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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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15/824608
DATA REPLICATION BASED ON DATA-DRIVEN RECOVERY OBJECTIVES Nov 27, 2017 Abandoned
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15/825062
Data deduplication using KVSSD Nov 27, 2017 Issued
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15/824769
Deferred method of allocating disk space for lightning segments Nov 27, 2017 Issued
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15/824750
Systems and methods for locality management Nov 27, 2017 Issued
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15/824744
Power-conserving cache memory usage Nov 27, 2017 Issued
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15/824769
Deferred method of allocating disk space for lightning segments Nov 27, 2017 Issued
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15/824539
Expandable buffer for memory transactions Nov 27, 2017 Issued
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15/705982
Frame choosing during storage constraint condition Sep 14, 2017 Issued
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15/625956
Flash memory controller to perform delegated move to host-specified destination Jun 15, 2017 Issued
Array ( [id] => 16446924 [patent_doc_number] => 10838853 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B1 [patent_issue_date] => 2020-11-17 [patent_title] => Nonvolatile memory controller that defers maintenance to host-commanded window [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 15/625931 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2017-06-16 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 13 [patent_figures_cnt] => 24 [patent_no_of_words] => 27521 [patent_no_of_claims] => 25 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 338 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 15625931 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
15/625931
Nonvolatile memory controller that defers maintenance to host-commanded window Jun 15, 2017 Issued
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15/497835
METHOD FOR ALLOCATING MEMORY SPACE Apr 25, 2017 Abandoned
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15/497839
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS Apr 25, 2017 Abandoned
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15/497816
Systems and methods for allocating data compression activities in a storage system Apr 25, 2017 Issued
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15/480760
Storage control method and information processing apparatus Apr 5, 2017 Issued
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15/480865
Network asset management Apr 5, 2017 Issued
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15/480050
Multi-tier storage system with data mover modules providing distributed multi-part data movement Apr 4, 2017 Issued
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15/480086
System and method for higher order long short-term memory (LSTM) network Apr 4, 2017 Issued
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15/480302
In-place data compression with small working memory Apr 4, 2017 Issued
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15/480161
Method and system for memory-based data caching Apr 4, 2017 Issued
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15/469757
BALANCING MEMORY PRESSURE ACROSS SYSTEMS Mar 26, 2017 Abandoned
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