Inventor · Tucson, AZ, US

Kevin J. Ash

288Patents
13h-index
70Co-inventors
89Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 13, 1987 → May 30, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8423739B2 Apparatus, system, and method for relocating logical array hot spots Physics 305 Active
US6785771B2 Method, system, and program for destaging data in cache Physics 55 Expired
US6775738B2 Method, system, and program for caching data in a storage controller Physics 20 Expired
US8478945B2 Dynamic management of destage tasks in a storage controller Physics 20 Active
US8825975B2 Caching source blocks of data for target blocks of data Physics 17 Active
US8825973B2 Caching source blocks of data for target blocks of data Physics 17 Active
US9710398B2 RE-MRU of metadata tracks to reduce lock contention Physics 16 Active
US7321986B2 Configuring cache memory from a storage controller Physics 15 Expired
US7761680B2 Copying data from a first cluster to a second cluster to reassign storage areas from the first cluster to the second cluster Physics 15 Active
US7051174B2 Method, system, and program for restoring data in cache Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US4891811A Efficient address test for large memories Physics 14 Expired
US9665493B2 Increased cache performance with multi-level queues of complete tracks Physics 14 Active
US7849254B2 Create virtual track buffers in NVS using customer segments to maintain newly written data across a power loss Physics 13 Active
US9658798B2 Grouping of tracks for copy source to target destage on global mirror secondary Physics 13 Active
US7171516B2 Increasing through-put of a storage controller by autonomically adjusting host delay Physics 12 Expired
US7627714B2 Apparatus, system, and method for preventing write starvation in a partitioned cache of a storage controller Physics 11 Active
US9058217B2 Preferential CPU utilization for tasks Physics 10 Active
US7975169B2 Memory preserved cache to prevent data loss Physics 10 Active
US9733991B2 Deferred re-MRU operations to reduce lock contention Physics 10 Active
US9405669B2 Recovery from cache and NVS out of sync Physics 9 Active
US7085907B2 Dynamic reconfiguration of memory in a multi-cluster storage control unit Physics 9 Expired
US9384143B1 Selecting cache lists indicating tracks in a cache to process for demotion Physics 8 Active
US7680982B2 Preservation of cache data following failover Physics 8 Active
US7171610B2 Method, system, and article of manufacture for preventing data loss Physics 7 Expired
US10223274B1 Maintaining track format metadata for target tracks in a target storage in a copy relationship with source tracks in a source storage Physics 7 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.