of 6,950 inventorsTop 4%
Washington: #1,951 of 76,902 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
Christopher J. C. Burges has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in May 2015. Christopher J. C. Burges ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Christopher J. C. Burges in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2008.peak 72005: 1 patents20052006: 4 patents2007: 2 patents20072008: 7 patents2009: 2 patents20092010: 7 patents2011: 5 patents20112012: 2 patents2013: 2 patents20132014: 1 patents2015: 3 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9031885 Technologies for encouraging search engine switching based on behavior patterns Allison P. Heath, Ryen William White, Eric D. Brill, Robert L. Rounthwaite 2015-05-12 $40,939,000
9020806 Generating sentence completion questions Geoffrey G. Zweig 2015-04-28 $45,675,000
8935258 Identification of sample data items for re-judging Krysta Svore, Elbio Renato Torres Abib, Bhuvan Middha 2015-01-13 $32,048,000
8805754 Link spam detection using smooth classification function Dengyong Zhou, Tao Tao 2014-08-12 $19,073,000
8494998 Link spam detection using smooth classification function Dengyong Zhou, Tao Tao 2013-07-23 $26,254,000
8392410 Linear combination of rankers 2013-03-05 $13,509,000
8185484 Predicting and using search engine switching behavior Allison P. Heath, Ryen William White, Eric D. Brill, Robert L. Rounthwaite 2012-05-22 $19,852,000
8156129 Substantially similar queries Dengyong Zhou, Robert L. Rounthwaite 2012-04-10 $17,388,000
7984000 Predicting and using search engine switching behavior Allison P. Heath, Ryen William White, Eric D. Brill, Robert L. Rounthwaite 2011-07-19 $14,062,000
7941391 Link spam detection using smooth classification function Dengyong Zhou, Tao Tao 2011-05-10 $16,362,000
7937264 Leveraging unlabeled data with a probabilistic graphical model John C. Platt 2011-05-03 $28,388,000
7925651 Ranking items by optimizing ranking cost function Robert L. Rounthwaite 2011-04-12 $11,368,000
7873624 Question answering over structured content on the web Yevgeny E. Agichtein, Eric D. Brill 2011-01-18 $19,360,000
7788254 Web page analysis using multiple graphs Dengyong Zhou 2010-08-31 $11,672,000
7788696 Inferring information about media stream objects Cormac Herley 2010-08-31 $11,672,000
7779019 Linear combination of rankers 2010-08-17 $13,094,000
7743047 Accounting for behavioral variability in web search Ryen William White, Eric D. Brill, Steven M. Drucker 2010-06-22 $17,867,000
7689520 Machine learning system and method for ranking sets of data using a pairing cost function Tal Shaked 2010-03-30 $17,166,000
7672939 System and method providing automated margin tree analysis and processing of sampled data 2010-03-02 $22,070,000
7660713 Systems and methods that detect a desired signal via a linear discriminative classifier that utilizes an estimated posterior signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) Arungunram C. Surendran, John C. Platt, Somsak Sukittanon 2010-02-09 $23,520,000
7617164 Efficiency of training for ranking systems based on pairwise training with aggregated gradients Robert Ragno 2009-11-10 $34,464,000
7548934 Auto playlist generator John C. Platt, Alice Zheng, Christopher B. Weare, Steven E. Swenson 2009-06-16 $26,863,000
7472096 Training a learning system with arbitrary cost functions Yevgeny E. Agichtein 2008-12-30 $27,759,000
7451123 Probability estimate for K-nearest neighbor John C. Platt 2008-11-11 $25,236,000
7430567 Multidimensional data object searching using bit vector indices Jonathan D. Goldstein, John C. Platt 2008-09-30 $45,460,000