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James Mitchell Ratliff — 15 Patents

IBM: 15 patents #7,470 of 70,183Top 15%
Tucson, AZ: #464 of 6,004 inventorsTop 8%
Arizona: #2,353 of 32,909 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
James Mitchell Ratliff has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in August 2010. James Mitchell Ratliff ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list James Mitchell Ratliff in Tucson, AZ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1993.peak 31993: 3 patents19931995: 1 patents19952001: 2 patents20012002: 2 patents20022003: 1 patents20032004: 3 patents20042008: 1 patents20082010: 2 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7787456 Checking and repairing a network configuration Cuong Minh Le, David Michael Shackelford, Gregory E. McBride, Kaladhar Voruganti, Sandeep Gopisetty +6 more 2010-08-31 $3,369,000
7788353 Checking and repairing a network configuration Cuong Minh Le, David Michael Shackelford, Gregory E. McBride, Kaladhar Voruganti, Sandeep Gopisetty +6 more 2010-08-31 $3,369,000
7397770 Checking and repairing a network configuration Cuong Minh Le, David Michael Shackelford, Gregory E. McBride, Kaladhar Voruganti, Sandeep Gopisetty +6 more 2008-07-08 $9,414,000
6725211 Work load assessment heuristic for optimal task parallelism determination Lyn Leguam Ashton, Cuong Minh Le, Jerry W. Pence, Glenn Randle Wilcock 2004-04-20 $6,170,000
6725350 Storage management system, apparatus, and method for supporting a multiplicity of logical block identification Lyn Lequam Ashton, Kirby Grant Dahman, Erika M. Dawson, Kathryn Eileen Eldred, Gavin S. Johnson +4 more 2004-04-20 $6,170,000
6678752 Data storage system with automatic storage request analysis and selection of optimal output media type Lyn Lequam Ashton, Cuong Minh Le, Jerry W. Pence, Glenn Randle Wilcock 2004-01-13 $10,539,000
6604160 Computing system arbitrating and selectively providing resource-seeking tasks with takeaway of non-shareable resources Cuong Minh Le, Jerry W. Pence 2003-08-05 $11,866,000
6446160 Multi-drive data storage system with analysis and selected demounting of idle data storage media Cuong Minh Le, Jerry W. Pence 2002-09-03 $9,688,000
RE37601 Method and system for incremental time zero backup copying of data Lawrence E. Eastridge, Robert Frederic Kern 2002-03-19
6182244 System and method for automatically initiating a tracing facility and dynamically changing the levels of tracing currently active Michael Francis Bankemper, Ronald Preston Ward, Michael W. Wood 2001-01-30 $13,187,000
RE37038 Method and system for automated termination and resumption in a time zero backup copy process Lawrence E. Eastridge, Robert Frederic Kern, William Frank Micka, Claus William Mikkelsen 2001-01-30
5379412 Method and system for dynamic allocation of buffer storage space during backup copying Lawrence E. Eastridge 1995-01-03 $8,869,000
5263154 Method and system for incremental time zero backup copying of data Lawrence E. Eastridge, Robert Frederic Kern 1993-11-16 $9,129,000
5241668 Method and system for automated termination and resumption in a time zero backup copy process Lawrence E. Eastridge, Robert Frederic Kern, William Frank Micka, Claus William Mikkelsen 1993-08-31 $6,793,000
5241670 Method and system for automated backup copy ordering in a time zero backup copy session Lawrence E. Eastridge, Robert Frederic Kern, Ronald Maynard Kern, Claus William Mikkelsen 1993-08-31 $6,793,000