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Robert Frederic Kern — 47 Patents

IBM: 47 patents #1,876 of 70,183Top 3%
Overall (All Time): #59,703 of 4,157,543Top 2%
47 Patents All Time
Robert Frederic Kern has been granted 47 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in March 2024. Robert Frederic Kern ranks #59,703 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.4%). Patent records list Robert Frederic Kern in Eppelheim, OR, DE.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 47 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11941056 Method for weighting a graph Martin Oberhofer, Mike W. Grasselt, Claudio Andrea Fanconi, Thuany Karoline Stuart, Yannick Saillet +2 more 2024-03-26 $9,065,000
11651055 Measuring data quality of data in a graph database Yannick Saillet, Claudio Andrea Fanconi, Martin Oberhofer, Hemanth Kumar Babu, Basem Elasioty +2 more 2023-05-16 $5,363,000
11500876 Method for duplicate determination in a graph Thuany Karoline Stuart, Basem Elasioty, Claudio Andrea Fanconi, Mike W. Grasselt, Hemanth Kumar Babu +5 more 2022-11-15 $5,426,000
11308128 Refining classification results based on glossary relationships Peter Gerstl, Albert Maier, Thomas Schwarz, Oliver Suhre 2022-04-19 $6,872,000
9286586 Information governance crowd sourcing Dan J. Mandelstein, Ivan M. Milman, Martin Oberhofer, Sushain Pandit 2016-03-15 $3,165,000
9251018 Enhanced recovery of highly available computing systems David B. Petersen 2016-02-02 $1,325,000
9104684 Cache handling in a database system Ingo Hotz, Martin Oberhofer, Mathias Rueck 2015-08-11 $2,160,000
9092749 Information governance crowd sourcing Dan J. Mandelstein, Ivan M. Milman, Martin Oberhofer, Sushain Pandit 2015-07-28 $3,451,000
8862852 Apparatus and method to selectively provide information to one or more computing devices 2014-10-14 $3,785,000
8788768 Maintaining mirror and storage system copies of volumes at multiple remote sites Nicolas M. Clayton, David B. Petersen, David Michael Shackelford, Gail A. Spear, John G. Thompson 2014-07-22 $5,473,000
8788772 Maintaining mirror and storage system copies of volumes at multiple remote sites Nicolas M. Clayton, David B. Petersen, David Michael Shackelford, Gail A. Spear, John G. Thompson 2014-07-22 $5,473,000
8209282 Method, system, and article of manufacture for mirroring data at storage locations William Frank Micka, Gail A. Spear, David B. Petersen 2012-06-26 $15,244,000
8032497 Method and system providing extended and end-to-end data integrity through database and other system layers Blair K. Adamache, Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Jeffrey W. Palm, Mark Wilding 2011-10-04 $5,606,000
8027952 System and article of manufacture for mirroring data at storage locations William Frank Micka, Gail A. Spear, David B. Petersen 2011-09-27 $6,526,000
7761426 Apparatus, system, and method for continuously protecting data Kenneth Wayne Boyd, John Flynn, Gregory E. McBride, William Frank Micka, David Michael Shackelford 2010-07-20 $3,139,000
7761732 Data protection in storage systems Kenneth Wayne Boyd, William Frank Micka, Gregory E. McBride, John Flynn, John J. Wolfgang +4 more 2010-07-20 $3,139,000
7752676 Encryption of data in storage systems Michael H. Hartung, Yu-Cheng Hsu 2010-07-06 $3,063,000
7627775 Managing failures in mirrored systems Gail A. Spear, David B. Petersen, Gregory E. McBride 2009-12-01 $16,004,000
7613888 Maintain owning application information of data for a data storage system Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Donna Eng Dillenberger, William Frank Micka, Jeffrey W. Palm, David Michael Shackelford +1 more 2009-11-03 $14,110,000
7610459 Maintain owning application information of data for a data storage system Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Donna Eng Dillenberger, William Frank Micka, Jeffrey W. Palm, David Michael Shackelford +1 more 2009-10-27 $16,602,000
7603581 Remote copying of updates to primary and secondary storage locations subject to a copy relationship Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Lisa J. Gundy, Nils Torbjorn Kaving, Gregory E. McBride, Alan G. McClure +4 more 2009-10-13 $16,422,000
7571268 Consistent updates across storage subsystems coupled to a plurality of primary and secondary units at selected times Gregory E. McBride, Kenneth Wayne Boyd, William Frank Micka, Gail A. Spear, Robert Francis Bartfai 2009-08-04 $13,849,000
7552295 Maintaining consistency when mirroring data using different copy technologies Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Gregory E. McBride, Gail A. Spear, Robert Francis Bartfai, William Frank Micka +1 more 2009-06-23 $5,277,000
7467168 Method for mirroring data at storage locations William Frank Micka, Gail A. Spear, David B. Petersen 2008-12-16 $6,236,000
7376859 Method, system, and article of manufacture for data replication Kenneth Wayne Boyd 2008-05-20 $8,483,000