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William Frank Micka — 95 Patents

IBM: 95 patents #621 of 70,183Top 1%
Tucson, AZ: #39 of 6,004 inventorsTop 1%
Arizona: #143 of 32,909 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #16,077 of 4,157,543Top 1%
95 Patents All Time
William Frank Micka has been granted 95 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in June 2012. William Frank Micka ranks #16,077 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.39%). Patent records list William Frank Micka in Tucson, AZ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 17 patents in 2006.peak 171989: 1 patents19891992: 1 patents1993: 2 patents1994: 1 patents19941995: 4 patents1996: 5 patents1997: 6 patents19971998: 3 patents1999: 1 patents2000: 1 patents20002001: 8 patents2002: 4 patents2003: 4 patents20032005: 3 patents2006: 17 patents2007: 7 patents20072008: 3 patents2009: 13 patents2010: 5 patents20102011: 5 patents2012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 95 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8209282 Method, system, and article of manufacture for mirroring data at storage locations Robert Frederic Kern, Gail A. Spear, David B. Petersen 2012-06-26 $15,244,000
8027952 System and article of manufacture for mirroring data at storage locations Robert Frederic Kern, Gail A. Spear, David B. Petersen 2011-09-27 $6,526,000
7930497 Using multiple sidefiles to buffer writes to primary storage volumes to transfer to corresponding secondary storage volumes in a mirror relationship Robert Nelson Crockett, David Michael Shackelford, Warren K. Stanley 2011-04-19 $4,236,000
7921273 Method, system, and article of manufacture for remote copying of data Warren K. Stanley, Gail A. Spear, Sam Clark Werner, Olympia Gluck, Michael Factor +1 more 2011-04-05 $6,033,000
7904684 System and article of manufacture for consistent copying of storage volumes Sam Clark Werner, Sivan Tal, Ifat Nuriel, Sheli Rahav, Gail A. Spear +1 more 2011-03-08 $4,587,000
7873864 Restricting the execution of copy services commands Michael T. Benhase 2011-01-18 $5,934,000
7761732 Data protection in storage systems Robert Frederic Kern, Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Gregory E. McBride, John Flynn, John J. Wolfgang +4 more 2010-07-20 $3,139,000
7761426 Apparatus, system, and method for continuously protecting data Kenneth Wayne Boyd, John Flynn, Robert Frederic Kern, Gregory E. McBride, David Michael Shackelford 2010-07-20 $3,139,000
7747576 Incremental update control for remote copy 2010-06-29 $6,113,000
7734883 Method, system and program for forming a consistency group Gail A. Spear, Robert Francis Bartfai, Edward H. Lin, Olympia Gluck, Aviad Zlotnick +3 more 2010-06-08 $3,517,000
7676616 Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing asynchronous status messaging in a data storage system Brent Cameron Beardsley, Minh-Ngoc Le Huynh, Satish C. Penmetsa, Richard A. Schaeffer, Kaukab Uddin 2010-03-09 $6,686,000
7613888 Maintain owning application information of data for a data storage system Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Donna Eng Dillenberger, Robert Frederic Kern, Jeffrey W. Palm, David Michael Shackelford +1 more 2009-11-03 $14,110,000
7610459 Maintain owning application information of data for a data storage system Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Donna Eng Dillenberger, Robert Frederic Kern, Jeffrey W. Palm, David Michael Shackelford +1 more 2009-10-27 $16,602,000
7603581 Remote copying of updates to primary and secondary storage locations subject to a copy relationship Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Lisa J. Gundy, Nils Torbjorn Kaving, Robert Frederic Kern, Gregory E. McBride +4 more 2009-10-13 $16,422,000
7587528 Control of information units in fibre channel communications Roger G. Hathorn, Matthew J. Kalos 2009-09-08 $16,659,000
7581063 Method, system, and program for improved throughput in remote mirroring systems Michael Factor, Shachar Fienblit, Olympia Gluck, Joseph S. Hyde, II, Thomas Charles Jarvis +3 more 2009-08-25 $21,245,000
7571268 Consistent updates across storage subsystems coupled to a plurality of primary and secondary units at selected times Robert Frederic Kern, Gregory E. McBride, Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Gail A. Spear, Robert Francis Bartfai 2009-08-04 $13,849,000
7552295 Maintaining consistency when mirroring data using different copy technologies Robert Frederic Kern, Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Gregory E. McBride, Gail A. Spear, Robert Francis Bartfai +1 more 2009-06-23 $5,277,000
7546434 Method to write data to an information storage and retrieval system Alan G. McClure, Warren K. Stanley 2009-06-09 $8,207,000
7523275 Method, system, and program for maintaining a copy relationship between primary volumes and corresponding secondary volumes Aviad Zlotnick, Shachar Fienblit, Olympia Gluck, Michael Factor, Gail A. Spear +2 more 2009-04-21 $5,028,000
7512835 Method, system and article of manufacture for recovery from a failure in a cascading PPRC system Robert Francis Bartfai, Michael Factor, Gail A. Spear 2009-03-31 $5,042,000
7500030 Control of information units in fibre channel communications Roger G. Hathorn, Matthew J. Kalos 2009-03-03 $5,705,000
7480697 Method and apparatus using attached hardware subsystem to communicate between attached hosts Larry R. Perry, Harold Glen Slone 2009-01-20 $5,212,000
7475208 Method for consistent copying of storage volumes Sam Clark Werner, Sivan Tai, Ifat Nuriel, Sheli Rahav, Gail A. Spear +1 more 2009-01-06 $2,860,000
7467168 Method for mirroring data at storage locations Robert Frederic Kern, Gail A. Spear, David B. Petersen 2008-12-16 $6,236,000