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Christopher J. West — 23 Patents

STStorage Technology: 16 patents #22 of 682Top 4%
IBM: 7 patents #14,688 of 70,183Top 25%
Boulder, CO: #263 of 5,018 inventorsTop 6%
Colorado: #1,612 of 40,980 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Christopher J. West has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Storage Technology. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in February 2008. Christopher J. West ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Christopher J. West in Boulder, CO, US.

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Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7337286 Storage control system for restoring a remote data copy David G. Beal 2008-02-26
7177980 Cache storage system and method Michael Steven Milillo, David G. Hostetter, Robert P. Eskenberry 2007-02-13
7139874 System and method for providing client-directed staging to improve non-sequential access performance in a caching disk storage system Michael Steven Milillo 2006-11-21
6912629 System and method for restoring data from secondary volume to primary volume in a data storage system David G. Beal 2005-06-28 $9,810,000
6901414 Method and system of storing a main data file and deltas in a storage device for determining new data files from the main data file and the deltas David A. Serls 2005-05-31 $29,844,000
6834325 System and method for providing client-directed staging to improve non-sequential access performance in a caching disk storage system Michael Steven Milillo 2004-12-21 $6,767,000
6751714 Systems and methods for relocation of compressed data tracks Michael Steven Milillo 2004-06-15 $6,333,000
6643671 System and method for synchronizing a data copy using an accumulation remote copy trio consistency group Michael Steven Milillo, David G. Hostetter, Robert P. Eskenberry, Jennifer Johnson 2003-11-04 $7,046,000
6618823 Method and system for automatically gathering information from different types of devices connected in a network when a device fails 2003-09-09 $29,705,000
6535967 Method and apparatus for transferring data between a primary storage system and a secondary storage system using a bridge volume Michael Steven Milillo, David G. Beal, David G. Hostetter, Peter H. Tallman, Theresa Segura +1 more 2003-03-18 $9,879,000
6457109 Method and apparatus for copying data from one storage system to another storage system Michael Steven Milillo, David G. Hostetter, Michael S. Kelly 2002-09-24 $14,041,000
6446175 Storing and retrieving data on tape backup system located at remote storage system site David G. Beal 2002-09-03 $3,640,000
6446176 Method and system for transferring data between primary storage and secondary storage using a bridge volume and an internal snapshot copy of the data being transferred Scott Adam States 2002-09-03 $3,640,000
6442709 System and method for simulating disaster situations on peer to peer remote copy machines David G. Beal, Scott Adam States 2002-08-27 $8,564,000
6434683 Method and system for transferring delta difference data to a storage device David A. Serls 2002-08-13 $3,878,000
6345338 Adapting resource use to improve performance in a caching memory system Michael Steven Milillo 2002-02-05 $26,649,000
6253295 System and method for enabling pair-pair remote copy storage volumes to mirror data in another pair of storage volumes David G. Beal, Michael Steven Milillo 2001-06-26 $22,108,000
6237008 System and method for enabling pair-pair remote copy storage volumes to mirror data in another storage volume David G. Beal, Michael Steven Milillo 2001-05-22 $28,959,000
6185659 Adapting resource use to improve performance in a caching memory system Michael Steven Milillo 2001-02-06 $19,739,000
6131148 Snapshot copy of a secondary volume of a PPRC pair David A. Serls 2000-10-10 $63,451,000
6088815 Automatic data recovery for a duplex pair David G. Beal, Michael Steven Milillo 2000-07-11 $21,738,000
6073221 Synchronization of shared data stores through use of non-empty track copy procedure David G. Beal, Michael Steven Milillo 2000-06-06 $33,361,000
6058462 Method and apparatus for enabling transfer of compressed data record tracks with CRC checking David G. Hostetter, Michael Richard Crater, Steven C. Fraioli 2000-05-02 $31,039,000