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Robert Nelson Crockett — 20 Patents

IBM: 20 patents #5,465 of 70,183Top 8%
Tucson, AZ: #338 of 6,004 inventorsTop 6%
Arizona: #1,696 of 32,909 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Robert Nelson Crockett has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in August 2017. Robert Nelson Crockett ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Robert Nelson Crockett in Tucson, AZ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2000.peak 31989: 1 patents19891996: 1 patents1997: 1 patents19972000: 3 patents2001: 3 patents20012003: 2 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062010: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112014: 1 patents2017: 3 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9729629 Optimizing data transfer across multiple asynchronous data replication sessions using shared bandwidth Eduard A. Diel, Gregory E. McBride, Alan G. McClure, David Michael Shackelford, Nadim P. Shehab 2017-08-08 $2,569,000
9720786 Resolving failed mirrored point-in-time copies with minimum disruption Eduard A. Diel, Lisa J. Gundy, Gregory E. McBride, David Michael Shackelford, Nadim P. Shehab 2017-08-01 $1,638,000
9542277 High availability protection for asynchronous disaster recovery Eduard A. Diel, Lisa J. Gundy, David Michael Shackelford 2017-01-10 $4,562,000
8626722 Consolidating session information for a cluster of sessions in a coupled session environment Donald Reynold Blea, Gregory E. McBride, Alan G. McClure, David Michael Shackelford 2014-01-07 $4,729,000
7930497 Using multiple sidefiles to buffer writes to primary storage volumes to transfer to corresponding secondary storage volumes in a mirror relationship William Frank Micka, David Michael Shackelford, Warren K. Stanley 2011-04-19 $4,236,000
7761431 Consolidating session information for a cluster of sessions in a coupled session environment Donald Reynold Blea, Gregory E. McBride, Alan G. McClure, David Michael Shackelford 2010-07-20 $3,139,000
7003706 Method, system, and program for improved device blocking and suspension Gregory E. McBride, Alan G. McClure, Donald Reynold Blea 2006-02-21 $6,384,000
6842834 Synchronization and resynchronization of loosely-coupled copy operations between a primary and a remote secondary DASD volume under concurrent updating William Frank Micka, Robert Wesley Shomler, Warren K. Stanley 2005-01-11 $11,104,000
6772303 System and method for dynamically resynchronizing backup data Ronald Maynard Kern, Gregory E. McBride 2004-08-03 $6,296,000
6587933 Method, system, and program for discarding data in a storage system where updates to a primary storage device are shadowed in a secondary storage device William Frank Micka, David Michael Shackelford 2003-07-01 $13,647,000
6578120 Synchronization and resynchronization of loosely-coupled copy operations between a primary and a remote secondary DASD volume under concurrent updating William Frank Micka, Robert Wesley Shomler, Warren K. Stanley 2003-06-10 $13,477,000
6301643 Multi-environment data consistency Ronald Maynard Kern, Gregory E. McBride 2001-10-09 $29,916,000
6260124 System and method for dynamically resynchronizing backup data Ronald Maynard Kern, Gregory E. McBride 2001-07-10 $19,901,000
6260129 Management of fixed pages in memory for input/output operations Ronald Maynard Kern, Gregory E. McBride, David Michael Shackelford, Stephen C. West 2001-07-10 $19,901,000
6105078 Extended remote copying system for reporting both active and idle conditions wherein the idle condition indicates no updates to the system for a predetermined time period Ronald Maynard Kern, Gregory E. McBride 2000-08-15 $26,064,000
6088697 Dynamic change management in an extended remote copy operation Ronald Maynard Kern, Gregory E. McBride 2000-07-11 $21,738,000
6052758 Interface error detection and isolation in a direct access storage device DASD system Ronald Maynard Kern, Gregory E. McBride 2000-04-18 $23,849,000
5619644 Software directed microcode state save for distributed storage controller Ronald Maynard Kern, William Frank Micka 1997-04-08 $14,871,000
5504861 Remote data duplexing Debra L. Jaworski, Ronald Maynard Kern 1996-04-02 $14,167,000
4837680 Controlling asynchronously operating peripherals Robert Frederic Kern, Arnold G. Miller, Richard E. Norris, Michael W. Pousson, Jr., Robert E. Wagner 1989-06-06 $12,613,000