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Timothy R. Block — 40 Patents

IBM: 40 patents #2,353 of 70,183Top 4%
Rochester, MN: #144 of 3,042 inventorsTop 5%
Minnesota: #1,294 of 52,454 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
Timothy R. Block has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in December 2021. Timothy R. Block ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list Timothy R. Block in Rochester, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2006.peak 51989: 2 patents19891990: 1 patents1991: 2 patents1992: 1 patents19921993: 1 patents1994: 1 patents1996: 1 patents19962001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents2005: 3 patents20052006: 5 patents2007: 3 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 2 patents2010: 1 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 1 patents2015: 2 patents20152017: 3 patents2018: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 3 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11206141 Merging multiple compute nodes with trusted platform modules utilizing provisioned node certificates Elaine R. Palmer, Kenneth A. Goldman, Christopher J. Engel, William E. Hall 2021-12-21 $5,237,000
11165766 Implementing authentication protocol for merging multiple server nodes with trusted platform modules utilizing provisioned node certificates to support concurrent node add and remove Elaine R. Palmer, Kenneth A. Goldman, William E. Hall, Hugo M. Krawczyk, David D. Sanner +3 more 2021-11-02 $2,126,000
10885197 Merging multiple compute nodes with trusted platform modules utilizing authentication protocol with active trusted platform module provisioning Elaine R. Palmer, Kenneth A. Goldman, Christopher J. Engel, William E. Hall 2021-01-05 $2,293,000
10838816 Detecting and sparing of optical PCIE cable channel attached IO drawer Jesse P. Arroyo, Ellen M. Bauman, Christoper J. Engel, Kaveh Naderi, Gregory M. Nordstrom +2 more 2020-11-17 $2,639,000
9891998 Detecting and sparing of optical PCIE cable channel attached IO drawer Jesse P. Arroyo, Ellen M. Bauman, Christopher J. Engel, Kaveh Naderi, Gregory M. Nordstrom +2 more 2018-02-13 $2,196,000
9697166 Implementing health check for optical cable attached PCIE enclosure Jesse P. Arroyo, Ellen M. Bauman, Christopher J. Engel, Kaveh Naderi, Harald Pross +1 more 2017-07-04
9697167 Implementing health check for optical cable attached PCIE enclosure Jesse P. Arroyo, Ellen M. Bauman, Christopher J. Engel, Kaveh Naderi, Harald Pross +1 more 2017-07-04
9582366 Detecting and sparing of optical PCIE cable channel attached IO drawer Jesse P. Arroyo, Ellen M. Bauman, Christopher J. Engel, Kaveh Naderi, Gregory M. Nordstrom +2 more 2017-02-28 $2,397,000
9088569 Managing access to a shared resource using client access credentials Jesse P. Arroyo, Ellen M. Bauman, Leonardo Letourneaut, Timothy J. Schimke 2015-07-21 $2,242,000
9081764 Iimplementing DMA migration of large system memory areas Jesse P. Arroyo, Ellen M. Bauman, Leonardo Letourneaut, Timothy J. Schimke 2015-07-14 $7,900,000
8553690 Processing multicast messages in a data processing system Jesse P. Arroyo, Leonardo Letourneaut, Timothy J. Schimke 2013-10-08 $7,754,000
8228913 Implementing system to system communication in a switchless non-IB compliant environment using InfiniBand multicast facilities Thomas R. Sand, Timothy J. Schimke 2012-07-24 $4,383,000
7886059 Processing sequenced records across multiple network connections Bob Richard Cernohous, Steven J. Simonson, John C. Unterholzner 2011-02-08 $4,016,000
7877471 Detecting system reconfiguration and maintaining persistent I/O configuration data in a clustered computer system David Alan Bailey 2011-01-25 $4,442,000
7676558 Configuring shared devices over a fabric Yu-Cheng Hsu, John Norbert McCauley, Sean P. Riley, William G. Sherman, Cheng-Chung Song 2010-03-09 $6,686,000
7529855 Dynamic modification of fragmentation size cluster communication parameter in clustered computer system Kiswanto Thayib 2009-05-05 $6,523,000
7526549 Cluster data port services for clustered computer system Bob Richard Cernohous, John C. Unterholzner 2009-04-28 $8,592,000
7433955 Apparatus and method for processing sequenced records across multiple network connections Bob Richard Cernohous, Steven J. Simonson, John C. Unterholzner 2008-10-07 $9,641,000
7281052 Data tracing identifiers Robert Miller 2007-10-09 $10,326,000
7240088 Node self-start in a decentralized cluster Robert Miller, Kiswanto Thayib 2007-07-03 $6,885,000
7185099 Apparatus and method for communicating between computer systems using a sliding send window for ordered messages in a clustered computing environment 2007-02-27 $7,582,000
7110402 Method and system for filtering inter-node communication in a data processing system Richard Booth, David R. Engebretsen, Thomas R. Sand, Kenneth M. Valk 2006-09-19 $6,659,000
7088715 Apparatus for filtering inter-node communication in a data processing system Richard Booth, David R. Engebretsen, Thomas R. Sand, Kenneth M. Valk 2006-08-08 $2,377,000
7028157 On-demand allocation of data structures to partitions Shawn Michael Lambeth, Thomas R. Sand 2006-04-11 $11,292,000
6993034 Cluster destination address table—IP routing for clusters Robert Miller 2006-01-31 $6,009,000