Inventor · Raleigh, NC, US

David B. Lection

124Patents
33h-index
85Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 9, 1996 → Dec 30, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6023270A Delivery of objects in a virtual world using a descriptive container Physics 495 Expired
US5910799A Location motion sensitive user interface Electricity 367 Expired
US6635089B1 Method for producing composite XML document object model trees using dynamic data retrievals Physics 276 Expired
US5884029A User interaction with intelligent virtual objects, avatars, which interact with other avatars controlled by different users Physics 276 Expired
US6446110B1 Method and apparatus for representing host datastream screen image information using markup languages Electricity 272 Expired
US6212564A Distributed application launcher for optimizing desktops based on client characteristics information Physics 258 Expired
US6477581B1 Location/motion sensitive computer connection Electricity 235 Expired
US6271843A Methods systems and computer program products for transporting users in three dimensional virtual reality worlds using transportation vehicles Physics 219 Expired
US6476828B1 Systems, methods and computer program products for building and displaying dynamic graphical user interfaces Physics 218 Expired
US6144381A Systems, methods and computer program products for compass navigation of avatars in three dimensional worlds Physics 184 Expired
US6091410A Avatar pointing mode Physics 181 Expired
US5983003A Interactive station indicator and user qualifier for virtual worlds Physics 181 Expired
US6781609B1 Technique for flexible inclusion of information items and various media types in a user interface Physics 148 Expired
US5736985A GUI pushbutton with multi-function mini-button Physics 143 Expired
US6765596B2 Multi-functional application launcher with integrated status Physics 143 Expired
US6463440B1 Retrieval of style sheets from directories based upon partial characteristic matching Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 135 Expired
US5907328A Automatic and configurable viewpoint switching in a 3D scene Physics 121 Expired
US5859973A Methods, system and computer program products for delayed message generation and encoding in an intermittently connected data communication system Electricity 121 Expired
US6418446B1 Method for grouping of dynamic schema data using XML Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 117 Expired
US6671853B1 Method and system for selectively streaming markup language documents Physics 114 Expired
US7089507B2 System and method for display views using a single stroke control Physics 86 Expired
US5982372A Visual metaphor for shortcut navigation in a virtual world Physics 83 Expired
US6635088B1 Structured document and document type definition compression Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 81 Expired
US5732232A Method and apparatus for directing the expression of emotion for a graphical user interface Physics 80 Expired
US7146563B2 Maintaining screen and form state in portlets Physics 53 Expired

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