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Arif Merchant
Also filed as: MERCHANT ARIF · MERCHANT ARIF A · MERCHANT ARIF ABDULHUSEIN
78 granted patents·6 pending applications·1,393 citations·filing 1998–2025
99Inventor score
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84 records- 0198US7467333B2System and method for interposition-based selective simulation of faults for access requests to a data storage systemHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2005·Granted Dec 16, 2008·130 cites·45 claims
- 0296US7716425B1Prefetching data in distributed storage systemsHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2006·Granted May 11, 2010·59 cites·20 claims
- 0395US7536585B1Method of estimating storage system availabilityHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2005·Granted May 19, 2009·58 cites·36 claims
- 0494US9128825B1Optimizing allocation of flash memory to file groupsGOOGLE INC·Filed 2013·Granted Sep 8, 2015·29 cites·25 claims
- 0594US7827144B1Methods of reading and writing dataHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 2, 2010·37 cites·36 claims
- 0694US7644046B1Method of estimating storage system costHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 5, 2010·41 cites·46 claims
- 0793US9239794B1Managing a prefetch buffer with probabilistic access predictionsGOOGLE INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jan 19, 2016·19 cites·20 claims
- 0893US8949489B1Method for combining bulk and latency-sensitive input and outputMERCHANT ARIF·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 3, 2015·20 cites·30 claims
- 0991US11907258B2Distributed database configurationGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Feb 20, 2024·1 cites·18 claims
- 1089US7823156B2Method of hashing address space to storage serversHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 26, 2010·21 cites·37 claims
- 1189US7467329B1Method of estimating storage system reliabilityHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2005·Granted Dec 16, 2008·22 cites·34 claims
- 1289US7035971B1Request scheduling to mirrored heterogeneous storage arraysHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 25, 2006·57 cites·30 claims
- 1388US7152077B2System for redundant storage of dataHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 19, 2006·57 cites·17 claims
- 1487US11838356B2Weighted auto-sharingGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Dec 5, 2023·1 cites·20 claims
- 1587US9477679B2Programmatically choosing preferred storage parameters for files in large-scale distributed storage systemsGOOGLE INC·Filed 2013·Granted Oct 25, 2016·6 cites·50 claims
- 1687US9047306B1Method of writing dataFROLUND SVEND·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 2, 2015·26 cites·44 claims
- 1787US7823154B2System and method for providing, by a plurality of schedulers, differentiated service to consumers of distributed resourcesHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 26, 2010·19 cites·46 claims
- 1886US8335770B2Method of restoring dataMERCHANT ARIF·Filed 2005·Granted Dec 18, 2012·16 cites·35 claims
- 1986US7725655B2Method of operating distributed storage system in which data is read from replicated caches and stored as erasure-coded dataHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2006·Granted May 25, 2010·16 cites·19 claims
- 2085US9043512B1Method for combining non-latency-sensitive and latency-sensitive input and outputGOOGLE INC·Filed 2015·Granted May 26, 2015·4 cites·20 claims
- 2185US8392633B2Scheduling requesters of a shared storage resourceGULATI AJAY·Filed 2008·Granted Mar 5, 2013·14 cites·17 claims
- 2285US7917903B2Quality of service controller and method for a data storage systemHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 29, 2011·42 cites·40 claims
- 2384US7647454B2Transactional shared memory system and method of controlHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2006·Granted Jan 12, 2010·14 cites·24 claims
- 2484US7032086B2System and method for adjusting storage device layout with at least one status for the adjustingHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2003·Granted Apr 18, 2006·38 cites·29 claims
- 2582US12386856B2Distributed database configurationGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2024·Granted Aug 12, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 2681US11556561B2Distributed database configurationGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Jan 17, 2023·1 cites·18 claims
- 2781US7043621B2Sharding method and apparatus using directed graphsHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2003·Granted May 9, 2006·31 cites·20 claims
- 2881US6934673B2Method and apparatus for predicting multi-part performabilityHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 23, 2005·33 cites·26 claims
- 2981US6119174AMethods and apparatus for implementing quality-of-service guarantees in data storage systemsHEWLETT PACKARD CO·Filed 1998·Granted Sep 12, 2000·65 cites·20 claims
- 3080US7643983B2Data storage system emulationHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 5, 2010·29 cites·38 claims
- 3179US9286932B2Hard disk drive having regions corresponding to different speeds at which storage surface rotatesANDERSON ERIC A·Filed 2009·Granted Mar 15, 2016·3 cites·8 claims
- 3279US8713280B2Hard disk drives having different rotational speedsANDERSON ERIC A·Filed 2009·Granted Apr 29, 2014·9 cites·15 claims
- 3379US7979742B2Recoverability of a dataset associated with a multi-tier storage systemHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 12, 2011·9 cites·20 claims
- 3479US7310703B2Methods of reading and writing dataHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 18, 2007·27 cites·31 claims
- 3579US7266716B2Method and recovery of data using erasure coded data from stripe blocksHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2003·Granted Sep 4, 2007·30 cites·30 claims
- 3678US10530844B2Weighted auto-shardingGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Jan 7, 2020·2 cites·18 claims
- 3778US8767535B2Dynamic feedback control of resources in computing environmentsUYSAL MUSTAFA·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 1, 2014·9 cites·12 claims
- 3878US8055845B2Method of cooperative caching for distributed storage systemHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 8, 2011·9 cites·37 claims
- 3978US2025165435A1Programmatically choosing preferred storage parameters for filesGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 4077US8918566B2System and methods for allocating shared storage resourcesPADALA PRADEEP·Filed 2009·Granted Dec 23, 2014·10 cites·20 claims
- 4177US6526420B2Non-linear constraint optimization in storage system configurationHEWLETT PACKARD CO·Filed 2001·Granted Feb 25, 2003·38 cites·2 claims
- 4276US2024064196A1Weighted auto-shardingGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 4375US11363096B2Weighted auto-shardingGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Jun 14, 2022·1 cites·17 claims
- 4475US10339108B2Programmatically choosing preferred storage parameters for files in large-scale distributed storage systemsGOOGLE INC·Filed 2016·Granted Jul 2, 2019·1 cites·20 claims
- 4575US7050956B2Method and apparatus for morphological modeling of complex systems to predict performanceHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2001·Granted May 23, 2006·22 cites·21 claims
- 4675US6681309B2Method and apparatus for measuring and optimizing spatial segmentation of electronic storage workloadsHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 20, 2004·30 cites·20 claims
- 4774US12222901B2Programmatically choosing preferred storage parameters for files in large-scale distributed storage systemsGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2021·Granted Feb 11, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 4874US6922752B2Storage system using fast storage devices for storing redundant dataHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 26, 2005·26 cites·28 claims
- 4973US10831777B2Distributed database configurationGOOGLE LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Nov 10, 2020·1 cites·14 claims
- 5073US7426616B2Method for determining a recovery scheduleHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2006·Granted Sep 16, 2008·6 cites·20 claims
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