Patents by Inventor Carol Santich Melgren

Carol Santich Melgren has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Deferred volume metadata invalidation
    Patent number: 7930588
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for managing modified metadata in a storage controller cache pursuant to a recovery action by a processor in communication with a memory device is provided. A count of modified metadata tracks for a storage rank is compared against a predetermined criterion. If the predetermined criterion is met, a storage volume having the storage rank is designated with a metadata invalidation flag to defer metadata invalidation of the modified metadata tracks until after the recovery action is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence Carter Blount, Lokesh Mohan Gupta, Carol Santich Melgren, Kenneth Wayne Todd