RK

Ronald Maynard Kern

IBM: 24 patents #4,429 of 70,183Top 7%
Overall (All Time): #175,534 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24
Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7472312 Invalidation of storage control unit cache metadata Thomas Charles Jarvis 2008-12-30
7340652 Invalidation of storage control unit cache metadata Thomas Charles Jarvis 2008-03-04
6842825 Adjusting timestamps to preserve update timing information for cached data objects Robert V. Geiner, Gregory E. McBride, William Frank Micka, Jeffrey M. Nick, Larry R. Perry +5 more 2005-01-11
6772303 System and method for dynamically resynchronizing backup data Robert Nelson Crockett, Gregory E. McBride 2004-08-03
6484187 Coordinating remote copy status changes across multiple logical sessions to maintain consistency Gregory E. McBride, David Michael Shackelford 2002-11-19
6463501 Method, system and program for maintaining data consistency among updates across groups of storage areas using update times Gregory E. McBride, David Michael Shackelford 2002-10-08
6393537 Host storage management control of outboard data movement Robert Frederic Kern, William Frank Micka, Mark Anthony Sovik 2002-05-21
6301643 Multi-environment data consistency Robert Nelson Crockett, Gregory E. McBride 2001-10-09
6260129 Management of fixed pages in memory for input/output operations Robert Nelson Crockett, Gregory E. McBride, David Michael Shackelford, Stephen C. West 2001-07-10
6260124 System and method for dynamically resynchronizing backup data Robert Nelson Crockett, Gregory E. McBride 2001-07-10
6247103 Host storage management control of outboard data movement using push-pull operations Robert Frederic Kern, William Frank Micka, Mark Anthony Sovik 2001-06-12
6212531 Method for implementing point-in-time copy using a snapshot function David R. Blea, Donald Reynold Blea, Mark Alan Haye, David Michael Shackelford, John G. Thompson 2001-04-03
6202124 Data storage system with outboard physical data transfer operation utilizing data path distinct from host Robert Frederic Kern, William Frank Micka, Mark Anthony Sovik 2001-03-13
6105078 Extended remote copying system for reporting both active and idle conditions wherein the idle condition indicates no updates to the system for a predetermined time period Robert Nelson Crockett, Gregory E. McBride 2000-08-15
6088697 Dynamic change management in an extended remote copy operation Robert Nelson Crockett, Gregory E. McBride 2000-07-11
6078932 Point-in-time backup utilizing multiple copy technologies Mark Alan Haye, David Michael Shackelford 2000-06-20
6052758 Interface error detection and isolation in a direct access storage device DASD system Robert Nelson Crockett, Gregory E. McBride 2000-04-18
5778393 Adaptive multitasking for dataset storage Donald Reynold Blea, Gregory E. McBride, David Michael Shackelford 1998-07-07
5734818 Forming consistency groups using self-describing record sets for remote data duplexing Robert Frederic Kern, Gregory E. McBride, William Frank Micka, Claus William Mikkelsen, David Michael Shackelford +1 more 1998-03-31
5619644 Software directed microcode state save for distributed storage controller Robert Nelson Crockett, William Frank Micka 1997-04-08
5504861 Remote data duplexing Robert Nelson Crockett, Debra L. Jaworski 1996-04-02
5241670 Method and system for automated backup copy ordering in a time zero backup copy session Lawrence E. Eastridge, Robert Frederic Kern, Claus William Mikkelsen, James Mitchell Ratliff 1993-08-31
5119291 Modular data storage directories for large-capacity data storage units wherein the index to the records in a sector is located in the next adjacent sector William J. Flannagan, John Edward Kulakowski, Robert E. Wagner 1992-06-02
4827462 Modular data storage directories for large-capacity data storage units William J. Flannagan, John Edward Kulakowski, Robert E. Wagner 1989-05-02