Inventor · Byron, MN, US

Jeffrey Michael Ryan

50Patents
27h-index
27Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 20, 1991 → Oct 22, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5533182A Aural position indicating mechanism for viewable objects Physics 259 Expired
US5515491A Method and system for managing communications within a collaborative data processing system Physics 210 Expired
US5377317A Method and apparatus for distinctively displaying windows on a computer display screen Physics 194 Expired
US6999757B2 Telephone system and method for selectively ringing one or more land phones or portable phones based on the self-detected geographical position of a portable phone Electricity 170 Expired
US5390295A Method and apparatus for proportionally displaying windows on a computer display screen Physics 153 Expired
US5337407A Method and system for identifying users in a collaborative computer-based system Physics 121 Expired
US7076546B1 Browser for use in accessing hypertext documents in a multi-user computer environment Electricity 118 Expired
US5339389A User selectable lock regions Physics 117 Expired
US6100890A Automatic bookmarks Physics 110 Expired
US6378125B1 Debugger thread identification points Physics 98 Expired
US6282486A Distributed system and method for detecting traffic patterns Physics 94 Expired
US5497454A System for presenting alternate views of a computer window environment Physics 91 Expired
US5532715A Visually aging scroll bar Physics 88 Expired
US6975874B1 Portable phone that changes function according to its self-detected geographical position Electricity 87 Expired
US6003066A System for distributing a plurality of threads associated with a process initiating by one data processing station among data processing stations Physics 87 Expired
US5966512A Groupware save operation Physics 83 Expired
US6378124B1 Debugger thread synchronization control points Physics 78 Expired
US6049334A Method and system for graphically indicating the activity of a plurality of users within a shared data collection Physics 72 Expired
US6590594B2 Window scroll-bar Physics 71 Expired
US6342908B1 Progressive window organization Physics 66 Expired
US6385531B2 Distributed system and method for detecting traffic patterns Physics 61 Expired
US6587967B1 Debugger thread monitor Physics 46 Expired
US5973663A Visually aging scroll bar Physics 46 Expired
US5339388A Cursor lock region Physics 44 Expired
US5528259A Method and system for multi-dimensional scrolling of displayed data collections in a data processing system Physics 41 Expired

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