Craig C. McCombs
18Patents
11h-index
11Co-inventors
69Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 13, 1985 → Apr 28, 2008
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5875343A | Employing request queues and completion queues between main processors and I/O processors wherein a main processor is interrupted when a certain number of completion messages are present in its completion queue | Physics | 129 | Expired |
| US5179704A | Method and apparatus for generating disk array interrupt signals | Physics | 109 | Expired |
| US5345565A | Multiple configuration data path architecture for a disk array controller | Physics | 71 | Expired |
| US6065089A | Method and apparatus for coalescing I/O interrupts that efficiently balances performance and latency | Physics | 68 | Expired |
| US5671365A | I/O system for reducing main processor overhead in initiating I/O requests and servicing I/O completion events | Physics | 59 | Expired |
| US5287462A | Bufferless SCSI to SCSI data transfer scheme for disk array applications | Physics | 38 | Expired |
| US8185784B2 | Drive health monitoring with provisions for drive probation state and drive copy rebuild | Physics | 27 | Active |
| US5778194A | Method and apparatus for measuring performance of a computer bus | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US4656368A | High speed master-slave flip-flop | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US6748469B1 | Parallel/serial SCSI with legacy support | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US6665773B1 | Simple and scalable RAID XOR assist logic with overlapped operations | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US6035425A | Testing a peripheral bus for data transfer integrity by detecting corruption of transferred data | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US7000142B2 | Mirrored extensions to a multiple disk storage system | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US6721845B1 | Algorithm for maintaining maximum streaming performance of mirrored disks | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US5375217A | Method and apparatus for synchronizing disk drive requests within a disk array | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US6396699B1 | Heat sink with chip die EMC ground interconnect | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US5430747A | Bus configuration validation for a multiple source disk array bus | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US4669101A | High speed counter with decoding means and means for selecting second and higher order counter stages to be toggled | Electricity | 3 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.