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Bruce H. Ratcliff
Also filed as: RATCLIFF BRUCE · RATCLIFF BRUCE H · RATCLIFF BRUCE HENRY
92 granted patents·7 pending applications·1,813 citations·filing 1995–2024
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99 records- 0196US9253017B2Management of a data network of a computing environmentIBM·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 2, 2016·40 cites·12 claims
- 0293US11979459B1Configuration of data connections between a host and a shared network adapterIBM·Filed 2023·Granted May 7, 2024·3 cites·20 claims
- 0391US9634985B2Selectively refreshing address registration informationIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Apr 25, 2017·6 cites·16 claims
- 0490US7843919B2Ethernet virtualization using a network packet alterationIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 30, 2010·22 cites·16 claims
- 0589US6778540B1Facility for forwarding data from a network adapter to a router partition without internet protocol (ip) processingIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Aug 17, 2004·62 cites·34 claims
- 0686US7515589B2Method and apparatus for providing network virtualizationIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Apr 7, 2009·49 cites·12 claims
- 0786US6681258B1Facility for retrieving data from a network adapter having a shared address resolution tableIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Jan 20, 2004·50 cites·40 claims
- 0883US9419881B2Selectively refreshing address registration informationIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Aug 16, 2016·4 cites·9 claims
- 0982US8402190B2Network adaptor optimization and interrupt reductionISREL JR MAURICE·Filed 2008·Granted Mar 19, 2013·12 cites·10 claims
- 1080US10552054B2Peripheral component interconnect express (PCIE) network with input/output (I/O) chaining to reduce communication time within execution of I/O channel operationsIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Feb 4, 2020·2 cites·19 claims
- 1179US9300592B2Physical port sharing in a link aggregation groupIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 29, 2016·4 cites·19 claims
- 1275US9419879B2Selectively refreshing address registration informationIBM·Filed 2013·Granted Aug 16, 2016·2 cites·14 claims
- 1375US9253016B2Management of a data network of a computing environmentADLUNG INGO·Filed 2010·Granted Feb 2, 2016·4 cites·18 claims
- 1475US7729879B2Apparatus and method to integrate hardware adapter diagnostics with a host OS diagnostics through signalingIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Jun 1, 2010·6 cites·30 claims
- 1575US6490285B2IP multicast interfaceIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 3, 2002·92 cites·20 claims
- 1675US6347341B1Computer program product used for exchange and transfer of data having a siga vector and utilizing a queued direct input-output deviceIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Feb 12, 2002·87 cites·14 claims
- 1774US10164868B2Hypervisor routing between networks in a virtual networking environmentCOWART ROBERT·Filed 2012·Granted Dec 25, 2018·4 cites·14 claims
- 1872US6772221B1Dynamically configuring and 5 monitoring hosts connected in a computing network having a gateway deviceIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Aug 3, 2004·21 cites·35 claims
- 1972US6600743B1IP multicast interfaceIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Jul 29, 2003·79 cites·22 claims
- 2071US6009467ASystem for checking status of supported functions of communication platforms at preselected intervals in order to allow hosts to obtain updated list of all supported functionsIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 28, 1999·74 cites·35 claims
- 2171US5740438AMethods and system for network communications of multiple partitionsIBM·Filed 1995·Granted Apr 14, 1998·73 cites·22 claims
- 2269US12379742B1Snoop logic function streaming timersIBM·Filed 2024·Granted Aug 5, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 2369US12309226B2Data constructs for a shared network adapterIBM·Filed 2023·Granted May 20, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 2469US8719479B2Network adaptor optimization and interrupt reductionIBM·Filed 2013·Granted May 6, 2014·2 cites·8 claims
- 2569US6519645B2Method and apparatus for providing configuration information using a queued direct input-output deviceIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Feb 11, 2003·67 cites·14 claims
- 2669US6330615B1Method of using address resolution protocol for constructing data frame formats for multiple partitions host network interface communicationsIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 11, 2001·60 cites·14 claims
- 2768US12306758B2Address based hardware snoop logic with configurable snoopable space settings for hardware assistIBM·Filed 2023·Granted May 20, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 2867US8055817B2Efficient handling of queued-direct I/O requests and completionsIBM·Filed 2009·Granted Nov 8, 2011·3 cites·23 claims
- 2967US6976083B1Apparatus for providing direct data processing access using a queued direct input-output deviceIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Dec 13, 2005·60 cites·22 claims
- 3067US6654812B2Communication between multiple partitions employing host-network interfaceIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Nov 25, 2003·10 cites·15 claims
- 3167US6345327B1Queuing method and apparatus for providing direct data processing access using a queued direct input-output deviceIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Feb 5, 2002·58 cites·25 claims
- 3267US6078964AEstablishing direct communications between two hosts without using a high performance LAN connectionIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Jun 20, 2000·61 cites·21 claims
- 3367US5999974AInternet protocol assists for high performance LAN connectionsIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 7, 1999·62 cites·16 claims
- 3466US11093362B2Packet flow tracing in a parallel processor complexIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Aug 17, 2021·0 cites·7 claims
- 3566US11086748B2Packet flow tracing in a parallel processor complexIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Aug 10, 2021·0 cites·14 claims
- 3666US8918559B2Partitioning of a variable length scatter gather listAMANN STEFAN·Filed 2011·Granted Dec 23, 2014·2 cites·9 claims
- 3766US6003088ABlocking IP datagrams in a multi-path channel point-to-point environmentIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 14, 1999·57 cites·15 claims
- 3865US10142218B2Hypervisor routing between networks in a virtual networking environmentCOWART ROBERT·Filed 2011·Granted Nov 27, 2018·2 cites·26 claims
- 3965US9313139B2Physical port sharing in a link aggregation groupIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Apr 12, 2016·1 cites·11 claims
- 4065US6014699AInternet protocol assists for high performance LAN connectionsIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Jan 11, 2000·56 cites·16 claims
- 4163US10949097B2Peripheral component interconnect express (PCIE) network with input/output (I/O) operation chaining to reduce communication time within execution of I/O channel operationsIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Mar 16, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
- 4263US6330616B1System for communications of multiple partitions employing host-network interface, and address resolution protocol for constructing data frame format according to client formatIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 11, 2001·51 cites·14 claims
- 4360US10931581B2MAC learning in a multiple virtual switch environmentIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Feb 23, 2021·0 cites·19 claims
- 4460US10417109B2Packet flow tracing in a parallel processor complexIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Sep 17, 2019·0 cites·3 claims
- 4560US8271258B2Emulated Z-series queued direct I/OCHAN PING T·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 18, 2012·3 cites·21 claims
- 4660US7519707B2Facilitating monitoring and simultaneously analyzing of network events of multiple hosts via a single network interfaceIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Apr 14, 2009·1 cites·20 claims
- 4760US6397350B1Method of providing direct data processing access using a queued direct input-output deviceIBM·Filed 1999·Granted May 28, 2002·36 cites·27 claims
- 4860US6389027B1IP multicast interfaceIBM·Filed 1998·Granted May 14, 2002·43 cites·11 claims
- 4960US6084859AInternet protocol assists using multi-path channel protocolIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Jul 4, 2000·44 cites·19 claims
- 5059US10423511B2Packet flow tracing in a parallel processor complexIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Sep 24, 2019·0 cites·5 claims
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