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Geoffrey R. Smith — 30 Patents

Microsoft: 17 patents #2,212 of 40,388Top 6%
Google: 8 patents #3,283 of 22,993Top 15%
RTRovi Technologies: 5 patents #21 of 111Top 20%
Mountain View, CA: #614 of 11,022 inventorsTop 6%
California: #17,345 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #121,623 of 4,157,543Top 3%
30 Patents All Time
Geoffrey R. Smith has been granted 30 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in August 2022. Geoffrey R. Smith ranks #121,623 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.9%). Patent records list Geoffrey R. Smith in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2009.peak 62004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 6 patents2010: 6 patents20102011: 1 patents2012: 2 patents20122013: 2 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 3 patents2017: 1 patents20172020: 1 patents2022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 30 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11412288 Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners Peter J. Potrebic 2022-08-09
10757465 Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners Peter J. Potrebic 2020-08-25
9854293 Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners Peter J. Potrebic 2017-12-26 $775,000
9084007 Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners Peter J. Potrebic 2015-07-14 $3,068,000
8966516 Determining automatically generated channel tunes based on channel tune dwell times Iain Merrick, Michael A. Killianey, John Alastair Hawkins, Greg Hecht, Simon Michael Rowe 2015-02-24 $9,847,000
8928819 Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners Peter J. Potrebic 2015-01-06 $3,613,000
8739199 Log processing to determine impressions using an impression time window Iain Merrick, Michael A. Killianey, John Alastair Hawkins, Greg Hecht, Simon Michael Rowe 2014-05-27 $15,494,000
8495682 Exposure based customization of surveys Timothy M. Dierks, Pradipta Mitra 2013-07-23 $31,465,000
8438591 Channel tune dwell time log processing Daniel J. Kaustuv, Daniel J. Zigmond, Jay Shrauner, John Alastair Hawkins, Simon Michael Rowe +3 more 2013-05-07 $32,481,000
8127325 Log processing to determine impression values using reliable durations Iain Merrick, Michael A. Killaney, John Alastair Hawkins, Greg Hecht, Simon Michael Rowe 2012-02-28 $85,175,000
8091101 Channel tune dwell time log processing Daniel J. Kaustuv, Daniel J. Zigmond, Jay Shrauner, John Alastair Hawkins, Simon Michael Rowe +3 more 2012-01-03 $54,885,000
7944863 Accelerated channel change in rate-limited environments James Armand Baldwin, Michael Dodd, Peter T. Barrett, David C. Clifford, Grant Mohr +1 more 2011-05-17 $20,389,000
7853969 Log processing to determine impression values using reliable durations Iain Merrick, Michael A. Killianey, John Alastair Hawkins, Greg Hecht, Simon Michael Rowe 2010-12-14 $124,292,000
7813268 Retry strategies for use in a streaming environment Dustin L. Green, David C. Clifford, Michael Dodd, Peter T. Barrett, Grant Mohr 2010-10-12 $16,215,000
7765305 Retry request overload protection David C. Clifford, Grant Mohr 2010-07-27 $22,577,000
7743394 Log processing of channel tunes and channel tune times generated from a television processing device Daniel J. Kaustuv, Daniel J. Zigmond, Jay Shrauner, John Alastair Hawkins, Simon Michael Rowe +3 more 2010-06-22 $107,110,000
7701516 Method and apparatus for selecting among multiple tuners Peter J. Potrebic 2010-04-20 $23,763,000
7644103 MediaDescription data structures for carrying descriptive content metadata and content acquisition data in multimedia systems Kevin Carle, Michael A. Cleron, Samuel Thomas Scott, III, Victor Lee 2010-01-05 $31,776,000
7634785 DVR-based targeted advertising 2009-12-15 $20,279,000
7606255 Selectively receiving broadcast data according to one of multiple data configurations 2009-10-20 $35,334,000
7574490 Strategies for configuring a server-based information-transmission infrastructure 2009-08-11 $34,426,000
7546383 Enabling broadcast of multiple data configurations 2009-06-09 $30,586,000
7480701 Mixed-media service collections for multimedia platforms Daniel J. Zigmond, Dustin L. Green, James Armand Baldwin, Kevin Carle, Patrik Schnell +1 more 2009-01-20 $33,255,000
7477653 Accelerated channel change in rate-limited environments James Armand Baldwin, Michael Dodd, Peter T. Barrett, David C. Clifford, Grant Mohr +1 more 2009-01-13 $27,818,000
7370129 Retry strategies for use in a streaming environment Dustin L. Green, Michael Dodd, David C. Clifford, Peter T. Barrett, Grant Mohr 2008-05-06 $36,419,000