Inventor · Boulder, CO, US

Christopher J. West

23Patents
16h-index
12Co-inventors
70Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 5, 1998 → Apr 14, 2005

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6131148A Snapshot copy of a secondary volume of a PPRC pair Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 357 Expired
US6643671B2 System and method for synchronizing a data copy using an accumulation remote copy trio consistency group Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 165 Expired
US6446175B1 Storing and retrieving data on tape backup system located at remote storage system site Physics 148 Expired
US6912629B1 System and method for restoring data from secondary volume to primary volume in a data storage system Physics 139 Expired
US6237008A System and method for enabling pair-pair remote copy storage volumes to mirror data in another storage volume Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 124 Expired
US6457109B1 Method and apparatus for copying data from one storage system to another storage system Physics 94 Expired
US6446176B1 Method and system for transferring data between primary storage and secondary storage using a bridge volume and an internal snapshot copy of the data being transferred Physics 93 Expired
US6434683B1 Method and system for transferring delta difference data to a storage device Physics 68 Expired
US6253295A System and method for enabling pair-pair remote copy storage volumes to mirror data in another pair of storage volumes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 66 Expired
US6185659A Adapting resource use to improve performance in a caching memory system Physics 60 Expired
US6073221A Synchronization of shared data stores through use of non-empty track copy procedure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 42 Expired
US6535967B1 Method and apparatus for transferring data between a primary storage system and a secondary storage system using a bridge volume Physics 41 Expired
US6442709B1 System and method for simulating disaster situations on peer to peer remote copy machines Physics 34 Expired
US6088815A Automatic data recovery for a duplex pair Physics 26 Expired
US6618823B1 Method and system for automatically gathering information from different types of devices connected in a network when a device fails Electricity 18 Expired
US6901414B2 Method and system of storing a main data file and deltas in a storage device for determining new data files from the main data file and the deltas Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Expired
US6345338B1 Adapting resource use to improve performance in a caching memory system Physics 15 Expired
US6058462A Method and apparatus for enabling transfer of compressed data record tracks with CRC checking Physics 13 Expired
US7177980B2 Cache storage system and method Physics 13 Expired
US6834325B1 System and method for providing client-directed staging to improve non-sequential access performance in a caching disk storage system Physics 10 Expired
US7337286B1 Storage control system for restoring a remote data copy Physics 9 Expired
US7139874B1 System and method for providing client-directed staging to improve non-sequential access performance in a caching disk storage system Physics 5 Expired
US6751714B2 Systems and methods for relocation of compressed data tracks Physics 1 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.