Inventor
CHRISTIANSEN NEAL R
US41 patents
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MICROSOFT CORP
15 patentsUS7610307B2Oct 27, 2009
Method and system of detecting file system namespace changes and restoring consistency
MICROSOFT CORP58 citations97
US7636946B2Dec 22, 2009
Unwanted file modification and transactions
MICROSOFT CORP27 citations91
US7571288B2Aug 4, 2009
Scalable rundown protection for object lifetime management
MICROSOFT CORP29 citations91
US7599907B2Oct 6, 2009
Method and system applying policy on screened files
MICROSOFT CORP25 citations90
US7496565B2Feb 24, 2009
Method and system for maintaining namespace consistency with a file system
MICROSOFT CORP17 citations84
US7421560B2Sep 2, 2008
Method and system of computing quota usage
MICROSOFT CORP9 citations84
US7444317B2Oct 28, 2008
System and method for managing file names for file system filter drivers
MICROSOFT CORP11 citations83
US7783677B2Aug 24, 2010
Tracking file system namespace changes during transactions
MICROSOFT CORP7 citations74
US7877424B2Jan 25, 2011
Quota enforcement with transacted file systems
MICROSOFT CORP4 citations63
US7836079B2Nov 16, 2010
Virtual universal naming convention name space over local file system
MICROSOFT CORP5 citations61
US7133977B2Nov 7, 2006
Scalable rundown protection for object lifetime management
MICROSOFT CORP5 citations61
US7496609B2Feb 24, 2009
Dirty shutdown recovery of file system filters
MICROSOFT CORP1 citations52
US7318132B2Jan 8, 2008
Method and apparatus for dynamically unloading file system filters
MICROSOFT CORP0 citations51
US9268643B2Feb 23, 2016
Querying and repairing data
MICROSOFT CORP0 citations49
US7653642B2Jan 26, 2010
Auto quota
MICROSOFT CORP0 citations41
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
10 patentsUS9654585B2May 16, 2017
Efficient file management through granular opportunistic locking
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC7 citations82
US10140461B2Nov 27, 2018
Reducing resource consumption associated with storage and operation of containers
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC2 citations70
US12182425B2Dec 31, 2024
Virtual disk storage techniques
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations61
US11614873B2Mar 28, 2023
Virtual disk storage techniques
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations61
US11061623B2Jul 13, 2021
Preventing excessive hydration in a storage virtualization system
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations61
US10996897B2May 4, 2021
Storage virtualization for directories
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations61
US11507534B2Nov 22, 2022
Metadata storage for placeholders in a storage virtualization system
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations50
US10223378B2Mar 5, 2019
Controlling reparse behavior associated with an intermediate directory
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations45
US10126962B2Nov 13, 2018
Adapted block translation table (BTT)
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC1 citations43
US10585588B2Mar 10, 2020
Virtual storage free space management
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations41
HAVEWALA SAROSH C
6 patentsUS8713270B2Apr 29, 2014
Efficient file system metadata scanning using scoped snapshots
HAVEWALA SAROSH C5 citations69
US8856088B2Oct 7, 2014
Application-managed file versioning
HAVEWALA SAROSH C2 citations60
US8607099B2Dec 10, 2013
Online fault verification in a file system
HAVEWALA SAROSH C3 citations60
US8621276B2Dec 31, 2013
File system resiliency management
HAVEWALA SAROSH C2 citations56
US8176017B2May 8, 2012
Live volume access
HAVEWALA SAROSH C1 citations51
US8667323B2Mar 4, 2014
Proactive error scan and isolated error correction
HAVEWALA SAROSH C0 citations39