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Craig M. Dowell — 20 Patents

Microsoft: 17 patents #2,212 of 40,388Top 6%
Qualcomm: 3 patents #4,553 of 12,104Top 40%
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
Craig M. Dowell has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in June 2019. Craig M. Dowell ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Craig M. Dowell in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2008.peak 51997: 1 patents19972000: 1 patents2002: 2 patents20022003: 1 patents2004: 2 patents20042005: 1 patents2007: 3 patents20072008: 5 patents2010: 1 patents20102017: 2 patents2019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10320932 Conveying state changes using connectionless messaging and a store-and-forward cache Jack H. Profit, Gregory Burns 2019-06-11
9635124 Conveying state changes using connectionless messaging and a store-and-forward cache Jack H. Profit, Gregory Burns 2017-04-25
9591582 Smart co-processor for optimizing service discovery power consumption in wireless service platforms Khosro Mohammad Rabii, Vijay Naicker Subramaniam, Marcello Lioy, Fawad Shaukat, Shivakumar Balasubramanyam 2017-03-07 $8,839,000
7668906 Wire protocol for a media server system William J. Bolosky, Robert Patrick Fitzgerald, Steven P. Levi, Jan Rie, Richard F. Rashid 2010-02-23 $27,908,000
7466721 Active stream format for holding multiple media streams Steven P. Levi, Mark D. VanAntwerp, Chadd B. Knowlton 2008-12-16 $34,537,000
7437466 Wire protocol for a media server system William J. Bolosky, Robert Patrick Fitzgerald, Steven P. Levi, Jan de Rie, Richard F. Rashid 2008-10-14 $28,172,000
7380012 Wire protocol for a media server system William J. Bolosky, Robert Patrick Fitzgerald, Steven P. Levi, Jan Rie, Richard F. Rashid 2008-05-27 $21,072,000
7373418 Wire protocol for a media server system William J. Bolosky, Robert Patrick Fitzgerald, Steven P. Levi, Jan Rie, Richard F. Rashid 2008-05-13 $106,203,000
7342924 Active stream format for holding multiple media streams Steven P. Levi, Mark D. VanAntwerp, Chadd B. Knowlton 2008-03-11 $45,362,000
7296063 Active stream format for holding multiple media streams Steven P. Levi, Mark D. VanAntwerp, Chadd B. Knowlton 2007-11-13 $32,869,000
7260626 Wire protocol for a media server system William J. Bolosky, Robert Patrick Fitzgerald, Steven P. Levi, Jan Rie, Richard F. Rashid 2007-08-21 $25,183,000
7206822 Active stream format for holding multiple media streams Steven P. Levi, Mark D. VanAntwerp, Chadd B. Knowlton 2007-04-17 $35,960,000
6865610 Wire protocol for a media server system William J. Bolosky, Robert Patrick Fitzgerald, Steven P. Levi, Jan de Rie, Richard F. Rashid 2005-03-08 $81,115,000
6836791 Active stream format for holding multiple media streams Steven P. Levi, Mark D. VanAntwerp, Chadd B. Knowlton 2004-12-28 $117,865,000
6763374 Active stream format for holding multiple media streams Steven P. Levi, Mark D. VanAntwerp, Chadd B. Knowlton 2004-07-13 $70,695,000
6608933 Loss tolerant compressed image data Geoffrey Dunbar 2003-08-19 $211,764,000
6466987 Wire protocol for a media server system William J. Bolosky, Robert Patrick Fitzgerald, Steven P. Levi, Jan de Rie, Richard F. Rashid 2002-10-15 $130,592,000
6339794 Wire protocol for a media server system William J. Bolosky, Robert Patrick Fitzgerald, Steven P. Levi, Jan de Rie, Richard F. Rashid 2002-01-15 $727,330,000
6041345 Active stream format for holding multiple media streams Steven P. Levi, Mark D. VanAntwerp, Chadd B. Knowlton 2000-03-21 $658,326,000
5661665 Multi-media synchronization Adam B. Glass, James L. Green, George H. J. Shaw 1997-08-26 $1,049,028,000