Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Rodney N. Mullendore

45Patents
11h-index
24Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 8, 2000 → Oct 24, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6400730B1 Method and apparatus for transferring data between IP network devices and SCSI and fibre channel devices over an IP network Electricity 386 Expired
US8898548B1 Methods, data storage devices and systems having variable size ECC page size Physics 69 Active
US7215680B2 Method and apparatus for scheduling packet flow on a fibre channel arbitrated loop Electricity 58 Expired
US7197047B2 Method and apparatus for transferring data between IP network devices and SCSI and fibre channel devices over an IP network Electricity 38 Expired
US9565110B2 Network congestion management systems and methods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 34 Active
US8051197B2 Network congestion management systems and methods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 30 Active
US7042891B2 Dynamic selection of lowest latency path in a network switch Electricity 30 Expired
US9489296B1 Methods, devices and systems for hardware-based garbage collection in solid state drives Physics 22 Active
US9021339B2 Data reliability schemes for data storage systems Physics 12 Active
US9268682B2 Methods, devices and systems for physical-to-logical mapping in solid state drives Physics 12 Active
US8954694B2 Methods, data storage devices and systems for fragmented firmware table rebuild in a solid state drive Physics 11 Active
US9170939B1 Early de-allocation of write buffer in an SSD Physics 10 Active
US9507523B1 Methods, devices and systems for variable size logical page management in a solid state drive Physics 8 Active
US7227841B2 Packet input thresholding for resource distribution in a network switch Electricity 8 Expired
US9396104B1 Accessing compressed data of varying-sized quanta in non-volatile memory Physics 7 Active
US9286176B1 Selective skipping of blocks in an SSD Physics 7 Active
US7809852B2 High jitter scheduling of interleaved frames in an arbitrated loop Electricity 6 Expired
US9384088B1 Double writing map table entries in a data storage system to guard against silent corruption Physics 6 Active
US9218279B2 Atomic write command support in a solid state drive Physics 5 Active
US7283556B2 Method and system for managing time division multiplexing (TDM) timeslots in a network switch Electricity 4 Expired
US10372346B2 Extensible storage system controller Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US9454474B2 Methods, devices and systems for two stage power-on map rebuild with free space accounting in a solid state drive Physics 4 Active
US10254983B2 Atomic write command support in a solid state drive Physics 3 Active
US9059736B2 Methods, solid state drive controllers and data storage devices having a runtime variable raid protection scheme Electricity 3 Active
US7406041B2 System and method for late-dropping packets in a network switch Electricity 3 Expired

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