Gerald E. Smith
23Patents
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23Co-inventors
75Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 14, 1977 → May 21, 2014
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6347359B1 | Method for reconfiguration of RAID data storage systems | Physics | 69 | Expired |
| US7533298B2 | Write journaling using battery backed cache | Physics | 59 | Active |
| US5889933A | Adaptive power failure recovery | Physics | 46 | Expired |
| US4133548A | Scooter | Performing Operations; Transporting | 34 | Expired |
| USD380217S | Pneumatic motor | General | 27 | Expired |
| US6264272A | Apparatus for ergonomic placement of computer pointing device | Human Necessities | 25 | Expired |
| US9298648B2 | Method and system for I/O flow management using RAID controller with DMA capabilitiy to directly send data to PCI-E devices connected to PCI-E switch | Physics | 23 | Active |
| US4202240A | Bridge pin | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US6934769B2 | Methods and structure for SCSI/IDE translation in a storage subsystem | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US7039799B2 | Methods and structure for BIOS reconfiguration | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US6886059B2 | Methods and structure for SCSI/IDE translation for non-SCSI enclosures in a storage subsystem | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US8484416B2 | High availability raid using low-cost direct attached raid controllers | Physics | 7 | Active |
| US8782369B2 | Apparatus to manage efficient data migration between tiers | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US7020770B2 | Method and apparatus for configuration of RAID controllers | Physics | 3 | Expired |
| US9009375B2 | Sharing of bypassed I/O transaction information | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US9250832B2 | Confirmed divert bitmap to synchronize raid firmware operations with fast-path hardware I/O processing | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US8938574B2 | Methods and systems using solid-state drives as storage controller cache memory | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US9052829B2 | Methods and structure for improved I/O shipping in a clustered storage system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1 | Active |
| US7788420B2 | Address buffer mode switching for varying request sizes | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US9058267B2 | I/O path selection | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US8621603B2 | Methods and structure for managing visibility of devices in a clustered storage system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 0 | Active |
| US9542126B2 | Redundant array of independent disks systems that utilize spans with different storage device counts for a logical volume | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US9134913B2 | Methods and structure for improved processing of I/O requests in fast path circuits of a storage controller in a clustered storage system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.