Jeffrey Michael Ryan
50Patents
27h-index
27Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 20, 1991 → Oct 22, 2009
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.