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Steve Bourne — 7 Patents

Microsoft: 7 patents #6,431 of 40,388Top 20%
Seattle, WA: #4,313 of 21,776 inventorsTop 20%
Washington: #14,787 of 76,902 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Steve Bourne has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in May 2014. Steve Bourne ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Steve Bourne in Seattle, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8719171 Issuing a publisher use license off-line in a digital rights management (DRM) system Blair B. Dillaway, Pierre Jacomet, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Kumar B. Parambir, Yevgeniy Rozenfeld +2 more 2014-05-06 $28,438,000
8700535 Issuing a publisher use license off-line in a digital rights management (DRM) system Blair B. Dillaway, Pierre Jacomet, Rushmi U Malviarachchi, Kumar B. Parambir, Yevgeniy Rozenfeld +2 more 2014-04-15 $31,167,000
7891007 Systems and methods for issuing usage licenses for digital content and services Peter David Waxman, Attila Narin, Scott C. Cottrille, Vinay Krishnaswamy, Marco A. DeMello +2 more 2011-02-15 $14,147,000
7577999 Publishing digital content within a defined universe such as an organization in accordance with a digital rights management (DRM) system Attila Narin, Chandramouli Venkatesh, Frank Byrum, Marco A. DeMello, Peter David Waxman +4 more 2009-08-18 $21,161,000
7370212 Issuing a publisher use license off-line in a digital rights management (DRM) system Blair B. Dillaway, Pierre Jacomet, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, Kumar B. Parambir, Yevgeniy (Eugene) Rozenfeld +2 more 2008-05-06 $36,419,000
7318236 Tying a digital license to a user and tying the user to multiple computing devices in a digital rights management (DRM) system Marco A. DeMello, Vinay Krishnaswamy, Rushmi U. Malaviarachchi, John L. Manferdelli, Bradley Serbus +1 more 2008-01-08 $46,847,000
7308573 Enrolling / sub-enrolling a digital rights management (DRM) server into a DRM architecture Gregory Kostal, Vinay Krishnaswamy 2007-12-11 $51,211,000