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David H. Surman

IBM: 62 patents #1,257 of 70,183Top 2%
Milton, NY: #2 of 34 inventorsTop 6%
New York: #1,305 of 115,490 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #36,752 of 4,157,543Top 1%
62 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–50 of 62 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7257091 Controlling the state of duplexing of coupling facility structures David A. Elko, Steven N. Goss, Michael J. Jordan, Georgette L. Kurdt, Jeffrey M. Nick +1 more 2007-08-14
7120746 Technique for data transfer John Joseph Campbell, David A. Elko, Jeffrey W. Josten, Haakon Roberts 2006-10-10
7099935 Dynamically determining whether to process requests synchronously or asynchronously Michael J. Jordan, Gary M. King, Georgette L. Kurdt, Catherine M. Moxey, Jeffrey M. Nick +2 more 2006-08-29
7058837 Method and system for providing a message-time-ordering facility David A. Elko, Richard K. Errickson, Steven N. Goss, Dan F. Greiner, Carol B. Hernandez +1 more 2006-06-06
7024587 Managing errors detected in processing of commands David A. Elko, Steven N. Goss, Michael J. Jordan, Georgette L. Kurdt 2006-04-04
7013305 Managing the state of coupling facility structures, detecting by one or more systems coupled to the coupling facility, the suspended state of the duplexed command, detecting being independent of message exchange David A. Elko, Steven N. Goss, Michael J. Jordan, Georgette L. Kurdt, Jeffrey M. Nick +1 more 2006-03-14
7003693 Managing processing associated with coupling facility Structures Ruth A. Allen, Mark A. Brooks, Michael J. Jordan, Georgette L. Kurdt, William C. Neiman +2 more 2006-02-21
7003700 Halting execution of duplexed commands David A. Elko, Steven N. Goss, Michael J. Jordan, Wendell W. Wilkinson 2006-02-21
6963882 Method and apparatus for processing a list structure David A. Elko, Richard Dievendorff, Dermot Flaherty, Jeffrey M. Nick, James H. Warnes +1 more 2005-11-08
6963994 Managing connections to coupling facility structures Ruth A. Allen, Michael J. Jordan, Georgette L. Kurdt, Jeffrey M. Nick 2005-11-08
6954817 Providing at least one peer connection between a plurality of coupling facilities to couple the plurality of coupling facilities Mark A. Brooks, David A. Elko, Steven N. Goss, Michael J. Jordan, Georgette L. Kurdt +3 more 2005-10-11
6944787 System-managed duplexing of coupling facility structures Ruth A. Allen, Mark A. Brooks, David A. Elko, Michael J. Jordan, Georgette L. Kurdt +4 more 2005-09-13
6862595 Method and apparatus for implementing a shared message queue using a list structure David A. Elko, Richard Dievendorff, Dermot Flaherty, Jeffrey M. Nick, James H. Warnes +1 more 2005-03-01
6859866 Synchronizing processing of commands invoked against duplexed coupling facility structures Dennis J. Dahlen, Steven N. Goss, Steven B. Jones, Michael J. Jordan, Georgette L. Kurdt +3 more 2005-02-22
6813726 Restarting a coupling facility command using a token from another coupling facility command Dennis J. Dahlen, David A. Elko, Michael J. Jordan, Wendell W. Wilkinson 2004-11-02
6704766 Method and apparatus for dynamically controlling the execution of a request handler on a processor resource Steven N. Goss, Gary M. King, Jeffrey P. Kubala, John Nagy, Wendell W. Wilkinson 2004-03-09
6609214 Method, system and program products for copying coupling facility structures Dennis J. Dahlen, David A. Elko, Jeffrey M. Nick, Douglas W. Westcott, Wendell W. Wilkinson +2 more 2003-08-19
6594667 Method, system and program products for modifying coupling facility structures Dennis J. Dahlen, David A. Elko, Jeffrey M. Nick 2003-07-15
6584554 Directed allocation of coupling facility structures Dennis J. Dahlen, David A. Elko, Jeffrey M. Nick 2003-06-24
6546414 Method, system and program products for copying coupling facility lock structures Dennis J. Dahlen, David A. Elko, Jeffrey M. Nick, Douglas W. Westcott, Ruth A. Allen +1 more 2003-04-08
6546466 Method, system and program products for copying coupling facility cache structures David A. Elko, Jeffrey M. Nick, Wendell W. Wilkinson, Ruth A. Allen, Mark A. Brooks 2003-04-08
6542970 Method, system and program products for copying coupling facility list structures Dennis J. Dahlen, David A. Elko, Jeffrey M. Nick, Douglas W. Westcott, Ruth A. Allen +1 more 2003-04-01
6539495 Method, system and program products for providing user-managed duplexing of coupling facility cache structures David A. Elko, Steven B. Jones, Jeffrey W. Josten, Inderpal S. Narang, Jeffrey M. Nick +2 more 2003-03-25
6438654 Castout processing for duplexed cache structures David A. Elko, Steven B. Jones, Jeffrey W. Josten, Inderpal S. Narang, Jeffrey M. Nick +2 more 2002-08-20
6317744 Method, system and program products for browsing fully-associative collections of items David A. Elko, Jeffrey M. Nick, Wendell W. Wilkinson 2001-11-13