Inventor · Brookline, MA, US

Erez Ofer

40Patents
24h-index
24Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 8, 1995 → Mar 29, 2002

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6665714B1 Method and apparatus for determining an identity of a network device Physics 199 Expired
US6839747B1 User interface for managing storage in a storage system coupled to a network Physics 190 Expired
US6209059A Method and apparatus for the on-line reconfiguration of the logical volumes of a data storage system Physics 183 Expired
US6457139B1 Method and apparatus for providing a host computer with information relating to the mapping of logical volumes within an intelligent storage system Physics 158 Expired
US6314503A Method and apparatus for managing the placement of data in a storage system to achieve increased system performance Physics 84 Expired
US6055603A Method and apparatus for performing pre-request operations in a cached disk array storage system Physics 71 Expired
US5898863A Method and apparatus for determining I/O size distribution of an input/output system and its use for load simulation Physics 67 Expired
US6145006A Method and apparatus for coordinating locking operations of heterogeneous host computers accessing a storage subsystem Physics 62 Expired
US6845395B1 Method and apparatus for identifying network devices on a storage network Electricity 61 Expired
US6141707A Input/output request allocation by establishing master command queue among plurality of command queues to receive and store commands, determine logical volume, and forwarding command to determined logical volume Physics 55 Expired
US5890204A User controlled storage configuration using graphical user interface Physics 53 Expired
US5935260A Method and apparatus for providing system level errors in a large disk array storage system Physics 51 Expired
US5892955A Control of a multi-user disk storage system Physics 49 Expired
US6098149A Method and apparatus for extending commands in a cached disk array Physics 49 Expired
US6009535A SCSI adaptor failover for a disk drive system Physics 44 Expired
US6266740A Device sequencing and placement protection using a digital signature Physics 38 Expired
US5973690A Front end/back end device visualization and manipulation Physics 37 Expired
US6189080A Minimum read rate throughput in a disk cache system Physics 34 Expired
US6324604A Magnetic disk storage for storing data in disk block size from fixed length of host block in non-integer multiple of the disk block size Physics 33 Expired
US6311256A Command insertion and reordering at the same storage controller Physics 33 Expired
US5742789A Dynamically adaptive data retrieval for a disk drive storage system Physics 28 Expired
US5765213A Method providing for the flexible prefetching of data from a data storage system Physics 27 Expired
US6711612B1 System for facilitating the transfer of management information from a remote mass storage subsystem over a switching fabric or selectively over a private link to a central location for servicing Physics 26 Expired
US6041394A Disk array write protection at the sub-unit level Physics 24 Expired
US6047353A Method and apparatus for monitoring of host activities relating to an attached storage device Physics 24 Expired

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