Inventor

John G. Thompson

Inventor

Tucson, AZ, US

Overview

2001–2020

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 39 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Fprimary

G06FElectric digital data processing69%

H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication13%

Y10STechnical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests13%

G11BInformation storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer4%

B01LChemical or physical laboratory apparatus for general use2%

PatentTitleYear

10,613,946Device reservation management for overcoming communication path disruptions2020 10,521,147Device reservation state synchronization in data mirroring2019 10,445,497Offloading processing of writes to determine malicious data from a first storage system to a second storage system2019 10,282,543Determining whether to destage write data in cache to storage based on whether the write data has malicious data2019 10,282,258Device reservation state preservation in data mirroring2019 10,133,643Resynchronizing to a first storage system after a failover to a second storage system mirroring the first storage system2018 9,749,212'Problem determination in a hybrid environment'2017 9,722,908'Problem determination in a hybrid environment'2017 9,503,455'Controlling access to storage devices shared by host systems'2016 9,344,498'Policy-based management of storage functions in data replication environments'2016 9,280,296'Recovery from failure of primary storage volumes by using mirrored data maintained with host timestamps'2016 9,053,141'Serialization of access to data in multi-mainframe computing environments'2015 9,032,484'Access control in a hybrid environment'2015 8,990,263'Policy-based management of storage functions in data replication environments'2015 8,990,264'Policy-based management of storage functions in data replication environments'2015 8,788,772'Maintaining mirror and storage system copies of volumes at multiple remote sites'2014 8,788,768'Maintaining mirror and storage system copies of volumes at multiple remote sites'2014 8,756,389'Prevention of overlay of production data by point in time copy operations in a host based asynchronous mirroring environment'2014 8,751,762'Prevention of overlay of production data by point in time copy operations in a host based asynchronous mirroring environment'2014 8,538,928'Flash-copying with asynchronous mirroring environment'2013 8,489,856'System and article of manufacture for providing an address format compatible with different addressing formats used for addressing different sized address spaces'2013 8,463,746'Method and system for replicating data'2013 8,335,766'Flash-copying within asynchronous mirroring environment'2012 7,941,620'Double-allocation data-replication system'2011 7,668,810'Controlling consistency of data storage copies'2010 7,613,946'Apparatus, system, and method for recovering a multivolume data set'2009 7,502,908'Method for providing an address format compatible with different addressing formats used for addressing different sized address spaces'2009 7,287,181'Mirrored volume replication method, apparatus, and system'2007 7,130,931'Method, system, and article of manufacture for selecting replication volumes'2006 7,111,113'Apparatus and method to write information to and/or read information from an information storage medium'2006 6,959,369'Method, system, and program for data backup'2005 6,910,214'Method, system, and program for converting an input parameter list into an output parameter list'2005 6,772,302'Virtual copy method for data spanning storage boundaries'2004 6,732,244'Instant virtual copy technique with expedited creation of backup dataset inventory from source dataset inventory'2004 6,557,089'Backup by ID-suppressed instant virtual copy then physical backup copy with ID reintroduced'2003 6,338,114'Method, system, and program for using a table to determine an erase operation to perform'2002 6,212,531'Method for implementing point-in-time copy using a snapshot function'2001 6,209,070'System for multiple data transfer operations'2001 6,189,015'System and method for updating non-VSAM data set control information for data transferred from a source to a target'2001

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

2001–2020Patents assigned to IBM (38)· patent assignee history

2001–2020Based in Tucson, AZ, US· patent location history

2012–2015Patents assigned to THOMPSON JOHN G (8)· patent assignee history

2012–2014Patents assigned to SHACKELFORD DAVID M (6)· patent assignee history

2012–2014Patents assigned to GUNDY LISA J (4)· patent assignee history

2012–2014Patents assigned to PETERSON BETH A (4)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
IBM	38	2001–2020
THOMPSON JOHN Gself	8	2012–2015
SHACKELFORD DAVID M	6	2012–2014
GUNDY LISA J	4	2012–2014
PETERSON BETH A	4	2012–2014

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Tucson, AZ, US	39	2001–2020