Inventor · Bath, GB

John Waters

38Patents
13h-index
24Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 9, 1997 → Jan 25, 2008

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6799032B2 Providing location data about a mobile entity Electricity 162 Expired
US6968178B2 Profiles for information acquisition by devices in a wireless network Physics 161 Expired
US6760046B2 Location-dependent user interface Electricity 89 Expired
US6813499B2 Providing location data about a mobile entity Electricity 57 Expired
US6535132B2 Targeted information display Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 52 Expired
US6771972B2 System and method for a distributed search for a lost asset Physics 33 Expired
US7065575B1 Cooperative networking method and system Electricity 31 Expired
US6567661B2 Distributed telemetry method and system Electricity 27 Expired
US7024180B2 Targeted information display Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Expired
US7512234B2 Providing location data about a mobile entity Electricity 25 Expired
US6925288B2 Gathering information from short-range wireless portals Electricity 16 Expired
US7712675B2 Physical items for holding data securely, and methods and apparatus for publishing and reading them Physics 15 Active
US7142115B2 Method of annotating an item with electronic data and apparatus therefor Physics 14 Expired
US7079008B2 Proximity transaction control method Electricity 13 Expired
US7257386B1 Data transfer system and method of data transfer Electricity 12 Expired
US7050815B2 Deriving location information about a communicating entity Electricity 12 Expired
US6003092A Signal transmission between networked computers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Expired
US6950646B2 Information acquisition decision making by devices in a wireless network Electricity 11 Expired
US7032822B2 Memory tag, read/write device and method of operating a memory tag Physics 11 Expired
US7077489B2 Apparatus for printing and memory tag application and method therefor Physics 8 Expired
US7290715B2 Physical multimedia documents, and methods and apparatus for publishing and reading them Physics 7 Expired
US7212123B2 Detector Physics 6 Expired
US6950668B2 High data rate communication Electricity 6 Expired
US6942158B2 Memory tag and a reader Electricity 5 Expired
US8125288B2 Method for modulating a signal Electricity 3 Active

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