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Roy Levien

Headline: Inventor
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Skills: Business, Design, German, Graphic design, Human-Computer Interaction, Intellectual Property, Languages, Law, Leadership, Management, Patents, Product design, Web design, Writing
Interested in: Meeting new people
Schools: Cornell University, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Yale University

EDUCATION

University: Cornell University

University: Harvard Business School

University: Harvard University
Degree: Applied Mathematics, BA

University: Yale University
Degree: Biology, MA

PUBLICATIONS

Articles: A colony of mind. The beehive as thinking machine, Sciences (New York) 27 (1987), pp. 38–43. (with T.D. Seeley)
Seeley, T. D., & Levien, R. A. (1987). Social foraging by honeybees: How a colony tracks rich sources of nectar. In R. Menzel & A. Mercer (Eds.), Neurobiology and behavior of honeybees (pp. 38-53). Heidelberg: Springer.
Business Ecosystems: Rethinking Policies Toward Network Industries, The Milken Institute Review, December 2002 (with M. Iansiti)
Strategy as Ecology, Harvard Business Review (March, 2004): 68-78. (with M. Iansiti)
Books: The Keystone Advantage: What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation and Sustainability. Harvard Business School Press (2004) (with M. Iansiti)
Patents: #7,536,179 Transfer back
#7,522,996 Map display system and method
#7,496,358 Transfer then sleep
#7,466,977 Call transfer to proximate devices
#7,441,089 Preserving content of serial use devices in view of purge
#7,429,966 Cosmetic enhancement mirror
#7,424,289 Bring call here selectively
#7,424,288 Call transfer to proximate devices
#7,283,106 Time-lapsing mirror
#7,259,732 Cosmetic enhancement mirror
#7,259,731 Medical overlay mirror
#7,133,003 Cosmetic enhancement mirror
#6,023,272 Continuously accessible computer system interface
#5,886,699 Method and system for transferring data to common destinations using a common destination list
#5,825,357 Continuously accessible computer system interface
#5,694,563 Method and system for transferring data to common destinations using a common destination list
#5,659,791 Encapsulation of extracted portions of documents into objects
#5,630,080 Method and system for the direct manipulation of information, including non-default drag and drop operation

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  • Rebeca Hwang

    Korean-Argentine finishing her PhD at Stanford. Addicted to startups and entrepreneurship. Life ADD & Loves travelling.

  • Edward Jung

    Work on inventions. Formerly worked with Microsoft, NeXT, Apple. Biophysics background.

  • Daniel Cook

    Intellectual Ventures, Director of Invention Generation Microsoft Corporation, Group Program Manager in Windows Experience Group, Microsoft Network, and MS Research. B.S. in Physics, M.S. in Optics