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BEARDSLEY BRENT C

US46 patents

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BEARDSLEY BRENT C

IBM

Method and system for track transfer control during concurrent copy operations in a data processing storage subsystem

Failover system for a DASD storage controller reconfiguring a first processor, a bridge, a second host adaptor, and a second device adaptor upon a second processor failure

Performance enhancement system and method for a hierarchical data cache using a RAID parity scheme

Method for identifying a system holding a `Reserve`

Storage controller having additional cache memory and a means for recovering from failure and reconfiguring a control unit thereof in response thereto

Fast write operations

Invalid data detection, recording and nullification

Track and record mode caching scheme for a storage system employing a scatter index table with pointer and a track directory

Using time stamps to correlate data processing event times in connected data processing units

Method, system and program product for logically disconnecting in fibre channel communication without closing the exchange

Failover and failback system for a direct access storage device

Nonsynchronous dasd control

Managing high speed slow access channel to slow speed cyclic system data transfer

Method to provide checking on data transferred through fibre channel adapter cards

Method and system for enhancing the efficiency of communication between multiple direct access storage devices and a storage system controller

Method for operating a cached peripheral data storage subsystem including a step of subsetting the data transfer into subsets of data records

System and method for regulating access to direct access storage devices in data processing systems

Disk rotational position controls for channel operations in a cached peripheral subsystem

System for using register sets and state machines sets to communicate between storage controller and devices by using failure condition activity defined in a request

Device initiated partial system quiescing

System with backup of data storage status and device identification for enabling system recovery after powerloss

Method for error recovery in a non-synchronous control unit

Error control in a hierarchical system

System for increasing the efficiency of communications between controller and plurality of host computers by prohibiting retransmission of the same message for predetermined period of time

Method and system for the efficient response to multiple different types of interrupts

Nonsynchronous channel/dasd communication system

Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing asynchronous status messaging in a data storage system

Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing asynchronous status messaging in a data storage system

Systems and methods for background destaging storage tracks

Systems and methods for background destaging storage tracks

Systems and methods for background destaging storage tracks

Systems and methods for destaging storage tracks from cache

Systems and methods for background destaging storage tracks

Systems and methods for managing destage conflicts

BEARDSLEY BRENT C

Management of write cache using stride objects

Intelligent write caching for sequential tracks

Systems and methods for managing destage conflicts

Systems and methods for destaging storage tracks from cache

Systems and methods for background destaging storage tracks

Systems and methods for managing cache destage scan times

Systems and methods for managing destage conflicts

Systems and methods for managing cache destage scan times

Systems and methods for background destaging storage tracks

Systems and methods for destaging storage tracks from cache

Intelligent write caching for sequential tracks

Management of write cache using stride objects