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Charles E. Shapley — 15 Patents

IBM: 15 patents #7,470 of 70,183Top 15%
Salt Point, NY: #5 of 47 inventorsTop 15%
New York: #9,821 of 115,490 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Charles E. Shapley has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in March 2011. Charles E. Shapley ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Charles E. Shapley in Salt Point, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2006.peak 41993: 1 patents19931995: 1 patents19951998: 1 patents19982004: 1 patents20042006: 4 patents20062007: 4 patents20072009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7911971 Mapping tool for configuring communications environments Friedrich Beichter, John J. Hughes, Ravi Ranjan, James R. Urquhart, Brian K. Zerba 2011-03-22 $5,211,000
7826386 Facilitating the configuring of communications environments Friedrich Beichter, John J. Hughes, Ravi Ranjan, James R. Urquhart, Brian K. Zerba 2010-11-02 $3,442,000
7587531 Multiple logical input/output subsystem facility Frank W. Brice, Jr., Janet R. Easton, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Steven G. Glassen, Beth A. Glendening +9 more 2009-09-08 $16,659,000
7290070 Multiple logical input/output subsystem facility Frank W. Brice, Jr., Janet R. Easton, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Steven G. Glassen, Beth A. Glendening +9 more 2007-10-30 $4,304,000
7277968 Managing sets of input/output communications subadapters of an input/output subsystem Frank W. Brice, Jr., Janet R. Easton, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Jeffrey P. Kubala, Hans-Helge Lehmann +7 more 2007-10-02 $8,802,000
7177961 Managing access, by operating system images of a computing environment, of input/output resources of the computing environment Frank W. Brice, Jr., Scott M. Carlson, Janet R. Easton, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Marten J. Halma +5 more 2007-02-13 $5,980,000
7174550 Sharing communications adapters across a plurality of input/output subsystem images Frank W. Brice, Jr., Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Beth A. Glendening, Marten J. Halma, Jeffrey P. Kubala +8 more 2007-02-06 $8,225,000
7149821 Predictably defining input/output configurations for environments employing fabrics Frank W. Brice, Jr., Scott M. Carlson, John R. Flanagan, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Eugene P. Hefferon +5 more 2006-12-12 $11,904,000
7130938 Method, system and program products for identifying communications adapters of a computing environment Frank W. Brice, Jr., Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Steven G. Glassen, Marten J. Halma, David W. Hollar +9 more 2006-10-31 $4,068,000
7127599 Managing configurations of input/output system images of an input/output subsystem, wherein a configuration is modified without restarting the input/output subsystem to effect a modification Frank W. Brice, Jr., Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Marten J. Halma, Eugene P. Hefferon, Carol B. Hernandez +8 more 2006-10-24 $14,060,000
6996638 Method, system and program products for enhancing input/output processing for operating system images of a computing environment Frank W. Brice, Jr., Scott M. Carlson, Janet R. Easton, Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Marten J. Halma +6 more 2006-02-07 $5,045,000
6785747 Method and system for flexible channel path identifier assignment Hans-Helge Lehmann, Robert A. Smith 2004-08-31 $4,873,000
5712974 Method and apparatus for controlling the configuration definitions in a data processing system with a plurality of processors Charles W. Gainey, Jr., Matthias Gubitz, Harvey McGee, Robert A. Smith, Werner Wicke 1998-01-27 $18,838,000
5452455 Asynchronous command support for shared channels for a computer complex having multiple operating systems Miriam P. Brown, Richard Cwiakala, Kenneth J. Fredericks, Marten J. Halma, David W. Hollar +6 more 1995-09-19 $8,701,000
5257379 Establishing synchronization of hardware and software I/O configuration definitions Richard Cwiakala, Jeffrey D. Haggar, Timothy J. Spewak, David E. Stucki, Harry M. Yudenfriend 1993-10-26 $7,840,000