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Jerry W. Pence — 21 Patents

IBM: 21 patents #5,188 of 70,183Top 8%
Tucson, AZ: #325 of 6,004 inventorsTop 6%
Arizona: #1,594 of 32,909 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Jerry W. Pence has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in April 2004. Jerry W. Pence ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Jerry W. Pence in Tucson, AZ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2004Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2001.peak 31985: 1 patents19851987: 1 patents1988: 1 patents19881989: 1 patents1993: 2 patents19931994: 1 patents1996: 2 patents19961997: 2 patents1999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents2001: 3 patents20012002: 2 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 2 patents2004

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6725211 Work load assessment heuristic for optimal task parallelism determination Lyn Leguam Ashton, Cuong Minh Le, James Mitchell Ratliff, Glenn Randle Wilcock 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, James Mitchell Ratliff, 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, James Mitchell Ratliff 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, James Mitchell Ratliff 2002-09-03 $9,688,000
6434682 Data management system with shortcut migration via efficient automatic reconnection to previously migrated copy Lyn Lequam Ashton, Stanley Mark Kissinger 2002-08-13 $10,700,000
6279074 Contention handling for task requests to storage devices within a host system 2001-08-21 $21,309,000
6272605 System using priority data of a host recall request to determine whether to release non-volatile storage with another host before processing further recall requests Cuong Minh Le 2001-08-07 $22,988,000
6199146 Storage management system and method for increasing capacity utilization of nonvolatile storage devices using partially filled substitute storage devices for continuing write operations 2001-03-06 $28,649,000
6111707 Tape duplexing with unique identity and error recovery Robert C. Buddecke, Cheryl Jean DeBolt Knapp, William McEwen, Anthony Steve Pearson 2000-08-29 $31,033,000
5875481 Dynamic reconfiguration of data storage devices to balance recycle throughput Lyn Lequam Ashton, Anthony Steve Pearson, Stephen C. West 1999-02-23 $8,993,000
5644696 Recovering multi-volume data sets during volume recovery Anthony Steve Pearson 1997-07-01 $13,721,000
5623693 System for performing action by sorting actions into immediate and deferred queues, processing immediate queue while still sorting, and appending deferred queue to immediate after sorting Lyn Lequam Ashton, Anthony Steve Pearson 1997-04-22 $15,673,000
5539918 Extension of data block capability in a data transfer channel Vincent K. Allen, Scott M. Fry, Warren B. Harding, Robert G. Long, Wayne Erwin Rhoten +1 more 1996-07-23 $7,499,000
5517670 Adaptive data transfer channel employing extended data block capability Vincent K. Allen, Scott M. Fry, Warren B. Harding, Robert G. Long, Wayne Erwin Rhoten +1 more 1996-05-14 $11,662,000
5278970 Method for efficient utilization of removable data recording media 1994-01-11 $8,526,000
5239649 Channel path load balancing, through selection of storage volumes to be processed, for long running applications Gregory E. McBride, David G. Van Hise 1993-08-24 $7,496,000
5235695 Apparatus for efficient utilization of removable data recording media 1993-08-10 $7,956,000
4876662 Optimizing volume mounts in a multidrive environment 1989-10-24 $23,575,000
4771375 Managing data storage devices connected to a digital computer Thomas William Beglin, Jane R. Bittihoffer, Harvey E. Kamionka 1988-09-13 $23,038,000
4638424 Managing data storage devices connected to a digital computer Thomas William Beglin, Jane R. Pence, Harvey E. Kamionka 1987-01-20 $21,096,000
4528624 Method and apparatus for allocating memory space based upon free space in diverse memory devices Harvey E. Kamionka, Dat Tran 1985-07-09 $17,412,000