Kenneth Wayne Boyd
63Patents
10h-index
69Co-inventors
77Inventor score
Filing activity: Jan 9, 2003 → Apr 9, 2019
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7370089B2 | Autonomic learning method to load balance output transfers of two peer nodes | Physics | 166 | Active |
| US7366846B2 | Redirection of storage access requests | Physics | 70 | Expired |
| US7647462B2 | Method, system, and program for data synchronization between a primary storage device and a secondary storage device by determining whether a first identifier and a second identifier match, where a unique identifier is associated with each portion of data | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 55 | Active |
| US7251691B2 | Autonomic predictive load balancing of output transfers for two peer computers for data storage applications | Electricity | 41 | Expired |
| US7571268B2 | Consistent updates across storage subsystems coupled to a plurality of primary and secondary units at selected times | Physics | 33 | Active |
| US7987158B2 | Method, system and article of manufacture for metadata replication and restoration | Physics | 30 | Active |
| US7603581B2 | Remote copying of updates to primary and secondary storage locations subject to a copy relationship | Physics | 28 | Active |
| US7206911B2 | Method, system, and program for a system architecture for an arbitrary number of backup components | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 25 | Expired |
| US7143117B2 | Method, system, and program for data synchronization by determining whether a first identifier for a portion of data at a first source and a second identifier for a portion of corresponding data at a second source match | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 15 | Expired |
| US7552295B2 | Maintaining consistency when mirroring data using different copy technologies | Physics | 10 | Active |
| US7107420B2 | Apparatus and method to adjust data transfer rate | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US7412577B2 | Shared data mirroring apparatus, method, and system | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US7761426B2 | Apparatus, system, and method for continuously protecting data | Physics | 9 | Active |
| US7376859B2 | Method, system, and article of manufacture for data replication | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US8099387B2 | Managing consistency groups using heterogeneous replication engines | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US8069317B2 | Providing and utilizing high performance block storage metadata | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US8027951B2 | Predictive algorithm for load balancing data transfers across components | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 7 | Active |
| US7024584B2 | Method, system, and article of manufacture for maintaining data integrity | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 7 | Expired |
| US8607005B2 | Monitoring program execution to learn data blocks accessed by software process for facilitating efficient prefetching | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US7650476B2 | System, method and computer program product for generating a consistent point in time copy of data | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US8095755B2 | System, method and computer program product for generating a consistent point in time copy of data | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US8024534B2 | Replication engine communicating with a splitter to split writes between a storage controller and replication engine | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US8762681B2 | Blocked based end-to-end data protection for extended count key data (ECKD) | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US7877628B2 | Mirroring data between primary and secondary sites | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US8171282B2 | Encryption data integrity check with dual parallel encryption engines | Electricity | 5 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.