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Ling Zheng
Also filed as: ZHENG LING · Zheng ling na
84 granted patents·16 pending applications·2,260 citations·filing 2005–2025
99Inventor score
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100 records- 0198US11650886B2Orchestrator for orchestrating operations between a computing environment hosting virtual machines and a storage environmentNETAPP INC·Filed 2020·Granted May 16, 2023·19 cites·20 claims
- 0298US8200638B1Individual file restore from block-level incremental backups by using client-server backup protocolZHENG LING·Filed 2009·Granted Jun 12, 2012·287 cites·39 claims
- 0398US7689609B2Architecture for supporting sparse volumesNETAPP INC·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 30, 2010·529 cites·32 claims
- 0497US11868213B2Incremental backup to object storeNETAPP INC·Filed 2020·Granted Jan 9, 2024·10 cites·18 claims
- 0597US11853104B2Virtual machine backup from computing environment to storage environmentNETAPP INC·Filed 2020·Granted Dec 26, 2023·15 cites·17 claims
- 0697US11615001B2Incremental restore of a virtual machineNETAPP INC·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 28, 2023·13 cites·23 claims
- 0797US10565230B2Technique for preserving efficiency for replication between clusters of a networkNETAPP INC·Filed 2015·Granted Feb 18, 2020·26 cites·18 claims
- 0897US9952767B2Consistency group managementNETAPP INC·Filed 2016·Granted Apr 24, 2018·34 cites·18 claims
- 0997US9037544B1Snapshots and clones of volumes in a storage systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2014·Granted May 19, 2015·35 cites·18 claims
- 1097US8996797B1Dense tree volume metadata update logging and checkpointingNETAPP INC·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 31, 2015·43 cites·20 claims
- 1197US8892818B1Dense tree volume metadata organizationNETAPP INC·Filed 2014·Granted Nov 18, 2014·41 cites·20 claims
- 1297US8165221B2System and method for sampling based elimination of duplicate dataZHENG LING·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 24, 2012·69 cites·24 claims
- 1396US12045144B2Orchestrator for orchestrating operations between a computing environment hosting virtual machines and a storage environmentNETAPP INC·Filed 2023·Granted Jul 23, 2024·2 cites·20 claims
- 1496US10346354B2Reducing stable data eviction with synthetic baseline snapshot and eviction state refreshNETAPP INC·Filed 2016·Granted Jul 9, 2019·17 cites·18 claims
- 1596US9268502B2Dense tree volume metadata organizationNETAPP INC·Filed 2013·Granted Feb 23, 2016·29 cites·17 claims
- 1696US8504529B1System and method for restoring data to a storage device based on a backup imageZHENG LING·Filed 2009·Granted Aug 6, 2013·83 cites·26 claims
- 1796US8225057B1Single-system configuration for backing-up and restoring a clustered storage systemZHENG LING·Filed 2009·Granted Jul 17, 2012·229 cites·27 claims
- 1896US7921077B2System and method for managing data deduplication of storage systems utilizing persistent consistency point imagesNETAPP INC·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 5, 2011·125 cites·23 claims
- 1995US11188500B2Reducing stable data eviction with synthetic baseline snapshot and eviction state refreshNETAPP INC·Filed 2019·Granted Nov 30, 2021·15 cites·20 claims
- 2095US9152684B2Snapshots and clones of volumes in a storage systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2013·Granted Oct 6, 2015·25 cites·20 claims
- 2195US8412682B2System and method for retrieving and using block fingerprints for data deduplicationZHENG LING·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 2, 2013·63 cites·22 claims
- 2295US8126847B1Single file restore from image backup by using an independent block list for each fileZHENG LING·Filed 2008·Granted Feb 28, 2012·74 cites·21 claims
- 2394US11977461B2Incremental restore of a virtual machineNETAPP INC·Filed 2023·Granted May 7, 2024·2 cites·20 claims
- 2494US10824589B2Snapshot metadata arrangement for efficient cloud integrated data managementNETAPP INC·Filed 2016·Granted Nov 3, 2020·17 cites·20 claims
- 2594US8190836B1Saving multiple snapshots without duplicating common blocks to protect the entire contents of a volumeZHENG LING·Filed 2008·Granted May 29, 2012·51 cites·18 claims
- 2694US7809693B2System and method for restoring data on demand for instant volume restorationNETAPP INC·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 5, 2010·40 cites·38 claims
- 2793US12373313B2Virtual machine backup from computing environment to storage environmentNETAPP INC·Filed 2023·Granted Jul 29, 2025·1 cites·20 claims
- 2893US11768803B2Snapshot metadata arrangement for efficient cloud integrated data managementNETAPP INC·Filed 2020·Granted Sep 26, 2023·3 cites·20 claims
- 2993US9836355B2Reconstruction of dense tree volume metadata state across crash recoveryNETAPP INC·Filed 2016·Granted Dec 5, 2017·16 cites·20 claims
- 3093US8849767B1Method and apparatus for identifying and eliminating duplicate data blocks and sharing data blocks in a storage systemZHENG LING·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 30, 2014·31 cites·28 claims
- 3193US7769723B2System and method for providing continuous data protectionNETAPP INC·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 3, 2010·35 cites·39 claims
- 3291US10282099B1Intelligent snapshot tieringNETAPP INC·Filed 2017·Granted May 7, 2019·9 cites·15 claims
- 3391US9798728B2System performing data deduplication using a dense tree data structureNETAPP INC·Filed 2014·Granted Oct 24, 2017·15 cites·19 claims
- 3491US9740566B2Snapshot creation workflowNETAPP INC·Filed 2015·Granted Aug 22, 2017·11 cites·20 claims
- 3591US8296260B2System and method for managing data deduplication of storage systems utilizing persistent consistency point imagesTING DANIEL·Filed 2010·Granted Oct 23, 2012·32 cites·20 claims
- 3690US9836229B2N-way merge technique for updating volume metadata in a storage I/O stackNETAPP INC·Filed 2014·Granted Dec 5, 2017·13 cites·20 claims
- 3790US9830103B2Technique for recovery of trapped storage space in an extent storeNETAPP INC·Filed 2016·Granted Nov 28, 2017·8 cites·20 claims
- 3890US9256378B2Deduplicating data blocks in a storage systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2013·Granted Feb 9, 2016·12 cites·21 claims
- 3990US7904466B1Presenting differences in a file systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 8, 2011·38 cites·21 claims
- 4090US2025355774A1Virtual machine backup from computing environment to storage environmentNETAPP INC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 4189US12099467B2Snapshot metadata arrangement for efficient cloud integrated data managementNETAPP INC·Filed 2023·Granted Sep 24, 2024·1 cites·14 claims
- 4289US11921597B2Cross-platform replicationNETAPP INC·Filed 2022·Granted Mar 5, 2024·1 cites·20 claims
- 4388US10929022B2Space savings reporting for storage system supporting snapshot and clonesNETAPP INC·Filed 2016·Granted Feb 23, 2021·8 cites·20 claims
- 4487US12007944B2Reducing stable data eviction with synthetic baseline snapshot and eviction state refreshNETAPP INC·Filed 2021·Granted Jun 11, 2024·1 cites·20 claims
- 4587US11347605B2Cross-platform replicationNETAPP INC·Filed 2020·Granted May 31, 2022·2 cites·20 claims
- 4687US10585768B2Cross-platform replicationNETAPP INC·Filed 2018·Granted Mar 10, 2020·3 cites·20 claims
- 4787US10394660B2Snapshot restore workflowNETAPP INC·Filed 2015·Granted Aug 27, 2019·7 cites·21 claims
- 4887US9990260B2Cross-platform replicationNETAPP INC·Filed 2016·Granted Jun 5, 2018·4 cites·20 claims
- 4987US9563654B2Dense tree volume metadata organizationNETAPP INC·Filed 2015·Granted Feb 7, 2017·4 cites·20 claims
- 5087US9471248B2Snapshots and clones of volumes in a storage systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 18, 2016·4 cites·20 claims
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