Eric J. Horvitz
343Patents
72h-index
268Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 7, 1995 → Jan 23, 2023
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 |
| 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.