Inventor · Austin, TX, US

David A. Elko

82Patents
27h-index
84Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 30, 1992 → Sep 13, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5317739A Method and apparatus for coupling data processing systems Physics 202 Expired
US5537574A Sysplex shared data coherency method Physics 181 Expired
US5339427A Method and apparatus for distributed locking of shared data, employing a central coupling facility Physics 174 Expired
US5561809A In a multiprocessing system having a coupling facility, communicating messages between the processors and the coupling facility in either a synchronous operation or an asynchronous operation Physics 154 Expired
US5493668A Multiple processor system having software for selecting shared cache entries of an associated castout class for transfer to a DASD with one I/O operation Physics 144 Expired
US7093024B2 End node partitioning using virtualization Electricity 139 Expired
US5463736A Coupling facility for receiving commands from plurality of hosts for activating selected connection paths to I/O devices and maintaining status thereof Physics 103 Expired
US5331673A Integrity of data objects used to maintain state information for shared data at a local complex Physics 102 Expired
US5457793A Software cache management of a shared electronic store in a supplex Physics 101 Expired
US7120746B2 Technique for data transfer Physics 89 Expired
US5574945A Multi channel inter-processor coupling facility processing received commands stored in memory absent status error of channels Physics 88 Expired
US5706432A Mechanism for receiving messages at a coupling facility Physics 83 Expired
US5581737A Method and apparatus for expansion, contraction, and reapportionment of structured external storage structures Physics 76 Expired
US7003700B2 Halting execution of duplexed commands Physics 58 Expired
US5742830A Method and apparatus for performing conditional operations on externally shared data Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 50 Expired
US5664155A Dynamically assigning a dump space in a shared data facility to receive dumping information to be captured Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US5392397A Command execution system for using first and second commands to reserve and store second command related status information in memory portion respectively Physics 45 Expired
US5450590A Authorization method for conditional command execution Physics 44 Expired
US5339405A Command quiesce function Physics 41 Expired
US6266783A System-managed rebuild of coupling facility structures Physics 40 Expired
US6230243A Method, system and program products for managing changed data of castout classes Physics 40 Expired
US6438654B1 Castout processing for duplexed cache structures Physics 33 Expired
US5394554A Interdicting I/O and messaging operations from sending central processing complex to other central processing complexes and to I/O device in multi-system complex Physics 32 Expired
US5761739A Methods and systems for creating a storage dump within a coupling facility of a multisystem enviroment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 31 Expired
US6963882B1 Method and apparatus for processing a list structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Expired

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