Arif Merchant
77Patents
19h-index
66Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 13, 1998 → Jan 20, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7467333B2 | System and method for interposition-based selective simulation of faults for access requests to a data storage system | Physics | 103 | Active |
| US7716425B1 | Prefetching data in distributed storage systems | Physics | 46 | Active |
| US7035971B1 | Request scheduling to mirrored heterogeneous storage arrays | Physics | 46 | Expired |
| US7152077B2 | System for redundant storage of data | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 44 | Expired |
| US6119174A | Methods and apparatus for implementing quality-of-service guarantees in data storage systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 44 | Expired |
| US7917903B2 | Quality of service controller and method for a data storage system | Physics | 37 | Active |
| US7536585B1 | Method of estimating storage system availability | Physics | 31 | Active |
| US6606585B1 | Acceptability testing for capacity planning of data storage system | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US7043621B2 | Sharding method and apparatus using directed graphs | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 27 | Expired |
| US7644046B1 | Method of estimating storage system cost | Physics | 27 | Active |
| US7032086B2 | System and method for adjusting storage device layout with at least one status for the adjusting | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US7266716B2 | Method and recovery of data using erasure coded data from stripe blocks | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US7827144B1 | Methods of reading and writing data | Physics | 26 | Active |
| US9047306B1 | Method of writing data | Physics | 25 | Active |
| US9128825B1 | Optimizing allocation of flash memory to file groups | Physics | 23 | Active |
| US6321317A | Apparatus for and method of multi-dimensional constraint optimization in storage system configuration | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US7643983B2 | Data storage system emulation | Physics | 22 | Active |
| US7310703B2 | Methods of reading and writing data | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US6526420B2 | Non-linear constraint optimization in storage system configuration | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 20 | Expired |
| US6366931B1 | Apparatus for and method of non-linear constraint optimization in storage system configuration | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 19 | Expired |
| US6681309B2 | Method and apparatus for measuring and optimizing spatial segmentation of electronic storage workloads | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US6934673B2 | Method and apparatus for predicting multi-part performability | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US7050956B2 | Method and apparatus for morphological modeling of complex systems to predict performance | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US7073029B2 | Storage system using fast storage and log-structured storage | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US7823156B2 | Method of hashing address space to storage servers | Physics | 16 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.