Inventor
STRANGE STEPHEN H
US33 patents
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NETAPP INC
19 patentsUS7613947B1Nov 3, 2009
System and method for storage takeover
NETAPP INC395 citations99
US8041924B2Oct 18, 2011
Location-independent raid group virtual block management
NETAPP INC14 citations92
US7930475B1Apr 19, 2011
Method for writing contiguous arrays of stripes in a RAID storage system using mapped block writes
NETAPP INC28 citations92
US7926059B2Apr 12, 2011
Method and apparatus for decomposing I/O tasks in a RAID system
NETAPP INC26 citations92
US7711683B1May 4, 2010
Method and system for maintaining disk location via homeness
NETAPP INC27 citations92
US7539991B2May 26, 2009
Method and apparatus for decomposing I/O tasks in a raid system
NETAPP INC28 citations92
US7979633B2Jul 12, 2011
Method for writing contiguous arrays of stripes in a RAID storage system
NETAPP INC11 citations84
US7930587B1Apr 19, 2011
System and method for storage takeover
NETAPP INC10 citations84
US7660966B2Feb 9, 2010
Location-independent RAID group virtual block management
NETAPP INC9 citations84
US7546302B1Jun 9, 2009
Method and system for improved resource giveback
NETAPP INC16 citations84
US10664366B2May 26, 2020
Third vote consensus in a cluster using shared storage devices
NETAPP INC7 citations83
US9836366B2Dec 5, 2017
Third vote consensus in a cluster using shared storage devices
NETAPP INC11 citations83
US9785525B2Oct 10, 2017
High availability failover manager
NETAPP INC14 citations82
US9378258B2Jun 28, 2016
Method and system for transparently replacing nodes of a clustered storage system
NETAPP INC5 citations82
US10360120B2Jul 23, 2019
High availability failover manager
NETAPP INC4 citations71
US8041736B1Oct 18, 2011
Method and system for maintaining disk location via homeness
NETAPP INC2 citations63
US9411514B2Aug 9, 2016
Method and apparatus for decomposing I/O tasks in a RAID system
NETAPP INC0 citations52
US10282137B2May 7, 2019
Uniquely naming storage devices in a global storage environment
NETAPP INC0 citations51
US9940196B2Apr 10, 2018
Methods and systems for offloading RAID parity reconstruction
NETAPP INC1 citations50
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC
11 patentsUS7200715B2Apr 3, 2007
Method for writing contiguous arrays of stripes in a RAID storage system using mapped block writes
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC117 citations99
US7111147B1Sep 19, 2006
Location-independent RAID group virtual block management
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC92 citations98
US7024586B2Apr 4, 2006
Using file system information in raid data reconstruction and migration
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC69 citations98
US7574623B1Aug 11, 2009
Method and system for rapidly recovering data from a “sick” disk in a RAID disk group
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC77 citations97
US6965989B1Nov 15, 2005
System and method for fast reboot of a file server
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC69 citations97
US8386834B1Feb 26, 2013
Raid storage configuration for cached data storage
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC43 citations94
US7596712B1Sep 29, 2009
Method and system for efficiently accessing a storage redundancy group
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC20 citations92
US7437727B2Oct 14, 2008
Method and apparatus for runtime resource deadlock avoidance in a raid system
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC24 citations92
US7254813B2Aug 7, 2007
Method and apparatus for resource allocation in a raid system
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC47 citations92
US7143235B1Nov 28, 2006
Proposed configuration management behaviors in a raid subsystem
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC27 citations92
US7143249B2Nov 28, 2006
Resynchronization of mirrored storage devices
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC15 citations84