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Gregory T. Kishi
Also filed as: KISHI GREGORY · KISHI GREGORY T · KISHI GREGORY TAD
173 granted patents·7 pending applications·4,450 citations·filing 1991–2023
99Inventor score
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180 records- 0198US7103731B2Method, system, and program for moving data among storage unitsIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Sep 5, 2006·265 cites·33 claims
- 0298US6983351B2System and method to guarantee overwrite of expired data in a virtual tape serverIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 3, 2006·344 cites·35 claims
- 0398US6816941B1Method and system for efficiently importing/exporting removable storage volumes between virtual storage systemsIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 9, 2004·242 cites·16 claims
- 0497US8108638B2Backup of deduplicated dataKISHI GREGORY TAD·Filed 2009·Granted Jan 31, 2012·56 cites·29 claims
- 0597US6304880B1Automated reclamation scheduling override in a virtual tape serverIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Oct 16, 2001·343 cites·28 claims
- 0696US6041329AAutomated message processing system configured to automatically manage introduction of removable data storage media into media libraryIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Mar 21, 2000·116 cites·51 claims
- 0794US6779058B2Method, system, and program for transferring data between storage devicesIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 17, 2004·109 cites·45 claims
- 0894US6339778B1Method and article for apparatus for performing automated reconcile control in a virtual tape systemIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Jan 15, 2002·94 cites·10 claims
- 0993US8745011B2Method and system for scrubbing data within a data storage subsystemKISHI GREGORY T·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 3, 2014·34 cites·18 claims
- 1093US6023709AAutomated file error classification and correction in a hierarchical storage management systemIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Feb 8, 2000·172 cites·29 claims
- 1192US6718427B1Method and system utilizing data fragments for efficiently importing/exporting removable storage volumesIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 6, 2004·80 cites·23 claims
- 1292US6507883B1Recalling logical volumes to cache from physical media volumes for redundant storage in automated data storage librariesIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Jan 14, 2003·84 cites·24 claims
- 1391US7627786B2Tracking error events relating to data storage drives and/or media of automated data storage library subsystemsIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Dec 1, 2009·31 cites·35 claims
- 1491US7308543B2Method and system for shredding data within a data storage subsystemIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Dec 11, 2007·27 cites·14 claims
- 1591US5926834AVirtual data storage system with an overrun-resistant cache using an adaptive throttle based upon the amount of cache free spaceIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Jul 20, 1999·182 cites·30 claims
- 1690US6978325B2Transferring data in virtual tape server, involves determining availability of small chain of data, if large chain is not available while transferring data to physical volumes in peak modeIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 20, 2005·60 cites·33 claims
- 1790US6269423B1Method and apparatus for providing improved caching for a virtual tape serverIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Jul 31, 2001·117 cites·45 claims
- 1889US7864478B2Verification of a tape data storage cartridgeIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Jan 4, 2011·10 cites·6 claims
- 1989US7107417B2System, method and apparatus for logical volume duplexing in a virtual tape systemIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Sep 12, 2006·59 cites·28 claims
- 2088US11030054B2Methods and systems for data backup based on data classificationIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Jun 8, 2021·5 cites·16 claims
- 2188US9817724B2Efficient FlashCopy backup target volume allocation with reuse and a shared resource poolIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Nov 14, 2017·12 cites·18 claims
- 2288US6029179AAutomated read-only volume processing in a virtual tape serverIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Feb 22, 2000·102 cites·24 claims
- 2386US9542109B2Method for selectively performing a secure data erase to ensure timely erasureIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Jan 10, 2017·4 cites·18 claims
- 2486US8301834B2System for determining allocation of tape drive resources for a secure data erase processKISHI GREGORY TAD·Filed 2011·Granted Oct 30, 2012·8 cites·9 claims
- 2585US10176048B2Creating a restore copy from a copy of source data in a repository having source data at different point-in-times and reading data from the repository for the restore copyIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Jan 8, 2019·8 cites·24 claims
- 2685US8332599B2Method for determining allocation of tape drive resources for a secure data erase processKISHI GREGORY TAD·Filed 2011·Granted Dec 11, 2012·8 cites·19 claims
- 2785US8006050B2System for determining allocation of tape drive resources for a secure data erase processIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 23, 2011·12 cites·8 claims
- 2885US6163773AData storage system with trained predictive cache management engineIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 19, 2000·122 cites·37 claims
- 2984US10545832B2Similarity based deduplication for secondary storageIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Jan 28, 2020·4 cites·20 claims
- 3084US9933959B2Method for selectively performing a secure data erase to ensure timely erasureIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Apr 3, 2018·3 cites·16 claims
- 3184US9141303B2Method for selectively performing a secure data erase to ensure timely erasureKISHI GREGORY TAD·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 22, 2015·14 cites·18 claims
- 3284US8001340B2Method for determining allocation of tape drive resources for a secure data erase processIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 16, 2011·12 cites·17 claims
- 3384US7085895B2Apparatus, system, and method flushing data from a cache to secondary storageIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 1, 2006·35 cites·26 claims
- 3484US6954831B2Method, system, and article of manufacture for borrowing physical volumesIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 11, 2005·33 cites·18 claims
- 3584US5426581AUsing a bar code scanner to calibrate positioning of a robotic systemIBM·Filed 1994·Granted Jun 20, 1995·113 cites·10 claims
- 3683US10983985B2Determining a storage pool to store changed data objects indicated in a databaseIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Apr 20, 2021·3 cites·26 claims
- 3783US9299385B2Efficient elimination of access to data on a writable storage mediaCARLSON WAYNE CHARLES·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 29, 2016·5 cites·37 claims
- 3883US8281099B2Backup of deduplicated dataKISHI GREGORY TAD·Filed 2012·Granted Oct 2, 2012·6 cites·17 claims
- 3982US11113148B2Methods and systems for metadata tag inheritance for data backupIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Sep 7, 2021·3 cites·20 claims
- 4082US10614037B2Optimized deduplicated object storage systemIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Apr 7, 2020·3 cites·17 claims
- 4182US7689759B2Method and apparatus for providing continuous access to shared tape drives from multiple virtual tape servers within a data storage systemIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 30, 2010·12 cites·12 claims
- 4282US6502108B1Cache-failure-tolerant data storage system storing data objects with version code equipped metadata tokensIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Dec 31, 2002·101 cites·32 claims
- 4382US5751844AMethod and apparatus for image acquisition with adaptive compensation for image exposure variationIBM·Filed 1996·Granted May 12, 1998·76 cites·19 claims
- 4481US9817719B2Efficient Flashcopy backup and mount, clone, or restore collision avoidance using dynamic volume allocation with reuse and from a shared resource poolIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Nov 14, 2017·6 cites·20 claims
- 4581US6745212B2Preferential caching of uncopied logical volumes in an IBM peer-to-peer virtual tape serverIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Jun 1, 2004·31 cites·31 claims
- 4681US6105037AApparatus for performing automated reconcile control in a virtual tape systemIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 15, 2000·80 cites·50 claims
- 4780US11210266B2Methods and systems for natural language processing of metadataIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Dec 28, 2021·4 cites·18 claims
- 4880US8176269B2Managing metadata for data blocks used in a deduplication systemJAQUETTE GLEN ALAN·Filed 2008·Granted May 8, 2012·12 cites·20 claims
- 4980US7020755B2Method and apparatus for read-only recovery in a dual copy storage systemIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 28, 2006·13 cites·23 claims
- 5080US6360232B1Disaster recovery method for a removable media libraryIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Mar 19, 2002·98 cites·4 claims
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