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James A. Pafumi
Also filed as: PAFUMI JAMES · PAFUMI JAMES A · PAFUMI JAMES ANTHONY
69 granted patents·5 pending applications·628 citations·filing 1998–2020
99Inventor score
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74 records- 0194US9495269B1Mobility validation by trial boot using snap shotIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Nov 15, 2016·15 cites·20 claims
- 0293US8041987B2Dynamic physical and virtual multipath I/OIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Oct 18, 2011·37 cites·24 claims
- 0392US8949828B2Single point, scalable data synchronization for management of a virtual input/output server clusterPAFUMI JAMES A·Filed 2011·Granted Feb 3, 2015·21 cites·30 claims
- 0492US8141092B2Management of an IOV adapter through a virtual intermediary in a hypervisor with functional management in an IOV management partitionBROWN AARON C·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 20, 2012·31 cites·23 claims
- 0590US8392378B2Efficient backup and restore of virtual input/output server (VIOS) clusterPAFUMI JAMES A·Filed 2010·Granted Mar 5, 2013·18 cites·12 claims
- 0689US8458413B2Supporting virtual input/output (I/O) server (VIOS) active memory sharing in a cluster environmentGANTI VEENA·Filed 2010·Granted Jun 4, 2013·15 cites·20 claims
- 0788US8726274B2Registration and initialization of cluster-aware virtual input/output server nodesPAFUMI JAMES A·Filed 2010·Granted May 13, 2014·12 cites·25 claims
- 0888US8495412B2Autonomous propagation of virtual input/output (VIO) operation(s) to second VIO server (VIOS) due to a detected error condition at a first VIOSPAFUMI JAMES A·Filed 2010·Granted Jul 23, 2013·12 cites·21 claims
- 0988US8495217B2Mechanism for preventing client partition crashes by removing processing resources from the client logical partition when an NPIV server goes downCYR MICHAEL P·Filed 2010·Granted Jul 23, 2013·11 cites·10 claims
- 1088US7970852B2Method for moving operating systems between computer electronic complexes without loss of serviceIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Jun 28, 2011·16 cites·18 claims
- 1186US8676762B2Efficient backup and restore of a cluster aware virtual input/output server (VIOS) within a VIOS clusterPAFUMI JAMES A·Filed 2010·Granted Mar 18, 2014·11 cites·19 claims
- 1285US9280371B2Utilizing client resources during mobility operationsIBM·Filed 2013·Granted Mar 8, 2016·7 cites·16 claims
- 1385US8949188B2Efficient backup and restore of a cluster aware virtual input/output server (VIOS) within a VIOS clusterPAFUMI JAMES A·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 3, 2015·9 cites·15 claims
- 1484US9031917B2Efficient backup and restore of virtual input/output server (VIOS) clusterPAFUMI JAMES A·Filed 2012·Granted May 12, 2015·8 cites·7 claims
- 1583US8959323B2Remote restarting client logical partition on a target virtual input/output server using hibernation data in a cluster aware data processing systemGANTI VEENA·Filed 2010·Granted Feb 17, 2015·9 cites·20 claims
- 1683US8583773B2Autonomous primary node election within a virtual input/output server clusterPAFUMI JAMES A·Filed 2011·Granted Nov 12, 2013·8 cites·21 claims
- 1783US8560628B2Supporting autonomous live partition mobility during a cluster split-brained conditionGANTI VEENA·Filed 2011·Granted Oct 15, 2013·9 cites·20 claims
- 1883US8274881B2Altering access to a fibre channel fabricALLEN JAMES P·Filed 2009·Granted Sep 25, 2012·14 cites·17 claims
- 1983US8086896B2Dynamically tracking virtual logical storage unitsALLEN JAMES P·Filed 2009·Granted Dec 27, 2011·13 cites·20 claims
- 2083US6629175B1Efficient adapter context switchingIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 30, 2003·53 cites·17 claims
- 2182US8352940B2Virtual cluster proxy to virtual I/O server manager interfaceIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Jan 8, 2013·13 cites·25 claims
- 2282US8271743B2Automated paging device management in a shared memory partition data processing systemLOGAN BRYAN M·Filed 2012·Granted Sep 18, 2012·3 cites·20 claims
- 2382US6993598B2Method and apparatus for efficient sharing of DMA resourceIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 31, 2006·38 cites·18 claims
- 2480US8819190B2Management of file images in a virtual environmentPAFUMI JAMES A·Filed 2011·Granted Aug 26, 2014·6 cites·19 claims
- 2580US8341308B2Method and apparatus for a fibre channel N-port ID virtualization protocolALLEN JAMES P·Filed 2008·Granted Dec 25, 2012·8 cites·10 claims
- 2680US8122225B2LUN masking/mapping in a SR-IOV enabled SAS adapterRECIO RENATO J·Filed 2008·Granted Feb 21, 2012·14 cites·17 claims
- 2779US8145871B2Dynamic allocation of virtual real memory for applications based on monitored usagePAFUMI JAMES A·Filed 2008·Granted Mar 27, 2012·9 cites·20 claims
- 2879US8135921B2Automated paging device management in a shared memory partition data processing systemLOGAN BRYAN M·Filed 2009·Granted Mar 13, 2012·4 cites·20 claims
- 2978US8533164B2Method and tool to overcome VIOS configuration validation and restoration failure due to DRC name mismatchPAFUMI JAMES A·Filed 2010·Granted Sep 10, 2013·6 cites·18 claims
- 3077US6437788B1Synchronizing graphics texture management in a computer system using threadsIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Aug 20, 2002·70 cites·9 claims
- 3176US9329882B2Utilizing client resources during mobility operationsIBM·Filed 2013·Granted May 3, 2016·3 cites·7 claims
- 3274US9075539B2Virtualizing storage for WPAR clients that share a common operating system of logical partitionCYR MICHAEL P·Filed 2012·Granted Jul 7, 2015·2 cites·17 claims
- 3373US8813076B2Virtual machine updatesANDERSON RAY W·Filed 2011·Granted Aug 19, 2014·4 cites·16 claims
- 3473US6252600B1Computer graphics system with dual FIFO interfaceIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Jun 26, 2001·68 cites·31 claims
- 3571US8615676B2Providing first field data capture in a virtual input/output server (VIOS) cluster environment with cluster-aware viosesBENDER CARL DUANE·Filed 2011·Granted Dec 24, 2013·4 cites·20 claims
- 3671US8521703B2Multiple node/virtual input/output (I/O) server (VIOS) failure recovery in clustered partition mobilityMEWHINNEY GREG R·Filed 2010·Granted Aug 27, 2013·3 cites·16 claims
- 3769US8954627B2Fibre channel N-port ID virtualization protocolIBM·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 10, 2015·2 cites·16 claims
- 3869US8645661B2Paging partition arbitration of paging devices to shared memory partitionsARNDT RICHARD L·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 4, 2014·2 cites·11 claims
- 3969US8055736B2Maintaining storage area network (‘SAN’) access rights during migration of operating systemsIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 8, 2011·4 cites·18 claims
- 4069US7506343B2System and method for passing information from one device driver to anotherIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Mar 17, 2009·14 cites·13 claims
- 4168US9665517B1Multipath I/O in a computer systemIBM·Filed 2016·Granted May 30, 2017·1 cites·9 claims
- 4268US9529759B1Multipath I/O in a computer systemIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Dec 27, 2016·1 cites·11 claims
- 4368US8301860B2Identifying dynamically changing virtual storage devicesCYR MICHAEL P·Filed 2009·Granted Oct 30, 2012·4 cites·23 claims
- 4467US8099522B2Arrangements for I/O control in a virtualized systemANDERSON GARY D·Filed 2008·Granted Jan 17, 2012·4 cites·17 claims
- 4567US8028147B2Arrangements for storing and retrieving blocks of data having different dimensionsIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Sep 27, 2011·3 cites·15 claims
- 4662US10365956B2Risk-appropriate validation for live operating system migrationIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Jul 30, 2019·0 cites·8 claims
- 4762US8996477B2Multiple node/virtual input/output (I/O) server (VIOS) failure recovery in clustered partition mobilityMEWHINNEY GREG R·Filed 2012·Granted Mar 31, 2015·1 cites·9 claims
- 4862US7904564B2Method and apparatus for migrating access to block storageIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 8, 2011·4 cites·5 claims
- 4961US10671446B2Risk-appropriate validation for live operating system migrationIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Jun 2, 2020·0 cites·10 claims
- 5060US11204820B2Failure detection for central electronics complex group managementIBM·Filed 2020·Granted Dec 21, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
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