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Christopher D. Birkhimer

Examiner (ID: 11144, Phone: (571)270-1178 , Office: P/2136 )

Most Active Art Unit
2136
Art Unit(s)
2136, 2186
Total Applications
631
Issued Applications
455
Pending Applications
65
Abandoned Applications
136

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/595863
Exclusivity in circuitry having a home node providing coherency control Oct 7, 2019 Issued
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16/583534
Write stream separation into multiple partitions Sep 25, 2019 Issued
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16/575704
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING GARBAGE COLLECTION STATUS INFORMATION IN A MEMORY SYSTEM Sep 18, 2019 Abandoned
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16/574939
Magnetic tape integration with distributed disk file systems Sep 17, 2019 Issued
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16/968371
WRITE BUFFER CONTROL IN MANAGED MEMORY SYSTEM Aug 26, 2019 Pending
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16/552954
Efficient garbage collection of variable size chunking deduplication Aug 26, 2019 Issued
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16/968371
WRITE BUFFER CONTROL IN MANAGED MEMORY SYSTEM Aug 26, 2019 Pending
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16/528232
Virtual one-time programmable memory management Jul 30, 2019 Issued
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17/419736
Updates to flash memory based on determinations of bits to erase Jul 30, 2019 Issued
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16/528492
Parallel key value based multithread machine learning leveraging KV-SSDS Jul 30, 2019 Issued
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16/527894
Deduplication of large block aggregates using representative block digests Jul 30, 2019 Issued
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16/450294
Information processing device and control method determining valid data in multiple memory areas based on multiple valid flags Jun 23, 2019 Issued
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16/445491
Storage device, method and non-volatile memory device performing garbage collection using estimated number of valid pages Jun 18, 2019 Issued
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16/436080
NAND raid controller Jun 9, 2019 Issued
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16/420629
Non-volatile memory for secure storage of authentication data May 22, 2019 Issued
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16/395194
Migrating data to disk without interrupting running operations Apr 24, 2019 Issued
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16/385698
Controller and operating method thereof Apr 15, 2019 Issued
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16/383776
Queuing read requests based on write requests Apr 14, 2019 Issued
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16/384282
Memory controller and operating method thereof Apr 14, 2019 Issued
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16/383490
Apparatus, system and method for offloading data transfer operations between source and destination storage devices to a hardware accelerator Apr 11, 2019 Issued
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