Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Paul Mercer

32Patents
10h-index
12Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 18, 1980 → Mar 30, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5825349A Intelligent scrolling Physics 265 Expired
US5196838A Intelligent scrolling Physics 188 Expired
US8296684B2 Navigating among activities in a computing device Electricity 84 Active
US6547830B1 Methods and apparatuses for display and traversing of links in page character array Physics 34 Expired
US9304658B2 On-screen menu buttons including multiple modes Physics 22 Active
US10678403B2 Navigating among activities in a computing device Electricity 16 Active
US8910073B2 Enhancing visual continuity in scrolling operations Physics 13 Active
US8266187B2 Integration of static and dynamic data for database entities and the unified presentation thereof Electricity 12 Active
US9053088B2 Displaying mnemonic abbreviations for commands Physics 12 Active
US6331863A Intelligent scrolling Physics 12 Expired
US9489107B2 Navigating among activities in a computing device Electricity 8 Active
US6504547B1 Standardization of graphics system logical frame buffer Physics 6 Expired
US7456850B2 Intelligent scrolling Physics 4 Expired
US8004541B2 Structured display system with system defined transitions Physics 4 Active
US6686927B2 Intelligent scrolling Physics 4 Expired
US8527861B2 Methods and apparatuses for display and traversing of links in page character array Electricity 4 Active
US8384738B2 Compositing windowing system Physics 3 Active
US4394743A Tone generation method and apparatus using stored reference calibration coefficients Electricity 3 Expired
US10891027B2 Navigating among activities in a computing device Electricity 2 Active
US11262889B2 Navigating among activities in a computing device Electricity 1 Active
US8073884B2 System and method to derive high level file system information by passively monitoring low level operations on a FAT file system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US10153950B2 Data communications performance monitoring Electricity 1 Active
US7479971B2 Intelligent scrolling Physics 1 Active
US11650715B2 Navigating among activities in a computing device Electricity 1 Active
US10462279B2 Notifying a user of events in a computing device Physics 0 Active

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