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Edward Kessler — 12 Patents

NANapster: 4 patents #2 of 19Top 15%
DIDirectv: 3 patents #225 of 679Top 35%
Google: 3 patents #8,096 of 22,993Top 40%
RORoxio: 1 patents #20 of 46Top 45%
Los Gatos, CA: #666 of 2,986 inventorsTop 25%
California: #51,404 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Edward Kessler has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Napster. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in November 2020. Edward Kessler ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Edward Kessler in Los Gatos, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2007.peak 21994: 1 patents19942002: 1 patents20022004: 1 patents20042007: 2 patents20072009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents20102013: 2 patents20132014: 1 patents20142017: 1 patents20172020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10825110 Entity page recommendation based on post content Jon Napper, Tsung-Yuan Liu, Bruce Leendert Polderman, Grace Chung 2020-11-03 $74,903,000
9727926 Entity page recommendation based on post content Jon Napper, Tsung-Yuan Liu, Bruce Leendert Polderman, Grace Chung 2017-08-08 $14,885,000
8873929 Digital recording and playback Anthony Wood, Spencer Shanson, Matthew Self, Donald Woodward, Jr., Douglas Shannon +2 more 2014-10-28 $37,604,000
8433182 Video data recorder with personal channels Anthony Wood, Donald Woodward, Jr., Douglas Shannon, Spencer Shanson, Karl Townsend 2013-04-30 $62,692,000
8386953 Accordion user interface David S. Young, Benjamin Leon Grol-Prokopczyk 2013-02-26 $16,983,000
7773860 Video data recorder with personal channels Anthony Wood, Donald Woodward, Jr., Douglas Shannon, Spencer Shanson, Karl Townsend 2010-08-10 $42,881,000
7542996 Real-time search engine for searching video and image data Shawn Fanning, John Fanning 2009-06-02
7170999 Method of and apparatus for encrypting and transferring files Jordan Mendelson 2007-01-30 $2,612,000
7165071 Real-time search engine Shawn Fanning, John Fanning 2007-01-16 $2,635,000
6742023 Use-sensitive distribution of data files between users Shawn Fanning, John Fanning 2004-05-25 $2,599,000
6366907 Real-time search engine Shawn Fanning, John Fanning 2002-04-02 $6,510,000
5289169 Composite underlining functions for text processors Charles Corfield, David Murray, Sandra A. Sundberg 1994-02-22 $2,093,000