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James Lau
Also filed as: LAU JAMES · LAU JAMES SHEUNG
21 granted patents·1 pending application·5,324 citations·filing 1994–2014
97Inventor score
Files withNETWORK APPLIANCE INC15IBM3AUSPEX SYSTEMS INC2LAU JAMES1MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC1
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22 records- 0199US6892211B2Copy on write file system consistency and block usageNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2004·Granted May 10, 2005·363 cites·24 claims
- 0299US6289356B1Write anywhere file-system layoutNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 1998·Granted Sep 11, 2001·478 cites·8 claims
- 0399US5963962AWrite anywhere file-system layoutNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 1998·Granted Oct 5, 1999·677 cites·2 claims
- 0499US5819292AMethod for maintaining consistent states of a file system and for creating user-accessible read-only copies of a file systemNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 1995·Granted Oct 6, 1998·1.3k cites·20 claims
- 0598US6038570AMethod for allocating files in a file system integrated with a RAID disk sub-systemNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 1995·Granted Mar 14, 2000·561 cites·61 claims
- 0697US7174352B2File system image transferNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2001·Granted Feb 6, 2007·225 cites·62 claims
- 0797US6138126AMethod for allocating files in a file system integrated with a raid disk sub-systemNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 1999·Granted Oct 24, 2000·273 cites·7 claims
- 0897US5485579AMultiple facility operating system architectureAUSPEX SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1994·Granted Jan 16, 1996·515 cites·19 claims
- 0996US6721764B2Copy on write file system consistency and block usageNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 13, 2004·136 cites·22 claims
- 1096US6065037AMultiple software-facility component operating system for co-operative processor control within a multiprocessor computer systemAUSPEX SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1995·Granted May 16, 2000·385 cites·17 claims
- 1196US5948110AMethod for providing parity in a raid sub-system using non-volatile memoryNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 1995·Granted Sep 7, 1999·273 cites·5 claims
- 1292US7231412B2Allocating files in a file system integrated with a raid disk sub-systemNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2003·Granted Jun 12, 2007·73 cites·18 claims
- 1385US6751637B1Allocating files in a file system integrated with a raid disk sub-systemNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 15, 2004·28 cites·19 claims
- 1481US6988219B2Providing parity in a RAID sub-system using non-volatile memoryNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 17, 2006·24 cites·25 claims
- 1580US7818498B2Allocating files in a file system integrated with a RAID disk sub-systemNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 19, 2010·6 cites·9 claims
- 1678US8359334B2Allocating files in a file system integrated with a RAID disk sub-systemNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2010·Granted Jan 22, 2013·3 cites·9 claims
- 1763US6480969B1Providing parity in a RAID sub-system using non-volatile memoryNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 1999·Granted Nov 12, 2002·32 cites·12 claims
- 1855US8046842B2Methods, systems, signals and media for encouraging users of computer readable content to registerIBM·Filed 2009·Granted Oct 25, 2011·0 cites·11 claims
- 1954US7554958B2Apparatus and method for serving dataIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Jun 30, 2009·2 cites·11 claims
- 2045US7512991B2Methods, systems, signals and media for encouraging users of computer readable content to registerIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Mar 31, 2009·0 cites·2 claims
- 2144US9852118B2Describing data transformations using markup language extensionsMICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC·Filed 2014·Granted Dec 26, 2017·0 cites·18 claims
- 2233US2012208549A1Automatic check-out upon location departureLAU JAMES·Filed 2011·Application pending·0 cites
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