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David Alan Burton

IBM: 38 patents #2,506 of 70,183Top 4%
PSPillar Data Systems: 12 patents #1 of 18Top 6%
Micron: 2 patents #3,728 of 6,345Top 60%
HCHealth Catalysts: 1 patents #6 of 14Top 45%
SISolar Turbines Incorporated: 1 patents #238 of 536Top 45%
Tucson, AZ: #96 of 6,004 inventorsTop 2%
Arizona: #389 of 32,909 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #47,421 of 4,157,543Top 2%
54 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–50 of 54 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7143122 Data replication in data storage systems Noel Simen Otterness, Kurt Alan Shoens 2006-11-28
7136974 Systems and methods of data migration in snapshot operations Noel Simen Otterness 2006-11-14
7124243 Methods and systems of cache memory management and snapshot operations Noel Simen Otterness 2006-10-17
7120824 Method, apparatus and program storage device for maintaining data consistency and cache coherency during communications failures between nodes in a remote mirror pair Noel Simen Otterness, Alan Stewart 2006-10-10
7107411 Apparatus method and system for fault tolerant virtual memory management Noel Simen Otterness 2006-09-12
7062644 Method, system, and program for initializing a storage device comprising multiple storage units through a storage controller John E. Bish 2006-06-13
7051341 Method, system, and program for implementing a remote method call Robert Louis Morton, Gary Steffens 2006-05-23
6965979 Methods and systems of host caching 2005-11-15
6954824 Method, system, and program for determining a configuration of a logical array including a plurality of storage devices Robert Louis Morton, Gary Steffens, Bryan Wright 2005-10-11
6928521 Method, system, and data structures for using metadata in updating data in a storage device Norio Fujita, Robert Louis Morton, Koji Nakase 2005-08-09
6907504 Method and system for upgrading drive firmware in a non-disruptive manner Noel Simen Otterness 2005-06-14
6748486 Method, system, and data structures for superimposing data records in a first data format to memory in a second data format Robert Louis Morton 2004-06-08
6738865 Method, system, and program for demoting data from cache based on least recently accessed and least frequently accessed data Erez Webman 2004-05-18
6732193 Method, system, and program for determining a number of write operations to execute Robert Louis Morton, Erez Webman 2004-05-04
6715036 Method, system, and data structures for transferring blocks of data from a storage device to a requesting application Norio Fujita, Robert Louis Morton, Koji Nakase 2004-03-30
6665743 Method, system, and program for initializing a storage space Michael T. Benhase, Robert Louis Morton 2003-12-16
6651154 Method, system, and program for expanding the storage space in an array of storage units Robert Louis Morton 2003-11-18
6633962 Method, system, program, and data structures for restricting host access to a storage space Robert Louis Morton 2003-10-14
6618798 Method, system, program, and data structures for mapping logical units to a storage space comprises of at least one array of storage units Robert Louis Morton 2003-09-09
6601128 Method, system, program, and data structure for selecting a preferred path to a storage device Robert Louis Morton 2003-07-29
6526419 Method, system, and program for remote copy in an open systems environment Robert Louis Morton, Erez Webman 2003-02-25
6425051 METHOD, SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND DATA STRUCTURES FOR ENABLING A CONTROLLER ACCESSING A STORAGE DEVICE TO HANDLE REQUESTS TO DATA IN A FIRST DATA FORMAT WHEN THE STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDES DATA IN A SECOND DATA FORMAT Robert Louis Morton 2002-07-23
6393535 Method, system, and program for modifying preferred path assignments to a storage device Robert Louis Morton 2002-05-21
5930481 System for concurrent cache data access by maintaining and selectively merging multiple ranked part copies Michael T. Benhase, Marshall Heyman, John Norbert McCauley, Robert Louis Morton 1999-07-27
5774682 System for concurrent cache data access by maintaining and selectively merging multiple ranked part copies Michael T. Benhase, Marshall Heyman, John Norbert McCauley, Robert Louis Morton 1998-06-30