Walid Magdy and Gareth Jones. A Method of and a System for Retrieving Information. Filed by Dublin City University in January 2011 in the US Patent Office.

Walid Magdy and Motaz El-Saban. Using an ID Domain to Improve Searching. Filed by Microsoft in July 2008 in US Patent Office.  link
This patent was awarded as one of the best twenty inventions in Microsoft in the year 2008. A demo on OCRless was showed on the public day of MS TechFest 2009. Here is a link to an article on the invention.

Walid Magdy and Motaz El-Saban. Personalized Event Notification Using Real-Time Video Analysis. Filed by Microsoft in March 2008 in US Patent Office.   link

Ossama Emam and Walid Magdy. A Word Formation Method and System. Filed by IBM in June 2007 in European Patent Office, and in January 2008 in US Patent Office.   link