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Howard J. Locker

Examiner (ID: 19111)

Most Active Art Unit
1804
Art Unit(s)
1661, 1804, 1803, 2203, 2899, 1724, 1649
Total Applications
2853
Issued Applications
2686
Pending Applications
0
Abandoned Applications
167

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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14/730425
Scheduling method and apparatus for applying laxity correction based on task completion proportion and preset time Jun 3, 2015 Issued
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14/729177
Automatic Analytical Cloud Scaling of Hardware Using Resource Sub-Cloud Jun 2, 2015 Abandoned
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15/314423
System and method for performing biometric operations in parallel using database and biometric operations plug-ins May 17, 2015 Issued
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14/699236
Method and device for handling optimization processes based on Euclidean distance Apr 28, 2015 Issued
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14/697743
Cybernaut: a cloud-oriented energy-efficient intrusion-tolerant hypervisor Apr 27, 2015 Issued
Array ( [id] => 12399186 [patent_doc_number] => 09967322 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2018-05-08 [patent_title] => Method for the execution of services in real time flight management system [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 14/696132 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2015-04-24 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 9 [patent_figures_cnt] => 13 [patent_no_of_words] => 11449 [patent_no_of_claims] => 16 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 1 [patent_words_short_claim] => 303 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 14696132 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
14/696132
Method for the execution of services in real time flight management system Apr 23, 2015 Issued
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15/305146
AUTOMATED CONFIGURATION OF VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER ACCESS FOR THE VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTION MANAGER Apr 22, 2015 Abandoned
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14/694950
Virtual machine (VM)-to-VM flow control for overlay networks Apr 22, 2015 Issued
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14/689737
Identifying hung condition exceeding predetermined frequency threshold and modifying hanging escalation tasks to avoid hang conditions Apr 16, 2015 Issued
Array ( [id] => 12018639 [patent_doc_number] => 09811345 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2017-11-07 [patent_title] => 'Utilizing computing resources under a disabled processor node without fully enabling the disabled processor node' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 14/688012 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2015-04-16 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 5 [patent_figures_cnt] => 5 [patent_no_of_words] => 4865 [patent_no_of_claims] => 13 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 179 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 14688012 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
14/688012
Utilizing computing resources under a disabled processor node without fully enabling the disabled processor node Apr 15, 2015 Issued
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14/685736
Automatic Analytical Cloud Scaling of Hardware Using Resource Sub-Cloud Apr 13, 2015 Abandoned
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14/684265
CODE EXAMINATION BY SCHEDULER TIMELINE MANIPULATION Apr 9, 2015 Abandoned
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15/544528
Management computer and resource management method configured to combine server resources and storage resources and allocate the combined resources to virtual machines Apr 5, 2015 Issued
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14/672596
Method, apparatus, and system for unambiguous parameter sampling in a heterogeneous multi-core or multi-threaded processor environment Mar 29, 2015 Issued
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15/552407
TECHNOLOGIES FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATION Mar 26, 2015 Abandoned
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14/671689
Method and system for distributed task dispatch in a multi-application environment based on consensus Mar 26, 2015 Issued
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14/639295
Storage management computer and method for avoiding conflict by adjusting the task starting time and switching the order of task execution Mar 4, 2015 Issued
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15/124016
SERVER, CONTROL APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION METHOD, CONTROL METHOD, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM Mar 2, 2015 Abandoned
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14/635790
Methods and apparatus to manage speculative execution of object locks by diverting the speculative execution of target code Mar 1, 2015 Issued
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14/629365
Virtual system device identification using GPU to host bridge mapping Feb 22, 2015 Issued
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