Inventor · Los Gatos, CA, US

Alan Messer

68Patents

13h-index

40Co-inventors

80Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 31, 2001 → Jun 26, 2020

Most-cited inventions

Patent	Title	Area	Cited by	Status
US8069422B2	Contextual task recommendation system and method for determining user's context and suggesting tasks	Electricity	328	Active
US7933274B2	Quality of service in a home network	Electricity	157	Active
US8938465B2	Method and system for utilizing packaged content sources to identify and provide information based on contextual information	Physics	67	Active
US8099313B2	Method and system for the orchestration of tasks on consumer electronics	Physics	59	Active
US7739411B2	Method and system for content synchronization and detecting synchronization recursion in networks	Electricity	45	Active
US8209724B2	Method and system for providing access to information of potential interest to a user	Electricity	36	Active
US6990662B2	Method and system for offloading execution and resources for resource-constrained networked devices	Physics	35	Expired
US8115869B2	Method and system for extracting relevant information from content metadata	Electricity	31	Active
US8176068B2	Method and system for suggesting search queries on electronic devices	Physics	27	Active
US7020800B2	System and method for memory failure recovery using lockstep processes	Physics	19	Expired
US8510737B2	Method and system for prioritizing tasks made available by devices in a network	Electricity	18	Active
US8200688B2	Method and system for facilitating information searching on electronic devices	Electricity	17	Active
US8793265B2	Method and system for selecting personalized search engines for accessing information	Physics	15	Active
US8599788B2	Method and system for mobile secure socket layer in virtual private networks	Electricity	13	Active
US8028283B2	Method and system for automated invocation of device functionalities in a network	Physics	13	Active
US7831699B2	Method and system for managing control of groups of networked heterogenous devices in a network	Electricity	12	Active
US7093242B2	Dynamic class interposition	Physics	12	Expired
US8185427B2	Method and system for presenting user tasks for the control of electronic devices	Electricity	11	Active
US7716317B2	Method and system for presenting a single view of content in a home network	Electricity	11	Active
US7716361B2	Method and system for providing persistent media across web pages using only browser plug-ins	Electricity	10	Active
US8789108B2	Personalized video system	Physics	8	Active
US6756704B2	Locking mechanism for locking electronic devices	Physics	8	Expired
US7921218B2	Method and system for generating a space signature	Electricity	7	Active
US6931571B2	Method and apparatus for handling transient memory errors	Physics	7	Expired
US8245280B2	System and method for user access control to content in a network	Electricity	7	Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.