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Rodney N. Mullendore
Also filed as: MULLENDORE RODNEY · MULLENDORE RODNEY N · MULLENDORE RODNEY NORMAN
45 granted patents·8 pending applications·1,243 citations·filing 2000–2024
98Inventor score
Files withWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC30NISHAN SYSTEMS INC9BROCADE COMM SYSTEMS INC4MULLENDORE RODNEY N2SKYERA LLC2
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53 records- 0197US6400730B1Method and apparatus for transferring data between IP network devices and SCSI and fibre channel devices over an IP networkNISHAN SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 4, 2002·639 cites·20 claims
- 0296US9489296B1Methods, devices and systems for hardware-based garbage collection in solid state drivesWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2012·Granted Nov 8, 2016·43 cites·38 claims
- 0396US8898548B1Methods, data storage devices and systems having variable size ECC page sizeMULLENDORE RODNEY N·Filed 2012·Granted Nov 25, 2014·94 cites·54 claims
- 0495US9565110B2Network congestion management systems and methodsMULLENDORE RODNEY N·Filed 2010·Granted Feb 7, 2017·35 cites·20 claims
- 0592US11314418B2Extensible storage system and methodWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2021·Granted Apr 26, 2022·2 cites·20 claims
- 0692US9170939B1Early de-allocation of write buffer in an SSDWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted Oct 27, 2015·17 cites·9 claims
- 0791US7197047B2Method and apparatus for transferring data between IP network devices and SCSI and fibre channel devices over an IP networkNISHAN SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 27, 2007·74 cites·31 claims
- 0890US10372346B2Extensible storage system controllerWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2017·Granted Aug 6, 2019·5 cites·24 claims
- 0990US9507523B1Methods, devices and systems for variable size logical page management in a solid state driveWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2012·Granted Nov 29, 2016·15 cites·36 claims
- 1090US9268682B2Methods, devices and systems for physical-to-logical mapping in solid state drivesWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 23, 2016·15 cites·45 claims
- 1190US7215680B2Method and apparatus for scheduling packet flow on a fibre channel arbitrated loopNISHAN SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2002·Granted May 8, 2007·77 cites·47 claims
- 1289US10254983B2Atomic write command support in a solid state driveWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2017·Granted Apr 9, 2019·5 cites·20 claims
- 1389US9021339B2Data reliability schemes for data storage systemsWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2012·Granted Apr 28, 2015·14 cites·22 claims
- 1489US8954694B2Methods, data storage devices and systems for fragmented firmware table rebuild in a solid state driveWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 10, 2015·13 cites·23 claims
- 1588US10990293B2Extensible storage system and methodWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2020·Granted Apr 27, 2021·2 cites·20 claims
- 1688US10642503B2Extensible storage system and methodWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2019·Granted May 5, 2020·3 cites·20 claims
- 1787US9396104B1Accessing compressed data of varying-sized quanta in non-volatile memoryDANILAK RADOSLAV·Filed 2011·Granted Jul 19, 2016·11 cites·26 claims
- 1886US9594520B2Atomic write command support in a solid state driveWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2015·Granted Mar 14, 2017·4 cites·6 claims
- 1986US9384088B1Double writing map table entries in a data storage system to guard against silent corruptionWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2014·Granted Jul 5, 2016·8 cites·15 claims
- 2086US9354955B1Partial garbage collection for fast error handling and optimized garbage collection for the invisible bandWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2014·Granted May 31, 2016·8 cites·16 claims
- 2184US9218279B2Atomic write command support in a solid state driveWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted Dec 22, 2015·6 cites·39 claims
- 2283US9286176B1Selective skipping of blocks in an SSDWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 15, 2016·7 cites·20 claims
- 2383US8051197B2Network congestion management systems and methodsBROCADE COMM SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 1, 2011·34 cites·29 claims
- 2482US9471242B2Early de-allocation of write buffer in an SSDWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 18, 2016·3 cites·20 claims
- 2582US9454474B2Methods, devices and systems for two stage power-on map rebuild with free space accounting in a solid state driveWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted Sep 27, 2016·6 cites·13 claims
- 2682US7042891B2Dynamic selection of lowest latency path in a network switchNISHAN SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2001·Granted May 9, 2006·39 cites·58 claims
- 2780US10082957B2Dual-ported PCI express-based storage cartridge including single-ported storage controllersWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2016·Granted Sep 25, 2018·3 cites·9 claims
- 2878US10061696B2Partial garbage collection for fast error handling and optimized garbage collection for the invisible bandWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2016·Granted Aug 28, 2018·2 cites·6 claims
- 2975US11704023B2Extensible storage system and methodWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2022·Granted Jul 18, 2023·0 cites·17 claims
- 3074US7283556B2Method and system for managing time division multiplexing (TDM) timeslots in a network switchNISHAN SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 16, 2007·10 cites·41 claims
- 3173US9529710B1Interleaved channels in a solid-state driveWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2014·Granted Dec 27, 2016·3 cites·19 claims
- 3273US9059736B2Methods, solid state drive controllers and data storage devices having a runtime variable raid protection schemeWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jun 16, 2015·3 cites·35 claims
- 3372US7227841B2Packet input thresholding for resource distribution in a network switchNISHAN SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jun 5, 2007·18 cites·43 claims
- 3471US2025131947A1Layout for dual in-line memory to support 128-byte cache line processorTACHYUM LTD·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 3570US9304709B2High performance system providing selective merging of dataframe segments in hardwareWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 5, 2016·2 cites·19 claims
- 3669US9817577B2Methods, devices and systems for two stage power-on map rebuild with free space accounting in a solid state driveWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2016·Granted Nov 14, 2017·1 cites·10 claims
- 3768US9177638B2Methods and devices for avoiding lower page corruption in data storage devicesWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2012·Granted Nov 3, 2015·2 cites·33 claims
- 3866US12211577B2Layout for dual in-line memory to support 128-byte cache line processorTACHYUM LTD·Filed 2022·Granted Jan 28, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 3966US9866484B2Network congestion management systems and methodsBROCADE COMM SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2015·Granted Jan 9, 2018·1 cites·24 claims
- 4066US7809852B2High jitter scheduling of interleaved frames in an arbitrated loopBROCADE COMM SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 5, 2010·10 cites·40 claims
- 4163US9778885B2Compressor resources for high density storage unitsSKYERA LLC·Filed 2013·Granted Oct 3, 2017·1 cites·13 claims
- 4263US9081700B2High performance read-modify-write system providing line-rate merging of dataframe segments in hardwareWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jul 14, 2015·1 cites·35 claims
- 4362US7406041B2System and method for late-dropping packets in a network switchBROCADE COMM SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 29, 2008·7 cites·36 claims
- 4454US10055345B2Methods, devices and systems for solid state drive controlSKYERA LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Aug 21, 2018·0 cites·25 claims
- 4552US9760304B2High performance system for selective merging of dataframe segmentsWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2016·Granted Sep 12, 2017·0 cites·17 claims
- 4651US2007286233A1Method and Apparatus for Transferring Data Between IP Network Devices and SCSI and Fibre Channel Devices Over an IP NetworkNISHAN SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 4751US2008080548A1Method and System for Managing Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) Timeslots in a Network SwitchNISHAN SYSTEMS INC·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 4851US2012039341A1Method and apparatus for transferring data between ip network devices and scsi and fibre channel devices over an ip networkLATIF AAMER·Filed 2011·Application pending·0 cites
- 4950US2016313936A1Double writing map table entries in a data storage system to guard against silent corruptionWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2016·Application pending·0 cites
- 5043US9948322B1High performance read-modify-write system providing line-rate merging of dataframe segments in hardwareWESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC·Filed 2015·Granted Apr 17, 2018·0 cites·15 claims
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