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Donald F. Ferguson
Also filed as: FERGUSON DONALD F · FERGUSON DONALD FRANCIS
16 granted patents·3 pending applications·1,147 citations·filing 1989–2012
95Inventor score
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19 records- 0195US5504894AWorkload manager for achieving transaction class response time goals in a multiprocessing systemIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Apr 2, 1996·384 cites·8 claims
- 0288US6976079B1System and method for upgrading software in a distributed computer systemIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 13, 2005·76 cites·18 claims
- 0387US6161145AUpdating server-related data at a clientIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 12, 2000·156 cites·7 claims
- 0486US5675797AGoal-oriented resource allocation manager and performance index technique for serversIBM·Filed 1994·Granted Oct 7, 1997·127 cites·4 claims
- 0584US7206852B2System and method for upgrading software in a distributed computer systemIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 17, 2007·16 cites·3 claims
- 0683US6014700AWorkload management in a client-server network with distributed objectsIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Jan 11, 2000·154 cites·17 claims
- 0779US5475813ARouting transactions in the presence of failing serversIBM·Filed 1994·Granted Dec 12, 1995·93 cites·9 claims
- 0874US7493563B2Using content aggregation to build administration consolesIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Feb 17, 2009·18 cites·3 claims
- 0971US6804818B1Integration mechanism for object-oriented software and message-oriented softwareIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Oct 12, 2004·59 cites·32 claims
- 1069US8140976B2Using content aggregation to build administration consolesBOHN JOSEPH A·Filed 2008·Granted Mar 20, 2012·5 cites·6 claims
- 1165US5150472ACache management method and apparatus for shared, sequentially-accessed, dataIBM·Filed 1989·Granted Sep 22, 1992·37 cites·16 claims
- 1261US8495557B2Highly available large scale network and internet systemsVINBERG ANDERS B·Filed 2008·Granted Jul 23, 2013·2 cites·20 claims
- 1360US7356613B2Routable application partitioningIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Apr 8, 2008·6 cites·6 claims
- 1458US6886077B2Context-sensitive cachingIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 26, 2005·6 cites·5 claims
- 1557US7334087B2Context-sensitive cachingIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Feb 19, 2008·1 cites·10 claims
- 1653US2013311229A1Proactive risk assessment for system architecture evolutionsHADAR EITAN·Filed 2012·Application pending·0 cites
- 1752US2008140690A1Routable application partitioningIBM·Filed 2008·Application pending·0 cites
- 1850US2012290110A1Evaluating Composite Applications Through Graphical ModelingHADAR EITAN·Filed 2011·Application pending·0 cites
- 1938US6697826B1Information-handling system, method, and article of manufacture including and object search mechanism that provides constraint-based filtering in a distributed object systemIBM·Filed 1996·Granted Feb 24, 2004·7 cites·18 claims
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