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Richard W. Stoakley — 21 Patents

Microsoft: 20 patents #1,724 of 40,388Top 5%
Seattle, WA: #1,249 of 21,776 inventorsTop 6%
Washington: #4,391 of 76,902 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Richard W. Stoakley has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in March 2011. Richard W. Stoakley ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Richard W. Stoakley in Seattle, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2007.peak 52000: 1 patents20002004: 4 patents20042005: 3 patents20052006: 2 patents20062007: 5 patents20072008: 1 patents20082009: 2 patents20092010: 2 patents20102011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7913157 Method and system for the authoring and playback of independent, synchronized media through the use of a relative virtual time code Laura J. Butler, Joseph H. Matthews, III 2011-03-22
7696953 Methods and systems for a portable, interactive display device for use with a computer Joseph H. Matthews, III 2010-04-13 $18,577,000
7694229 System and theme file format for creating visual styles Gregory Raiz, Roland L. Fernandez, Aaron B. Tinling, Christopher A. Evans 2010-04-06 $19,843,000
7565611 Binary cache file format for themeing the visual appearance of a computer system Roland L. Fernandez, Christopher A. Evans, Scott Hysom 2009-07-21 $26,581,000
7519914 Extensible scheme for defining the visual appearance of computer system components Roland L. Fernandez, Christopher A. Evans, Gregory L. Raiz, Aaron B. Tinling, Scott Hanggie 2009-04-14 $26,001,000
7376906 Binary cache file format for themeing the visual appearance of a computer system Roland L. Fernandez, Christopher A. Evans, Scott Hysom 2008-05-20 $37,918,000
7249326 Method and system for reducing notification area clutter James Brian Kurtz, Todd J. Green, Ramkumar Ramasubramanian, Chris Guzak, James F. Springfield 2007-07-24 $29,685,000
7240296 Unified navigation shell user interface Joseph H. Matthews, III, Stephen P. Capps, Joe D. Belfiore, Walter W. Smith, Bradley M. Schick +3 more 2007-07-03 $23,375,000
7237240 Most used programs list Raymond J. Chen, Sam Leventer, Sankar Ramasubramanian, John Schussler 2007-06-26 $32,442,000
7190369 Application programming interface for changing the visual style Roland L. Fernandez, Chris Guzak, Scott Hysom, Scott Hanggie, Michael Schmidt +2 more 2007-03-13 $55,403,000
7183999 Methods and systems for a portable, interactive display device for use with a computer Joseph H. Matthews, III 2007-02-27 $31,612,000
7137066 Binary cache file format for themeing the visual appearance of a computer system Roland L. Fernandez, Christopher A. Evans, Scott Hysom 2006-11-14 $37,797,000
6992681 Theme aware management using fusion Christopher A. Evans, Roland L. Fernandez, Paul S. Hellyar, Louis Amadio, Chris Guzak +3 more 2006-01-31 $25,520,000
6957394 Rendering controls of a web page according to a theme Roland L. Fernandez, Gregory L. Raiz, Yin Xie, Filipe Fortes, Christopher A. Evans 2005-10-18 $33,178,000
6886135 Extensible schema for defining the visual appearance of computer system components Roland L. Fernandez, Christopher A. Evans, Gregory L. Raiz, Aaron B. Tinling, Scott Hanggie 2005-04-26 $59,431,000
6873337 Application programming interface for changing the visual style Roland L. Fernandez, Chris Guzak, Scott Hysom, Scott Hanggie, Michael Schmidt +2 more 2005-03-29 $56,085,000
6784855 Methods and systems for a portable, interactive display device for use with a computer Joseph H. Matthews, III 2004-08-31 $111,780,000
6762767 Theme aware management using fusion Christopher A. Evans, Roland L. Fernandez, Paul S. Hellyar, Louis Amadio, Chris Guzak +3 more 2004-07-13 $70,695,000
6756999 Method and system for clustering and grouping taskbar buttons James Brian Kurtz, James F. Springfield, Todd J. Green, Suzan M. Andrew, Justin Mann 2004-06-29 $83,182,000
6753885 System and theme file format for creating visual styles Gregory L. Raiz, Roland L. Fernandez, Aaron B. Tinling, Christopher A. Evans 2004-06-22 $73,169,000
6072486 System and method for creating and customizing a deskbar Michael G. Sheldon, Chee H. Chew 2000-06-06 $373,922,000