Inventor · Niwot, CO, US

Gerald E. Smith

23Patents
9h-index
23Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 14, 1977 → May 21, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.