Robert G. Bean
23Patents
14h-index
31Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 6, 1982 → Aug 23, 2010
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5546536A | Log for selective management of specific address in a shadow storage system | Physics | 130 | Expired |
| US4837675A | Secondary storage facility empolying serial communications between drive and controller | Physics | 106 | Expired |
| US6915397B2 | System and method for generating point in time storage copy | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 94 | Expired |
| US4543626A | Apparatus and method for controlling digital data processing system employing multiple processors | Physics | 59 | Expired |
| US4825406A | Secondary storage facility employing serial communications between drive and controller | Physics | 48 | Expired |
| US6718404B2 | Data migration using parallel, distributed table driven I/O mapping | Physics | 48 | Expired |
| US7366868B2 | Generating updated virtual disks using distributed mapping tables accessible by mapping agents and managed by a centralized controller | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US6895467B2 | System and method for atomizing storage | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US7290102B2 | Point in time storage copy | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 32 | Expired |
| US4648035A | Address conversion unit for multiprocessor system | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US5247618A | Transferring data in a digital data processing system | Physics | 30 | Expired |
| US4811278A | Secondary storage facility employing serial communications between drive and controller | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US6961838B2 | Generating updated virtual disks using distributed mapping tables accessible by mapping agents and managed by a centralized controller | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US4811279A | Secondary storage facility employing serial communications between drive and controller | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US7526684B2 | Deterministic preventive recovery from a predicted failure in a distributed storage system | Physics | 14 | Active |
| US6931487B2 | High performance multi-controller processing | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US7269631B2 | Architecture for parallel distributed table driven I/O mapping | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US8046469B2 | System and method for interfacing with virtual storage | Physics | 7 | Active |
| US7707362B2 | Context-free data transactions between dual operating systems embedded within a data storage subsystem | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8275959B2 | Failover control of dual controllers in a redundant data storage system | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8112679B2 | Data reliability bit storage qualifier and logical unit metadata | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US7478215B2 | Multi-controller write operations | Physics | 0 | Expired |
| US7882271B2 | Processor partnering in a storage system | Electricity | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.