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Crossroads Systems, Inc.

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105Patents
51Active
105Granted
49Portfolio score

Filing activity: Dec 31, 1997 → Feb 13, 2013 · 46 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5941972A Storage router and method for providing virtual local storage Electricity 497 Expired
US6425035B1 Storage router and method for providing virtual local storage Electricity 282 Expired
US6041381A Fibre channel to SCSI addressing method and system Physics 206 Expired
US6421753B1 Storage router and method for providing virtual local storage Electricity 126 Expired
US6199112A System and method for resolving fibre channel device addresses on a network using the device's fully qualified domain name Electricity 109 Expired
US6763419B2 Storage router and method for providing virtual local storage Electricity 76 Expired
US6977897B1 System and method for jitter compensation in data transfers Physics 67 Expired
US7711871B1 Interface device and method for command processing Electricity 64 Active
US6425036B1 Storage router and method for providing virtual local storage Electricity 61 Expired
US7251708B1 System and method for maintaining and reporting a log of multi-threaded backups Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 53 Expired
US7827261B1 System and method for device management Electricity 50 Active
US6138161A Method and system for maintaining reserve command relationships in a fibre channel network Electricity 44 Expired
US6922391B1 Method and system for decreasing routing latency for switching platforms with variable configuration Electricity 42 Expired
US6848007B1 System for mapping addresses of SCSI devices between plurality of SANs that can dynamically map SCSI device addresses across a SAN extender Electricity 42 Expired
US6738854B2 Storage router and method for providing virtual local storage Electricity 41 Expired
US6341315B1 Streaming method and system for fiber channel network devices Physics 40 Expired
US7552294B1 System and method for processing multiple concurrent extended copy commands to a single destination device Physics 39 Expired
US6314488A System for segmenting a fibre channel arbitrated loop to a plurality of logical sub-loops using segmentation router as a master to cause the segmentation of physical addresses Electricity 33 Expired
US6151331A System and method for providing a proxy FARP for legacy storage devices Electricity 32 Expired
US6148421A Error detection and recovery for sequential access devices in a fibre channel protocol Electricity 31 Expired
US6894979B1 Network analyzer/sniffer with multiple protocol capabilities Electricity 31 Expired
US8527561B1 System and method for implementing a networked file system utilizing a media library Physics 31 Active
US6757348B1 High-speed coordinated multi-channel elastic buffer Electricity 29 Expired
US8555053B1 System and method for adjusting to drive specific criteria Electricity 28 Active
US7984073B1 System and method for providing service management in a distributed database system Physics 26 Active

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