Inventor
DAVIES IAN ROBERT
US28 patents
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DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP
21 patentsUS7340555B2Mar 4, 2008
RAID system for performing efficient mirrored posted-write operations
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP79 citations97
US7315911B2Jan 1, 2008
Method for efficient inter-processor communication in an active-active RAID system using PCI-express links
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP111 citations97
US7380163B2May 27, 2008
Apparatus and method for deterministically performing active-active failover of redundant servers in response to a heartbeat link failure
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP38 citations96
US7334064B2Feb 19, 2008
Application server blade for embedded storage appliance
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP24 citations96
US7320083B2Jan 15, 2008
Apparatus and method for storage controller to deterministically kill one of redundant servers integrated within the storage controller chassis
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP30 citations96
US7676600B2Mar 9, 2010
Network, storage appliance, and method for externalizing an internal I/O link between a server and a storage controller integrated within the storage appliance chassis
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP8 citations92
US7661014B2Feb 9, 2010
Network storage appliance with integrated server and redundant storage controllers
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP9 citations92
US7536508B2May 19, 2009
System and method for sharing SATA drives in active-active RAID controller system
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP27 citations92
US7536495B2May 19, 2009
Certified memory-to-memory data transfer between active-active raid controllers
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP21 citations92
US7464214B2Dec 9, 2008
Application server blade for embedded storage appliance
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP18 citations92
US7437604B2Oct 14, 2008
Network storage appliance with integrated redundant servers and storage controllers
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP14 citations92
US7401254B2Jul 15, 2008
Apparatus and method for a server deterministically killing a redundant server integrated within the same network storage appliance chassis
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP37 citations92
US7330999B2Feb 12, 2008
Network storage appliance with integrated redundant servers and storage controllers
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP20 citations92
US7146448B2Dec 5, 2006
Apparatus and method for adopting an orphan I/O port in a redundant storage controller
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP24 citations92
US7536584B2May 19, 2009
Fault-isolating SAS expander
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP35 citations90
US7627780B2Dec 1, 2009
Apparatus and method for deterministically performing active-active failover of redundant servers in a network storage appliance
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP17 citations84
US7565566B2Jul 21, 2009
Network storage appliance with an integrated switch
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP18 citations84
US7543096B2Jun 2, 2009
Safe message transfers on PCI-Express link from RAID controller to receiver-programmable window of partner RAID controller CPU memory
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP17 citations84
US7539799B2May 26, 2009
Method and apparatus for identifying enclosures and devices
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP10 citations84
US7464205B2Dec 9, 2008
Application server blade for embedded storage appliance
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP4 citations74
US7558897B2Jul 7, 2009
Method for adopting an orphan I/O port in a redundant storage controller
DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORP0 citations52
DAVIES IAN ROBERT
5 patentsUS8185777B2May 22, 2012
Network storage appliance with integrated server and redundant storage controllers
DAVIES IAN ROBERT22 citations95
US8321646B2Nov 27, 2012
Method and apparatus for rebalancing storage components within a storage tier
DAVIES IAN ROBERT6 citations83
US8990542B2Mar 24, 2015
Efficient metadata protection system for data storage
DAVIES IAN ROBERT2 citations62
US9513843B2Dec 6, 2016
Method and apparatus for choosing storage components within a tier
DAVIES IAN ROBERT0 citations51
US9176835B2Nov 3, 2015
Network, storage appliance, and method for externalizing an external I/O link between a server and a storage controller integrated within the storage appliance chassis
DAVIES IAN ROBERT0 citations51