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Ning Liao — 27 Patents

TLThomson Licensing: 18 patents #107 of 2,575Top 5%
Amazon: 6 patents #2,730 of 19,158Top 15%
IHInterdigital Patent Holdings: 2 patents #352 of 824Top 45%
Sammamish, WA: #181 of 2,558 inventorsTop 8%
Washington: #3,049 of 76,902 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Ning Liao has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Thomson Licensing. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in April 2025. Ning Liao ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Ning Liao in Sammamish, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2017.peak 52010: 1 patents20102013: 3 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 4 patents20162017: 5 patents2018: 3 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 4 patents20202023: 1 patents2024: 1 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12271376 Generating metadata from a scan of a data object in an object store for performing subsequent queries to the data object Fusheng Yuan, Kaiwen Qu 2025-04-08
12118122 Masking sensitive information in records of filtered accesses to unstructured data Josef Schiefer, Karishma Chawla, Ruiwen Zhao, Michael Banfield, Fusheng Yuan +1 more 2024-10-15 $694,739,000
11625501 Masking sensitive information in records of filtered accesses to unstructured data Josef Schiefer, Karishma Chawla, Ruiwen Zhao, Michael Banfield, Fusheng Yuan +1 more 2023-04-11 $194,427,000
10803197 Masking sensitive information in records of filtered accesses to unstructured data Josef Schiefer, Karishma Chawla, Ruiwen Zhao, Michael Banfield, Fusheng Yuan +1 more 2020-10-13 $240,479,000
10664508 Server-side filtering of unstructured data items at object storage services Douglas Stewart Laurence, Josef Schiefer, Sameer Choudhary, Ruiwen Zhao, Michael Banfield +2 more 2020-05-26 $142,951,000
10650032 Filtering pipeline optimizations for unstructured data Douglas Stewart Laurence, Karmveer Veer Singh, Josef Schiefer, Michael Banfield, Kaiwen Qu +6 more 2020-05-12 $151,825,000
10536703 Method and apparatus for video quality assessment based on content complexity Fan Zhang, Kai Xie, Zhibo Chen 2020-01-14 $1,139,000
10206171 Method for scheduling wake/sleep cycles by a central device in a wireless network Jian Feng Chen, Xiao-Jun Ma 2019-02-12 $1,750,000
10075710 Video quality measurement Fan Zhang, Kai Xie, Zhibo Chen 2018-09-11
9961340 Method and apparatus for video quality measurement Fan Zhang, Kai Xie, Zhibo Chen 2018-05-01
9900256 Method and apparatus for quality of experience management for network services Zhi Bo Chen, Xian Lei Wang 2018-02-20
9769501 Video quality assessment at a bitstream level Zhibo Chen, Kai Xie 2017-09-19
9723301 Method and apparatus for context-based video quality assessment Zhibo Chen, Fan Zhang 2017-08-01
9723309 Method and apparatus for detecting gradual transition picture in video bitstream Zhibo Chen, Kai Xie 2017-08-01
9716881 Method and apparatus for context-based video quality assessment Zhibo Chen, Fan Zhang 2017-07-25
9549183 Method and device for estimating video quality on bitstream level Xiao Dong Gu, Zhibo Chen, Kai Xie 2017-01-17
9497704 Method for scheduling wake/sleep cycles by a central device in a wireless network Jian Feng Chen, Xiao-Jun Ma 2016-11-15
9344478 Method and apparatus for managing content distribution over multiple terminal devices in collaborative media system Jian Feng Chen, Xiao-Jun Ma 2016-05-17
9288071 Method and apparatus for assessing quality of video stream Zhibo Chen, Xianlei Wang 2016-03-15
9276975 Method and apparatus for monitoring quality of service of network Xianlei Wang, Renlei Chen 2016-03-01
9137720 Handover method of multicast and broadcast service based on buffer fullness Jian Feng Chen, Jun Li, Yun Tao Shi 2015-09-15
9077464 Method for providing multicast services Yun Tao Shi, Jun Li 2015-07-07
8694846 Method for receiving and transmitting data blocks Jian Feng Chen, Jun Li 2014-04-08
8520702 Method and device for providing a service Jian Feng Chen 2013-08-27
8437717 Method and apparatus for reporting state information Jian Feng Chen, Jun Li, Yun Tao Shi 2013-05-07