Inventor · Northborough, MA, US

Thomas E. Linnell

53Patents
23h-index
50Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 30, 1999 → Sep 26, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6571355B1 Fibre channel data storage system fail-over mechanism Electricity 101 Expired
US6826337B2 Method and apparatus for transmitting fiber-channel and non-fiber channel signals through a common cable Electricity 94 Expired
US8498417B1 Automation of coordination of encryption keys in a SAN based environment where an encryption engine, device management, and key management are not co-located Electricity 72 Active
US8130554B1 Securely erasing flash-based memory Physics 69 Active
US9811288B1 Managing data placement based on flash drive wear level Physics 60 Active
US8005227B1 Key information consistency checking in encrypting data storage system Electricity 59 Active
US8239617B1 Enterprise data storage system using multi-level cell flash memory Physics 56 Active
US8588425B1 Encryption key recovery in the event of storage management failure Physics 51 Active
US10082959B1 Managing data placement in storage systems Physics 49 Active
US6628513B1 Mass storage device mounting system Physics 48 Expired
US8060759B1 System and method of managing and optimizing power consumption in a storage system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 46 Active
US8010810B1 Techniques for protecting data using an electronic encryption endpoint device Electricity 46 Active
US8904061B1 Managing storage operations in a server cache Physics 44 Active
US9152336B1 System and method for LUN adjustment Physics 43 Active
US8930746B1 System and method for LUN adjustment Physics 43 Active
US6636934B1 Fiber channel port by-pass selector section for dual ported disk drives Electricity 38 Expired
US8583865B1 Caching with flash-based memory Physics 37 Active
US6466718B1 Method and apparatus for transmitting fiber-channel and non-fiber channel signals through common cable Electricity 33 Expired
US6574687B1 Fibre channel data storage system Physics 30 Expired
US9830278B1 Tracking replica data using key management Electricity 25 Active
US8694724B1 Managing data storage by provisioning cache as a virtual device Physics 24 Active
US7685463B1 Disk drive management system Physics 24 Active
US8799681B1 Redundant array of encrypting disks Physics 23 Active
US8190921B1 Methodology for vaulting data encryption keys with encrypted storage Physics 21 Active
US7873851B1 Powering disk drive spinup Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Active

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