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Adaptec, Inc.

456Patents
18Active
456Granted
44Portfolio score

Filing activity: Feb 28, 1991 → Jun 2, 2008 · 18 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6725392B1 Controller fault recovery system for a distributed file system Physics 515 Expired
US6374363B1 Method for generating a footprint image file for an intelligent backup and restoring system Physics 273 Expired
US6219693A File array storage architecture having file system distributed across a data processing platform Physics 220 Expired
US6341341B1 System and method for disk control with snapshot feature including read-write snapshot half Physics 218 Expired
US6393483B1 Method and apparatus for network interface card load balancing and port aggregation Electricity 218 Expired
US6101585A Mechanism for incremental backup of on-line files Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 212 Expired
US6061770A System and method for real-time data backup using snapshot copying with selective compaction of backup data Physics 192 Expired
US6453428B1 Dual-drive fault tolerant method and system for assigning data chunks to column parity sets Physics 184 Expired
US7188270B1 Method and system for a disk fault tolerance in a disk array using rotating parity Physics 179 Expired
US6105075A Scatter gather memory system for a hardware accelerated command interpreter engine Physics 167 Expired
US6201829A Serial/parallel GHZ transceiver with pseudo-random built in self test pattern generator Electricity 154 Expired
US6301605A File array storage architecture having file system distributed across a data processing platform Physics 143 Expired
US6901493B1 Method for protecting data of a computer system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 137 Expired
US6738821B1 Ethernet storage protocol networks Electricity 134 Expired
US6990547B2 Replacing file system processors by hot swapping Physics 131 Expired
US6205527A Intelligent backup and restoring system and method for implementing the same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 131 Expired
US5926636A Remote procedural call component management method for a heterogeneous computer network Physics 130 Expired
US6070200A Host adapter having paged data buffers for continuously transferring data between a system bus and a peripheral bus Physics 116 Expired
US6192497A Parallel Chien search circuit Electricity 111 Expired
US6871295B2 Dynamic data recovery Physics 110 Expired
US6009478A File array communications interface for communicating between a host computer and an adapter Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 106 Expired
US5815678A Method and apparatus for implementing an application programming interface for a communications bus Electricity 102 Expired
US5703584A Analog data acquisition system Physics 101 Expired
US6990667B2 Server-independent object positioning for load balancing drives and servers Physics 100 Expired
US6609167B1 Host and device serial communication protocols and communication packet formats Physics 100 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.