Inventor

Rodney N. Mullendore

Inventor

San Jose, CA, US

Overview

2002–2021

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 42 as inventor

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

G06Fprimary

G06FElectric digital data processing46%

H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication18%

G11CStatic stores13%

H03MCoding8%

Y02DClimate change mitigation technologies in information and communication technologies [ict], i.e. information and communication technologies aiming at the reduction of their own energy use8%

Y02BClimate change mitigation technologies related to buildings, e.g. housing, house appliances or related end-user applications4%

H04QSelecting1%

PatentTitleYear

10,990,293Extensible storage system and method2021 10,642,503Extensible storage system and method2020 10,372,346Extensible storage system controller2019 10,254,983Atomic write command support in a solid state drive2019 10,082,957Dual-ported PCI express-based storage cartridge including single-ported storage controllers2018 10,061,696Partial garbage collection for fast error handling and optimized garbage collection for the invisible band2018 10,055,345Methods, devices and systems for solid state drive control2018 9,948,322High performance read-modify-write system providing line-rate merging of dataframe segments in hardware2018 9,866,484'Network congestion management systems and methods'2018 9,817,577'Methods, devices and systems for two stage power-on map rebuild with free space accounting in a solid state drive'2017 9,778,885'Compressor resources for high density storage units'2017 9,760,304'High performance system for selective merging of dataframe segments'2017 9,594,520'Atomic write command support in a solid state drive'2017 9,565,110'Network congestion management systems and methods'2017 9,529,710'Interleaved channels in a solid-state drive'2016 9,507,523'Methods, devices and systems for variable size logical page management in a solid state drive'2016 9,489,296'Methods, devices and systems for hardware-based garbage collection in solid state drives'2016 9,471,242'Early de-allocation of write buffer in an SSD'2016 9,454,474'Methods, devices and systems for two stage power-on map rebuild with free space accounting in a solid state drive'2016 9,396,104'Accessing compressed data of varying-sized quanta in non-volatile memory'2016 9,384,088'Double writing map table entries in a data storage system to guard against silent corruption'2016 9,354,955'Partial garbage collection for fast error handling and optimized garbage collection for the invisible band'2016 9,304,709'High performance system providing selective merging of dataframe segments in hardware'2016 9,286,176'Selective skipping of blocks in an SSD'2016 9,268,682'Methods, devices and systems for physical-to-logical mapping in solid state drives'2016 9,218,279'Atomic write command support in a solid state drive'2015 9,177,638'Methods and devices for avoiding lower page corruption in data storage devices'2015 9,170,939'Early de-allocation of write buffer in an SSD'2015 9,081,700'High performance read-modify-write system providing line-rate merging of dataframe segments in hardware'2015 9,059,736'Methods, solid state drive controllers and data storage devices having a runtime variable raid protection scheme'2015 9,021,339'Data reliability schemes for data storage systems'2015 8,954,694'Methods, data storage devices and systems for fragmented firmware table rebuild in a solid state drive'2015 8,898,548'Methods, data storage devices and systems having variable size ECC page size'2014 8,051,197'Network congestion management systems and methods'2011 7,809,852'High jitter scheduling of interleaved frames in an arbitrated loop'2010 7,406,041'System and method for late-dropping packets in a network switch'2008 7,283,556'Method and system for managing time division multiplexing (TDM) timeslots in a network switch'2007 7,227,841'Packet input thresholding for resource distribution in a network switch'2007 7,215,680'Method and apparatus for scheduling packet flow on a fibre channel arbitrated loop'2007 7,197,047'Method and apparatus for transferring data between IP network devices and SCSI and fibre channel devices over an IP network'2007 7,042,891'Dynamic selection of lowest latency path in a network switch'2006 6,400,730'Method and apparatus for transferring data between IP network devices and SCSI and fibre channel devices over an IP network'2002

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

2002–2007Patents assigned to NISHAN SYSTEMS INC (6)· patent assignee history

2002–2021Based in San Jose, CA, US· patent location history

2008–2018Patents assigned to BROCADE COMM SYSTEMS INC (5)· patent assignee history

2014–2021Patents assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC (29)· patent assignee history

2015–2019Patents assigned to SKYERA LLC (21)· patent assignee history

2015–2016Patents assigned to SKYERA INC (5)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC	29	2014–2021
SKYERA LLC	21	2015–2019
NISHAN SYSTEMS INC	6	2002–2007
BROCADE COMM SYSTEMS INC	5	2008–2018
SKYERA INC	5	2015–2016

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
San Jose, California, US	42	2002–2021