Gail S. Spear

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Tucson, AZ, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Performing a point-in-time snapshot copy operation within a data co...
- Patent number 11,853,585
- Issue date Dec 26, 2023
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Matthew J. Ward
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Withdrawing a point-in-time snapshot copy operation within a data c...
- Patent number 11,775,395
- Issue date Oct 3, 2023
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Matthew J. Ward
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
I/O request type specific cache directories
- Patent number 11,768,773
- Issue date Sep 26, 2023
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Gail Spear
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Auxilary LRU list to improve asynchronous data replication performance
- Patent number 11,379,427
- Issue date Jul 5, 2022
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Gail Spear
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Metadata track selection switching in a data storage system
- Patent number 11,221,955
- Issue date Jan 11, 2022
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Theresa M. Brown
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Management of backup volume extents via a tiered storage mechanism
- Patent number 11,175,999
- Issue date Nov 16, 2021
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Clint A. Hardy
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Indicating tracks as erased without deleting data for the tracks
- Patent number 11,164,599
- Issue date Nov 2, 2021
- International Business Machines Corporation
- John R. Paveza
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Throttling a point-in-time snapshot copy operation within a data co...
- Patent number 11,055,017
- Issue date Jul 6, 2021
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Matthew J. Ward
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Data re-MRU to improve asynchronous data replication performance
- Patent number 11,048,667
- Issue date Jun 29, 2021
- International Business
- Gail Spear
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Indicating tracks as erased without deleting data for the tracks
- Patent number 10,978,097
- Issue date Apr 13, 2021
- International Business Machines Corporation
- John R. Paveza
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Resynchronizing to a first storage system after a failover to a sec...
- Patent number 10,936,447
- Issue date Mar 2, 2021
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Michael Brandner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Aggregation of updated tracks to be copied to a backup volume for p...
- Patent number 10,740,203
- Issue date Aug 11, 2020
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Theresa M. Brown
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Placement and movement of sub-units of a storage unit in a tiered s...
- Patent number 10,671,284
- Issue date Jun 2, 2020
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Bradley S. Powers
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Replicating tracks from a first storage site to a second and third...
- Patent number 10,664,177
- Issue date May 26, 2020
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Michael T. Benhase
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Processing a write of records to maintain atomicity for writing a d...
- Patent number 10,613,771
- Issue date Apr 7, 2020
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Ronald E. Bretschneider
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Mirroring writes of records to maintain atomicity for writing a def...
- Patent number 10,606,719
- Issue date Mar 31, 2020
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Ronald E. Bretschneider
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Handling data block migration to efficiently utilize higher perform...
- Patent number 10,346,081
- Issue date Jul 9, 2019
- International Business Machines Corporation
- John T. Olson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Using file element accesses to select file elements in a file syste...
- Patent number 10,146,783
- Issue date Dec 4, 2018
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Duane M. Baldwin
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Resynchronizing to a first storage system after a failover to a sec...
- Patent number 10,133,643
- Issue date Nov 20, 2018
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Michael Brandner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Placement and movement of sub-units of a storage unit in a tiered s...
- Patent number 9,880,738
- Issue date Jan 30, 2018
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Bradley S. Powers
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Replicating tracks from a first storage site to a second and third...
- Patent number 9,857,997
- Issue date Jan 2, 2018
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Michael T. Benhase
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Managing sequentiality of tracks for asynchronous PPRC tracks on se...
- Patent number 9,678,686
- Issue date Jun 13, 2017
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Lokesh M. Gupta
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Handling data block migration to efficiently utilize higher perform...
- Patent number 9,671,977
- Issue date Jun 6, 2017
- International Business Machines Corporation
- John T. Olson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
File system snapshot data management in a multi-tier storage enviro...
- Patent number 9,613,040
- Issue date Apr 4, 2017
- International Business Machines Corporation
- John T. Olson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
File system snapshot data management in a multi-tier storage enviro...
- Patent number 9,613,039
- Issue date Apr 4, 2017
- International Business Machines Corporation
- John T. Olson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Managing sequentiality of tracks for asynchronous PPRC tracks on se...
- Patent number 9,396,121
- Issue date Jul 19, 2016
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Lokesh M. Gupta
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Communication of conditions at a primary storage controller to a host
- Patent number 9,342,420
- Issue date May 17, 2016
- International Business Machines Corporation
- David B. Petersen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
File system snapshot data management in a multi-tier storage enviro...
- Patent number 9,323,462
- Issue date Apr 26, 2016
- International Business Machines Corporation
- John T. Olson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Communication of conditions at a primary storage controller to a host
- Patent number 9,317,383
- Issue date Apr 19, 2016
- International Business Machines Corporation
- David B. Petersen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Placement and movement of sub-units of a storage unit in a tiered s...
- Patent number 9,298,373
- Issue date Mar 29, 2016
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Bradley S. Powers
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
I/O REQUEST TYPE SPECIFIC CACHE DIRECTORIES
- Publication number 20210279179
- Publication date Sep 9, 2021
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Gail SPEAR
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
AUXILARY LRU LIST TO IMPROVE ASYNCHRONOUS DATA REPLICATION PERFORMANCE
- Publication number 20210271641
- Publication date Sep 2, 2021
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Gail Spear
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PERFORMING A POINT-IN-TIME SNAPSHOT COPY OPERATION WITHIN A DATA CO...
- Publication number 20210232315
- Publication date Jul 29, 2021
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Matthew J. Ward
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
WITHDRAWING A POINT-IN-TIME SNAPSHOT COPY OPERATION WITHIN A DATA C...
- Publication number 20210232462
- Publication date Jul 29, 2021
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Matthew J. Ward
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
THROTTLING A POINT-IN-TIME SNAPSHOT COPY OPERATION WITHIN A DATA CO...
- Publication number 20210232316
- Publication date Jul 29, 2021
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Matthew J. Ward
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
INDICATING TRACKS AS ERASED WITHOUT DELETING DATA FOR THE TRACKS
- Publication number 20210225393
- Publication date Jul 22, 2021
- International Business Machines Corporation
- John R. Paveza
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
AGGREGATION OF UPDATED TRACKS TO BE COPIED TO A BACKUP VOLUME FOR P...
- Publication number 20200081808
- Publication date Mar 12, 2020
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Theresa M. BROWN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MANAGEMENT OF BACKUP VOLUME EXTENTS VIA A TIERED STORAGE MECHANISM
- Publication number 20200081800
- Publication date Mar 12, 2020
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Clint A. Hardy
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METADATA TRACK SELECTION SWITCHING IN A DATA STORAGE SYSTEM
- Publication number 20200081842
- Publication date Mar 12, 2020
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Theresa M. Brown
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
RESYNCHRONIZING TO A FIRST STORAGE SYSTEM AFTER A FAILOVER TO A SEC...
- Publication number 20190012243
- Publication date Jan 10, 2019
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Michael Brandner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PROCESSING A WRITE OF RECORDS TO MAINTAIN ATOMICITY FOR WRITING A D...
- Publication number 20180246658
- Publication date Aug 30, 2018
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Ronald E. Bretschneider
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MIRRORING WRITES OF RECORDS TO MAINTAIN ATOMICITY FOR WRITING A DEF...
- Publication number 20180246792
- Publication date Aug 30, 2018
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Ronald E. Bretschneider
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PLACEMENT AND MOVEMENT OF SUB-UNITS OF A STORAGE UNIT IN A TIERED S...
- Publication number 20180107393
- Publication date Apr 19, 2018
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Bradley S. Powers
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
REPLICATING TRACKS FROM A FIRST STORAGE SITE TO A SECOND AND THIRD...
- Publication number 20180095684
- Publication date Apr 5, 2018
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Michael T. Benhase
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
HANDLING DATA BLOCK MIGRATION TO EFFICIENTLY UTILIZE HIGHER PERFORM...
- Publication number 20170228193
- Publication date Aug 10, 2017
- International Business Machines Corporation
- John T. Olson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
RESYNCHRONIZING TO A FIRST STORAGE SYSTEM AFTER A FAILOVER TO A SEC...
- Publication number 20160328303
- Publication date Nov 10, 2016
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Michael Brandner
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MANAGING SEQUENTIALITY OF TRACKS FOR ASYNCHRONOUS PPRC TRACKS ON SE...
- Publication number 20160283130
- Publication date Sep 29, 2016
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Lokesh M. GUPTA
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
FILE SYSTEM SNAPSHOT DATA MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-TIER STORAGE ENVIRO...
- Publication number 20160210067
- Publication date Jul 21, 2016
- International Business Machines Corporation
- John T. Olson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
FILE SYSTEM SNAPSHOT DATA MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-TIER STORAGE ENVIRO...
- Publication number 20160210299
- Publication date Jul 21, 2016
- International Business Machines Corporation
- John T. Olson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PLACEMENT AND MOVEMENT OF SUB-UNITS OF A STORAGE UNIT IN A TIERED S...
- Publication number 20160162195
- Publication date Jun 9, 2016
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Bradley S. Powers
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
REPLICATING TRACKS FROM A FIRST STORAGE SITE TO A SECOND AND THIRD...
- Publication number 20150309747
- Publication date Oct 29, 2015
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Michael T. Benhase
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
HANDLING DATA BLOCK MIGRATION TO EFFICIENTLY UTILIZE HIGHER PERFORM...
- Publication number 20150286413
- Publication date Oct 8, 2015
- International Business Machines Corporation
- John T. Olson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
FILE SYSTEM SNAPSHOT DATA MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-TIER STORAGE ENVIRO...
- Publication number 20150286436
- Publication date Oct 8, 2015
- International Business Machines Corporation
- John T. Olson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
COMMUNICATION OF CONDITIONS AT A PRIMARY STORAGE CONTROLLER TO A HOST
- Publication number 20150278050
- Publication date Oct 1, 2015
- International Business Machines Corporation
- David B. Petersen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
COMMUNICATION OF CONDITIONS AT A PRIMARY STORAGE CONTROLLER TO A HOST
- Publication number 20150278051
- Publication date Oct 1, 2015
- International Business Machines Corporation
- David B. Petersen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MANAGING SEQUENTIALITY OF TRACKS FOR ASYNCHRONOUS PPRC TRACKS ON SE...
- Publication number 20150261678
- Publication date Sep 17, 2015
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Lokesh M. GUPTA
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ASYNCHRONOUS PAUSING OF THE FORMATION OF CONSISTENCY GROUPS
- Publication number 20150237133
- Publication date Aug 20, 2015
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Nicolas M. Clayton
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
PLACEMENT AND MOVEMENT OF SUB-UNITS OF A STORAGE UNIT IN A TIERED S...
- Publication number 20150199131
- Publication date Jul 16, 2015
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Bradley S. Powers
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
USING FILE ELEMENT ACCESSES TO SELECT FILE ELEMENTS IN A FILE SYSTE...
- Publication number 20150186401
- Publication date Jul 2, 2015
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Duane M. Baldwin
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
RESERVATION OF STORAGE SPACE FOR A THIN PROVISIONED VOLUME
- Publication number 20150067281
- Publication date Mar 5, 2015
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Carl E. Jones
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Gail S. Spear

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Performing a point-in-time snapshot copy operation within a data co...

Withdrawing a point-in-time snapshot copy operation within a data c...

I/O request type specific cache directories

Auxilary LRU list to improve asynchronous data replication performance

Metadata track selection switching in a data storage system

Management of backup volume extents via a tiered storage mechanism

Indicating tracks as erased without deleting data for the tracks

Throttling a point-in-time snapshot copy operation within a data co...

Data re-MRU to improve asynchronous data replication performance

Indicating tracks as erased without deleting data for the tracks

Resynchronizing to a first storage system after a failover to a sec...

Aggregation of updated tracks to be copied to a backup volume for p...

Placement and movement of sub-units of a storage unit in a tiered s...

Replicating tracks from a first storage site to a second and third...

Processing a write of records to maintain atomicity for writing a d...

Mirroring writes of records to maintain atomicity for writing a def...

Handling data block migration to efficiently utilize higher perform...

Using file element accesses to select file elements in a file syste...

Resynchronizing to a first storage system after a failover to a sec...

Placement and movement of sub-units of a storage unit in a tiered s...

Replicating tracks from a first storage site to a second and third...

Managing sequentiality of tracks for asynchronous PPRC tracks on se...

Handling data block migration to efficiently utilize higher perform...

File system snapshot data management in a multi-tier storage enviro...

File system snapshot data management in a multi-tier storage enviro...

Managing sequentiality of tracks for asynchronous PPRC tracks on se...

Communication of conditions at a primary storage controller to a host

File system snapshot data management in a multi-tier storage enviro...

Communication of conditions at a primary storage controller to a host

Placement and movement of sub-units of a storage unit in a tiered s...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

I/O REQUEST TYPE SPECIFIC CACHE DIRECTORIES

AUXILARY LRU LIST TO IMPROVE ASYNCHRONOUS DATA REPLICATION PERFORMANCE

PERFORMING A POINT-IN-TIME SNAPSHOT COPY OPERATION WITHIN A DATA CO...

WITHDRAWING A POINT-IN-TIME SNAPSHOT COPY OPERATION WITHIN A DATA C...

THROTTLING A POINT-IN-TIME SNAPSHOT COPY OPERATION WITHIN A DATA CO...

INDICATING TRACKS AS ERASED WITHOUT DELETING DATA FOR THE TRACKS

AGGREGATION OF UPDATED TRACKS TO BE COPIED TO A BACKUP VOLUME FOR P...

MANAGEMENT OF BACKUP VOLUME EXTENTS VIA A TIERED STORAGE MECHANISM

METADATA TRACK SELECTION SWITCHING IN A DATA STORAGE SYSTEM

RESYNCHRONIZING TO A FIRST STORAGE SYSTEM AFTER A FAILOVER TO A SEC...

PROCESSING A WRITE OF RECORDS TO MAINTAIN ATOMICITY FOR WRITING A D...

MIRRORING WRITES OF RECORDS TO MAINTAIN ATOMICITY FOR WRITING A DEF...

PLACEMENT AND MOVEMENT OF SUB-UNITS OF A STORAGE UNIT IN A TIERED S...

REPLICATING TRACKS FROM A FIRST STORAGE SITE TO A SECOND AND THIRD...

HANDLING DATA BLOCK MIGRATION TO EFFICIENTLY UTILIZE HIGHER PERFORM...

RESYNCHRONIZING TO A FIRST STORAGE SYSTEM AFTER A FAILOVER TO A SEC...

MANAGING SEQUENTIALITY OF TRACKS FOR ASYNCHRONOUS PPRC TRACKS ON SE...

FILE SYSTEM SNAPSHOT DATA MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-TIER STORAGE ENVIRO...

FILE SYSTEM SNAPSHOT DATA MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-TIER STORAGE ENVIRO...

PLACEMENT AND MOVEMENT OF SUB-UNITS OF A STORAGE UNIT IN A TIERED S...

REPLICATING TRACKS FROM A FIRST STORAGE SITE TO A SECOND AND THIRD...

HANDLING DATA BLOCK MIGRATION TO EFFICIENTLY UTILIZE HIGHER PERFORM...

FILE SYSTEM SNAPSHOT DATA MANAGEMENT IN A MULTI-TIER STORAGE ENVIRO...

COMMUNICATION OF CONDITIONS AT A PRIMARY STORAGE CONTROLLER TO A HOST

COMMUNICATION OF CONDITIONS AT A PRIMARY STORAGE CONTROLLER TO A HOST

MANAGING SEQUENTIALITY OF TRACKS FOR ASYNCHRONOUS PPRC TRACKS ON SE...

ASYNCHRONOUS PAUSING OF THE FORMATION OF CONSISTENCY GROUPS

PLACEMENT AND MOVEMENT OF SUB-UNITS OF A STORAGE UNIT IN A TIERED S...

USING FILE ELEMENT ACCESSES TO SELECT FILE ELEMENTS IN A FILE SYSTE...

RESERVATION OF STORAGE SPACE FOR A THIN PROVISIONED VOLUME