Inventor · Menlo Park, CA, US

Frank Ludolph

22Patents
16h-index
22Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 7, 1995 → Apr 8, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5657049A Desk drawer user interface Physics 327 Expired
US7487467B1 Visual representation and other effects for application management on a device with a small screen Electricity 247 Active
US6239798A Methods and apparatus for a window access panel Physics 226 Expired
US5874958A Method and apparatus for accessing information and items across workspaces Physics 210 Expired
US5745096A Desk drawer user interface Physics 161 Expired
US6405221B1 Method and apparatus for creating the appearance of multiple embedded pages of information in a single web browser display Physics 136 Expired
US7665033B2 Using a zooming effect to provide additional display space for managing applications Physics 126 Active
US6664983B2 Method and apparatus for configuring sliding panels Physics 112 Expired
US8042110B1 Dynamic grouping of application components Physics 109 Active
US5943053A Method and apparatus for expanding and contracting a window panel Physics 75 Expired
US6189138A Visual composition tool for constructing application programs using distributed objects on a distributed object network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 72 Expired
US5991535A Visual composition tool for constructing application programs using distributed objects on a distributed object network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 71 Expired
US6133898A Desk drawer user interface Physics 63 Expired
US5825348A Desk drawer user interface Physics 38 Expired
US5920868A Cataloging apparatus for facilitating the re-use of distributed objects in a distributed object system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Expired
US8495514B1 Transparency assisted window focus and selection Physics 23 Active
US7703045B1 Method and apparatus for interacting with objects in a user interface Physics 16 Active
US8886243B1 Orchestrated group communication Electricity 9 Active
US8732597B2 Folded scrolling Physics 4 Active
US8471873B2 Enhanced UI operations leveraging derivative visual representation Physics 1 Active
US12040579B2 Transformer terminal Electricity 0 Active
US11901719B2 Cable feedthrough for feeding a cable through a separating element and assembly Electricity 0 Active

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