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James M. Lyon
Also filed as: LYON JAMES · LYON JAMES M
30 granted patents·6 pending applications·1,102 citations·filing 1987–2015
97Inventor score
Files withMICROSOFT CORP16TANDEM COMPUTERS INC5GOEBEL DAVID A3LYON JAMES M3MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC2
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36 records- 0195US7900002B2Multi-client cluster-based backup and restoreMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2008·Granted Mar 1, 2011·51 cites·18 claims
- 0294US9445305B2Low energy beacon encodingLYON JAMES M·Filed 2011·Granted Sep 13, 2016·29 cites·20 claims
- 0394US6442620B1Environment extensibility and automatic services for component applications using contexts, policies and activatorsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Aug 27, 2002·253 cites·25 claims
- 0493US7441092B2Multi-client cluster-based backup and restoreMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 21, 2008·28 cites·12 claims
- 0593US6546443B1Concurrency-safe reader-writer lock with time out supportMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 8, 2003·218 cites·73 claims
- 0688US7447857B2Multi-client cluster-based backup and restoreMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 4, 2008·23 cites·18 claims
- 0787US8001189B2Routing of network messagesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Aug 16, 2011·58 cites·54 claims
- 0885US4819267ASolid state key for controlling access to computer systems and to computer software and/or for secure communicationsTHUMBSCAN INC·Filed 1987·Granted Apr 4, 1989·196 cites·17 claims
- 0983US9713174B2Connection tethering and service remotingKUEHNEL THOMAS W·Filed 2012·Granted Jul 18, 2017·6 cites·18 claims
- 1081US8225232B2Dynamic configuration of unified messaging state changesSUNDARARAMAN SRIDHAR·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 17, 2012·17 cites·18 claims
- 1181US7398315B2Reducing unwanted and unsolicited electronic messages by preventing connection hijacking and domain spoofingWORKMAN NYDEGGER·Filed 2003·Granted Jul 8, 2008·22 cites·48 claims
- 1276US9280433B2Hardware diagnostics and software recovery on headless server appliancesSARETTO CESARE JOHN·Filed 2012·Granted Mar 8, 2016·4 cites·20 claims
- 1376US8473956B2Priority based scheduling system for serverKINDEL CHARLES E·Filed 2008·Granted Jun 25, 2013·11 cites·17 claims
- 1476US7552176B2Reducing unwanted and unsolicited electronic messages by exchanging electronic message transmission policies and solving and verifying solutions to computational puzzlesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jun 23, 2009·21 cites·24 claims
- 1575US7921173B2Reducing unwanted and unsolicited electronic messages by exchanging electronic message transmission policies and solving and verifying solutions to computational puzzlesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2009·Granted Apr 5, 2011·5 cites·19 claims
- 1673US8478755B2Sorting large data setsLYON JAMES M·Filed 2006·Granted Jul 2, 2013·7 cites·20 claims
- 1773US6041420AMulti-volume audit trails for fault tolerant computersTANDEM COMPUTERS INC·Filed 1998·Granted Mar 21, 2000·51 cites·5 claims
- 1872US8675518B2Message transport system using publication and subscription mechanismsTHOMPSON DANIEL·Filed 2010·Granted Mar 18, 2014·4 cites·20 claims
- 1971US8239648B2Reclamation of thin provisioned disk storageGOEBEL DAVID A·Filed 2009·Granted Aug 7, 2012·6 cites·20 claims
- 2069US7831629B2Method for building data encapsulation layers for highly variable schemaMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Nov 9, 2010·5 cites·18 claims
- 2166US9880759B2Metadata for data storage arrayMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Jan 30, 2018·1 cites·20 claims
- 2259US8533420B2Thin provisioned space allocationGOEBEL DAVID A·Filed 2010·Granted Sep 10, 2013·1 cites·20 claims
- 2355US5590274AMulti-volume audit trails for fault tolerant computersTANDEM COMPUTERS INC·Filed 1995·Granted Dec 31, 1996·25 cites·3 claims
- 2453US7437711B2Communication among agile and context-bound objectsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 14, 2008·3 cites·17 claims
- 2551US9037541B2Metadata for data storage arrayGOEBEL DAVID A·Filed 2009·Granted May 19, 2015·0 cites·20 claims
- 2651US5832203AMethod for providing recovery from a failure in a system utilizing distributed auditTANDEM COMPUTERS INC·Filed 1995·Granted Nov 3, 1998·28 cites·1 claims
- 2750US2008168310A1Hardware diagnostics and software recovery on headless server appliancesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 2848US9385947B2Message transport system using publication and subscription mechanismsMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2014·Granted Jul 5, 2016·0 cites·21 claims
- 2947US5576945ATransaction monitor process with pre-arranged modules for a multiprocessor systemTANDEM COMPUTERS INC·Filed 1995·Granted Nov 19, 1996·19 cites·11 claims
- 3044US2008195676A1Scanning of backup data for malicious softwareMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 3143US2008201477A1Client side replacement of DNS addressesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 3243US2008184241A1Techniques for automated balancing of tasks across multiple computersMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 3342US9008639B2Controlling audio of a deviceLYON JAMES M·Filed 2011·Granted Apr 14, 2015·0 cites·20 claims
- 3438US2010325519A1CRC For Error CorrectionMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2009·Application pending·0 cites
- 3537US5978914AMethod and apparatus for preventing inadvertent changes to system-critical files in a computing systemTANDEM COMPUTERS INC·Filed 1995·Granted Nov 2, 1999·10 cites·15 claims
- 3637US2011218967A1Partial Block Based BackupsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2010·Application pending·0 cites
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