Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Kevin Snow McCurley

19Patents
10h-index
48Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 13, 1992 → May 3, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6118873A System for encrypting broadcast programs in the presence of compromised receiver devices Electricity 188 Expired
US7257577B2 System, method and service for ranking search results using a modular scoring system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 121 Expired
US7010526B2 Knowledge-based data mining system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 97 Expired
US6957224B1 Efficient retrieval of uniform resource locators Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 50 Expired
US6993534B2 Data store for knowledge-based data mining system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 44 Expired
US5299262A Method for exponentiating in cryptographic systems Electricity 37 Expired
US7099891B2 Method for allowing simple interoperation between backend database systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Expired
US7251654B2 System and method for ranking nodes in a network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Expired
US6650753B1 System for encrypting broadcast programs in the presence of compromised receiver devices Electricity 12 Expired
US7266762B1 Method and system for distributed autonomous maintenance of bidirectional hyperlink metadata on the web and similar hypermedia repository Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Expired
US8214391B2 Knowledge-based data mining system Physics 7 Expired
US8886723B1 Assessing sharing of items within a social network Electricity 6 Active
US9426190B1 Crowdsourcing descriptor selection Physics 5 Active
US7464076B2 System and method and computer program product for ranking logical directories Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Expired
US10997227B2 Systems and methods for processing a natural language query in data tables Physics 2 Active
US8875308B1 Privacy selection based on social groups Electricity 2 Active
US9251369B2 Privacy selection based on social groups Electricity 0 Active
US10592576B1 Crowdsourcing descriptor selection Physics 0 Active
US11714841B2 Systems and methods for processing a natural language query in data tables Physics 0 Active

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