Inventor · Rochester, MN, US

Steven M. Howe

10Patents
8h-index
18Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 6, 1995 → May 17, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6092149A Disk drive cache system using a dynamic priority sequential stream of data segments continuously adapted according to prefetched sequential random, and repeating types of accesses Physics 198 Expired
US6145052A Disk drive with adaptive pooling for command reordering Physics 164 Expired
US6105104A Method and apparatus for optimizing the data transfer rate to and from a plurality of disk surfaces Physics 162 Expired
US7162587B2 Method and apparatus for recovering redundant cache data of a failed controller and reestablishing redundancy Physics 41 Expired
US7100080B2 Write cache recovery after loss of power Physics 33 Expired
US7380113B2 Method for updating memory resident firmware as a background operation Physics 25 Expired
US6446199B1 Disk drive incompatible firmware recovery Physics 16 Expired
US5970508A Disk drive employing allocation-based scan reporting Physics 12 Expired
US10509747B2 Memory access operation suspend/resume Physics 2 Active
US8892807B2 Emulating a skip read command Physics 1 Active

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