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Thomas W. Bish
Also filed as: BISH THOMAS W · BISH THOMAS WILLIAM
51 granted patents·5 pending applications·736 citations·filing 1999–2019
98Inventor score
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56 records- 0198US7991822B2Propagation of updates for attributes of a storage object from an owner node of the storage object to other nodesIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 2, 2011·328 cites·12 claims
- 0297US9684472B2Cluster families for cluster selection and cooperative replicationIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Jun 20, 2017·33 cites·14 claims
- 0388US9158633B2File corruption recovery in concurrent data protectionIBM·Filed 2013·Granted Oct 13, 2015·7 cites·18 claims
- 0488US8234464B2Hybrid storage data migration by selective data removalBISH THOMAS WILLIAM·Filed 2009·Granted Jul 31, 2012·20 cites·22 claims
- 0587US8521975B2Cluster families for cluster selection and cooperative replicationBISH THOMAS WILLIAM·Filed 2012·Granted Aug 27, 2013·11 cites·23 claims
- 0686US11119654B2Determining an optimal storage environment for data sets and for migrating data setsIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Sep 14, 2021·5 cites·27 claims
- 0786US10073641B2Cluster families for cluster selection and cooperative replicationIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Sep 11, 2018·3 cites·18 claims
- 0886US10048869B2Managing a set of blocks in a storage systemIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Aug 14, 2018·3 cites·1 claims
- 0986US8341346B2Offloading volume space reclamation operations to virtual tape systemsASHTON LYN LEQUAM·Filed 2010·Granted Dec 25, 2012·15 cites·25 claims
- 1085US7899895B2Transfer of ownership of a storage object in response to an original owner node becoming available after a period of unavailabilityIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 1, 2011·15 cites·20 claims
- 1185US6477628B1Backup copy achieving improved efficiency by waiting until rewind/unload command for bulk data copyIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 5, 2002·45 cites·25 claims
- 1284US8812799B2Cluster families for cluster selection and cooperative replicationBISH THOMAS WILLIAM·Filed 2009·Granted Aug 19, 2014·8 cites·34 claims
- 1384US8019723B2Deferred copy target pull of volume dataIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Sep 13, 2011·14 cites·19 claims
- 1484US7778986B2Securing transfer of ownership of a storage object from an unavailable owner node to another nodeIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 17, 2010·14 cites·20 claims
- 1583US8533427B2Mapping locations of logical volume records on a physical stacked volumeBISH THOMAS W·Filed 2010·Granted Sep 10, 2013·6 cites·16 claims
- 1682US9250825B2Cluster families for cluster selection and cooperative replicationIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Feb 2, 2016·4 cites·20 claims
- 1781US9984227B2Hypervisor and virtual machine protectionIBM·Filed 2017·Granted May 29, 2018·2 cites·20 claims
- 1881US9928145B2File corruption recovery in concurrent data protectionIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Mar 27, 2018·2 cites·3 claims
- 1981US9164921B2Dynamic reuse and reconfiguration of logical data objects in a virtual tape systemIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Oct 20, 2015·4 cites·18 claims
- 2080US8239570B2Using link send and receive information to select one of multiple links to use to transfer data for send and receive operationsBEESTON RALPH THOMAS·Filed 2008·Granted Aug 7, 2012·10 cites·20 claims
- 2179US9547440B2Managing a set of blocks in a storage systemIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Jan 17, 2017·3 cites·12 claims
- 2279US8898428B2Mapping locations of logical volume records on a physical stacked volumeBISH THOMAS W·Filed 2012·Granted Nov 25, 2014·4 cites·19 claims
- 2377US9652276B2Hypervisor and virtual machine protectionIBM·Filed 2014·Granted May 16, 2017·3 cites·20 claims
- 2477US9285994B2Block-level predictive data migrationIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 15, 2016·3 cites·20 claims
- 2576US9652163B2Coordinated space reclamation in space-efficient flashcopy volumesIBM·Filed 2015·Granted May 16, 2017·2 cites·14 claims
- 2676US9336149B2Partial volume access in a physical stacked volumeBISH THOMAS W·Filed 2010·Granted May 10, 2016·4 cites·24 claims
- 2775US10409978B2Hypervisor and virtual machine protectionIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Sep 10, 2019·1 cites·20 claims
- 2874US8280855B2Extended logical worm data integrity protection with unique worm identifier in header and databaseBISH THOMAS WILLIAM·Filed 2009·Granted Oct 2, 2012·5 cites·22 claims
- 2973US6463513B1Cache storage optimization in a data storage library of a redundant copy synchronization token tracking systemIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Oct 8, 2002·66 cites·29 claims
- 3072US8924673B2Dynamic reuse and reconfiguration of logical data objects in a virtual tape systemBISH THOMAS W·Filed 2012·Granted Dec 30, 2014·2 cites·26 claims
- 3171US7975100B2Segmentation of logical volumes and movement of selected segments when a cache storage is unable to store all segments of a logical volumeIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 5, 2011·5 cites·35 claims
- 3270US9557923B2Block-level predictive data migrationIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Jan 31, 2017·1 cites·11 claims
- 3368US9448943B2Partial volume access in a physical stacked volumeIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Sep 20, 2016·1 cites·20 claims
- 3468US8856206B2Maintaining message versions at nodes in a networkANNA GARY·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 7, 2014·4 cites·27 claims
- 3566US10929242B2File corruption recovery in concurrent data protectionIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Feb 23, 2021·0 cites·6 claims
- 3666US7895352B2System and method for throttling host throughputIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Feb 22, 2011·4 cites·23 claims
- 3764US8538932B2Extended logical worm data integrity protection with unique worm identifier in header and databaseBISH THOMAS WILLIAM·Filed 2012·Granted Sep 17, 2013·1 cites·6 claims
- 3863US8037361B2Selective write protect for disaster recovery testingIBM·Filed 2009·Granted Oct 11, 2011·6 cites·20 claims
- 3963US7379988B2Autonomic performance tuning of a distributed virtual storage serverIBM·Filed 2003·Granted May 27, 2008·8 cites·17 claims
- 4062US10353781B2File corruption recovery in concurrent data protectionIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Jul 16, 2019·0 cites·4 claims
- 4161US10042557B2Managing a set of blocks in a storage systemIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Aug 7, 2018·0 cites·1 claims
- 4259US9959048B2Managing a set of blocks in a storage systemIBM·Filed 2016·Granted May 1, 2018·0 cites·1 claims
- 4358US6467024B1Accessing data volumes from data storage libraries in a redundant copy synchronization token tracking systemIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Oct 15, 2002·33 cites·19 claims
- 4456US11030158B2Improving performance of asynchronous replication in HSM integrated storage systemsIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Jun 8, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
- 4556US9448744B2Mapping locations of logical volume records on a physical stacked volumeIBM·Filed 2013·Granted Sep 20, 2016·0 cites·16 claims
- 4656US8565067B2Apparatus, system, and method for link maintenanceBEESTON RALPH THOMAS·Filed 2009·Granted Oct 22, 2013·1 cites·20 claims
- 4756US7039657B1Method, system, and program for accessing data from storage systemsIBM·Filed 1999·Granted May 2, 2006·30 cites·24 claims
- 4856US2011145517A1Dynamic reuse and reconfiguration of logical data objects in a virtual tape systemIBM·Filed 2009·Application pending·0 cites
- 4955US9886447B2Performance of asynchronous replication in HSM integrated storage systemsIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Feb 6, 2018·0 cites·19 claims
- 5053US10220772B2Traffic safety alert systemIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 5, 2019·0 cites·19 claims
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