William Noah Schilit
75Patents
32h-index
66Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Jul 30, 1993 → Feb 2, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.