Inventor
KUSTERS NORBERT P
US37 patents
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MICROSOFT CORP
23 patentsUS6904599B1Jun 7, 2005
Storage management system having abstracted volume providers
MICROSOFT CORP110 citations98
US6681310B1Jan 20, 2004
Storage management system having common volume manager
MICROSOFT CORP74 citations98
US6651075B1Nov 18, 2003
Support for multiple temporal snapshots of same volume
MICROSOFT CORP267 citations98
US6549934B1Apr 15, 2003
Method and system for remote access to computer devices via client managed server buffers exclusively allocated to the client
MICROSOFT CORP171 citations98
US6473775B1Oct 29, 2002
System and method for growing differential file on a base volume of a snapshot
MICROSOFT CORP326 citations98
US6421684B1Jul 16, 2002
Persistent volume mount points
MICROSOFT CORP90 citations98
US6119131ASep 12, 2000
Persistent volume mount points
MICROSOFT CORP102 citations98
US7664771B2Feb 16, 2010
Optimizing defragmentation operations in a differential snapshotter
MICROSOFT CORP114 citations97
US6647473B1Nov 11, 2003
Kernel-based crash-consistency coordinator
MICROSOFT CORP187 citations96
US6553387B1Apr 22, 2003
Logical volume configuration data management determines whether to expose the logical volume on-line, off-line request based on comparison of volume epoch numbers on each extents of the volume identifiers
MICROSOFT CORP71 citations96
US6665786B2Dec 16, 2003
Dynamic disk partition management
MICROSOFT CORP67 citations94
US6496839B2Dec 17, 2002
Persistent names for logical volumes
MICROSOFT CORP23 citations93
US6735603B2May 11, 2004
Logical volume data structure determining configuration status of logical volume based on comparing values of examined volume epoch identifiers on each on-line extent
MICROSOFT CORP28 citations92
US6629202B1Sep 30, 2003
Volume stacking model
MICROSOFT CORP34 citations92
US6654881B2Nov 25, 2003
Logical volume mount manager
MICROSOFT CORP16 citations91
US6615256B1Sep 2, 2003
Quorum resource arbiter within a storage network
MICROSOFT CORP52 citations91
US6684231B1Jan 27, 2004
Migration of friendly volumes
MICROSOFT CORP15 citations84
US7383466B2Jun 3, 2008
Method and system of previewing a volume revert operation
MICROSOFT CORP16 citations79
US8386434B2Feb 26, 2013
Optimizing defragmentation operations in a differential snapshotter
MICROSOFT CORP5 citations72
US7051198B2May 23, 2006
Logical volume mount manager
MICROSOFT CORP10 citations72
US7334007B2Feb 19, 2008
Volume migration
MICROSOFT CORP4 citations63
US7991971B2Aug 2, 2011
State management for transactional backup consistency
MICROSOFT CORP5 citations62
US7584224B2Sep 1, 2009
Volume configuration data administration
MICROSOFT CORP4 citations62
AMAZON TECH INC
12 patentsUS10055352B2Aug 21, 2018
Page cache write logging at block-based storage
AMAZON TECH INC19 citations94
US9413680B1Aug 9, 2016
Multi-tenant throttling approaches
AMAZON TECH INC36 citations92
US10771550B2Sep 8, 2020
Data storage system with redundant internal networks
AMAZON TECH INC7 citations84
US10514847B2Dec 24, 2019
Data storage system with multiple durability levels
AMAZON TECH INC10 citations84
US10509601B2Dec 17, 2019
Data storage system with multi-tier control plane
AMAZON TECH INC7 citations84
US10484015B2Nov 19, 2019
Data storage system with enforced fencing
AMAZON TECH INC9 citations84
US11188469B2Nov 30, 2021
Page cache write logging at block-based storage
AMAZON TECH INC1 citations73
US10503650B2Dec 10, 2019
Page cache write logging at block-based storage
AMAZON TECH INC2 citations73
US11467732B2Oct 11, 2022
Data storage system with multiple durability levels
AMAZON TECH INC0 citations62
US11444641B2Sep 13, 2022
Data storage system with enforced fencing
AMAZON TECH INC0 citations62
US11438411B2Sep 6, 2022
Data storage system with redundant internal networks
AMAZON TECH INC0 citations62
US11237772B2Feb 1, 2022
Data storage system with multi-tier control plane
AMAZON TECH INC0 citations62