Inventor · Menlo Park, CA, US

Arthur van Hoff

106Patents
23h-index
57Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 30, 1995 → May 23, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5919247A Method for the distribution of code and data updates Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 623 Expired
US5822539A System for adding requested document cross references to a document by annotation proxy configured to merge and a directory generator and annotation server Physics 325 Expired
US5802530A Web document based graphical user interface Physics 227 Expired
US5959623A System and method for displaying user selected set of advertisements Physics 226 Expired
US5802291A System and method to control and administer distributed object servers using first class distributed objects Physics 150 Expired
US5761421A System and method for secure peer-to-peer communication between downloaded programs Electricity 137 Expired
US6272536A System and method for the distribution of code and data Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 121 Expired
US9363569B1 Virtual reality system including social graph Electricity 119 Active
US7895633B2 Method and apparatus for secure transfer and playback of multimedia content Electricity 99 Active
US5778231A Compiler system and method for resolving symbolic references to externally located program files Physics 86 Expired
US6381631B1 Method and apparatus for controlling client computer systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 77 Expired
US7287068B1 System and method for updating devices that execute an operating system or application program directly from nonvolatile storage Physics 75 Expired
US5761513A System and method for exception handling in dynamically linked programs Physics 70 Expired
US5701470A System and method for space efficient object locking using a data subarray and pointers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 56 Expired
US6226654A Web document based graphical user interface Physics 53 Expired
US5727147A System and method for resolving symbolic references to externally located program files Physics 46 Expired
US8375326B2 Contextual-based and overlaid user interface elements Physics 41 Active
US8346924B1 Preconfiguration of wireless network access for portable devices Electricity 35 Active
US9911454B2 Camera array including camera modules Electricity 34 Active
US5950008A System and method for resolving symbolic references to externally located program files Physics 28 Expired
US5758361A Document editor for linear and space efficient representation of hierarchical documents Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 26 Expired
US6161147A Methods and apparatus for managing objects and processes in a distributed object operating environment Physics 25 Expired
US6073144A Document editor for linear and space efficient representation of hierarchical documents Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Expired
US6640255B1 Method and apparatus for generation and installation of distributed objects on a distributed object system Physics 21 Expired
US8990200B1 Topical search system Physics 18 Active

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