Kevin J. Ash
288Patents
13h-index
70Co-inventors
89Inventor score
Filing activity: Feb 13, 1987 → May 30, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.