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Kyle Peltonen — 20 Patents

Microsoft: 20 patents #1,724 of 40,388Top 5%
Redmond, WA: #584 of 8,547 inventorsTop 7%
Washington: #4,680 of 76,902 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Kyle Peltonen has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in September 2014. Kyle Peltonen ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Kyle Peltonen in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2000.peak 41997: 1 patents19971999: 3 patents2000: 4 patents20002005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062008: 2 patents2009: 2 patents20092010: 3 patents2011: 1 patents20112013: 1 patents2014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8843486 System and method for scoping searches using index keys Chadd Creighton Merrigan, Dmitriy Meyerzon, David Lee 2014-09-23 $34,148,000
8458349 Anonymous and secure network-based interaction Bradly A. Brunell, Susan T. Dumais, Joshua T. Goodman, Eric J. Horvitz, Gary W. Flake +3 more 2013-06-04 $20,420,000
7984169 Anonymous and secure network-based interaction Bradly A. Brunell, Susan T. Dumais, Joshua T. Goodman, Eric J. Horvitz, Gary W. Flake +3 more 2011-07-19 $14,062,000
7822762 Entity-specific search model Christopher D. Payne, Eric J. Horvitz, Alexander G. Gounares, Susan T. Dumais, Gary W. Flake +9 more 2010-10-26 $19,005,000
7716211 System and method for facilitating full text searching utilizing inverted keyword indices Michael Cheng, David Lee 2010-05-11 $12,269,000
7644107 System and method for batched indexing of network documents Mircea Neagovici-Negoescu, David Lee, Dmitriy Meyerzon 2010-01-05 $31,776,000
7606793 System and method for scoping searches using index keys Chadd Creighton Merrigan, Dmitriy Meyerzon, David Lee 2009-10-20 $35,334,000
7499919 Ranking functions using document usage statistics Dmitriy Meyerzon, Hugo Zaragoza, Andrew DeBruyne 2009-03-03 $17,333,000
7415459 Scoping queries in a search engine Dmitriy Meyerzon 2008-08-19 $63,421,000
7392253 System and method for secure full-text indexing Dennis Gursky, Yevgeniy A. Samsonov 2008-06-24 $34,417,000
7065523 Scoping queries in a search engine Dmitriy Meyerzon 2006-06-20 $30,955,000
6898592 Scoping queries in a search engine Dmitriy Meyerzon 2005-05-24 $49,147,000
6078999 Recovering from a failure using a transaction table in connection with shadow copy transaction processing Sitaram C. V. Raju 2000-06-20 $686,717,000
6067541 Monitoring document changes in a file system of documents with the document change information stored in a persistent log Sitaram C. V. Raju, Srikanth Shoroff 2000-05-23 $230,369,000
6035379 Transaction processing for user data employing both logging and shadow copying Sitaram C. V. Raju 2000-03-07 $835,237,000
6023744 Method and mechanism for freeing disk space in a file system Srikanth Shoroff, Brian T. Berkowitz, Mark J. Zbikowski, Bartosz B. Milewski 2000-02-08 $675,106,000
5926807 Method and system for effectively representing query results in a limited amount of memory Alan Whitney, Bartosz B. Milewski, Srikanth Shoroff 1999-07-20 $562,857,000
5890147 Scope testing of documents in a search engine using document to folder mapping Sitaram C. V. Raju, Bartosz B. Milewski 1999-03-30 $420,712,000
5878410 File system sort order indexes Mark J. Zbikowski, Brian T. Berkowitz 1999-03-02 $340,436,000
5685003 Method and system for automatically indexing data in a document using a fresh index table Bartosz B. Milewski 1997-11-04 $267,328,000