Douglas Sullivan
25Patents
8h-index
22Co-inventors
67Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 21, 2002 → Dec 24, 2008
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7062675B1 | Data storage cache system shutdown scheme | Physics | 66 | Expired |
| US7062594B1 | Root complex connection system | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US7058835B1 | System, method and apparatus for controlling supply of backup power to first and second power planes in the event of a power failure of a main power supply | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US7809975B2 | Recovering from a storage processor failure using write cache preservation | Physics | 21 | Active |
| US7089379B1 | Large high bandwidth memory system | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US7849350B2 | Responding to a storage processor failure with continued write caching | Physics | 18 | Active |
| US8374731B1 | Cooling system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 17 | Active |
| US8176156B1 | Server identification assignment in a distributed switched storage environment | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US8031722B1 | Techniques for controlling a network switch of a data storage system | Electricity | 8 | Active |
| US6901477B2 | Provision of a victim cache within a storage cache hierarchy | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US8677086B2 | System for caching data | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US7676694B2 | Managing system components | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US7716315B2 | Enclosure configurable to perform in-band or out-of-band enclosure management | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US7321948B1 | Highly available system test mechanism | Physics | 4 | Expired |
| US7279856B1 | Environmental and health monitoring circuitry for storage processor I/O annex module | Electricity | 3 | Expired |
| US8688934B1 | Method for caching data | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US7809964B1 | Storage system assembly with distributed enclosure management | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8194547B1 | Configuring flow control settings | Electricity | 2 | Active |
| US7263569B1 | Method and system for distributing power in a computer system | Physics | 2 | Expired |
| US8089903B2 | Method and apparatus for providing a logical separation of a customer device and a service device connected to a data storage system | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US7502992B2 | Method and apparatus for detecting presence of errors in data transmitted between components in a data storage system using an I2C protocol | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US7238030B2 | Multi-function expansion slots for a storage system | Physics | 1 | Expired |
| US7711869B1 | Method for communicating plural signals generated at a source to a remote destination through a single wire | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US8639864B1 | Method and system for facilitating communication between a host and downstream devices in a data storage system | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US7254673B2 | Provision of a victim cache within a storage cache hierarchy | Physics | 0 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.