Inventor

ZHENG LING

US84 patents

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ZHENG LING

NETAPP INC

Dense tree volume metadata update logging and checkpointing

Dense tree volume metadata organization

Architecture for supporting sparse volumes

System and method for managing data deduplication of storage systems utilizing persistent consistency point images

Orchestrator for orchestrating operations between a computing environment hosting virtual machines and a storage environment

Reducing stable data eviction with synthetic baseline snapshot and eviction state refresh

Technique for preserving efficiency for replication between clusters of a network

Reducing stable data eviction with synthetic baseline snapshot and eviction state refresh

Consistency group management

Dense tree volume metadata organization

Snapshots and clones of volumes in a storage system

Virtual machine backup from computing environment to storage environment

Incremental restore of a virtual machine

System and method for providing continuous data protection

Snapshot metadata arrangement for efficient cloud integrated data management

Snapshots and clones of volumes in a storage system

System and method for restoring data on demand for instant volume restoration

Method and apparatus for generating and describing block-level difference information about two snapshots

Reconstruction of dense tree volume metadata state across crash recovery

Presenting differences in a file system

Incremental backup to object store

Intelligent snapshot tiering

System performing data deduplication using a dense tree data structure

Incremental dump with a metadata container walk using inode-to-parent mapping information

N-way merge technique for updating volume metadata in a storage I/O stack

Technique for recovery of trapped storage space in an extent store

Deduplicating data blocks in a storage system

Space savings reporting for storage system supporting snapshot and clones

Snapshot restore workflow

Cross-platform replication

Snapshot creation workflow

Reconstruction of dense tree volume metadata state across crash recovery

Virtual machine backup from computing environment to storage environment

Orchestrator for orchestrating operations between a computing environment hosting virtual machines and a storage environment

Reducing stable data eviction with synthetic baseline snapshot and eviction state refresh

NVRAM loss handling

Data block name based efficient restore of multiple files from deduplicated storage

Dense tree volume metadata organization

Snapshots and clones of volumes in a storage system

Dense tree volume metadata update logging and checkpointing

ZHENG LING

Individual file restore from block-level incremental backups by using client-server backup protocol

System and method for restoring data to a storage device based on a backup image

System and method for retrieving and using block fingerprints for data deduplication

Single-system configuration for backing-up and restoring a clustered storage system

System and method for sampling based elimination of duplicate data

Single file restore from image backup by using an independent block list for each file

Method and apparatus for identifying and eliminating duplicate data blocks and sharing data blocks in a storage system

Saving multiple snapshots without duplicating common blocks to protect the entire contents of a volume

Adaptive notch filter

TING DANIEL

System and method for managing data deduplication of storage systems utilizing persistent consistency point images