Inventor
MCCONNELL CHRISTOPHER CLAYTON
US18 patents
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MICROSOFT CORP
11 patentsUS6999963B1Feb 14, 2006
Methods, apparatus, and data structures for annotating a database design schema and/or indexing annotations
MICROSOFT CORP79 citations97
US6993475B1Jan 31, 2006
Methods, apparatus, and data structures for facilitating a natural language interface to stored information
MICROSOFT CORP58 citations94
US7640254B2Dec 29, 2009
Methods, apparatus, and data structures for annotating a database design schema and/or indexing annotations
MICROSOFT CORP26 citations92
US6996571B2Feb 7, 2006
XML storage solution and data interchange file format structure
MICROSOFT CORP40 citations92
US7310642B2Dec 18, 2007
Methods, apparatus and data structures for facilitating a natural language interface to stored information
MICROSOFT CORP23 citations89
US7512609B2Mar 31, 2009
Methods, apparatus, and data structures for annotating a database design schema and/or indexing annotations
MICROSOFT CORP12 citations83
US7346598B2Mar 18, 2008
Schemaless dataflow within an XML storage solution
MICROSOFT CORP19 citations82
US7043498B2May 9, 2006
System and method for connecting to a set of phrases joining multiple schemas
MICROSOFT CORP3 citations62
US8001154B2Aug 16, 2011
Library description of the user interface for federated search results
MICROSOFT CORP5 citations60
US7346626B2Mar 18, 2008
Connecting to a set of phrases joining multiple schemas
MICROSOFT CORP0 citations52
US7519609B2Apr 14, 2009
XML storage solution and data interchange file format structure
MICROSOFT CORP1 citations51
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
6 patentsUS11211055B2Dec 28, 2021
Utilizing rule specificity in conversational AI
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC1 citations62
US11442905B2Sep 13, 2022
Efficient denormalization of data instances
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations61
US11151333B2Oct 19, 2021
Conversational event modeling
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations60
US11468122B2Oct 11, 2022
Shared memory space management for conversational artificial intelligence system
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC1 citations58
US10540332B2Jan 21, 2020
Efficient denormalization of data instances
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations51
US11170174B2Nov 9, 2021
Conversational AI using adaptive dialogs
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations50