Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

Marcus Fontoura

62Patents
10h-index
111Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: May 20, 2002 → Oct 6, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7461064B2 Method for searching documents for ranges of numeric values Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 82 Expired
US7565347B2 Indexing and searching of electronic message transmission thread sets Physics 28 Active
US7921416B2 Formal language and translator for parallel processing of data Physics 27 Active
US7392239B2 System and method for querying XML streams Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 21 Expired
US10768920B2 Update coordination in a multi-tenant cloud computing environment Physics 20 Active
US8380570B2 Index-based technique friendly CTR prediction and advertisement selection Physics 19 Active
US7424467B2 Architecture for an indexer with fixed width sort and variable width sort Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US9501506B1 Indexing system Physics 14 Active
US8650265B2 Methods of dynamically creating personalized Internet advertisements based on advertiser input Physics 14 Active
US7293005B2 Pipelined architecture for global analysis and index building Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 14 Expired
US7743060B2 Architecture for an indexer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Active
US10153941B2 Distributed operational control in computing systems Electricity 8 Active
US7991806B2 System and method to facilitate importation of data taxonomies within a network Physics 7 Active
US7991769B2 System and method for budgeted generalization search in hierarchies Physics 5 Active
US8818971B1 Processing bulk deletions in distributed databases Physics 4 Active
US7765214B2 Enhancing query performance of search engines using lexical affinities Physics 3 Active
US8131726B2 Generic architecture for indexing document groups in an inverted text index Physics 3 Active
US10423455B2 Method for deploying virtual machines in cloud computing systems based on predicted lifetime Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US8688521B2 System and method to facilitate matching of content to advertising information in a network Physics 3 Active
US9483568B1 Indexing system Physics 3 Active
US7577644B2 Augmented search with error detection and replacement Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US11392184B2 Disaggregated computer systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US8380682B2 Indexing and searching of electronic message transmission thread sets Physics 2 Active
US9185156B2 Network-independent programming model for online processing in distributed systems Electricity 2 Active
US7685138B2 Virtual cursors for XML joins Physics 2 Active

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