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Ernst Robert Plassmann — 10 Patents

IBM: 10 patents #10,925 of 70,183Top 20%
Pflugerville, TX: #105 of 621 inventorsTop 20%
Texas: #15,343 of 125,132 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Ernst Robert Plassmann has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in April 2003. Ernst Robert Plassmann ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Ernst Robert Plassmann in Pflugerville, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2003Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1999.peak 31997: 2 patents19971999: 3 patents19992000: 3 patents20002002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2003

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6549952 Passing environment variables from an hypertext protocol server application programming interface Michael Bradford Ault, Mickella Ann Rosiles, Shaw-Ben Shi, Theodore Jack London Shrader, Bruce Arland Rich 2003-04-15 $16,310,000
6338064 Method for enabling a web server running a “closed” native operating system to impersonate a user of a web client to obtain a protected file Michael Bradford Ault, Garry L. Child, Bruce Arland Rich, Theodore Jack London Shrader, Davis Kent Soper 2002-01-08 $17,918,000
6154751 Method for executing a user-requested CGI program in a new authentication context while protecting operation of a default web server program Michael Bradford Ault, Garry L. Child, Bruce Arland Rich, Theodore Jack London Shrader, Davis Kent Soper 2000-11-28 $55,341,000
6151599 Web client scripting test architecture for web server-based authentication Theodore Jack London Shrader, Michael Bradford Ault, Garry L. Child, Bruce Arland Rich, Davis Kent Soper 2000-11-21 $39,339,000
6026440 Web server account manager plug-in for monitoring resources Theodore Jack London Shrader, Michael Bradford Ault, Bruce Arland Rich, Mickella Ann Rosiles, Shaw-Ben Shi 2000-02-15 $27,373,000
5974566 Method and apparatus for providing persistent fault-tolerant proxy login to a web-based distributed file service Michael Bradford Ault, Bruce Arland Rich, Shaw-Ben Shi, Theodore Jack London Shrader 1999-10-26 $20,157,000
5918228 Method and apparatus for enabling a web server to impersonate a user of a distributed file system to obtain secure access to supported web documents Bruce Arland Rich, Theodore Jack London Shrader, Michael Bradford Ault, Mickella Ann Rosiles, Shaw-Ben Shi +1 more 1999-06-29 $36,828,000
5875296 Distributed file system web server user authentication with cookies Shaw-Ben Shi, Michael Bradford Ault, Bruce Arland Rich, Mickella Ann Rosiles, Theodore Jack London Shrader 1999-02-23 $8,993,000
5689701 System and method for providing compatibility between distributed file system namespaces and operating system pathname syntax Michael Bradford Ault, Bruce Arland Rich, Michael David Wilkes 1997-11-18 $30,996,000
5617568 System and method for supporting file attributes on a distributed file system without native support therefor Michael Bradford Ault, Bruce Arland Rich, Michael David Wilkes 1997-04-01 $14,570,000