Patents by Inventor Leonard Barry Tropiano

Leonard Barry Tropiano 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).

  • Method for incrementally archiving primary storage to archive storage by utilizing both a partition archive status array and a partition map
    Patent number: 5649158
    Abstract: The present invention is a computer-implemented method, memory, and computer system for directing a computer system to incrementally archive primary storage to archive storage based on partitions. The primary storage is divided into a plurality of partitions, where at least one the partitions contains information. The method includes the steps of receiving an incremental archive request from user controls and, in response, storing in the archive storage a copy of the information in each partition that has been modified since the last archive, if any.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Ellsworth Lahr, Gerald Francis McBrearty, Johnny Meng-Han Shieh, Leonard Barry Tropiano