Inventor · Rochester, MN, US

Brian E. Bakke

65Patents
13h-index
33Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 6, 1995 → Nov 26, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8544029B2 Implementing storage adapter performance optimization with chained hardware operations minimizing hardware/firmware interactions Physics 311 Active
US5623701A Data compression method and structure for a direct access storage device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 109 Expired
US5682499A Directory rebuild method and apparatus for maintaining and rebuilding directory information for compressed data on direct access storage device (DASD) Physics 80 Expired
US5537658A Distributed directory method and structure for direct access storage device (DASD) data compression Physics 77 Expired
US6704812B2 Transparent and dynamic management of redundant physical paths to peripheral devices Physics 72 Expired
US7139907B2 Method and apparatus for implementing distributed SCSI devices using enhanced adapter reservations Physics 42 Expired
US5765204A Method and apparatus for adaptive localization of frequently accessed, randomly addressed data Physics 36 Expired
US6728818B2 Dual storage adapters utilizing clustered adapters supporting fast write caches Physics 16 Expired
US8886881B2 Implementing storage adapter performance optimization with parity update footprint mirroring Physics 16 Active
US6530003B2 Method and system for maintaining data coherency in a dual input/output adapter utilizing clustered adapters Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Expired
US8868828B2 Implementing storage adapter performance optimization with cache data/directory mirroring Physics 15 Active
US8195589B2 Apparatus for dynamically determining primary adapter in a heterogeneous N-way adapter configuration Physics 14 Active
US6438639B1 Computer system bus network providing concurrent communication and connection transition of peripheral devices Physics 13 Expired
US6971049B2 Method and apparatus for detecting and isolating failures in equipment connected to a data bus Physics 9 Expired
US7039741B2 Method and apparatus for implementing resilient connectivity in a serial attached SCSI (SAS) domain Electricity 8 Expired
US8495259B2 Implementing storage adapter performance optimization with hardware chains to select performance path Physics 7 Active
US8495258B2 Implementing storage adapter performance optimization with hardware accelerators offloading firmware for buffer allocation and automatically DMA Physics 7 Active
US7958293B2 Virtualized serial attached SCSI adapter Physics 6 Active
US8028141B2 Partitioning of a multiple logic-unit-number SCSI target Physics 6 Active
US8495469B2 Implementing enhanced IO data conversion with protection information model including parity format of data integrity fields Physics 5 Active
US8656213B2 Implementing storage adapter performance optimization with chained hardware operations and error recovery firmware path Physics 4 Active
US8516164B2 Implementing storage adapter performance optimization with enhanced hardware and software interface Physics 4 Active
US9864695B2 Implementing hardware accelerator for storage write cache management for managing cache destage rates and thresholds for storage write cache Physics 2 Active
US7493370B2 Two stage method for dynamically determining primary adapter in a heterogeneous N-way adapter configuration Physics 2 Active
US7484114B2 Method and apparatus for providing redundant access to a shared resource with a shareable spare adapter Physics 2 Expired

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