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Peter Donovan — 9 Patents

IBM: 6 patents #16,491 of 70,183Top 25%
Alcatel Lucent: 2 patents #1,547 of 4,169Top 40%
ACAlcatel Canada: 1 patents #117 of 332Top 40%
Apex, NC: #253 of 1,394 inventorsTop 20%
North Carolina: #5,916 of 45,564 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Peter Donovan has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in July 2023. Peter Donovan ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Peter Donovan in Apex, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2007.peak 22003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents20052007: 2 patents20072008: 2 patents20082009: 2 patents20092023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11706712 Elastic resource control in a container orchestration environment Guillermo J. Silva, Malcolm S. Allen-Ware, Charles R. Lefurgy, Balaji Ramamoorthy, David Ohlemacher 2023-07-18 $11,372,000
7574534 Method for using device enumeration information to identify an operating system running on a computer system Joseph E. Bolan, Robert K. Christner, Simon Chu, Eric R. Kern 2009-08-11 $14,264,000
7525913 System and method for providing gaps between data elements at ingress to a network element Mark Thibodeau, John William Galway, Jason Sterne, Michael Mitchell 2009-04-28 $1,522,000
7420983 Dynamic assignment of re-assembly queues 2008-09-02 $10,780,000
7350068 Server blade network boot method that minimizes required network bandwidth Jeffrey Wayne Anderson, Simon Chu, Richard A. Dayan 2008-03-25 $5,860,000
7254112 System and method for reassembling packets in a network element Jerome Cornet, John C. Fischer, Jason Sterne 2007-08-07 $7,333,000
7194659 Method and system for detection and correction of entrance into an improper MBR state in a computer system William Buchanan, Simon Chu, Benjamin Grimes, Gregory B. Pruett, David B. Rhoades +1 more 2007-03-20 $5,658,000
6898705 Automatic appliance server re-provision/re-purposing method Akram Abboud, John Michael Brantly, William Buchanan, Peter Chin, Simon Chu +9 more 2005-05-24 $7,850,000
6636958 Appliance server with a drive partitioning scheme that accommodates application growth in size Akram Abboud, John Michael Brantly, William Buchanan, Peter Chin, Simon Chu +8 more 2003-10-21 $7,269,000