Inventor · Menlo Park, CA, US

Andrew Tomkins

124Patents
22h-index
143Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 5, 1995 → Sep 25, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6356899B1 Method for interactively creating an information database including preferred information elements, such as preferred-authority, world wide web pages Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 341 Expired
US5889506A Video user's environment Electricity 229 Expired
US6334131A Method for cataloging, filtering, and relevance ranking frame-based hierarchical information structures Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 194 Expired
US8984098B1 Organizing a stream of content Physics 129 Active
US9875233B1 Associating one or more terms in a message trail with a task entry Physics 106 Active
US7010526B2 Knowledge-based data mining system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 97 Expired
US5809498A Method of locating a penstroke sequence in a computer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 64 Expired
US6336112B1 Method for interactively creating an information database including preferred information elements, such as, preferred-authority, world wide web pages Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 55 Expired
US6201901A Border-less clock free two-dimensional barcode and method for printing and reading the same Physics 53 Expired
US7624104B2 User-sensitive pagerank Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 48 Active
US6993534B2 Data store for knowledge-based data mining system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 44 Expired
US6886129B1 Method and system for trawling the World-wide Web to identify implicitly-defined communities of web pages Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 44 Expired
US6418244B2 Border-less clock free two-dimensional barcode and method for printing and reading the same Physics 32 Expired
US7281022B2 System, method, and service for segmenting a topic into chatter and subtopics Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 32 Expired
US7747680B2 Community-based web filtering Physics 28 Active
US7822745B2 Keyword set and target audience profile generalization techniques Physics 28 Active
US9165305B1 Generating models based on user behavior Physics 27 Active
US7921416B2 Formal language and translator for parallel processing of data Physics 27 Active
US5734882A Pictographic bitmap naming of files in pen-based computer systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Expired
US8996629B1 Generating a stream of content for a channel Physics 26 Active
US7426557B2 System, method, and service for inducing a pattern of communication among various parties Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Active
US9762629B1 Customizing content in a social stream Physics 22 Active
US8990352B1 Stream of content for a channel Physics 22 Active
US8856099B1 Identifying entities using search results Physics 19 Active
US8719347B1 Scoring stream items with models based on user interests Physics 19 Active

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