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John Hal Howard — 12 Patents

Microsoft: 12 patents #3,517 of 40,388Top 9%
Sammamish, WA: #437 of 2,558 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #8,631 of 76,902 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
John Hal Howard has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in February 2018. John Hal Howard ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list John Hal Howard in Sammamish, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9886675 User support experience with automatically generated virtual environment Satish J. Thomas, Yi Zhang, Murtaza Muidul Huda Chowdhury, Sridhar Srinivasan 2018-02-06 $34,955,000
9405645 User support experience with automatically generated virtual environment Satish J. Thomas, Yi Zhang, Murtaza Muidul Huda Chowdhury, Sridhar Srinivasan 2016-08-02 $47,886,000
7971240 Session key security protocol Wei Guo, Kok Wai Chan 2011-06-28 $14,173,000
7607008 Authentication broker service Daniel Salvatore Schiappa, Khaja E. Ahmed, Kyle S. Young 2009-10-20 $35,334,000
7590731 Accessing a server using a user authentication indicator Jeffrey Craig Kunins, Darren L. Anderson, Ryan Battle, Max Edward Metral 2009-09-15 $22,769,000
7523490 Session key security protocol Wei Guo, Kok Wai Chan 2009-04-21 $25,262,000
7421731 Transparent authentication using an authentication server Christopher E. Mitchell, Ryan Battle, Darren L. Anderson, Joshua G. Poley, Greg A. Marks +1 more 2008-09-02 $32,109,000
7418502 Authenticating user access request with an authentication server for accessing a network server without communicating user authentication cookie to the network server Darren L. Anderson, Jeffrey Craig Kunins, Max Edward Metral, Ryan Battle 2008-08-26 $24,236,000
7016960 Authenticating user access to a network server without communicating user authentication cookie to the network server Jeffrey Craig Kunins, Darren L. Anderson, Ryan Battle, Max Edward Metral 2006-03-21 $26,456,000
6678731 Controlling access to a network server using an authentication ticket Jeffrey Craig Kunins, Darren L. Anderson, Ryan Battle, Max Edward Metral 2004-01-13 $117,998,000
6584505 Authenticating access to a network server without communicating login information through the network server Jeffrey Craig Kunins, Darren L. Anderson, Ryan Battle, Max Edward Metral 2003-06-24 $200,554,000
5915004 Moving a messaging system mailbox Ramesh B. Pabbati, Patrick Ng, William H. Rockenbeck, Max L. Benson 1999-06-22 $521,318,000