Inventor · Edinburgh, GB

Barry Wright

29Patents
16h-index
5Co-inventors
70Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 8, 1995 → Feb 25, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7450420B2 Reclaiming data storage capacity in flash memories Physics 125 Expired
US7552271B2 Nonvolatile memory with block management Physics 110 Active
US9734911B2 Method and system for asynchronous die operations in a non-volatile memory Physics 86 Active
US7610437B2 Data consolidation and garbage collection in direct data file storage memories Physics 72 Active
US9223693B2 Memory system having an unequal number of memory die on different control channels Physics 63 Active
US8873284B2 Method and system for program scheduling in a multi-layer memory Physics 59 Active
US9734050B2 Method and system for managing background operations in a multi-layer memory Physics 54 Active
US9348746B2 Method and system for managing block reclaim operations in a multi-layer memory Physics 53 Active
US9465731B2 Multi-layer non-volatile memory system having multiple partitions in a layer Physics 53 Active
US9336133B2 Method and system for managing program cycles including maintenance programming operations in a multi-layer memory Physics 52 Active
US7669003B2 Reprogrammable non-volatile memory systems with indexing of directly stored data files Physics 44 Active
US9317204B2 System and method for I/O optimization in a multi-queued environment Physics 28 Active
US5577824A Traffic cone-mounted warning lights Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 27 Expired
US8055832B2 Management of memory blocks that directly store data files Physics 24 Active
US7590795B2 Flash memory systems utilizing direct data file storage Physics 21 Active
US8537613B2 Multi-layer memory system Physics 21 Active
US7949845B2 Indexing of file data in reprogrammable non-volatile memories that directly store data files Physics 14 Active
US7562181B2 Flash memory systems with direct data file storage utilizing data consolidation and garbage collection Physics 12 Active
US8046522B2 Use of a direct data file system with a continuous logical address space interface and control of file address storage in logical blocks Physics 9 Active
US7558905B2 Reclaiming data storage capacity in flash memory systems Physics 8 Expired
US7590794B2 Data operations in flash memories utilizing direct data file storage Physics 6 Active
US9396103B2 Method and system for storage address re-mapping for a memory device Physics 6 Active
US7558906B2 Methods of managing blocks in nonvolatile memory Physics 6 Active
US7581057B2 Memory system with management of memory blocks that directly store data files Physics 5 Active
US7739444B2 System using a direct data file system with a continuous logical address space interface Physics 4 Active

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