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Richard A. Ripberger
Also filed as: RIPBERGER RICHARD A · RIPBERGER RICHARD ANTHONY
91 granted patents·9 pending applications·1,827 citations·filing 1989–2020
99Inventor score
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100 records- 0198US8683103B2Hierarchical multi-tenancy support for host attachment configuration through resource groupsRIPBERGER RICHARD A·Filed 2011·Granted Mar 25, 2014·76 cites·12 claims
- 0295US8495067B2Partitioning management of system resources across multiple usersRIPBERGER RICHARD A·Filed 2012·Granted Jul 23, 2013·25 cites·6 claims
- 0393US5502811ASystem and method for striping data to magnetic tape unitsIBM·Filed 1993·Granted Mar 26, 1996·63 cites·18 claims
- 0492US5546557ASystem for storing and managing plural logical volumes in each of several physical volumes including automatically creating logical volumes in peripheral data storage subsystemIBM·Filed 1993·Granted Aug 13, 1996·250 cites·65 claims
- 0591US5109226AParallel processors sequentially encoding/decoding compaction maintaining format compatibilityIBM·Filed 1990·Granted Apr 28, 1992·88 cites·26 claims
- 0690US8839262B2Management of copy services relationships via policies specified on resource groupsIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Sep 16, 2014·10 cites·17 claims
- 0790US8494170B2Redundant key server encryption environmentKAHLER DAVID RAY·Filed 2012·Granted Jul 23, 2013·18 cites·11 claims
- 0889US8300831B2Redundant key server encryption environmentKAHLER DAVID RAY·Filed 2010·Granted Oct 30, 2012·16 cites·22 claims
- 0988US7836204B2Apparatus, system, and method for accessing a preferred path through a storage controllerIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 16, 2010·18 cites·20 claims
- 1087US7769975B2Method for configuring volumes in a storage systemIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Aug 3, 2010·45 cites·38 claims
- 1187US5335328AMethods for recording and reading data from a record member having data in any one of a plurality of block formats including determining length of records being transferredIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Aug 2, 1994·45 cites·18 claims
- 1286US10402123B2Sharing alias addresses among logical devicesIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Sep 3, 2019·4 cites·25 claims
- 1386US8656096B2On demand conversion of standard logical volumes to thin-provisioned logical volumesACEDO MARIO FRANCISCO·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 18, 2014·8 cites·6 claims
- 1486US8578087B2On demand conversion of standard logical volumes to thin-provisioned logical volumesACEDO MARIO FRANCISCO·Filed 2010·Granted Nov 5, 2013·8 cites·12 claims
- 1586US5894583AVariable timeout method for improving missing-interrupt-handler operations in an environment having I/O devices shared by one or more systemsIBM·Filed 1996·Granted Apr 13, 1999·146 cites·19 claims
- 1686US5539918AExtension of data block capability in a data transfer channelIBM·Filed 1995·Granted Jul 23, 1996·124 cites·9 claims
- 1785US5200864ACombining small records into a single record block for recording on a record mediaIBM·Filed 1989·Granted Apr 6, 1993·77 cites·19 claims
- 1884US9275072B2Hierarchical multi-tenancy management of system resources in resource groupsIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Mar 1, 2016·3 cites·24 claims
- 1984US7171514B2Apparatus and method to control access to logical volumes using parallel access volumesIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 30, 2007·41 cites·9 claims
- 2084US5517670AAdaptive data transfer channel employing extended data block capabilityIBM·Filed 1992·Granted May 14, 1996·102 cites·7 claims
- 2181US9471577B2Hierarchical multi-tenancy management of system resources in resource groupsIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Oct 18, 2016·2 cites·24 claims
- 2281US5768620AVariable timeout method in a missing-interrupt-handler for I/O requests issued by the same operating systemIBM·Filed 1996·Granted Jun 16, 1998·106 cites·7 claims
- 2381US5758190AControl unit threshold timeout controls for software missing interrupt handlers in operating systemsIBM·Filed 1996·Granted May 26, 1998·108 cites·17 claims
- 2480US9235348B2System, and methods for initializing a memory systemGRUSY ELLEN J·Filed 2010·Granted Jan 12, 2016·6 cites·22 claims
- 2580US7702879B2Assigning alias addresses to base addressesIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 20, 2010·11 cites·37 claims
- 2680US7451283B2Method, system, and program for copying tracks between a primary storage and secondary storageIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Nov 11, 2008·33 cites·24 claims
- 2779US8667497B2Management of copy services relationships via policies specified on resource groupsRIPBERGER RICHARD A·Filed 2012·Granted Mar 4, 2014·4 cites·6 claims
- 2879US8577885B2Partitioning management of system resources across multiple usersRIPBERGER RICHARD A·Filed 2010·Granted Nov 5, 2013·4 cites·13 claims
- 2979US8001104B2Method, system and program for storing and using metadata in multiple storage locationsIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Aug 16, 2011·9 cites·21 claims
- 3079US7941628B2Allocation of heterogeneous storage devices to spares and storage arraysIBM·Filed 2007·Granted May 10, 2011·9 cites·20 claims
- 3178US7444360B2Method, system, and program for storing and using metadata in multiple storage locationsIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 28, 2008·25 cites·33 claims
- 3277US7873744B2Configuration of fibre channel SAN pathIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Jan 18, 2011·6 cites·11 claims
- 3376US8793286B2Hierarchical multi-tenancy management of system resources in resource groupsRIPBERGER RICHARD A·Filed 2010·Granted Jul 29, 2014·3 cites·21 claims
- 3475US8484655B2Management of copy services relationships via policies specified on resource groupsRIPBERGER RICHARD A·Filed 2010·Granted Jul 9, 2013·3 cites·12 claims
- 3575US6983355B2Virtualization of physical storage using size optimized hierarchical tablesIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 3, 2006·21 cites·22 claims
- 3675US5414570ATape marks recorded in user data blocks having identifications of the recorded tape marksIBM·Filed 1993·Granted May 9, 1995·59 cites·10 claims
- 3774US9047481B2Hierarchical multi-tenancy management of system resources in resource groupsIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Jun 2, 2015·2 cites·21 claims
- 3873US10289523B2Generating an advanced function usage planning reportBURTON HELENA C·Filed 2010·Granted May 14, 2019·3 cites·17 claims
- 3970US8566525B2Techniques for managing data in a storage controllerASH KEVIN J·Filed 2012·Granted Oct 22, 2013·2 cites·18 claims
- 4069US9537740B2Monitoring device usageIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Jan 3, 2017·2 cites·14 claims
- 4169US7617373B2Apparatus, system, and method for presenting a storage volume as a virtual volumeIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Nov 10, 2009·4 cites·20 claims
- 4269US5384669ACombining small records into a single record block for recording on a record mediaIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Jan 24, 1995·46 cites·19 claims
- 4368US7661012B2Spare device managementIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Feb 9, 2010·4 cites·27 claims
- 4468US7185223B2Logical partitioning in redundant systemsIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 27, 2007·11 cites·27 claims
- 4568US7130997B2Method of registering a portion of RAM with firmware to preserve the portion during rebootIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 31, 2006·13 cites·27 claims
- 4668US5274772AData processing systems having means for selectively combining records into signal blocks for recording in a record mediumIBM·Filed 1992·Granted Dec 28, 1993·45 cites·20 claims
- 4767US7502908B2Method for providing an address format compatible with different addressing formats used for addressing different sized address spacesIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 10, 2009·3 cites·12 claims
- 4867US7487312B2Apparatus, system, and method for copy protectionIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Feb 3, 2009·12 cites·30 claims
- 4966US10983708B2Sharing alias addresses among logical devicesIBM·Filed 2020·Granted Apr 20, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
- 5066US7496701B2Managing virtual server control of computer support systems with heartbeat messageIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Feb 24, 2009·13 cites·28 claims
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