Inventor
COWLING JAMES
US15 patents
Patents
15 patentsUS11461365B2Oct 4, 2022
Atomic moves with lamport clocks in a content management system
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US10452271B2Oct 22, 2019
Reconstructing in-memory indices in a distributed data storage system
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US9720607B2Aug 1, 2017
Append-only storage system supporting open and closed extents
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US9547706B2Jan 17, 2017
Using colocation hints to facilitate accessing a distributed data storage system
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US9619322B2Apr 11, 2017
Erasure-coding extents in an append-only storage system
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US9405643B2Aug 2, 2016
Multi-level lookup architecture to facilitate failure recovery
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US10310904B2Jun 4, 2019
Distributed technique for allocating long-lived jobs among worker processes
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US10726044B2Jul 28, 2020
Atomic moves with lamport clocks in a content management system
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US11747996B2Sep 5, 2023
System and methods for implementing a key-value data store
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US9772783B2Sep 26, 2017
Constructing an index to facilitate accessing a closed extent in an append-only storage system
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US9690823B2Jun 27, 2017
Synchronizing copies of an extent in an append-only storage system
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US9569515B2Feb 14, 2017
Facilitating distributed deletes in a replicated storage system
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US10296518B2May 21, 2019
Managing distributed deletes in a replicated storage system
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US10248356B2Apr 2, 2019
Using scratch extents to facilitate copying operations in an append-only storage system
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US9967310B2May 8, 2018
Using an RPC framework to facilitate out-of-band data transfers
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