Inventor · Lake Forest Park, WA, US

John D. Elliott

24Patents
18h-index
31Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 12, 1993 → Jun 26, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5546447A Displaying caller identification information in a computer system Electricity 485 Expired
US10039988B2 Persistent customized social media environment Human Necessities 417 Active
US5889774A Method and apparatus for selecting an internet/PSTN changeover server for a packet based phone call Electricity 306 Expired
US6026087A Method and apparatus for establishing a voice call to a PSTN extension for a networked client computer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 241 Expired
US5764901A Record and playback in a data conference Electricity 160 Expired
US6212192A Method and apparatus for synchronizing information browsing among multiple systems Electricity 148 Expired
US5835089A Application programming interface for shared address book services in a computer system Electricity 140 Expired
US6304637A Method and apparatus for establishing and facilitating a direct quality voice call to a telephone extension on behalf of a client computer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 120 Expired
US5987102A Method and apparatus for bridging a voice call including selective provision of information in non-audio to the caller Electricity 109 Expired
US6199096A Method and apparatus for synchronizing information browsing among multiple systems Electricity 98 Expired
US5805886A Method for notifying client applications of events in a shared application in a computer system Physics 91 Expired
US5544300A User interface for dynamically converting between a single top level window and multiple top level windows Physics 68 Expired
US5572649A Process for dynamically switching between a single top level window and multiple top level windows Physics 59 Expired
US5621904A Method and apparatus for avoiding overlapped windows and a gutter space Physics 57 Expired
US5519438A Computer with a video subsystem that contains timers which are used to create calibration tables correlating time intervals with the decoding and converting of video input signals Electricity 45 Expired
US6661878B1 Method and apparatus for establishing a voice call to a PSTN extension for a networked client computer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 43 Expired
US6628760B2 Method and apparatus for selecting an internet/PSTN changeover server for a packet based phone call Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 35 Expired
US5852807A Method and apparatus for modeling business card exchanges in a point-to-point or a multi-point personal computer conference Electricity 32 Expired
US7933296B2 Services for data sharing and synchronization Electricity 16 Active
US7248675B2 Method and apparatus for establishing a voice call to a PSTN extension for a networked client computer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US9381427B2 Generic companion-messaging between media platforms Electricity 3 Active
US10025478B2 Media-aware interface Electricity 1 Active
US9782680B2 Persistent customized social media environment Human Necessities 0 Active
US10963147B2 Media-aware interface Electricity 0 Active

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