Inventor · Magnolia, TX, US

William C. Galloway

48Patents
18h-index
25Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 2, 1992 → Aug 20, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8082393B2 Method and system for rebuilding data in a distributed RAID system Physics 340 Active
US5675723A Multi-server fault tolerance using in-band signalling Physics 158 Expired
US5812751A Multi-server fault tolerance using in-band signalling Physics 139 Expired
US6370611B1 Raid XOR operations to synchronous DRAM using a read buffer and pipelining of synchronous DRAM burst read data Physics 91 Expired
US5522054A Dynamic control of outstanding hard disk read requests for sequential and random operations Physics 49 Expired
US5816673A Computer chassis assembly Physics 48 Expired
US5717954A Locked exchange FIFO Physics 48 Expired
US5809280A Adaptive ahead FIFO with LRU replacement Physics 48 Expired
US5970236A Circuit for selectively performing data format conversion Physics 47 Expired
US5613074A Automatic disabling of SCSI bus terminators Physics 38 Expired
US5944798A System and method for arbitrated loop recovery Electricity 37 Expired
US5771359A Bridge having a data buffer for each bus master Physics 30 Expired
US5692200A Bridge circuit for preventing data incoherency by holding off propagation of data transfer completion interrupts until data clears the bridge circuit Physics 25 Expired
US8140753B2 Method and system for rebuilding data in a distributed RAID system Physics 24 Active
US8176247B2 Method and system for protecting against multiple failures in a RAID system Physics 23 Active
US8127076B2 Method and system for placement of data on a storage device Physics 22 Active
US8090909B2 Method and system for distributed raid implementation Physics 19 Active
US8086797B2 Method and system for distributing commands to targets Physics 18 Active
US5623691A PCI bus hard disk activity LED circuit Physics 18 Expired
US5463743A Method of improving SCSI operations by actively patching SCSI processor instructions Physics 18 Expired
US8145841B2 Method and system for initializing storage in a storage system Physics 17 Active
US9146695B2 Method and system for distributed RAID implementation Physics 17 Active
US8621147B2 Method and system for distributed RAID implementation Physics 14 Active
US8316180B2 Method and system for rebuilding data in a distributed RAID system Physics 14 Active
US8255625B2 Method and system for placement of data on a storage device Physics 14 Active

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