Inventor · Tucson, AZ, US

Jerry W. Pence

21Patents
15h-index
24Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 25, 1981 → Sep 28, 2000

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.