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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 51–62 of 62 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
6266783 System-managed rebuild of coupling facility structures Ruth A. Allen, Mark A. Brooks, David A. Elko, Steven B. Jones, Michael J. Jordan +4 more 2001-07-24
6233644 System of performing parallel cleanup of segments of a lock structure located within a coupling facility Dennis J. Dahlen, Jeffrey M. Nick, Douglas W. Westcott 2001-05-15
6230243 Method, system and program products for managing changed data of castout classes David A. Elko, Jeffrey W. Josten, Jeffrey M. Nick, Wendell W. Wilkinson 2001-05-08
6185562 Performing parallel cleanup of segments of a lock structure Dennis J. Dahlen, Jeffrey M. Nick, Douglas W. Westcott 2001-02-06
6178421 Method of performing parallel cleanup of segments of a lock structure Dennis J. Dahlen, Jeffrey M. Nick, Douglas W. Westcott 2001-01-23
5887135 System and method for management of object transitions in an external storage facility accessed by one or more processors Dennis J. Dahlen, Audrey A. Helffrich, Jeffrey M. Nick, Michael D. Swanson 1999-03-23
5604863 Method for coordinating executing programs in a data processing system Ruth A. Allen, Jaime F. Anaya, Roger L. Brookmeyer, Lisa M. Goetze, James C. Kleewein +4 more 1997-02-18
5515499 Method and system for reconfiguring a storage structure within a structure processing facility Ruth A. Allen, Jaime F. Anaya, Roger L. Brockmeyer, Lisa M. Goetze, James C. Kleewein +4 more 1996-05-07
5471609 Method for identifying a system holding a `Reserve` Harry M. Yudenfriend, Brent Cameron Beardsley 1995-11-28
5465359 Method and system for managing data and users of data in a data processing system Ruth A. Allen, Lisa M. Goetze, Jeffrey M. Nick, Kelly B. Pushong, Michael D. Swanson 1995-11-07
5416921 Apparatus and accompanying method for use in a sysplex environment for performing escalated isolation of a sysplex component in the event of a failure Jeffrey A. Frey, Lisa M. Goetze, Allan S. Meritt, Jeffrey M. Nick, William C. Shepard +1 more 1995-05-16
5394554 Interdicting I/O and messaging operations from sending central processing complex to other central processing complexes and to I/O device in multi-system complex David A. Elko, John F. Isenberg, Jr., Allan S. Meritt, Brian B. Moore, Jeffrey M. Nick +2 more 1995-02-28