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Robert M. Rees
Also filed as: REES ROBERT · REES ROBERT M · REES ROBERT MICHAEL
34 granted patents·1 pending application·2,146 citations·filing 1996–2023
98Inventor score
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35 records- 0197US6775703B1Lease based safety protocol for distributed system with multiple networksIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Aug 10, 2004·217 cites·3 claims
- 0297US5802599ASystem and method for allocating storage in a fragmented storage spaceIBM·Filed 1996·Granted Sep 1, 1998·379 cites·15 claims
- 0396US5644766ASystem and method for managing a hierarchical storage system through improved data migrationIBM·Filed 1996·Granted Jul 1, 1997·427 cites·20 claims
- 0495US6029160AMethod and means for linking a database system with a system for filing dataIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Feb 22, 2000·208 cites·29 claims
- 0592US5897661ALogical volume manager and method having enhanced update capability with dynamic allocation of storage and minimal storage of metadata informationIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Apr 27, 1999·473 cites·30 claims
- 0691US6917942B1System for dynamically evaluating locks in a distributed data storage systemIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Jul 12, 2005·79 cites·18 claims
- 0786US6925515B2Producer/consumer locking system for efficient replication of file dataIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 2, 2005·46 cites·50 claims
- 0885US7085909B2Method, system and computer program product for implementing copy-on-write of a fileIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 1, 2006·45 cites·55 claims
- 0984US7974950B2Applying a policy criteria to files in a backup imageIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 5, 2011·12 cites·18 claims
- 1083US9263082B2High density hybrid storage systemIBM·Filed 2013·Granted Feb 16, 2016·5 cites·24 claims
- 1182US7139781B2Managing filesystem versionsIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 21, 2006·47 cites·59 claims
- 1281US7124131B2Discipline for lock reassertion in a distributed file systemIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 17, 2006·33 cites·19 claims
- 1380US9454333B2Parity logs for RAID systems with variable capacity mediaIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Sep 27, 2016·5 cites·20 claims
- 1479US6571276B1System for managing asset access in a distributed storage systemIBM·Filed 2000·Granted May 27, 2003·28 cites·10 claims
- 1578US10001922B2High performance optical storage system for protection against concurrent data lossIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Jun 19, 2018·2 cites·20 claims
- 1678US6938056B2System and method for restoring a file system from backups in the presence of deletionsIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Aug 30, 2005·26 cites·19 claims
- 1775US6112211AReconfiguration an aggregate file including delete-file space for optimal compressionIBM·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 29, 2000·71 cites·37 claims
- 1872US11210024B2Optimizing read-modify-write operations to a storage device by writing a copy of the write data to a shadow blockIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Dec 28, 2021·1 cites·20 claims
- 1972US10671316B2System, method, and recording medium for alignment of backup and archival policyIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Jun 2, 2020·1 cites·6 claims
- 2071US11099980B2Host aware update writeIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Aug 24, 2021·1 cites·20 claims
- 2168US8280851B2Applying a policy criteria to files in a backup imageKACZMARSKI MICHAEL A·Filed 2011·Granted Oct 2, 2012·2 cites·21 claims
- 2266US8074041B2Apparatus, system, and method for managing storage space allocationCLARK THOMAS KEITH·Filed 2004·Granted Dec 6, 2011·17 cites·15 claims
- 2365US8700584B2Managing access to objects of a computing environmentANANTHANARAYANAN RAJAGOPAL·Filed 2008·Granted Apr 15, 2014·7 cites·21 claims
- 2464US9348517B2Using a migration threshold and a candidate list for cache management of sequential write storageIBM·Filed 2014·Granted May 24, 2016·1 cites·20 claims
- 2559US10620831B2High performance optical storage system for protection against concurrent data lossIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Apr 14, 2020·0 cites·20 claims
- 2658US8055629B2Transitioning an archived file to write-once-read-manyIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 8, 2011·1 cites·21 claims
- 2757US12086848B1Cost-aware tiering for data storageIBM·Filed 2023·Granted Sep 10, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 2856US6651147B2Data placement and allocation using virtual contiguityIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Nov 18, 2003·4 cites·21 claims
- 2953US10254997B2System, method, and recording medium for alignment of backup and archival policyIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Apr 9, 2019·0 cites·19 claims
- 3052US9495247B2Time multiplexed redundant array of independent tapesIBM·Filed 2014·Granted Nov 15, 2016·0 cites·20 claims
- 3151US7409389B2Managing access to objects of a computing environmentIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 5, 2008·8 cites·3 claims
- 3247US11544387B2Hash protection within an object storage libraryIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Jan 3, 2023·0 cites·14 claims
- 3347US9858958B2High density hybrid storage systemIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Jan 2, 2018·0 cites·20 claims
- 3446US9760485B2Fast write and management of persistent cache in a system that includes tertiary storageIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Sep 12, 2017·0 cites·19 claims
- 3545US2005132154A1Reliable leader election in storage area networkIBM·Filed 2003·Application pending·0 cites
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