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Bernard Pierce — 25 Patents

IBM: 25 patents #4,231 of 70,183Top 7%
Poughkeepsie, NY: #155 of 1,613 inventorsTop 10%
New York: #5,198 of 115,490 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
Bernard Pierce has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in February 2016. Bernard Pierce ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list Bernard Pierce in Poughkeepsie, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2015.peak 71989: 1 patents19891993: 1 patents1995: 1 patents19951996: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19982002: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082010: 1 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 5 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2015: 7 patents20152016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9262236 Warning track interruption facility Mark S. Farrell, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Jeffrey P. Kubala, James H. Mulder, Robert R. Rogers +1 more 2016-02-16 $2,821,000
9218211 Priority promotion for service requests Jacob Friedman, Peter J. Relson 2015-12-22 $2,572,000
9110878 Use of a warning track interruption facility by a program Mark S. Farrell, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Jeffrey P. Kubala, James H. Mulder, Robert R. Rogers +1 more 2015-08-18 $3,868,000
9110741 Warning track interruption facility Mark S. Farrell, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Jeffrey P. Kubala, James H. Mulder, Robert R. Rogers +1 more 2015-08-18 $3,868,000
9104509 Providing by one program to another program access to a warning track facility Mark S. Farrell, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Jeffrey P. Kubala, James H. Mulder, Robert R. Rogers +1 more 2015-08-11 $2,160,000
9104508 Providing by one program to another program access to a warning track facility Mark S. Farrell, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Jeffrey P. Kubala, James H. Mulder, Robert R. Rogers +1 more 2015-08-11 $2,160,000
9098478 Warning track interruption facility Mark S. Farrell, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Jeffrey P. Kubala, James H. Mulder, Robert R. Rogers +1 more 2015-08-04 $5,566,000
9098358 Use of a warning track interruption facility by a program Mark S. Farrell, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Jeffrey P. Kubala, James H. Mulder, Robert R. Rogers +1 more 2015-08-04 $5,566,000
8850450 Warning track interruption facility Mark S. Farrell, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Jeffrey P. Kubala, James H. Mulder, Robert R. Rogers +1 more 2014-09-30 $5,320,000
8352950 Algorithm to share physical processors to maximize processor cache usage and topologies Donna N. Dillenberger, Jeffrey P. Kubala, Donald W. Schmidt 2013-01-08 $4,312,000
8312465 Real-time CPU dispatcher affinity re-balancing Daniel V. Rosa, Donald W. Schmidt 2012-11-13 $6,514,000
8281315 Method, system, and storage medium for managing computer processing functions Donald F. Ault, Jose R. Castano, Jeffrey P. Kubala, Robert J. Maddison, Gary S. Puchkoff +4 more 2012-10-02 $13,900,000
8276155 Method, system, and storage medium for managing computer processing functions Donald F. Ault, Jose R. Castano, Jeffrey P. Kubala, Robert J. Maddison, Gary S. Puchkoff +4 more 2012-09-25 $5,997,000
8108877 Affinity dispatching load balancer with precise CPU consumption data Donna N. Dillenberger, Greg A. Dyck, Stephen J. Heisig, Donald W. Schmidt, Gong Su 2012-01-31 $4,013,000
8108875 Affinity dispatching load balancer with precise CPU consumption data Donna N. Dillenberger, Greg A. Dyck, Stephen J. Heisig, Donald W. Schmidt, Gong Su 2012-01-31 $4,013,000
7941805 Affinity dispatching load balancer with precise CPU consumption data Donna N. Dillenberger, Greg A. Dyck, Stephen J. Heisig, Donald W. Schmidt, Gong Su 2011-05-10 $6,699,000
7937543 Determination of the frame age in a large real storage environment Elpida Tzortzatos, Dieter Wellerdiek 2011-05-03 $5,933,000
7657889 Method, system, and storage medium for searching multiple queues for prioritized work elements Robert R. Rogers 2010-02-02 $8,575,000
7392524 Method, system, and storage medium for managing computer processing functions Donald F. Ault, Jose R. Castano, Jeffrey P. Kubala, Robert J. Maddison, Gary S. Puchkoff +4 more 2008-06-24 $7,053,000
6442583 Multi-system resource capping Catherine K. Eilert 2002-08-27 $8,564,000
5740437 Separating work unit priority and accountability from address spaces Steven Jay Greenspan, Stephen Joseph Kinder, Michael G. Mall 1998-04-14 $13,289,000
5537542 Apparatus and method for managing a server workload according to client performance goals in a client/server data processing system Catherine K. Eilert 1996-07-16 $6,072,000
5473773 Apparatus and method for managing a data processing system workload according to two or more distinct processing goals Jeffrey D. Aman, Catherine K. Eilert, Gary M. King, Peter B. Yocom 1995-12-05 $21,878,000
5247687 Method and apparatus for determining and using program paging characteristics to optimize system productive CPU time Catherine K. Eilert 1993-09-21 $6,888,000
4807111 Dynamic queueing method Edward Cohen 1989-02-21 $20,123,000