Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025
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William L. Thomas

RGRovi Guides: 135 patents #4 of 684Top 1%
UPUnited Video Properties: 68 patents #2 of 191Top 2%
OPOds Properties: 7 patents #5 of 31Top 20%
AGAdeia Guides: 7 patents #33 of 333Top 10%
Microsoft: 4 patents #10,696 of 40,388Top 30%
ZRZenith Radio: 4 patents #20 of 184Top 15%
ANA.C. Nielsen: 4 patents #4 of 44Top 10%
RGRovl Guides: 2 patents #5 of 69Top 8%
NPNews America Publications: 2 patents #2 of 17Top 15%
RPRovi Product: 1 patents #13 of 56Top 25%
OTOds Technologies: 1 patents #11 of 16Top 70%
UFUS Air Force: 1 patents #6,190 of 16,312Top 40%
CDControl Data: 1 patents #56 of 192Top 30%
NRNielsen Media Research: 1 patents #13 of 31Top 45%
TCTelecommunications Of Colorado: 1 patents #4 of 16Top 25%
ITInternational Telephone And Telegraph: 1 patents #182 of 507Top 40%
Evergreen, CO: #1 of 385 inventorsTop 1%
Colorado: #10 of 40,980 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #2,108 of 4,157,543Top 1%
244 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 76–100 of 244 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
10440417 Systems and methods for providing storage of data on servers in an on-demand media delivery system Michael D. Ellis, Kevin B. Easterbrook, M. Scott Reichardt, Robert A. Knee 2019-10-08
10419799 Systems and methods for navigating custom media presentations Margret B. Schmidt, Ajay Gupta, Alexander W. Liston, Jonathan A. Logan, Mathew C. Burns +1 more 2019-09-17
10419794 Systems and methods for synchronizing media asset playback from multiple sources Gabriel C. Dalbec, Alexander W. Liston, Mathew C. Burns, Ajay Gupta, Margret B. Schmidt +1 more 2019-09-17
10362357 Systems and methods for resuming media in different modes of playback based on attributes of a physical environment Adam Bates, Jesse F. Patterson, Mark K. Berner, Eric Dorsey, Jonathan A. Logan +3 more 2019-07-23
10318112 Systems and methods for enabling quick multi-application menu access to media options 2019-06-11
10299006 Methods and systems of facilitating sharing of information among service providers Walter R. Klappert, Richard M. Beaty 2019-05-21
10298973 Client-server based interactive television program guide system with remote server recording Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2019-05-21
10271088 Interactive television program guide with remote access Michael D. Ellis, Joel G. Hassell, Thomas R. Lemmons, David M. Berezowski, Robert A. Knee +1 more 2019-04-23
10263796 Systems and methods for managing power based on media asset consumption Alexander W. Liston, Jonathan A. Logan, Ajay Gupta, Mathew C. Burns, Margret B. Schmidt +1 more 2019-04-16
10205982 Methods and systems for managing media subscriptions Paul T. Stathacopoulos, Walter R. Klappert 2019-02-12
10178421 Methods and systems for monitoring content subscription usage Walter R. Klappert 2019-01-08
10154308 Methods and systems for automatically evaluating an audio description track of a media asset Ajit Shanware 2018-12-11
10147461 Systems and methods for alerting users to differences between different media versions of a story Adam Bates, Jesse F. Patterson, Mark K. Berner, Eric Dorsey, David Chamberlin +2 more 2018-12-04
10142686 System and methods for disambiguating an ambiguous entity in a search query based on the gaze of a user Ajay Gupta, Mathew C. Burns, Gabriel C. Dalbec, Alexander W. Liston, Jonathan A. Logan +1 more 2018-11-27
10123089 Client-server electronic program guide Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2018-11-06
10091549 Methods and systems for recommending media assets based on the geographic location at which the media assets are frequently consumed Gabriel C. Dalbec, Jonathan A. Logan, Ajay Gupta, Alexander W. Liston, Margret B. Schmidt +1 more 2018-10-02
10075746 Client-server based interactive television guide with server recording Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2018-09-11
10063909 Program guide system with advertisements Edward B. Knudson, Joel G. Hassell, Connie T. Marshall, Thomas R. Lemmons, Steven J. Reynolds +6 more 2018-08-28
10038929 Systems and methods for creating a virtual channel for binge watching Margret B. Schmidt, Alexander W. Liston, Jonathan A. Logan, Gabriel C. Dalbec, Mathew C. Burns +1 more 2018-07-31
10027998 Systems and methods for multi-tuner recording Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2018-07-17
10015556 Television chat system Toby DeWeese, Pamela L. McKissick, Michael D. Ellis 2018-07-03
10003848 Interactive program guide system providing an application program interface for non-program guide applications Michael D. Ellis, Edward B. Knudson, Joel G. Hassell, Kevin B. Easterbrook 2018-06-19
9998793 Methods and systems for determining at a present time a date at a future time at which a media asset will become available from the content provider Paul T. Stathacopoulos, Walter R. Klappert 2018-06-12
9998790 Augmented reality content recommendation Jonathan A. Logan, Alexander W. Liston, Gabriel C. Dalbec, Margret B. Schmidt, Mathew C. Burns +1 more 2018-06-12
9961386 Systems and methods for navigating custom media presentations Margret B. Schmidt, Ajay Gupta, Alexander W. Liston, Jonathan A. Logan, Mathew C. Burns +1 more 2018-05-01