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Gail A. Spear
Also filed as: SPEAR GAIL · SPEAR GAIL A · SPEAR GAIL ANDREA
116 granted patents·5 pending applications·1,749 citations·filing 1990–2021
99Inventor score
Files withIBM96BENHASE MICHAEL T5BARTFAI ROBERT FRANCIS3BENHASE MICHAEL THOMAS2CHIU LAWRENCE YIUMCHEE2
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121 records- 0195US7571268B2Consistent updates across storage subsystems coupled to a plurality of primary and secondary units at selected timesIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 4, 2009·45 cites·29 claims
- 0294US11055017B1Throttling a point-in-time snapshot copy operation within a data consistency applicationIBM·Filed 2020·Granted Jul 6, 2021·4 cites·20 claims
- 0394US7512835B2Method, system and article of manufacture for recovery from a failure in a cascading PPRC systemIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 31, 2009·35 cites·13 claims
- 0494US6199074B1Database backup system ensuring consistency between primary and mirrored backup database copies despite backup interruptionIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Mar 6, 2001·288 cites·44 claims
- 0593US9323462B2File system snapshot data management in a multi-tier storage environmentIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Apr 26, 2016·14 cites·20 claims
- 0693US7627729B2Apparatus, system, and method for an improved synchronous mirror swapIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Dec 1, 2009·40 cites·28 claims
- 0792US7603581B2Remote copying of updates to primary and secondary storage locations subject to a copy relationshipIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 13, 2009·36 cites·27 claims
- 0892US7188272B2Method, system and article of manufacture for recovery from a failure in a cascading PPRC systemIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 6, 2007·66 cites·15 claims
- 0991US9052833B2Protection of former primary volumes in a synchronous replication relationshipIBM·Filed 2013·Granted Jun 9, 2015·14 cites·20 claims
- 1091US8027952B2System and article of manufacture for mirroring data at storage locationsIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Sep 27, 2011·21 cites·18 claims
- 1189US9280296B2Recovery from failure of primary storage volumes by using mirrored data maintained with host timestampsGLOBALFOUNDRIES US 2 LLC·Filed 2013·Granted Mar 8, 2016·12 cites·20 claims
- 1289US8788772B2Maintaining mirror and storage system copies of volumes at multiple remote sitesCLAYTON NICOLAS M·Filed 2012·Granted Jul 22, 2014·13 cites·11 claims
- 1389US7818522B2Apparatus, system, and method for incremental resynchronization in a data storage systemIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 19, 2010·21 cites·30 claims
- 1489US7278049B2Method, system, and program for recovery from a failure in an asynchronous data copying systemIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 2, 2007·60 cites·23 claims
- 1587US7734883B2Method, system and program for forming a consistency groupIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 8, 2010·15 cites·36 claims
- 1687US7467168B2Method for mirroring data at storage locationsIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 16, 2008·41 cites·9 claims
- 1787US7461100B2Method for fast reverse restoreIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Dec 2, 2008·38 cites·11 claims
- 1887US7363629B2Method, system, and program for remote resource managementIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Apr 22, 2008·52 cites·8 claims
- 1987US7000145B2Method, system, and program for reverse restore of an incremental virtual copyIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 14, 2006·68 cites·27 claims
- 2086US7702953B2Storage management in cascaded replication of dataIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Apr 20, 2010·23 cites·28 claims
- 2185US11853585B2Performing a point-in-time snapshot copy operation within a data consistency applicationIBM·Filed 2020·Granted Dec 26, 2023·2 cites·20 claims
- 2285US7225307B2Apparatus, system, and method for synchronizing an asynchronous mirror volume using a synchronous mirror volumeIBM·Filed 2004·Granted May 29, 2007·41 cites·30 claims
- 2384US9613040B2File system snapshot data management in a multi-tier storage environmentIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Apr 4, 2017·3 cites·15 claims
- 2484US9158471B2Replicating tracks from a first storage site to a second and third storage sitesIBM·Filed 2013·Granted Oct 13, 2015·5 cites·9 claims
- 2584US8266325B2Compression on thin provisioned volumes using extent based mappingBENHASE MICHAEL T·Filed 2010·Granted Sep 11, 2012·6 cites·12 claims
- 2684US8005800B2Data storage system for fast reverse restoreIBM·Filed 2010·Granted Aug 23, 2011·9 cites·11 claims
- 2784US7124128B2Method, system, and program for managing requests to tracks subject to a relationshipIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 17, 2006·42 cites·33 claims
- 2883US9671977B2Handling data block migration to efficiently utilize higher performance tiers in a multi-tier storage environmentIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Jun 6, 2017·5 cites·20 claims
- 2983US9063997B2Asynchronous pausing of the formation of consistency groupsIBM·Filed 2013·Granted Jun 23, 2015·5 cites·16 claims
- 3083US7552295B2Maintaining consistency when mirroring data using different copy technologiesIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 23, 2009·13 cites·21 claims
- 3182US10664177B2Replicating tracks from a first storage site to a second and third storage sitesIBM·Filed 2017·Granted May 26, 2020·2 cites·20 claims
- 3282US9396121B2Managing sequentiality of tracks for asynchronous PPRC tracks on secondaryIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Jul 19, 2016·5 cites·21 claims
- 3382US7627775B2Managing failures in mirrored systemsIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Dec 1, 2009·12 cites·27 claims
- 3482US7188222B2Method, system, and program for mirroring data among storage sitesIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 6, 2007·33 cites·30 claims
- 3581US9317383B2Communication of conditions at a primary storage controller to a hostIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Apr 19, 2016·2 cites·18 claims
- 3681US8788768B2Maintaining mirror and storage system copies of volumes at multiple remote sitesCLAYTON NICOLAS M·Filed 2010·Granted Jul 22, 2014·6 cites·22 claims
- 3781US8667180B2Compression on thin provisioned volumes using extent based mappingBENHASE MICHAEL T·Filed 2012·Granted Mar 4, 2014·4 cites·14 claims
- 3881US7024530B2Method, system, and program for establishing and using a point-in-time copy relationshipIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Apr 4, 2006·30 cites·33 claims
- 3980US9264493B2Asynchronous pausing of the formation of consistency groupsIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Feb 16, 2016·2 cites·21 claims
- 4079US9678686B2Managing sequentiality of tracks for asynchronous PPRC tracks on secondaryIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Jun 13, 2017·2 cites·18 claims
- 4179US7904684B2System and article of manufacture for consistent copying of storage volumesIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Mar 8, 2011·7 cites·12 claims
- 4278US9298373B2Placement and movement of sub-units of a storage unit in a tiered storage environmentIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 29, 2016·4 cites·20 claims
- 4377US11164599B2Indicating tracks as erased without deleting data for the tracksIBM·Filed 2021·Granted Nov 2, 2021·1 cites·20 claims
- 4477US8250323B2Determining whether to use a repository to store data updated during a resynchronizationBENHASE MICHAEL THOMAS·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 21, 2012·8 cites·30 claims
- 4577US7873744B2Configuration of fibre channel SAN pathIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Jan 18, 2011·6 cites·11 claims
- 4677US7610318B2Autonomic infrastructure enablement for point in time copy consistencyIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 27, 2009·24 cites·15 claims
- 4777US7409510B2Instant virtual copy to a primary mirroring portion of dataIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Aug 5, 2008·23 cites·18 claims
- 4877US6996586B2Method, system, and article for incremental virtual copy of a data blockIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 7, 2006·36 cites·36 claims
- 4976US11175999B2Management of backup volume extents via a tiered storage mechanismIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Nov 16, 2021·2 cites·20 claims
- 5076US8473459B2Workload learning in data replication environmentsCHIU LAWRENCE YIUMCHEE·Filed 2011·Granted Jun 25, 2013·4 cites·16 claims
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