Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

B. Arlen Young

54Patents
13h-index
8Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: May 14, 1979 → Jun 28, 2005

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6609161B1 Two-dimensional execution queue for host adapters Physics 91 Expired
US6457090B1 Structure and method for automatic configuration for SCSI Synchronous data transfers Physics 66 Expired
US5812877A I/O command block chain structure in a memory Physics 45 Expired
US5892969A Method for concurrently executing a configured string of concurrent I/O command blocks within a chain to perform a raid 5 I/O operation Physics 36 Expired
US6728791B1 RAID 1 read mirroring method for host adapters Physics 34 Expired
US5758187A Method for enhancing performance of a RAID 1 read operation using a pair of I/O command blocks in a chain structure Physics 33 Expired
US5625800A SCB array external to a host adapter integrated circuit Physics 25 Expired
US5974530A Integrated PCI buffer controller and XOR function circuit Physics 22 Expired
US6012107A Hardware control block delivery queues for host adapters and other devices with onboard processors Physics 18 Expired
US6801975B1 Parallel SCSI host adapter and method for fast capture of shadow state data Physics 17 Expired
US5564023A Method for accessing a sequencer control block by a host adapter integrated circuit Physics 15 Expired
US5938747A Hardware command block delivery queue for host adapters and other devices with onboard processors Physics 15 Expired
US6804739B1 Structure and method for message snooping in SCSI bus expanders Physics 13 Expired
US5991861A Method of enabling and disabling a data function in an integrated circuit Physics 12 Expired
US6718413B1 Contention-based methods for generating reduced number of interrupts Physics 12 Expired
US5867732A Hardware method for verifying that an area of memory has only zero values Physics 11 Expired
US5797034A Method for specifying execution of only one of a pair of I/O command blocks in a chain structure Physics 10 Expired
US5768621A Chain manager for use in executing a chain of I/O command blocks Physics 9 Expired
US6157964A Method for specifying concurrent execution of a string of I/O command blocks in a chain structure Physics 9 Expired
US6006292A Method of managing hardware control blocks utilizing endless queue maintained to never be empty and containing tail pointer only accessible by process executing on system processor Physics 9 Expired
US5923896A Method for sequencing execution of I/O command blocks in a chain structure by setting hold-off flags and configuring a counter in each I/O command block Physics 9 Expired
US5881250A Host adapter system including an integrated PCI buffer controller and XOR function circuit Physics 8 Expired
US7080198B1 Method for snooping RAID 1 write transactions by a storage device Physics 8 Expired
US7062501B1 Structure and method for linking scatter/gather list segments for host adapters Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US4308593A Interchangeable magnetic bubble memory Physics 6 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.