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Robert S. Lam — 12 Patents

IBM: 9 patents #11,946 of 70,183Top 20%
BIBill.Com: 3 patents #6 of 12Top 50%
San Mateo, CA: #543 of 3,727 inventorsTop 15%
California: #51,404 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Robert S. Lam has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in September 2020. Robert S. Lam ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Robert S. Lam in San Mateo, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2011.peak 32008: 1 patents20082011: 3 patents20112012: 1 patents20122014: 1 patents20142015: 2 patents20152017: 2 patents20172018: 1 patents20182020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10769686 Enhanced invitation process for electronic billing and payment system Rene Lacerte, Mark Orttung, Eric Chan 2020-09-08
10043201 Enhanced invitation process for electronic billing and payment system Rene Lacerte, Mark Orttung, Eric Chan 2018-08-07
9727405 Problem determination in distributed enterprise applications James C. Chong, Joseph Chan, Tushar Patel, Jean-Jacques Heler, Chi Hong So +3 more 2017-08-08 $2,569,000
9678964 Method, system, and computer program for monitoring performance of applications in a distributed environment James C. Chong, Jerome D. Banks, Joseph Chan, Raymond Chow, Jean-Jacques Heler +5 more 2017-06-13 $2,356,000
9053220 Method, system, and computer program for monitoring performance of applications in a distributed environment James C. Chong, Joseph Chan, Tushar Patel, Jean-Jacques Heler, Chi Hong So +5 more 2015-06-09 $3,292,000
8990382 Problem determination in distributed enterprise applications James C. Chong, Joseph Chan, Tushar Patel, Jean-Jacques Heler, Chi Hong So +3 more 2015-03-24 $3,177,000
8738483 Enhanced invitation process for electronic billing and payment system Mark Orttung, Rene Lacerte, Eric Chan 2014-05-27
8090851 Method and system for problem determination in distributed enterprise applications James C. Chong, Joseph Chan, Tushar Patel, Jean-Jacques Heler, Chi Hong So +3 more 2012-01-03 $8,800,000
8037205 Method, system, and computer program for monitoring performance of applications in a distributed environment James C. Chong, Joseph Chan, Tushar Patel, Jean-Jacques Heler, Chi Hong So +5 more 2011-10-11 $5,277,000
7953848 Problem determination in distributed enterprise applications James C. Chong, Joseph Chan, Tushar Patel, Jean-Jacques Heler, Chi Hong So +3 more 2011-05-31 $4,283,000
7870244 Monitoring performance of applications in a distributed environment James C. Chong, Joseph Chan, Tushar Patel, Jean-Jacques Heler, Chi Hong So +5 more 2011-01-11 $2,856,000
7383332 Method for problem determination in distributed enterprise applications James C. Chong, Joseph Chan, Tushar Patel, Jean-Jacques Heler, Chi Hong So +3 more 2008-06-03 $7,325,000

Frequent Collaborators

Chi Hong So9 shared
Jean-Jacques Heler9 shared
James C. Chong9 shared
Arthur Tsang9 shared
Raymond Chow9 shared
Joseph Chan9 shared

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