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James C. Finger — 23 Patents

Microsoft: 23 patents #1,393 of 40,388Top 4%
Kirkland, WA: #232 of 3,517 inventorsTop 7%
Washington: #3,876 of 76,902 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
James C. Finger has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in July 2015. James C. Finger ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list James C. Finger in Kirkland, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2010.peak 52005: 1 patents20052006: 2 patents20062009: 3 patents20092010: 5 patents20102011: 4 patents20112012: 3 patents20122014: 3 patents20142015: 2 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9092266 Scalable scheduling for distributed data processing Eric Boutin, Pavel Yatsuk 2015-07-28 $31,589,000
9047593 Non-destructive media presentation derivatives David Sebastien Alles, James E. Allard, Nicholas R. Baker, Adam T. Berns, Steven M. Drucker +4 more 2015-06-02 $51,533,000
8884983 Time-synchronized graphics composition in a 2.5-dimensional user interface environment Richard W. Russell, Martin Regen, Joel B. Deaquero, Andrew Douglas Reddish 2014-11-11 $24,503,000
8799757 Synchronization aspects of interactive multimedia presentation management Andrew William Jewsbury, Olivier Colle, Robert K. Hughes, Jr., Sean Hayes, See-Mong Tan 2014-08-05 $23,036,000
8656268 Queueing events in an interactive media environment John Yovin, Khurshed Mazhar, Olivier Colle, Arthur William James Freeman 2014-02-18 $42,189,000
8305398 Rendering and compositing multiple applications in an interactive media environment John Yovin, Khurshed Mazhar, Olivier Colle, Arthur William James Freeman 2012-11-06 $20,259,000
8190986 Non-destructive media presentation derivatives David Sebastien Alles, James E. Allard, Nicholas R. Baker, Adam T. Berns, Steven M. Drucker +4 more 2012-05-29 $15,522,000
8108787 Distributing input events to multiple applications in an interactive media environment John Yovin, Khurshed Mazhar, Olivier Colle, Arthur William James Freeman 2012-01-31 $19,052,000
8086562 Arrangement for anonymous API downloaded resources for advanced content Peter J. Torr, Andrew Clinick, Jeffrey Davis 2011-12-27 $13,493,000
8046570 Supporting multiple operating systems in media devices Brian Douglas King, Praful Prataprai Chavda, Jeffrey Davis 2011-10-25 $24,710,000
8027518 Automatic configuration of devices based on biometric data Nicholas R. Baker, James M. Alkove, James E. Allard, David Sebastien Alles, Steven M. Drucker +4 more 2011-09-27 $24,701,000
8010690 Arrangement for connectivity within an advanced multimedia content framework Peter J. Torr, Praful Chavda, Richard E. Doherty 2011-08-30 $14,918,000
7861150 Timing aspects of media content rendering Oliver Colle, Cathleen M. Guinan, John Yovin 2010-12-28 $13,779,000
7756864 System and method for performing a search and a browse on a query Raman Chandrasekar, Sally Salas, Eric B. Watson 2010-07-13 $16,921,000
7721308 Synchronization aspects of interactive multimedia presentation management John Yovin, Olivier Colle 2010-05-18 $13,421,000
7698528 Shared memory pool allocation during media rendering Arthur William James Freeman, Olivier Colle 2010-04-13 $18,577,000
7657519 Forming intent-based clusters and employing same by search Blake Anderson, Jennifer Marsman, Kuldeep Karnawat, Mark B. Mydland, Paul Malolepsy +1 more 2010-02-02 $25,278,000
7505961 System and method for providing search results with configurable scoring formula 2009-03-17 $13,616,000
7500175 Aspects of media content rendering Olivier Colle, Khurshed Mazhar, Mark D. VanAntwerp 2009-03-03 $17,333,000
7483885 System and method for query refinement to enable improved searching based on identifying and utilizing popular concepts related to users' queries Raman Chandrasekar, Eric B. Watson 2009-01-27 $26,733,000
7136845 System and method for query refinement to enable improved searching based on identifying and utilizing popular concepts related to users' queries Raman Chandrasekar, Eric B. Watson 2006-11-14 $37,797,000
7039631 System and method for providing search results with configurable scoring formula 2006-05-02 $35,079,000
6978264 System and method for performing a search and a browse on a query Raman Chandrasekar, Sally Salas, Eric B. Watson 2005-12-20 $56,646,000