Inventor · Redmond, WA, US

Robert Little

71Patents
18h-index
83Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 21, 1983 → Apr 23, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7281245B2 Mechanism for downloading software components from a remote source for use by a local software application Physics 99 Expired
US7389473B1 Representing user edit permission of regions within an electronic document Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 72 Expired
US6182092A Method and system for converting between structured language elements and objects embeddable in a document Physics 66 Expired
US7373595B2 System and method for validating an XML document and reporting schema violations Physics 51 Expired
US7571169B2 Word-processing document stored in a single XML file that may be manipulated by applications that understand XML Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 49 Expired
US7953696B2 Real-time synchronization of XML data between applications Physics 45 Expired
US7827546B1 Mechanism for downloading software components from a remote source for use by a local software application Physics 38 Expired
US7712016B2 Method and apparatus for utilizing an object model for managing content regions in an electronic document Physics 29 Active
US7392479B2 System and method for providing namespace related information Physics 28 Expired
US7257772B1 Representing document options, properties and backwards compatibility settings using a markup language Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Expired
US7797743B2 File conversion in restricted process Physics 27 Active
US7178102B1 Representing latent data in an extensible markup language document Physics 26 Expired
US6799301B1 Methods and systems for objects supporting structured language persistent state Physics 25 Expired
US7945590B2 Programmability for binding data Physics 25 Expired
US7668873B2 Data store for software application documents Physics 24 Expired
US7325186B2 Method and system for showing unannotated text nodes in a data formatted document Physics 19 Expired
US7487515B1 Programmable object model for extensible markup language schema validation Physics 18 Expired
US7565603B1 Representing style information in a markup language document Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US5964885A Method and system for recovering text from a damaged electronic file Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US7366978B1 Method and system for creating a grid-like coordinate system for addressing data contained in an irregular computer-generated table Physics 16 Expired
US9946691B2 Modifying a document with separately addressable content blocks Physics 15 Active
US7617451B2 Structuring data for word processing documents Physics 15 Expired
US7617229B2 Management and use of data in a computer-generated document Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US7275209B1 Mixed content flexibility for XML editors Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US7036073B2 System and method for supporting non-native XML in native XML of a word-processor document Physics 13 Expired

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