Inventor · Mount Clemens, MI, US

Craig S. Jones

38Patents
24h-index
15Co-inventors
82Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 17, 1991 → Mar 8, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5479653A Disk array apparatus and method which supports compound raid configurations and spareless hot sparing Physics 407 Expired
US5579491A Local proactive hot swap request/acknowledge system Physics 170 Expired
US5313626A Disk drive array with efficient background rebuilding Physics 153 Expired
US5974544A Method and controller for defect tracking in a redundant array Physics 139 Expired
US5664119A Local proactive hot swap request/acknowledge system Physics 124 Expired
US5313585A Disk drive array with request fragmentation Physics 93 Expired
US5809311A System and method for providing centralized backup power in a computer system Physics 92 Expired
US5530960A Disk drive controller accepting first commands for accessing composite drives and second commands for individual diagnostic drive control wherein commands are transparent to each other Physics 89 Expired
US5619723A System for scheduling read ahead operations if new request is sequential of last n last read requests wherein n is different on independent activities Physics 85 Expired
US5548783A Composite drive controller including composite disk driver for supporting composite drive accesses and a pass-through driver for supporting accesses to stand-alone SCSI peripherals Physics 82 Expired
US5483641A System for scheduling readahead operations if new request is within a proximity of N last read requests wherein N is dependent on independent activities Physics 73 Expired
US5617572A System for reducing power consumption in computers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 73 Expired
US5572660A System and method for selective write-back caching within a disk array subsystem Physics 67 Expired
US5581740A System for reading CD ROM data from hard disks Physics 58 Expired
US5473761A Controller for receiving transfer requests for noncontiguous sectors and reading those sectors as a continuous block by interspersing no operation requests between transfer requests Physics 57 Expired
US5680539A Disk array system which performs data reconstruction with dynamic load balancing and user-specified disk array bandwidth for reconstruction operation to maintain predictable degradation Physics 55 Expired
US5506977A Method and controller for minimizing reads during partial stripe write operations to a disk drive Physics 51 Expired
US5619728A Decoupled DMA transfer list storage technique for a peripheral resource controller Physics 50 Expired
US5600801A Multiple function interface device for option card Physics 47 Expired
US5623700A Interface circuit having zero latency buffer memory and cache memory information transfer Physics 45 Expired
US5757642A Multi-function server input/output subsystem and method Physics 41 Expired
US5805880A Operating system independent method for avoiding operating system security for operations performed by essential utilities Physics 40 Expired
US5511227A Method for configuring a composite drive for a disk drive array controller Physics 31 Expired
US5978856A System and method for reducing latency in layered device driver architectures Physics 26 Expired
US5911084A System and method for accessing peripheral devices on a non-functional controller Physics 18 Expired

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