Inventor · Bellevue, WA, US

David E. Heckerman

119Patents
37h-index
130Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: May 9, 1994 → Mar 31, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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

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