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Michael Connolly — 26 Patents

Microsoft: 24 patents #1,281 of 40,388Top 4%
General Motors: 1 patents #9,441 of 18,328Top 55%
Seattle, WA: #901 of 21,776 inventorsTop 5%
Washington: #3,231 of 76,902 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Michael Connolly has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in August 2017. Michael Connolly ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Michael Connolly in Seattle, WA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9746912 Transformations for virtual guest representation Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, William H. Gates, III, Gary W. Flake, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Arnold Blinn +10 more 2017-08-29 $34,413,000
9264104 Sharing of information common to two mobile device users over a near-field communication (NFC) link Jae Pum Park, Karen G. Luk, Sogol Malekzadeh, John Skovron, Matthias Baer +2 more 2016-02-16 $29,091,000
9064247 User-configurable activation of card applets Matthias Baer, Alejandro Steckler, Sogol Malekzadeh, Tirthankar Sengupta 2015-06-23 $32,988,000
8805720 Feedback loop for consumer transactions Gary W. Flake, Jeffrey R. Hemmen, Alexander G. Gounares, David M. Chickering, Eric J. Horvitz +3 more 2014-08-12 $19,073,000
8799077 Ad integration and extensible themes for operating systems Gary W. Flake, Lili Cheng, Alexander G. Gounares, Jeffrey R. Hemmen, Eric J. Horvitz +2 more 2014-08-05 $23,036,000
8719143 Determination of optimized location for services and data Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Gary W. Flake, Arnold Blinn, William J. Bolosky, Lili Cheng +7 more 2014-05-06 $28,438,000
8708738 Cable connector 2014-04-29
8705746 Data security in an off-premise environment Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, William H. Gates, III, Raymond E. Ozzie, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Lili Cheng +4 more 2014-04-22 $23,747,000
8601598 Off-premise encryption of data storage Raymond E. Ozzie, William H. Gates, III, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Lili Cheng, Alexander G. Gounares +4 more 2013-12-03 $38,608,000
8463884 Synchronization of mobile device with application server Nathaniel T. Clinton, John Bruno 2013-06-11 $24,362,000
8239293 Computer system and method for bulk auditing, archiving, and selling personal property of a customer Alexander G. Gounares, David M. Chickering, Eric J. Horvitz, Lili Cheng, Kamal Jain 2012-08-07 $11,434,000
8051079 Wish lists based on images, references, or third party beneficiaries Lili Cheng, Gary W. Flake, Alexander G. Gounares 2011-11-01 $25,152,000
8012023 Virtual entertainment William H. Gates, III, Gary W. Flake, Alexander G. Gounares, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Arnold Blinn +10 more 2011-09-06 $21,845,000
7930197 Personal data mining Raymond E. Ozzie, William H. Gates, III, Gary W. Flake, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Arnold Blinn +15 more 2011-04-19 $17,129,000
7836056 Location management of off-premise resources Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Raymond E. Ozzie, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Daniel S. Glasser, Matthew Bret MacLaurin +1 more 2010-11-16 $18,085,000
7716150 Machine learning system for analyzing and establishing tagging trends based on convergence criteria Lili Cheng, Gary W. Flake, Alexander G. Gounares, James R. Larus, Matthew Bret MacLaurin +8 more 2010-05-11 $12,269,000
7689524 Dynamic environment evaluation and service adjustment based on multiple user profiles including data classification and information sharing with authorized other users Raymond E. Ozzie, William H. Gates, III, Gary W. Flake, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Arnold Blinn +14 more 2010-03-30 $17,166,000
7672909 Machine learning system and method comprising segregator convergence and recognition components to determine the existence of possible tagging data trends and identify that predetermined convergence criteria have been met or establish criteria for taxonomy purpose then recognize items based on an aggregate of user tagging behavior Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Raymond E. Ozzie, Gary W. Flake, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Arnold Blinn +7 more 2010-03-02 $22,070,000
7657493 Recommendation system that identifies a valuable user action by mining data supplied by a plurality of users to find a correlation that suggests one or more actions for notification Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, William H. Gates, III, Raymond E. Ozzie, Gary W. Flake, Thomas F. Bergstraesser +15 more 2010-02-02 $25,278,000
7647522 Operating system with corrective action service and isolation Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Raymond E. Ozzie, Gary W. Flake, Thomas F. Bergstraesser, Arnold Blinn +7 more 2010-01-12 $31,942,000
7627502 System, method, and medium for determining items to insert into a wishlist by analyzing images provided by a user Lili Cheng, Kamal Jain, Alexander G. Gounares, Gary W. Flake, Eric J. Horvitz 2009-12-01 $28,638,000
7181500 System and method for utilizing personal information to customize an application program James Jen, Jason Weber, Todd Roshak 2007-02-20 $43,202,000
7155665 Method for creating an embedded database in a spreadsheet Kevin Browne, Erik V. Schwiebert, Geoffrey M. Price 2006-12-26 $33,911,000
6487567 Method and system for manipulating page-breaks in an electronic document Eric H. Michelman, Paul A. Hagger, Jo Anne M. Mowery 2002-11-26 $226,685,000
6128633 Method and system for manipulating page-breaks in an electronic document Eric H. Michelman, Paul A. Hagger, Jo Anne M. Mowery 2000-10-03 $396,167,000