Robert Frederic Kern
47Patents
22h-index
75Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 28, 1987 → Apr 20, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5241670A | Method and system for automated backup copy ordering in a time zero backup copy session | Physics | 1,361 | Expired |
| US5241668A | Method and system for automated termination and resumption in a time zero backup copy process | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1,339 | Expired |
| USRE37601E1 | Method and system for incremental time zero backup copying of data | General | 927 | Expired |
| US6065018A | Synchronizing recovery log having time stamp to a remote site for disaster recovery of a primary database having related hierarchial and relational databases | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 310 | Expired |
| US5263154A | Method and system for incremental time zero backup copying of data | Physics | 268 | Expired |
| US6199074A | Database backup system ensuring consistency between primary and mirrored backup database copies despite backup interruption | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 199 | Expired |
| US5734818A | Forming consistency groups using self-describing record sets for remote data duplexing | Physics | 198 | Expired |
| US5870537A | Concurrent switch to shadowed device for storage controller and device errors | Physics | 182 | Expired |
| US5692155A | Method and apparatus for suspending multiple duplex pairs during back up processing to insure storage devices remain synchronized in a sequence consistent order | Physics | 153 | Expired |
| US5615329A | Remote data duplexing | Physics | 144 | Expired |
| US4837680A | Controlling asynchronously operating peripherals | Physics | 143 | Expired |
| US5720029A | Asynchronously shadowing record updates in a remote copy session using track arrays | Physics | 141 | Expired |
| US7039585B2 | Method and system for searching recorded speech and retrieving relevant segments | Physics | 105 | Expired |
| US6247103A | Host storage management control of outboard data movement using push-pull operations | Physics | 64 | Expired |
| US6336187B1 | Storage system with data-dependent security | Physics | 63 | Expired |
| US7043665B2 | Method, system, and program for handling a failover to a remote storage location | Physics | 41 | Expired |
| US6393537B1 | Host storage management control of outboard data movement | Physics | 38 | Expired |
| US7571268B2 | Consistent updates across storage subsystems coupled to a plurality of primary and secondary units at selected times | Physics | 33 | Active |
| US6446209B2 | Storage controller conditioning host access to stored data according to security key stored in host-inaccessible metadata | Physics | 30 | Expired |
| US7467168B2 | Method for mirroring data at storage locations | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US7603581B2 | Remote copying of updates to primary and secondary storage locations subject to a copy relationship | Physics | 28 | Active |
| US6202124A | Data storage system with outboard physical data transfer operation utilizing data path distinct from host | Physics | 28 | Expired |
| US8027952B2 | System and article of manufacture for mirroring data at storage locations | Physics | 19 | Active |
| USRE37038E | Method and system for automated termination and resumption in a time zero backup copy process | General | 13 | Expired |
| US8788772B2 | Maintaining mirror and storage system copies of volumes at multiple remote sites | Physics | 12 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.