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Gregory E. McBride

IBM: 26 patents #102 of 11,638Top 1%
Vail, AZ: #1 of 28 inventorsTop 4%
Arizona: #22 of 4,087 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (2021): #1,102 of 548,734Top 1%
26 Patents 2021

Issued Patents 2021

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11188479 Determining space to release in a target volume to which tracks from a source volume are mirrored Matthew J. Ward, Joshua J. Crawford 2021-11-30
11182081 Performing a recovery copy command to restore a safeguarded copy backup to a production volume Theresa M. Brown, Nedlaya Y. Francisco, Nicolas M. Clayton, Mark L. Lipets, Carol S. Mellgren +2 more 2021-11-23
11182373 Updating change information for current copy relationships when establishing a new copy relationship having overlapping data with the current copy relationships Theresa M. Brown, Nedlaya Y. Francisco, Suguang Li, Mark L. Lipets, Carol S. Mellgren +1 more 2021-11-23
11182363 Data validation in copy repositories David C. Reed 2021-11-23
11182094 Performing a recovery copy command using a recovery copy data structure for a backup volume lookup Theresa M. Brown, Mark L. Lipets 2021-11-23
11175827 Determining tracks to release in a target volume mirrored from a source volume Matthew J. Ward, Joshua J. Crawford 2021-11-16
11176003 Restoration of data when point in time copy operations are performed during asynchronous copy Theresa M. Brown, Nicolas M. Clayton, Nedlaya Y. Francisco, Theodore T. Harris, Jr., Kevin Lin +3 more 2021-11-16
11175994 Copying data from multiple point-in-time copies to a log storage to use to roll-back a source storage Theresa M. Brown, Nicolas M. Clayton, Carol S. Mellgren, David C. Reed 2021-11-16
11163456 Using mirror indicators to determine whether to mirror tracks in a data set in a primary volume mirrored to a secondary volume Dash D. Miller, Miguel A. Perez, David C. Reed 2021-11-02
11099751 Determining tracks to release in a source volume being copied to a target volume Matthew J. Ward, Joshua J. Crawford 2021-08-24
11099953 Automatic data healing using a storage controller William J. Rooney, Tabor R. Powelson, David R. Blea, Dale F. Riedy, Carol S. Mellgren 2021-08-24
11093178 Using a space release data structure to indicate tracks to release for a space release command to release space of tracks Theresa M. Brown, Nicolas M. Clayton, Carol S. Mellgren, Matthew J. Ward 2021-08-17
11087009 Authorization-based messaging David C. Reed, Kenneth J. Owin 2021-08-10
11080153 Modifying journaling associated with data mirroring within a storage system Dash D. Miller, Miguel A. Perez, David C. Reed 2021-08-03
11079966 Enhanced soft fence of devices Scott B. Compton, Tariq Hanif, Tri M. Hoang, Carol S. Mellgren, William J. Rooney 2021-08-03
11079935 Processing a space release command to free release space in a consistency group Theresa M. Brown, Nicolas M. Clayton, Joshua J. Crawford, Carol S. Mellgren, Matthew J. Ward 2021-08-03
11073989 Using mirror indicators to indicate whether to mirror tracks in a data set in a primary volume mirrored to a secondary volume Dash D. Miller, Miguel A. Perez, David C. Reed 2021-07-27
10977142 After swapping from a first storage to a second storage, mirroring data from the second storage to the first storage for data in the first storage that experienced data errors David R. Blea, Carol S. Mellgren, Tabor R. Powelson, William J. Rooney 2021-04-13
10970174 Pre-emptive data production site swap David C. Reed 2021-04-06
10956289 Switching over from using a first primary storage to using a second primary storage when the first primary storage is in a mirror relationship Dash D. Miller, Miguel A. Perez, David C. Reed 2021-03-23
10956281 Using a forward log storage and backward log storage to recover a storage to a forward or backward point-in-time Theresa M. Brown, Nicolas M. Clayton, Carol S. Mellgren, David C. Reed 2021-03-23
10929248 Data corruption source and timeline analysis David C. Reed 2021-02-23
10929249 Optimized data corruption source and timeline analysis David C. Reed 2021-02-23
10929242 File corruption recovery in concurrent data protection Thomas W. Bish, Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Richard A. Welp 2021-02-23
10915406 Storage unit replacement using point-in-time snap copy Amy N. Blea, David R. Blea, William J. Rooney, John J. Wolfgang 2021-02-09