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Michael Sliger — 24 Patents

Microsoft: 24 patents #1,281 of 40,388Top 4%
Sammamish, WA: #207 of 2,558 inventorsTop 9%
Washington: #3,621 of 76,902 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Michael Sliger has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in May 2016. Michael Sliger ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Michael Sliger in Sammamish, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9344528 Data compressor using hints Voicu Anton Albu, Vladimir Stoyanov, Nadim Y. Abdo 2016-05-17 $38,879,000
8793655 Delta compression using multiple pointers Alexander Petrov, Thomas McGuire 2014-07-29 $39,653,000
8776022 Delta compression using multiple pointers Alexander Petrov, Thomas McGuire 2014-07-08 $25,599,000
8370805 Delta compression using multiple pointers Alexander Petrov, Thomas McGuire 2013-02-05 $10,554,000
8370804 Delta compression using multiple pointers Alexander Petrov, Thomas McGuire 2013-02-05 $10,554,000
8171560 Secure content pre-distribution to designated systems Edward F. Reus, Mario C. Goertzel, Derek Chirk Yin Cheng 2012-05-01 $24,840,000
7966424 Data compression Nadim Y. Abdo, Andrew Kadatch 2011-06-21 $22,222,000
7861224 Delta compression using multiple pointers Alexander Petrov, Thomas McGuire 2010-12-28 $13,779,000
7644111 Framework for content representation and delivery Taqi Jaffri, Alexander Petrov, Thomas McGuire 2010-01-05 $31,776,000
7600225 System and method for intra-package delta compression of data Thomas McGuire, Manojkumar Haridas Shende, Alexander Petrov 2009-10-06 $25,836,000
7584209 Flexible file format for updating an address book Neil Shipp, Victor Erwin Romano 2009-09-01 $29,550,000
7546594 System and method for updating installation components using an installation component delta patch in a networked environment Thomas McGuire, Derek Menzies, Derek Chirk Yin Cheng, Mazhar Mohammed, Manojkumar Haridas Shende 2009-06-09 $30,586,000
7509636 System and method for updating files utilizing delta compression patching Thomas McGuire, Derek Menzies, Derek Chirk Yin Cheng, Mazhar Mohammed, Peter Alexander Williams +1 more 2009-03-24 $26,092,000
7313792 Method and system for servicing software Garret J. Buban, Kory V. Gill, Manojkumar Haridas Shende, James A. Holmes, William R. Tipton 2007-12-25
7222341 Method and system for processing software dependencies in management of software packages Jonathan Forbes, Jeremy Stone, Srivatsan Parthasarathy, Michael J. Toutonghi 2007-05-22 $56,073,000
6938109 Method and system for updating software with smaller patch files Thomas McGuire, Jonathan Forbes 2005-08-30 $34,388,000
6496974 File update performing comparison and compression as single process Thomas McGuire, Jonathan Forbes 2002-12-17 $149,858,000
6493871 Method and system for downloading updates for software installation Thomas McGuire, Daniel C. Welch, Rajendra Vishnumurty, Gabriel J. Aul, Oliver Wallace +2 more 2002-12-10 $158,185,000
6466999 Preprocessing a reference data stream for patch generation and compression Thomas McGuire, Richard M. Shupak 2002-10-15 $130,592,000
6449764 File update by pre-initializing compressor/decompressor with other than decompression aid data Thomas McGuire, Jonathan Forbes 2002-09-10 $116,187,000
6381742 Software package management Jonathan Forbes, Jeremy Stone, Srivatsan Parthasarathy, Michael J. Toutonghi 2002-04-30 $142,237,000
6243766 Method and system for updating software with smaller patch files Thomas McGuire, Jonathan Forbes 2001-06-05 $418,247,000
6216175 Method for upgrading copies of an original file with same update data after normalizing differences between copies created during respective original installations Thomas McGuire 2001-04-10 $397,580,000
5745313 Method and apparatus for expanding data storage capacity on a floppy diskette 1998-04-28 $113,316,000