Inventor · San Diego, CA, US

Mark Eyer

140Patents
30h-index
43Co-inventors
90Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 18, 1987 → Mar 7, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5844620A Method and apparatus for displaying an interactive television program guide Electricity 537 Expired
US5982445A Hypertext markup language protocol for television display and control Electricity 332 Expired
US6173330A Delivery and acquisition of data segments with optimized inter-arrival time Electricity 268 Expired
US6018764A Mapping uniform resource locators to broadcast addresses in a television signal Electricity 233 Expired
US5801753A Method and apparatus for providing an interactive guide to events available on an information network Electricity 209 Expired
US5485577A Method and apparatus for incremental delivery of access rights Electricity 183 Expired
US8606090B2 Sport program chaptering Electricity 181 Active
US6501441B1 Method of and apparatus for partitioning, scaling and displaying video and/or graphics across several display devices Electricity 173 Expired
US5982411A Navigation among grouped television channels Electricity 172 Expired
US5671276A Method and apparatus for impulse purchasing of packaged information services Electricity 164 Expired
US6160545A Multi-regional interactive program guide for television Electricity 162 Expired
US7124303B2 Elementary stream partial encryption Electricity 161 Expired
US6588015B1 Broadcast interactive digital radio Electricity 146 Expired
US6483547B1 Transmission signal ID for analog television broadcasts Electricity 126 Expired
US6401242B1 Method and apparatus for designating a preferred source to avoid duplicative programming services Electricity 100 Expired
US8705933B2 Video bookmarking Electricity 87 Active
US8839338B2 Service usage reporting data transport Electricity 84 Active
US6789106B2 Selective capture and storage of A/V objects in an interactive multimedia system Electricity 81 Expired
US8863171B2 Announcement of program synchronized triggered declarative objects Electricity 50 Active
US5134700A Microcomputer with internal ram security during external program mode Physics 49 Expired
US8898720B2 Parameterized services descriptor for advanced television services Electricity 47 Active
US7292692B2 Content scrambling with minimal impact on legacy devices Electricity 45 Expired
US7225164B1 Method and apparatus for implementing revocation in broadcast networks Electricity 44 Expired
US8886009B2 Creation of video bookmarks via scripted interactivity in advanced digital television Electricity 43 Active
US8896755B2 Reception apparatus, reception method, program, and information processing system Electricity 38 Active

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