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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 126–150 of 244 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9288431 Systems and methods for re-recording content associated with re-emerged popularity Young A. Tang, Michael R. Nichols 2016-03-15
9237369 Interactive television program guide system having multiple devices within a household Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2016-01-12
9232254 Client-server based interactive television guide with server recording Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2016-01-05
9226006 Client-server based interactive guide with server recording Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2015-12-29
9226012 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 2015-12-29
9218122 Systems and methods for transferring settings across devices based on user gestures William J. Korbecki 2015-12-22
9204184 Interactive television program guide with remote access Michael D. Ellis, Joel G. Hassell, Thomas R. Lemmons, David M. Berezowski, Robert A. Knee +1 more 2015-12-01
9197916 Systems and methods for communicating and enforcing viewing and recording limits for media-on-demand Michael D. Ellis, Joseph P. Baumgartner 2015-11-24
9191716 Interactive media guide with media guidance interface W. Benjamin Herrington, David M. Berezowski, Robert A. Knee, Michael D. Ellis, Todd A. Walker +2 more 2015-11-17
9185449 Interactive television program guide system having multiple devices within a household Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2015-11-10
9161086 Interactive television program guide system with pay program package promotion Edward B. Knudson, Michael D. Ellis, Bruce L. Davis 2015-10-13
9154843 Client-server based interactive guide with server recording Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2015-10-06
9118948 Client-server based interactive guide with server recording Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2015-08-25
9084006 Interactive television program guide system having multiple devices within a household Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2015-07-14
9084016 Program guide system with combination category search Edward B. Knudson, Joel G. Hassell, Michael D. Ellis 2015-07-14
9066147 Program guide system with advertisements Edward B. Knudson, Joel G. Hassell, Connie T. Marshall, Thomas R. Lemmons, Steven J. Reynolds +6 more 2015-06-23
9055318 Client-server based interactive guide with server storage Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2015-06-09
9055319 Interactive guide with recording Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2015-06-09
9055322 Systems and methods for interactive program guides with personal video recording features Michael D. Ellis, Danny R. Gaydou, M. Scott Reichardt, Joseph P. Baumgartner 2015-06-09
9021538 Client-server based interactive guide with server recording Michael D. Ellis, Thomas R. Lemmons 2015-04-28
8997135 Program guide system for recording television programs Edward B. Knudson, Michael D. Ellis, Bruce L. Davis 2015-03-31
8984551 Interactive program guide with continuous data stream and client-server data supplementation Joel G. Hassell, Michael D. Ellis 2015-03-17
8973069 Systems and methods for relocating media Michael D. Ellis, Kevin B. Easterbrook, M. Scott Reichardt, Robert A. Knee 2015-03-03
8973056 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 2015-03-03
8966567 Systems and methods for exporting digital content using an interactive television application Thomas E. Westberg, Brian Fife, Joseph DiGiovanni, Michael D. Ellis 2015-02-24