Inventor
WATANABE STEVEN S
US19 patents
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NETAPP INC
13 patentsUS7613947B1Nov 3, 2009
System and method for storage takeover
NETAPP INC395 citations99
US9141492B2Sep 22, 2015
Transparently migrating a storage object between nodes in a clustered storage system
NETAPP INC31 citations94
US7711683B1May 4, 2010
Method and system for maintaining disk location via homeness
NETAPP INC27 citations92
US7698306B2Apr 13, 2010
System and method for parallelized replay of an NVRAM log in a storage appliance
NETAPP INC17 citations92
US8028054B1Sep 27, 2011
System and method for coordinated bringup of a storage appliance in a cluster configuration
NETAPP INC7 citations84
US7930587B1Apr 19, 2011
System and method for storage takeover
NETAPP INC10 citations84
US7546302B1Jun 9, 2009
Method and system for improved resource giveback
NETAPP INC16 citations84
US9785525B2Oct 10, 2017
High availability failover manager
NETAPP INC14 citations82
US7937367B2May 3, 2011
System and method for parallelized replay of an NVRAM log in a storage appliance
NETAPP INC6 citations74
US7779201B1Aug 17, 2010
System and method for determining disk ownership model
NETAPP INC5 citations72
US10360120B2Jul 23, 2019
High availability failover manager
NETAPP INC4 citations71
US8041736B1Oct 18, 2011
Method and system for maintaining disk location via homeness
NETAPP INC2 citations63
US9846734B2Dec 19, 2017
Transparently migrating a storage object between nodes in a clustered storage system
NETAPP INC1 citations62
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC
4 patentsUS7249150B1Jul 24, 2007
System and method for parallelized replay of an NVRAM log in a storage appliance
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC150 citations99
US7293195B1Nov 6, 2007
System and method for coordinated bringup of a storage appliance in a cluster configuration
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC22 citations92
US7143235B1Nov 28, 2006
Proposed configuration management behaviors in a raid subsystem
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC27 citations92
US7260678B1Aug 21, 2007
System and method for determining disk ownership model
NETWORK APPLIANCE INC25 citations91