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Eric Knauft
Also filed as: KNAUFT ERIC · KNAUFT ERIC SHANNON
64 granted patents·12 pending applications·40 citations·filing 2014–2024
97Inventor score
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76 records- 0196US11144394B1Storing B-tree pages in capacity tier for erasure-coded storage in distributed data systemsVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Oct 12, 2021·13 cites·30 claims
- 0293US11182261B1Synchronizing a stale component of a distributed object using multiple delta components during maintenanceVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 23, 2021·4 cites·20 claims
- 0392US11474719B1Combining the metadata and data address spaces of a distributed storage object via a composite object configuration treeVMWARE INC·Filed 2021·Granted Oct 18, 2022·4 cites·21 claims
- 0477US11178227B1Efficient resynchronization for stale components of geographically distributed computing systemsVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 16, 2021·1 cites·17 claims
- 0576US9672115B2Partition tolerance in cluster membership managementVMWARE INC·Filed 2014·Granted Jun 6, 2017·4 cites·30 claims
- 0675US11023493B2Intelligently scheduling resynchronization jobs in a distributed object-based storage systemVMWARE INC·Filed 2018·Granted Jun 1, 2021·2 cites·21 claims
- 0775US9830234B2Distributed transaction logVMWARE INC·Filed 2014·Granted Nov 28, 2017·3 cites·26 claims
- 0874US2025117133A1Efficient unmap handling using synchronized redundant components of data objectsVMware LLC·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 0973US10810143B2Distributed storage system and method for managing storage access bandwidth for multiple clientsVMWARE INC·Filed 2018·Granted Oct 20, 2020·2 cites·17 claims
- 1073US10769036B2Distributed transaction logVMWARE INC·Filed 2017·Granted Sep 8, 2020·1 cites·21 claims
- 1173US10198312B2Synchronizing replicas with media errors in distributed storage systemsVMWARE INC·Filed 2018·Granted Feb 5, 2019·1 cites·20 claims
- 1272US10268408B2Flexible efficient runtime placement of data across multiple disksVMWARE INC·Filed 2017·Granted Apr 23, 2019·1 cites·20 claims
- 1371US12130791B2Enhanced locking mechanism for B+ tree data structuresVMWARE INC·Filed 2023·Granted Oct 29, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 1471US12124701B2Efficient unmap handling using synchronized redundant components of data objectsVMWARE INC·Filed 2023·Granted Oct 22, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 1571US10445144B1Workload estimation of data resynchronizationVMWARE INC·Filed 2018·Granted Oct 15, 2019·1 cites·21 claims
- 1669US12141440B2Performing resynchronization jobs in a distributed storage system based on a parallelism policyVMware LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Nov 12, 2024·0 cites·17 claims
- 1769US10365852B2Resumable replica resynchronizationVMWARE INC·Filed 2016·Granted Jul 30, 2019·1 cites·20 claims
- 1868US2023281167A1Hybrid synchronization using a shadow componentVMWARE INC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 1965US11018988B2Translating high level requirements policies to distributed configurationsVMWARE INC·Filed 2014·Granted May 25, 2021·1 cites·21 claims
- 2065US10581602B2End-to-end checksum in a multi-tenant encryption storage systemVMWARE INC·Filed 2018·Granted Mar 3, 2020·1 cites·20 claims
- 2161US11729113B2Translating high level requirements policies to distributed storage configurationsVMWARE INC·Filed 2021·Granted Aug 15, 2023·0 cites·17 claims
- 2260US11681661B2Hybrid synchronization using a shadow componentVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 20, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 2360US11663186B2Enhanced locking mechanism for B+ tree data structuresVMWARE INC·Filed 2021·Granted May 30, 2023·0 cites·10 claims
- 2460US11494083B2Performing resynchronization jobs in a distributed storage system based on a parallelism policyVMWARE INC·Filed 2019·Granted Nov 8, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
- 2559US11157195B2Resumable replica resynchronizationVMWARE INC·Filed 2019·Granted Oct 26, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
- 2659US10942782B2Workload estimation of data resynchronizationVMWARE INC·Filed 2019·Granted Mar 9, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
- 2758US12131021B2Efficient incremental journal truncation policyVMware LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Oct 29, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 2858US11907161B2Upgrading the file system of objects in a distributed storage systemVMWARE INC·Filed 2021·Granted Feb 20, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 2958US10642526B2Seamless fault tolerance via block remapping and efficient reconciliationVMWARE INC·Filed 2017·Granted May 5, 2020·0 cites·20 claims
- 3056US12164505B2Two-phase commit using reserved log sequence valuesVMware LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Dec 10, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 3155US11494276B2Reduced write amplification using small-block logVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 8, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
- 3255US9952923B2Synchronizing replicas with media errors in distributed storage systemsVMWARE INC·Filed 2016·Granted Apr 24, 2018·0 cites·20 claims
- 3354US12189574B2Two-level logical to physical mapping mechanism in a log-structured file systemVMware LLC·Filed 2021·Granted Jan 7, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 3454US11847033B1Limiting blast radius for critical on-disk data corruptions in a distributed storage systemVMWARE INC·Filed 2022·Granted Dec 19, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 3554US11803469B2Storing data in a log-structured format in a two-tier storage systemVMWARE INC·Filed 2021·Granted Oct 31, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 3654US11467746B2Issuing efficient writes to erasure coded objects in a distributed storage system via adaptive loggingVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Oct 11, 2022·0 cites·21 claims
- 3754US11307932B2Reduced write amplification for large-block data logVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Apr 19, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
- 3854US2025086143A1Workload-responsive segment cleaningVMware LLC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 3954US2025086140A1Workload-responsive distributed segment cleaningVMware LLC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 4053US12141063B2Efficient write-back for journal truncationVMware LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Nov 12, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 4153US2025030637A1Network scheduler in a distributed storage systemVMware LLC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 4253US2025028679A1Garbage collection in a log-structured file systemVMWARE INC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 4353US2025028471A1Resynchronization of objects in a virtual storage systemVMWARE INC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 4452US11403189B2System and method of resyncing data in erasure-coded objects on distributed storage systems without requiring checksum in the underlying storageVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Aug 2, 2022·0 cites·21 claims
- 4552US11256583B2Efficient handling of RAID-F component repair failuresVMWARE INC·Filed 2019·Granted Feb 22, 2022·0 cites·21 claims
- 4651US11494090B2Systems and methods of maintaining fault tolerance for new writes in degraded erasure coded distributed storageVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 8, 2022·0 cites·27 claims
- 4750US11625370B2Techniques for reducing data log recovery time and metadata write amplificationVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Apr 11, 2023·0 cites·21 claims
- 4850US11422904B2Identifying fault domains for delta components of a distributed data objectVMWARE INC·Filed 2020·Granted Aug 23, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
- 4950US10803086B2Reducing data amplification when resynchronizing components of an object replicated across different sitesVMWARE INC·Filed 2017·Granted Oct 13, 2020·0 cites·20 claims
- 5050US10609139B2Coordinator ownership authentication in a distributed system with multiple storage object coordinatorsVMWARE INC·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 31, 2020·0 cites·20 claims
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