Amber D. Huffman
25Patents
9h-index
34Co-inventors
71Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 21, 1999 → Sep 12, 2013
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7661054B2 | Methods and arrangements to remap degraded storage blocks | Physics | 91 | Expired |
| US7155658B2 | CRC calculation for data with dynamic header | Electricity | 30 | Expired |
| US6917992B2 | Method and apparatus for efficient command queuing within a serial ATA environment | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US6684294B1 | Using an access log for disk drive transactions | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US7634629B2 | Mechanism to control access to a storage device | Physics | 14 | Active |
| US6640274B1 | Method and apparatus for reducing the disk drive data transfer interrupt service latency penalty | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US7694026B2 | Methods and arrangements to handle non-queued commands for data storage devices | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US8171219B2 | Method and system to perform caching based on file-level heuristics | Physics | 10 | Active |
| US7000077B2 | Device/host coordinated prefetching storage system | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US8051314B2 | Serial ATA (SATA) power optimization through automatic deeper power state transition | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 9 | Active |
| US9317212B2 | Method and apparatus for controlling a storage device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 8 | Active |
| US6862657B1 | Reading data from a storage medium | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US8560764B2 | Repurposing NAND ready/busy pin as completion interrupt | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US7124248B2 | Current media status determination for a storage device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 6 | Expired |
| US7724645B2 | Method and apparatus for serial link down detection | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US9128699B2 | Method and system for queuing transfers of multiple non-contiguous address ranges with a single command | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US8051232B2 | Data storage device performance optimization methods and apparatuses | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US7376782B2 | Index/data register pair for indirect register access | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US8464084B2 | Serial ATA (SATA) power optimization through automatic deeper power state transition | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Active |
| US9053014B2 | Repurposing NAND ready/busy pin as completion interrupt | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US7515528B2 | Host fail-over switch presence detection compatible with existing protocol and host controllers | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US8935458B2 | Drive assisted system checkpointing via system restore points | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US7330939B2 | Determining an amount of data read from a storage medium | Physics | 1 | Expired |
| US6934807B1 | Determining an amount of data read from a storage medium | Physics | 1 | Expired |
| US8001282B2 | Virtualization aware hard drive | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.