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David Kays — 17 Patents

Microsoft: 17 patents #2,212 of 40,388Top 6%
Redmond, WA: #701 of 8,547 inventorsTop 9%
Washington: #5,777 of 76,902 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
David Kays has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in April 2021. David Kays ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list David Kays in Redmond, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10979290 Discovery and mining of performance information of a device for anticipatorily sending updates to the device Edward F. Reus, Mario Goertzel, Scott A. Field, Michael Healy, Joseph Dadzie +2 more 2021-04-13 $203,090,000
9531588 Discovery and mining of performance information of a device for anticipatorily sending updates to the device Edward F. Reus, Mario Goertzel, Scott A. Field, Michael Healy, Joseph Dadzie +2 more 2016-12-27 $44,288,000
8869142 Secure content publishing and distribution Christopher S. Gouge, Craig Marl, David Hennessey, Edward F. Reus, Krishnan Rangarajan +3 more 2014-10-21 $25,843,000
7779406 Method and system for managing lifecycles of deployed applications Stephen M. Blanding, Michael J. Cherry, James S. Masson, Debi P. Mishra, Daniel Plastina 2010-08-17 $13,094,000
7747998 Elevated patching Carolyn L. Napier, Christopher S. Gouge, Rahul Thombre 2010-06-29 $14,156,000
7703090 Patch un-installation Carolyn L. Napier, Christopher S. Gouge, Rahul Thombre 2010-04-20 $23,763,000
7631061 Method and system for assigning and publishing applications Mark Lucovsky, Michael J. Cherry, Daniel Plastina, Bharat Shah, Debi P. Mishra +1 more 2009-12-08 $24,284,000
7552431 Multiple patching in a single installation transaction Carolyn L. Napier, Christopher S. Gouge, Rahul Thombre 2009-06-23 $37,511,000
7552430 Patch sequencing Carolyn L. Napier, Christopher S. Gouge, Rahul Thombre 2009-06-23 $37,511,000
7299410 System and method for reporting hierarchically arranged data in markup language formats Ullattil Shaji, William J. Whalen, Nick Carlson, Derek C. Y. Cheng, Rhynier Myburgh +2 more 2007-11-20 $45,364,000
6950818 System and method for implementing group policy Michael W. Dennis, Michele L. Freed, Daniel Plastina, Eric Flo, Robert E. Corrington 2005-09-27 $56,893,000
6836794 Method and system for assigning and publishing applications Mark Lucovsky, Michael J. Cherry, Daniel Plastina, Bharat Shah, Debi P. Mishra +1 more 2004-12-28 $117,865,000
6754896 Method and system for on-demand installation of software implementations Debi P. Mishra, Markus Horstmann, Mark Lucovsky, Shannon J. Chan, Bharat Shah +1 more 2004-06-22 $73,169,000
6751799 In situ processing of remote procedure calls Vibhas D. Chandorkar 2004-06-15 $100,331,000
6523166 Method and system for on-demand installation of software implementations Debi P. Mishra, Markus Horstmann, Mark Lucovsky, Shannon J. Chan, Bharat Shah +1 more 2003-02-18 $291,774,000
6466932 System and method for implementing group policy Michael W. Dennis, Michele L. Freed, Daniel Plastina, Eric Flo, Robert E. Corrington 2002-10-15 $130,592,000
6249822 Remote procedure call method Vibhas D. Chandorkar 2001-06-19 $552,481,000