Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

Stephen H. Strange

33Patents
15h-index
25Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 14, 2001 → Nov 15, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7613947B1 System and method for storage takeover Physics 366 Active
US7200715B2 Method for writing contiguous arrays of stripes in a RAID storage system using mapped block writes Physics 79 Expired
US7111147B1 Location-independent RAID group virtual block management Physics 67 Expired
US7574623B1 Method and system for rapidly recovering data from a “sick” disk in a RAID disk group Physics 53 Active
US7024586B2 Using file system information in raid data reconstruction and migration Physics 50 Expired
US8386834B1 Raid storage configuration for cached data storage Physics 39 Active
US6965989B1 System and method for fast reboot of a file server Physics 36 Expired
US7254813B2 Method and apparatus for resource allocation in a raid system Physics 26 Expired
US7930475B1 Method for writing contiguous arrays of stripes in a RAID storage system using mapped block writes Physics 25 Active
US7926059B2 Method and apparatus for decomposing I/O tasks in a RAID system Physics 24 Active
US7711683B1 Method and system for maintaining disk location via homeness Physics 19 Active
US7539991B2 Method and apparatus for decomposing I/O tasks in a raid system Physics 17 Expired
US7143235B1 Proposed configuration management behaviors in a raid subsystem Physics 16 Expired
US7437727B2 Method and apparatus for runtime resource deadlock avoidance in a raid system Physics 16 Expired
US7596712B1 Method and system for efficiently accessing a storage redundancy group Physics 15 Active
US8041924B2 Location-independent raid group virtual block management Physics 14 Active
US9785525B2 High availability failover manager Physics 12 Active
US7546302B1 Method and system for improved resource giveback Physics 11 Active
US7143249B2 Resynchronization of mirrored storage devices Physics 11 Expired
US9836366B2 Third vote consensus in a cluster using shared storage devices Physics 8 Active
US7979633B2 Method for writing contiguous arrays of stripes in a RAID storage system Physics 7 Active
US9134921B1 Uniquely naming storage devices in a global storage environment Physics 6 Active
US7930587B1 System and method for storage takeover Physics 6 Active
US7660966B2 Location-independent RAID group virtual block management Physics 6 Active
US10664366B2 Third vote consensus in a cluster using shared storage devices Physics 5 Active

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