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Nigel R. Ellis — 24 Patents

Microsoft: 24 patents #1,281 of 40,388Top 4%
Redmond, WA: #445 of 8,547 inventorsTop 6%
Washington: #3,621 of 76,902 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Nigel R. Ellis has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in September 2014. Nigel R. Ellis ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Nigel R. Ellis in Redmond, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2004.peak 42002: 3 patents20022004: 4 patents20042005: 1 patents20052007: 4 patents20072008: 3 patents20082009: 4 patents20092010: 3 patents20102011: 1 patents20112014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8825601 Logical data backup and rollback using incremental capture in a distributed database Hanh Huynh Huu, Zhongwei Wu, Oliver Seeliger, Shankar Pal, Christian Rober +3 more 2014-09-02 $31,345,000
7996443 Schema grammar and compilation Anil Nori, Bekim Demiroski, Gregory S. Friedman, Michael B. Taylor, Michael E. Deem +3 more 2011-08-09 $12,864,000
7765219 Sort digits as number collation in server Richard Negrin 2010-07-27 $22,577,000
7761473 Typed relationships between items Shishir Mehrotra, Richard Negrin, Greg S. Friedman, David J. Nettleton, Joshua M. Michaels 2010-07-20 $20,395,000
7694340 Anti virus for an item store Balan Sethu Raman, Sameet Agarwal, Sanjay Anand, Rohan Kumar, Johannes Klein +1 more 2010-04-06 $19,843,000
7624094 Automatic database statistics creation Rodger N. Kline 2009-11-24 $30,187,000
7543003 Providing change notifications to an entity-regarding a change of a specific type to data in a relational database Amit Shukla, Chang Luo, Hua Yuan, James David Ryseff, Johannes Klein +3 more 2009-06-02 $32,982,000
7519611 System and method for using a compressed trie to estimate like predicates Srikanth R. Avadhanam, Campbell Bryce Fraser, Rodger N. Kline 2009-04-14 $26,001,000
7478102 Mapping of a file system model to a database object Gregory S. Friedman, Bekim Demiroski, Anil Nori, Amit Shukla, Srinivasmurthy P. Acharya +3 more 2009-01-13 $27,818,000
7383274 Systems and methods for efficiently storing and accessing data storage system paths Jeffrey T. Pearce, Richard Negrin 2008-06-03 $22,353,000
7366740 Systems and methods for automatic maintenance and repair of enitites in a data model Martin Sleeman, Artem Oks, Hanumantha Rao Kodavalla 2008-04-29 $42,493,000
7333992 System and method for identifying and storing changes made to a table Ganapathy Krishnamoorthy, Wei Xiao, Rodger N. Kline, Sameet Agarwal 2008-02-19 $39,124,000
7308459 System and method for using a compressed trie to estimate like predicates Srikanth R. Avadhanam, Campbell Bryce Fraser, Rodger N. Kline 2007-12-11 $51,211,000
7289999 Automatic database statistics creation Rodger N. Kline 2007-10-30 $46,422,000
7281000 Method for efficient query execution using dynamic queries in database environments Rahul Kapoor, Prakash Sundaresan 2007-10-09 $31,738,000
7171399 Method for efficient query execution using dynamic queries in database environments Rahul Kapoor, Prakash Sundaresan 2007-01-30 $40,909,000
6847978 Automatic database statistics creation Rodger N. Kline 2005-01-25 $138,161,000
6829602 System and method for using a compressed trie to estimate like predicates Srikanth R. Avadhanam, Campbell Bryce Fraser, Rodger N. Kline 2004-12-07 $78,179,000
6789071 Method for efficient query execution using dynamic queries in database environments Rahul Kapoor, Prakash Sundaresan 2004-09-07 $81,751,000
6748393 Transparent updates to partitioned views in a federated database system Rahul Kapoor, Cesar A. Galindo-Legaria 2004-06-08 $49,212,000
6714938 Query planning using a maxdiff histogram Srikanth R. Avadhanam 2004-03-30 $125,001,000
6366901 Automatic database statistics maintenance and plan regeneration 2002-04-02 $164,354,000
6360214 Automatic database statistics creation Rodger N. Kline 2002-03-19 $145,303,000
6356887 Auto-parameterization of database queries Harold R. Berenson, Peter A. Carlin, Cesar A. Galindo-Legaria, Goetz Graefe, Ajay Kalhan +2 more 2002-03-12 $217,736,000