Eric A. Bier
60Patents
23h-index
45Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 4, 1988 → Dec 30, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5798752A | User interface having simultaneously movable tools and cursor | Physics | 622 | Expired |
| US5278980A | Iterative technique for phrase query formation and an information retrieval system employing same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 578 | Expired |
| US5581670A | User interface having movable sheet with click-through tools | Physics | 434 | Expired |
| US5729704A | User-directed method for operating on an object-based model data structure through a second contextual image | Physics | 412 | Expired |
| USD396455S | Display object for a display screen | General | 292 | Expired |
| US5617114A | User interface having click-through tools that can be composed with other tools | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 249 | Expired |
| US5818455A | Method and apparatus for operating on the model data structure of an image to produce human perceptible output using a viewing operation region having explicit multiple regions | Physics | 160 | Expired |
| US5442788A | Method and apparatus for interfacing a plurality of users to a plurality of applications on a common display device | Physics | 131 | Expired |
| US5133052A | Interactive graphical search and replace utility for computer-resident synthetic graphic image editors | Physics | 126 | Expired |
| US5479603A | Method and apparatus for producing a composite second image in the spatial context of a first image | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 124 | Expired |
| USD397101S | Display object for a display screen | General | 114 | Expired |
| USD396456S | Display object for a display screen | General | 97 | Expired |
| US5561811A | Method and apparatus for per-user customization of applications shared by a plurality of users on a single display | Physics | 80 | Expired |
| US6072501A | Method and apparatus for composing layered synthetic graphics filters | Physics | 65 | Expired |
| US5862395A | Customizable user interfaces for programmed computer systems | Physics | 59 | Expired |
| US7558792B2 | Automatic extraction of human-readable lists from structured documents | Physics | 45 | Expired |
| US8347237B2 | Method, apparatus, and program product for efficiently detecting relationships in a comprehension state of a collection of information | Physics | 42 | Active |
| US5408250A | Portable computer for short-range graphical multiparty communication | Electricity | 39 | Expired |
| USD396709S | Display object for a display screen | General | 38 | Expired |
| US7707517B2 | Systems and methods for displaying meta-data | Physics | 27 | Active |
| US8312385B2 | System and method for providing context-sensitive sidebar window display on an electronic desktop | Physics | 23 | Active |
| US6043824A | Composing layered synthetic graphics filters with limited scopes of operation | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US8719703B2 | Systems and methods for editing a web page | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US7703004B2 | Systems and methods for automatically converting web pages to structured shared web-writable pages | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US7529731B2 | Automatic discovery of classification related to a category using an indexed document collection | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 15 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.