Inventor · Seattle, WA, US

Vaughn Iverson

21Patents
13h-index
22Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 18, 1994 → Jul 31, 2007

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6411696B1 System for finding a user with a preferred communication mechanism Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 187 Expired
US5852664A Decode access control for encoded multimedia signals Electricity 105 Expired
US6938005B2 Digital content distribution Physics 79 Expired
US5920659A Method and apparatus for scaling image data having associated transparency data Physics 69 Expired
US5812126A Method and apparatus for masquerading online Physics 67 Expired
US5463701A System and method for pattern-matching with error control for image and video compression Electricity 63 Expired
US6957075B1 Method and apparatus for providing a location based appliance personality Electricity 61 Expired
US5930526A System for progressive transmission of compressed video including video data of first type of video frame played independently of video data of second type of video frame Electricity 35 Expired
US5737537A Two-measure block classification scheme for encoding video images Electricity 30 Expired
US5832234A Encoding images using block-based macroblock-level statistics Electricity 23 Expired
US6937168B2 Transcoding media content from a personal video recorder for a portable device Electricity 19 Expired
US5459486A Method and apparatus for combining palettes of color quantized images Physics 17 Expired
US6473758B1 Method and apparatus for private and restricted-use electronic addresses Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Expired
US7365655B2 Transcoding media content from a personal video recorder for a portable device Electricity 13 Active
US5774191A Chroma-key color range determination Electricity 12 Expired
US5815670A Adaptive block classification scheme for encoding video images Electricity 11 Expired
US5751231A Method and apparatus for run-length encoding using special long-run codes Electricity 7 Expired
US6839842B1 Method and apparatus for authenticating information Physics 7 Expired
US7383207B2 Digital content pricing apparatus Physics 4 Expired
US5896498A Method and apparatus for protecting user privacy by providing an inaccurate measure of network systems accesssed Electricity 3 Expired
US7467104B2 Digital content pricing methods and articles Physics 1 Active

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