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Kipley J. Olson — 37 Patents

Microsoft: 35 patents #642 of 40,388Top 2%
Apple: 2 patents #9,294 of 18,612Top 50%
Redwood City, CA: #204 of 5,061 inventorsTop 5%
California: #12,909 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #88,321 of 4,157,543Top 3%
37 Patents All Time
Kipley J. Olson has been granted 37 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in May 2017. Kipley J. Olson ranks #88,321 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.1%). Patent records list Kipley J. Olson in Redwood City, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2009.peak 91996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents1999: 1 patents19992001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 3 patents20062007: 3 patents2008: 6 patents20082009: 9 patents2010: 5 patents20102011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 37 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9639376 Methods and systems for creating and using skins Michael J. Novak, David M. Nadalin 2017-05-02 $28,980,000
8140601 Like processing of owned and for-purchase media Daniel Plastina, Michael J. Novak, Michael M. Tse, David M. Nadalin, Phillip Lu +2 more 2012-03-20 $19,292,000
8054994 Method and apparatus for audio normalization Phillip Lu, Adil Sherwani 2011-11-08 $44,949,000
7801847 Media file conversion using plug-ins Dennis Kiilerich, Madhuvan Gupta 2010-09-21 $12,612,000
7770165 Providing firmware updates to portable media devices Dennis Kiilerich, Vlad Sadovsky, Kjersten Johansen Hayter 2010-08-03 $11,892,000
7738766 Sanctioned transcoding of digital-media content Andrew Silverman, Dennis Kiilerich, Madhuvan Gupta 2010-06-15 $15,264,000
7676590 Background transcoding Andrew Silverman, Madhuvan Gupta, Myron Clifford Thomas 2010-03-09 $20,400,000
7647346 Automatic rules-based device synchronization Andrew Silverman, Daniel Plastina, Michael J. Novak, William D. Sproule 2010-01-12 $31,942,000
7620656 Methods and systems for synchronizing visualizations with audio streams Tedd Dideriksen, Chris Feller, Geoffrey Harris, Michael J. Novak 2009-11-17 $30,079,000
7599961 Methods and systems for synchronizing visualizations with audio streams Tedd Dideriksen, Chris Feller, Geoffrey Harris, Michael J. Novak 2009-10-06 $25,836,000
7596234 Method and apparatus for playback of audio files Phillip Lu 2009-09-29 $51,348,000
7596582 Methods and systems for synchronizing visualizations with audio streams Tedd Dideriksen, Chris Feller, Geoffrey Harris, Michael J. Novak 2009-09-29 $51,348,000
7593950 Album art on devices with rules management Andrew Silverman 2009-09-22 $32,817,000
7571016 Crossfade of media playback between different media processes Shafiq Rahman, Alexandre V. Grigorovitch, Adil Sherwani, Sumedh N. Barde, Sohail Baig Mohammed +2 more 2009-08-04 $28,843,000
7543235 Methods and systems for creating skins Michael J. Novak, David M. Nadalin, Kevin P. Larkin, Frank G. Sanborn 2009-06-02 $32,982,000
7526505 Methods and systems for synchronizing visualizations with audio streams Tedd Dideriksen, Chris Feller, Geoffrey Harris, Michael J. Novak 2009-04-28 $32,077,000
7480868 Methods and systems for creating skins Michael J. Novak, David M. Nadalin, Kevin P. Larkin, Frank G. Sanborn 2009-01-20 $33,255,000
7458020 Methods and systems for creating skins Michael J. Novak, David M. Nadalin, Kevin P. Larkin, Frank G. Sanborn 2008-11-25 $20,714,000
7451399 Methods and systems for creating skins Michael J. Novak, David M. Nadalin, Kevin P. Larkin, Frank G. Sanborn 2008-11-11 $25,236,000
7451402 Methods and systems for creating skins Michael J. Novak, David M. Nadalin, Kevin P. Larkin, Frank G. Sanborn 2008-11-11 $25,236,000
7426691 Methods and systems for creating and using skins Michael J. Novak, David M. Nadalin 2008-09-16 $46,220,000
7426692 Methods and systems for creating and using skins Michael J. Novak, David M. Nadalin 2008-09-16 $46,220,000
7340681 Methods and systems for creating and using skins Michael J. Novak, David M. Nadalin 2008-03-04 $48,041,000
7278102 Methods, system and media players for rendering different media types Tedd Dideriksen, Chris Feller, Geoffrey Harris, Michael J. Novak 2007-10-02 $31,692,000
7272794 Methods, systems and media players for rendering different media types Tedd Dideriksen, Chris Feller, Geoffrey Harris, Michael J. Novak 2007-09-18 $30,664,000