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Steven M. Howe
Also filed as: HOWE STEVEN · HOWE STEVEN M · HOWE STEVEN MICHAEL
10 granted patents·1 pending application·777 citations·filing 1995–2018
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11 records- 0197US6145052ADisk drive with adaptive pooling for command reorderingWESTERN DIGITAL CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 7, 2000·180 cites·26 claims
- 0296US6105104AMethod and apparatus for optimizing the data transfer rate to and from a plurality of disk surfacesWESTERN DIGITAL CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 15, 2000·172 cites·13 claims
- 0396US6092149ADisk drive cache system using a dynamic priority sequential stream of data segments continuously adapted according to prefetched sequential random, and repeating types of accessesWESTERN DIGITAL CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Jul 18, 2000·231 cites·20 claims
- 0484US7100080B2Write cache recovery after loss of powerXIOTECH CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 29, 2006·42 cites·4 claims
- 0583US7380113B2Method for updating memory resident firmware as a background operationXIOTECH CORP·Filed 2003·Granted May 27, 2008·41 cites·20 claims
- 0681US7162587B2Method and apparatus for recovering redundant cache data of a failed controller and reestablishing redundancyHIKEN MICHAEL S·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 9, 2007·61 cites·11 claims
- 0772US10509747B2Memory access operation suspend/resumeSEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC·Filed 2018·Granted Dec 17, 2019·3 cites·16 claims
- 0859US8892807B2Emulating a skip read commandBROWN WILLIAM A·Filed 2011·Granted Nov 18, 2014·1 cites·18 claims
- 0956US5970508ADisk drive employing allocation-based scan reportingWESTERN DIGITAL CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Oct 19, 1999·17 cites·18 claims
- 1050US6446199B1Disk drive incompatible firmware recoveryIBM·Filed 1995·Granted Sep 3, 2002·29 cites·9 claims
- 1138US2012185658A1Performing writing operations using a queue of available pagesBROWN WILLIAM A·Filed 2011·Application pending·0 cites
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