Michael J. Hopcroft

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Kirkland, WA, US

People

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Efficient forward ranking in a search engine
- Patent number 11,803,596
- Issue date Oct 31, 2023
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Knut Magne Risvik
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Reducing matching documents for a search query
- Patent number 11,748,324
- Issue date Sep 5, 2023
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Michael Joseph Hopcroft
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Reducing matching documents for a search query
- Patent number 11,392,568
- Issue date Jul 19, 2022
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Michael Joseph Hopcroft
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Match fix-up to remove matching documents
- Patent number 11,281,639
- Issue date Mar 22, 2022
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Michael Joseph Hopcroft
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Preliminary ranker for scoring matching documents
- Patent number 11,030,201
- Issue date Jun 8, 2021
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Michael Joseph Hopcroft
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Updating a bit vector search index
- Patent number 10,733,164
- Issue date Aug 4, 2020
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Michael Joseph Hopcroft
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Bit vector search index using shards
- Patent number 10,565,198
- Issue date Feb 18, 2020
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Michael Joseph Hopcroft
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Matching documents using a bit vector search index
- Patent number 10,467,215
- Issue date Nov 5, 2019
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Michael Joseph Hopcroft
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Efficient forward ranking in a search engine
- Patent number 10,437,892
- Issue date Oct 8, 2019
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Knut Magne Risvik
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Preliminary ranker for scoring matching documents
- Patent number 10,242,071
- Issue date Mar 26, 2019
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Michael Joseph Hopcroft
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Storage and retrieval of data from a bit vector search index
- Patent number 10,229,143
- Issue date Mar 12, 2019
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Michael Joseph Hopcroft
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Tiering of posting lists in search engine index
- Patent number 9,529,908
- Issue date Dec 27, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Knut Magne Risvik
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets
- Patent number 9,507,610
- Issue date Nov 29, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Eric S. Rockey
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Hybrid-distribution model for search engine indexes
- Patent number 9,424,351
- Issue date Aug 23, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Knut Magne Risvik
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Selection of atoms for search engine retrieval
- Patent number 9,342,582
- Issue date May 17, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Knut Magne Risvik
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Dynamic query master agent for query execution
- Patent number 9,195,745
- Issue date Nov 24, 2015
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Knut Magne Risvik
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Decomposable ranking for efficient precomputing
- Patent number 8,805,755
- Issue date Aug 12, 2014
- Microsoft Corporation
- Knut Magne Risvik
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Efficient forward ranking in a search engine
- Patent number 8,713,024
- Issue date Apr 29, 2014
- Microsoft Corporation
- Knut Magne Risvik
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Priority hash index
- Patent number 8,626,781
- Issue date Jan 7, 2014
- Microsoft Corporation
- Knut Magne Risvik
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Matching funnel for large document index
- Patent number 8,620,907
- Issue date Dec 31, 2013
- Microsoft Corporation
- Knut Magne Risvik
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Decomposable ranking for efficient precomputing that selects prelim...
- Patent number 8,478,704
- Issue date Jul 2, 2013
- Microsoft Corporation
- Knut Magne Risvik
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Single window navigation methods and systems
- Patent number 7,818,677
- Issue date Oct 19, 2010
- Microsoft Corporation
- Scott L. Ruthfield
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets
- Patent number 7,712,048
- Issue date May 4, 2010
- Microsoft Corporation
- Eric S. Rockey
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets
- Patent number 7,624,356
- Issue date Nov 24, 2009
- Microsoft Corporation
- Eric S. Rockey
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets
- Patent number 7,610,562
- Issue date Oct 27, 2009
- Microsoft Corporation
- Eric S. Rockey
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets
- Patent number 7,512,896
- Issue date Mar 31, 2009
- Microsoft Corporation
- Eric S. Rockey
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Architectures for and methods of providing network-based software e...
- Patent number 7,392,522
- Issue date Jun 24, 2008
- Microsoft Corporation
- Michael C. Murray
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Single window navigation methods and systems
- Patent number 7,346,848
- Issue date Mar 18, 2008
- Microsoft Corporation
- Scott L. Ruthfield
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Architectures for and methods of providing network-based software e...
- Patent number 6,874,143
- Issue date Mar 29, 2005
- Microsoft Corporation
- Michael C. Murray
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Backface primitives culling
- Patent number 6,359,629
- Issue date Mar 19, 2002
- Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Michael J. Hopcroft
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
REDUCING MATCHING DOCUMENTS FOR A SEARCH QUERY
- Publication number 20230038616
- Publication date Feb 9, 2023
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- MICHAEL JOSEPH HOPCROFT
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
EFFICIENT FORWARD RANKING IN A SEARCH ENGINE
- Publication number 20200192948
- Publication date Jun 18, 2020
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- KNUT MAGNE RISVIK
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PRELIMINARY RANKER FOR SCORING MATCHING DOCUMENTS
- Publication number 20190205305
- Publication date Jul 4, 2019
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- MICHAEL JOSEPH HOPCROFT
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TIERING OF POSTING LISTS IN SEARCH ENGINE INDEX
- Publication number 20170083553
- Publication date Mar 23, 2017
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Knut Magne Risvik
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Task-Sensitive Methods and Systems for Displaying Command Sets
- Publication number 20170075704
- Publication date Mar 16, 2017
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Eric S. Rockey
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MATCHING DOCUMENTS USING A BIT VECTOR SEARCH INDEX
- Publication number 20160378805
- Publication date Dec 29, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- MICHAEL JOSEPH HOPCROFT
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF DATA FROM A BIT VECTOR SEARCH INDEX
- Publication number 20160378807
- Publication date Dec 29, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- MICHAEL JOSEPH HOPCROFT
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
REDUCING MATCHING DOCUMENTS FOR A SEARCH QUERY
- Publication number 20160378806
- Publication date Dec 29, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- MICHAEL JOSEPH HOPCROFT
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MATCH FIX-UP TO REMOVE MATCHING DOCUMENTS
- Publication number 20160378796
- Publication date Dec 29, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- MICHAEL JOSEPH HOPCROFT
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
BIT VECTOR SEARCH INDEX
- Publication number 20160378803
- Publication date Dec 29, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- MICHAEL JOSEPH HOPCROFT
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PRELIMINARY RANKER FOR SCORING MATCHING DOCUMENTS
- Publication number 20160378769
- Publication date Dec 29, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- MICHAEL JOSEPH HOPCROFT
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
BIT VECTOR ROW TRIMMING AND AUGMENTATION FOR MATCHING DOCUMENTS
- Publication number 20160378804
- Publication date Dec 29, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- MICHAEL JOSEPH HOPCROFT
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
UPDATING A BIT VECTOR SEARCH INDEX
- Publication number 20160378808
- Publication date Dec 29, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- MICHAEL JOSEPH HOPCROFT
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
BIT VECTOR SEARCH INDEX USING SHARDS
- Publication number 20160378828
- Publication date Dec 29, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- MICHAEL JOSEPH HOPCROFT
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
EFFICIENT FORWARD RANKING IN A SEARCH ENGINE
- Publication number 20140324819
- Publication date Oct 30, 2014
- KNUT MAGNE RISVIK
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DECOMPOSABLE RANKING FOR EFFICIENT PRECOMPUTING
- Publication number 20130297621
- Publication date Nov 7, 2013
- KNUT MAGNE RISVIK
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PRIORITY HASH INDEX
- Publication number 20120173510
- Publication date Jul 5, 2012
- Microsoft Corporation
- KNUT MAGNE RISVIK
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MATCHING FUNNEL FOR LARGE DOCUMENT INDEX
- Publication number 20120130994
- Publication date May 24, 2012
- Microsoft Corporation
- KNUT MAGNE RISVIK
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
HYBRID-DISTRIBUTION MODEL FOR SEARCH ENGINE INDEXES
- Publication number 20120130997
- Publication date May 24, 2012
- Microsoft Corporation
- KNUT MAGNE RISVIK
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SELECTION OF ATOMS FOR SEARCH ENGINE RETRIEVAL
- Publication number 20120130981
- Publication date May 24, 2012
- Microsoft Corporation
- KNUT MAGNE RISVIK
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DYNAMIC QUERY MASTER AGENT FOR QUERY EXECUTION
- Publication number 20120130984
- Publication date May 24, 2012
- Microsoft Corporation
- KNUT MAGNE RISVIK
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TIERING OF POSTING LISTS IN SEARCH ENGINE INDEX
- Publication number 20120130996
- Publication date May 24, 2012
- Microsoft Corporation
- KNUT MAGNE RISVIK
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DECOMPOSABLE RANKING FOR EFFICIENT PRECOMPUTING
- Publication number 20120130925
- Publication date May 24, 2012
- Microsoft Corporation
- KNUT MAGNE RISVIK
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
EFFICIENT FORWARD RANKING IN A SEARCH ENGINE
- Publication number 20120130995
- Publication date May 24, 2012
- Microsoft Corporation
- KNUT MAGNE RISVIK
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Task Sensitive Methods and Systems for Displaying Command Sets
- Publication number 20100229110
- Publication date Sep 9, 2010
- Microsoft Corporation
- Eric S. Rockey
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Architectures for and methods of providing network-based software e...
- Publication number 20050044524
- Publication date Feb 24, 2005
- Microsoft Corporation
- Michael C. Murray
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Single window navigation methods and systems
- Publication number 20050010871
- Publication date Jan 13, 2005
- Microsoft Corporation
- Scott L. Ruthfield
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets
- Publication number 20050005248
- Publication date Jan 6, 2005
- Microsoft Corporation
- Eric S. Rockey
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets
- Publication number 20040268260
- Publication date Dec 30, 2004
- Microsoft Corporation
- Eric S. Rockey
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets
- Publication number 20040268259
- Publication date Dec 30, 2004
- Microsoft Corporation
- Eric S. Rockey
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Michael J. Hopcroft

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Efficient forward ranking in a search engine

Reducing matching documents for a search query

Reducing matching documents for a search query

Match fix-up to remove matching documents

Preliminary ranker for scoring matching documents

Updating a bit vector search index

Bit vector search index using shards

Matching documents using a bit vector search index

Efficient forward ranking in a search engine

Preliminary ranker for scoring matching documents

Storage and retrieval of data from a bit vector search index

Tiering of posting lists in search engine index

Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets

Hybrid-distribution model for search engine indexes

Selection of atoms for search engine retrieval

Dynamic query master agent for query execution

Decomposable ranking for efficient precomputing

Efficient forward ranking in a search engine

Priority hash index

Matching funnel for large document index

Decomposable ranking for efficient precomputing that selects prelim...

Single window navigation methods and systems

Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets

Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets

Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets

Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets

Architectures for and methods of providing network-based software e...

Single window navigation methods and systems

Architectures for and methods of providing network-based software e...

Backface primitives culling

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

REDUCING MATCHING DOCUMENTS FOR A SEARCH QUERY

EFFICIENT FORWARD RANKING IN A SEARCH ENGINE

PRELIMINARY RANKER FOR SCORING MATCHING DOCUMENTS

TIERING OF POSTING LISTS IN SEARCH ENGINE INDEX

Task-Sensitive Methods and Systems for Displaying Command Sets

MATCHING DOCUMENTS USING A BIT VECTOR SEARCH INDEX

STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF DATA FROM A BIT VECTOR SEARCH INDEX

REDUCING MATCHING DOCUMENTS FOR A SEARCH QUERY

MATCH FIX-UP TO REMOVE MATCHING DOCUMENTS

BIT VECTOR SEARCH INDEX

PRELIMINARY RANKER FOR SCORING MATCHING DOCUMENTS

BIT VECTOR ROW TRIMMING AND AUGMENTATION FOR MATCHING DOCUMENTS

UPDATING A BIT VECTOR SEARCH INDEX

BIT VECTOR SEARCH INDEX USING SHARDS

EFFICIENT FORWARD RANKING IN A SEARCH ENGINE

DECOMPOSABLE RANKING FOR EFFICIENT PRECOMPUTING

PRIORITY HASH INDEX

MATCHING FUNNEL FOR LARGE DOCUMENT INDEX

HYBRID-DISTRIBUTION MODEL FOR SEARCH ENGINE INDEXES

SELECTION OF ATOMS FOR SEARCH ENGINE RETRIEVAL

DYNAMIC QUERY MASTER AGENT FOR QUERY EXECUTION

TIERING OF POSTING LISTS IN SEARCH ENGINE INDEX

DECOMPOSABLE RANKING FOR EFFICIENT PRECOMPUTING

EFFICIENT FORWARD RANKING IN A SEARCH ENGINE

Task Sensitive Methods and Systems for Displaying Command Sets

Architectures for and methods of providing network-based software e...

Single window navigation methods and systems

Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets

Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets

Task-sensitive methods and systems for displaying command sets