Jeffrey Alan Rapaport is an American inventor and author. Over three decades he designed and patented systems that model a person and act on that model — routing and adapting medical information with secure protocols to the various stakeholders including the patient and doctor. His patents in social networking, deciding which posts, promotions, and people reach a person. That work anticipated, years early, the machinery the modern social world now runs on; one of his social-networking patents has since been cited by more than a thousand later patents, including filings from many of the largest technology companies.

He has completed a trilogy of literary nonfiction on the worth of a human being in the age of intelligent machines — the confession of an inventor who helped build the attention machinery, and a reckoning with what no machine can take. Publication is expected in 2026. His earlier published writing includes technology articles from the start of his career. He has also published articles for an Artificial Intelligence magazine, PC-AI.

He holds a Bachelor of Science from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley (1995).

Patents (links resolve on Google Patents)

The personal feedback browser
U.S. 5,890,152 — "Personal feedback browser for obtaining media files" (filed 1996) — patents.google.com/patent/US5890152

Personalized medical-information family
U.S. 5,926,526 — "Method and apparatus for automated patient information retrieval" — patents.google.com/patent/US5926526
U.S. 6,192,112 — "Medical information system including a medical information server having an interactive voice-response interface" — patents.google.com/patent/US6192112
U.S. 7,209,550 — "Medical information system having interactive messaging interface" — patents.google.com/patent/US7209550
The adaptive-communication line — "Adaptive communication methods and systems for facilitating the gathering, distribution and delivery of information related to medical care":
U.S. 7,034,691 — patents.google.com/patent/US7034691 · U.S. 7,436,311 — patents.google.com/patent/US7436311 · U.S. 7,916,014 — patents.google.com/patent/US7916014 · U.S. 8,193,931 — patents.google.com/patent/US8193931

Social-topical and attention-optimization family (STAN)
U.S. 8,539,359 — "Social network driven indexing system for instantly clustering people with concurrent focus on same topic into on-topic chat rooms and/or for generating on-topic search results tailored to user preferences regarding topic" — patents.google.com/patent/US8539359
U.S. 8,676,937 — "Social-topical adaptive networking (STAN) system allowing for group-based contextual transaction offers and acceptances and hot-topic watchdogging" — cited by more than a thousand later patents — patents.google.com/patent/US8676937
U.S. 10,142,276 — "Contextually-based automatic service offerings to users of machine system" — patents.google.com/patent/US10142276
U.S. 10,691,726 — "Methods using STAN system" — patents.google.com/patent/US10691726
U.S. 11,539,657 — continuation of the line above; granted claims cover a swipe-driven, engagement-scored feed of content cards — patents.google.com/patent/US11539657
U.S. 11,805,091 — continuation of the line above; granted claims cover a context-driven, card-based content-recommendation engine — patents.google.com/patent/US11805091
U.S. 11,816,743 — "Information enhancing method using software agents in a social networking system" — patents.google.com/patent/US11816743

International application
WO 1998/006055 (priority 1996) — "Apparatus and method for obtaining information from a computer network using a scanner and browser": scanning a printed bar code to reach a personalized web page; a documented conceptual precursor of the code-to-web pattern, cited by 120+ later patents — patents.google.com/patent/WO1998006055A1. (An application, not a granted U.S. patent.)