Jerry W. Pence
21Patents
15h-index
24Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 25, 1981 → Sep 28, 2000
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5875481A | Dynamic reconfiguration of data storage devices to balance recycle throughput | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 298 | Expired |
| US4771375A | Managing data storage devices connected to a digital computer | Physics | 132 | Expired |
| US4638424A | Managing data storage devices connected to a digital computer | Physics | 122 | Expired |
| US6434682B1 | Data management system with shortcut migration via efficient automatic reconnection to previously migrated copy | Physics | 92 | Expired |
| US6199146A | Storage management system and method for increasing capacity utilization of nonvolatile storage devices using partially filled substitute storage devices for continuing write operations | Physics | 89 | Expired |
| US5517670A | Adaptive data transfer channel employing extended data block capability | Physics | 88 | Expired |
| US5539918A | Extension of data block capability in a data transfer channel | Physics | 87 | Expired |
| US5644696A | Recovering multi-volume data sets during volume recovery | Physics | 61 | Expired |
| US5239649A | Channel path load balancing, through selection of storage volumes to be processed, for long running applications | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US5235695A | Apparatus for efficient utilization of removable data recording media | Physics | 36 | Expired |
| US4528624A | Method and apparatus for allocating memory space based upon free space in diverse memory devices | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US5278970A | Method for efficient utilization of removable data recording media | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US4876662A | Optimizing volume mounts in a multidrive environment | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US6678752B1 | Data storage system with automatic storage request analysis and selection of optimal output media type | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US6604160B1 | Computing system arbitrating and selectively providing resource-seeking tasks with takeaway of non-shareable resources | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US6446160B1 | Multi-drive data storage system with analysis and selected demounting of idle data storage media | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US5623693A | System for performing action by sorting actions into immediate and deferred queues, processing immediate queue while still sorting, and appending deferred queue to immediate after sorting | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US6279074A | Contention handling for task requests to storage devices within a host system | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US6725211B1 | Work load assessment heuristic for optimal task parallelism determination | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 11 | Expired |
| US6272605A | System using priority data of a host recall request to determine whether to release non-volatile storage with another host before processing further recall requests | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US6111707A | Tape duplexing with unique identity and error recovery | Physics | 9 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.