Inventor
David A. Nichols
Inventor
Redmond, WA, US
Overview
Patents· 36 as inventor
Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.
G06Fprimary
G06FElectric digital data processing41%
H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication24%
G06QInformation and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes13%
H04MTelephonic communication6%
C22CAlloys4%
C22FChanging the physical structure of non-ferrous metals and non-ferrous alloys4%
A23LFoods, foodstuffs or non-alcoholic beverages, not otherwise provided for2%
G06VImage or video recognition or understanding2%
G11BInformation storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer2%
H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television2%
PatentTitleYear
10,642,593Logical migration of applications and data202010,209,975Logical migration of applications and data20199,645,947'Bundling file permissions for sharing files'20179,536,005'Social distance based search result order adjustment'20179,449,016'Data synchronization policies'20169,420,051'Rating based on relationship'20169,305,018'Contextual and semantic differential backup'20169,104,737'Social distance based search result order adjustment'20158,918,779'Logical migration of applications and data'20148,817,668'Distributable, scalable, pluggable conferencing architecture'20148,443,001'Stashing of locally persisted data to network accessible storage'20138,341,145'Face recognition using social data'20128,296,356'Rating based on relationship'20128,244,764'Stashing of locally persisted data to network accessible storage'20128,219,654'Highly available central controller to store and enforce valid state transitions of distributed components'20128,214,883'Using social networks while respecting access control lists'20128,140,914'Failure-model-driven repair and backup'20127,991,916'Per-user application rendering in the presence of application sharing'20117,934,661'Marketing/fundraising/reward system and method'20117,822,738'Collaborative workspace context information filtering'20107,792,788'Method and system for resolving conflicts operations in a collaborative editing environment'20107,779,079'Reducing unsolicited instant messages by tracking communication threads'20107,676,806'Deployment, maintenance and configuration of complex hardware and software systems'20107,603,669'Upgrade and downgrade of data resource components'20097,596,720'Application health checks'20097,568,005'Enhanced application behavior in the presence of application sharing'20097,568,194'Method and system for availability checking on distributed objects'20096,772,335'Multimedia coordination system'20046,560,707'Multimedia coordination system'20036,338,086'Collaborative object architecture'20025,692,213'Method for controlling real-time presentation of audio/visual data on a computer system'19975,649,099'Method for delegating access rights through executable access control program without delegating access rights not in a specification to any intermediary nor comprising server security'19975,495,600'Conversion of queries to monotonically increasing incremental form to continuously query a append only database'19965,230,757'As-cast, age-hardened Cu-Sn-Ni worm gearing and method of making same'19935,100,487'As-cast, age-hardened Cu-Sn-Ni worm gearing and method of making same'19924,743,455'Method for making potato chips'1988Career & activity timeline
Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.
1988–2016Patents assigned to NICHOLS DAVID A (11)· patent assignee history
1988Based in Burnsville, MN, US· patent location history
1992–1993Based in Acme, MI, US· patent location history
1996–2004Patents assigned to XEROX CORP (5)· patent assignee history
1996–2004Based in Mountain View, CA, US· patent location history
2009–2017Patents assigned to MICROSOFT CORP (19)· patent assignee history
2009–2020Based in Redmond, WA, US· patent location history
2011Based in Armonk, NY, US· patent location history
2012–2016Patents assigned to MEHR JOHN D (4)· patent assignee history
2015–2020Patents assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (8)· patent assignee history
Inventor activity
Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.
Assignees
| Assignee | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| MICROSOFT CORP | 19 | 2009–2017 |
| NICHOLS DAVID Aself | 11 | 1988–2016 |
| MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC | 8 | 2015–2020 |
| XEROX CORP | 5 | 1996–2004 |
| MEHR JOHN D | 4 | 2012–2016 |
Locations
| Location | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| Redmond, Washington, US | 26 | 2009–2020 |
| Mountain View, California, US | 6 | 1996–2004 |
| Acme, MI, US | 2 | 1992–1993 |
| Armonk, New York, US | 1 | 2011 |
| Burnsville, Minnesota, US | 1 | 1988 |