PatentBrief

Era in Patents

The 2000s

Smartphones, social platforms, and consumer GPS rewrote daily life. Apple's multi-touch filings reshaped human-computer interaction, the Human Genome Project sparked a wave of sequencing patents, and lithium chemistry quietly prepared the ground for electric vehicles. Cloud computing, Wi-Fi mesh networks, and the early NAND flash patents from this era now sit inside almost every connected device.

By year

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Top patents · 21 ranked by influence

20002009

US 7479949 · 2009 · Apple Inc

How Touchscreens Tell the Difference Between Your Finger Gestures

US 6266649 · 2001 · Amazon com Inc

Amazon's 'Customers Also Bought' — The Recommendation Algorithm That Changed Retail

US 6285999 · 2001 · Leland Stanford Junior University

How Websites Get Ranked by Who Links to Them

US 7469381 · 2008 · Apple Inc

How Touchscreens Make Documents Bounce When You Scroll Too Far

US 6665308 · 2003 · Terayon Communication Systems Inc

Apparatus and method for equalization in distributed digital data transmission systems

US 6370526 · 2002 · International Business Machines Corp

Google AdWords — The Auction System That Made Search Profitable

US 6178160 · 2001 · Cisco Technology Inc

Load balancing of client connections across a network using server based algorithms

US 7233978 · 2007 · Econnectix LLC

Method and apparatus for managing location information in a network separate from the data to which the location information pertains

US 6122658 · 2000 · Microsoft Corp

Custom localized information in a networked server for display to an end user

US 6732183 · 2004 · BroadWare Technologies LLC

Video and audio streaming for multiple users

US 6990497 · 2006 · Microsoft Corp

Dynamic streaming media management

US 6630507 · 2003 · US Department of Health and Human Services

Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants

US 6828755 · 2004 · Johnson Controls Technology Co

Battery system module

US 6362826 · 2002 · Intel Corp

Method and apparatus for implementing dynamic display memory

US 7577616 · 2009

Method and apparatus of secure authentication and electronic payment through mobile communication tool

US 6073184 · 2000 · Alcatel SA

Method of transmitting a notification to a receiver from plural notification services in a distributed application network, and a network for implementing the method

US 6476836 · 2002 · Ricoh Co Ltd

Image forming apparatus having a function of saving developing agent

US 6033785 · 2000 · Central Glass Co Ltd

Vehicular colored glass pane with light transmittance and reflectance adjustment

US 7512773 · 2009 · Nvidia Corp

Context switching using halt sequencing protocol

US 7543038 · 2009 · International Business Machines Corp

Arrangement and method for impermanent connectivity

US 7352772 · 2008 · Lenovo Singapore Pte Ltd

Minimization of performance impact in overlying 802.11b and 802.11g networks

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