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David A. Nichols
Also filed as: NICHOLS DAVID · NICHOLS DAVID A
37 granted patents·5 pending applications·2,047 citations·filing 1986–2019
98Inventor score
Files withMICROSOFT CORP12XEROX CORP5NICHOLS DAVID A4MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC3OBASANJO OLUDARE3
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42 records- 0197US5692213AMethod for controlling real-time presentation of audio/visual data on a computer systemXEROX CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Nov 25, 1997·448 cites·25 claims
- 0297US5649099AMethod for delegating access rights through executable access control program without delegating access rights not in a specification to any intermediary nor comprising server securityXEROX CORP·Filed 1993·Granted Jul 15, 1997·467 cites·36 claims
- 0395US6772335B2Multimedia coordination systemXEROX CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 3, 2004·120 cites·30 claims
- 0494US5495600AConversion of queries to monotonically increasing incremental form to continuously query a append only databaseXEROX CORP·Filed 1992·Granted Feb 27, 1996·137 cites·5 claims
- 0593US8140914B2Failure-model-driven repair and backupMURPHY ELISSA E S·Filed 2009·Granted Mar 20, 2012·31 cites·19 claims
- 0693US7991916B2Per-user application rendering in the presence of application sharingMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 2, 2011·41 cites·9 claims
- 0793US7792788B2Method and system for resolving conflicts operations in a collaborative editing environmentMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 7, 2010·64 cites·17 claims
- 0892US8443001B2Stashing of locally persisted data to network accessible storageNICHOLS DAVID A·Filed 2012·Granted May 14, 2013·17 cites·20 claims
- 0992US8214883B2Using social networks while respecting access control listsOBASANJO OLUDARE·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 3, 2012·59 cites·20 claims
- 1092US6560707B2Multimedia coordination systemXEROX CORP·Filed 1996·Granted May 6, 2003·250 cites·21 claims
- 1188US8817668B2Distributable, scalable, pluggable conferencing architectureSEKARAN DHIGHA D·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 26, 2014·21 cites·20 claims
- 1288US6338086B1Collaborative object architecturePLACEWARE INC·Filed 1998·Granted Jan 8, 2002·169 cites·13 claims
- 1387US7603669B2Upgrade and downgrade of data resource componentsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 13, 2009·25 cites·15 claims
- 1487US7568005B2Enhanced application behavior in the presence of application sharingMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 28, 2009·20 cites·19 claims
- 1586US8341145B2Face recognition using social dataDODSON BRADLEY·Filed 2010·Granted Dec 25, 2012·46 cites·14 claims
- 1685US8296356B2Rating based on relationshipOBASANJO OLUDARE·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 23, 2012·14 cites·13 claims
- 1784US7596720B2Application health checksMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 29, 2009·17 cites·17 claims
- 1883US7822738B2Collaborative workspace context information filteringMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 26, 2010·16 cites·20 claims
- 1983US7779079B2Reducing unsolicited instant messages by tracking communication threadsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 17, 2010·19 cites·12 claims
- 2083US7676806B2Deployment, maintenance and configuration of complex hardware and software systemsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 9, 2010·16 cites·16 claims
- 2182US7934661B2Marketing/fundraising/reward system and methodNICHOLS DAVID·Filed 2007·Granted May 3, 2011·11 cites·28 claims
- 2280US8918779B2Logical migration of applications and dataNICHOLS DAVID A·Filed 2009·Granted Dec 23, 2014·7 cites·20 claims
- 2378US9420051B2Rating based on relationshipOBASANJO OLUDARE·Filed 2012·Granted Aug 16, 2016·2 cites·20 claims
- 2473US9449016B2Data synchronization policiesSCHADT GYORGY K·Filed 2011·Granted Sep 20, 2016·4 cites·20 claims
- 2568US8244764B2Stashing of locally persisted data to network accessible storageNICHOLS DAVID A·Filed 2009·Granted Aug 14, 2012·3 cites·20 claims
- 2665US9104737B2Social distance based search result order adjustmentQUICK DAVID R·Filed 2009·Granted Aug 11, 2015·3 cites·13 claims
- 2762US11293751B2Profile inspection system for verifying relative position of vehicle component objects and manufacturing cell including sameHONDA MOTOR CO LTD·Filed 2019·Granted Apr 5, 2022·1 cites·20 claims
- 2862US9645947B2Bundling file permissions for sharing filesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2013·Granted May 9, 2017·2 cites·20 claims
- 2959US10642593B2Logical migration of applications and dataMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2018·Granted May 5, 2020·0 cites·20 claims
- 3058US10209975B2Logical migration of applications and dataMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2014·Granted Feb 19, 2019·0 cites·21 claims
- 3152US9305018B2Contextual and semantic differential backupDICKSON MATHEW J·Filed 2009·Granted Apr 5, 2016·1 cites·20 claims
- 3251US9536005B2Social distance based search result order adjustmentMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Jan 3, 2017·0 cites·18 claims
- 3350US8219654B2Highly available central controller to store and enforce valid state transitions of distributed componentsNAGARAJA GIRISH·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 10, 2012·2 cites·20 claims
- 3449US2010332549A1Recipes for rebuilding filesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2009·Application pending·0 cites
- 3547US2017300934A1Information/marketing/revenue system and methodNICHOLS DAVID·Filed 2016·Application pending·0 cites
- 3645US2017243017A1Bundling File Permissions For Sharing FilesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2017·Application pending·0 cites
- 3745US2002052932A1Collaborative object architecturePLACEWARE INC·Filed 2001·Application pending·0 cites
- 3843US7568194B2Method and system for availability checking on distributed objectsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 28, 2009·0 cites·16 claims
- 3942US4743455AMethod for making potato chipsNICHOLS DAVID A·Filed 1986·Granted May 10, 1988·8 cites·15 claims
- 4040US2012018647A1Detection method for technetium 99ABREGO CELESTINO·Filed 2010·Application pending·0 cites
- 4134US5100487AAs-cast, age-hardened Cu-Sn-Ni worm gearing and method of making sameCONE DRIVE OPERATIONS INC·Filed 1991·Granted Mar 31, 1992·3 cites·19 claims
- 4233US5230757AAs-cast, age-hardened Cu-Sn-Ni worm gearing and method of making sameCONE DRIVE OPERATIONS INC·Filed 1991·Granted Jul 27, 1993·3 cites·7 claims
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