Inventor · San Francisco, CA, US

Steve Ko

40Patents
10h-index
55Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 30, 2001 → Oct 7, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7702279B2 Portable media player as a low power remote control and method thereof Electricity 263 Active
US8112032B2 Portable media player as a remote control Electricity 218 Active
US8315555B2 Portable media player as a remote control Electricity 211 Active
US8504733B1 Subtree for an aggregation system Physics 56 Active
US7809688B2 Managing backup of content Physics 54 Active
US7979796B2 Searching for commands and other elements of a user interface Physics 49 Active
US8677274B2 Highlighting items for search results Physics 27 Active
US7120785B1 Method and apparatus rendering user accounts portable Physics 23 Expired
US8429425B2 Electronic backup and restoration of encrypted data Physics 17 Active
US10055567B2 Proximity unlock and lock operations for electronic devices Physics 15 Active
US8738826B2 System and method for display mirroring Physics 10 Active
US7024626B2 System and method of producing user interface information messages Physics 9 Expired
US7533341B2 System and method of producing user interface information messages Physics 8 Active
US8159550B2 Presenting images as mosaics Physics 8 Active
US8468136B2 Efficient data backup Physics 7 Active
US10395068B2 User account for system protection or recovery Electricity 6 Active
US7246226B1 Method and apparatus rendering user accounts portable Physics 5 Active
US9552187B2 System and method for display mirroring Physics 5 Active
US8607162B2 Searching for commands and other elements of a user interface Physics 5 Active
US9207903B2 System and method for display mirroring Physics 4 Active
US8387140B2 Method and apparatus for controlling access to encrypted network communication channels Electricity 3 Active
US7925712B2 Method and apparatus for rendering user accounts portable Physics 3 Active
US10546113B2 Proximity unlock and lock operations for electronic devices Physics 3 Active
US11055392B2 Proximity unlock and lock operations for electronic devices Physics 2 Active
US8626930B2 Multimedia content filtering Electricity 2 Active

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