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Richard P. Jernigan, Iv
Also filed as: JERNIGAN IV RICHARD P · JERNIGAN IV RICHARD PARVIN · JERNIGAN RICHARD · JERNIGAN RICHARD P IV
66 granted patents·13 pending applications·1,993 citations·filing 1994–2025
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79 records- 0199US8117388B2Data distribution through capacity leveling in a striped file systemJERNIGAN IV RICHARD P·Filed 2009·Granted Feb 14, 2012·335 cites·21 claims
- 0299US7747584B1System and method for enabling de-duplication in a storage system architectureNETAPP INC·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 29, 2010·216 cites·26 claims
- 0398US7730258B1System and method for managing hard and soft lock state information in a distributed storage system environmentNETAPP INC·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 1, 2010·385 cites·24 claims
- 0497US8495417B2System and method for redundancy-protected aggregatesJERNIGAN IV RICHARD P·Filed 2009·Granted Jul 23, 2013·93 cites·20 claims
- 0597US5574907ATwo-pass defragmentation of compressed hard disk data with a single data rewriteMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1994·Granted Nov 12, 1996·107 cites·43 claims
- 0696US7827350B1Method and system for promoting a snapshot in a distributed file systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 2, 2010·73 cites·30 claims
- 0796US7409497B1System and method for efficiently guaranteeing data consistency to clients of a storage system clusterNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2005·Granted Aug 5, 2008·50 cites·59 claims
- 0895US8489811B1System and method for addressing data containers using data set identifiersCORBETT PETER F·Filed 2006·Granted Jul 16, 2013·70 cites·21 claims
- 0995US7698501B1System and method for utilizing sparse data containers in a striped volume setNETAPP INC·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 13, 2010·43 cites·18 claims
- 1094US7617370B2Data allocation within a storage system architectureNETAPP INC·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 10, 2009·46 cites·26 claims
- 1193US11868334B2Integrating change tracking of storage objects of a distributed object storage database into a distributed storage systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2022·Granted Jan 9, 2024·2 cites·20 claims
- 1293US7743210B1System and method for implementing atomic cross-stripe write operations in a striped volume setNETAPP INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 22, 2010·39 cites·12 claims
- 1393US7698289B2Storage system architecture for striping data container content across volumes of a clusterNETAPP INC·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 13, 2010·34 cites·50 claims
- 1493US7698334B2System and method for multi-tiered meta-data caching and distribution in a clustered computer environmentNETAPP INC·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 13, 2010·28 cites·26 claims
- 1593US7587558B1System and method for managing hard lock state information in a distributed storage system environmentNETAPP INC·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 8, 2009·35 cites·34 claims
- 1692US7962689B1System and method for performing transactional processing in a striped volume setNETAPP INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 14, 2011·33 cites·19 claims
- 1791US11537634B2Methods for hierarchical propagation in tree structures and devices thereofNETAPP INC·Filed 2021·Granted Dec 27, 2022·3 cites·17 claims
- 1891US8578090B1System and method for restriping data across a plurality of volumesJERNIGAN IV RICHARD P·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 5, 2013·22 cites·15 claims
- 1991US8180983B1Caching filenames of a striped directory in predictable locations within a volume locally accessible to a storage server nodeJERNIGAN RICHARD·Filed 2008·Granted May 15, 2012·39 cites·22 claims
- 2091US8001580B1System and method for revoking soft locks in a distributed storage system environmentNETAPP INC·Filed 2005·Granted Aug 16, 2011·26 cites·21 claims
- 2190US9009206B1Method and system for optimizing traversal and storage of directory entries of a storage volumeNETAPP INC·Filed 2012·Granted Apr 14, 2015·13 cites·16 claims
- 2290US8949614B1Highly efficient guarantee of data consistencyJERNIGAN IV RICHARD P·Filed 2008·Granted Feb 3, 2015·24 cites·24 claims
- 2387US8898206B1Mechanism for distributed inode to path traversal in a striped volume systemJIANG TIANYU·Filed 2010·Granted Nov 25, 2014·13 cites·20 claims
- 2487US8095730B1System and method for providing space availability notification in a distributed striped volume setJIANG TIANYU·Filed 2010·Granted Jan 10, 2012·12 cites·23 claims
- 2587US7975102B1Technique to avoid cascaded hot spottingNETAPP INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 5, 2011·18 cites·28 claims
- 2687US7424497B1Technique for accelerating the creation of a point in time prepresentation of a virtual file systemNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 9, 2008·17 cites·52 claims
- 2786US12079193B2Distributed storage systems and methods to provide change tracking integrated with scalable databasesNETAPP INC·Filed 2022·Granted Sep 3, 2024·1 cites·20 claims
- 2886US11755557B2Flat object storage namespace in an object storage systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2022·Granted Sep 12, 2023·1 cites·20 claims
- 2985US8015355B1System and method for managing hard lock state information in a distributed storage system environmentNETAPP INC·Filed 2009·Granted Sep 6, 2011·12 cites·27 claims
- 3085US7797489B1System and method for providing space availability notification in a distributed striped volume setNETAPP INC·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 14, 2010·14 cites·16 claims
- 3184US12105679B2Remote cloning of files in distributed file systemsNETAPP INC·Filed 2023·Granted Oct 1, 2024·1 cites·20 claims
- 3283US7562101B1Block allocation testingNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2004·Granted Jul 14, 2009·36 cites·35 claims
- 3382US8713077B2System and method for multi-tiered meta-data caching and distribution in a clustered computer environmentKAZAR MICHAEL·Filed 2010·Granted Apr 29, 2014·6 cites·21 claims
- 3481US8161076B1Generation and use of a data structure for distributing responsibilities among multiple resources in a network storage systemJERNIGAN IV RICHARD P·Filed 2009·Granted Apr 17, 2012·9 cites·22 claims
- 3581US8005793B1Retaining persistent point in time data during volume migrationNETAPP INC·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 23, 2011·11 cites·22 claims
- 3680US11561935B2Methods for ensuring correctness of file system analytics and devices thereofNETAPP INC·Filed 2021·Granted Jan 24, 2023·1 cites·20 claims
- 3779US12314221B2Managing attributes in child nodes for a multi-part fileNETAPP INC·Filed 2023·Granted May 27, 2025·1 cites·20 claims
- 3878US9779153B2Data transfer between storage systems using data fingerprintsNETAPP INC·Filed 2014·Granted Oct 3, 2017·4 cites·19 claims
- 3978US8560773B1Technique to avoid cascaded hot spottingHYER JR ROBERT WYCKOFF·Filed 2011·Granted Oct 15, 2013·5 cites·16 claims
- 4078US8176246B1Distributing lookup operations in a striped storage systemJERNIGAN IV RICHARD P·Filed 2011·Granted May 8, 2012·4 cites·20 claims
- 4177US10002055B2Efficient repair of B+ tree databases with variable-length recordsNETAPP INC·Filed 2016·Granted Jun 19, 2018·2 cites·15 claims
- 4277US2025278371A1Data flow bottleneck management techniques using caching mechanisms in distributed storage environmentsNETAPP INC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 4376US2025265229A1Bottleneck management techniques using non-disruptive file movement mechanisms in distributed storage environmentsNETAPP INC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 4475US2024411744A1Distributed storage systems and methods to provide change tracking integrated with scalable databasesNETAPP INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 4575US2025348461A1Non-disruptive file movement within a distributed storage systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 4674US5809295AMethod and apparatus for storing compressed file data on a disk where each MDFAT data structure includes an extra byteMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Sep 15, 1998·50 cites·44 claims
- 4773US12314189B2Bottleneck management techniques using non-disruptive file movement mechanisms in distributed storage environmentsNETAPP INC·Filed 2023·Granted May 27, 2025·0 cites·24 claims
- 4873US12298942B2Bottleneck management techniques using non-disruptive file movement mechanisms in distributed storage environmentsNETAPP INC·Filed 2023·Granted May 13, 2025·0 cites·24 claims
- 4973US8224864B1Striping directories across a striped volume set by the filenames contained in the directoriesJERNIGAN RICHARD·Filed 2008·Granted Jul 17, 2012·7 cites·19 claims
- 5073US2024248914A1Methods for hierarchical propagation in tree structures and devices thereofNETAPP INC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
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