Inventor · Boulder, CO, US

William A. Brant

39Patents
22h-index
42Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 2, 1990 → Sep 21, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5799200A Power failure responsive apparatus and method having a shadow dram, a flash ROM, an auxiliary battery, and a controller Physics 700 Expired
US5148432A Arrayed disk drive system and method Physics 264 Expired
US5274799A Storage device array architecture with copyback cache Physics 221 Expired
US5787459A Distributed disk array architecture Physics 211 Expired
US5235601A On-line restoration of redundancy information in a redundant array system Physics 180 Expired
US5911779A Storage device array architecture with copyback cache Physics 142 Expired
US6460122B1 System, apparatus and method for multi-level cache in a multi-processor/multi-controller environment Physics 95 Expired
US6289398A Distributed storage array system having plurality of storage devices which each of devices including a modular control unit for exchanging configuration information over a communication link Physics 87 Expired
US5619642A Fault tolerant memory system which utilizes data from a shadow memory device upon the detection of erroneous data in a main memory device Physics 86 Expired
US5548711A Method and apparatus for fault tolerant fast writes through buffer dumping Physics 84 Expired
US5689678A Distributed storage array system having a plurality of modular control units Physics 78 Expired
US5526482A Storage device array architecture with copyback cache Physics 74 Expired
US5848435A Address protection circuit and method for preventing access to unauthorized address rangers Physics 58 Expired
US5617530A Storage device array architecture with copyback cache Physics 42 Expired
US5469566A Flexible parity generation circuit for intermittently generating a parity for a plurality of data channels in a redundant array of storage units Physics 37 Expired
US5671920A High speed printed sheet stacking and registration system Performing Operations; Transporting 35 Expired
US6983396B2 Apparatus for reducing the overhead of cache coherency processing on each primary controller and increasing the overall throughput of the system Physics 34 Expired
US5887270A Fault tolerant controller system and method Physics 32 Expired
US5675726A Flexible parity generation circuit Physics 30 Expired
US6629158B1 System, apparatus, and method for configuring an array controller Physics 28 Expired
US5905854A Fault tolerant memory system Physics 24 Expired
US5213317A Modular binding apparatus with rotating transport Performing Operations; Transporting 22 Expired
US5613059A On-line restoration of redundancy information in a redundant array system Physics 22 Expired
US5037079A Vacuum platen transport plenum vacuum shutter Physics 22 Expired
US5921540A Vacuum corrugation feeder with a retractable corrugator Performing Operations; Transporting 21 Expired

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