Inventor · San Francisco, CA, US

Ian E. Smith

15Patents
11h-index
23Co-inventors
64Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 30, 1998 → Dec 21, 2004

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7139800B2 User interface for a message-based system having embedded information management capabilities Physics 321 Expired
US7454466B2 Method and system for flexible workflow management Physics 213 Expired
US7089287B2 Message-based system having embedded information management capabilities Physics 157 Expired
US7529723B2 Multi-tiered structure for file sharing based on social roles Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 62 Expired
US7113979B1 System, method and article of manufacture for enhancing electronic messages Electricity 51 Expired
US6647391B1 System, method and article of manufacture for fast mapping from a propertied document management system to a relational database Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 36 Expired
US7975239B2 System and method for providing metadata interaction and visualization with task-related objects Physics 27 Active
US7669188B2 System and method for identifying viable refactorings of program code using a comprehensive test suite Physics 21 Active
US7451439B2 System and method for automatically identifying compound refactorings of program code through quantitative metric analysis Physics 19 Expired
US6535884B1 System, method and article of manufacture for providing an attribute system with primitive support of dynamic and evolvable roles in support of fluid and integrative application development Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US7242293B2 Radio-frequency identification apparatus, systems, and methods Physics 17 Expired
US7165093B2 Active electronic messaging system Physics 7 Expired
US7552139B2 Represented object groups Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Expired
US7941486B2 Systems and methods for integrating electronic mail and distributed networks into a workflow system Physics 1 Active
US7174083B1 Systems and methods for using structured representations to index recordings of activity Physics 0 Expired

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