Inventor · San Francisco, CA, US

Douglas B. Heins

14Patents
10h-index
7Co-inventors
61Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 17, 1997 → Oct 25, 2011

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5915079A Multi-path data processing pipeline Electricity 104 Expired
US8355711B2 Collaborative computing for mobile devices Electricity 53 Active
US5949964A Method and apparatus for halftoning of images in a printer Physics 45 Expired
US7716286B2 Method and apparatus for utility computing in ad-hoc and configured peer-to-peer networks Physics 34 Active
US9262743B2 Method and apparatus for sociable computing in ad-hoc and configured peer-to-peer networks Physics 33 Active
US5852742A Configurable data processing pipeline Physics 31 Expired
US8073908B2 Method and apparatus for utility computing in ad-hoc and configured peer-to-peer networks Physics 24 Active
US8768307B1 Methods and devices for remote processing of messages, and performing user tracking and monitoring with respect to data originating from a mobile communication device Electricity 22 Active
US7610207B2 Method for processing a digital image to satisfy a fulfillment request Physics 12 Expired
US6744918B1 Document analysis method to detect BW/color areas and corresponding scanning device Electricity 10 Expired
US8437744B1 Methods and devices for remote processing of information originating from a mobile communication device Electricity 9 Active
US7895048B2 Method for processing digital content to satisfy a request Physics 8 Active
US6665435B1 Image data processing method and corresponding device Electricity 5 Expired
US5892890A Computer system with parallel processor for pixel arithmetic Physics 4 Expired

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