Inventor · Vail, AZ, US

Gregory E. McBride

192Patents
19h-index
109Co-inventors
89Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 30, 1989 → Jun 28, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5734818A Forming consistency groups using self-describing record sets for remote data duplexing Physics 198 Expired
US6088697A Dynamic change management in an extended remote copy operation Physics 128 Expired
US6463501B1 Method, system and program for maintaining data consistency among updates across groups of storage areas using update times Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 128 Expired
US6260124A System and method for dynamically resynchronizing backup data Physics 94 Expired
US6842825B2 Adjusting timestamps to preserve update timing information for cached data objects Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 94 Expired
US6052758A Interface error detection and isolation in a direct access storage device DASD system Physics 60 Expired
US8060779B2 Using virtual copies in a failover and failback environment Physics 57 Active
US6484187B1 Coordinating remote copy status changes across multiple logical sessions to maintain consistency Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 56 Expired
US6301643A Multi-environment data consistency Physics 48 Expired
US6105078A Extended remote copying system for reporting both active and idle conditions wherein the idle condition indicates no updates to the system for a predetermined time period Physics 41 Expired
US5239649A Channel path load balancing, through selection of storage volumes to be processed, for long running applications Physics 39 Expired
US6260129A Management of fixed pages in memory for input/output operations Physics 34 Expired
US7571268B2 Consistent updates across storage subsystems coupled to a plurality of primary and secondary units at selected times Physics 33 Active
US10261868B2 Using a forward log storage and backward log storage to recover a storage to a forward or backward point-in-time Physics 32 Active
US7793148B2 Using virtual copies in a failover and failback environment Physics 31 Active
US7603581B2 Remote copying of updates to primary and secondary storage locations subject to a copy relationship Physics 28 Active
US6772303B2 System and method for dynamically resynchronizing backup data Physics 22 Expired
US9298567B2 System availability in PPRC failover environments Physics 22 Active
US9405628B2 Data migration using multi-storage volume swap Physics 19 Active
US5778393A Adaptive multitasking for dataset storage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US8799602B2 Automated migration to a new target volume via merged bitmaps to maintain consistency Physics 11 Active
US9003142B2 Volume swapping of point-in-time read-only target volumes Physics 11 Active
US7269701B2 Self-configuration of source-to-target mapping Physics 11 Expired
US7552295B2 Maintaining consistency when mirroring data using different copy technologies Physics 10 Active
US7627775B2 Managing failures in mirrored systems Physics 9 Active

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