Inventor
LEWIS BLAKE H
US39 patents
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NETAPP INC
30 patentsUS8996535B1Mar 31, 2015
Extent hashing technique for distributed storage architecture
NETAPP INC65 citations98
US8996797B1Mar 31, 2015
Dense tree volume metadata update logging and checkpointing
NETAPP INC43 citations98
US8892818B1Nov 18, 2014
Dense tree volume metadata organization
NETAPP INC41 citations98
US8880788B1Nov 4, 2014
Flash optimized, log-structured layer of a file system
NETAPP INC48 citations97
US10565230B2Feb 18, 2020
Technique for preserving efficiency for replication between clusters of a network
NETAPP INC26 citations94
US9448924B2Sep 20, 2016
Flash optimized, log-structured layer of a file system
NETAPP INC30 citations94
US9405783B2Aug 2, 2016
Extent hashing technique for distributed storage architecture
NETAPP INC29 citations94
US9268502B2Feb 23, 2016
Dense tree volume metadata organization
NETAPP INC29 citations94
US9037544B1May 19, 2015
Snapshots and clones of volumes in a storage system
NETAPP INC35 citations94
US7769723B2Aug 3, 2010
System and method for providing continuous data protection
NETAPP INC35 citations93
US9152684B2Oct 6, 2015
Snapshots and clones of volumes in a storage system
NETAPP INC25 citations92
US7698306B2Apr 13, 2010
System and method for parallelized replay of an NVRAM log in a storage appliance
NETAPP INC17 citations92
US10042853B2Aug 7, 2018
Flash optimized, log-structured layer of a file system
NETAPP INC7 citations84
US9529546B2Dec 27, 2016
Global in-line extent-based deduplication
NETAPP INC11 citations84
US9152335B2Oct 6, 2015
Global in-line extent-based deduplication
NETAPP INC13 citations84
US9836229B2Dec 5, 2017
N-way merge technique for updating volume metadata in a storage I/O stack
NETAPP INC13 citations83
US9256378B2Feb 9, 2016
Deduplicating data blocks in a storage system
NETAPP INC12 citations83
US10268410B2Apr 23, 2019
Efficient modification of storage system metadata
NETAPP INC5 citations81
US7962531B2Jun 14, 2011
Multiple concurrent active file systems
NETAPP INC5 citations74
US7937367B2May 3, 2011
System and method for parallelized replay of an NVRAM log in a storage appliance
NETAPP INC6 citations74
US9563654B2Feb 7, 2017
Dense tree volume metadata organization
NETAPP INC4 citations73
US9471248B2Oct 18, 2016
Snapshots and clones of volumes in a storage system
NETAPP INC4 citations73
US9405473B2Aug 2, 2016
Dense tree volume metadata update logging and checkpointing
NETAPP INC4 citations73
US9201918B2Dec 1, 2015
Dense tree volume metadata update logging and checkpointing
NETAPP INC4 citations73
US10365838B2Jul 30, 2019
N-way merge technique for updating volume metadata in a storage I/O stack
NETAPP INC3 citations72
US11340812B2May 24, 2022
Efficient modification of storage system metadata
NETAPP INC4 citations70
US8990539B2Mar 24, 2015
Extension of write anywhere file system layout
NETAPP INC1 citations63
US9477420B2Oct 25, 2016
Overwriting part of compressed data without decompressing on-disk compressed data
NETAPP INC2 citations62
US7783684B2Aug 24, 2010
Efficient, robust file handle invalidation
NETAPP INC3 citations62
US10838642B2Nov 17, 2020
Efficient modification of storage system metadata
NETAPP INC0 citations49
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC
6 patentsUS7409494B2Aug 5, 2008
Extension of write anywhere file system layout
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC165 citations99
US7249150B1Jul 24, 2007
System and method for parallelized replay of an NVRAM log in a storage appliance
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC150 citations99
US7111021B1Sep 19, 2006
System and method for efficient space accounting in a file system with snapshots
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC71 citations98
US7107385B2Sep 12, 2006
Storage virtualization by layering virtual disk objects on a file system
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC279 citations98
US7467276B1Dec 16, 2008
System and method for automatic root volume creation
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC18 citations92
US7117303B1Oct 3, 2006
Efficient, robust file handle invalidation
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC34 citations92