Inventor · Tucson, AZ, US

Kenneth Wayne Boyd

63Patents
10h-index
69Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 9, 2003 → Apr 9, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.