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Michael Hicken
Also filed as: HICKEN MICHAEL · HICKEN MICHAEL S · HICKEN MICHAEL SCOTT
19 granted patents·4 pending applications·981 citations·filing 1993–2018
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23 records- 0197US5822142AMethod of mapping logical sectors to physical sectors in a disk drive sparing partitionWESTERN DIGITAL CORP·Filed 1996·Granted Oct 13, 1998·175 cites·2 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
- 0495US8219776B2Logical-to-physical address translation for solid state disksFORHAN CARL·Filed 2009·Granted Jul 10, 2012·76 cites·19 claims
- 0595US6195218B1Disk drive which efficiently stores zone parameter sets for a plurality of disk surfacesWESTERN DIGITAL CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Feb 27, 2001·156 cites·23 claims
- 0692US11593262B1Garbage collection command schedulingSEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC·Filed 2018·Granted Feb 28, 2023·11 cites·18 claims
- 0791US8301861B2Startup reconstruction of logical-to-physical address translation data for solid state disksREITER RANDY·Filed 2010·Granted Oct 30, 2012·19 cites·17 claims
- 0889US8245112B2Flash memory organizationHICKEN MICHAEL·Filed 2009·Granted Aug 14, 2012·29 cites·21 claims
- 0988US8352690B2Cache synchronization for solid state disksLSI CORP·Filed 2010·Granted Jan 8, 2013·8 cites·20 claims
- 1087US10394493B2Managing shingled magnetic recording (SMR) zones in a hybrid storage deviceSEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Aug 27, 2019·5 cites·20 claims
- 1187US8458381B2Processing host transfer requests for direct block access storage devicesHOLTY BRYAN·Filed 2010·Granted Jun 4, 2013·12 cites·17 claims
- 1286US7293196B2Method, apparatus, and system for preserving cache data of redundant storage controllersXIOTECH CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 6, 2007·56 cites·11 claims
- 1372US8898371B2Accessing logical-to-physical address translation data for solid state disksREITER RANDY·Filed 2010·Granted Nov 25, 2014·2 cites·20 claims
- 1472US8806112B2Meta data handling within a flash media controllerSOMANACHE VINAY ASHOK·Filed 2011·Granted Aug 12, 2014·6 cites·15 claims
- 1572US8555141B2Flash memory organizationHICKEN MICHAEL·Filed 2009·Granted Oct 8, 2013·6 cites·23 claims
- 1668US8316178B2Buffering of data transfers for direct access block devicesLUND TIMOTHY·Filed 2010·Granted Nov 20, 2012·1 cites·20 claims
- 1768US8166258B2Skip operations for solid state disksLUND TIMOTHY·Filed 2009·Granted Apr 24, 2012·5 cites·20 claims
- 1858US8645618B2Flexible flash commandsSOMANACHE VINAY ASHOK·Filed 2011·Granted Feb 4, 2014·1 cites·20 claims
- 1955US6307705B1Method and apparatus for reducing track switch latency in a disk driveIBM·Filed 1993·Granted Oct 23, 2001·10 cites·41 claims
- 2044US2010287320A1Interprocessor Communication ArchitectureLSI CORP·Filed 2009·Application pending·0 cites
- 2140US2003212865A1Method and apparatus for flushing write cache dataFiled 2003·Application pending·0 cites
- 2230US2013019052A1Effective utilization of flash interfaceSOMANACHE VINAY ASHOK·Filed 2012·Application pending·0 cites
- 2330US2013019053A1Flash controller hardware architecture for flash devicesSOMANACHE VINAY ASHOK·Filed 2012·Application pending·0 cites
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