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Jan O. Pedersen — 20 Patents

Microsoft: 6 patents #7,433 of 40,388Top 20%
Los Altos, CA: #575 of 3,651 inventorsTop 20%
California: #29,208 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Jan O. Pedersen has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in December 2024. Jan O. Pedersen ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Jan O. Pedersen in Los Altos, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1998.peak 31994: 1 patents19941996: 2 patents1997: 2 patents19971998: 3 patents1999: 3 patents19992003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162019: 1 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12174839 Relevant passage retrieval system Jing Bai, Yue Liu, Mao Yang, Qi Lu 2024-12-24 $262,656,000
11803596 Efficient forward ranking in a search engine Knut Magne Risvik, Michael J. Hopcroft, John G. Bennett, Karthik Kalyanaraman, Trishul Chilimbi +2 more 2023-10-31 $411,327,000
10437892 Efficient forward ranking in a search engine Knut Magne Risvik, Michael J. Hopcroft, John G. Bennett, Karthik Kalyanaraman, Trishul Chilimbi +2 more 2019-10-08 $58,075,000
9424351 Hybrid-distribution model for search engine indexes Knut Magne Risvik, Michael J. Hopcroft, John G. Bennett, Karthik Kalyanaraman, Trishul Chilimbi +2 more 2016-08-23 $31,125,000
8713024 Efficient forward ranking in a search engine Knut Magne Risvik, Michael J. Hopcroft, John G. Bennett, Karthik Kalyanaraman, Trishul Chilimbi +2 more 2014-04-29 $28,448,000
8620907 Matching funnel for large document index Knut Magne Risvik, Michael J. Hopcroft, John G. Bennett, Karthik Kalyanaraman, Trishul Chilimbi +1 more 2013-12-31 $17,332,000
6973423 Article and method of automatically determining text genre using surface features of untagged texts Geoffrey D. Nunberg, Hinrich Schuetze, Brett L. Kessler, Gregory Grefenstette 2005-12-06 $4,778,000
6751612 USER QUERY GENERATE SEARCH RESULTS THAT RANK SET OF SERVERS WHERE RANKING IS BASED ON COMPARING CONTENT ON EACH SERVER WITH USER QUERY, FREQUENCY AT WHICH CONTENT ON EACH SERVER IS ALTERED USING WEB CRAWLER IN A SEARCH ENGINE Hinrich Schuetze 2004-06-15 $4,607,000
6505150 Article and method of automatically filtering information retrieval results using test genre Geoffrey D. Nunberg, Hinrich Schuetze, Brett L. Kessler 2003-01-07 $4,816,000
5999927 Method and apparatus for information access employing overlapping clusters John W. Tukey 1999-12-07 $7,572,000
5918240 Automatic method of extracting summarization using feature probabilities Julian M. Kupiec, Francine Chen, Daniel C. Brotsky, Steven B. Putz 1999-06-29 $20,218,000
5911140 Method of ordering document clusters given some knowledge of user interests John W. Tukey 1999-06-08 $84,174,000
5787420 Method of ordering document clusters without requiring knowledge of user interests John W. Tukey 1998-07-28 $14,725,000
5787422 Method and apparatus for information accesss employing overlapping clusters John W. Tukey 1998-07-28 $14,725,000
5778397 Automatic method of generating feature probabilities for automatic extracting summarization Julian M. Kupiec, Francine Chen, Daniel C. Brotsky, Steven B. Putz 1998-07-07 $10,244,000
5638543 Method and apparatus for automatic document summarization John W. Tukey 1997-06-10 $12,528,000
5625554 Finite-state transduction of related word forms for text indexing and retrieval Douglass R. Cutting, Per-Kristian Halvorsen, Ronald M. Kaplan, Lauri J. Karttunen, Martin Kay 1997-04-29 $22,330,000
5486686 Hardcopy lossless data storage and communications for electronic document processing systems Frank Zdybel, Jr., Henry W. Sang, Jr., Z. Erol Smith, III, D. Austin Henderson, Jr., David L. Hecht +1 more 1996-01-23 $4,662,000
5483650 Method of constant interaction-time clustering applied to document browsing David Karger, Douglass R. Cutting 1996-01-09 $5,537,000
5278980 Iterative technique for phrase query formation and an information retrieval system employing same Per-Kristian Halvorsen, Douglass R. Cutting, John W. Tukey, Eric A. Bier, Daniel G. Bobrow 1994-01-11 $2,445,000