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William Joseph Piazza — 63 Patents

IBM: 58 patents #1,384 of 70,183Top 2%
LPLenovo (Singapore) Pte.: 4 patents #697 of 1,301Top 55%
Holly Springs, NC: #4 of 335 inventorsTop 2%
North Carolina: #380 of 45,564 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #35,784 of 4,157,543Top 1%
63 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–50 of 63 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7930573 Workload apportionment according to mean and variance Patrick M. Bland, Yiyu L. Chen, Angela Beth Dalton, Amitayu Das, Richard E. Harper 2011-04-19
7925389 Method of detecting recirculation of heated air within a rack enclosure Thomas Michael Bradicich, Angela Beth Dalton, Richard E. Harper 2011-04-12
7921203 Specifying associations among attributes of entities in Thomas M. Brey, Richard E. Harper 2011-04-05
7783903 Limiting power consumption by controlling airflow 2010-08-24
7735326 Air re-cool for electronic equipment Martin Joseph Crippen, Albert Vincent Makley, Jason A. Matteson 2010-06-15
7676301 Identification and characterization of recirculation in electronic systems Thomas M. Brey, Richard E. Harper, Thomas D. Pahel, Jr. 2010-03-09
7673132 Multi-tiered boot list Simon Chu, Richard A. Dayan, Eric R. Kern 2010-03-02
7667855 Providing position information to computing equipment installed in racks of a datacenter 2010-02-23
7621134 Air re-cool for electronic equipment Martin Joseph Crippen, Albert Vincent Makley, Jason A. Matteson 2009-11-24
7526400 Thermal modeling and error detection in a data processing configuration Richard E. Harper 2009-04-28
7463950 Identification and characterization of recirculation in electronic systems Thomas M. Brey, Richard E. Harper, Thomas D. Pahel, Jr. 2008-12-09
7460978 Method, system, and computer program product for rack position determination using acoustics Thomas M. Brey, Richard E. Harper, Thomas D. Pahel, Jr. 2008-12-02
7421368 Detection of airflow anomalies in electronic equipment Angela Beth Dalton, Richard E. Harper 2008-09-02
7418730 Automatic client responses to worm or hacker attacks Simon Chu, Steven W. Hunter, Gregory B. Pruett 2008-08-26
7415519 System and method for prevention of boot storms in a computer network Antonio Abbondanzio, William Buchanan, Simon Chu, Gregory W. Dake, Stephen W. Murphrey +2 more 2008-08-19
7330965 Multi-tiered boot list Simon Chu, Richard A. Dayan, Eric R. Kern 2008-02-12
7269630 Automatically switching shared remote devices in a dense server environment thereby allowing the remote devices to function as a local device Antonio Abbondanzio, Thomas C. Burke, Gregory W. Dake, William G. Holland, Gregory B. Pruett +1 more 2007-09-11
7194619 Remotely booting devices in a dense server environment without manually installing authentication parameters on the devices to be booted Antonio Abbondanzio, Simon Chu, Gregory W. Dake, Michael Day, Gregory B. Pruett +1 more 2007-03-20
7178141 Method and system for identifying compatibility between firmware images 2007-02-13
7171479 Efficient delivery of boot code images from a network server William Buchanan, Simon Chu, David B. Rhoades, Linda Ann Riedle 2007-01-30
7134288 System, method, and apparatus for providing a thermal bypass in electronic equipment Martin Joseph Crippen, Jason A. Matteson 2006-11-14
7047565 Method and system for capturing in-service date information Sharon Lynn Sanders Fore, Hoyt C. Simmons 2006-05-16
7013385 Remotely controlled boot settings in a server blade environment Antonio Abbondanzio, Gregory W. Dake, Gregory B. Pruett, David B. Rhoades 2006-03-14
7010710 Proximity sensor enhanced power management 2006-03-07
6993583 Dynamically sharing a pool of IP addresses Jeffrey Wayne Anderson, Travis Daren Appleman, William Buchanan, Simon Chu, David Green +2 more 2006-01-31