Inventor · Los Altos, CA, US

Arif Merchant

77Patents
19h-index
66Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 13, 1998 → Jan 20, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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

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