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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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16/123748
STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME Sep 5, 2018 Abandoned
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16/101392
Migrating data to disk without interrupting running operations Aug 9, 2018 Issued
Array ( [id] => 14539269 [patent_doc_number] => 20190205256 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2019-07-04 [patent_title] => CONTROLLER, OPERATING METHOD THEREOF AND MEMORY SYSTEM [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/058302 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2018-08-08 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 10118 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -17 [patent_words_short_claim] => 83 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16058302 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/058302
Controller for managing sequence for map data, operating method thereof and memory system Aug 7, 2018 Issued
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16/039220
Computing device and operation method thereof Jul 17, 2018 Issued
Array ( [id] => 13540665 [patent_doc_number] => 20180321879 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2018-11-08 [patent_title] => Method and Apparatus for Processing Read/Write Request in Physical Machine [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/025584 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2018-07-02 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 28921 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -15 [patent_words_short_claim] => 271 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16025584 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/025584
Method and apparatus for processing read/write request in physical machine Jul 1, 2018 Issued
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16/022530
Performance-based volume replica migration Jun 27, 2018 Issued
Array ( [id] => 13906503 [patent_doc_number] => 20190042456 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2019-02-07 [patent_title] => MULTIBANK CACHE WITH DYNAMIC CACHE VIRTUALIZATION [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/021319 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2018-06-28 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 18885 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -22 [patent_words_short_claim] => 92 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16021319 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/021319
MULTIBANK CACHE WITH DYNAMIC CACHE VIRTUALIZATION Jun 27, 2018 Abandoned
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15/982792
Buffered freepointer management memory system May 16, 2018 Issued
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15/983026
Locality grouping during garbage collection of a storage device May 16, 2018 Issued
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15/983028
Locality grouping during garbage collection with flush of buffered write data upon completion of garbage collection operation May 16, 2018 Issued
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15/971618
CONTROLLER FOR CONTROLLING ONE OR MORE MEMORY DEVICES AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF May 3, 2018 Abandoned
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15/943616
Memory system with controller for storage device array Apr 1, 2018 Issued
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15/919207
Methods and apparatus for using circular addressing in convolutional operation Mar 11, 2018 Issued
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15/919049
Shingled magnetic recording drive that updates media cache data in-place Mar 11, 2018 Issued
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15/919089
SMR drive that maintains physical locations of bands via flush/copy operations Mar 11, 2018 Issued
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15/919167
Memory access for multiple circuit components Mar 11, 2018 Issued
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15/894131
Efficient data migration in hierarchical storage management system Feb 11, 2018 Issued
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15/893918
Processor Feb 11, 2018 Issued
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15/893858
Controller to perform pre-pumping operation and operating method thereof Feb 11, 2018 Issued
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15/894019
Cache line states identifying memory cache Feb 11, 2018 Issued
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