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Kevin Shields — 16 Patents

Microsoft: 16 patents #2,398 of 40,388Top 6%
Bellevue, WA: #743 of 6,950 inventorsTop 15%
Washington: #6,223 of 76,902 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #284,196 of 4,157,543Top 7%
16 Patents All Time
Kevin Shields has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in July 2021. Kevin Shields ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list Kevin Shields in Bellevue, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11061939 Dynamic awareness involving location William T. Flora, Bret P. O'Rourke, John Mark Miller, Eric P. Wilfrid, Nigel Keam +4 more 2021-07-13 $194,223,000
10331708 Dynamic awareness involving location William T. Flora, Bret P. O'Rourke, John Mark Miller, Eric P. Wilfrid, Nigel Keam +4 more 2019-06-25 $55,928,000
9146778 Management of background tasks Rachel Jiang, Rhon Manlapaz, Megan Donahue, Dawn Wilson, Darin Miller +2 more 2015-09-29 $56,898,000
8886976 Management of background tasks Rachel Jiang, Rhon Manlapaz, Megan Donahue, Dawn Wilson, Darin Miller +2 more 2014-11-11 $24,503,000
7765570 Maintaining accurate channel line-up by persistently monitoring availability of accessible channels Talal Ali Batrouny, Frederic Azera, Cory Cirrincione, Elyssa Cox 2010-07-27 $22,577,000
7606837 System and method for downloading information to a mobile device Steven Cover, Chad Whitney 2009-10-20 $35,334,000
7318073 System and method for downloading information to a mobile device Steven Cover, Chad Whitney 2008-01-08 $46,847,000
6593949 Smart column for contact information on palm-sized computing devices and method and apparatus for displaying the same Chee H. Chew, Elizabeth A. Bastiaanse, Ido Ben-Shachar, Jeffrey R. Blum, Mark H. Enomoto +3 more 2003-07-15 $93,505,000
6557004 Method and apparatus for fast searching of hand-held contacts lists Ido Ben-Shachar, Chee H. Chew 2003-04-29 $164,285,000
6496979 System and method for managing application installation for a mobile device James Shoong-Leac Chen 2002-12-17 $149,858,000
6339780 Loading status in a hypermedia browser having a limited available display area Scott R. Shell, Anthony Kitowitz 2002-01-15 $727,330,000
6304261 Operating system for handheld computing device having program icon auto hide Raymond A. Manning, Anthony Kitowitz 2001-10-16 $323,552,000
6243701 System and method for sorting character strings containing accented and unaccented characters Yung-Ho Shih, Daniel Boone, Guy Barker 2001-06-05 $418,247,000
5949418 Operating system for handheld computing device having graphical window minimization/enlargement functionality Anthony Kitowicz, Daniel Boone, Scott R. Shell 1999-09-07 $317,977,000
5910800 Usage tips for on-screen touch-sensitive controls Jossef Goldberg 1999-06-08 $604,079,000
5910802 Operating system for handheld computing device having taskbar auto hide Raymond A. Manning, Anthony Kitowitz 1999-06-08 $604,079,000