Inventor · Castro Valley, CA, US

Mark Ish

77Patents
8h-index
73Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 18, 1991 → May 1, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5778430A Method and apparatus for computer disk cache management Physics 193 Expired
US7464125B1 Checking the validity of blocks and backup duplicates of blocks during block reads Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 48 Expired
US5335329A Apparatus for providing DMA functionality to devices located in a bus expansion chassis Physics 46 Expired
US10739996B1 Enhanced garbage collection Physics 33 Active
US10275361B2 Managing multiple namespaces in a non-volatile memory (NVM) Physics 12 Active
US8321635B2 Synchronizing commands for preventing data corruption Physics 10 Active
US9021141B2 Data storage controller and method for exposing information stored in a data storage controller to a host system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Active
US9256384B2 Method and system for reducing write latency in a data storage system by using a command-push model Physics 8 Active
US10090067B1 Data storage device with rewritable in-place memory Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US10140215B1 Low overhead mapping for highly sequential data Physics 5 Active
US9182912B2 Method to allow storage cache acceleration when the slow tier is on independent controller Physics 5 Active
US9524107B2 Host-based device drivers for enhancing operations in redundant array of independent disks systems Physics 4 Active
US10394493B2 Managing shingled magnetic recording (SMR) zones in a hybrid storage device Physics 3 Active
US10521383B1 Handling operation collisions in a non-volatile memory Physics 3 Active
US8782369B2 Apparatus to manage efficient data migration between tiers Physics 3 Active
US8918576B2 Selectively placing data in thermally constrained memory systems to dynamically adapt to changing environmental conditions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US11249896B2 Logical-to-physical mapping of data groups with data locality Physics 3 Active
US11556258B1 Implementing automatic rate control in a memory sub-system Physics 3 Active
US10169232B2 Associative and atomic write-back caching system and method for storage subsystem Physics 2 Active
US8892811B2 Reducing write amplification in a flash memory Physics 2 Active
US10534541B2 Asynchronous discovery of initiators and targets in a storage fabric Physics 2 Active
US10061655B2 Volatile cache reconstruction after power failure Physics 2 Active
US9058274B2 System and method of selective READ cache retention for a rebooted node of a multiple-node storage cluster Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US9292204B2 System and method of rebuilding READ cache for a rebooted node of a multiple-node storage cluster Physics 2 Active
US8621134B2 Storage tiering with minimal use of DRAM memory for header overhead Physics 2 Active

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