Patent assignee · US · COMPANY

Apple Computer Inc.

2,134Patents
5Active
2,134Granted
50Portfolio score

Filing activity: Apr 11, 1977 → Jun 5, 2007 · 5 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7046230B2 Touch pad handheld device Physics 1,112 Expired
US5751997A Method and apparatus for transferring archival data among an arbitrarily large number of computer devices in a networked computer environment Physics 1,088 Expired
USD504889S1 Electronic device General 1,062 Expired
US5594509A Method and apparatus for audio-visual interface for the display of multiple levels of information on a display Electricity 930 Expired
US5621456A Methods and apparatus for audio-visual interface for the display of multiple program categories Electricity 768 Expired
US5583560A Method and apparatus for audio-visual interface for the selective display of listing information on a display Electricity 767 Expired
US5167024A Power management for a laptop computer with slow and sleep modes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 668 Expired
US5724567A System for directing relevance-ranked data objects to computer users Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 621 Expired
US5710922A Method for synchronizing and archiving information between computer systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 591 Expired
US5384892A Dynamic language model for speech recognition Physics 511 Expired
US5128672A Dynamic predictive keyboard Physics 466 Expired
US5287448A Method and apparatus for providing help information to users of computers Physics 463 Expired
US5612719A Gesture sensitive buttons for graphical user interfaces Physics 456 Expired
US6731312B2 Media player interface Electricity 455 Expired
US5946647A System and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data Electricity 450 Expired
US5898434A User interface system having programmable user interface elements Electricity 449 Expired
US5574873A Decoding guest instruction to directly access emulation routines that emulate the guest instructions Physics 442 Expired
US5237648A Apparatus and method for editing a video recording by selecting and displaying video clips Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 440 Expired
US5790825A Method for emulating guest instructions on a host computer through dynamic recompilation of host instructions Physics 436 Expired
US5799268A Method for extracting knowledge from online documentation and creating a glossary, index, help database or the like Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 432 Expired
US6011585A Apparatus and method for rotating the display orientation of a captured image Electricity 423 Expired
US5583993A Method and apparatus for synchronously sharing data among computer Electricity 415 Expired
US5802361A Method and system for searching graphic images and videos Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 411 Expired
US5267334A Encoding/decoding moving images with forward and backward keyframes for forward and reverse display Electricity 410 Expired
US6262724A User interface for presenting media information Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 405 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.