Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Michael Lawrence Emens

26Patents
23h-index
11Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 23, 1999 → Nov 6, 2004

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6718324B2 Metadata search results ranking system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 582 Expired
US6546388B1 Metadata search results ranking system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 505 Expired
US6745178B1 Internet based method for facilitating networking among persons with similar interests and for facilitating collaborative searching for information Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 353 Expired
US6484162B1 Labeling and describing search queries for reuse Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 301 Expired
US6606643B1 Method of automatically selecting a mirror server for web-based client-host interaction Electricity 267 Expired
US6832239B1 Systems for managing network resources Electricity 259 Expired
US6671681B1 System and technique for suggesting alternate query expressions based on prior user selections and their query strings Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 194 Expired
US6633867B1 System and method for providing a session query within the context of a dynamic search result set Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 168 Expired
US6832218B1 System and method for associating search results Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 163 Expired
US6662230B1 System and method for dynamically limiting robot access to server data Physics 153 Expired
US7076443B1 System and technique for automatically associating related advertisements to individual search results items of a search result set Physics 130 Expired
US6493744B1 Automatic rating and filtering of data files for objectionable content Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 124 Expired
US6463343B1 System and method for controlling remote devices from a client computer using digital images Physics 118 Expired
US6591279B1 System and method for computer-based notifications of real-world events using digital images Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 115 Expired
US6434548B1 Distributed metadata searching system and method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 110 Expired
US6519557B1 Software and method for recognizing similarity of documents written in different languages based on a quantitative measure of similarity Physics 96 Expired
US6418453B1 Network repository service for efficient web crawling Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 83 Expired
US6295559A Rating hypermedia for objectionable content Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 81 Expired
US6418452B1 Network repository service directory for efficient web crawling Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 60 Expired
US6487553B1 Method for reducing search results by manually or automatically excluding previously presented search results Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 55 Expired
US6934735B1 Software and method for controlling the timing of delayed downloads Electricity 44 Expired
US6895402B1 Detecting framing of a network resource identified by a target uniform resource locator Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 33 Expired
US6978246B1 System and method for matching entities utilizing an electronic calendaring system Physics 26 Expired
US6564257B1 Repository protection by URL expiration Electricity 21 Expired
US6845484B1 Technique and method which dynamically generates various depth levels of abstracts for text based data sources on demand Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Expired

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