Patents by Inventor Scott T. Peiffer

Scott T. Peiffer 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).

  • Fault tolerant soft error detection for storage subsystems
    Patent number: 7562264
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting soft errors in a storage subsystem is provided. Write data generated for a write operation in a first controller is concurrently generated in a second controller and written to a storage device by the first controller. Soft errors are detected by comparing the two sets of write data by comparing respective checksums or the write data read back from the storage device by the second controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew B. Tangvald, Morgan Dempsey, Scott T. Peiffer
  • Fault tolerant soft error detection for storage subsystems
    Publication number: 20080126885
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting soft errors in a storage subsystem is provided. Write data generated for a write operation in a first controller is concurrently generated in a second controller and written to a storage device by the first controller. Soft errors are detected by comparing the two sets of write data by comparing respective checksums or the write data read back from the storage device by the second controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Matthew B. Tangvald, Morgan Dempsey, Scott T. Peiffer