Inventor · Los Altos, CA, US

Mark D. Weiser

29Patents
19h-index
41Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 28, 1991 → Jan 5, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5493692A Selective delivery of electronic messages in a multiple computer system based on context and environment of a user Electricity 1,543 Expired
US5555376A Method for granting a user request having locational and contextual attributes consistent with user policies for devices having locational attributes consistent with the user request Electricity 693 Expired
US5812865A Specifying and establishing communication data paths between particular media devices in multiple media device computing systems based on context of a user or users Electricity 656 Expired
US5603054A Method for triggering selected machine event when the triggering properties of the system are met and the triggering conditions of an identified user are perceived Electricity 649 Expired
US6122520A System and method for obtaining and using location specific information Physics 616 Expired
US5611050A Method for selectively performing event on computer controlled device whose location and allowable operation is consistent with the contextual and locational attributes of the event Electricity 582 Expired
US5544321A System for granting ownership of device by user based on requested level of ownership, present state of the device, and the context of the device Electricity 559 Expired
US5530235A Interactive contents revealing storage device Physics 549 Expired
US5982520A Personal storage device for application and data transfer Electricity 272 Expired
US5210824A Encoding-format-desensitized methods and means for interchanging electronic document as appearances Physics 175 Expired
US6658623B1 Displaying in a first document a selectable link to a second document based on a passive query Physics 140 Expired
USRE42927E1 System and method for obtaining and using location specific information General 133 Active
US6356922B1 Method and system for suggesting related documents Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 132 Expired
US5485634A Method and system for the dynamic selection, allocation and arbitration of control between devices within a region Electricity 115 Expired
US5321834A Method and system for reclaiming unreferenced computer memory space Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 76 Expired
US5786819A One button searching of long lists Electricity 39 Expired
US6184789A Method and apparatus for visually determining object location Physics 34 Expired
US6216087A Infrared beacon positioning system Physics 34 Expired
US6366697B1 Rotationally desensitized unistroke handwriting recognition Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Expired
US5905488A Local inking with gray pixels Physics 11 Expired
US6241364A Light fixture embedded infrared beacon Electricity 11 Expired
US6816859B2 Rotationally desensitized unistroke handwriting recognition Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US6292744A Infrared beacon positioning system Physics 7 Expired
USD1020887S1 Tactile label General 1 Active
USD1016914S1 Tactile label General 1 Active

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