Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

James E. Pitkow

42Patents
27h-index
21Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 9, 1997 → May 11, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6493702B1 System and method for searching and recommending documents in a collection using share bookmarks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 497 Expired
US6598054B2 System and method for clustering data objects in a collection Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 355 Expired
US6098064A Prefetching and caching documents according to probability ranked need S list Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 332 Expired
US6567797B1 System and method for providing recommendations based on multi-modal user clusters Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 324 Expired
US5895470A System for categorizing documents in a linked collection of documents Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 276 Expired
US5835905A System for predicting documents relevant to focus documents by spreading activation through network representations of a linked collection of documents Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 222 Expired
US7043702B2 Method for visualizing user path through a web site and a path's associated information scent Physics 208 Expired
US6509898B2 Usage based methods of traversing and displaying generalized graph structures Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 202 Expired
US6272507A System for ranking search results from a collection of documents using spreading activation techniques Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 187 Expired
US6922699B2 System and method for quantitatively representing data objects in vector space Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 186 Expired
US6038574A Method and apparatus for clustering a collection of linked documents using co-citation analysis Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 146 Expired
US6115718A Method and apparatus for predicting document access in a collection of linked documents featuring link proprabilities and spreading activation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 142 Expired
US6941321B2 System and method for identifying similarities among objects in a collection Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 123 Expired
US6415368B1 System and method for caching Physics 113 Expired
US6564202B1 System and method for visually representing the contents of a multiple data object cluster Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 103 Expired
US6369819B1 Methods for visualizing transformations among related series of graphs Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 93 Expired
US7013304B1 Method for locating digital information files Physics 87 Expired
US7038680B2 System for graphical display and interactive exploratory analysis of data and data relationships Physics 83 Expired
US6457028B1 Method and apparatus for finding related collections of linked documents using co-citation analysis Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 80 Expired
US6182091A Method and apparatus for finding related documents in a collection of linked documents using a bibliographic coupling link analysis Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 71 Expired
US6151595A Methods for interactive visualization of spreading activation using time tubes and disk trees Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 70 Expired
US6671711B1 System and method for predicting web user flow by determining association strength of hypermedia links Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 48 Expired
US6286018A Method and apparatus for finding a set of documents relevant to a focus set using citation analysis and spreading activation techniques Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US8707459B2 Determination of originality of content Physics 42 Active
US6631451B2 System and method for caching Physics 33 Expired

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