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Scott C. Cottrille — 26 Patents

Microsoft: 25 patents #1,206 of 40,388Top 3%
HP: 1 patents #11,359 of 16,619Top 70%
Bellevue, WA: #405 of 6,950 inventorsTop 6%
Washington: #3,231 of 76,902 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Scott C. Cottrille has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in February 2014. Scott C. Cottrille ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Scott C. Cottrille in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2011.peak 62000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2005: 1 patents20052006: 2 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 4 patents20092010: 1 patents2011: 6 patents20112012: 3 patents2013: 2 patents20132014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8646027 Workflow based authorization for content access Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Kenneth D. Ray, Frederic Delombaerde, Conrad G. Bayer 2014-02-04 $20,363,000
8448228 Separating authorization identity from policy enforcement identity Yuhui Zhong, Gregory Kostal, Tejas D. Patel, Vladimir Yarmolenko, Pankaj Mohan Kamat +5 more 2013-05-21 $24,092,000
8397068 Generic file protection format Andrey Shur, Marcio Mello, Pankaj Mohan Kamat, Dan Knudson, Eugene Savchenko 2013-03-12 $20,251,000
8229996 Asynchronous processing of task components in connection with rights management system and the like Peter David Waxman, Vladimir Yarmolenko 2012-07-24 $20,829,000
8156538 Distribution of information protection policies to client machines Abhijat Kanade, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Peter David Waxman, Yuhui Zhong, Gregory Kostal +4 more 2012-04-10 $17,388,000
8141129 Centrally accessible policy repository Kenneth D. Ray, Keith S. Brintzenhofe, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Gregory Kostal, Vladimir Yarmolenko +1 more 2012-03-20 $19,292,000
8078958 Scalable computing system for managing annotations Yoram Yaacovi, Antony Halim 2011-12-13 $21,692,000
7987496 Automatic application of information protection policies Duncan G. Bryce, Pankaj Mohan Kamat, Krassimir Emilov Karamfilov, Gregory Kostal, Kenneth D. Ray +2 more 2011-07-26 $29,172,000
7949944 Creation and delivery of customized content Ade A Olubummo, Antony Halim, Brian R. Daugherty, Patrick Pei Cai, Craig Harry 2011-05-24 $18,620,000
7913167 Selective document redaction 2011-03-22 $15,289,000
7891007 Systems and methods for issuing usage licenses for digital content and services Peter David Waxman, Attila Narin, Vinay Krishnaswamy, Marco A. DeMello, Chandramouli Venkatesh +2 more 2011-02-15 $14,147,000
7882035 Pre-performing operations for accessing protected content Gregory Kostal, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Jeffrey M. Brown, Umesh R. Dhond, Amit Fulay +5 more 2011-02-01 $15,193,000
7725816 Creation and delivery of customized content Ade A Olubummo, Antony Halim, Brian R. Daugherty, Patrick Pei Cai, Craig Harry 2010-05-25 $21,030,000
7631318 Secure server plug-in architecture for digital rights management systems Peter David Waxman, Vinay Krishnaswamy, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Attilla Narin, Gregory Kostal +4 more 2009-12-08 $24,284,000
7570768 Systems, structures, and methods for decrypting encrypted digital content when a rights management server has been decommissioned Jason Cahill, Pavel Kouznetsov, Kevin Brown, Lauren Antonoff, Marco A. DeMello +2 more 2009-08-04 $28,843,000
7509489 Format-agnostic system and method for issuing certificates Gregory Kostal, Muthukrishnan Paramasivam, Ravindra Nath Pandya, Vasantha Ravula, Vladimir Yarmolenko +2 more 2009-03-24 $26,092,000
7500097 Extendable data-driven system and method for issuing certificates Gregory Kostal, Muthukrishnan Paramasivam, Ravindra Nath Pandya, Vasantha Ravula, Vladimir Yarmolenko +2 more 2009-03-03 $17,333,000
7443985 Systems and methods for providing secure server key operations Vinay Krishnaswamy, Attila Narin, Gregory Kostal, Vladimir Yarmolenko 2008-10-28 $20,407,000
7174021 Systems and methods for providing secure server key operations Vinay Krishnaswamy, Attila Narin, Gregory Kostal, Vladimir Yarmolenko 2007-02-06 $53,809,000
7149964 Creation and delivery of customized content Ade A Olubummo, Antony Halim, Brian R. Daugherty, Patrick Pei Cai, Craig Harry 2006-12-12 $25,378,000
7051274 Scalable computing system for managing annotations Yoram Yaacovi, Antony Halim 2006-05-23 $28,378,000
6973616 Associating annotations with a content source Yoram Yaacovi, Brian S. Christian, Bruce A. MacNaughton 2005-12-06 $34,664,000
6831646 Method and system for indicating the existence of a control object 2004-12-14 $69,751,000
6581096 Scalable computing system for managing dynamic communities in multiple tier computing system Yoram Yaacovi, Antony Halim, Alok Kumar Sinha, Marco A. DeMello 2003-06-17 $160,088,000
6239814 Method for indicating the existence of a control object 2001-05-29 $575,309,000