Inventor

Noel Simen Otterness

Inventor

Lafayette, CO, US

Overview

34→

Patents

2001–2021

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 34 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Fprimary

G06FElectric digital data processing68%

Y10STechnical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests11%

H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication9%

G06KGraphical data reading2%

G06VImage or video recognition or understanding2%

G11BInformation storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer2%

H03MCoding2%

H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television2%

Y02DClimate change mitigation technologies in information and communication technologies [ict], i.e. information and communication technologies aiming at the reduction of their own energy use2%

PatentTitleYear

11,087,162Determining relative regions of interest in images using object detection2021 7,809,917'Virtual incremental storage apparatus method and system'2010 7,685,176'Systems and methods of asynchronous data replication'2010 7,526,544'Message tracking method, apparatus, and system'2009 7,496,725'Systems and methods of data migration in snapshot operations'2009 7,467,266'Snapshot management method apparatus and system'2008 7,412,583'Virtual incremental storage method'2008 7,287,134'Methods and systems of managing I/O operations in data storage systems'2007 7,260,739'Method, apparatus and program storage device for allowing continuous availability of data during volume set failures in a mirrored environment'2007 7,254,683'Speculative data mirroring apparatus method and system'2007 7,222,223'Management of I/O operations in data storage systems'2007 7,197,617'Process, apparatus, and system for storing data check information using standard sector data field sizes'2007 7,185,222'Apparatus, system, and method for maintaining data in a storage array'2007 7,143,122'Data replication in data storage systems'2006 7,136,974'Systems and methods of data migration in snapshot operations'2006 7,124,243'Methods and systems of cache memory management and snapshot operations'2006 7,120,824'Method, apparatus and program storage device for maintaining data consistency and cache coherency during communications failures between nodes in a remote mirror pair'2006 7,107,411'Apparatus method and system for fault tolerant virtual memory management'2006 6,950,900'Method and apparatus for migrating data having a format of a first type to a format of a second type'2005 6,912,669'Method and apparatus for maintaining cache coherency in a storage system'2005 6,907,504'Method and system for upgrading drive firmware in a non-disruptive manner'2005 6,807,611'High speed selective mirroring of cached data'2004 6,792,505'System apparatus and method for storage device controller-based message passing having effective data channel bandwidth and controller cache memory increase'2004 6,792,472'System, method and computer readable medium for intelligent raid controllers operating as data routers'2004 6,745,324'Dynamic firmware image creation from an object file stored in a reserved area of a data storage device of a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) system'2004 6,681,339'System and method for efficient failover/failback techniques for fault-tolerant data storage system'2004 6,654,831'Using multiple controllers together to create data spans'2003 6,601,138'Apparatus system and method for N-way RAID controller having improved performance and fault tolerance'2003 6,574,709'System, apparatus, and method providing cache data mirroring to a data storage system'2003 6,490,659'Warm start cache recovery in a dual active controller with cache coherency using stripe locks for implied storage volume reservations'2002 6,487,680'System, apparatus, and method for managing a data storage system in an n-way active controller configuration'2002 6,460,122'System, apparatus and method for multi-level cache in a multi-processor/multi-controller environment'2002 6,247,099'System and method for maintaining cache coherency and data synchronization in a computer system having multiple active controllers'2001 6,182,198'Method and apparatus for providing a disc drive snapshot backup while allowing normal drive read, write, and buffering operations'2001

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

2001–2010Patents assigned to IBM (26)· patent assignee history

2001–2005Based in Boulder, CO, US· patent location history

2004–2010Based in Lafayette, CO, US· patent location history

2006–2010Patents assigned to PILLAR DATA SYSTEMS INC (7)· patent assignee history

2021Patents assigned to NVIDIA CORP (1)· patent assignee history

2021Based in Mebane, NC, US· patent location history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
IBM	26	2001–2010
PILLAR DATA SYSTEMS INC	7	2006–2010
NVIDIA CORP	1	2021

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Lafayette, CO, US	20	2004–2010
Boulder, CO, US	13	2001–2005
Mebane, NC, US	1	2021