Robert Michael Walsh
Landscape Architect at Concord Ave, Boulder, CO

5344332, Sep 6, 1994

Jun 3, 1993

8/071682

Roger A. Lopez - Louisville CO
Robert J. Miosek - Berthoud CO
Robert Walsh - Boulder CO

Storage Technology Corporation - Louisville CO

H01R 1374

439248

A method and apparatus for mounting mated floating, electrical connectors is disclosed. Floating connectors are used to isolate the component parts of the connectors from the vibrations of devices which are semi-rigidly mounted with respect to one another and to which the connectors are movably mounted. The floating connector of the present invention provides a high degree of freedom to float both side to side and up and down. The connector has flanges extending over the walls of an opening into which the connector is movably mounted. This allows the connector a wide range of freedom to float. Both a snap-in and a twist-in connector design are shown. A flexible wiring circuit attached to the floating connector provides both electrical connections to an associated device as well as a spring bias tension to further retain the connector within the receptacle. Obscured (often called "blind") connections are simplified by the connector because the high degree of float permits a wide range of misalignment as the floating connector mates with another connector. This easy to assemble connector apparatus allows for inexpensive, reliable, floating, blind connections between devices.

7000088, Feb 14, 2006

Dec 27, 2002

10/330838

George A. Rudeseal - Boulder CO, US
Robert F. Walsh - Boulder CO, US
Stephen S. Selkirk - Westminister CO, US

Storage Technology Corporation - Louisville CO

G06F 12/00

711173, 711 4, 711112, 711114, 711158, 711202, 711203, 710 5, 710 36, 710 74, 710244

A direct access storage system includes at least one disk and a controller. The at least one disk physically may be partitioned into at least one first access performance partition and at least one other access performance partition. The controller may be configured to process I/O accesses to the first access performance partition without regulation and regulate I/O accesses to the at least one other access performance partition.

7185168, Feb 27, 2007

Dec 2, 2005

11/293452

George A. Rudeseal - Boulder CO, US
Robert F. Walsh - Boulder CO, US
Stephen S. Selkirk - Westminister CO, US

Storage Technology Corporation - Louisville CO

G06F 12/00

711173, 711 4, 711112, 711114, 711158, 711202, 711203, 710 5, 710 36, 710 74, 710244

A direct access storage system includes at least one disk and a controller. The at least one disk physically may be partitioned into at least one first access performance partition and at least one other access performance partition. The controller may be configured to process I/O accesses to the first access performance partition without regulation and regulate I/O accesses to the at least one other access performance partition.

5430855, Jul 4, 1995

Aug 31, 1994

8/299247

Robert Walsh - Boulder CO
George A. Rudeseal - Boulder CO
Jay S. Belsan - Nederland CO

Storage Technology Corporation - Louisville CO

G06F 300

395275

The data storage subsystem is implemented using an array of data storage elements which vary in data storage characteristics and/or data storage capacity. Control apparatus automatically compensates for any nonuniformity among the data storage elements by selecting a set of physical characteristics that define a common data storage element format. The selected set of physical characteristics may not match any of the disk drives but each disk drive can emulate these selected characteristics. This capability enables the disk drives in the data storage subsystem to be replaced by nonidentical disk drives in a nondisruptive manner to provide continuous data availability.

5077736, Dec 31, 1991

Feb 13, 1990

7/480019

Robert H. Dunphy - Holland PA
Robert Walsh - Boulder CO
John H. Bowers - Clarksburg NY
George A. Rudeseal - Boulder CO

Storage Technology Corporation - Louisville CO

G06F 1110

371 101

The disk drive memory of the present invention uses a large plurality of small form factor disk drives to implement an inexpensive, high performance, high reliability disk drive memory that emulates the format and capability of large form factor disk drives. The plurality of disk drives are switchably interconnectable to form redundancy groups of N+M parallel connnected disk drives to store data thereon. The N+M disk drives are used to store the N segments of each data word plus M redundancy segments. In addition, a pool of R backup disk drives is maintained to automatically substitute a replacement disk drive for a disk drive in a redundancy group that fails during operation. The number N of data segments in each data redundancy group can be varied throughout the disk drive memory to thereby match the characteristics of the input data or operational parameters within the disk drive memory. Furthermore, a group of U unassigned disk drives can be maintained as a stock of disk drives that can be powered up as needed and assigned to either a redundancy group or to the pool of backup disk drives.

4989206, Jan 29, 1991

Jan 11, 1990

7/463512

Robert H. Dunphy - Holland PA
Robert Walsh - Boulder CO
John H. Bowers - Clarksburg NJ

Storage Technology Corporation - Louisville CO

G06F 1120

371 101

The disk drive memory of the present invention uses a large plurality of small form factor disk drives to implement an inexpensive, high performance, high reliability disk drive memory that emulates the format and capability of large form factor disk drives. The plurality of disk drives are switchably interconnectable to form parity groups of N+1 parallel connected disk drives to store data thereon. The N+1 disk drives are used to store the N segments of each data word plus a parity segment. In addition, a pool of backup disk drives is maintained to automatically substitute a replacement disk drive for a disk drive in a parity group that fails during operation.

4914656, Apr 3, 1990

Jun 28, 1988

7/212434

Robert H. Dunphy - Holland PA
Robert Walsh - Boulder CO
John H. Bowers - Clarksburg NJ

Storage Technology Corporation - Louisville CO

G06F 722

371 102

The disk drive memory of the present invention uses a large plurality of small form factor disk drives to implement an inexpensive, high performance, high reliability disk drive memory that emulates the format and capability of large form factor disk drives. The plurality of disk drives are switchably interconnectable to form parity groups of N+1 parallel connected disk drives to store data thereon. The N+1 disk drives are used to store the N segments of each data word plus a parity segment. In addition, a pool of backup disk drives is maintained to automatically substitute a replacement disk drive for a disk drive in a parity group that fails during operation.

4989205, Jan 29, 1991

Jan 11, 1990

7/463591

Robert H. Dunphy - Holland PA
Robert Walsh - Boulder CO
John H. Bowers - Clarksburg NJ

Storage Technology Corporation - Louisville CO

G06F 1110

371 101

The disk drive memory of the present invention uses a large plurality of small form factor disk drives to implement an inexpensive, high performance, high reliability disk drive memory that emulates the format and capability of large form factor disk drives. The plurality of disk drives are switchably interconnectable to form parity groups of N+1 parallel connected disk drives to store data thereon. The N+1 disk drives are used to store the N segments of each data word plus a parity segment. In addition, a pool of backup disk drives is maintained to automatically substitute a replacement disk drive for a disk drive in a parity group that fails during operation.