Gerald J. Fredin
26Patents
13h-index
14Co-inventors
78Inventor score
Filing activity: Nov 4, 1993 → Mar 23, 2015
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5568629A | Method for partitioning disk drives within a physical disk array and selectively assigning disk drive partitions into a logical disk array | Physics | 252 | Expired |
| US6073218A | Methods and apparatus for coordinating shared multiple raid controller access to common storage devices | Physics | 241 | Expired |
| US6157963A | System controller with plurality of memory queues for prioritized scheduling of I/O requests from priority assigned clients | Physics | 191 | Expired |
| US6567889B1 | Apparatus and method to provide virtual solid state disk in cache memory in a storage controller | Physics | 159 | Expired |
| US5996086A | Context-based failover architecture for redundant servers | Physics | 129 | Expired |
| US5975738A | Method for detecting failure in redundant controllers using a private LUN | Physics | 93 | Expired |
| US6457098B1 | Methods and apparatus for coordinating shared multiple raid controller access to common storage devices | Physics | 93 | Expired |
| US5933824A | Methods and apparatus for locking files within a clustered storage environment | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 78 | Expired |
| US6108684A | Methods and apparatus for balancing loads on a storage subsystem among a plurality of controllers | Physics | 76 | Expired |
| US6529963B1 | Methods and apparatus for interconnecting independent fibre channel fabrics | Electricity | 71 | Expired |
| US5860091A | Method and apparatus for efficient management of non-aligned I/O write request in high bandwidth raid applications | Physics | 52 | Expired |
| US7237141B2 | Method for recovering data from a redundant storage object | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US5941994A | Technique for sharing hot spare drives among multiple subsystems | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US8527718B2 | Explicit data segment boundaries with SCSI I/O referrals | Electricity | 6 | Active |
| US7760727B2 | System & method for fabric storage utilizing multicast with distributed intelligence | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US8219715B2 | Multi-pathing with SCSI I/O referrals | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US8332549B2 | Method and system for implementing parallelism with SCSI I/O referrals | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8307240B2 | Small computer system interface input output (SCSI IO) referral | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8615615B2 | Load balancing with SCSI I/O referrals | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US8732340B2 | Transport agnostic SCSI I/O referrals | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US8171178B2 | Scaling of small computer system interface input output (SCSI I/O) referrals | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US8656070B2 | Striping with SCSI I/O referrals | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US9037900B2 | Small computer system interface input output (SCSI IO) referral | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US8055815B2 | Optimal paths with SCSI I/O referrals | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US9779004B2 | Methods and systems for real-time activity tracing in a storage environment | Electricity | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.