Christopher Francois has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM . The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in January 2016. Christopher Francois ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Christopher Francois in Shakopee, MN, US.
Patents per Year Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2016 Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2014. peak 2 2007: 1 patents 2007 2008: 1 patents 2008 2009: 1 patents 2009 2010: 1 patents 2010 2011: 1 patents 2011 2012: 1 patents 2012 2013: 1 patents 2013 2014: 2 patents 2014 2015: 1 patents 2015 2016: 1 patents 2016
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Showing 1–11 of 11 patents
Patent # Title Co-Inventors Date Approx Value ⓘ
9229716
Time-based task priority boost management using boost register values
Giles R. Frazier , Bruce Mealey , Suresh E. Warrier
2016-01-05
$2,535,000
9027021
Controlling depth and latency of exit of a virtual processor's idle state in a power management environment
Richard Louis Arndt , Naresh Nayar , Karthick Rajamani , Freeman Leigh Rawson, III , Randal C. Swanberg
2015-05-05
$8,777,000
8793482
Automatic configuration sampling for managing configuration parameters of a computer system
Mark Robert Funk , Allan E. Johnson , Todd J. Rosedahl , Philip L. Vitale
2014-07-29
$5,690,000
8719561
Automatic configuration sampling for managing configuration parameters of a computer system
Mark Robert Funk , Allan E. Johnson , Todd J. Rosedahl , Philip L. Vitale
2014-05-06
$5,370,000
8448006
Performing virtual and/or physical resource management for power management
Michael Stephen Floyd , Naresh Nayar , Karthick Rajamani , Freeman Leigh Rawson, III , Randal C. Swanberg +1 more
2013-05-21
$6,083,000
8341628
Controlling depth and latency of exit of a virtual processor's idle state in a power management environment
Richard Louis Arndt , Naresh Nayar , Karthick Rajamani , Freeman Leigh Rawson, III , Randal C. Swanberg
2012-12-25
8024726
System for correct distribution of hypervisor work
William J. Armstrong , Naresh Nayar
2011-09-20
$5,575,000
7698700
System quiesce for concurrent code updates
William J. Armstrong , Robert J. Battista , Naresh Nayar
2010-04-13
$5,309,000
7574708
Mechanism for enabling the distribution of operating system resources in a multi-node computer system
Lynn Keat Chung , Richard Karl Kirkman , Patrick Joseph McCarthy , Don D. Reed , Kenneth C. Vossen
2009-08-11
$14,264,000
7334230
Resource allocation in a NUMA architecture based on separate application specified resource and strength preferences for processor and memory resources
Lynn Keat Chung , Richard Karl Kirkman , Henry J. May , Patrick Joseph McCarthy , Don D. Reed +1 more
2008-02-19
$12,555,000
7266540
Mechanism for dynamic workload rebalancing in a multi-nodal computer system
Lynn Keat Chung , Mark Robert Funk , Richard Karl Kirkman , Henry J. May , Don D. Reed +1 more
2007-09-04
$5,939,000