William J. Johnson
48Patents
25h-index
22Co-inventors
77Inventor score
Filing activity: Nov 13, 1991 → Nov 16, 1999
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5262860A | Method and system communication establishment utilizing captured and processed visually perceptible data within a broadcast video signal | Electricity | 438 | Expired |
| US5694616A | Method and system for prioritization of email items by selectively associating priority attribute with at least one and fewer than all of the recipients | Physics | 373 | Expired |
| US5878230A | System for email messages wherein the sender designates whether the recipient replies or forwards to addresses also designated by the sender | Electricity | 248 | Expired |
| US5682475A | Method and system for variable password access | Physics | 213 | Expired |
| US5758049A | Method of and apparatus for providing automatic detection and processing of an empty multimedia data object | Electricity | 134 | Expired |
| US5555426A | Method and apparatus for disseminating messages to unspecified users in a data processing system | Electricity | 128 | Expired |
| US5664063A | Automatic user notification of certain meeting attributes of a posted calendar event | Physics | 110 | Expired |
| US5349662A | Method of and apparatus for providing automatic detection of user activity | Physics | 102 | Expired |
| US5325310A | Method and system for persistant electronic mail reply processing | Physics | 82 | Expired |
| US5375200A | Method and system for graphic interaction between data and applications within a data processing system | Physics | 81 | Expired |
| US5564018A | System for automatically distributing selected mail item to selected user associated with office location within physical office floor plan in data processing system | Electricity | 78 | Expired |
| US5436963A | Telephone answering method and apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 73 | Expired |
| US5875261A | Method of and apparatus for optical character recognition based on geometric and color attribute hypothesis testing | Physics | 71 | Expired |
| US5455910A | Method and system for creating a synchronized presentation from different types of media presentations | Physics | 57 | Expired |
| US5600776A | Method and apparatus for automatically organizing user interface objects for multiple users on a single workstation | Physics | 56 | Expired |
| US5568383A | Natural language translation system and document transmission network with translation loss information and restrictions | Physics | 53 | Expired |
| US5381527A | System for efficient message distribution by succesively selecting and converting to an alternate distribution media indicated in a priority table upon preferred media failure | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 48 | Expired |
| US5841550A | Method and system for specifcation of time dependent acknowledgement transmission media | Electricity | 41 | Expired |
| US5359660A | Local area network peripheral lock method and system | Electricity | 38 | Expired |
| US5428795A | Method of and apparatus for providing automatic security control of distributions within a data processing system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 37 | Expired |
| US5471616A | Method of and apparatus for providing existential presence acknowledgement | Physics | 36 | Expired |
| US5692143A | Method and system for recalling desktop states in a data processing system | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US5465309A | Method of and apparatus for character recognition through related spelling heuristics | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US5434910A | Method and system for providing multimedia substitution in messaging systems | Electricity | 31 | Expired |
| US5671328A | Method and apparatus for automatic creation of a voice recognition template entry | Physics | 27 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.