IT Methods for Management

Citations to U.S. patents by U.S. patents granted in 2020

Top 10   [Cited by Examiner | Cited by Applicant]

Related WIPO fields:[Computer technology | Digital communication | Control | Telecommunications | Measurement | Medical technology | Transport All WIPO fields

[Cited by Examiner | Cited by Applicant]
Most Cited by Examiners

  1. 16 5892900    Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection
  Inventors: Karl Ginter; Victor H. Shear; W. Olin Sibert; Francis J. Spahn; David M. Van Wie

  1. 16 7809587    Rapid business support of insured property using image analysis
  Inventors: Chitra Dorai; William Francis Jerome; Edith H. Stern; Fred S. Winegust

  3. 14 6327578    Four-party credit/debit payment protocol
  Inventors: Mark H. Linehan

  3. 14 6587835    Shopping assistance with handheld computing device
  Inventors: G. Victor Treyz; Susan M. Treyz

  3. 14 8311863    Utility high performance capability assessment
  Inventors: Stacy M. Kemp

  3. 14 9911290    Wireless coded communication (WCC) devices for tracking retail interactions with goods and association to user accounts
  Inventors: Gary M. Zalewski; Albert S. Penilla

  7. 13 8346578    Systems and methods for using unmanned aerial vehicles
  Inventors: John Chandler Hopkins, III; Michael Patrick Bueche, Jr.; Andre Rene Buentello; James P. Hillman; Bradly Jay Billman

  7. 13 9824453    Three dimensional image scan for vehicle
  Inventors: Stephen M. Collins; Randolph Kwan

  9. 12 6266649    Collaborative recommendations using item-to-item similarity mappings
  Inventors: Gregory D. Linden; Jennifer A. Jacobi; Eric A. Benson

  9. 12 7630986    Secure data interchange
  Inventors: Frederick S. M. Herz; Walter Paul Labys; David C. Parkes; Sampath Kannan; Jason M. Eisner

  9. 12 8458053    Click-to buy overlays
  Inventors: Florian Buron; Chirayu Krishnappa; BethEllyn McClendon; Jasson Schrock; Johan Tibell; Thai Tran

  9. 12 8620707    Systems and methods for allocating inventory in a fulfillment network
  Inventors: Dmitriy Belyi; Xiao-Yu Li

  9. 12 8712893    Enhanced claims damage estimation using aggregate display
  Inventors: Jennifer A. Brandmaier; Mark E. Faga; Robert H. Johnson; Philip Peter Ramirez; Kurt M. Stricker; Joshua E. Campbell

[Cited by Examiner | Cited by Applicant]
Most Cited by Applicants

  1. 90 5960411    Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network
  Inventors: Peri Hartman; Jeffrey P. Bezos; Shel Kaphan; Joel R. Spiegel

  2. 85 5883810    Electronic online commerce card with transactionproxy number for online transactions
  Inventors: D. Chase Franklin; Daniel Rosen

  3. 78 8316237    System and method for secure three-party communications
  Inventors: David Paul Felsher; Robert H. Nagel; Steven M. Hoffberg

  4. 71 7793851    Dynamic credit card with magnetic stripe and embedded encoder and methods for using the same to provide a copy-proof credit card
  Inventors: Jeffrey D. Mullen

  5. 70 6587835    Shopping assistance with handheld computing device
  Inventors: G. Victor Treyz; Susan M. Treyz

  5. 70 8095113    Onetime passwords for smart chip cards
  Inventors: Brian Kean; Christopher T. Cox

  7. 69 8074877    Systems and methods for programmable payment cards and devices with loyalty-based payment applications
  Inventors: Jeffrey D. Mullen; Philip W. Yen

  8. 68 6227447    Cardless payment system
  Inventors: Kurt M. Campisano

  9. 64 6266669    Partially replicated distributed database with multiple levels of remote clients
  Inventors: Robert A. Brodersen; Prashant Chatterjee; Peter Lim

  9. 64 7584153    Financial transactions with dynamic card verification values
  Inventors: Kerry D. Brown; David Kevin Pariseau

 
 
References:
Raw data from: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. "Data Download Tables." PatentsView. Accessed October 30, 2025. https://patentsview.org/download/data-download-tables.

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