Inventor · Wichita, KS, US

Dennis E. Gates

24Patents
13h-index
20Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 29, 1979 → Oct 12, 2011

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5883909A Method and apparatus for reducing data transfers across a memory bus of a disk array controller Physics 181 Expired
US6216199A Hardware mechanism for managing cache structures in a data storage system Physics 111 Expired
US5959914A Memory controller with error correction memory test application Physics 91 Expired
US4866601A Digital data bus architecture for computer disk drive controller Physics 68 Expired
US6823472B1 Shared resource manager for multiprocessor computer system Physics 63 Expired
US6385683B1 Methods and apparatus for raid hardware sequencing to achieve a higher performance raid architecture Physics 51 Expired
US5634033A Disk array storage system architecture for parity operations simultaneous with other data operations Physics 35 Expired
US5734848A Method and appartus for transferring data in a controller having centralized memory Physics 31 Expired
US7562176B2 Apparatus and methods for clustering multiple independent PCI express hierarchies Physics 29 Active
US6356969B1 Methods and apparatus for using interrupt score boarding with intelligent peripheral device Physics 23 Expired
US7043622B2 Method and apparatus for handling storage requests Physics 18 Expired
US4268561A Means and method of manufacturing a high strength bar Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Expired
US6735645B1 System and method to eliminate race conditions in input/output operations for high bandwidth architectures Physics 14 Expired
US6912687B1 Disk array storage subsystem with parity assist circuit that uses scatter-gather list Physics 12 Expired
US7913027B2 Configurable storage array controller Physics 11 Active
US7155537B1 Infiniband isolation bridge merged with architecture of an infiniband translation bridge Electricity 7 Expired
US5012127A Synchronizer circuit with asynchronous clearing Electricity 6 Expired
US6654853B1 Method of secondary to secondary data transfer with mirroring Physics 6 Expired
US6898666B1 Multiple memory system support through segment assignment Physics 5 Expired
US6917990B2 Method and structure for read prefetch in a storage complex architecture Physics 4 Expired
US8756371B2 Methods and apparatus for improved raid parity computation in a storage controller Physics 2 Active
US7035995B2 Method and apparatus for performing a high speed binary search in time critical environments Physics 2 Expired
US4870616A Compact register set using a psram array Physics 1 Expired
US9110796B2 Apparatus and circuitry for memory-based collection and verification of data integrity information Physics 0 Active

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