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Walter R. Smith — 22 Patents

Microsoft: 11 patents #3,886 of 40,388Top 10%
Walmart Apollo: 6 patents #193 of 2,220Top 9%
Apple: 5 patents #5,490 of 18,612Top 30%
Palo Alto, CA: #1,121 of 9,675 inventorsTop 15%
California: #25,951 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Walter R. Smith has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in October 2024. Walter R. Smith ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Walter R. Smith in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12112840 Importing structured prescription records from a prescription label on a medication package Chi-Kai Chien, Christian Hagel-Sorensen, Frédéric Médous, Peyman Oreizy, Jonathan Schwartz +2 more 2024-10-08
12106379 Using machine learning to classify insurance card information Frédéric Médous 2024-10-01
11721414 Importing structured prescription records from a prescription label on a medication package Chi-Kai Chien, Christian Hagel-Sorensen, Frédéric Médous, Peyman Oreizy, Jonathan Schwartz +2 more 2023-08-08
11694776 Generating prescription records from a prescription label on a medication package Chi-Kai Chien, Christian Hagel-Sorensen, Frédéric Médous, Peyman Oreizy, Jonathan Schwartz +2 more 2023-07-04
11636550 Using machine learning to classify insurance card information Frédéric Médous 2023-04-25
11074656 Using machine learning to classify insurance card information Frédéric Médous 2021-07-27
8707209 Save preview representation of files being created Lyon Wong, Cornelis K. Van Dok, David G. DeVorchik, Matthew Bret MacLaurin, Patrice L. Miner +1 more 2014-04-22 $23,747,000
7822988 Method and system for identity recognition Kim Cameron, Arun K. Nanda, Don Hacherl, Murli Satagopan, Stuart L. S. Kwan +2 more 2010-10-26 $19,005,000
7801854 Managing lists and other items in an electronic file system Timothy P. McKee 2010-09-21 $12,612,000
7739316 Systems and methods for the implementation of base schema for organizing units of information manageable by a hardware/software interface system J. Patrick Thompson, Kim Cameron, Anil Nori 2010-06-15 $15,264,000
7730114 Computer file system Andrew Bybee, Anil Nori, Balan Sethu Raman, Timothy P. McKee 2010-06-01 $13,800,000
7711754 System and method for managing data using static lists Jason F. Moore, Richard Banks, Cornelis K. Van Dok, David G. De Vorchik, Timothy P. McKee +3 more 2010-05-04 $20,100,000
7657554 Method and system for managing user interface messages Shawn Murphy, Stephen Brown 2010-02-02 $25,278,000
7636719 Contact schema J. Patrick Thompson, Kim Cameron, Jonathan David Perlow, Dejan Subotic, Melissa W. Dunn 2009-12-22 $30,053,000
7441246 Configurable collection of computer related metric data Alan B. Auerbach, Shawn Murphy 2008-10-21 $32,977,000
7237232 Method and system for recording program information in the event of a failure 2007-06-26 $32,442,000
7181463 System and method for managing data using static lists Jason F. Moore, Richard Banks, Cornelis K. Van Dok, David G. De Vorchik, Timothy P. McKee +3 more 2007-02-20 $43,202,000
5805869 System for computer with interface and scripting systems cooperating in interrated fashion by sharing frame objects of common unified data structure stored in object system Stephen P. Capps 1998-09-08 $8,605,000
5710922 Method for synchronizing and archiving information between computer systems Peter E. Alley 1998-01-20 $10,031,000
5588141 System for executing different functions associated with different contexts corresponding to different screen events based upon information stored in unified data structure Stephen P. Capps 1996-12-24 $5,575,000
5586317 Method and apparatus for implementing I/O in a frame-based computer system 1996-12-17 $7,911,000
5247677 Stochastic priority-based task scheduler Robert V. Welland 1993-09-21 $28,702,000