Inventor
BRANT WILLIAM A
US26 patents
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EMC CORP
17 patentsUS5911779AJun 15, 1999
Storage device array architecture with copyback cache
EMC CORP203 citations99
US6289398B1Sep 11, 2001
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
EMC CORP144 citations98
US5799200AAug 25, 1998
Power failure responsive apparatus and method having a shadow dram, a flash ROM, an auxiliary battery, and a controller
EMC CORP807 citations98
US5787459AJul 28, 1998
Distributed disk array architecture
EMC CORP245 citations98
US5689678ANov 18, 1997
Distributed storage array system having a plurality of modular control units
EMC CORP110 citations98
US5619642AApr 8, 1997
Fault tolerant memory system which utilizes data from a shadow memory device upon the detection of erroneous data in a main memory device
EMC CORP148 citations97
US5548711AAug 20, 1996
Method and apparatus for fault tolerant fast writes through buffer dumping
EMC CORP121 citations97
US5617530AApr 1, 1997
Storage device array architecture with copyback cache
EMC CORP67 citations96
US5526482AJun 11, 1996
Storage device array architecture with copyback cache
EMC CORP95 citations96
US5905854AMay 18, 1999
Fault tolerant memory system
EMC CORP47 citations95
US5469566ANov 21, 1995
Flexible parity generation circuit for intermittently generating a parity for a plurality of data channels in a redundant array of storage units
EMC CORP45 citations94
US5675726AOct 7, 1997
Flexible parity generation circuit
EMC CORP39 citations93
US5613059AMar 18, 1997
On-line restoration of redundancy information in a redundant array system
EMC CORP33 citations92
US5805787ASep 8, 1998
Disk based disk cache interfacing system and method
EMC CORP26 citations91
US5831393ANov 3, 1998
Flexible parity generation circuit
EMC CORP11 citations71
US5636358AJun 3, 1997
Method and apparatus for transferring data in a storage device including a dual-port buffer
EMC CORP16 citations71
US5517613AMay 14, 1996
Environment sensing/control circuit
EMC CORP10 citations71
IBM
5 patentsUS6460122B1Oct 1, 2002
System, apparatus and method for multi-level cache in a multi-processor/multi-controller environment
IBM166 citations98
US6983396B2Jan 3, 2006
Apparatus for reducing the overhead of cache coherency processing on each primary controller and increasing the overall throughput of the system
IBM56 citations96
US6760807B2Jul 6, 2004
System, apparatus and method providing adaptive write policy for disk array controllers
IBM21 citations92
US6629158B1Sep 30, 2003
System, apparatus, and method for configuring an array controller
IBM47 citations92
US6763398B2Jul 13, 2004
Modular RAID controller
IBM41 citations91
ARRAY TECHNOLOGY CORP
3 patentsUS5235601AAug 10, 1993
On-line restoration of redundancy information in a redundant array system
ARRAY TECHNOLOGY CORP228 citations98
US5274799ADec 28, 1993
Storage device array architecture with copyback cache
ARRAY TECHNOLOGY CORP272 citations97
US5148432ASep 15, 1992
Arrayed disk drive system and method
ARRAY TECHNOLOGY CORP341 citations97