Assignee
BOYLE WILLIAM B
US·17 granted patents·1,864 citations·filing 2010–2012
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17 records- 0199US8788778B1Garbage collection based on the inactivity level of stored dataBOYLE WILLIAM B·Filed 2012·Granted Jul 22, 2014·200 cites·24 claims
- 0299US8621133B1Reading multiple metadata files across multiple tracksBOYLE WILLIAM B·Filed 2010·Granted Dec 31, 2013·136 cites·20 claims
- 0399US8560759B1Hybrid drive storing redundant copies of data on disk and in non-volatile semiconductor memory based on read frequencyBOYLE WILLIAM B·Filed 2010·Granted Oct 15, 2013·157 cites·16 claims
- 0499US8521972B1System and method for optimizing garbage collection in data storageBOYLE WILLIAM B·Filed 2010·Granted Aug 27, 2013·188 cites·25 claims
- 0599US8341339B1Hybrid drive garbage collecting a non-volatile semiconductor memory by migrating valid data to a diskBOYLE WILLIAM B·Filed 2010·Granted Dec 25, 2012·215 cites·18 claims
- 0699US8194341B1Disk drive seeding data path protection with system data seedBOYLE WILLIAM B·Filed 2010·Granted Jun 5, 2012·146 cites·16 claims
- 0799US8194340B1Disk drive framing write data with in-line mapping data during write operationsBOYLE WILLIAM B·Filed 2010·Granted Jun 5, 2012·162 cites·34 claims
- 0898US8782334B1Hybrid drive copying disk cache to non-volatile semiconductor memoryBOYLE WILLIAM B·Filed 2011·Granted Jul 15, 2014·117 cites·26 claims
- 0998US8699171B1Disk drive selecting head for write operation based on environmental conditionBOYLE WILLIAM B·Filed 2010·Granted Apr 15, 2014·130 cites·24 claims
- 1098US8639872B1Hybrid drive comprising write cache spanning non-volatile semiconductor memory and diskBOYLE WILLIAM B·Filed 2011·Granted Jan 28, 2014·184 cites·24 claims
- 1198US8154812B1Condensing a defect scan log for a disk of a disk driveBOYLE WILLIAM B·Filed 2011·Granted Apr 10, 2012·133 cites·16 claims
- 1294US9063838B1Data storage device shifting data chunks of alignment zone relative to sector boundariesBOYLE WILLIAM B·Filed 2012·Granted Jun 23, 2015·67 cites·20 claims
- 1385US9146875B1Hybrid drive converting non-volatile semiconductor memory to read only based on life remainingBOYLE WILLIAM B·Filed 2011·Granted Sep 29, 2015·9 cites·26 claims
- 1485US8959284B1Disk drive steering write data to write cache based on workloadBOYLE WILLIAM B·Filed 2010·Granted Feb 17, 2015·9 cites·26 claims
- 1583US9058280B1Hybrid drive migrating data from disk to non-volatile semiconductor memory based on accumulated access timeBOYLE WILLIAM B·Filed 2011·Granted Jun 16, 2015·7 cites·26 claims
- 1670US8996839B1Data storage device aligning partition to boundary of sector when partition offset correlates with offset of write commandsBOYLE WILLIAM B·Filed 2012·Granted Mar 31, 2015·3 cites·20 claims
- 1762US9213493B1Sorted serpentine mapping for storage drivesBOYLE WILLIAM B·Filed 2011·Granted Dec 15, 2015·1 cites·23 claims
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