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William D. Sproule — 21 Patents

Microsoft: 21 patents #1,596 of 40,388Top 4%
Woodinville, WA: #140 of 1,504 inventorsTop 10%
Washington: #4,391 of 76,902 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
William D. Sproule has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in May 2020. William D. Sproule ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list William D. Sproule in Woodinville, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10664687 Rule-based video importance analysis Nitin Suri, Tzong-Jhy Wang, Omkar Anand Mehendale, Andrew S. Ivory 2020-05-26 $85,749,000
9934423 Computerized prominent character recognition in videos Tzong-Jhy Wang, Nitin Suri, Andrew S. Ivory 2018-04-03 $53,988,000
9934558 Automatic video quality enhancement with temporal smoothing and user override Nitin Suri, Andrew S. Ivory, Tzong-Jhy Wang, Bruce J. Lindbloom 2018-04-03 $53,988,000
9691430 Opportunistic frame caching Giedrius Zizys, Tzong-Jhy Wang, Victor E. Santodomingo, Mike W. Morrison 2017-06-27 $36,785,000
9646227 Computerized machine learning of interesting video sections Nitin Suri, Xian-Sheng Hua, Tzong-Jhy Wang, Andrew S. Ivory, Jin Li 2017-05-09 $28,083,000
9542062 Virtualization of mobile device user experience Antonio Winslow Fernando 2017-01-10 $27,928,000
9460493 Automatic video quality enhancement with temporal smoothing and user override Nitin Suri, Andrew S. Ivory, Tzong-Jhy Wang, Bruce J. Lindbloom 2016-10-04 $46,434,000
9208599 Visual previews Sriram Subramanian, Nitin Suri 2015-12-08 $46,233,000
9161007 Automated story generation Nitin Suri, Sriram Subramanian 2015-10-13 $36,364,000
8867779 Image tagging user interface Karthik G. Anbalagan, Scott R. Ramsby, Chunkit Jacky Chan, Michael Kim, John M. Thornton +11 more 2014-10-21 $25,843,000
8750684 Movie making techniques Mindy C. King 2014-06-10 $30,051,000
8560595 Virtualization of mobile device user experience Antonio Winslow Fernando 2013-10-15 $28,338,000
8422852 Automated story generation Nitin Suri, Sriram Subramanian 2013-04-16 $18,962,000
8180645 Data preparation for media browsing Bruce Johnson, W. Michael Anderson 2012-05-15 $19,036,000
7865366 Data preparation for media browsing Bruce Johnson, W. Michael Anderson 2011-01-04 $27,759,000
7647346 Automatic rules-based device synchronization Andrew Silverman, Daniel Plastina, Kipley J. Olson, Michael J. Novak 2010-01-12 $31,942,000
7275027 Facilitating communication with automotive vehicle buses W. Michael Anderson 2007-09-25 $32,487,000
7159174 Data preparation for media browsing Bruce Johnson, W. Michael Anderson 2007-01-02
7069510 In-vehicle audio browser system having a common usability model W. Michael Anderson, Bruce Johnson, Polita Huff 2006-06-27 $46,558,000
6606543 Method and apparatus for logging into a vehicle computer system Polita Huff 2003-08-12 $92,752,000
5767835 Method and system for displaying buttons that transition from an active state to an inactive state Kim Obbink, Bryan Ballinger 1998-06-16 $196,313,000