Inventor · Santa Cruz, CA, US

Neal Sample

24Patents
11h-index
30Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 26, 2001 → May 16, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7599935B2 Control for enabling a user to preview display of selected content based on another user's authorization level Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 686 Expired
US6804677B2 Encoding semi-structured data for efficient search and browsing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 296 Expired
US8869256B2 Network aggregator Electricity 67 Active
US7287033B2 Efficient traversals over hierarchical data and indexing semistructured data Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Expired
US8166069B2 Displaying aggregated new content by selected other user based on their authorization level Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Expired
US7937468B2 Detecting spam messages using rapid sender reputation feedback analysis Physics 17 Active
US8224359B2 Provisioning my status information to others in my social network Electricity 16 Active
US8584258B2 Control for inviting an unauthenticated user to gain access to display of content that is otherwise accessible with an authentication mechanism Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Active
US8849909B2 Real-time asynchronous event aggregation systems Electricity 15 Active
US8838599B2 Efficient lexical trending topic detection over streams of data using a modified sequitur algorithm Physics 14 Active
US8954500B2 Identifying and employing social network relationships Physics 14 Active
US8065308B2 Encoding semi-structured data for efficient search and browsing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Active
US8219126B2 Provisioning my status information to others in my social network Electricity 6 Active
US10264095B2 Control for inviting an unauthenticated user to gain access to display of content that is otherwise accessible with an authentication mechanism Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US9894049B2 Network aggregator Electricity 4 Active
US7620640B2 Cascading index method and apparatus Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Expired
US7299235B2 Method and apparatus for ternary PATRICIA trie blocks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Expired
US8489597B2 Encoding semi-structured data for efficient search and browsing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Expired
US7693850B2 Method and apparatus for adding supplemental information to PATRICIA tries Physics 0 Expired
US8533202B2 Entropy-based mixing and personalization Physics 0 Active
US10264015B2 Real-time asynchronous event aggregation systems Electricity 0 Active
US9083794B2 Provisioning my status information to others in my social network Electricity 0 Active
US9015170B2 Entropy-based mixing and personalization Physics 0 Active
US9348788B2 Real-time asynchronous event aggregation systems Electricity 0 Active

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