British merchant Peter Durand invented the tin can in 1810.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6529995 | Method and apparatus for maintaining and restoring mapping table entries and data in a raid system A method and apparatus are disclosed for the temporary preservation of physical space occupied by modified or deleted data stored in parallel disk drive array data storage subsystems, and for the temporary preservation of associated virtual to logical map... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6471308 | Frameless stackable cabinet system for rack mounted electronic equipment The frameless, stackable cabinet system for use with rack mounted electronic equipment comprises stackable wall members that mechanically interconnect without the need for tools to assemble the cabinet. A base unit and cover unit provide the interlocking ... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6351792 | Selective remote storage copy system and methods The invention provides for remote copying, between peer storage systems, with data extent granularity. A compressed data image is read from a first location of a primary storage volume. Metadata, and then the compressed data image, are transferred to a se... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6349150 | Predictive data compression system and methods Data compression logic of the invention compresses data from a host to a connected cache memory for storage within a storage device. A compressor within the logic implements a compression algorithm on the data; and a plurality of Chunk RAMs store compress... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6347389 | Pipelined high speed reed-solomon error/erasure decoder The pipelined high speed Reed-Solomon error/erasure decoder processes multiple code words in a pipelined fashion. The pipelined high speed Reed-Solomon error/erasure decoder is designed to process Reed-Solomon encoded words that have been corrupted in a d... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6331928 | ESD-protected interface panel and associated methods The invention provides an ESD-protected interface panel. A signal board has one or more circuit layers and at least one button switch on a first side of the board. An electrical output (e.g., an electrical cable and/or connector) connects in circuit with ... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6330621 | Intelligent data storage manager The intelligent data storage manager functions to combine the non-homogeneous physical devices contained in a data storage subsystem to create a logical device with new and unique quality of service characteristics that satisfy the criteria for the polici... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6311251 | System for optimizing data storage in a RAID system The intelligent data storage manager functions to optimize the data storage utilization in a RAID data storage subsystem that is equipped with a heterogeneous mix of data storage elements. This is accomplished by using preference groups and biasing the wr... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6262863 | Automated storage library with rail mechanism providing flexible robot access The automated library system contains multiple independent robots for concurrently manipulating multiple media cartridges. The library system comprises a two-dimensional array that contains media cartridge storage cells and media cartridge players. A syst... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6194796 | Long-stroke voice coil linear actuator A voice coil linear actuator includes a bobbin connected to a voice coil, a center pole piece, a main magnet, and an outer pole and housing. An auxiliary magnet is constructed and arranged for attachment to the center pole piece such that the center pole ... | 02/27/2001 |