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Robert Francis Bartfai — 38 Patents

IBM: 38 patents #2,514 of 70,183Top 4%
West Shokan, NY: #1 of 3 inventorsTop 35%
New York: #2,859 of 115,490 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #84,675 of 4,157,543Top 3%
38 Patents All Time
Robert Francis Bartfai has been granted 38 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in December 2012. Robert Francis Bartfai ranks #84,675 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Robert Francis Bartfai in West Shokan, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2009.peak 61995: 1 patents19951999: 5 patents2000: 3 patents20002002: 1 patents2006: 3 patents20062007: 4 patents2008: 2 patents20082009: 6 patents2010: 6 patents20102011: 4 patents2012: 3 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 38 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8341366 Splitting writes between a storage controller and replication engine Kenneth Wayne Boyd, James Chien-Chiung Chen, Kenneth Fairclough Day, III, Shachar Fienblit, Gregory E. McBride +3 more 2012-12-25
8214341 Determining when to apply writes received to data units being transferred to a secondary storage Michael Factor, Shachar Fienblit, Olympia Gluck, Eyal Gordon, Thomas Charles Jarvis +4 more 2012-07-03 $4,930,000
8131957 Splitting writes between a storage controller and replication engine Kenneth Wayne Boyd, James Chien-Chiung Chen, Kenneth Fairclough Day, III, Shachar Fienblit, Gregory E. McBride +3 more 2012-03-06 $5,131,000
8060779 Using virtual copies in a failover and failback environment Brent Cameron Beardsley, Gregory E. McBride 2011-11-15 $18,116,000
8024534 Replication engine communicating with a splitter to split writes between a storage controller and replication engine Kenneth Wayne Boyd, James Chien-Chiung Chen, Kenneth Fairclough Day, III, Shachar Fienblit, Gregory E. McBride +3 more 2011-09-20 $5,575,000
8005800 Data storage system for fast reverse restore Gail A. Spear, Michael Factor, Rivka Mayraz Matsoevich, Shachar Fienblit, Sheli Rahav +2 more 2011-08-23 $4,386,000
7921273 Method, system, and article of manufacture for remote copying of data Warren K. Stanley, William Frank Micka, Gail A. Spear, Sam Clark Werner, Olympia Gluck +1 more 2011-04-05 $6,033,000
7856425 Article of manufacture and system for fast reverse restore Gail A. Spear, Michael Factor, Rivka M. Matosevich, Shachar Fienblit, Sheli Rahav +2 more 2010-12-21 $6,138,000
7818522 Apparatus, system, and method for incremental resynchronization in a data storage system Michael Factor, Shachar Fienblit, Olympia Gluck, Gail A. Spear 2010-10-19 $3,706,000
7793148 Using virtual copies in a failover and failback environment Brent Cameron Beardsley, Gregory E. McBride 2010-09-07 $2,081,000
7734883 Method, system and program for forming a consistency group Gail A. Spear, Edward H. Lin, William Frank Micka, Olympia Gluck, Aviad Zlotnick +3 more 2010-06-08 $3,517,000
7660955 Node polling in consistency group formation Pierre-Fortin Jean-Denis, Gail A. Spear, Sonny E. Williams, Nicolas M. Clayton 2010-02-09 $5,437,000
7647357 Data transfer management in consistency group formation Pierre-Fortin Jean-Denis, Gail A. Spear, Sonny E. Williams, Sherry Worcester 2010-01-12 $8,801,000
7627729 Apparatus, system, and method for an improved synchronous mirror swap Nicolas M. Clayton, Shachar Fienblit, Olympia Gluck, Eli Malul, Gail A. Spear 2009-12-01 $16,004,000
7610318 Autonomic infrastructure enablement for point in time copy consistency Edward H. Lin, Gail A. Spear, Michael Factor, Sivan Tal 2009-10-27 $16,602,000
7571268 Consistent updates across storage subsystems coupled to a plurality of primary and secondary units at selected times Robert Frederic Kern, Gregory E. McBride, Kenneth Wayne Boyd, William Frank Micka, Gail A. Spear 2009-08-04 $13,849,000
7552295 Maintaining consistency when mirroring data using different copy technologies Robert Frederic Kern, Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Gregory E. McBride, Gail A. Spear, William Frank Micka +1 more 2009-06-23 $5,277,000
7539892 Enhanced resynchronization in a storage-based mirroring system having different storage geometries Pierre-Fortin Jean-Denis, Gail A. Spear, Warren K. Stanley 2009-05-26 $7,976,000
7512835 Method, system and article of manufacture for recovery from a failure in a cascading PPRC system Michael Factor, Gail A. Spear, William Frank Micka 2009-03-31 $5,042,000
7461100 Method for fast reverse restore Gail A. Spear, Michael Factor, Rivka M. Matosevich, Shachar Fienblit, Sheli Rahav +2 more 2008-12-02 $5,263,000
7409510 Instant virtual copy to a primary mirroring portion of data Sam Clark Werner, Gail A. Spear, Warren K. Stanley, William Frank Micka 2008-08-05 $7,485,000
7278049 Method, system, and program for recovery from a failure in an asynchronous data copying system Gail A. Spear 2007-10-02 $8,802,000
7266665 Method, system, and article of manufacture for remote copying of data Warren K. Stanley, William Frank Micka, Gail A. Spear, Sam Clark Werner, Olympia Gluck +1 more 2007-09-04 $5,939,000
7188272 Method, system and article of manufacture for recovery from a failure in a cascading PPRC system Michael Factor, Gail A. Spear, William Frank Micka 2007-03-06 $6,019,000
7188222 Method, system, and program for mirroring data among storage sites William Frank Micka, Gail A. Spear, Sam Clark Werner, Thomas Charles Jarvis, Warren K. Stanley 2007-03-06 $6,019,000