William Frank Micka
96Patents
32h-index
101Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 30, 1976 → Dec 4, 2008
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5241668A | Method and system for automated termination and resumption in a time zero backup copy process | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1,339 | Expired |
| US5619644A | Software directed microcode state save for distributed storage controller | Physics | 1,015 | Expired |
| US5555371A | Data backup copying with delayed directory updating and reduced numbers of DASD accesses at a back up site using a log structured array data storage | Physics | 330 | Expired |
| US5592618A | Remote copy secondary data copy validation-audit function | Physics | 266 | Expired |
| US5448718A | Method and system for time zero backup session security | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 211 | 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 |
| US6304980A | Peer-to-peer backup system with failure-triggered device switching honoring reservation of primary device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 188 | Expired |
| US5835954A | Target DASD controlled data migration move | Physics | 165 | 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 |
| US6487645B1 | Data storage subsystem with fairness-driven update blocking | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 147 | Expired |
| US5615329A | Remote data duplexing | Physics | 144 | Expired |
| US5497483A | Method and system for track transfer control during concurrent copy operations in a data processing storage subsystem | Physics | 144 | Expired |
| US5720029A | Asynchronously shadowing record updates in a remote copy session using track arrays | Physics | 141 | Expired |
| US6148383A | Storage system employing universal timer for peer-to-peer asynchronous maintenance of consistent mirrored storage | Physics | 139 | Expired |
| US5167034A | Data integrity for compaction devices | Physics | 115 | Expired |
| US6611901B1 | Method, system, and program for maintaining electronic data as of a point-in-time | Physics | 103 | Expired |
| US6189079A | Data copy between peer-to-peer controllers | Physics | 98 | Expired |
| US6842825B2 | Adjusting timestamps to preserve update timing information for cached data objects | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 94 | Expired |
| US5574950A | Remote data shadowing using a multimode interface to dynamically reconfigure control link-level and communication link-level | Physics | 92 | Expired |
| US6578120B1 | Synchronization and resynchronization of loosely-coupled copy operations between a primary and a remote secondary DASD volume under concurrent updating | Physics | 83 | Expired |
| US5375232A | Method and system for asynchronous pre-staging of backup copies in a data processing storage subsystem | Physics | 73 | Expired |
| US6247103A | Host storage management control of outboard data movement using push-pull operations | Physics | 64 | Expired |
| US7500030B2 | Control of information units in fibre channel communications | Physics | 62 | Active |
| US5379398A | Method and system for concurrent access during backup copying of data | Physics | 62 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.