Bret W. Holley

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Tucson, AZ, US

People

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Adjustment of an information unit pacing credit to increase data tr...
- Patent number 10,764,199
- Issue date Sep 1, 2020
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Configuration of a set of queues for multi-protocol operations in a...
- Patent number 10,623,341
- Issue date Apr 14, 2020
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Adjustment of buffer credits and other parameters in a startup phas...
- Patent number 10,289,591
- Issue date May 14, 2019
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Adjustment of an information unit pacing credit to increase data tr...
- Patent number 10,250,516
- Issue date Apr 2, 2019
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Adjustment of buffer credits and other parameters in a startup phas...
- Patent number 10,061,734
- Issue date Aug 28, 2018
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Maintenance of a fabric priority during synchronous copy operations
- Patent number 9,983,813
- Issue date May 29, 2018
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Maintenance of a fabric priority among operations within a fibre ch...
- Patent number 9,736,241
- Issue date Aug 15, 2017
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Maintenance of a fabric priority among operations in related fibre...
- Patent number 9,614,910
- Issue date Apr 4, 2017
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Maintenance of a fabric priority during synchronous copy operations
- Patent number 9,491,240
- Issue date Nov 8, 2016
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method to prevent I/O starvation of slower hosts in a multi-host en...
- Patent number 9,311,005
- Issue date Apr 12, 2016
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Matthew R. Craig
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Clearing a fault condition over a fibre channel path
- Patent number 9,209,894
- Issue date Dec 8, 2015
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Matthew R. Craig
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Clearing a fault condition over a fibre channel path
- Patent number 9,172,459
- Issue date Oct 27, 2015
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Matthew R. Craig
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Reduced-impact error recovery in multi-core storage-system components
- Patent number 9,104,575
- Issue date Aug 11, 2015
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Bret Wayne Holley
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method to allow a host to replace logical path resources it owns
- Patent number 8,909,827
- Issue date Dec 9, 2014
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Juan A. Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method, apparatus and system to dynamically manage logical path res...
- Patent number 8,769,147
- Issue date Jul 1, 2014
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Juan A. Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Systems and methods for avoiding host level busy and retry latencies
- Patent number 8,554,955
- Issue date Oct 8, 2013
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Matthew R. Craig
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method, apparatus and system to dynamically manage logical path res...
- Patent number 8,392,610
- Issue date Mar 5, 2013
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Juan A. Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Processing of data to perform system changes in an input/output pro...
- Patent number 8,214,562
- Issue date Jul 3, 2012
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Louis W. Ricci
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus and method to minimize performance degradation during com...
- Patent number 8,108,732
- Issue date Jan 31, 2012
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Juan Alonso Coronado
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method to recover from logical path failures
- Patent number 8,069,364
- Issue date Nov 29, 2011
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Juan Alonso Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method to manage path failure threshold consensus
- Patent number 8,027,263
- Issue date Sep 27, 2011
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Juan A. Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Concurrent enablement of persistent information unit pacing
- Patent number 8,005,082
- Issue date Aug 23, 2011
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger Gregory Hathorn
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method to recover from ungrouped logical path failures
- Patent number 7,996,707
- Issue date Aug 9, 2011
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Juan A. Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Synchronizing logical systems
- Patent number 7,996,643
- Issue date Aug 9, 2011
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Juan Alonso Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method to manage path failure thresholds
- Patent number 7,983,171
- Issue date Jul 19, 2011
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Juan A. Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
System and article of manufacture for establishing and requesting s...
- Patent number 7,941,545
- Issue date May 10, 2011
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Mark Steven Bayus
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Usage of persistent information unit pacing protocol in fibre chann...
- Patent number 7,668,980
- Issue date Feb 23, 2010
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger Gregory Hathorn
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Addressing logical subsystems in a data storage system
- Patent number 7,574,529
- Issue date Aug 11, 2009
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Juan A Coronado
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Synchronizing logical systems
- Patent number 7,409,519
- Issue date Aug 5, 2008
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Juan Alonso Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method, system, and program for establishing and requesting status...
- Patent number 7,395,337
- Issue date Jul 1, 2008
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Mark Steven Bayus
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
ADJUSTMENT OF AN INFORMATION UNIT PACING CREDIT TO INCREASE DATA TR...
- Publication number 20190140968
- Publication date May 9, 2019
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
ADJUSTMENT OF BUFFER CREDITS AND OTHER PARAMETERS IN A STARTUP PHAS...
- Publication number 20180181523
- Publication date Jun 28, 2018
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ADJUSTMENT OF AN INFORMATION UNIT PACING CREDIT TO INCREASE DATA TR...
- Publication number 20180145918
- Publication date May 24, 2018
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
CONFIGURATION OF A SET OF QUEUES FOR MULTI-PROTOCOL OPERATIONS IN A...
- Publication number 20170093760
- Publication date Mar 30, 2017
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
MAINTENANCE OF A FABRIC PRIORITY DURING SYNCHRONOUS COPY OPERATIONS
- Publication number 20160357468
- Publication date Dec 8, 2016
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
RECEIVING BUFFER CREDITS BY A PLURALITY OF CHANNELS OF ONE OR MORE...
- Publication number 20160342549
- Publication date Nov 24, 2016
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ADJUSTMENT OF BUFFER CREDITS AND OTHER PARAMETERS IN A STARTUP PHAS...
- Publication number 20160342548
- Publication date Nov 24, 2016
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ADJUSTMENTS OF BUFFER CREDITS FOR OPTIMIZING THE NUMBER OF RETRY OP...
- Publication number 20160342391
- Publication date Nov 24, 2016
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MAINTENANCE OF A FABRIC PRIORITY DURING SYNCHRONOUS COPY OPERATIONS
- Publication number 20150381726
- Publication date Dec 31, 2015
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MAINTENANCE OF A FABRIC PRIORITY AMONG OPERATIONS WITHIN A FIBRE CH...
- Publication number 20150381529
- Publication date Dec 31, 2015
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
MAINTENANCE OF A FABRIC PRIORITY AMONG OPERATIONS IN RELATED FIBRE...
- Publication number 20150381530
- Publication date Dec 31, 2015
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger G. Hathorn
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
METHOD TO PREVENT I/O STARVATION OF SLOWER HOSTS IN A MULTI-HOST EN...
- Publication number 20140101256
- Publication date Apr 10, 2014
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Matthew R. Craig
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
REDUCED-IMPACT ERROR RECOVERY IN MULTI-CORE STORAGE-SYSTEM COMPONENTS
- Publication number 20140053019
- Publication date Feb 20, 2014
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Bret W. Holley
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
CLEARING A FAULT CONDITION OVER A FIBRE CHANNEL PATH
- Publication number 20130209086
- Publication date Aug 15, 2013
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Matthew R. Craig
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM TO DYNAMICALLY MANAGE LOGICAL PATH RES...
- Publication number 20130138833
- Publication date May 30, 2013
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Juan A. CORONADO
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AVOIDING HOST LEVEL BUSY AND RETRY LATENCIES
- Publication number 20120159003
- Publication date Jun 21, 2012
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Matthew R. Craig
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLEARING A FAULT CONDITION OVER A FIBRE CH...
- Publication number 20120141115
- Publication date Jun 7, 2012
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Matthew R. Craig
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
CONCURRENT ENABLEMENT OF PERSISTENT INFORMATION UNIT PACING
- Publication number 20100086077
- Publication date Apr 8, 2010
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger Gregory Hathorn
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Method to Manage Path Failure Thresholds
- Publication number 20100083061
- Publication date Apr 1, 2010
- Juan A. Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Method to Manage Path Failure Threshold Consensus
- Publication number 20100080117
- Publication date Apr 1, 2010
- Juan A. Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Method to recover from logical path failures
- Publication number 20100023802
- Publication date Jan 28, 2010
- Juan Alonso Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Method to recover from ungrouped logical path failures
- Publication number 20100023801
- Publication date Jan 28, 2010
- Juan A. Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
APPARATUS AND METHOD TO MINIMIZE PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION DURING COM...
- Publication number 20090319822
- Publication date Dec 24, 2009
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Juan Alonso Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PROCESSING OF DATA TO PERFORM SYSTEM CHANGES IN AN INPUT/OUTPUT PRO...
- Publication number 20090210561
- Publication date Aug 20, 2009
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Louis W. Ricci
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Method to Allow a Host to Replace Logical Path Resources it Owns
- Publication number 20090193142
- Publication date Jul 30, 2009
- Juan A. Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM TO DYNAMICALLY MANAGE LOGICAL PATH RES...
- Publication number 20090193145
- Publication date Jul 30, 2009
- IBM Corporation
- Juan A. Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
USAGE OF PERSISTENT INFORMATION UNIT PACING PROTOCOL IN FIBRE CHANN...
- Publication number 20090144464
- Publication date Jun 4, 2009
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Roger Gregory Hathorn
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SYNCHRONIZING LOGICAL SYSTEMS
- Publication number 20080263083
- Publication date Oct 23, 2008
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Juan Alonso Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR ESTABLISHING AND REQUESTING S...
- Publication number 20080215741
- Publication date Sep 4, 2008
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Mark Steven Bayus
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Apparatus system and method for updating software while preserving...
- Publication number 20060248107
- Publication date Nov 2, 2006
- Juan Alonso Coronado
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Bret W. Holley

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Adjustment of an information unit pacing credit to increase data tr...

Configuration of a set of queues for multi-protocol operations in a...

Adjustment of buffer credits and other parameters in a startup phas...

Adjustment of an information unit pacing credit to increase data tr...

Adjustment of buffer credits and other parameters in a startup phas...

Maintenance of a fabric priority during synchronous copy operations

Maintenance of a fabric priority among operations within a fibre ch...

Maintenance of a fabric priority among operations in related fibre...

Maintenance of a fabric priority during synchronous copy operations

Method to prevent I/O starvation of slower hosts in a multi-host en...

Clearing a fault condition over a fibre channel path

Clearing a fault condition over a fibre channel path

Reduced-impact error recovery in multi-core storage-system components

Method to allow a host to replace logical path resources it owns

Method, apparatus and system to dynamically manage logical path res...

Systems and methods for avoiding host level busy and retry latencies

Method, apparatus and system to dynamically manage logical path res...

Processing of data to perform system changes in an input/output pro...

Apparatus and method to minimize performance degradation during com...

Method to recover from logical path failures

Method to manage path failure threshold consensus

Concurrent enablement of persistent information unit pacing

Method to recover from ungrouped logical path failures

Synchronizing logical systems

Method to manage path failure thresholds

System and article of manufacture for establishing and requesting s...

Usage of persistent information unit pacing protocol in fibre chann...

Addressing logical subsystems in a data storage system

Synchronizing logical systems

Method, system, and program for establishing and requesting status...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

ADJUSTMENT OF AN INFORMATION UNIT PACING CREDIT TO INCREASE DATA TR...

ADJUSTMENT OF BUFFER CREDITS AND OTHER PARAMETERS IN A STARTUP PHAS...

ADJUSTMENT OF AN INFORMATION UNIT PACING CREDIT TO INCREASE DATA TR...

CONFIGURATION OF A SET OF QUEUES FOR MULTI-PROTOCOL OPERATIONS IN A...

MAINTENANCE OF A FABRIC PRIORITY DURING SYNCHRONOUS COPY OPERATIONS

RECEIVING BUFFER CREDITS BY A PLURALITY OF CHANNELS OF ONE OR MORE...

ADJUSTMENT OF BUFFER CREDITS AND OTHER PARAMETERS IN A STARTUP PHAS...

ADJUSTMENTS OF BUFFER CREDITS FOR OPTIMIZING THE NUMBER OF RETRY OP...

MAINTENANCE OF A FABRIC PRIORITY DURING SYNCHRONOUS COPY OPERATIONS

MAINTENANCE OF A FABRIC PRIORITY AMONG OPERATIONS WITHIN A FIBRE CH...

MAINTENANCE OF A FABRIC PRIORITY AMONG OPERATIONS IN RELATED FIBRE...

METHOD TO PREVENT I/O STARVATION OF SLOWER HOSTS IN A MULTI-HOST EN...

REDUCED-IMPACT ERROR RECOVERY IN MULTI-CORE STORAGE-SYSTEM COMPONENTS

CLEARING A FAULT CONDITION OVER A FIBRE CHANNEL PATH

METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM TO DYNAMICALLY MANAGE LOGICAL PATH RES...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AVOIDING HOST LEVEL BUSY AND RETRY LATENCIES

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLEARING A FAULT CONDITION OVER A FIBRE CH...

CONCURRENT ENABLEMENT OF PERSISTENT INFORMATION UNIT PACING

Method to Manage Path Failure Thresholds

Method to Manage Path Failure Threshold Consensus

Method to recover from logical path failures

Method to recover from ungrouped logical path failures

APPARATUS AND METHOD TO MINIMIZE PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION DURING COM...

PROCESSING OF DATA TO PERFORM SYSTEM CHANGES IN AN INPUT/OUTPUT PRO...

Method to Allow a Host to Replace Logical Path Resources it Owns

METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM TO DYNAMICALLY MANAGE LOGICAL PATH RES...

USAGE OF PERSISTENT INFORMATION UNIT PACING PROTOCOL IN FIBRE CHANN...

SYNCHRONIZING LOGICAL SYSTEMS

SYSTEM AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR ESTABLISHING AND REQUESTING S...

Apparatus system and method for updating software while preserving...