Inventor · Atherton, CA, US

Jakob Nielsen

88Patents
50h-index
16Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 28, 1995 → Dec 20, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5812398A Method and system for escrowed backup of hotelled world wide web sites Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1,014 Expired
US6006333A Password helper using a client-side master password which automatically presents the appropriate server-side password to a particular remote server Physics 339 Expired
US5963964A Method, apparatus and program product for updating visual bookmarks Physics 335 Expired
US6453327B1 Method and apparatus for identifying and discarding junk electronic mail Physics 313 Expired
US6055570A Subscribed update monitors Physics 312 Expired
US5813007A Automatic updates of bookmarks in a client computer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 276 Expired
US5659729A Method and system for implementing hypertext scroll attributes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 272 Expired
US6182229A Password helper using a client-side master password which automatically presents the appropriate server-side password in a particular remote server Physics 258 Expired
US5948054A Method and system for facilitating the exchange of information between human users in a networked computer system Electricity 233 Expired
US5907680A Client-side, server-side and collaborative spell check of URL's Physics 223 Expired
US6108688A System for reminding a sender of an email if recipient of the email does not respond by a selected time set by the sender Electricity 215 Expired
US5864684A Method and apparatus for managing subscriptions to distribution lists Physics 181 Expired
US6002771A Method and system for regulating discounts on merchandise distributed through networked computer systems Physics 175 Expired
US5886683A Method and apparatus for eyetrack-driven information retrieval Physics 173 Expired
US5854630A Prospective view for web backtrack Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 172 Expired
US5826022A Method and apparatus for receiving electronic mail Electricity 161 Expired
US6405243B1 Method and system for updating email addresses Electricity 150 Expired
US6339437B1 Relevance-enhanced scrolling Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 146 Expired
US5731805A Method and apparatus for eyetrack-driven text enlargement Physics 143 Expired
US5892919A Spell checking universal resource locator (URL) by comparing the URL against a cache containing entries relating incorrect URLs submitted by users to corresponding correct URLs Electricity 133 Expired
US5899975A Style sheets for speech-based presentation of web pages Physics 130 Expired
US6437758B1 Method and apparatus for eyetrack—mediated downloading Electricity 129 Expired
US5826031A Method and system for prioritized downloading of embedded web objects Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 125 Expired
US5898423A Method and apparatus for eyetrack-driven captioning Physics 119 Expired
US6163778A Probabilistic web link viability marker and web page ratings Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 113 Expired

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