David Lynn Merbach

This inventor holds 33 USPTO granted patents, plus 1 CIPO patent and 1 EPO patent, primarily in Storage Area Networks. Top assignee: International Business Machines Corporation. Active years: 1999-2018.

USPTO Granted Patents = 33

% Patents Active = 24.2

CIPO Patents = 1

EPO Patents = 1 (Patent Applications = 1)

Average Co-Inventor Count = 4.4

ph-index = 13

Forward Citations = 728(Granted Patents)

Location History:

N.E. Rochester, MN (US) (2010)
Rochester, MN (US) (1999 - 2018)

Company Filing History:

33 out of 166,264

International Business Machines Corporation

patents

Years Active: 1999-2018

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Areas of Expertise:

Fabric Alert Definitions

Network Information Discovery

Policy Management Framework

Storage Area Network Management

Mixed Protocol Management

User Interface Architecture

Data Collection Agents

Event Notification

Topology Rendering

Graphical User Interface

33 patents (USPTO):Sort by Forward CitationsExplore Patents

1. 10084640 - Automatic updates to fabric alert definitions (2018-09-25),

2. 9407700 - Intelligent discovery of network information from multiple information gathering agents (2016-08-02),

3. 8775499 - Intelligent discovery of network information from multiple information gathering agents (2014-07-08),

4. 8655999 - Automatically adjusting scheduled inventory of switched fabrics (2014-02-18),

5. 8516489 - Organization of virtual heterogeneous entities into system resource groups for defining policy management framework in a managed systems environment (2013-08-20),

6. 8443078 - Method of determining equivalent subsets of agents to gather information for a fabric (2013-05-14),

7. 8327004 - Storage area network methods and apparatus with centralized management (2012-12-04),

8. 8326978 - Automatic updates to fabric alert definitions for fabric segmentation, fabric merge, and fabric principal switch changes (2012-12-04),

9. 8291429 - Organization of heterogeneous entities into system resource groups for defining policy management framework in managed systems environment (2012-10-16),

10. 8060587 - Methods and apparatus for launching device specific applications on storage area network components (2011-11-15),

11. 8019851 - Intelligent discovery of network information from multiple information gathering agents (2011-09-13),

12. 7827317 - Apparatus for management of mixed protocol storage networks (2010-11-02),

13. 7827260 - Apparatus, system, and method for configuring zone control of a network feature in a heterogeneous network (2010-11-02),

14. 7779423 - Detecting entity changes in a storage area network environment (2010-08-17),

15. 7756958 - Intelligent discovery of network information from multiple information gathering agents (2010-07-13),

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