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William C. Shepard
Also filed as: SHEPARD WILLIAM C · SHEPARD WILLIAM CHAMBERS
9 granted patents·1 pending application·580 citations·filing 1992–2024
90Inventor score
Technology areasG06F
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10 records- 0195US5870537AConcurrent switch to shadowed device for storage controller and device errorsIBM·Filed 1996·Granted Feb 9, 1999·302 cites·20 claims
- 0284US5388254AMethod and means for limiting duration of input/output (I/O) requestsIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Feb 7, 1995·125 cites·9 claims
- 0372US8782014B2Data integrity mechanism for external storage devicesSHEPARD WILLIAM C·Filed 2010·Granted Jul 15, 2014·5 cites·23 claims
- 0467US12436850B2Data consistent freeze of peer-to-peer remote copy in a multiple computing cluster environmentIBM·Filed 2024·Granted Oct 7, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 0564US5394554AInterdicting I/O and messaging operations from sending central processing complex to other central processing complexes and to I/O device in multi-system complexIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Feb 28, 1995·43 cites·25 claims
- 0662US5765200ALogical positioning within a storage device by a storage controllerIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Jun 9, 1998·39 cites·56 claims
- 0762US5416921AApparatus and accompanying method for use in a sysplex environment for performing escalated isolation of a sysplex component in the event of a failureIBM·Filed 1993·Granted May 16, 1995·39 cites·28 claims
- 0854US6055602ALogical positioning within a storage device by a storage controllerIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Apr 25, 2000·27 cites·29 claims
- 0953US2025156080A1Coordinating an unplanned swap event across multiple computing clustersIBM·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 1044US10642706B2Detection and recovery of lost host enabled facilitiesIBM·Filed 2016·Granted May 5, 2020·0 cites·20 claims
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