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Ian F. Whitmore

Examiner (ID: 621, Phone: (571)270-3842 , Office: P/2923 )

Most Active Art Unit
2923
Art Unit(s)
2953, 2923
Total Applications
1307
Issued Applications
1276
Pending Applications
7
Abandoned Applications
24

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/780101
Electronic device, computer system, and control method Feb 2, 2020 Issued
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16/776497
Methods to configure and access scalable object stores using KV-SSDS and hybrid backend storage tiers of KV-SSDS, NVME-SSDS and other flash devices Jan 28, 2020 Issued
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16/748656
Adaptive caching in a multi-tier cache Jan 20, 2020 Issued
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16/748665
Picket fence staging in a multi-tier cache Jan 20, 2020 Issued
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16/745389
Measurement system and method for operating a measurement system Jan 16, 2020 Issued
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16/744268
Method for managing a cache memory of an electronic processor Jan 15, 2020 Issued
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16/743846
Validation of storage volumes that are in a peer to peer remote copy relationship Jan 14, 2020 Issued
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16/742589
Maintaining a cached version of a file at a router device Jan 13, 2020 Issued
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16/742739
Logical management of a destage process and dynamic cache size of a tiered data storage system cache that is configured to be powered by a temporary power source during a power loss event Jan 13, 2020 Issued
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16/734527
Limiting table-of-contents prefetching consequent to symbol table requests Jan 5, 2020 Issued
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16/729306
Apparatus and method of read leveling for storage class memory Dec 27, 2019 Issued
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16/712160
Method and apparatus for controlling different types of storage units Dec 11, 2019 Issued
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16/701250
Data preservation in linear tape file systems Dec 2, 2019 Issued
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17/640276
Method and apparatus for data caching Nov 27, 2019 Issued
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16/694751
Prefetch kill and revival in an instruction cache Nov 24, 2019 Issued
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17/295797
Last-level collective hardware prefetching Nov 5, 2019 Issued
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16/671941
Storage device, controller and method for operating controller Oct 31, 2019 Issued
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16/669973
Cache access measurement deskew Oct 30, 2019 Issued
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16/662575
Reliable non-volatile memory programming interface and method therefor Oct 23, 2019 Issued
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16/662034
Cache system and operating method thereof Oct 23, 2019 Issued
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