Patents by Inventor Kent P. Fischer

Kent P. Fischer 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).

  • Intelligent storage engine for disk drive operations with reduced local bus traffic
    Patent number: 7395358
    Abstract: For attached disk drive operations such a file copy and move, as well as more elaborate processes such as searching, virus-scanning and volume merge, a novel intelligent storage engine concept is disclosed. In one embodiment, a storage engine (40), utilizing local processor intelligence, and accessed through a suitable driver (60) and API (App. B), carries out disk access operations without burdening the host CPU (22) and without imposing data traffic on the local CPU bus (34), except for returning results data in an appropriate case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Andy Mills, Kent P. Fischer