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David U. Shorter — 19 Patents

IBM: 19 patents #5,793 of 70,183Top 9%
Lewisville, TX: #29 of 542 inventorsTop 6%
Texas: #7,372 of 125,132 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
David U. Shorter has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in July 2011. David U. Shorter ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list David U. Shorter in Lewisville, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1990.peak 21990: 2 patents19901991: 2 patents1993: 1 patents19931994: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19971999: 2 patents2000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042006: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 2 patents2010: 2 patents20102011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7987287 Method and system for routing data repository messages between computing devices Brian P. Shorter 2011-07-26 $7,667,000
7703670 Method and apparatus for creating and exposing order status within a supply chain having disparate systems Jorge A. Arroyo, Robert M. Szabo, Filip J. Yeskel 2010-04-27 $6,715,000
7673791 Method and apparatus for creating and exposing order status within a supply chain having disparate systems Jorge A. Arroyo, Robert M. Szabo, Filip J. Yeskel 2010-03-09 $6,686,000
7366772 Method and apparatus for creating and exposing order status within a supply chain having disparate systems Jorge A. Arroyo, Robert M. Szabo, Filip J. Yeskel 2008-04-29 $12,832,000
7356607 Method and system for routing data repository messages between computing devices Brian P. Shorter 2008-04-08 $6,866,000
7222116 Method and system for matching complex customer requirements with provider solutions Stephen E. Bello, Tze-Rong Fu, Kevin P. McAuliffe, John F. Palmer, Emily Plachy +1 more 2007-05-22 $11,321,000
7143094 Method and apparatus for ensuring data consistency amongst a plurality of disparate systems having multiple consumer channels Jorge A. Arroyo, Paul McDaid, Filip J. Yeskel 2006-11-28 $5,022,000
6687707 Unique object identification in a network of computing systems 2004-02-03 $8,997,000
6182064 Method and system for identifying an object located among a number of multiple interconnected computing systems Susan Carol Lilly, Robert Scott 2001-01-30 $13,187,000
6070169 Method and system for the determination of a particular data object utilizing attributes associated with the object 2000-05-30 $26,347,000
5946680 Method of determining the unique ID of an object in a peer to peer configuration of object indexes Susan Carol Lilly, Robert Scott 1999-08-31 $31,470,000
5946681 Method of determining the unique ID of an object through analysis of attributes related to the object 1999-08-31 $31,470,000
RE35448 Method for establishing current terminal addresses for system users processing distributed application programs in an SNA LU 6.2 network environment 1997-02-11
5291597 Method to provide concurrent execution of distributed application programs by a host computer and an intelligent work station on an SNA network John Kapernick 1994-03-01 $8,706,000
5201049 System for executing applications program concurrently/serially on different virtual machines 1993-04-06 $9,333,000
5063500 System for executing segments of application program concurrently/serially on different/same virtual machine 1991-11-05 $17,583,000
4991089 Method for establishing current terminal addresses for system users processing distributed application programs in an SNA LU 6.2 network environment 1991-02-05 $14,236,000
4969092 Method for scheduling execution of distributed application programs at preset times in an SNA LU 6.2 network environment 1990-11-06 $16,947,000
4949254 Method to manage concurrent execution of a distributed application program by a host computer and a large plurality of intelligent work stations on an SNA network 1990-08-14 $14,475,000