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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Dong Zhang — 15 Patents

Microsoft: 8 patents #5,580 of 40,388Top 15%
Google: 6 patents #4,427 of 22,993Top 20%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Dong Zhang has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in June 2023. Dong Zhang ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Dong Zhang in Beijing, NC, CN.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2006.peak 22005: 1 patents20052006: 2 patents20062007: 2 patents20072008: 1 patents20082011: 1 patents20112013: 2 patents20132015: 2 patents20152018: 2 patents20182019: 1 patents20192023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11689482 Dynamically generating a typing feedback indicator for recipient to provide context of message to be received by recipient Nicholas Tsang, Michael McCawley, Haoyang Li 2023-06-27 $4,778,000
10169390 Ranking social network objects Qingshan Luo, Hang Cui, Bo Zhang 2019-01-01
10091627 Text message handshaking and integration Yong Mao, Shang Tao Zhou, Dong Guo, Gleb Kholodov, Giok Hong Khoo +3 more 2018-10-02 $62,856,000
9996845 Bidding on users Edward Chang 2018-06-12 $27,323,000
9081823 Ranking social network objects Qingshan Luo, Hang Cui, Bo Zhang 2015-07-14 $12,815,000
8965883 Ranking user generated web content Xiance Si, Jian Gong Deng, Huacheng Ke, Zoltan Gyongyi, Edward Chang 2015-02-24 $9,847,000
8600812 Adheat advertisement model for social network Edward Chang 2013-12-03 $28,003,000
8572094 Ranking social network objects Qingshan Luo, Hang Cui, Bo Zhang 2013-10-29 $33,367,000
7895031 Language model sharing Yutaka Nakajima, Yutaka Suzue, Kevin B. Gjerstad, Hiroaki Kanokogi, Benjamin M. Westbrook 2011-02-22 $24,106,000
7444018 Method and apparatus for shot detection Wei Qi 2008-10-28 $20,407,000
7263660 System and method for producing a video skim Hong-Jiang Zhang 2007-08-28 $25,091,000
7212666 Generating visually representative video thumbnails Yijin Wang, Hong-Jiang Zhang 2007-05-01 $59,716,000
7113640 Method and apparatus for shot detection Wei Qi 2006-09-26 $52,525,000
7035788 Language model sharing Yutaka Nakajima, Yutaka Suzue, Kevin B. Gjerstad, Hiroaki Kanokogi, Benjamin M. Westbrook 2006-04-25 $28,990,000
6870956 Method and apparatus for shot detection Wei Qi 2005-03-22 $61,729,000