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Thomas McGuire — 21 Patents

Microsoft: 21 patents #1,596 of 40,388Top 4%
Bellevue, WA: #540 of 6,950 inventorsTop 8%
Washington: #4,391 of 76,902 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Thomas McGuire has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in July 2014. Thomas McGuire ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Thomas McGuire in Bellevue, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8793655 Delta compression using multiple pointers Alexander Petrov, Michael Sliger 2014-07-29 $39,653,000
8776022 Delta compression using multiple pointers Alexander Petrov, Michael Sliger 2014-07-08 $25,599,000
8370804 Delta compression using multiple pointers Alexander Petrov, Michael Sliger 2013-02-05 $10,554,000
8370805 Delta compression using multiple pointers Alexander Petrov, Michael Sliger 2013-02-05 $10,554,000
7861224 Delta compression using multiple pointers Alexander Petrov, Michael Sliger 2010-12-28 $13,779,000
7784044 Patching of in-use functions on a running computer system Garret J. Buban, Paul Donlan, Adrian Marinescu, David B. Probert, Hoi Vo +1 more 2010-08-24 $15,140,000
7644111 Framework for content representation and delivery Taqi Jaffri, Alexander Petrov, Michael Sliger 2010-01-05 $31,776,000
7600225 System and method for intra-package delta compression of data Michael Sliger, Manojkumar Haridas Shende, Alexander Petrov 2009-10-06 $25,836,000
7546594 System and method for updating installation components using an installation component delta patch in a networked environment Derek Menzies, Michael Sliger, Derek Chirk Yin Cheng, Mazhar Mohammed, Manojkumar Haridas Shende 2009-06-09 $30,586,000
7509636 System and method for updating files utilizing delta compression patching Derek Menzies, Michael Sliger, Derek Chirk Yin Cheng, Mazhar Mohammed, Peter Alexander Williams +1 more 2009-03-24 $26,092,000
7126500 Method and system for selecting grammar symbols for variable length data compressors Stephen R. Adams 2006-10-24 $47,982,000
6938109 Method and system for updating software with smaller patch files Michael Sliger, Jonathan Forbes 2005-08-30 $34,388,000
6700513 Method and system for compressing and decompressing multiple independent blocks 2004-03-02 $122,844,000
6496974 File update performing comparison and compression as single process Michael Sliger, Jonathan Forbes 2002-12-17 $149,858,000
6493871 Method and system for downloading updates for software installation Michael Sliger, Daniel C. Welch, Rajendra Vishnumurty, Gabriel J. Aul, Oliver Wallace +2 more 2002-12-10 $158,185,000
6466999 Preprocessing a reference data stream for patch generation and compression Michael Sliger, Richard M. Shupak 2002-10-15 $130,592,000
6449764 File update by pre-initializing compressor/decompressor with other than decompression aid data Michael Sliger, Jonathan Forbes 2002-09-10 $116,187,000
6243766 Method and system for updating software with smaller patch files Michael Sliger, Jonathan Forbes 2001-06-05 $418,247,000
6216175 Method for upgrading copies of an original file with same update data after normalizing differences between copies created during respective original installations Michael Sliger 2001-04-10 $397,580,000
5862362 Network failure simulator Sivaramakichenane Somasegar 1999-01-19 $569,312,000
5732265 Storage optimizing encoder and method Frederick J. DeWitt 1998-03-24 $351,223,000