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Noel Simen Otterness
Also filed as: OTTERNESS NOEL S · OTTERNESS NOEL SIMEN
33 granted patents·2,231 citations·filing 1999–2008
98Inventor score
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33 records- 0197US7412583B2Virtual incremental storage methodIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 12, 2008·160 cites·5 claims
- 0297US6681339B2System and method for efficient failover/failback techniques for fault-tolerant data storage systemIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Jan 20, 2004·181 cites·15 claims
- 0397US6654831B1Using multiple controllers together to create data spansIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 25, 2003·207 cites·35 claims
- 0495US6792472B1System, method and computer readable medium for intelligent raid controllers operating as data routersIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 14, 2004·125 cites·42 claims
- 0595US6490659B1Warm start cache recovery in a dual active controller with cache coherency using stripe locks for implied storage volume reservationsIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 3, 2002·136 cites·19 claims
- 0695US6182198B1Method and apparatus for providing a disc drive snapshot backup while allowing normal drive read, write, and buffering operationsIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Jan 30, 2001·308 cites·27 claims
- 0793US6247099B1System and method for maintaining cache coherency and data synchronization in a computer system having multiple active controllersIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 12, 2001·228 cites·41 claims
- 0890US7809917B2Virtual incremental storage apparatus method and systemIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Oct 5, 2010·21 cites·21 claims
- 0990US6574709B1System, apparatus, and method providing cache data mirroring to a data storage systemIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 3, 2003·164 cites·34 claims
- 1090US6460122B1System, apparatus and method for multi-level cache in a multi-processor/multi-controller environmentIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Oct 1, 2002·166 cites·44 claims
- 1185US7120824B2Method, apparatus and program storage device for maintaining data consistency and cache coherency during communications failures between nodes in a remote mirror pairIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 10, 2006·45 cites·21 claims
- 1285US6950900B1Method and apparatus for migrating data having a format of a first type to a format of a second typeIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 27, 2005·41 cites·25 claims
- 1385US6792505B2System apparatus and method for storage device controller-based message passing having effective data channel bandwidth and controller cache memory increaseIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Sep 14, 2004·43 cites·51 claims
- 1482US7107411B2Apparatus method and system for fault tolerant virtual memory managementIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Sep 12, 2006·32 cites·29 claims
- 1580US6912669B2Method and apparatus for maintaining cache coherency in a storage systemIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Jun 28, 2005·31 cites·22 claims
- 1679US7287134B2Methods and systems of managing I/O operations in data storage systemsPILLAR DATA SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 23, 2007·9 cites·7 claims
- 1778US6907504B2Method and system for upgrading drive firmware in a non-disruptive mannerIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Jun 14, 2005·25 cites·26 claims
- 1877US7136974B2Systems and methods of data migration in snapshot operationsPILLAR DATA SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 14, 2006·20 cites·32 claims
- 1977US6601138B2Apparatus system and method for N-way RAID controller having improved performance and fault toleranceIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Jul 29, 2003·77 cites·47 claims
- 2075US7185222B2Apparatus, system, and method for maintaining data in a storage arrayIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 27, 2007·26 cites·30 claims
- 2174US7260739B2Method, apparatus and program storage device for allowing continuous availability of data during volume set failures in a mirrored environmentIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 21, 2007·19 cites·29 claims
- 2273US7254683B2Speculative data mirroring apparatus method and systemIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 7, 2007·18 cites·29 claims
- 2373US6745324B1Dynamic firmware image creation from an object file stored in a reserved area of a data storage device of a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) systemIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 1, 2004·18 cites·4 claims
- 2472US6807611B2High speed selective mirroring of cached dataIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 19, 2004·20 cites·15 claims
- 2571US7496725B2Systems and methods of data migration in snapshot operationsPILLAR DATA SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2006·Granted Feb 24, 2009·4 cites·31 claims
- 2671US7467266B2Snapshot management method apparatus and systemIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 16, 2008·16 cites·20 claims
- 2771US7143122B2Data replication in data storage systemsPILLAR DATA SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 28, 2006·22 cites·17 claims
- 2868US7685176B2Systems and methods of asynchronous data replicationPILLAR DATA SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 23, 2010·3 cites·10 claims
- 2968US6487680B1System, apparatus, and method for managing a data storage system in an n-way active controller configurationIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Nov 26, 2002·50 cites·35 claims
- 3061US7222223B2Management of I/O operations in data storage systemsPILLAR DATA SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2004·Granted May 22, 2007·8 cites·27 claims
- 3155US7197617B2Process, apparatus, and system for storing data check information using standard sector data field sizesIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 27, 2007·4 cites·21 claims
- 3255US7124243B2Methods and systems of cache memory management and snapshot operationsPILLAR DATA SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 17, 2006·4 cites·65 claims
- 3341US7526544B2Message tracking method, apparatus, and systemIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 28, 2009·0 cites·8 claims
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