David Hitz
30Patents
20h-index
22Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 8, 1994 → Oct 1, 2010
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5819292A | Method for maintaining consistent states of a file system and for creating user-accessible read-only copies of a file system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 949 | Expired |
| US5963962A | Write anywhere file-system layout | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 515 | Expired |
| US6038570A | Method for allocating files in a file system integrated with a RAID disk sub-system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 405 | Expired |
| US5485579A | Multiple facility operating system architecture | Physics | 370 | Expired |
| US6289356A | Write anywhere file-system layout | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 353 | Expired |
| US6604118B2 | File system image transfer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 312 | Expired |
| US6065037A | Multiple software-facility component operating system for co-operative processor control within a multiprocessor computer system | Physics | 282 | Expired |
| US6892211B2 | Copy on write file system consistency and block usage | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 269 | Expired |
| US5701516A | High-performance non-volatile RAM protected write cache accelerator system employing DMA and data transferring scheme | Physics | 233 | Expired |
| US6138126A | Method for allocating files in a file system integrated with a raid disk sub-system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 222 | Expired |
| US5948110A | Method for providing parity in a raid sub-system using non-volatile memory | Physics | 194 | Expired |
| US7174352B2 | File system image transfer | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 157 | Expired |
| US6457130B2 | File access control in a multi-protocol file server | Physics | 103 | Expired |
| US6721764B2 | Copy on write file system consistency and block usage | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 95 | Expired |
| US6857001B2 | Multiple concurrent active file systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 94 | Expired |
| US6574591B1 | File systems image transfer between dissimilar file systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 92 | Expired |
| US7231412B2 | Allocating files in a file system integrated with a raid disk sub-system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 51 | Expired |
| US7133964B2 | Raid assimilation method and apparatus | Physics | 41 | Expired |
| US7200603B1 | In a data storage server, for each subsets which does not contain compressed data after the compression, a predetermined value is stored in the corresponding entry of the corresponding compression group to indicate that corresponding data is compressed | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 31 | Expired |
| US6480969B1 | Providing parity in a RAID sub-system using non-volatile memory | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US6988219B2 | Providing parity in a RAID sub-system using non-volatile memory | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US7574464B2 | System and method for enabling a storage system to support multiple volume formats simultaneously | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 16 | Expired |
| US6751637B1 | Allocating files in a file system integrated with a raid disk sub-system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 14 | Expired |
| US7685169B2 | Multiple concurrent active file systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 7 | Active |
| US7962531B2 | Multiple concurrent active file systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.