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Frank Leymann — 56 Patents

IBM: 53 patents #1,581 of 70,183Top 3%
AGAcordis Industrial Fibers Gmbh: 1 patents #1 of 14Top 8%
ANAkzo Nobel N.V.: 1 patents #670 of 1,625Top 45%
Aidlingen, DE: #1 of 101 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #44,020 of 4,157,543Top 2%
56 Patents All Time
Frank Leymann has been granted 56 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in December 2018. Frank Leymann ranks #44,020 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Frank Leymann in Aidlingen, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2004.peak 91999: 2 patents19992000: 7 patents2001: 4 patents20012002: 4 patents2003: 4 patents20032004: 9 patents2005: 4 patents20052006: 3 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 4 patents2009: 3 patents20092010: 2 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 2 patents2018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 56 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10162674 Apparatus and method for serializing process instance access to information stored redundantly in at least two datastores Dieter Roller 2018-12-25
9430745 Pre-executing workflow preparation activities based on activity probabilities and system load and capacity threshold requirements Simon Moser, Friedemann Schwenkreis 2016-08-30 $3,867,000
9348660 Apparatus and method for serializing process instance access to information stored redundantly in at least two datastores Dieter Roller 2016-05-24 $3,942,000
9021487 Apparatus and method for serializing process instance access to information stored redundantly in at least two datastores Dieter Roller 2015-04-28 $3,749,000
8719215 Controlling the creation of process instances in workflow management systems Dieter Roller 2014-05-06 $5,370,000
8561071 Process instance serialization Dieter Roller 2013-10-15 $3,582,000
8145595 Method and apparatus for optimization in workflow management systems Matthias Kloppmann, Albert Maier, Berhard Mitschang, Charles D. Wolfson 2012-03-27 $9,873,000
8046440 Managing resources through user-facing web services aggregated in portals Gerd Breiter, Carsten Leue, Thomas Schaeck 2011-10-25 $17,275,000
7904416 Provisioning of software components via workflow management systems Dieter Roller 2011-03-08 $4,587,000
7822830 Dynamic portal assembly Robert Junghuber, Matthias Kloppmann, Markus Reichart, Dieter Roller, Juergen Schaeck +1 more 2010-10-26 $4,266,000
7774786 Resource scheduling in workflow management systems Dieter Roller 2010-08-10 $5,029,000
7523174 Dynamic portal assembly Robert Junghuber, Matthias Kloppmann, Markus Reichart, Dieter Roller, Juergen Schaeck +1 more 2009-04-21 $5,028,000
7499906 Method and apparatus for optimization in workflow management systems Matthias Kloppmann, Albert Maier, Bernhard Mitschang, Charles D. Wolfson 2009-03-03 $5,705,000
7475073 Technique for improving staff queries in a workflow management system Dieter Roller 2009-01-06 $2,860,000
7406483 Provisioning of software components via workflow management systems Dieter Roller 2008-07-29 $9,815,000
7403878 Using nodes for representing hyper-edges in process models Dieter Roller 2008-07-22 $9,818,000
7398525 Resource scheduling in workflow management systems Dieter Roller 2008-07-08 $9,414,000
7386577 Dynamic determination of transaction boundaries in workflow systems Andreas Arning, Matthias Kloppmann, Gerhard Pfau, Dieter Roller, Andreas Schmitz +2 more 2008-06-10 $5,963,000
7174338 Signaling events in workflow management systems Dieter Roller 2007-02-06 $8,225,000
7055063 Method and system for advanced restart of application servers processing time-critical requests Dieter Roller 2006-05-30 $7,635,000
7024670 Timed start-conditions for activities in workflow management systems Dieter Roller 2006-04-04 $10,598,000
7024669 Managing workload within workflow-management-systems Dieter Roller 2006-04-04 $10,598,000
6976257 Context based execution prioritization in Workflow-Management-Systems Dieter Roller 2005-12-13 $5,273,000
6968381 Method for availability monitoring via a shared database Dieter Roller 2005-11-22 $6,353,000
6928477 Availability and scalability in clustered application servers by transmitting expected loads of clients to load balancer Dieter Roller 2005-08-09 $5,698,000