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William Frank Micka
Also filed as: MICKA WILLIAM F · MICKA WILLIAM FRANK
96 granted patents·2 pending applications·9,165 citations·filing 1976–2008
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98 records- 0199US5619644ASoftware directed microcode state save for distributed storage controllerIBM·Filed 1995·Granted Apr 8, 1997·1.2k cites·20 claims
- 0298US7500030B2Control of information units in fibre channel communicationsIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 3, 2009·69 cites·10 claims
- 0398US5241668AMethod and system for automated termination and resumption in a time zero backup copy processIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Aug 31, 1993·1.5k cites·23 claims
- 0497US6487645B1Data storage subsystem with fairness-driven update blockingIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 26, 2002·187 cites·32 claims
- 0597US5615329ARemote data duplexingIBM·Filed 1994·Granted Mar 25, 1997·211 cites·17 claims
- 0697US5592618ARemote copy secondary data copy validation-audit functionIBM·Filed 1994·Granted Jan 7, 1997·435 cites·22 claims
- 0797US5555371AData backup copying with delayed directory updating and reduced numbers of DASD accesses at a back up site using a log structured array data storageIBM·Filed 1994·Granted Sep 10, 1996·457 cites·28 claims
- 0897US5448718AMethod and system for time zero backup session securityIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Sep 5, 1995·237 cites·14 claims
- 0996US6304980B1Peer-to-peer backup system with failure-triggered device switching honoring reservation of primary deviceIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Oct 16, 2001·325 cites·24 claims
- 1096US5734818AForming consistency groups using self-describing record sets for remote data duplexingIBM·Filed 1996·Granted Mar 31, 1998·343 cites·21 claims
- 1195US7571268B2Consistent 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
- 1295US6842825B2Adjusting timestamps to preserve update timing information for cached data objectsIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 11, 2005·149 cites·21 claims
- 1394US7512835B2Method, 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
- 1494US6199074B1Database backup system ensuring consistency between primary and mirrored backup database copies despite backup interruptionIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Mar 6, 2001·288 cites·44 claims
- 1594US6148383AStorage system employing universal timer for peer-to-peer asynchronous maintenance of consistent mirrored storageIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Nov 14, 2000·236 cites·22 claims
- 1693US5835954ATarget DASD controlled data migration moveIBM·Filed 1996·Granted Nov 10, 1998·234 cites·70 claims
- 1793US5720029AAsynchronously shadowing record updates in a remote copy session using track arraysIBM·Filed 1995·Granted Feb 17, 1998·225 cites·18 claims
- 1893US5692155AMethod and apparatus for suspending multiple duplex pairs during back up processing to insure storage devices remain synchronized in a sequence consistent orderIBM·Filed 1995·Granted Nov 25, 1997·237 cites·17 claims
- 1992US7603581B2Remote copying of updates to primary and secondary storage locations subject to a copy relationshipIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 13, 2009·36 cites·27 claims
- 2092US7188272B2Method, 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
- 2192US5497483AMethod and system for track transfer control during concurrent copy operations in a data processing storage subsystemIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Mar 5, 1996·172 cites·12 claims
- 2292US4052699AHigh speed real time image transformationIBM·Filed 1976·Granted Oct 4, 1977·55 cites·6 claims
- 2391US8027952B2System and article of manufacture for mirroring data at storage locationsIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Sep 27, 2011·21 cites·18 claims
- 2491US6611901B1Method, system, and program for maintaining electronic data as of a point-in-timeIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Aug 26, 2003·183 cites·44 claims
- 2590US6189079B1Data copy between peer-to-peer controllersIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Feb 13, 2001·173 cites·25 claims
- 2689US6578120B1Synchronization and resynchronization of loosely-coupled copy operations between a primary and a remote secondary DASD volume under concurrent updatingIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Jun 10, 2003·146 cites·27 claims
- 2788US6587933B2Method, system, and program for discarding data in a storage system where updates to a primary storage device are shadowed in a secondary storage deviceIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Jul 1, 2003·54 cites·34 claims
- 2887US7734883B2Method, system and program for forming a consistency groupIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 8, 2010·15 cites·36 claims
- 2987US7467168B2Method for mirroring data at storage locationsIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 16, 2008·41 cites·9 claims
- 3087US7000145B2Method, system, and program for reverse restore of an incremental virtual copyIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 14, 2006·68 cites·27 claims
- 3186US5167034AData integrity for compaction devicesIBM·Filed 1990·Granted Nov 24, 1992·130 cites·53 claims
- 3285US7225307B2Apparatus, system, and method for synchronizing an asynchronous mirror volume using a synchronous mirror volumeIBM·Filed 2004·Granted May 29, 2007·41 cites·30 claims
- 3385US5574950ARemote data shadowing using a multimode interface to dynamically reconfigure control link-level and communication link-levelIBM·Filed 1994·Granted Nov 12, 1996·128 cites·17 claims
- 3484US5657440AAsynchronous remote data copying using subsystem to subsystem communicationIBM·Filed 1996·Granted Aug 12, 1997·82 cites·16 claims
- 3583US7552295B2Maintaining consistency when mirroring data using different copy technologiesIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 23, 2009·13 cites·21 claims
- 3683US7134044B2Method, system, and program for providing a mirror copy of dataIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 7, 2006·35 cites·28 claims
- 3783US6842834B2Synchronization and resynchronization of loosely-coupled copy operations between a primary and a remote secondary DASD volume under concurrent updatingIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 11, 2005·30 cites·30 claims
- 3883US6247103B1Host storage management control of outboard data movement using push-pull operationsIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Jun 12, 2001·106 cites·12 claims
- 3982US7761426B2Apparatus, system, and method for continuously protecting dataIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 20, 2010·12 cites·30 claims
- 4082US7188222B2Method, system, and program for mirroring data among storage sitesIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 6, 2007·33 cites·30 claims
- 4181US7024530B2Method, system, and program for establishing and using a point-in-time copy relationshipIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Apr 4, 2006·30 cites·33 claims
- 4281US5375232AMethod and system for asynchronous pre-staging of backup copies in a data processing storage subsystemIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Dec 20, 1994·99 cites·8 claims
- 4380US5379398AMethod and system for concurrent access during backup copying of dataIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Jan 3, 1995·89 cites·11 claims
- 4479US7904684B2System and article of manufacture for consistent copying of storage volumesIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Mar 8, 2011·7 cites·12 claims
- 4578US6173360B1Apparatus and method for allowing existing ECKD MVS DASD using an ESCON interface to be used by an open storage using SCSI-type interfaceIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Jan 9, 2001·86 cites·16 claims
- 4677US7409510B2Instant virtual copy to a primary mirroring portion of dataIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Aug 5, 2008·23 cites·18 claims
- 4777US6996586B2Method, system, and article for incremental virtual copy of a data blockIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 7, 2006·36 cites·36 claims
- 4875US8209282B2Method, system, and article of manufacture for mirroring data at storage locationsKERN ROBERT FREDERIC·Filed 2008·Granted Jun 26, 2012·7 cites·20 claims
- 4973US7587528B2Control of information units in fibre channel communicationsIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Sep 8, 2009·4 cites·20 claims
- 5073US7047390B2Method, system, and program for managing a relationship between one target volume and one source volumeIBM·Filed 2003·Granted May 16, 2006·19 cites·39 claims
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