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William B. Dolan — 52 Patents

Microsoft: 52 patents #308 of 40,388Top 1%
Kirkland, WA: #63 of 3,517 inventorsTop 2%
Washington: #1,031 of 76,902 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #50,240 of 4,157,543Top 2%
52 Patents All Time
William B. Dolan has been granted 52 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in August 2025. William B. Dolan ranks #50,240 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list William B. Dolan in Kirkland, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 52 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12383836 Importing agent personalization instantiate a personalized agent in a user game session Gabriel A. DESGARENNES, Christopher John Brockett, Sudha RAO, Benjamin David VAN DURME, Ryan VOLUM +1 more 2025-08-12
12282727 Automatic document sketching Zeqiu WU, Michel Galley, Yizhe Zhang, Zhang Li, Christopher John Brockett 2025-04-22
12131123 Grounded text generation Michel Galley, Christopher Brian Quirk, Zeqiu WU 2024-10-29 $603,926,000
12105747 Automatic content generation Weixin CAI, Si-Qing Chen, Michel Galley, Christopher John Brockett, Zhang Li +4 more 2024-10-01 $328,958,000
11741306 Controllable grounded text generation Michel Galley, Christopher Brian Quirk, Zeqiu WU 2023-08-29 $347,832,000
11429779 Method and system for intelligently suggesting paraphrases Zhang Li, Domenic J. Cipollone, Maria Isabel R. Carpenter, Juhi Amitkumar Naik, Susan Hendrich +4 more 2022-08-30 $157,926,000
11126794 Targeted rewrites Zhang Li, Christopher John Brockett, Christopher Brian Quirk, Alice Lai, Susan Hendrich +5 more 2021-09-21 $157,007,000
10536402 Context-sensitive generation of conversational responses Michel Galley, Alessandro Sordoni, Christopher John Brockett, Jianfeng Gao, Yangfeng Ji +3 more 2020-01-14 $71,807,000
10091140 Context-sensitive generation of conversational responses Michel Galley, Alessandro Sordoni, Christopher John Brockett, Jianfeng Gao, Yangfeng Ji +3 more 2018-10-02 $62,856,000
9967211 Metric for automatic assessment of conversational responses Michel Galley, Alessandro Sordoni, Christopher John Brockett, Jianfeng Gao, Yangfeng Ji +3 more 2018-05-08 $61,617,000
9754585 Crowdsourced, grounded language for intent modeling in conversational interfaces Christopher John Brockett, Piali Choudhury, Yun-Cheng Ju, Patrick Pantel, Noelle Mallory Sophy +1 more 2017-09-05 $29,269,000
9501759 Search query and document-related data translation Jianfeng Gao, Xuedong Huang, Mei Li, Zhenghao Wang, Christopher John Brockett 2016-11-22 $43,983,000
9116880 Generating stimuli for use in soliciting grounded linguistic information Christopher Ian Charla, Christopher Brian Quirk, Christopher John Brockett, Noelle Mallory Sophy, Nicole Beaudry +6 more 2015-08-25 $40,227,000
8972240 User-modifiable word lattice display for editing documents and search queries Christopher John Brockett 2015-03-03 $20,156,000
8244521 Paraphrasing the web by search-based data collection 2012-08-14 $12,366,000
8170868 Extracting lexical features for classifying native and non-native language usage style Michael Gamon, Christopher John Brockett 2012-05-01 $24,840,000
8078451 Interface and methods for collecting aligned editorial corrections into a database Christopher John Brockett, Michael Gamon 2011-12-13 $13,784,000
7991609 Web-based proofing and usage guidance Chris Brockett, Michael Gamon, Jianfeng Gao, Lucy Vanderwende, Hsiao-Wen Hon +3 more 2011-08-02 $22,196,000
7908132 Writing assistance using machine translation techniques Christopher John Brockett 2011-03-15 $22,634,000
7774193 Proofing of word collocation errors based on a comparison with collocations in a corpus Jianfeng Gao, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Ming Zhou 2010-08-10 $15,662,000
7752034 Writing assistance using machine translation techniques Christopher John Brockett 2010-07-06 $19,949,000
7584092 Unsupervised learning of paraphrase/translation alternations and selective application thereof Christopher John Brockett, Eric Breck 2009-09-01 $29,550,000
7552046 Unsupervised learning of paraphrase/translation alternations and selective application thereof Christopher John Brockett, Eric Breck 2009-06-23 $37,511,000
7546235 Unsupervised learning of paraphrase/translation alternations and selective application thereof Christopher John Brockett, Eric Breck 2009-06-09 $30,586,000
7536397 System for improving the performance of information retrieval-type tasks by identifying the relations of constituents Simon H. Corston-Oliver, Hisami Suzuki 2009-05-19 $25,886,000