Inventor · Pacific Grove, CA, US

James L. Hafner

71Patents
21h-index
75Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 25, 1992 → Dec 20, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7159150B2 Distributed storage system capable of restoring data in case of a storage failure Electricity 367 Expired
US7013205B1 System and method for minimizing energy consumption in hybrid vehicles Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 281 Expired
US7873878B2 Data integrity validation in storage systems Physics 185 Active
US7752489B2 Data integrity validation in storage systems Physics 177 Active
US8006126B2 Data integrity validation in storage systems Physics 174 Active
US7991665B2 Managing incentives for electric vehicle charging transactions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 168 Active
US8176405B2 Data integrity validation in a computing environment Physics 167 Active
US8266075B2 Electric vehicle charging transaction interface for managing electric vehicle charging transactions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 123 Active
US8836281B2 Electric vehicle charging transaction interface for managing electric vehicle charging transactions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 115 Active
US6446234B1 Method and apparatus for updating cyclic redundancy check information for data storage Electricity 107 Expired
US5848404A Fast query search in large dimension database Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 64 Expired
US6438724B1 Method and apparatus for deterministically altering cyclic redundancy check information for data storage Electricity 60 Expired
US8156368B2 Rebuilding lost data in a distributed redundancy data storage system Physics 59 Active
US8370715B2 Error checking addressable blocks in storage Physics 55 Active
US8583868B2 Storage system cache using flash memory with direct block access Physics 34 Active
US8103904B2 Read-other protocol for maintaining parity coherency in a write-back distributed redundancy data storage system Physics 29 Active
US7928693B2 Plugin hybrid electric vehicle with V2G optimization system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Active
US8531162B2 Network based energy preference service for managing electric vehicle charging preferences Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 26 Active
US8433979B2 Nested multiple erasure correcting codes for storage arrays Physics 24 Active
US8498763B2 Maintaining energy principal preferences in a vehicle Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Active
US7529970B2 System and method for improving the performance of operations requiring parity reads in a storage array system Physics 23 Active
US5787462A System and method for memory management in an array of heat producing devices to prevent local overheating Electricity 21 Expired
US7353423B2 System and method for improving the performance of operations requiring parity reads in a storage array system Physics 18 Expired
US5530658A System and method for packing heat producing devices in an array to prevent local overheating Electricity 17 Expired
US6154868A Method and means for computationally efficient on-the-fly error correction in linear cyclic codes using ultra-fast error location Electricity 14 Expired

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