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William Frank Micka

IBM: 95 patents #617 of 70,183Top 1%
Overall (All Time): #16,184 of 4,157,543Top 1%
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Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8209282 Method, system, and article of manufacture for mirroring data at storage locations Robert Frederic Kern, Gail A. Spear, David B. Petersen 2012-06-26
8027952 System and article of manufacture for mirroring data at storage locations Robert Frederic Kern, Gail A. Spear, David B. Petersen 2011-09-27
7930497 Using multiple sidefiles to buffer writes to primary storage volumes to transfer to corresponding secondary storage volumes in a mirror relationship Robert Nelson Crockett, David Michael Shackelford, Warren K. Stanley 2011-04-19
7921273 Method, system, and article of manufacture for remote copying of data Warren K. Stanley, Gail A. Spear, Sam Clark Werner, Olympia Gluck, Michael Factor +1 more 2011-04-05
7904684 System and article of manufacture for consistent copying of storage volumes Sam Clark Werner, Sivan Tal, Ifat Nuriel, Sheli Rahav, Gail A. Spear +1 more 2011-03-08
7873864 Restricting the execution of copy services commands Michael T. Benhase 2011-01-18
7761732 Data protection in storage systems Robert Frederic Kern, Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Gregory E. McBride, John Flynn, John J. Wolfgang +4 more 2010-07-20
7761426 Apparatus, system, and method for continuously protecting data Kenneth Wayne Boyd, John Flynn, Robert Frederic Kern, Gregory E. McBride, David Michael Shackelford 2010-07-20
7747576 Incremental update control for remote copy 2010-06-29
7734883 Method, system and program for forming a consistency group Gail A. Spear, Robert Francis Bartfai, Edward H. Lin, Olympia Gluck, Aviad Zlotnick +3 more 2010-06-08
7676616 Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing asynchronous status messaging in a data storage system Brent Cameron Beardsley, Minh-Ngoc Le Huynh, Satish C. Penmetsa, Richard A. Schaeffer, Kaukab Uddin 2010-03-09
7613888 Maintain owning application information of data for a data storage system Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Donna Eng Dillenberger, Robert Frederic Kern, Jeffrey W. Palm, David Michael Shackelford +1 more 2009-11-03
7610459 Maintain owning application information of data for a data storage system Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Donna Eng Dillenberger, Robert Frederic Kern, Jeffrey W. Palm, David Michael Shackelford +1 more 2009-10-27
7603581 Remote copying of updates to primary and secondary storage locations subject to a copy relationship Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Lisa J. Gundy, Nils Torbjorn Kaving, Robert Frederic Kern, Gregory E. McBride +4 more 2009-10-13
7587528 Control of information units in fibre channel communications Roger G. Hathorn, Matthew J. Kalos 2009-09-08
7581063 Method, system, and program for improved throughput in remote mirroring systems Michael Factor, Shachar Fienblit, Olympia Gluck, Joseph S. Hyde, II, Thomas Charles Jarvis +3 more 2009-08-25
7571268 Consistent updates across storage subsystems coupled to a plurality of primary and secondary units at selected times Robert Frederic Kern, Gregory E. McBride, Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Gail A. Spear, Robert Francis Bartfai 2009-08-04
7552295 Maintaining consistency when mirroring data using different copy technologies Robert Frederic Kern, Kenneth Wayne Boyd, Gregory E. McBride, Gail A. Spear, Robert Francis Bartfai +1 more 2009-06-23
7546434 Method to write data to an information storage and retrieval system Alan G. McClure, Warren K. Stanley 2009-06-09
7523275 Method, system, and program for maintaining a copy relationship between primary volumes and corresponding secondary volumes Aviad Zlotnick, Shachar Fienblit, Olympia Gluck, Michael Factor, Gail A. Spear +2 more 2009-04-21
7512835 Method, system and article of manufacture for recovery from a failure in a cascading PPRC system Robert Francis Bartfai, Michael Factor, Gail A. Spear 2009-03-31
7500030 Control of information units in fibre channel communications Roger G. Hathorn, Matthew J. Kalos 2009-03-03
7480697 Method and apparatus using attached hardware subsystem to communicate between attached hosts Larry R. Perry, Harold Glen Slone 2009-01-20
7475208 Method for consistent copying of storage volumes Sam Clark Werner, Sivan Tai, Ifat Nuriel, Sheli Rahav, Gail A. Spear +1 more 2009-01-06
7467168 Method for mirroring data at storage locations Robert Frederic Kern, Gail A. Spear, David B. Petersen 2008-12-16