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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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16/376489
Data Architecture Based on Sub-allocation and References from Fragmented Data Blocks Apr 4, 2019 Abandoned
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16/370013
Technologies for efficient exit from hyper dimensional space in the presence of errors Mar 28, 2019 Issued
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16/370013
Technologies for efficient exit from hyper dimensional space in the presence of errors Mar 28, 2019 Issued
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16/358615
Methods, apparatuses, system and computer program products for reclaiming storage units Mar 18, 2019 Issued
Array ( [id] => 17325371 [patent_doc_number] => 11216383 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2022-01-04 [patent_title] => Storage device providing a virtual memory region, electronic system including the same, and method of operating the same [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/291402 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2019-03-04 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 20 [patent_figures_cnt] => 23 [patent_no_of_words] => 10068 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 101 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16291402 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/291402
Storage device providing a virtual memory region, electronic system including the same, and method of operating the same Mar 3, 2019 Issued
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16/289340
STORAGE DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM Feb 27, 2019 Abandoned
Array ( [id] => 16171611 [patent_doc_number] => 10713181 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B1 [patent_issue_date] => 2020-07-14 [patent_title] => Method and system for sharing driver pages [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/281468 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2019-02-21 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 14 [patent_figures_cnt] => 14 [patent_no_of_words] => 9469 [patent_no_of_claims] => 23 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [patent_words_short_claim] => 174 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16281468 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/281468
Method and system for sharing driver pages Feb 20, 2019 Issued
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16/279494
Memory devices and methods for operating the same Feb 18, 2019 Issued
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16/261174
Sub-lun non-deduplicated tier in a CAS storage to reduce mapping information and improve memory efficiency Jan 28, 2019 Issued
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16/256020
Balancing the block wearing leveling for optimum SSD endurance Jan 23, 2019 Issued
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16/248640
Distributed dataset modification, retention, and replication Jan 14, 2019 Issued
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16/244439
Techniques for dynamically aligning a partition with a block size boundary Jan 9, 2019 Issued
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16/243952
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURE LOCKING OF A CACHE REGION Jan 8, 2019 Abandoned
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16/228726
Block-level single instancing Dec 19, 2018 Issued
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16/209863
Tier aware caching solution to increase application performance Dec 3, 2018 Issued
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16/198438
Record information management based on self describing attributes Nov 20, 2018 Issued
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16/195697
Apparatus and method for cache provisioning, configuration for optimal application performance Nov 18, 2018 Issued
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16/193506
Memories and methods to provide configuration information to controllers Nov 15, 2018 Issued
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16/176782
Non-disruptive migration of a virtual volume in a clustered data storage system Oct 30, 2018 Issued
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16/168910
Concurrent remote IO processing for synchronous replication Oct 23, 2018 Issued
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