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John C. Shafer — 19 Patents

Microsoft: 9 patents #4,919 of 40,388Top 15%
IBM: 7 patents #14,688 of 70,183Top 25%
BLBaxter Travenol Laboratories: 1 patents #231 of 589Top 40%
BSBea Systems: 1 patents #203 of 346Top 60%
Oracle: 1 patents #8,339 of 14,854Top 60%
Los Altos, CA: #617 of 3,651 inventorsTop 20%
California: #31,067 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
John C. Shafer has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in September 2021. John C. Shafer ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list John C. Shafer in Los Altos, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11132410 Customized search Rakesh Agrawal 2021-09-28 $328,876,000
10380199 Customized search Rakesh Agrawal 2019-08-13 $69,160,000
9262525 Customized search Rakesh Agrawal 2016-02-16 $29,091,000
9158813 Relaxation for structured queries Alexandros Ntoulas, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Samuel Sze Ming Ieong, Stelios Paparizos 2015-10-13 $36,364,000
9098859 Bringing achievements to an offline world Mohammed Moinuddin, Joseph Futty, Matthew G. Dyor, Dan E. Walther, Sreenivas Gollapudi +1 more 2015-08-04 $40,584,000
8996539 Composing text and structured databases Rakesh Agrawal, Anitha Kannan, Ariel Fuxman 2015-03-31 $24,045,000
8903914 Selecting user accounts in social network to answer question Stelios Paparizos 2014-12-02 $33,198,000
8832133 Answering web queries using structured data sources Stelios Paparizos, Alexandros Ntoulas 2014-09-09 $31,811,000
8788498 Labeling data samples using objective questions Anitha Kannan, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Ariel Fuxman 2014-07-22 $26,287,000
7844636 Systems and methods for client-side filtering of subscribed messages Michael Blevins 2010-11-30 $45,138,000
7293038 Systems and methods for client-side filtering of subscribed messages Michael Blevins 2007-11-06 $13,870,000
6633885 System and method for web-based querying Rakesh Agrawal 2003-10-14 $12,688,000
6592627 System and method for organizing repositories of semi-structured documents such as email Rakesh Agrawal, Roberto J. Bayardo, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Ching-Tien Ho, Sunita Sarawagi +1 more 2003-07-15 $18,764,000
6138115 Method and system for generating a decision-tree classifier in parallel in a multi-processor system Rakesh Agrawal, Manish Mehta 2000-10-24 $26,546,000
5884320 Method and system for performing proximity joins on high-dimensional data points in parallel Rakesh Agrawal 1999-03-16 $18,667,000
5870735 Method and system for generating a decision-tree classifier in parallel in a multi-processor system Rakesh Agrawal, Manish Mehta 1999-02-09 $13,231,000
5842200 System and method for parallel mining of association rules in databases Rakesh Agrawal 1998-11-24 $39,711,000
5799311 Method and system for generating a decision-tree classifier independent of system memory size Rakesh Agrawal, Manish Mehta 1998-08-25 $17,258,000
4678894 Sample identification system 1987-07-07 $8,763,000