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Norbert Blam — 8 Patents

IBM: 7 patents #14,688 of 70,183Top 25%
LPLenovo (Singapore) Pte.: 1 patents #1,155 of 1,301Top 90%
Austin, TX: #3,968 of 18,064 inventorsTop 25%
Texas: #19,067 of 125,132 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Norbert Blam has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in July 2008. Norbert Blam ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Norbert Blam in Austin, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2002.peak 52002: 5 patents20022003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents20042008: 1 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7401247 Network station adjustable fail-over time intervals for booting to backup servers when transport service is not available James Brewer, Charles Edward Tysor 2008-07-15
6738923 Network station adjustable fail-over time intervals for booting to backup servers when transport service is not available James Brewer, Charles Edward Tysor 2004-05-18 $9,414,000
6643772 Universal boot code for a computer network Maximino Aguilar, James Michael Stafford, Charles Edward Tysor 2003-11-04 $11,371,000
6490677 Method and system for automatically configuring the boot process of a computer having multiple bootstrap programs within a network computer system Maximino Aguilar, Yuan-Chang Lo, James Michael Stafford 2002-12-03 $15,579,000
6467041 Third party host packet replication 2002-10-15 $14,907,000
6463531 Method and system for monitoring a boot process of a data processing system providing boot data and user prompt Maximino Aguilar, Mark Plunkett, Raymond F. Romon, James Michael Stafford 2002-10-08 $10,352,000
6446203 Method and system for selecting from multiple boot code images to be loaded in a data processing system Maximino Aguilar, John William Gorrell, Jr., Yuan-Chang Lo, James Michael Stafford 2002-09-03 $9,688,000
6430687 Boot sequence for a network computer including prioritized scheduling of boot code retrieval Maximino Aguilar, Michael Criscolo, Sanjay Gupta, John William Gorrell, Jr., Roy Moonseuk Kim +1 more 2002-08-06 $5,918,000