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William C. Shepard

IBM: 8 patents #13,150 of 70,183Top 20%
Overall (All Time): #633,813 of 4,157,543Top 20%
8
Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
10642706 Detection and recovery of lost host enabled facilities Scott B. Compton, Dale F. Riedy 2020-05-05
8782014 Data integrity mechanism for external storage devices Harry M. Yudenfriend 2014-07-15
6055602 Logical positioning within a storage device by a storage controller James Elkins McIlvain 2000-04-25
5870537 Concurrent switch to shadowed device for storage controller and device errors Robert Frederic Kern, Michael Aloysius Paulsen, Harry M. Yudenfriend 1999-02-09
5765200 Logical positioning within a storage device by a storage controller James Elkins McIlvain 1998-06-09
5416921 Apparatus and accompanying method for use in a sysplex environment for performing escalated isolation of a sysplex component in the event of a failure Jeffrey A. Frey, Lisa M. Goetze, Allan S. Meritt, Jeffrey M. Nick, David H. Surman +1 more 1995-05-16
5394554 Interdicting I/O and messaging operations from sending central processing complex to other central processing complexes and to I/O device in multi-system complex David A. Elko, John F. Isenberg, Jr., Allan S. Meritt, Brian B. Moore, Jeffrey M. Nick +2 more 1995-02-28
5388254 Method and means for limiting duration of input/output (I/O) requests John F. Betz, Allan S. Meritt, Larry R. Perry, Harry M. Yudenfriend 1995-02-07