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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 101–125 of 244 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9930374 Systems and methods for interactive program guides with personal video recording features Michael D. Ellis, Danny R. Gaydou, M. Scott Reichardt, Joseph P. Baumgartner 2018-03-27
9866888 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 2018-01-09
9854321 Client-server electronic program guide Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2017-12-26
9832531 Systems and methods for providing a program as a gift using an interactive application Pamela L. McKissick, Michael D. Ellis, Mark A. Regouby, Joel G. Hassell 2017-11-28
9813396 Methods and systems for managing content subscription data Walter R. Klappert 2017-11-07
9807443 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 2017-10-31
9788024 Systems and methods for achieving ad avoidance by selectively switching media streams Ti-Shiang Wang 2017-10-10
9774911 Methods and systems for automatically evaluating an audio description track of a media asset Ajit Shanware 2017-09-26
9774913 Methods and systems of recommending media assets to users viewing over-the-top content Walter R. Klappert, Richard M. Beaty 2017-09-26
9723256 Systems and methods for re-recording content associated with re-emerged popularity Young A. Tang, Michael R. Nichols 2017-08-01
9706245 Interactive television program guide system having multiple devices within a household Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2017-07-11
9686592 Program guide system with combination category search Edward B. Knudson, Joel G. Hassell, Michael D. Ellis 2017-06-20
9648358 Systems and methods for interactive program guides with personal video recording features Michael D. Ellis, Danny R. Gaydou, M. Scott Reichardt, Joseph P. Baumgartner 2017-05-09
9591251 Interactive television program guide system with operator showcase Michael D. Ellis, Edward B. Knudson, Bruce L. Davis 2017-03-07
9554163 Client-server based interactive television program guide system with remote server recording Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2017-01-24
9544310 Discovering and disambiguating identity providers Ariel Gordon, Sam Franklin Williams, III, Sarat Chandra Subramaniam, Michael Van Waardhuizen, Jonathan Yoder Brenner +3 more 2017-01-10
9521448 Systems and methods for exporting digital content using an interactive television application Thomas E. Westberg, Brian Fife, Joseph DiGiovanni, Michael D. Ellis 2016-12-13
9521451 Television chat system Toby DeWeese, Pamela L. McKissick, Michael D. Ellis 2016-12-13
9503787 Interactive television program guide system with pay program package promotion Edward B. Knudson, Michael D. Ellis, Bruce L. Davis 2016-11-22
9462317 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 2016-10-04
9426509 Client-server electronic program guide Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2016-08-23
9402103 Program guide system for recording television programs Edward B. Knudson, Michael D. Ellis, Bruce L. Davis 2016-07-26
9396761 Methods and systems for generating automatic replays in a media asset Daniel Thomas Ward 2016-07-19
9294817 Program guide system with combination category search Edward B. Knudson, Joel G. Hassell, Michael D. Ellis 2016-03-22
9294799 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 2016-03-22