Paul Bates
96Patents
17h-index
36Co-inventors
80Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 19, 2012 → Jan 10, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US9374607B2 | Media playback system with guest access | Electricity | 213 | Active |
| US10499146B2 | Voice control of a media playback system | Electricity | 133 | Active |
| US8910265B2 | Assisted registration of audio sources | Electricity | 112 | Active |
| US9977561B2 | Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to provide guest access | Electricity | 97 | Active |
| US10712997B2 | Room association based on name | Electricity | 95 | Active |
| US11212612B2 | Voice control of a media playback system | Electricity | 67 | Active |
| US11175880B2 | Systems and methods for voice-assisted media content selection | Physics | 66 | Active |
| USD795887S1 | Display screen with icon | General | 56 | Active |
| US9232277B2 | Associating playback devices with playback queues | Electricity | 52 | Active |
| US10469897B2 | Context-based user music menu systems and methods | Electricity | 45 | Active |
| US9519413B2 | Lock screen media playback control | Physics | 45 | Active |
| US9727219B2 | Media playback system controller having multiple graphical interfaces | Electricity | 43 | Active |
| US10771274B2 | Playback queue control | Electricity | 40 | Active |
| US9892118B2 | Dynamic display of filter criteria | Physics | 33 | Active |
| US10055108B2 | Location based playback system control | Physics | 31 | Active |
| US10270612B2 | Playback queue control for a zone-based media playback system | Electricity | 29 | Active |
| USD959484S1 | Display screen or portion thereof with icon | General | 17 | Active |
| US10275138B2 | Zone recognition | Physics | 16 | Active |
| US10268357B2 | Playback modification based on proximity | Physics | 12 | Active |
| US8908879B2 | Audio content auditioning | Electricity | 11 | Active |
| US9779613B2 | Display and control of pre-determined audio content playback | Electricity | 10 | Active |
| USD879797S1 | Display screen or portion thereof with icon | General | 8 | Active |
| US9078010B2 | Audio content playback management | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US10592086B2 | Location based playback system control | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US9483230B1 | Wearable device zone group control | Electricity | 4 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.