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Robert M. Rees — 34 Patents

IBM: 34 patents #2,881 of 70,183Top 5%
Los Gatos, CA: #224 of 2,986 inventorsTop 8%
California: #14,619 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #100,737 of 4,157,543Top 3%
34 Patents All Time
Robert M. Rees has been granted 34 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in September 2024. Robert M. Rees ranks #100,737 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.4%). Patent records list Robert M. Rees in Los Gatos, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 34 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12086848 Cost-aware tiering for data storage Umesh Deshpande, Paul H. Muench, Thanh T. Pham 2024-09-10 $19,991,000
11544387 Hash protection within an object storage library Rajamohan Gandhasri, Steven R. Hetzler, Wayne C. Hineman, John S. Best, Zhenxing Han 2023-01-03 $14,209,000
11210024 Optimizing read-modify-write operations to a storage device by writing a copy of the write data to a shadow block Zhenxing Han, Steven R. Hetzler, Veera W. Deenadhayalan 2021-12-28 $7,175,000
11099980 Host aware update write Steven R. Hetzler 2021-08-24 $4,861,000
10671316 System, method, and recording medium for alignment of backup and archival policy Carmen P. Allen, Jarir K. Chaar, Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Radha P. Ratnaparkhi, Ramani R. Routray +1 more 2020-06-02 $2,290,000
10620831 High performance optical storage system for protection against concurrent data loss Mario Blaum, Steven R. Hetzler, Wayne C. Hineman 2020-04-14 $1,668,000
10254997 System, method, and recording medium for alignment of backup and archival policy Carmen P. Allen, Jarir K. Chaar, Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Radha P. Ratnaparkhi, Ramani R. Routray +1 more 2019-04-09 $2,400,000
10001922 High performance optical storage system for protection against concurrent data loss Mario Blaum, Steven R. Hetzler, Wayne C. Hineman 2018-06-19 $3,279,000
9858958 High density hybrid storage system Steven R. Hetzler, Gary M. McClelland 2018-01-02 $1,907,000
9760485 Fast write and management of persistent cache in a system that includes tertiary storage Veera W. Deenadhayalan, Wayne C. Hineman, Anurag Sharma, Pin Zhou 2017-09-12 $1,776,000
9495247 Time multiplexed redundant array of independent tapes Mario Blaum, Veera W. Deenadhayalan, Steven R. Hetzler, Wayne C. Hineman, Pin Zhou 2016-11-15 $2,170,000
9454333 Parity logs for RAID systems with variable capacity media Mario Blaum, Veera W. Deenadhayalan, Steven R. Hetzler, Wayne C. Hineman, Pin Zhou 2016-09-27 $4,099,000
9348517 Using a migration threshold and a candidate list for cache management of sequential write storage Wayne C. Hineman, Pin Zhou 2016-05-24 $3,942,000
9263082 High density hybrid storage system Steven R. Hetzler, Gary M. McClelland 2016-02-16 $2,821,000
8700584 Managing access to objects of a computing environment Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan, Craig Fulmer Everhart, Venkateswararao Jujjuri 2014-04-15 $9,702,000
8280851 Applying a policy criteria to files in a backup image Michael Allen Kaczmarski 2012-10-02 $13,900,000
8074041 Apparatus, system, and method for managing storage space allocation Thomas K. Clark, Ramakrishna Dwivedula, Roger C. Raphael 2011-12-06 $32,382,000
8055629 Transitioning an archived file to write-once-read-many Thomas K. Clark, Bruce Light Hillsberg, Wayne C. Hineman, Bernhard J. Klingenberg 2011-11-08 $3,097,000
7974950 Applying a policy criteria to files in a backup image Michael Allen Kaczmarski 2011-07-05 $9,300,000
7409389 Managing access to objects of a computing environment Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan, Craig Fulmer Everhart, Venkateswararao Jujjuri 2008-08-05 $7,485,000
7139781 Managing filesystem versions Jason C. Young, Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan, Randal Chilton Burns, Darrell Long, Ralph A. Becker-Szendy +2 more 2006-11-21 $6,127,000
7124131 Discipline for lock reassertion in a distributed file system D. Scott Guthridge, Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan, Ralph A. Becker-Szendy 2006-10-17 $10,414,000
7085909 Method, system and computer program product for implementing copy-on-write of a file Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan, Ralph A. Becker-Szendy, Randal Chilton Burns, Darrell Long, Jujjuri Venkateswararao +2 more 2006-08-01 $2,070,000
6938056 System and method for restoring a file system from backups in the presence of deletions Randal Chilton Burns, Darrell Long 2005-08-30 $6,623,000
6925515 Producer/consumer locking system for efficient replication of file data Randal Chilton Burns, Atul Goel, Wayne C. Hineman 2005-08-02 $7,293,000