Inventor · Boise, ID, US

Michael B. Jacobson

25Patents
16h-index
28Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 8, 1985 → Sep 14, 2011

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7743276B2 Sufficient free space for redundancy recovery within a distributed data-storage system Physics 325 Active
US8090837B2 Communication in multiprocessor using proxy sockets Physics 313 Active
US5392244A Memory systems with data storage redundancy management Physics 199 Expired
US5548712A Data storage system and method for managing asynchronous attachment and detachment of storage disks Physics 161 Expired
US5615352A Methods for adding storage disks to a hierarchic disk array while maintaining data availability Physics 119 Expired
US5546558A Memory system with hierarchic disk array and memory map store for persistent storage of virtual mapping information Physics 99 Expired
US7089395B2 Computer systems, virtual storage systems and virtual storage system operational methods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 96 Expired
US5542065A Methods for using non-contiguously reserved storage space for data migration in a redundant hierarchic data storage system Physics 86 Expired
US5666512A Disk array having hot spare resources and methods for using hot spare resources to store user data Physics 82 Expired
US5696934A Method of utilizing storage disks of differing capacity in a single storage volume in a hierarchial disk array Physics 71 Expired
US5572661A Methods and system for detecting data loss in a hierarchic data storage system Physics 57 Expired
US4663009A System and method for depositing plural thin film layers on a substrate Electricity 49 Expired
US8145941B2 Detection and correction of block-level data corruption in fault-tolerant data-storage systems Physics 41 Active
US5463776A Storage management system for concurrent generation and fair allocation of disk space among competing requests Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired
US6098190A Method and apparatus for use of a host address to validate accessed data Physics 31 Expired
US5129072A System for minimizing initiator processor interrupts by protocol controller in a computer bus system Physics 21 Expired
US8219777B2 Virtual storage systems, virtual storage methods and methods of over committing a virtual raid storage system Physics 16 Active
US8788750B2 Managing resources in cluster storage systems Electricity 8 Active
US7840877B2 Mass storage system and method Physics 5 Active
US8874841B2 Method and system for distributing snapshots across arrays of an array cluster Physics 4 Active
US8484357B2 Communication in multiprocessor using proxy sockets Physics 2 Active
US7062702B2 Efficient parity operations Physics 2 Expired
US8650302B2 Communication in multiprocessor using proxy sockets Physics 2 Active
US7725654B2 Affecting a caching algorithm used by a cache of storage system Physics 1 Active
US9058127B2 Data transfer in cluster storage systems Physics 0 Active

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