David E. Heckerman
119Patents
37h-index
130Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: May 9, 1994 → Mar 31, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6161130A | "Technique which utilizes a probabilistic classifier to detect ""junk"" e-mail by automatically updating a training and re-training the classifier based on the updated training set" | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 896 | Expired |
| US6021403A | Intelligent user assistance facility | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 595 | Expired |
| US5704017A | Collaborative filtering utilizing a belief network | Physics | 484 | Expired |
| US6192360A | Methods and apparatus for classifying text and for building a text classifier | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 364 | Expired |
| US7333998B2 | Apparatus and accompanying methods for visualizing clusters of data and hierarchical cluster classifications | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 357 | Expired |
| US6006218A | Methods and apparatus for retrieving and/or processing retrieved information as a function of a user's estimated knowledge | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 337 | Expired |
| US6260011A | Methods and apparatus for automatically synchronizing electronic audio files with electronic text files | Physics | 295 | Expired |
| US6262730A | Intelligent user assistance facility | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 246 | Expired |
| US6216134A | Method and system for visualization of clusters and classifications | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 183 | Expired |
| US7370002B2 | Modifying advertisement scores based on advertisement response probabilities | Physics | 144 | Expired |
| US6742003B2 | Apparatus and accompanying methods for visualizing clusters of data and hierarchical cluster classifications | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 137 | Expired |
| US7219148B2 | Feedback loop for spam prevention | Physics | 132 | Expired |
| US6496816B1 | Collaborative filtering with mixtures of bayesian networks | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 128 | Expired |
| US6260035A | Intelligent user assistance facility for a software program | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 127 | Expired |
| US6233570A | Intelligent user assistance facility for a software program | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 126 | Expired |
| US5694559A | On-line help method and system utilizing free text query | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 125 | Expired |
| US6529891B1 | Automatic determination of the number of clusters by mixtures of bayesian networks | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 124 | Expired |
| US6263308A | Methods and apparatus for performing speech recognition using acoustic models which are improved through an interactive process | Physics | 121 | Expired |
| US7660705B1 | Bayesian approach for learning regression decision graph models and regression models for time series analysis | Physics | 93 | Expired |
| US9305079B2 | Advanced spam detection techniques | Electricity | 92 | Active |
| US6067412A | Automatic bottleneck detection by means of workload reconstruction from performance measurements | Physics | 87 | Expired |
| US6408290B1 | Mixtures of bayesian networks with decision graphs | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 83 | Expired |
| US7930353B2 | Trees of classifiers for detecting email spam | Electricity | 73 | Active |
| US6336108B1 | Speech recognition with mixtures of bayesian networks | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 69 | Expired |
| US5802256A | Generating improved belief networks | Physics | 67 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.