Inventor

Richard E. Harper

Inventor

Chapel Hill, NC, US

Overview

1990–2021

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 59 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Fprimary

G06FElectric digital data processing64%

H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication11%

Y02DClimate change mitigation technologies in information and communication technologies [ict], i.e. information and communication technologies aiming at the reduction of their own energy use6%

H05KPrinted circuits5%

G01KMeasuring temperature3%

F04DNon-positive-displacement pumps1%

G01BMeasuring length, thickness or similar linear dimensions1%

G01CMeasuring distances, levels or bearings1%

G01NInvestigating or analysing materials by determining their chemical or physical properties1%

G06NComputing arrangements based on specific computational models1%

PatentTitleYear

11,030,002Optimizing simultaneous startup or modification of inter-dependent machines with specified priorities2021 10,768,961Virtual machine seed image replication through parallel deployment2020 10,445,138Optimizing simultaneous startup or modification of inter-dependent machines with specified priorities2019 10,423,588Orchestrated disaster recovery2019 10,305,789Packet forwarding for quality of service delivery2019 10,268,512Optimizing simultaneous startup or modification of inter-dependent machines with specified priorities2019 10,268,549Heuristic process for inferring resource dependencies for recovery planning2019 10,229,008Increasing disaster resiliency by having a PoD backed up to other peer PoDs in a site or beyond2019 10,223,218Disaster recovery of managed systems2019 10,171,349Packet forwarding for quality of service delivery2019 9,990,491Methods and systems for assessing and remediating online servers with minimal impact2018 9,852,035High availability dynamic restart priority calculator2017 9,798,635'Service level agreement-based resource allocation for failure recovery'2017 9,792,146'Iterative anti-collocation of network resources using prioritized graph coloring'2017 9,658,875'Anti-collocating multiple virtual entities using prioritized graph coloring and iterative placement'2017 9,588,853'Automatic management of server failures'2017 9,436,560'Increasing disaster resiliency by having a pod backed up to other peer pods in a site or beyond'2016 9,389,970'Selected virtual machine replication and virtual machine restart techniques'2016 9,208,007'Open resilience framework for simplified and coordinated orchestration of multiple availability managers'2015 9,170,888'Methods and apparatus for virtual machine recovery'2015 9,110,867'Providing application based monitoring and recovery for a hypervisor of an HA cluster'2015 8,943,372'Systems and methods for open and extensible integration of management domains in computation and orchestration of resource placement'2015 8,566,028'Apparatus, system, and method for autonomously determining a set of destinations'2013 8,516,495'Domain management and integration in a virtualized computing environment'2013 8,140,614'Distributed computing environment with remote data collection management'2012 8,091,127'Heuristic malware detection'2012 8,055,951'System, method and computer program product for evaluating a virtual machine'2011 8,032,331'Detection of airflow anomalies in electronic equipment'2011 7,966,614'Controlling an availability policy for a virtual machine based on changes in a real world environment'2011 7,958,509'Method and system for scheduling of jobs'2011 7,933,739'Automated analysis of datacenter layout using temperature sensor positions'2011 7,930,573'Workload apportionment according to mean and variance'2011 7,925,389'Method of detecting recirculation of heated air within a rack enclosure'2011 7,921,203'Specifying associations among attributes of entities in'2011 7,870,241'Automated power control policies based on application-specific redundancy characteristics'2011 7,770,064'Recovery of application faults in a mirrored application environment'2010 7,676,301'Identification and characterization of recirculation in electronic systems'2010 7,673,183'Identifying temporal ambiguity in an aggregated log stream'2010 7,650,538'Identifying temporal ambiguity in an aggregated log stream'2010 7,526,400'Thermal modeling and error detection in a data processing configuration'2009 7,463,950'Identification and characterization of recirculation in electronic systems'2008 7,460,978'Method, system, and computer program product for rack position determination using acoustics'2008 7,421,368'Detection of airflow anomalies in electronic equipment'2008 7,380,173'Identifying temporal ambiguity in a aggregated log stream'2008 7,282,873'Mutual active cancellation of fan noise and vibration'2007 6,996,751'Method and system for reduction of service costs by discrimination between software and hardware induced outages'2006 6,978,398'Method and system for proactively reducing the outage time of a computer system'2005 6,964,539'Method for managing power consumption of multiple computer servers'2005 6,934,806'Method and system for improving input/output performance by proactively flushing and locking an entire page out of caches of a multiprocessor system'2005 6,820,215'System and method for performing automatic rejuvenation at the optimal time based on work load history in a distributed data processing environment'2004 6,810,495'Method and system for software rejuvenation via flexible resource exhaustion prediction'2004 6,795,928'Method for managing power consumption of multiple computer servers'2004 6,675,316'Method and system for recovery of the state of a failed CPU/cache/memory node in a distributed shared memory system'2004 6,629,266'Method and system for transparent symptom-based selective software rejuvenation'2003 6,594,784'Method and system for transparent time-based selective software rejuvenation'2003 6,018,812'Reliable wafer-scale integrated computing systems'2000 5,269,016'Byzantine resilient fault tolerant shared memory data processing system'1993 4,937,741'Synchronization of fault-tolerant parallel processing systems'1990 4,907,232'Fault-tolerant parallel processing system'1990

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1990–2000Patents assigned to DRAPER LAB CHARLES S (4)· patent assignee history

1990–2000Based in Needham, MA, US· patent location history

2003–2021Patents assigned to IBM (54)· patent assignee history

2003–2021Based in Chapel Hill, NC, US· patent location history

2012–2015Patents assigned to HARPER RICHARD E (6)· patent assignee history

2013Patents assigned to HARPER RICHARD EDWIN (2)· patent assignee history

2015Patents assigned to RYU KYUNG D (3)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
IBM	54	2003–2021
HARPER RICHARD Eself	6	2012–2015
DRAPER LAB CHARLES S	4	1990–2000
RYU KYUNG D	3	2015
HARPER RICHARD EDWINself	2	2013

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Chapel Hill, NC, US	55	2003–2021
Needham, Massachusetts, US	4	1990–2000