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Vernon J. Legvold — 25 Patents

IBM: 25 patents #4,231 of 70,183Top 7%
Tucson, AZ: #263 of 6,004 inventorsTop 5%
Arizona: #1,250 of 32,909 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
Vernon J. Legvold has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in August 2010. Vernon J. Legvold ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list Vernon J. Legvold in Tucson, AZ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1988 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1997.peak 41988: 1 patents19881989: 1 patents1994: 1 patents19941997: 4 patents1998: 3 patents19981999: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022006: 4 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 3 patents2009: 2 patents20092010: 3 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7774644 System and program for error handling in a dual adaptor system where one adaptor is a master Matthew J. Fairhurst, Michael John Jones, Michael P. Vageline 2010-08-10 $5,029,000
7673172 Method, system, and program for error handling in a dual adaptor system where one adaptor is a master Matthew J. Fairhurst, Michael John Jones, Michael P. Vageline 2010-03-02 $8,802,000
7661022 System for error handling in a dual adaptor system where one adaptor is a master Matthew J. Fairhurst, Michael John Jones, Michael P. Vageline 2010-02-09 $5,437,000
7565565 Automated error recovery of a licensed internal code update on a storage controller Edward G. Butt, Jack Harvey Derenburger, Steven Douglas Johnson, Ronald D. Martens 2009-07-21 $14,996,000
7490264 Method for error handling in a dual adaptor system where one adaptor is a master Matthew J. Fairhurst, Michael John Jones, Michael P. Vageline 2009-02-10 $5,620,000
7392420 Automated error recovery of a licensed internal code update on a storage controller Edward G. Butt, Jack Harvey Derenburger, Steven Douglas Johnson, Ronald D. Martens 2008-06-24 $7,053,000
7386760 Method, system, and program for error handling in a dual adaptor system where one adaptor is a master Matthew J. Fairhurst, Michael John Jones, Michael P. Vageline 2008-06-10 $5,963,000
7337355 Method, system, and program for error handling in a dual adaptor system where one adaptor is a master Matthew J. Fairhurst, Michael John Jones, Michael P. Vageline 2008-02-26 $7,320,000
7266815 Automated control of a licensed internal code update on a storage controller Edward G. Butt, Jack Harvey Derenburger, Steven Douglas Johnson, Ronald D. Martens 2007-09-04 $5,939,000
7139933 Preserving cache data against cluster reboot Yu-Cheng Hsu, David F. Mannenbach 2006-11-21 $6,127,000
7085886 Autonomic power loss recovery for a multi-cluster storage sub-system Yu-Cheng Hsu 2006-08-01 $2,070,000
7051174 Method, system, and program for restoring data in cache Kevin J. Ash, Steven Robert Lowe, David F. Mannenbach, Carol S. Mellgren, Kenneth W. Todd +1 more 2006-05-23 $5,226,000
6983397 Method, system, and program for error handling in a dual adaptor system where one adaptor is a master Matthew J. Fairhurst, Michael John Jones, Michael P. Vageline 2006-01-03 $6,490,000
6408348 System, method, and program for managing I/O requests to a storage device Lawrence Carter Blount, Emeline Yvonne Germain, William Frank Micka, Warren K. Stanley, Stephen C. West 2002-06-18 $15,516,000
5991775 Method and system for dynamic cache allocation between record and track entries Brent Cameron Beardsley, Lawrence Carter Blount, Joel H. Cord, Michael H. Hartung 1999-11-23 $40,306,000
5815656 Method of validating memory structures in data processing systems Susan K. Candelaria, Michael H. Hartung, Dennis Albert Kukula, Kenneth Wayne Lane, Guy Martin +4 more 1998-09-29 $18,461,000
5802547 Data storage system with streamlined data exchange path to cached data 1998-09-01 $8,247,000
5717888 Accessing cached data in a peripheral disk data storage system using a directory having track and cylinder directory entries Susan K. Candelaria, Joseph S. Hyde, II 1998-02-10 $18,636,000
5701429 Method and system for maintaining concurrent data access during device upgrade Julia Liu, Carol Santich Michod, Chan Yiu Ng, William G. Sherman, Jeffrey R. Steffan +1 more 1997-12-23 $20,824,000
5682513 Cache queue entry linking for DASD record updates Susan K. Candelaria, Warren K. Stanley 1997-10-28 $23,423,000
5636359 Performance enhancement system and method for a hierarchical data cache using a RAID parity scheme Brent Cameron Beardsley, Joel H. Cord, Joseph S. Hyde, II, Carol Santich Michod, Gary Eugene Morain +3 more 1997-06-03 $12,468,000
5627990 Management system for a hierarchical data cache employing preemptive cache track demotion and restaging to adapt to access patterns Joel H. Cord, Michael H. Hartung, Joseph S. Hyde, II, William G. Sherman 1997-05-06 $20,309,000
5375232 Method and system for asynchronous pre-staging of backup copies in a data processing storage subsystem William Frank Micka, Kenneth Nagin, Yoram Novick, Pnina Vortman, Elfraim Zeidner 1994-12-20 $10,417,000
4875155 Peripheral subsystem having read/write cache with record access James Lincoln Iskiyan, Peter L. H. Leung, Guy Martin 1989-10-17 $27,668,000
4779189 Peripheral subsystem initialization method and apparatus Stephen O. Wellons 1988-10-18 $38,012,000