Inventor · Rochester, MN, US

Carl Forhan

23Patents
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29Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 16, 1999 → Aug 8, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8219776B2 Logical-to-physical address translation for solid state disks Physics 65 Active
US7487394B2 Recovering from abnormal interruption of a parity update operation in a disk array system Physics 59 Active
US8196018B2 Enhanced error identification with disk array parity checking Physics 31 Active
US6286080A Advanced read cache emulation Physics 27 Expired
US6877065B2 Advanced read cache management Physics 22 Expired
US6530003B2 Method and system for maintaining data coherency in a dual input/output adapter utilizing clustered adapters Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Expired
US6338115B1 Advanced read cache management Physics 15 Expired
US7669107B2 Method and system for increasing parallelism of disk accesses when restoring data in a disk array system Physics 11 Active
US8458381B2 Processing host transfer requests for direct block access storage devices Physics 9 Active
US7392458B2 Method and system for enhanced error identification with disk array parity checking Physics 7 Expired
US7779335B2 Enhanced error identification with disk array parity checking Physics 7 Active
US8352690B2 Cache synchronization for solid state disks Physics 6 Active
US8762789B2 Processing diagnostic requests for direct block access storage devices Physics 6 Active
US7290199B2 Method and system for improved buffer utilization for disk array parity updates Physics 5 Expired
US8321639B2 Command tracking for direct access block storage devices Physics 5 Active
US8166258B2 Skip operations for solid state disks Physics 5 Active
US8312250B2 Dynamic storage of cache data for solid state disks Physics 4 Active
US8830613B2 Storage media inter-track interference cancellation Physics 4 Active
US10394493B2 Managing shingled magnetic recording (SMR) zones in a hybrid storage device Physics 3 Active
US8879182B2 Storage media inter-track interference cancellation Physics 2 Active
US7392428B2 Method and system for recovering from abnormal interruption of a parity update operation in a disk array system Physics 2 Active
US8316178B2 Buffering of data transfers for direct access block devices Physics 1 Active
US10783119B2 Fixed record media conversion with data compression and encryption Physics 0 Active

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