Inventor · San Diego, CA, US

Bruce Collins

39Patents
8h-index
49Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 18, 2004 → Dec 23, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7706740B2 Apparatus and methods of selective collection and selective presentation of content Electricity 306 Active
US8588816B2 Systems and methods for targeted advertising on wireless devices based on device location and current user interests Electricity 59 Active
US7630451B2 Methods and apparatus for transmitting layered and non-layered data via layered modulation Electricity 20 Active
US7110747B2 Ciphering between a CDMA network and a GSM network Electricity 12 Expired
US7720027B2 System and method for a forward link only physical layer Electricity 9 Active
US7974193B2 Methods and systems for resizing multimedia content based on quality and rate information Electricity 8 Active
US8528029B2 Apparatus and methods of open and closed package subscription Electricity 8 Active
US7565506B2 Method and apparatus for delivering content based on receivers characteristics Electricity 8 Active
US8639662B2 Methods and apparatus for content based notification using hierarchical groups Electricity 7 Active
US8515336B2 Apparatus and methods of selective collection and selective presentation of content Electricity 7 Active
US8571570B2 Methods and apparatus for delivering regional parameters Electricity 6 Active
US8301598B2 Methods and apparatus for content based notification using hierarchical groups Electricity 6 Active
US8893179B2 Apparatus and methods for providing and presenting customized channel information Physics 6 Active
US7653085B2 Methods and apparatus for enhanced delivery of content over data network Electricity 6 Active
US7830833B2 Method and apparatus for ranking of media services and program packages Electricity 5 Active
US8694016B2 Methods and apparatus for use of data object popularity measurements for improved quality of service perception in wireless broadcast systems Electricity 4 Active
US7539491B2 Authenticating between a CDMA network and a GSM network Electricity 3 Expired
US8942739B2 Methods and apparatus for communication of notifications Electricity 2 Active
US8171250B2 Method and apparatus for delivering content based on receivers characteristics Electricity 2 Active
US8976858B2 Error resilience using out of band directory information Electricity 2 Active
US8064880B2 Using shared secret data (SSD) to authenticate between a CDMA network and a GSM network Electricity 1 Expired
US8842666B2 Methods and apparatus for packetization of content for transmission over a network Electricity 1 Active
US7886213B2 Methods and apparatus for providing linear erasure codes Electricity 1 Active
US8635526B2 Target advertisement in a broadcast system Electricity 1 Active
US8885470B2 Methods and systems for resizing multimedia content based on quality and rate information Electricity 1 Active

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