Inventor · Wichita, KS, US

Ray M. Jantz

17Patents
16h-index
18Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 8, 1990 → Oct 27, 2008

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6480901B1 System for monitoring and managing devices on a network from a management station via a proxy server that provides protocol converter Electricity 367 Expired
US6584499B1 Methods and apparatus for performing mass operations on a plurality of managed devices on a network Electricity 189 Expired
US6675258B1 Methods and apparatus for seamless firmware update and propagation in a dual raid controller system Physics 160 Expired
US6480955B1 Methods and apparatus for committing configuration changes to managed devices prior to completion of the configuration change Electricity 159 Expired
US6769022B1 Methods and apparatus for managing heterogeneous storage devices Electricity 144 Expired
US5937428A Method for host-based I/O workload balancing on redundant array controllers Physics 93 Expired
US6675268B1 Method and apparatus for handling transfers of data volumes between controllers in a storage environment having multiple paths to the data volumes Physics 85 Expired
US5867736A Methods for simplified integration of host based storage array control functions using read and write operations on a storage array control port Physics 68 Expired
US7640325B1 Methods and apparatus for issuing updates to multiple management entities Electricity 64 Expired
US5644786A Method for scheduling the execution of disk I/O operations Physics 62 Expired
US6487677B1 Methods and systems for dynamic selection of error recovery procedures in a managed device Physics 56 Expired
US5944838A Method for fast queue restart after redundant I/O path failover Physics 35 Expired
US6622302B1 Methods and apparatus for dynamic version transition of management applications and attached subsystems Physics 28 Expired
US7093265B1 Method and apparatus for providing highly-transparent, host-based multi-pathing support Physics 26 Expired
US7568069B2 Method for creating a large-scale storage array system out of multiple mid-range storage arrays Physics 24 Expired
US7146427B2 Polling-based mechanism for improved RPC timeout handling Electricity 21 Expired
US7983125B2 Table-driven power utilization metrics Physics 1 Active

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