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Carl Forhan
Also filed as: FORHAN CARL · FORHAN CARL E · FORHAN CARL EDWARD
23 granted patents·9 pending applications·401 citations·filing 1999–2017
96Inventor score
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32 records- 0197US7487394B2Recovering from abnormal interruption of a parity update operation in a disk array systemIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Feb 3, 2009·67 cites·16 claims
- 0295US8219776B2Logical-to-physical address translation for solid state disksFORHAN CARL·Filed 2009·Granted Jul 10, 2012·76 cites·19 claims
- 0392US8196018B2Enhanced error identification with disk array parity checkingFORHAN CARL EDWARD·Filed 2008·Granted Jun 5, 2012·33 cites·17 claims
- 0488US8352690B2Cache synchronization for solid state disksLSI CORP·Filed 2010·Granted Jan 8, 2013·8 cites·20 claims
- 0587US10394493B2Managing shingled magnetic recording (SMR) zones in a hybrid storage deviceSEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Aug 27, 2019·5 cites·20 claims
- 0687US8458381B2Processing host transfer requests for direct block access storage devicesHOLTY BRYAN·Filed 2010·Granted Jun 4, 2013·12 cites·17 claims
- 0786US8762789B2Processing diagnostic requests for direct block access storage devicesLUND TIMOTHY·Filed 2010·Granted Jun 24, 2014·7 cites·22 claims
- 0886US7669107B2Method and system for increasing parallelism of disk accesses when restoring data in a disk array systemIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Feb 23, 2010·13 cites·16 claims
- 0985US8312250B2Dynamic storage of cache data for solid state disksFORHAN CARL·Filed 2010·Granted Nov 13, 2012·6 cites·20 claims
- 1084US7779335B2Enhanced error identification with disk array parity checkingIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Aug 17, 2010·10 cites·12 claims
- 1180US8830613B2Storage media inter-track interference cancellationLUND TIMOTHY B·Filed 2012·Granted Sep 9, 2014·8 cites·17 claims
- 1280US6877065B2Advanced read cache managementIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 5, 2005·28 cites·23 claims
- 1378US6530003B2Method and system for maintaining data coherency in a dual input/output adapter utilizing clustered adaptersIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Mar 4, 2003·29 cites·41 claims
- 1477US8879182B2Storage media inter-track interference cancellationHARATSCH ERICH FRANZ·Filed 2012·Granted Nov 4, 2014·4 cites·12 claims
- 1572US8321639B2Command tracking for direct access block storage devicesLUND TIMOTHY·Filed 2009·Granted Nov 27, 2012·6 cites·19 claims
- 1669US7392458B2Method and system for enhanced error identification with disk array parity checkingIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 24, 2008·10 cites·6 claims
- 1768US8316178B2Buffering of data transfers for direct access block devicesLUND TIMOTHY·Filed 2010·Granted Nov 20, 2012·1 cites·20 claims
- 1868US8166258B2Skip operations for solid state disksLUND TIMOTHY·Filed 2009·Granted Apr 24, 2012·5 cites·20 claims
- 1964US7290199B2Method and system for improved buffer utilization for disk array parity updatesIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 30, 2007·8 cites·21 claims
- 2058US6286080B1Advanced read cache emulationIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Sep 4, 2001·38 cites·22 claims
- 2157US7392428B2Method and system for recovering from abnormal interruption of a parity update operation in a disk array systemIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 24, 2008·4 cites·17 claims
- 2253US2008040416A1Raid environment incorporating hardware-based finite field multiplier for on-the-fly xorIBM·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 2353US2008040646A1Raid environment incorporating hardware-based finite field multiplier for on-the-fly xorIBM·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 2453US2008040542A1Raid environment incorporating hardware-based finite field multiplier for on-the-fly xorIBM·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 2553US2008040415A1Raid environment incorporating hardware-based finite field multiplier for on-the-fly xorIBM·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 2652US10783119B2Fixed record media conversion with data compression and encryptionSEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Sep 22, 2020·0 cites·20 claims
- 2752US6338115B1Advanced read cache managementIBM·Filed 1999·Granted Jan 8, 2002·23 cites·32 claims
- 2852US2008022150A1Method and system for improved buffer utilization for disk array parity updatesIBM·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 2950US2006123271A1RAID environment incorporating hardware-based finite field multiplier for on-the-fly XORIBM·Filed 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 3049US2006123312A1Method and system for increasing parallelism of disk accesses when restoring data in a disk array systemIBM·Filed 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 3144US2010287320A1Interprocessor Communication ArchitectureLSI CORP·Filed 2009·Application pending·0 cites
- 3243US2007028136A1Parity update footprints kept on diskADAPTEC INC·Filed 2005·Application pending·0 cites
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