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John R. Frank
Also filed as: FRANK JOHN · FRANK JOHN E · FRANK JOHN R · FRANK JOHN RANDOLPH
27 granted patents·12 pending applications·819 citations·filing 1982–2021
97Inventor score
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39 records- 0198US8015183B2System and methods for providing statstically interesting geographical information based on queries to a geographic search engineNOKIA CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 6, 2011·102 cites·34 claims
- 0297US8200676B2User interface for geographic searchFRANK JOHN R·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 12, 2012·95 cites·25 claims
- 0397US7953732B2Searching by using spatial document and spatial keyword document indexesNOKIA CORP·Filed 2005·Granted May 31, 2011·74 cites·20 claims
- 0495US7117199B2Spatially coding and displaying informationMETACARTA INC·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 3, 2006·175 cites·18 claims
- 0594US9275132B2Entity-centric knowledge discoveryDIFFEO INC·Filed 2015·Granted Mar 1, 2016·59 cites·24 claims
- 0691US7539693B2Spatially directed crawling of documentsMETACARTA INC·Filed 2004·Granted May 26, 2009·60 cites·14 claims
- 0790US7908280B2Query method involving more than one corpus of documentsNOKIA CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 15, 2011·23 cites·14 claims
- 0889US7917464B2Geotext searching and displaying resultsMETACARTA INC·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 29, 2011·22 cites·38 claims
- 0988US10839021B2Knowledge operating systemSALESFORCE COM INC·Filed 2018·Granted Nov 17, 2020·10 cites·19 claims
- 1088US10474708B2Entity-centric knowledge discoveryDIFFEO INC·Filed 2016·Granted Nov 12, 2019·9 cites·20 claims
- 1188US9684655B2Systems and methods for spatial thumbnails and companion maps for media objectsNOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY·Filed 2016·Granted Jun 20, 2017·4 cites·27 claims
- 1286US9411896B2Systems and methods for spatial thumbnails and companion maps for media objectsFRANK JOHN R·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 9, 2016·12 cites·32 claims
- 1386US7599988B2Desktop client interaction with a geographical text search systemMETACARTA INC·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 6, 2009·47 cites·12 claims
- 1486US4456145AWeatherproof outlet coverMASON CO L E·Filed 1982·Granted Jun 26, 1984·51 cites·9 claims
- 1582US7596581B2Relevance ranking of spatially coded documentsMETACARTA INC·Filed 2004·Granted Sep 29, 2009·37 cites·18 claims
- 1678US9721157B2Systems and methods for obtaining and using information from map imagesFRANK JOHN R·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 1, 2017·9 cites·16 claims
- 1776US10810251B2Systems and methods for spatial thumbnails and companion maps for media objectsNOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY·Filed 2017·Granted Oct 20, 2020·1 cites·20 claims
- 1874US11106741B2Knowledge operating systemSALESFORCE COM INC·Filed 2018·Granted Aug 31, 2021·2 cites·20 claims
- 1972US11409777B2Entity-centric knowledge discoverySALESFORCE COM INC·Filed 2019·Granted Aug 9, 2022·1 cites·20 claims
- 2070US11645325B2Systems and methods for spatial thumbnails and companion maps for media objectsNOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY·Filed 2020·Granted May 9, 2023·0 cites·37 claims
- 2168US2008033936A1Systems and methods for presenting results of geographic text searchesMETACARTA INC·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 2266US11790009B2Knowledge operating systemSALESFORCE COM INC·Filed 2021·Granted Oct 17, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 2364US8037078B2Corpus clustering, confidence refinement, and ranking for geographic text search and information retrievalNOKIA CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 11, 2011·10 cites·24 claims
- 2463US9286404B2Methods of systems using geographic meta-metadata in information retrieval and document displaysFRANK JOHN R·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 15, 2016·3 cites·17 claims
- 2556US2008140348A1Systems and methods for predictive models using geographic text searchMETACARTA INC·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 2654US9201972B2Spatial indexing of documentsFRANK JOHN R·Filed 2007·Granted Dec 1, 2015·2 cites·17 claims
- 2752US2008033944A1Systems and methods for presenting results of geographic text searchesMETACARTA INC·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 2852US2008059452A1Systems and methods for obtaining and using information from map imagesMETACARTA INC·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 2952US2008270366A1User interface for geographic searchMETACARTA INC·Filed 2008·Application pending·0 cites
- 3052US2008033935A1Systems and methods for presenting results of geographic text searchesMETACARTA INC·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 3152US2008040336A1Systems and methods for presenting results of geographic text searchesMETACARTA INC·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 3252US2008056538A1Systems and methods for obtaining and using information from map imagesMETACARTA INC·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 3351US12314666B2Stable identification of entity mentionsSALESFORCE COM INC·Filed 2021·Granted May 27, 2025·0 cites·17 claims
- 3447US2016267058A1Methods of systems using geographic meta-metadata in information retrieval and document displaysNOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY·Filed 2016·Application pending·0 cites
- 3546US2008065685A1Systems and methods for presenting results of geographic text searchesMETACARTA INC·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 3642US2005278378A1Systems and methods of geographical text indexingMETACARTA INC·Filed 2005·Application pending·0 cites
- 3740US12265587B2Systems and method for investigating relationships among entitiesSALESFORCE COM INC·Filed 2020·Granted Apr 1, 2025·0 cites·21 claims
- 3839US5457767AWater tank for heating water with oblique partition forming separate lime-precipitating and heating sectionsWITTENBORG AS·Filed 1993·Granted Oct 10, 1995·11 cites·7 claims
- 3938US2003024224A1Apparatus for cutting vegetationFiled 2001·Application pending·0 cites
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