Patents by Inventor Ben H. McMillan, Jr.

Ben H. McMillan, Jr. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Hierarchical queues within a storage array (RAID) controller
    Patent number: 5687390
    Abstract: A queuing architecture within a RAID controller that manages a multi-threaded SCSI environment. The architecture resides within a RAID controller that communicates with a plurality of independent, SCSI disk drives (or other storage elements). The RAID controller accepts disk I/O requests from one or more host computers. The architecture dynamically allocates multiple disk I/O requests to various request queues until the disk drive that will handle the request is available for access. Multiple requests are executed in parallel on various ones of the disk drives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Assignee: ECCS, Inc.
    Inventor: Ben H. McMillan, Jr.