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Brent Cameron Beardsley
Also filed as: BEARDSLEY BRENT · BEARDSLEY BRENT C · BEARDSLEY BRENT CAMERON
96 granted patents·5,817 citations·filing 1981–2016
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96 records- 0197US6988171B2Method and system for recovery of meta data in a storage controllerIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 17, 2006·142 cites·27 claims
- 0296US6839827B1Method, system, program, and data structures for mapping logical blocks to physical blocksIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Jan 4, 2005·154 cites·43 claims
- 0396US6304980B1Peer-to-peer backup system with failure-triggered device switching honoring reservation of primary deviceIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Oct 16, 2001·325 cites·24 claims
- 0495US8060779B2Using virtual copies in a failover and failback environmentBEARDSLEY BRENT CAMERON·Filed 2010·Granted Nov 15, 2011·63 cites·15 claims
- 0595US7793148B2Using virtual copies in a failover and failback environmentIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 7, 2010·38 cites·31 claims
- 0695US5680580ARemote copy system for setting request interconnect bit in each adapter within storage controller and initiating request connect frame in response to the setting bitIBM·Filed 1995·Granted Oct 21, 1997·278 cites·15 claims
- 0793US6785771B2Method, system, and program for destaging data in cacheIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 31, 2004·88 cites·42 claims
- 0893US6594672B1Generating multidimensional output using meta-models and meta-outlinesHYPERION SOLUTIONS CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Jul 15, 2003·362 cites·33 claims
- 0993US4916605AFast write operationsIBM·Filed 1987·Granted Apr 10, 1990·238 cites·15 claims
- 1092US6438661B1Method, system, and program for managing meta data in a storage system and rebuilding lost meta data in cacheIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Aug 20, 2002·125 cites·23 claims
- 1192US5497483AMethod 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
- 1291US6061750AFailover system for a DASD storage controller reconfiguring a first processor, a bridge, a second host adaptor, and a second device adaptor upon a second processor failureIBM·Filed 1998·Granted May 9, 2000·212 cites·19 claims
- 1391US5636359APerformance enhancement system and method for a hierarchical data cache using a RAID parity schemeIBM·Filed 1994·Granted Jun 3, 1997·177 cites·15 claims
- 1490US6658542B2Method and system for caching data in a storage systemIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 2, 2003·51 cites·33 claims
- 1590US6502174B1Method and system for managing meta dataIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Dec 31, 2002·141 cites·24 claims
- 1690US5721898AMethod and system for data search in a data processing systemIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Feb 24, 1998·152 cites·8 claims
- 1789US6141731AMethod and system for managing data in cache using multiple data structuresIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Oct 31, 2000·148 cites·40 claims
- 1889US5437022AStorage controller having additional cache memory and a means for recovering from failure and reconfiguring a control unit thereof in response theretoIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Jul 25, 1995·148 cites·3 claims
- 1986US7702866B2Use of volume containers in replication and provisioning managementIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 20, 2010·16 cites·28 claims
- 2086US5471631AUsing time stamps to correlate data processing event times in connected data processing unitsIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Nov 28, 1995·146 cites·46 claims
- 2185US8549220B2Management of write cache using stride objectsBEARDSLEY BRENT C·Filed 2012·Granted Oct 1, 2013·7 cites·24 claims
- 2285US6240467B1Input/output operation request handling in a multi-host systemIBM·Filed 1998·Granted May 29, 2001·119 cites·24 claims
- 2383US6513097B1Method and system for maintaining information about modified data in cache in a storage system for use during a system failureIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Jan 28, 2003·95 cites·26 claims
- 2483US5528755AInvalid data detection, recording and nullificationIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Jun 18, 1996·108 cites·8 claims
- 2582US6748557B1System, method, and program for determining the availability of interfaces to a control unitIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 8, 2004·33 cites·30 claims
- 2682US5991775AMethod and system for dynamic cache allocation between record and track entriesIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Nov 23, 1999·56 cites·12 claims
- 2781US6829659B2Method, system and program product for logically disconnecting in fibre channel communication without closing the exchangeIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 7, 2004·21 cites·36 claims
- 2880US6775738B2Method, system, and program for caching data in a storage controllerIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 10, 2004·29 cites·39 claims
- 2980US6381677B1Method and system for staging data into cacheIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Apr 30, 2002·90 cites·21 claims
- 3078US6993629B2Prestaging data into cache in preparation for data transfer operationsIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 31, 2006·22 cites·37 claims
- 3178US6981102B2Method and system for managing meta dataIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 27, 2005·21 cites·51 claims
- 3278US6327644B1Method and system for managing data in cacheIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 4, 2001·82 cites·14 claims
- 3378US6173360B1Apparatus 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
- 3478US6006342AFailover and failback system for a direct access storage deviceIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 21, 1999·109 cites·26 claims
- 3577US6530043B1Write data error checking in a PCI Bus systemIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 4, 2003·24 cites·15 claims
- 3676US6345295B1Conducting traces in a computer system attachment networkIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Feb 5, 2002·83 cites·21 claims
- 3776US6167459ASystem for reassigning alias addresses to an input/output deviceIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 26, 2000·77 cites·41 claims
- 3875US5771367AStorage controller and method for improved failure recovery using cross-coupled cache memories and nonvolatile storesIBM·Filed 1995·Granted Jun 23, 1998·78 cites·9 claims
- 3974US6425050B1Method, system, and program for performing read operations during a destage operationIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Jul 23, 2002·65 cites·39 claims
- 4074US6324621B2Data caching with a partially compressed cacheIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Nov 27, 2001·72 cites·32 claims
- 4174US6112311ABridge failover systemIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Aug 29, 2000·69 cites·31 claims
- 4273US5530829ATrack and record mode caching scheme for a storage system employing a scatter index table with pointer and a track directoryIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Jun 25, 1996·62 cites·20 claims
- 4372US6304940B1Shared direct access storage system for MVS and FBA processorsIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Oct 16, 2001·62 cites·6 claims
- 4472US5471609AMethod for identifying a system holding a `Reserve`IBM·Filed 1992·Granted Nov 28, 1995·59 cites·3 claims
- 4571US6185638B1Method and system for dynamically assigning addresses to an input/output deviceIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Feb 6, 2001·59 cites·58 claims
- 4670US6496890B1Bus hang prevention and recovery for data communication systems employing a shared bus interface with multiple bus mastersFiled 1999·Granted Dec 17, 2002·61 cites·20 claims
- 4770US5640530AUse of configuration registers to control access to multiple caches and nonvolatile storesIBM·Filed 1995·Granted Jun 17, 1997·64 cites·2 claims
- 4869US8443141B2Intelligent write caching for sequential tracksBEARDSLEY BRENT C·Filed 2010·Granted May 14, 2013·2 cites·14 claims
- 4969US6170023B1System for accessing an input/output device using multiple addressesIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Jan 2, 2001·62 cites·27 claims
- 5069US5235690AMethod for operating a cached peripheral data storage subsystem including a step of subsetting the data transfer into subsets of data recordsIBM·Filed 1990·Granted Aug 10, 1993·53 cites·11 claims
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