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
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.