William James Bliss — 16 Patents at Microsoft

William James Bliss has been granted 16 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in October 2025. William James Bliss ranks #284,196 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.8%). Patent records list William James Bliss in Bellevue, WA, US.

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Showing 1–16 of 16 patents

Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12437036	Data provenance tracking service	—	2025-10-07
12067216	Contextual conversations for a collaborative workspace environment	Larry Jin, Richard Taylor, Pedro Dantas DeRose	2024-08-20	$244,576,000
11847193	Data provenance tracking service	—	2023-12-19	$382,128,000
11550449	Contextual conversations for a collaborative workspace environment	Larry Jin, Richard Taylor, Pedro Dantas DeRose	2023-01-10	$233,678,000
11137879	Contextual conversations for a collaborative workspace environment	Larry Jin, Richard Taylor, Pedro Dantas DeRose	2021-10-05	$188,794,000
10404765	Re-homing embedded web content via cross-iframe signaling	Siddharth Uppal	2019-09-03	$68,397,000
9031178	Generalized transmit pre-coding for optical and backplane channels	Vasudevan Parthasarathy	2015-05-12	$5,579,000
6324587	Method, computer program product, and data structure for publishing a data object over a store and forward transport	Brian Trenbeath, Vilayanur Parameswaran Krishnan, Siunie Aquawati Sutjahjo, Kevin Braun, David R. Dozier +1 more	2001-11-27	$409,013,000
6147685	System and method for editing group information	Silvana Y. Rimoli	2000-11-14	$777,454,000
6057841	System and method for processing electronic messages with rules representing a combination of conditions, actions or exceptions	Scott A. Thurlow, Douglas E. Stumberger, David R. Goodhand, Brian MacDonald	2000-05-02	$586,257,000
5999938	System and method for creating a new data structure in memory populated with data from an existing data structure	Jerry R. Hughson, Jr., Lois Bauer, Suryanarayanan V. Raman, Michael L. Roberts, Eric J. Horvitz +1 more	1999-12-07	$326,396,000
5923848	System and method for resolving names in an electronic messaging environment	David R. Goodhand, Brian MacDonald, Scott A. Thurlow	1999-07-13	$427,321,000
5917489	System and method for creating, editing, and distributing rules for processing electronic messages	Scott A. Thurlow, Douglas E. Stumberger, David R. Goodhand, Brian MacDonald	1999-06-29	$401,189,000
5884306	System and method for directly manipulating fields for grouping items	Daniel Yaw-Chung Ko, Silvana Y. Rimoli	1999-03-16	$631,238,000
5852436	Notes facility for receiving notes while the computer system is in a screen mode	David Franklin, Dean J. Hachamovitch, David Tuniman	1998-12-22	$390,054,000
5760770	System and method for defining a view to display data	Matthew Frederick Hillman	1998-06-02	$118,572,000

William James Bliss — 16 Patents

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