Inventor · Los Altos, CA, US

Roy Want

110Patents
42h-index
88Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 9, 1992 → Feb 2, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5493692A Selective delivery of electronic messages in a multiple computer system based on context and environment of a user Electricity 1,543 Expired
US5555376A Method for granting a user request having locational and contextual attributes consistent with user policies for devices having locational attributes consistent with the user request Electricity 693 Expired
US5812865A Specifying and establishing communication data paths between particular media devices in multiple media device computing systems based on context of a user or users Electricity 656 Expired
US5603054A Method for triggering selected machine event when the triggering properties of the system are met and the triggering conditions of an identified user are perceived Electricity 649 Expired
US6122520A System and method for obtaining and using location specific information Physics 616 Expired
US5611050A Method for selectively performing event on computer controlled device whose location and allowable operation is consistent with the contextual and locational attributes of the event Electricity 582 Expired
US5544321A System for granting ownership of device by user based on requested level of ownership, present state of the device, and the context of the device Electricity 559 Expired
US5530235A Interactive contents revealing storage device Physics 549 Expired
US6160540A Zoomorphic computer user interface Electricity 324 Expired
US5627517A Decentralized tracking and routing system wherein packages are associated with active tags Physics 278 Expired
US5982520A Personal storage device for application and data transfer Electricity 272 Expired
US5564070A Method and system for maintaining processing continuity to mobile computers in a wireless network Electricity 199 Expired
US5793630A High precision spatially defined data transfer system Physics 195 Expired
US6008727A Selectively enabled electronic tags Physics 195 Expired
US6342830B1 Controlled shielding of electronic tags Physics 194 Expired
US6297838A Spinning as a morpheme for a physical manipulatory grammar Physics 177 Expired
US6243074A Handedness detection for a physical manipulatory grammar Physics 141 Expired
USRE42927E1 System and method for obtaining and using location specific information General 133 Active
US6268857A Computer user interface using a physical manipulatory grammar Physics 125 Expired
US6243075A Graspable device manipulation for controlling a computer display Physics 123 Expired
US5825675A Apparatus and configuration method for a small, hand-held computing device Physics 123 Expired
US5952638A Space efficient method of electronic payments Physics 122 Expired
US7174462B2 Method of authentication using familiar photographs Physics 122 Expired
US5485634A Method and system for the dynamic selection, allocation and arbitration of control between devices within a region Electricity 115 Expired
US6249226A Network printer document interface using electronic tags Physics 114 Expired

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