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Cormac Herley — 57 Patents

Microsoft: 45 patents #416 of 40,388Top 2%
HP: 12 patents #1,532 of 16,619Top 10%
Bellevue, WA: #142 of 6,950 inventorsTop 3%
Washington: #870 of 76,902 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #42,642 of 4,157,543Top 2%
57 Patents All Time
Cormac Herley has been granted 57 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in March 2025. Cormac Herley ranks #42,642 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.0%). Patent records list Cormac Herley in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2010.peak 81998: 2 patents19981999: 1 patents2000: 1 patents20002002: 1 patents2003: 2 patents20032004: 3 patents2005: 3 patents20052006: 6 patents2007: 2 patents20072008: 5 patents2009: 6 patents20092010: 8 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 2 patents2014: 4 patents20142015: 4 patents2018: 1 patents20182021: 2 patents2023: 1 patents20232025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 57 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12261858 Detecting and mitigating abusive network activity based on versioned browser usage Fang Tu, Jayadev Pillai 2025-03-25
11665185 Method and apparatus to detect scripted network traffic Fang Tu, Cheng Cao, Jayadev Pillai 2023-05-30 $361,099,000
11165804 Distinguishing bot traffic from human traffic 2021-11-02 $226,584,000
10885190 Identifying web pages in malware distribution networks Gang Wang, Jack Wilson Stokes, III, David Felstead 2021-01-05 $130,101,000
9977900 Identifying web pages in malware distribution networks Gang Wang, Jack Wilson Stokes, III, David Felstead 2018-05-22 $60,030,000
9166797 Secured compartment for transactions Thekkthalackal Varugis Kurien, Alice Jane Bernheim Brush, Daniel C. Robbins, Arindam Chatterjee, Scott A. Field 2015-10-20 $32,084,000
9124431 Evidence-based dynamic scoring to limit guesses in knowledge-based authentication Stuart Schechter, Yordan Rouskov, Charles W. Kaufman 2015-09-01 $35,798,000
9021590 Spyware detection mechanism Brian W. Keogh, Aaron Michael Hulett, Adrian Marinescu, Jeffrey Williams, Stanislav Nurilov 2015-04-28 $45,675,000
8959644 Use of popularity information to reduce risk posed by guessing attacks Stuart Schechter, Michael Mitzenmacher 2015-02-17 $31,357,000
8918836 Predicting next characters in password generation Stuart Schechter 2014-12-23 $35,011,000
8856140 Querying dialog prompts using hash values 2014-10-07 $28,629,000
8825728 Entering confidential information on an untrusted machine Dinei Florencio 2014-09-02 $31,345,000
8640231 Client side attack resistant phishing detection Dinei Florencio 2014-01-28 $35,401,000
8281147 Image based shared secret proxy for secure password entry Dinei Florencio 2012-10-02 $22,613,000
8255696 One-time password access to password-protected accounts Dinei Florencio 2012-08-28 $15,180,000
7925883 Attack resistant phishing detection Dinei Florencio 2011-04-12 $11,368,000
7886074 Methods and systems for a receiver to allocate bandwidth among incoming communications flows Paul England 2011-02-08 $17,009,000
7826708 System and method for automatically customizing a buffered media stream John C. Platt, Chris Burges, Erin Renshaw 2010-11-02 $23,255,000
7788696 Inferring information about media stream objects Christopher J. C. Burges 2010-08-31 $11,672,000
7777125 Constructing a table of music similarity vectors from a music similarity graph John C. Platt, Erin Renshaw, Max Chickering 2010-08-17 $13,094,000
7734678 Distributing data in a peer to peer network 2010-06-08 $16,528,000
7694142 Digital content distribution systems Chit Wei Saw, Slawomir K. Ilnicki, Christian J. van den Branden Lambrecht, Joyce E. Farrell, Joan-Maria Mas Ribes 2010-04-06 $10,078,000
7681234 Preventing phishing attacks Dinei Florencio 2010-03-16 $17,803,000
7657123 Text document capture with jittered digital camera 2010-02-02 $25,278,000
7653921 System and method for providing user control over repeating objects embedded in a stream 2010-01-26 $32,319,000