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Christopher Francois — 11 Patents

IBM: 11 patents #10,022 of 70,183Top 15%
Shakopee, MN: #51 of 404 inventorsTop 15%
Minnesota: #6,919 of 52,454 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
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 2016Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2014.peak 22007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents20132014: 2 patents20142015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox 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