Inventor · Kirkland, WA, US

Eric J. Horvitz

343Patents
72h-index
268Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 7, 1995 → Jan 23, 2023

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
US5880733A Display system and method for displaying windows of an operating system to provide a three-dimensional workspace for a computer system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 665 Expired
US6021403A Intelligent user assistance facility Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 595 Expired
US6023275A System and method for resizing an input position indicator for a user interface of a computer system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 547 Expired
US6067565A Technique for prefetching a web page of potential future interest in lieu of continuing a current information download Electricity 525 Expired
US5704017A Collaborative filtering utilizing a belief network Physics 484 Expired
US6182133A Method and apparatus for display of information prefetching and cache status having variable visual indication based on a period of time since prefetching Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 439 Expired
US7519223B2 Recognizing gestures and using gestures for interacting with software applications Physics 368 Active
US6192360A Methods and apparatus for classifying text and for building a text classifier Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 364 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
US5864848A Goal-driven information interpretation and extraction system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 334 Expired
US6085226A Method and apparatus for utility-directed prefetching of web pages into local cache using continual computation and user models Physics 332 Expired
US7243130B2 Notification platform architecture Electricity 277 Expired
US6931384B1 System and method providing utility-based decision making about clarification dialog given communicative uncertainty Physics 258 Expired
US7289102B2 Method and apparatus using multiple sensors in a device with a display Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 253 Expired
US6262730A Intelligent user assistance facility Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 246 Expired
US8254393B2 Harnessing predictive models of durations of channel availability for enhanced opportunistic allocation of radio spectrum Electricity 242 Active
US7162473B2 Method and system for usage analyzer that determines user accessed sources, indexes data subsets, and associated metadata, processing implicit queries based on potential interest to users Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 240 Expired
US7103806B1 System for performing context-sensitive decisions about ideal communication modalities considering information about channel reliability Electricity 199 Expired
US7644144B1 Methods, tools, and interfaces for the dynamic assignment of people to groups to enable enhanced communication and collaboration Physics 198 Expired
US6505167B1 Systems and methods for directing automated services for messaging and scheduling Electricity 187 Expired
US6980993B2 Schemas for a notification platform and related information services Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 182 Expired
US7203909B1 System and methods for constructing personalized context-sensitive portal pages or views by analyzing patterns of users' information access activities Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 179 Expired
US6947935B1 Training, inference and user interface for guiding the caching of media content on local stores Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 165 Expired
US7519529B1 System and methods for inferring informational goals and preferred level of detail of results in response to questions posed to an automated information-retrieval or question-answering service Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 160 Expired

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