Issued Patents All Time
Showing 26–50 of 63 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7640316 | Apparatus and method to write information to two virtual tape servers | Keith A. Bello, Dean L. Hanson, Gregory T. Kishi | 2009-12-29 |
| 7600073 | Cache disk storage upgrade | Gregory T. Kishi | 2009-10-06 |
| 7577800 | Method for borrowing and returning physical volumes | Wayne Charles Carlson, Kevin Lee Gibble, Gregory T. Kishi, Mark Allan Norman | 2009-08-18 |
| 7565486 | Method and apparatus for handling multi-volume datasets in a tape storage system | Erika M. Dawson, Gregory T. Kishi | 2009-07-21 |
| 7487288 | Dynamic loading of virtual volume data in a virtual tape server | Gregory T. Kishi | 2009-02-03 |
| 7418562 | Apparatus and method to assign one or more storage construct names to a logical volume | James Arthur Fisher | 2008-08-26 |
| 7404184 | Efficient firmware update for hierarchical data storage systems | James Arthur Fisher, Christine Lynette Telford | 2008-07-22 |
| 7401124 | Apparatus and method to write information to two geographically separated virtual tape servers | Keith A. Bello, Dean L. Hanson, Gregory T. Kishi | 2008-07-15 |
| 7197518 | Method and apparatus for recovery of the association of construct definitions with logical volumes in a virtual tape server | James Arthur Fisher, Kevin Lee Gibble, Gregory T. Kishi | 2007-03-27 |
| 7107417 | System, method and apparatus for logical volume duplexing in a virtual tape system | Kevin Lee Gibble, Gregory T. Kishi | 2006-09-12 |
| 7103731 | Method, system, and program for moving data among storage units | Kevin Lee Gibble, Gregory T. Kishi | 2006-09-05 |
| 6985916 | Method, system, and article of manufacture for returning physical volumes | Wayne Charles Carlson, Kevin Lee Gibble, Gregory T. Kishi, Mark Allan Norman | 2006-01-10 |
| 6983351 | System and method to guarantee overwrite of expired data in a virtual tape server | Kevin Lee Gibble, Gregory T. Kishi | 2006-01-03 |
| 6973534 | Apparatus and method to export and then import a logical volume with assigned storage attributes | Erika M. Dawson, Kevin Lee Gibble, Linda Jean Schiltz | 2005-12-06 |
| 6961811 | Apparatus and method to maintain information by assigning one or more storage attributes to each of a plurality of logical volumes | Erika M. Dawson | 2005-11-01 |
| 6954831 | Method, system, and article of manufacture for borrowing physical volumes | Wayne Charles Carlson, Kevin Lee Gibble, Gregory T. Kishi, Mark Allan Norman | 2005-10-11 |
| 6889285 | Apparatus and method to maintain information using a plurality of storage attributes | Erika M. Dawson, James Arthur Fisher, Linda Jean Schiltz | 2005-05-03 |
| 6839796 | Apparatus and method to import a logical volume indicating explicit storage attribute specifications | Erika M. Dawson, James Arthur Fisher, Linda Jean Schiltz | 2005-01-04 |
| 6816941 | Method and system for efficiently importing/exporting removable storage volumes between virtual storage systems | Wayne Charles Carlson, Gregory T. Kishi | 2004-11-09 |
| 6779058 | Method, system, and program for transferring data between storage devices | Gregory T. Kishi, Mark Allan Norman, William Henry Travis | 2004-08-17 |
| 6754717 | Establishing compatibility of messages for communicating between processing entities with continuous availability | Kenneth Fairclough Day, III | 2004-06-22 |
| 6745212 | Preferential caching of uncopied logical volumes in an IBM peer-to-peer virtual tape server | Gregory T. Kishi, Mark Allan Norman, William Henry Travis | 2004-06-01 |
| 6718427 | Method and system utilizing data fragments for efficiently importing/exporting removable storage volumes | Wayne Charles Carlson, Gregory T. Kishi | 2004-04-06 |
| 6574641 | Management of physical media volumes in partitions of an automated data storage library | Erika M. Dawson, James Arthur Fisher, Linda Jean Schiltz | 2003-06-03 |
| 6513101 | Expiring host selected scratch logical volumes in an automated data storage library | James Arthur Fisher, Kerri R. Shotwell | 2003-01-28 |