Patents by Inventor Shermer Schwartz

Shermer Schwartz 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).

  • Method, system and circuit for managing task queues in a disk device controller
    Patent number: 7539815
    Abstract: In accordance with further embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a disk controller for managing the delegation of tasks from a disk controller to a disk, including a task delegation module adapted to delegate fetch or destage tasks to the disk in accordance with a relation between an amount of dirty data currently in a cache and a number of pending destage tasks currently being handled by the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ofir Zohar, Yaron Revah, Haim Helman, Dror Cohen, Shermer Schwartz