Inventor · Irvine, CA, US

James N. Malina

46Patents
12h-index
43Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 20, 2007 → Jul 17, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8611032B2 Directional write retry for shingled disk drive application Physics 142 Active
US8670205B1 Hybrid drive changing power mode of disk channel when frequency of write data exceeds a threshold Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 137 Active
US8554741B1 Timeline application for log structured storage devices Physics 136 Active
US8699159B1 Reducing effects of wide area track erasure in a disk drive Physics 133 Active
US8699185B1 Disk drive defining guard bands to support zone sequentiality when butterfly writing shingled data tracks Physics 80 Active
US9311939B1 Write-through media caching Physics 41 Active
US9836232B1 Data storage device and method for using secondary non-volatile memory for temporary metadata storage Physics 34 Active
US9128820B1 File management among different zones of storage media Physics 27 Active
US10969965B2 Dynamic performance density tuning for data storage device Physics 24 Active
US8959281B1 Data management for a storage device Physics 20 Active
US9864529B1 Host compatibility for host managed storage media Physics 20 Active
US10126981B1 Tiered storage using storage class memory Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Active
US9383923B1 Write pointer management for a disk drive Physics 12 Active
US9857995B1 Data storage device and method providing non-volatile memory buffer for real-time primary non-volatile memory protection Physics 10 Active
US10742736B2 Integrated erasure coding for data storage and transmission Electricity 8 Active
US8749905B1 Defect scanning for a disk drive Physics 8 Active
US9621653B2 Method and apparatus for a network connected storage system Physics 7 Active
US9639287B1 Write command reporting Physics 7 Active
US9477681B2 File management among different zones of storage media Physics 5 Active
US8144321B2 Encoding optical spectra using a DMD array Physics 5 Active
US10289547B2 Method and apparatus for a network connected storage system Physics 4 Active
US10374634B2 Read tail latency reduction Physics 4 Active
US10282130B2 Coherency of data in data relocation Physics 3 Active
US10089023B2 Data management for object based storage Physics 3 Active
US11688420B2 Hybrid dedicated and dynamic servo for tape Physics 3 Active

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