Inventor · Longmont, CO, US

Robert W. Dixon

29Patents
9h-index
26Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 11, 1979 → Aug 11, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5979773A Dual smart card access control electronic data storage and retrieval system and methods Physics 52 Expired
US5799308A Method and apparatus for data storage and retrieval Physics 43 Expired
US5629508A Dual smart card access control electronic data storage and retrieval system and methods Physics 38 Expired
US6915363B2 System for selectively controlling spin-up control for data storage devices in an array using predetermined out of band (OOB) signals Physics 30 Expired
US4508138A Polyjet valve with backwash Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Expired
US4231387A Backflow preventing valve Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Expired
US6993604B2 Dynamic buffer size allocation for multiplexed streaming Physics 16 Expired
US8327076B2 Systems and methods of tiered caching Physics 13 Active
US4520846A Valve Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US6883066B2 Method and system for cache management algorithm selection Physics 9 Expired
US8463984B2 Dynamic data flow management in a multiple cache architecture Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Active
US4526192A Discharge valve Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Expired
US9977732B1 Selective nonvolatile data caching based on estimated resource usage Physics 7 Active
US8255774B2 Data storage system with non-volatile memory for error correction Physics 5 Active
US7581043B2 Dynamic buffer size allocation for multiplexed streaming Physics 4 Expired
US10761590B1 Data storage performance scaling based on external energy Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US9207947B1 Fast boot in hybrid drives Physics 3 Active
US10528116B2 Fast resume from hibernate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US11138069B2 Providing additional parity for non-standard sized parity data sets Electricity 2 Active
US9965011B2 Controller interface for operation of multiple storage drives Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US12093559B2 Distributed data storage system with dedicated processing lane Physics 1 Active
US11493984B1 Data storage performance scaling based on external energy Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US12282438B2 Scalable storage using NVMe communication Physics 0 Active
US11954505B2 Distributed data storage system with dormant hardware activation Physics 0 Active
US11966629B2 Custom initialization in a distributed data storage system Physics 0 Active

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