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Michael R. Smith — 45 Patents

UIUser-Centric Ip: 8 patents #1 of 2Top 50%
Verizon: 7 patents #775 of 6,238Top 15%
Cisco: 7 patents #2,035 of 13,007Top 20%
UEUser-Centric Enterprises: 6 patents #1 of 2Top 50%
T(The Nielsen Company (Us): 3 patents #439 of 805Top 55%
LILocator Ip: 3 patents #4 of 5Top 80%
NANissan Technical Center North America: 2 patents #33 of 216Top 20%
Broadcom: 1 patents #5,859 of 9,346Top 65%
HEHewlett Packard Enterprise: 1 patents #2,081 of 4,473Top 50%
Rolls-Royce Plc: 1 patents #1,830 of 2,886Top 65%
UFUS Air Force: 1 patents #6,232 of 16,312Top 40%
MCMci Communications: 1 patents #235 of 579Top 45%
CACa: 1 patents #669 of 1,424Top 50%
QCQwest Communications: 1 patents #1 of 11Top 10%
HP: 1 patents #11,359 of 16,619Top 70%
San Jose, CA: #1,177 of 32,062 inventorsTop 4%
California: #9,570 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #64,393 of 4,157,543Top 2%
45 Patents All Time
Michael R. Smith has been granted 45 US patents while listed as an inventor at User-Centric Ip. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in October 2024. Michael R. Smith ranks #64,393 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Michael R. Smith in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1982 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2014.peak 81982: 1 patents19822000: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 4 patents2005: 3 patents20052006: 2 patents2007: 4 patents20072008: 2 patents2009: 1 patents20092012: 1 patents2014: 8 patents20142016: 2 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 2 patents2019: 3 patents20192020: 3 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 2 patents20232024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 45 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12118124 Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to privatize consumer data Bruce Richardson, Shixiao Li, Martin Quinn 2024-10-15
11783085 Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to privatize consumer data Bruce Richardson, Shixiao Li, Martin Quinn 2023-10-10
RE49663 Virtual switching overlay for cloud computing 2023-09-19
11255269 Valve arrangement for a fuel system 2022-02-22
11176272 Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to privatize consumer data Bruce Richardson, Shixiao Li, Martin Quinn 2021-11-16 $25,995,000
11143791 Mesoscale modeling 2021-10-12
10720037 Wearable alert system Joel N. Myers, Lachlan Myers, Michael R. Root 2020-07-21
10679482 Wearable alert system Joel N. Myers, Lachlan Myers, Michael R. Root 2020-06-09
10547544 Network fabric overlay Thomas J. Edsall, Navindra Yadav, Francisco M. Matus, Kit Chiu Chu, Sameer Merchant +2 more 2020-01-28 $35,994,000
10522022 User-centric event reporting with follow-up information Perry Jay O'Neil 2019-12-31
10417893 Wearable alert system Joel N. Myers, Lachlan Myers, Michael R. Root 2019-09-17
10193861 Method and apparatus for best effort propagation of security group information 2019-01-29 $46,896,000
10153979 Prioritization of network traffic in a distributed processing system Mark Brian Mozolewski, Carlos Villarreal, Sumanth M Sathyanarayana 2018-12-11 $11,674,000
9876715 Network fabric overlay Thomas J. Edsall, Navindra Yadav, Francisco M. Matus, Kit Chiu Chu, Sameer Merchant +2 more 2018-01-23 $34,113,000
9825814 Dynamic attribute based application policy Joji Thomas Mekkattuparamban, Vijay Chander, Saurabh Jain, Van Lieu, Badhri Madabusi Vijayaraghavan +3 more 2017-11-21 $25,789,000
9407604 Method and apparatus for best effort propagation of security group information 2016-08-02 $27,530,000
9363183 Network address translation offload to network infrastructure for service chains in a network environment Surendra M. Kumar, Paul Quinn, James N. Guichard 2016-06-07 $32,669,000
8924533 Method and system for providing automated fault isolation in a managed services network Frank Paul Adams, Jr., Sanjiv Purushottam Damle, Richard Brian Drescher, Joshua Jerome Morris, Stephen Michael Smith +2 more 2014-12-30 $25,526,000
8869267 Analysis for network intrusion detection Mark S. Janczura 2014-10-21 $8,688,000
8825889 Network traffic rate limiting system and method Sean E. Humphress, Dante Vitale 2014-09-02 $20,455,000
8812649 Method and system for processing fault alarms and trouble tickets in a managed network services system Frank Paul Adams, Jr., Sanjiv Purushottam Damle, Richard Brian Drescher, Joshua Jerome Morris, Stephen Michael Smith +2 more 2014-08-19 $46,532,000
8798039 Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) traffic management system and method Timothy R. Ness, Timothy J. Mason, Michael J. Coons 2014-08-05 $31,668,000
8738760 Method and system for providing automated data retrieval in support of fault isolation in a managed services network Frank Paul Adams, Jr., Sanjiv Purushottam Damle, Richard Brian Drescher, Joshua Jerome Morris, Stephen Michael Smith +2 more 2014-05-27 $42,639,000
8732516 Method and system for providing customer controlled notifications in a managed network services system Frank Paul Adams, Jr., Sanjiv Purushottam Damle, Richard Brian Drescher, Joshua Jerome Morris, Stephen Michael Smith +2 more 2014-05-20 $56,805,000
8676945 Method and system for processing fault alarms and maintenance events in a managed network services system Frank Paul Adams, Jr., Sanjiv Purushottam Damle, Richard Brian Drescher, Joshua Jerome Morris, Stephen Michael Smith +2 more 2014-03-18 $53,131,000