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John S. Breese — 16 Patents

Microsoft: 16 patents #2,398 of 40,388Top 6%
Mercer Island, WA: #133 of 829 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #6,223 of 76,902 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
John S. Breese has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in March 2002. John S. Breese ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list John S. Breese in Mercer Island, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2002Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2001.peak 51997: 2 patents19971998: 1 patents19981999: 2 patents19992000: 4 patents20002001: 5 patents20012002: 2 patents2002

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6353813 Method and apparatus, using attribute set harmonization and default attribute values, for matching entities and predicting an attribute of an entity Carl M. Kadie 2002-03-05 $250,213,000
6345264 Methods and apparatus, using expansion attributes having default, values, for matching entities and predicting an attribute of an entity Carl M. Kadie 2002-02-05 $329,511,000
6262730 Intelligent user assistance facility Eric J. Horvitz, David E. Heckerman, Samuel D. Hobson, David O. Hovel, Adrian Klein +2 more 2001-07-17 $310,308,000
6260035 Intelligent user assistance facility for a software program Eric J. Horvitz, David E. Heckerman, Samuel D. Hobson, David O. Hovel, Adrian Klein +2 more 2001-07-10 $808,818,000
6233570 Intelligent user assistance facility for a software program Eric J. Horvitz, David E. Heckerman, Samuel D. Hobson, David O. Hovel, Adrian Klein +2 more 2001-05-15 $339,994,000
6212502 Modeling and projecting emotion and personality from a computer user interface John E. Ball 2001-04-03 $435,537,000
6185534 Modeling emotion and personality in a computer user interface John E. Ball 2001-02-06 $653,517,000
6144964 Methods and apparatus for tuning a match between entities having attributes Carl M. Kadie 2000-11-07 $839,827,000
6067412 Automatic bottleneck detection by means of workload reconstruction from performance measurements Russell Blake, David O. Hovel, Robert I. Davidson, David E. Heckerman 2000-05-23 $230,369,000
6021403 Intelligent user assistance facility Eric J. Horvitz, David E. Heckerman, Samuel D. Hobson, David O. Hovel, Adrian Klein +2 more 2000-02-01 $784,161,000
6018738 Methods and apparatus for matching entities and for predicting an attribute of an entity based on an attribute frequency value Carl M. Kadie 2000-01-25 $940,046,000
6006218 Methods and apparatus for retrieving and/or processing retrieved information as a function of a user's estimated knowledge David E. Heckerman, Eric J. Horvitz, Carl M. Kadie, Keiji Kanazawa 1999-12-21 $541,640,000
5987415 Modeling a user's emotion and personality in a computer user interface John E. Ball 1999-11-16 $294,796,000
5715374 Method and system for case-based reasoning utilizing a belief network David E. Heckerman, Gregory L. Shaw 1998-02-03 $299,104,000
5704017 Collaborative filtering utilizing a belief network David E. Heckerman, Eric J. Horvitz, David M. Chickering 1997-12-30 $336,385,000
5694559 On-line help method and system utilizing free text query Samuel D. Hobson, Eric J. Horvitz, David E. Heckerman, Erich S. Finkelstein, Gregory L. Shaw +2 more 1997-12-02 $163,256,000