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Ralph Lipe — 54 Patents

Microsoft: 53 patents #300 of 40,388Top 1%
MIMicosoft: 1 patents #1 of 47Top 3%
Intel: 1 patents #18,326 of 30,777Top 60%
Redmond, WA: #102 of 8,547 inventorsTop 2%
Washington: #973 of 76,902 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #46,969 of 4,157,543Top 2%
54 Patents All Time
Ralph Lipe has been granted 54 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in April 2012. Ralph Lipe ranks #46,969 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Ralph Lipe in Redmond, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 54 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8151280 Simple and dynamic configuration of network devices Dale A. Sather, Guillaume Simonnet, John M. Gehlsen, Kosar Jaff, Roland J. Ayala +2 more 2012-04-03 $18,463,000
7996225 Utilizing speech grammar rules written in a markup language Philipp Schmid, Erik Castedo Ellerman, Robert Chambers 2011-08-09 $12,864,000
7653916 Uniform resource discovery Douglas K. Brubacher, Dale A. Sather, Roland J. Ayala 2010-01-26 $32,319,000
7584169 Method and apparatus for identifying programming object attributes Robert Chambers, Edward Connell, Abhijit Sarkar 2009-09-01 $29,550,000
7571096 Speech recognition using a state-and-transition based binary speech grammar with a last transition value Philipp Schmid 2009-08-04 $28,843,000
7467384 Uniform resource discovery with multiple computers Douglas K. Brubacher, Dale A. Sather, John M. Gehlsen, Kenneth Cooper, Kosar Jaff +3 more 2008-12-16 $34,537,000
7461054 Uniform resource discovery and API layering Douglas K. Brubacher, Dale A. Sather, Roland J. Ayala 2008-12-02 $27,764,000
7457821 Method and apparatus for identifying programming object attributes Robert Chambers, Edward Connell, Abhijit Sarkar 2008-11-25 $20,714,000
7451159 Method and apparatus for identifying programming object attributes Robert Chambers, Edward Connell, Abhijit Sarkar 2008-11-11 $25,236,000
7389234 Method and apparatus utilizing speech grammar rules written in a markup language Philipp Schmid, Erik Castedo Ellerman, Robert Chambers 2008-06-17 $36,553,000
7379874 Middleware layer between speech related applications and engines Philipp Schmid, Robert Chambers, Edward Connell 2008-05-27 $21,072,000
7308511 System for allocating resources in a computer system Marc D. Wilson, Pierre-Yves Santerre 2007-12-11 $51,211,000
7283959 Compact easily parseable binary format for a context-free grammar Philipp Schmid 2007-10-16 $16,447,000
7206742 Context free grammar engine for speech recognition system Philipp Schmid 2007-04-17 $35,960,000
7177813 Middleware layer between speech related applications and engines Philipp Schmid, Robert Chambers, Edward Connell 2007-02-13 $37,863,000
7177807 Middleware layer between speech related applications and engines Philipp Schmid, Robert Chambers, Edward Connell 2007-02-13 $37,863,000
7162425 Speech-related event notification system Philipp Schmid 2007-01-09 $33,805,000
7155392 Context free grammar engine for speech recognition system Philipp Schmid 2006-12-26 $33,911,000
7139709 Middleware layer between speech related applications and engines Philipp Schmid, Robert Chambers, Edward Connell 2006-11-21 $42,190,000
7099886 Method and apparatus for identifying programming object attributes Robert Chambers, Edward Connell, Abhijit Sarkar 2006-08-29 $37,262,000
7089189 Speech-related event notification system Philipp Schmid 2006-08-08 $31,016,000
7024350 Compact easily parseable binary format for a context-free grammer Philipp Schmid 2006-04-04 $29,252,000
6957184 Context free grammar engine for speech recognition system Philipp Schmid 2005-10-18 $33,178,000
6931376 Speech-related event notification system Philipp Schmid 2005-08-16 $46,004,000
6763454 System for allocating resources in a computer system Marc D. Wilson, Pierre-Yves Santerre 2004-07-13 $70,695,000