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David George Derk

IBM: 12 patents #9,222 of 70,183Top 15%
Gibsonia, PA: #55 of 383 inventorsTop 15%
Pennsylvania: #6,628 of 74,527 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #407,291 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11675521 Comprehensive data protection backup James P. Smith, Austen M. Cook, Thomas Franklin Ramke, Jr., Jason Ferris Basler, Lisa Huston +2 more 2023-06-13
11526404 Exploiting object tags to produce a work order across backup engines for a backup job Sean Cox, Kevin Lee Gibble, Avishai H. Hochberg, James P. Smith, Steven V. Voyk +2 more 2022-12-13
11385970 Backing-up blocks from virtual disks in different virtual machine environments having different block lengths to a common data format block length Robert C. Edwards, Michael S. Fruchtman, Avishai H. Hochberg, Vadzim I. Piletski, Delbert B. Hoobler, III +1 more 2022-07-12
10896098 Providing and managing data protection by using incremental forever for storage to cloud object stores Omar Vargas, Avishai H. Hochberg, Thomas Franklin Ramke, Jr., Peter Tanenhaus, Stefan Bender +4 more 2021-01-19
10545836 Hypervisor agnostic interchangeable backup recovery and file level recovery from virtual disks Robert C. Edwards, Michael S. Fruchtman, Avishai H. Hochberg, Vadzim I. Piletski, Delbert B. Hoobler, III +1 more 2020-01-28
9684567 Hypervisor agnostic interchangeable backup recovery and file level recovery from virtual disks Robert C. Edwards, Michael S. Fruchtman, Avishai H. Hochberg, Vadzim L. Piletski, Delbert B. Hoobler, III +1 more 2017-06-20
8631217 Apparatus, system, and method for virtual machine backup Jason Ferris Basler, Vadzim I. Piletski, James P. Smith 2014-01-14
8458419 Method for application backup in the VMware consolidated backup framework Jason Ferris Basler, James P. Smith 2013-06-04
8352434 Performing scheduled backups of a backup node associated with a plurality of agent nodes Robert C. Edwards, Glen Hattrup, Avisbai Haim Hochberg, Thomas Franklin Ramke, Jr., James P. Smith 2013-01-08
8117169 Performing scheduled backups of a backup node associated with a plurality of agent nodes Robert C. Edwards, Glen Hattrup, Avisbai Haim Hochberg, Thomas Franklin Ramke, Jr., James P. Smith 2012-02-14
7506033 System and method for remotely accessing a client in a client server environment Douglas Robert Case, James Michael Dile, Robert C. Edwards, Avishai H. Hochberg, David T. Kwan +6 more 2009-03-17
7461102 Method for performing scheduled backups of a backup node associated with a plurality of agent nodes Robert C. Edwards, Glen Hattrup, Avishai H. Hochberg, Thomas Franklin Ramke, Jr., James P. Smith 2008-12-02