Inventor · Los Altos, CA, US

John C. Shafer

19Patents
12h-index
19Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 18, 1985 → Jun 27, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6592627B1 System and method for organizing repositories of semi-structured documents such as email Physics 111 Expired
US5842200A System and method for parallel mining of association rules in databases Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 94 Expired
US5870735A Method and system for generating a decision-tree classifier in parallel in a multi-processor system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 88 Expired
US5799311A Method and system for generating a decision-tree classifier independent of system memory size Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 81 Expired
US6138115A Method and system for generating a decision-tree classifier in parallel in a multi-processor system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 76 Expired
US4678894A Sample identification system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 72 Expired
US5884320A Method and system for performing proximity joins on high-dimensional data points in parallel Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 52 Expired
US6633885B1 System and method for web-based querying Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 35 Expired
US7293038B2 Systems and methods for client-side filtering of subscribed messages Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 21 Expired
US8788498B2 Labeling data samples using objective questions Physics 17 Active
US9158813B2 Relaxation for structured queries Physics 15 Active
US9098859B2 Bringing achievements to an offline world Physics 12 Active
US8996539B2 Composing text and structured databases Physics 6 Active
US9262525B2 Customized search Physics 3 Active
US7844636B2 Systems and methods for client-side filtering of subscribed messages Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US10380199B2 Customized search Physics 1 Active
US8903914B2 Selecting user accounts in social network to answer question Electricity 1 Active
US11132410B2 Customized search Physics 0 Active
US8832133B2 Answering web queries using structured data sources Physics 0 Active

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