Inventor · Arvada, CO, US

Michael Zappe

54Patents
16h-index
27Co-inventors
80Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 6, 2007 → Dec 19, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7934055B2 Apparatus, system, and method for a shared, front-end, distributed RAID Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 81 Active
US8019938B2 Apparatus, system, and method for solid-state storage as cache for high-capacity, non-volatile storage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 81 Active
US8151082B2 Apparatus, system, and method for converting a storage request into an append data storage command Electricity 54 Active
US7836226B2 Apparatus, system, and method for coordinating storage requests in a multi-processor/multi-thread environment Physics 46 Active
US8402201B2 Apparatus, system, and method for storage space recovery in solid-state storage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 44 Active
US8019940B2 Apparatus, system, and method for a front-end, distributed raid Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 44 Active
US8719501B2 Apparatus, system, and method for caching data on a solid-state storage device Physics 36 Active
US8725934B2 Methods and appratuses for atomic storage operations Physics 35 Active
US8195912B2 Apparatus, system, and method for efficient mapping of virtual and physical addresses Electricity 31 Active
US8074011B2 Apparatus, system, and method for storage space recovery after reaching a read count limit Electricity 30 Active
US8015440B2 Apparatus, system, and method for data storage using progressive raid Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Active
US8156392B2 Apparatus, system, and method for bad block remapping Physics 27 Active
US8266496B2 Apparatus, system, and method for managing data using a data pipeline Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Active
US9645758B2 Apparatus, system, and method for indexing data of an append-only, log-based structure Physics 23 Active
US8285927B2 Apparatus, system, and method for solid-state storage as cache for high-capacity, non-volatile storage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Active
US8261005B2 Apparatus, system, and method for managing data in a storage device with an empty data token directive Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Active
US9274937B2 Systems, methods, and interfaces for vector input/output operations Physics 13 Active
US8261158B2 Apparatus, system, and method for using multi-level cell solid-state storage as single level cell solid-state storage Physics 12 Active
US8762658B2 Systems and methods for persistent deallocation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US8046500B2 Apparatus, system, and method for coordinating storage requests in a multi-processor/multi-thread environment Physics 12 Active
US8495292B2 Apparatus, system, and method for an in-server storage area network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US9824027B2 Apparatus, system, and method for a storage area network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Active
US8205015B2 Apparatus, system, and method for coordinating storage requests in a multi-processor/multi-thread environment Physics 10 Active
US8412904B2 Apparatus, system, and method for managing concurrent storage requests Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Active
US8484522B2 Apparatus, system, and method for bad block remapping Physics 10 Active

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