W. Leo Hoarty
53Patents
23h-index
32Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 28, 1990 → Feb 12, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5319455A | System for distributing customized commercials to television viewers | Electricity | 633 | Expired |
| US5485197A | Carousel display | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 595 | Expired |
| US5093718A | Interactive home information system | Electricity | 533 | Expired |
| US5412720A | Interactive home information system | Electricity | 506 | Expired |
| US5220420A | Interactive home information system for distributing compressed television programming | Electricity | 423 | Expired |
| US5526034A | Interactive home information system with signal assignment | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 316 | Expired |
| US6205582A | Interactive cable television system with frame server | Electricity | 315 | Expired |
| US6100883A | Home interface controller for providing interactive cable television | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 282 | Expired |
| US5361091A | Interactive home information system for distributing video picture information to television viewers over a fiber optic telephone system | Electricity | 268 | Expired |
| US5550578A | Interactive and conventional television information system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 257 | Expired |
| US6253238A | Interactive cable television system with frame grabber | Electricity | 191 | Expired |
| US6305020A | System manager and hypertext control interface for interactive cable television system | Electricity | 135 | Expired |
| US5594507A | Compressed digital overlay controller and method for MPEG type video signal | Electricity | 128 | Expired |
| US5557316A | System for distributing broadcast television services identically on a first bandwidth portion of a plurality of express trunks and interactive services over a second bandwidth portion of each express trunk on a subscriber demand basis | Electricity | 124 | Expired |
| US6034678A | Cable television system with remote interactive processor | Electricity | 117 | Expired |
| US5587734A | User interface for selecting television information services through pseudo-channel access | Electricity | 114 | Expired |
| US9055309B2 | Systems and methods for identifying video segments for displaying contextually relevant content | Electricity | 86 | Active |
| US6064377A | Subscriber directed simultaneous multiple signal presentation for interactive cable television system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 78 | Expired |
| US5883661A | Output switching for load levelling across multiple service areas | Electricity | 75 | Expired |
| US5812665A | Switched channel system | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US7936311B2 | Directive, broadband, high gain, active antenna system | Electricity | 37 | Active |
| US9465867B2 | System and method for continuous media segment identification | Physics | 35 | Active |
| US9838753B2 | Monitoring individual viewing of television events using tracking pixels and cookies | Electricity | 24 | Active |
| US9955192B2 | Monitoring individual viewing of television events using tracking pixels and cookies | Electricity | 22 | Active |
| US10360651B1 | Compatible adaptive video watermarking | Physics | 15 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.