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James Duncan Work — 11 Patents

Microsoft: 7 patents #6,431 of 40,388Top 20%
Mountain View, CA: #1,996 of 11,022 inventorsTop 20%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
James Duncan Work has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in August 2019. James Duncan Work ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list James Duncan Work in Mountain View, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10387841 Method and system for leveraging the power of one's social network in an online marketplace Josh Elman, Allen Blue, Eric Ly 2019-08-20 $63,531,000
9536226 Method and system for leveraging the power of one's social network in an online marketplace Josh Elman, Allen Blue, Eric Ly 2017-01-03
9336333 Searching and reference checking within social networks Allen Blue, Edward Tau 2016-05-10 $94,087,000
9116950 Method and apparatus for internet-based human network brokering 2015-08-25
9043405 Method of leveraging social networking with a messaging client Eric Ly, Edward Tau 2015-05-26 $99,378,000
8812604 Method and apparatus for internet-based human network brokering 2014-08-19
8713000 Method and system for leveraging the power of one's social-network in an online marketplace Josh Elman, Allen Blue, Eric Ly 2014-04-29 $164,044,000
8504559 Method and system for leveraging the power of one's social-network in an online marketplace Josh Elman, Allen Blue, Eric Ly 2013-08-06 $198,564,000
8209374 Method and apparatus for internet-based human network brokering 2012-06-26
8010460 Method and system for reputation evaluation of online users in a social networking scheme Allen Blue, Reid Hoffman 2011-08-30 $13,250,000
7725525 Method and apparatus for internet-based human network brokering 2010-05-25