Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Brian Acton

53Patents
7h-index
26Co-inventors
68Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 30, 2003 → May 16, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7844589B2 Method and apparatus for performing a search Physics 56 Expired
US7672877B1 Product data classification Physics 33 Expired
US8923812B1 Phone number verification method and system Electricity 13 Active
US9473428B1 Dynamic muting of communication notifications Electricity 13 Active
US7359898B1 Scoring mechanism selection along multiple dimensions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US7130819B2 Method and computer readable medium for search scoring Physics 9 Expired
US10582036B2 Methods and systems for generating an ephemeral content message Electricity 7 Active
US7840442B2 Method and computer storage medium for search scoring Physics 5 Active
US9503485B1 Connecting communicating devices in a multi-server communication system Electricity 5 Active
US9226121B2 Voice communications with real-time status notifications Electricity 5 Active
US9628831B2 Multimedia transcoding method and system for mobile devices Electricity 4 Active
US7519581B2 Method and apparatus for performing a search Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Expired
US10587551B1 Techniques for multi-agent messaging Electricity 3 Active
US9992258B2 Techniques for managing a remote web client from an application on a mobile device Electricity 3 Active
US9203960B1 Mobile device status and notification method and system Electricity 2 Active
US9419935B2 Voice communications with real-time status notifications Electricity 2 Active
US10367892B2 System and method for aggregating communication connections Electricity 2 Active
US8868554B1 Associating product offerings with product abstractions Physics 2 Expired
US10098090B2 Dynamic muting of communication notifications Electricity 1 Active
US10225399B2 Mobile device status and notification Electricity 1 Active
US11336734B1 System and method for aggregating communication connections Electricity 1 Active
US10375538B1 Synthetic communication network method and system Electricity 1 Active
US10778831B2 Methods and systems for displaying an ephemeral content message Electricity 1 Active
US9602985B2 Voice communications with real-time status notifications Electricity 1 Active
US11265413B1 Methods and systems for generating an ephemeral content message Electricity 1 Active

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