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Ramez Naam — 25 Patents

Microsoft: 25 patents #1,206 of 40,388Top 3%
Seattle, WA: #951 of 21,776 inventorsTop 5%
Washington: #3,426 of 76,902 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
Ramez Naam has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in December 2020. Ramez Naam ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list Ramez Naam in Seattle, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10853374 Using user feedback to rank search results James Dai, Julia H. Farago, Natala J. Menezes, Saleel Sathe, Hugh Evan Williams 2020-12-01 $114,800,000
9396269 Search engine that identifies and uses social networks in communications, retrieval, and electronic commerce Christopher A. Meek, Eric J. Horvitz, Joshua T. Goodman, Gary W. Flake, Oliver Hurst-Hiller +6 more 2016-07-19 $45,858,000
9141704 Data management in social networks Christopher A. Meek, Eric J. Horvitz, Joshua T. Goodman, Gary W. Flake, Oliver Hurst-Hiller +6 more 2015-09-22 $38,392,000
8812534 Machine assisted query formulation John C. Platt, Oliver Hurst-Hiller, Trenholme J. Griffin, Anoop Gupta, Gary W. Flake +1 more 2014-08-19 $30,011,000
8484179 On-demand search result details Anthony Tran, Mira Lane, Eric Michael Schurman, Kemp Crockett Peterson, Jamie Buckley +2 more 2013-07-09 $26,872,000
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
8260809 Voice-based search processing John C. Platt, Gary W. Flake, Anoop Gupta, Oliver Hurst-Hiller, Trenholme J. Griffin 2012-09-04 $22,808,000
8190627 Machine assisted query formulation John C. Platt, Gary W. Flake, Anoop Gupta, Oliver Hurst-Hiller, Trenholme J. Griffin +1 more 2012-05-29 $15,522,000
8122041 Sharing and collaboration of search findings Sreeharsha Kamireddy, Cory Hicks, Michael Austin Schechter, Rick Gruenhagen 2012-02-21 $20,261,000
8060524 History answer for re-finding search results Michael Austin Schechter 2011-11-15 $16,121,000
8005810 Scoping and biasing search to user preferred domains or blogs Randall Kern, Oliver Hurst-Hiller 2011-08-23 $12,314,000
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
7917514 Visual and multi-dimensional search Stephen L. Lawler, Eric J. Horvitz, Joshua T. Goodman, Anoop Gupta, Christopher A. Meek +4 more 2011-03-29 $19,752,000
7849093 Searches over a collection of items through classification and display of media galleries Julia H. Farago, Nicholas Whyte 2010-12-07 $19,194,000
7822762 Entity-specific search model Christopher D. Payne, Eric J. Horvitz, Alexander G. Gounares, Susan T. Dumais, Kyle Peltonen +9 more 2010-10-26 $19,005,000
7792821 Presentation of structured search results Darren Shakib, Gary W. Flake 2010-09-07 $16,550,000
7739221 Visual and multi-dimensional search Stephen L. Lawler, Eric J. Horvitz, Joshua T. Goodman, Anoop Gupta, Christopher A. Meek +4 more 2010-06-15 $15,264,000
7725449 System and method for customization of search results 2010-05-25 $21,030,000
7562068 System and method for ranking search results based on tracked user preferences 2009-07-14 $33,585,000
7526476 System and method for generating attribute-based selectable search extension Christopher B. Weare 2009-04-28 $32,077,000
7487144 Inline search results from user-created search verticals Darren Shakib, Gary W. Flake 2009-02-03 $26,486,000
7472119 Prioritizing search results by client search satisfaction James Dai, Saleel Sathe 2008-12-30 $27,759,000
7406659 Smart links Adrian Klein, Marcelo Aizenstein Furman Calbucci, Jerald Lee Hittle, Jeffrey C. Reynar, Ziyi Wang 2008-07-29 $45,455,000
7363296 Generating a subindex with relevant attributes to improve querying Nicole A. Hamilton, Oliver Hurst-Hiller, Brett D. Brewer 2008-04-22 $29,927,000
7243102 Machine directed improvement of ranking algorithms Nicole A. Hamilton, Oliver Hurst-Hiller, Brett D. Brewer 2007-07-10 $33,253,000