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Eric J. Horvitz
Also filed as: HORVITZ ERIC · HORVITZ ERIC J · HORVITZ ERIC JOEL
344 granted patents·126 pending applications·25,912 citations·filing 1995–2024
99Inventor score
Files withMICROSOFT CORP307MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC66HORVITZ ERIC J31HORVITZ ERIC15FLAKE GARY W5
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470 records- 0199US8254393B2Harnessing predictive models of durations of channel availability for enhanced opportunistic allocation of radio spectrumHORVITZ ERIC J·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 28, 2012·331 cites·16 claims
- 0299US7739040B2Computation of travel routes, durations, and plans over multiple contextsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 15, 2010·112 cites·21 claims
- 0399US7644427B1Time-centric training, interference and user interface for personalized media program guidesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 5, 2010·127 cites·18 claims
- 0499US7203909B1System and methods for constructing personalized context-sensitive portal pages or views by analyzing patterns of users' information access activitiesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 10, 2007·277 cites·25 claims
- 0599US6947935B1Training, inference and user interface for guiding the caching of media content on local storesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Sep 20, 2005·213 cites·26 claims
- 0699US6931384B1System and method providing utility-based decision making about clarification dialog given communicative uncertaintyMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 16, 2005·281 cites·27 claims
- 0799US6182133B1Method and apparatus for display of information prefetching and cache status having variable visual indication based on a period of time since prefetchingMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Jan 30, 2001·706 cites·5 claims
- 0899US6161130ATechnique which utilizes a probabilistic classifier to detect "junk" e-mail by automatically updating a training and re-training the classifier based on the updated training setMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 12, 2000·1.3k cites·65 claims
- 0999US5704017ACollaborative filtering utilizing a belief networkMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Dec 30, 1997·709 cites·43 claims
- 1098US8024112B2Methods for predicting destinations from partial trajectories employing open-and closed-world modeling methodsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Sep 20, 2011·94 cites·17 claims
- 1198US7747719B1Methods, tools, and interfaces for the dynamic assignment of people to groups to enable enhanced communication and collaborationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 29, 2010·111 cites·9 claims
- 1298US7706964B2Inferring road speeds for context-sensitive routingMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 27, 2010·183 cites·20 claims
- 1398US7702635B2System and methods for constructing personalized context-sensitive portal pages or views by analyzing patterns of users' information access activitiesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 20, 2010·101 cites·6 claims
- 1498US7644144B1Methods, tools, and interfaces for the dynamic assignment of people to groups to enable enhanced communication and collaborationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Jan 5, 2010·256 cites·17 claims
- 1598US7519223B2Recognizing gestures and using gestures for interacting with software applicationsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Apr 14, 2009·478 cites·46 claims
- 1698US7519529B1System and methods for inferring informational goals and preferred level of detail of results in response to questions posed to an automated information-retrieval or question-answering serviceMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 14, 2009·240 cites·43 claims
- 1798US7289102B2Method and apparatus using multiple sensors in a device with a displayMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 30, 2007·342 cites·25 claims
- 1898US7243130B2Notification platform architectureMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Jul 10, 2007·352 cites·16 claims
- 1998US7103806B1System for performing context-sensitive decisions about ideal communication modalities considering information about channel reliabilityMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Sep 5, 2006·277 cites·46 claims
- 2098US6980993B2Schemas for a notification platform and related information servicesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 27, 2005·255 cites·28 claims
- 2198US6192360B1Methods and apparatus for classifying text and for building a text classifierMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Feb 20, 2001·600 cites·44 claims
- 2298US6085226AMethod and apparatus for utility-directed prefetching of web pages into local cache using continual computation and user modelsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Jul 4, 2000·482 cites·202 claims
- 2398US6067565ATechnique for prefetching a web page of potential future interest in lieu of continuing a current information downloadMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted May 23, 2000·745 cites·57 claims
- 2498US6023275ASystem and method for resizing an input position indicator for a user interface of a computer systemMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Feb 8, 2000·663 cites·10 claims
- 2598US6021403AIntelligent user assistance facilityMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Feb 1, 2000·987 cites·119 claims
- 2698US6006218AMethods and apparatus for retrieving and/or processing retrieved information as a function of a user's estimated knowledgeMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 21, 1999·490 cites·47 claims
- 2798US5880733ADisplay system and method for displaying windows of an operating system to provide a three-dimensional workspace for a computer systemMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Mar 9, 1999·939 cites·42 claims
- 2897US10303843B2Computing system for identifying health risk regionsMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2015·Granted May 28, 2019·50 cites·20 claims
- 2997US8473197B2Computation of travel routes, durations, and plans over multiple contextsHORVITZ ERIC J·Filed 2011·Granted Jun 25, 2013·36 cites·20 claims
- 3097US7917514B2Visual and multi-dimensional searchMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 29, 2011·85 cites·20 claims
- 3197US7757250B1Time-centric training, inference and user interface for personalized media program guidesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Jul 13, 2010·109 cites·17 claims
- 3297US7734116B2Swarm imagingMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 8, 2010·37 cites·14 claims
- 3397US7698055B2Traffic forecasting employing modeling and analysis of probabilistic interdependencies and contextual dataMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 13, 2010·100 cites·20 claims
- 3497US7693817B2Sensing, storing, indexing, and retrieving data leveraging measures of user activity, attention, and interestMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 6, 2010·70 cites·17 claims
- 3597US7610151B2Collaborative route planning for generating personalized and context-sensitive routing recommendationsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 27, 2009·99 cites·19 claims
- 3697US7548932B2Schemas for a notification platform and related information servicesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 16, 2009·51 cites·31 claims
- 3797US7386801B1System and method that facilitates computer desktop use via scaling of displayed objects with shifts to the peripheryMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 10, 2008·147 cites·27 claims
- 3897US7330895B1Representation, decision models, and user interface for encoding managing preferences, and performing automated decision making about the timing and modalities of interpersonal communicationsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Feb 12, 2008·180 cites·84 claims
- 3997US7293019B2Principles and methods for personalizing newsfeeds via an analysis of information novelty and dynamicsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Nov 6, 2007·182 cites·39 claims
- 4097US7233933B2Methods and architecture for cross-device activity monitoring, reasoning, and visualization for providing status and forecasts of a users' presence and availabilityMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jun 19, 2007·224 cites·98 claims
- 4197US7225187B2Systems and methods for performing background queries from content and activityMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2004·Granted May 29, 2007·167 cites·35 claims
- 4297US7199754B2System and methods for determining the location dynamics of a portable computing deviceMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 3, 2007·79 cites·17 claims
- 4397US7162473B2Method and system for usage analyzer that determines user accessed sources, indexes data subsets, and associated metadata, processing implicit queries based on potential interest to usersMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 9, 2007·395 cites·26 claims
- 4497US6901398B1System and method for constructing and personalizing a universal information classifierMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2001·Granted May 31, 2005·209 cites·45 claims
- 4597US6745193B1System and method for defining, refining, and personalizing communications policies in a notification platformMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Jun 1, 2004·139 cites·26 claims
- 4697US6601012B1Contextual models and methods for inferring attention and locationMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Jul 29, 2003·200 cites·32 claims
- 4797US6262730B1Intelligent user assistance facilityMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Jul 17, 2001·399 cites·13 claims
- 4897US6260035B1Intelligent user assistance facility for a software programMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Jul 10, 2001·213 cites·30 claims
- 4996US10678890B2Client computing device health-related suggestionsMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Jun 9, 2020·116 cites·19 claims
- 5096US8090530B2Computation of travel routes, durations, and plans over multiple contextsHORVITZ ERIC J·Filed 2010·Granted Jan 3, 2012·29 cites·18 claims
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