Inventor · Springfield, OR, US

Michael D. Swanson

51Patents
30h-index
42Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 28, 1988 → Dec 22, 2010

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5544345A Coherence controls for store-multiple shared data coordinated by cache directory entries in a shared electronic storage Physics 1,096 Expired
US5317739A Method and apparatus for coupling data processing systems Physics 202 Expired
US5537574A Sysplex shared data coherency method Physics 181 Expired
US5465359A Method and system for managing data and users of data in a data processing system Physics 176 Expired
US5339427A Method and apparatus for distributed locking of shared data, employing a central coupling facility Physics 174 Expired
US5390328A Data processing system and method for providing notification in a central processor of state changes for shared data structure on external storage Physics 154 Expired
US5561809A In a multiprocessing system having a coupling facility, communicating messages between the processors and the coupling facility in either a synchronous operation or an asynchronous operation Physics 154 Expired
US5493668A Multiple processor system having software for selecting shared cache entries of an associated castout class for transfer to a DASD with one I/O operation Physics 144 Expired
US5463736A Coupling facility for receiving commands from plurality of hosts for activating selected connection paths to I/O devices and maintaining status thereof Physics 103 Expired
US5331673A Integrity of data objects used to maintain state information for shared data at a local complex Physics 102 Expired
US5457793A Software cache management of a shared electronic store in a supplex Physics 101 Expired
US5634072A Method of managing resources in one or more coupling facilities coupled to one or more operating systems in one or more central programming complexes using a policy Physics 73 Expired
US5305448A Shared access serialization featuring second process lock steal and subsequent write access denial to first process Physics 65 Expired
US5515499A Method and system for reconfiguring a storage structure within a structure processing facility Physics 63 Expired
US5630050A Method and system for capturing and controlling access to information in a coupling facility Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 56 Expired
US5604863A Method for coordinating executing programs in a data processing system Physics 55 Expired
US5742830A Method and apparatus for performing conditional operations on externally shared data Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 50 Expired
US5664155A Dynamically assigning a dump space in a shared data facility to receive dumping information to be captured Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US5388266A Management of data objects used intain state information for shared data at a local complex Physics 46 Expired
US5410695A Apparatus and method for list management in a coupled data processing system Physics 46 Expired
US5392397A Command execution system for using first and second commands to reserve and store second command related status information in memory portion respectively Physics 45 Expired
US5450590A Authorization method for conditional command execution Physics 44 Expired
US5860115A Requesting a dump of information stored within a coupling facility, in which the dump includes serviceability information from an operating system that lost communication with the coupling facility Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 44 Expired
US5339405A Command quiesce function Physics 41 Expired
US5887135A System and method for management of object transitions in an external storage facility accessed by one or more processors Physics 41 Expired

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