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Robert Cochran
Also filed as: COCHRAN ROBERT · COCHRAN ROBERT A · COCHRAN ROBERT ALAN
36 granted patents·13 pending applications·881 citations·filing 2000–2020
98Inventor score
Files withHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO32COCHRAN ROBERT A9COCHRAN ROBERT2MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC1RED HAT INC1
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49 records- 0195US7546485B2Method and system for efficient journal-based resynchronizationHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 9, 2009·75 cites·15 claims
- 0293US6687805B1Method and system for logical-object-to-physical-location translation and physical separation of logical objectsHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2000·Granted Feb 3, 2004·91 cites·17 claims
- 0391US6907505B2Immediately available, statically allocated, full-logical-unit copy with a transient, snapshot-copy-like intermediate stageHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2002·Granted Jun 14, 2005·95 cites·15 claims
- 0490US6721902B1Method and system for providing LUN-based backup reliability via LUN-based lockingHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 13, 2004·65 cites·15 claims
- 0586US6662282B2Unified data sets distributed over multiple I/O-device arraysHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 9, 2003·43 cites·18 claims
- 0685US7031928B1Method and system for throttling I/O request servicing on behalf of an I/O request generator to prevent monopolization of a storage device by the I/O request generatorHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 18, 2006·43 cites·20 claims
- 0785US6718447B2Method and system for providing logically consistent logical unit backup snapshots within one or more data storage devicesHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 6, 2004·39 cites·5 claims
- 0885US6697881B2Method and system for efficient format, read, write, and initial copy processing involving sparse logical unitsHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2001·Granted Feb 24, 2004·43 cites·19 claims
- 0984US7165141B2Daisy-chained device-mirroring architectureHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2004·Granted Jan 16, 2007·40 cites·34 claims
- 1082US7805566B2Replication in storage systems using a target port mimicking a host initiator portHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 28, 2010·13 cites·20 claims
- 1182US7478154B2Storage system with link selection controlHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 13, 2009·38 cites·24 claims
- 1281US7149919B2Disaster recovery system with cascaded resynchronizationHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 12, 2006·37 cites·35 claims
- 1380US7058850B2Method and system for preventing data loss within disk-array pairs supporting mirrored logical unitsHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2002·Granted Jun 6, 2006·31 cites·12 claims
- 1480US6782416B2Distributed and geographically dispersed quorum resource disksHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 24, 2004·32 cites·13 claims
- 1578US7007143B2Method and system for providing logically consistent logical unit backup snapshots within one or more data storage devicesHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 28, 2006·22 cites·10 claims
- 1676US7366866B2Block size allocation in copy operationsHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2003·Granted Apr 29, 2008·24 cites·15 claims
- 1773US7934069B2Enabling and disabling cache in storage systemsHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2007·Granted Apr 26, 2011·9 cites·19 claims
- 1872US8185663B2Mirroring storage interfaceCOCHRAN ROBERT·Filed 2004·Granted May 22, 2012·22 cites·47 claims
- 1972US7340572B2Method and system for reliable remote-mirror resynchronization in disk arrays and other mass storage devicesHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 4, 2008·17 cites·21 claims
- 2072US6978280B1Method and system for improving LUN-based backup reliabilityHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 20, 2005·20 cites·24 claims
- 2169US9753696B2Program boosting including using crowdsourcing for correctnessMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2014·Granted Sep 5, 2017·2 cites·20 claims
- 2264US6848841B2Optical component connectorHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2002·Granted Feb 1, 2005·8 cites·22 claims
- 2363US7181582B2Unified data sets distributed over multiple I/O-device arraysHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 20, 2007·8 cites·19 claims
- 2463US6735637B2Method and system for providing advanced warning to a data stage device in order to decrease the time for a mirror split operation without starving host I/O request processsingHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2001·Granted May 11, 2004·8 cites·4 claims
- 2562US7293048B2System for preserving logical object integrity within a remote mirror cacheHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 6, 2007·10 cites·30 claims
- 2661US8059539B2Link throughput enhancerCOCHRAN ROBERT A·Filed 2004·Granted Nov 15, 2011·6 cites·20 claims
- 2760US7529966B2Storage system with journalingHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2004·Granted May 5, 2009·9 cites·24 claims
- 2857US7360044B2Storage system with primary mirror shadowHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2004·Granted Apr 15, 2008·7 cites·24 claims
- 2957US7116916B2Method and apparatus for compacting data in a communication networkHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 3, 2006·6 cites·17 claims
- 3056US8200921B2Data synchronization for two data mirrors with sidefilesCOCHRAN ROBERT A·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 12, 2012·6 cites·28 claims
- 3154US6721857B2Flexible allegiance storage and computing architectureHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 13, 2004·3 cites·20 claims
- 3252US8566446B2Write operation control in storage networksCOCHRAN ROBERT A·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 22, 2013·3 cites·26 claims
- 3349US7366857B2Internal disk array mirror architectureHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2004·Granted Apr 29, 2008·2 cites·55 claims
- 3446US2004128404A1Method and system for providing advanced warning to a data stage device in order to decrease the time for a mirror split operation without starving host I/O request processingFiled 2003·Application pending·0 cites
- 3546US2012026863A1Link throughput enhancerCOCHRAN ROBERT A·Filed 2011·Application pending·0 cites
- 3645US2006095470A1Managing a file in a network environmentCOCHRAN ROBERT A·Filed 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 3744US11811804B1System and method for detecting process anomalies in a distributed computation system utilizing containersRED HAT INC·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 7, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 3844US7162596B2Remote mirrored disk pair resynchronization monitorHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 9, 2007·4 cites·31 claims
- 3944US2006136663A1Sector-specific access controlCOCHRAN ROBERT A·Filed 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 4044US2005172072A1Multiple site data replicationFiled 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 4143US2006064558A1Internal mirroring operations in storage networksCOCHRAN ROBERT A·Filed 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 4242US7721053B2Intelligent logical unit provisioningHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2005·Granted May 18, 2010·0 cites·31 claims
- 4342US2004024838A1Intelligent data tunnels multiplexed within communications media directly interconnecting two or more multi-logical-unit-mass-storage devicesFiled 2002·Application pending·0 cites
- 4442US2005097132A1Hierarchical storage systemHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2003·Application pending·0 cites
- 4542US2008270719A1Method and system for efficient snapshot operations in mass-storage arraysCOCHRAN ROBERT A·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 4639US2009193195A1Cache that stores data items associated with sticky indicatorsCOCHRAN ROBERT A·Filed 2008·Application pending·0 cites
- 4738US2006230243A1Cascaded snapshotsCOCHRAN ROBERT·Filed 2005·Application pending·0 cites
- 4838US2006195704A1Disk array encryption elementHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2005·Application pending·0 cites
- 4938US2003177306A1Track level snapshotFiled 2002·Application pending·0 cites
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