Craig S. Jones
38Patents
24h-index
15Co-inventors
82Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 17, 1991 → Mar 8, 2016
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.