Gail A. Spear
117Patents
20h-index
118Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 31, 1990 → Jan 22, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6199074A | Database backup system ensuring consistency between primary and mirrored backup database copies despite backup interruption | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 199 | Expired |
| US5530829A | Track and record mode caching scheme for a storage system employing a scatter index table with pointer and a track directory | Physics | 52 | Expired |
| US7188272B2 | Method, system and article of manufacture for recovery from a failure in a cascading PPRC system | Physics | 44 | Expired |
| US5771367A | Storage controller and method for improved failure recovery using cross-coupled cache memories and nonvolatile stores | Physics | 44 | Expired |
| US5640530A | Use of configuration registers to control access to multiple caches and nonvolatile stores | Physics | 44 | Expired |
| US5235690A | Method for operating a cached peripheral data storage subsystem including a step of subsetting the data transfer into subsets of data records | Physics | 43 | Expired |
| US7000145B2 | Method, system, and program for reverse restore of an incremental virtual copy | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 41 | Expired |
| US7363629B2 | Method, system, and program for remote resource management | Electricity | 40 | Expired |
| US7278049B2 | Method, system, and program for recovery from a failure in an asynchronous data copying system | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US7571268B2 | Consistent updates across storage subsystems coupled to a plurality of primary and secondary units at selected times | Physics | 33 | Active |
| US6996586B2 | Method, system, and article for incremental virtual copy of a data block | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 30 | Expired |
| US7627729B2 | Apparatus, system, and method for an improved synchronous mirror swap | Physics | 30 | Active |
| US7461100B2 | Method for fast reverse restore | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 30 | Expired |
| US7467168B2 | Method for mirroring data at storage locations | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US7603581B2 | Remote copying of updates to primary and secondary storage locations subject to a copy relationship | Physics | 28 | Active |
| US7225307B2 | Apparatus, system, and method for synchronizing an asynchronous mirror volume using a synchronous mirror volume | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US7124128B2 | Method, system, and program for managing requests to tracks subject to a relationship | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 23 | Expired |
| US7512835B2 | Method, system and article of manufacture for recovery from a failure in a cascading PPRC system | Physics | 21 | Active |
| US7188222B2 | Method, system, and program for mirroring data among storage sites | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US7610318B2 | Autonomic infrastructure enablement for point in time copy consistency | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US7702953B2 | Storage management in cascaded replication of data | Physics | 20 | Active |
| US8027952B2 | System and article of manufacture for mirroring data at storage locations | Physics | 19 | Active |
| US7024530B2 | Method, system, and program for establishing and using a point-in-time copy relationship | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 19 | Expired |
| US7818522B2 | Apparatus, system, and method for incremental resynchronization in a data storage system | Physics | 18 | Active |
| US7409510B2 | Instant virtual copy to a primary mirroring portion of data | Physics | 16 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.