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Christopher Ward — 25 Patents

IBM: 24 patents #4,444 of 70,183Top 7%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
Christopher Ward has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in March 2025. Christopher Ward ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list Christopher Ward in Winchester, NJ, GB.

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Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12260400 Computer-implemented method and system for digital signing of transactions Roumen Gueorguiev Asenov, Michael James Elkins 2025-03-25
10917313 Managing service levels provided by service providers Jean-Marc Berthaud, Melissa J. Buco, Rong N. Chang, Joel D. Dalsky, Shih-Chung Fang +2 more 2021-02-09 $3,536,000
10574588 System and method for reducing latency time with cloud services Genady Grabarnik, Markus Klems, Larisa Shwartz, Stefan Tai 2020-02-25 $1,919,000
9749194 Managing service levels provided by service providers Jean-Marc Berthaud, Melissa J. Buco, Rong N. Chang, Joel D. Dalsky, Shih-Chung Fang +2 more 2017-08-29 $2,195,000
9613324 Apparatus and methods for decomposing service processes and for identifying alternate service elements in service provider environments Christian Bartsch, Genady Grabarnik, Larisa Shwartz 2017-04-04 $2,713,000
9098456 System and method for reducing latency time with cloud services Genady Grabarnik, Markus Klems, Larisa Shwartz, Stefan Tai 2015-08-04 $5,566,000
8914789 Systematic migration of workload based on classification James R. Barros, Kamal Bhattacharya, Brian Peterson, Birgit M. Pfitzmann, John Rofrano +1 more 2014-12-16 $3,695,000
8799436 System and method for automated configuration control, audit verification and process analytics Naga A. Ayachitula, Melissa J. Buco, Bradford A. Fisher, David Loewenstern, Larisa Schwartz 2014-08-05 $3,332,000
8745628 Execution order management of multiple processes on a data processing system by assigning constrained resources to the processes based on resource requirements and business impacts Melissa J. Buco, Jarir K. Chaar, Rong N. Chang, Guerney Douglass Holloway Hunt, Laura Zaihua Luan 2014-06-03 $4,638,000
8649296 Apparatus, system and method for reliable, fast, and scalable multicast message delivery in service overlay networks Chunqiang Tang, Rong N. Chang 2014-02-11 $7,953,000
8631389 Methods and apparatus for authentication of configuration items via configuration item change analysis Glenn C. Aikens, Melissa J. Buco, Maheswaran Surendra, Steve Weinberger, Sam Shixiong Yang 2014-01-14 $7,408,000
8527811 Problem record signature generation, classification and search in problem determination Allen M. Gilbert, Laura Zaihua Luan, Daniela Rosu 2013-09-03 $4,698,000
8489547 System and method for transforming configuration data items in a configuration management database Naga A. Ayachitula, Melissa J. Buco, Krishna S. Garimella, Lalitha P. Kamesam, David Loewenstern +2 more 2013-07-16 $5,283,000
8438117 Method and system for managing service levels provided by service providers Jean-Marc Berthaud, Melissa J. Buco, Rong N. Chang, Joel D. Dalsky, Shih-Chung Fang +2 more 2013-05-07 $10,737,000
8370799 Provision of code base modification using automatic learning of code changes Yarden Nir-Buchbinder, Brian Peterson 2013-02-05 $5,221,000
8358652 Apparatus, system and method for reliable, fast, and scalable multicast message delivery in service overlay networks Chunqiang Tang, Rong N. Chang 2013-01-22 $9,574,000
8332267 Method and system for real time measurement data adjudication and service level evaluation Melissa J. Buco, Rong N. Chang, Laura Zaihua Luan 2012-12-11 $5,394,000
8301613 System and method for incident processing through a correlation model Genady Grabarnik, Gabriela P. Marcu, Larisa Shwartz 2012-10-30
8302097 Scheduling resources in a penalty-based environment Melissa J. Buco, Rong N. Chang, Laura Zaihua Luan, Joel L. Wolf, Philip Yu 2012-10-30
8126756 Method and system for real time measurement data adjudication and service level evaluation Melissa J. Buco, Rong N. Chang, Laura Zaihua Luan 2012-02-28 $6,579,000
7913227 Methods and apparatus for management of configuration item lifecycle state transitions Glenn C. Aikens, Melissa J. Buco, Maheswaran Surendra, Steve Weinberger, Sam Shixiong Yang 2011-03-22 $5,211,000
7543058 Defining and implementing configuration standards for facilitating compliance testing in an environment Naga A. Ayachitula, Melissa J. Buco, Lalitha P. Kamesam, David Loewenstern, Larisa Shwartz 2009-06-02 $7,754,000
7509627 Method for management of dynamically alterable lifecycles in structured classification domains Naga A. Ayachitula, Melissa J. Buco, Lalitha P. Kamesam, David Loewenstern, Larisa Shwartz 2009-03-24 $7,908,000
7480913 Method, apparatus, and program for scheduling resources in a penalty-based environment Melissa J. Buco, Rong N. Chang, Laura Zaihua Luan, Joel L. Wolf, Philip Yu 2009-01-20 $5,212,000
7457257 Apparatus, system, and method for reliable, fast, and scalable multicast message delivery in service overlay networks Chunqiang Tang, Rong N. Chang 2008-11-25 $6,627,000