Inventor
COCHRAN ROBERT A
US27 patents
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HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO
22 patentsUS7546485B2Jun 9, 2009
Method and system for efficient journal-based resynchronization
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO75 citations96
US6907505B2Jun 14, 2005
Immediately available, statically allocated, full-logical-unit copy with a transient, snapshot-copy-like intermediate stage
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO95 citations96
US7058850B2Jun 6, 2006
Method and system for preventing data loss within disk-array pairs supporting mirrored logical units
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO31 citations92
US7007143B2Feb 28, 2006
Method and system for providing logically consistent logical unit backup snapshots within one or more data storage devices
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO22 citations92
US6718447B2Apr 6, 2004
Method and system for providing logically consistent logical unit backup snapshots within one or more data storage devices
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO39 citations92
US6697881B2Feb 24, 2004
Method and system for efficient format, read, write, and initial copy processing involving sparse logical units
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO43 citations92
US6662282B2Dec 9, 2003
Unified data sets distributed over multiple I/O-device arrays
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO43 citations92
US7478154B2Jan 13, 2009
Storage system with link selection control
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO38 citations91
US7165141B2Jan 16, 2007
Daisy-chained device-mirroring architecture
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO40 citations91
US6782416B2Aug 24, 2004
Distributed and geographically dispersed quorum resource disks
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO32 citations89
US7340572B2Mar 4, 2008
Method and system for reliable remote-mirror resynchronization in disk arrays and other mass storage devices
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO17 citations84
US7805566B2Sep 28, 2010
Replication in storage systems using a target port mimicking a host initiator port
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO13 citations83
US7529966B2May 5, 2009
Storage system with journaling
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO9 citations81
US7934069B2Apr 26, 2011
Enabling and disabling cache in storage systems
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO9 citations78
US7181582B2Feb 20, 2007
Unified data sets distributed over multiple I/O-device arrays
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO8 citations74
US6848841B2Feb 1, 2005
Optical component connector
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO8 citations74
US6735637B2May 11, 2004
Method and system for providing advanced warning to a data stage device in order to decrease the time for a mirror split operation without starving host I/O request processsing
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO8 citations74
US7116916B2Oct 3, 2006
Method and apparatus for compacting data in a communication network
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO6 citations70
US6721857B2Apr 13, 2004
Flexible allegiance storage and computing architecture
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO3 citations63
US7366857B2Apr 29, 2008
Internal disk array mirror architecture
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO2 citations59
US7162596B2Jan 9, 2007
Remote mirrored disk pair resynchronization monitor
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO4 citations51
US7721053B2May 18, 2010
Intelligent logical unit provisioning
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO0 citations42