Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

William Noah Schilit

75Patents
32h-index
66Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 30, 1993 → 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
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
US5970455A System for capturing and retrieving audio data and corresponding hand-written notes Physics 213 Expired
US5564070A Method and system for maintaining processing continuity to mobile computers in a wireless network Electricity 199 Expired
US6857102B1 Document re-authoring systems and methods for providing device-independent access to the world wide web Physics 161 Expired
US5889523A Method and apparatus for dynamically grouping a plurality of graphic objects Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 142 Expired
US6658623B1 Displaying in a first document a selectable link to a second document based on a passive query Physics 140 Expired
US6279014A Method and system for organizing documents based upon annotations in context Physics 137 Expired
US6356922B1 Method and system for suggesting related documents Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 132 Expired
US5485634A Method and system for the dynamic selection, allocation and arbitration of control between devices within a region Electricity 115 Expired
US6587877B1 Management of time and expense when communicating between a host and a communication network Physics 104 Expired
US6687876B1 Method and system for maintaining freeform ink annotations on changing views Physics 101 Expired
US8874594B2 Search with my location history Physics 85 Active
US6773177B2 Method and system for position-aware freeform printing within a position-sensed area Performing Operations; Transporting 80 Expired
US8638190B1 Gesture detection using an array of short-range communication devices Physics 79 Active
US6766494B1 Method and system for creating ad-hoc links from free-form ink Physics 72 Expired
US8433705B1 Facet suggestion for search query augmentation Physics 69 Active
US7383509B2 Automatic generation of multimedia presentation Physics 62 Expired
US5721725A Protocol for channel access in wireless or network data communication Electricity 59 Expired
US6529215B2 Method and apparatus for annotating widgets Physics 58 Expired
US6670968B1 System and method for displaying and navigating links Physics 54 Expired

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