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Dilip Naik — 14 Patents

Microsoft: 6 patents #7,433 of 40,388Top 20%
DSDell Software: 4 patents #17 of 210Top 9%
MCMcafee: 2 patents #495 of 1,127Top 45%
BSBrocade Communications Systems: 1 patents #286 of 504Top 60%
QSQuest Software: 1 patents #120 of 240Top 50%
Redmond, WA: #915 of 8,547 inventorsTop 15%
Washington: #7,280 of 76,902 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Dilip Naik has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in October 2017. Dilip Naik ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Dilip Naik in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2006.peak 22002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042006: 2 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112013: 1 patents2015: 2 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9778946 Optimized copy of virtual machine storage files 2017-10-03
9465642 Systems and methods for instant provisioning of virtual machine files 2016-10-11
9311375 Systems and methods for compacting a virtual machine file 2016-04-12
9069779 Open file migration operations in a distributed file system Edward D. McClanahan, Ranji Balasubramanian, Borislav Marinov 2015-06-30 $25,371,000
9032403 Systems and methods for instant provisioning of virtual machine files 2015-05-12
8453145 Systems and methods for instant provisioning of virtual machine files 2013-05-28
8028340 Piracy prevention using unique module translation E. John Sebes, Rishi Bhargava 2011-09-27
7603552 Piracy prevention using unique module translation E. John Sebes, Rishi Bhargava 2009-10-13 $56,376,000
7421711 System, method and apparatus for supporting a kernel mode driver Alan Warwick 2008-09-02 $32,109,000
7124416 System and method for user mode applications to register to receive kernel mode device related events Alan Warwick 2006-10-17 $61,185,000
7055048 System and method for accessing information made available by a kernel mode driver Alan Warwick 2006-05-30 $44,048,000
6763472 System and method for accessing information made available by a kernel mode driver Alan Warwick 2004-07-13 $70,695,000
6598169 System and method for accessing information made available by a kernel mode driver Alan Warwick 2003-07-22 $113,485,000
6460151 System and method for predicting storage device failures Alan Warwick, Peter Wieland 2002-10-01 $150,453,000