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Henry J. May — 28 Patents

IBM: 26 patents #4,017 of 70,183Top 6%
Globalfoundries: 2 patents #1,397 of 4,424Top 35%
Cedar Falls, IA: #6 of 441 inventorsTop 2%
Iowa: #351 of 15,303 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Henry J. May has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in July 2019. Henry J. May ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Henry J. May in Cedar Falls, IA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2015.peak 62006: 1 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 1 patents20082011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 3 patents20142015: 6 patents2016: 6 patents20162017: 3 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 2 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10341256 Exchange switch protocol version in a distributed switch environment Christoph Raisch, Stefan Roscher, Daniel Sentler, Bharath B. Somayaji, Sudheer R. Yelanduru 2019-07-02 $3,331,000
10178048 Exchange switch protocol version in a distributed switch environment Christoph Raisch, Stefan Roscher, Daniel Sentler, Bharath B. Somayaji, Sudheer R. Yelanduru 2019-01-08 $2,287,000
10050908 Synchronizing out-of-sync elements in a distributed fibre channel forwarder Christoph Raisch, Stefan Roscher, Daniel Sentler, Bharath B. Somayaji, Sudheer R. Yelanduru 2018-08-14 $4,051,000
9774546 Fibre channel over ethernet (FCoE) zoning in a distributed ethernet switch Joachim Fenkes, Christoph Raisch, Stefan Roscher, Alexander Schmidt, Daniel Sentler 2017-09-26 $3,108,000
9729434 Processing requests for services in a service request at a receiving controller and processing controller in a switch Roger G. Hathorn 2017-08-08 $2,569,000
9641455 Mechanism for terminating relay operations in a distributed switch with cascaded configuration Patricia G. Driever, Roger G. Hathorn, Christoph Raisch, Daniel Sentler 2017-05-02 $3,833,000
9515964 Synchronizing out-of-sync elements in a distributed fibre channel forwarder Christoph Raisch, Stefan Roscher, Daniel Sentler, Bharath B. Somayaji, Sudheer R. Yelanduru 2016-12-06 $2,582,000
9473397 Using information on a supported one zone configuration setting in data forwarders to determine zone information to send to data forwarders Patricia G. Driever, Roger G. Hathorn, Daniel Sentler, Bharath B. Somayaji, Sudheer R. Yelanduru 2016-10-18 $1,445,000
9432754 Maintaining a fabric name across a distributed switch Joachim Fenkes, Roger G. Hathorn, Sriharsha Jayanarayana, Daniel Sentler, Sudheer R. Yelanduru 2016-08-30 $3,218,000
9426098 Synchronizing out-of-sync elements in a distributed fibre channel forwarder Christoph Raisch, Stefan Roscher, Daniel Sentler, Bharath B. Somayaji, Sudheer R. Yelanduru 2016-08-23 $3,302,000
9426546 Maintaining a fabric name across a distributed switch Joachim Fenkes, Roger G. Hathorn, Sriharsha Jayanarayana, Daniel Sentler, Sudheer R. Yelanduru 2016-08-23 $3,675,000
9401873 Fibre channel over ethernet (FCoE) zoning in a distributed ethernet switch Joachim Fenkes, Christoph Raisch, Stefan Roscher, Alexander Schmidt, Daniel Sentler 2016-07-26 $5,666,000
9197497 Configuration of network entities using firmware David R. Engebretsen, Paul E. Movall 2015-11-24 $3,572,000
9137100 Controlling switch mechanism for detecting fibre channel over Ethernet data forwarder failure Roger G. Hathorn, Daniel Sentler 2015-09-15 $3,796,000
9130874 Controlling switch mechanism for detecting fibre channel over ethernet data forwarder failure Roger G. Hathorn, Daniel Sentler 2015-09-08 $6,618,000
9054950 Updating zone information in a distributed switch of data forwarders Roger G. Hathorn, Sriharsha Jayanarayana, Stefan Roscher, Bharath B. Somayaji, Sudheer R. Yelanduru 2015-06-09 $3,292,000
9054949 Updating zone information in a distributed switch of data forwarders Roger G. Hathorn, Sriharsha Jayanarayana, Stefan Roscher, Bharath B. Somayaji, Sudheer R. Yelanduru 2015-06-09 $3,292,000
8971176 Fibre channel over Ethernet switch implicit logout Roger G. Hathorn, Christoph Raisch, Louis W. Ricci, Daniel Sentler 2015-03-03 $3,627,000
8917722 Fibre channel forwarder fabric login sequence Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Roger G. Hathorn, Louis W. Ricci 2014-12-23 $3,729,000
8908683 Fibre channel forwarder fabric login sequence Daniel G. Eisenhauer, Roger G. Hathorn, Louis W. Ricci 2014-12-09 $5,061,000
8687649 Message forwarding toward a source end node in a converged network environment William J. Armstrong, Claude Basso, Chih-jen Chang, Josep Cors, Daniel G. Eisenhauer +4 more 2014-04-01 $5,095,000
8489700 Analysis of nodal affinity behavior Richard Karl Kirkman 2013-07-16 $5,283,000
8141091 Resource allocation in a NUMA architecture based on application specified resource and strength preferences for processor and memory resources Lynn Keat Chung, Chistopher Francois, Richard Karl Kirkman, Patrick Joseph McCarthy, Don D. Reed +1 more 2012-03-20 $2,170,000
8042114 Resource allocation in a NUMA architecture based on separate application specified resource and strength preferences for processor and memory resources Lynn Keat Chung, Chistopher Francois, Richard Karl Kirkman, Patrick Joseph McCarthy, Don D. Reed +1 more 2011-10-18 $4,054,000
7334230 Resource allocation in a NUMA architecture based on separate application specified resource and strength preferences for processor and memory resources Lynn Keat Chung, Christopher Francois, Richard Karl Kirkman, Patrick Joseph McCarthy, Don D. Reed +1 more 2008-02-19 $12,555,000