Inventor
DELANEY WILLIAM P
US38 patents
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LSI LOGIC CORP
21 patentsUS7032125B2Apr 18, 2006
Method for loosely coupling metadata and data in a storage array
LSI LOGIC CORP329 citations99
US6769022B1Jul 27, 2004
Methods and apparatus for managing heterogeneous storage devices
LSI LOGIC CORP252 citations99
US6594744B1Jul 15, 2003
Managing a snapshot volume or one or more checkpoint volumes with multiple point-in-time images in a single repository
LSI LOGIC CORP408 citations99
US6480901B1Nov 12, 2002
System for monitoring and managing devices on a network from a management station via a proxy server that provides protocol converter
LSI LOGIC CORP483 citations99
US5996086ANov 30, 1999
Context-based failover architecture for redundant servers
LSI LOGIC CORP219 citations99
US6877109B2Apr 5, 2005
Method for the acceleration and simplification of file system logging techniques using storage device snapshots
LSI LOGIC CORP113 citations98
US6384842B1May 7, 2002
User interface to provide a physical view of movable physical entities
LSI LOGIC CORP92 citations98
US6157963ADec 5, 2000
System controller with plurality of memory queues for prioritized scheduling of I/O requests from priority assigned clients
LSI LOGIC CORP278 citations98
US6105103AAug 15, 2000
Method for mapping in dynamically addressed storage subsystems
LSI LOGIC CORP115 citations97
US6959413B2Oct 25, 2005
Method of handling unreadable blocks during rebuilding of a RAID device
LSI LOGIC CORP56 citations96
US6678809B1Jan 13, 2004
Write-ahead log in directory management for concurrent I/O access for block storage
LSI LOGIC CORP59 citations96
US6675258B1Jan 6, 2004
Methods and apparatus for seamless firmware update and propagation in a dual raid controller system
LSI LOGIC CORP274 citations96
US7117323B1Oct 3, 2006
Cyclic redundancy checking for managing the coherency of mirrored storage volumes
LSI LOGIC CORP23 citations92
US6836821B2Dec 28, 2004
System and method for providing graph structuring for layered virtual volumes
LSI LOGIC CORP25 citations91
US7146427B2Dec 5, 2006
Polling-based mechanism for improved RPC timeout handling
LSI LOGIC CORP30 citations88
US6622302B1Sep 16, 2003
Methods and apparatus for dynamic version transition of management applications and attached subsystems
LSI LOGIC CORP50 citations88
US6976263B2Dec 13, 2005
Mechanism for encoding and decoding upgradeable RPC/XDR structures
LSI LOGIC CORP15 citations84
US6954810B2Oct 11, 2005
Transparent switch
LSI LOGIC CORP14 citations84
US6591337B1Jul 8, 2003
Method and apparatus for caching objects in a disparate management environment
LSI LOGIC CORP15 citations84
US6931499B2Aug 16, 2005
Method and apparatus for copying data between storage volumes of storage systems
LSI LOGIC CORP17 citations83
US6671777B1Dec 30, 2003
Data storage system and method for managing critical data in an N-way mirrored storage device using first and second sequence numbers
LSI LOGIC CORP11 citations70
NETAPP INC
10 patentsUS9037671B2May 19, 2015
System and method for simple scale-out storage clusters
NETAPP INC4 citations73
US9990261B2Jun 5, 2018
System and method for recovering a storage array
NETAPP INC2 citations72
US11662929B2May 30, 2023
Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing arbitrary sizing of data extents
NETAPP INC1 citations71
US10802740B2Oct 13, 2020
Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing arbitrary sizing of data extents
NETAPP INC1 citations71
US11644978B2May 9, 2023
Read and write load sharing in a storage array via partitioned ownership of data blocks
NETAPP INC0 citations62
US11175831B2Nov 16, 2021
Read and write load sharing in a storage array via partitioned ownership of data blocks
NETAPP INC0 citations62
US11500592B2Nov 15, 2022
Systems and methods for allocating data compression activities in a storage system
NETAPP INC0 citations61
US12265716B2Apr 1, 2025
Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing arbitrary sizing of data extents
NETAPP INC0 citations60
US10503443B2Dec 10, 2019
Systems and methods for allocating data compression activities in a storage system
NETAPP INC0 citations51
US10366065B2Jul 30, 2019
Memory efficient lookup structure
NETAPP INC0 citations38
LSI CORP
4 patentsUS7240237B2Jul 3, 2007
Method and system for high bandwidth fault tolerance in a storage subsystem
LSI CORP9 citations74
US7376756B2May 20, 2008
HDD firmware download
LSI CORP7 citations73
US8019953B2Sep 13, 2011
Method for providing atomicity for host write input/outputs (I/Os) in a continuous data protection (CDP)-enabled volume using intent log
LSI CORP0 citations37
US8015376B2Sep 6, 2011
Methods and systems for management of copies of a mapped storage volume
LSI CORP0 citations37