Inventor · Seattle, WA, US

Jock Douglas Mackinlay

88Patents
37h-index
56Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 2, 1990 → Feb 27, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5530235A Interactive contents revealing storage device Physics 549 Expired
US5515488A Method and apparatus for concurrent graphical visualization of a database search and its search history Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 427 Expired
US5689287A Context-preserving display system using a perspective sheet Physics 348 Expired
US6088032A Computer controlled display system for displaying a three-dimensional document workspace having a means for prefetching linked documents Physics 224 Expired
US5276785A Moving viewpoint with respect to a target in a three-dimensional workspace Physics 210 Expired
US6509898B2 Usage based methods of traversing and displaying generalized graph structures Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 202 Expired
US6297838A Spinning as a morpheme for a physical manipulatory grammar Physics 177 Expired
US6185582A Spreadsheet view enhancement system Physics 172 Expired
US5339390A Operating a processor to display stretched continuation of a workspace Physics 172 Expired
US5295243A Display of hierarchical three-dimensional structures with rotating substructures Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 171 Expired
US5737115A Additive color tristate light valve twisting ball display Physics 160 Expired
US6924822B2 Magnification methods, systems, and computer program products for virtual three-dimensional books Physics 153 Expired
US6038574A Method and apparatus for clustering a collection of linked documents using co-citation analysis Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 146 Expired
US6230170A Spatial morphing of text to accommodate annotations Physics 145 Expired
US5670984A Image lens Physics 130 Expired
US6256649A Animated spreadsheet for dynamic display of constraint graphs Physics 129 Expired
US6584479B2 Overlay presentation of textual and graphical annotations Physics 122 Expired
US5359703A Moving an object in a three-dimensional workspace Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 113 Expired
US5438430A Paper user interface for image manipulations such as cut and paste Electricity 109 Expired
US5502577A Paper user interface for image manipulations such as cut and paste Electricity 95 Expired
US6369819B1 Methods for visualizing transformations among related series of graphs Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 93 Expired
US7493572B2 Navigation methods, systems, and computer program products for virtual three-dimensional books Physics 73 Active
US7240291B2 Methods, systems, and computer program products for display of information relating to a virtual three-dimensional book Physics 73 Expired
US7139982B2 Navigation methods, systems, and computer program products for virtual three-dimensional books Physics 72 Expired
US6151595A Methods for interactive visualization of spreading activation using time tubes and disk trees Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 70 Expired

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