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Robert Wyckoff Hyer, Jr.
Also filed as: HYER JR ROBERT · HYER JR ROBERT WYCKOFF · HYER ROBERT · HYER ROBERT W
24 granted patents·4 pending applications·794 citations·filing 2005–2019
96Inventor score
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28 records- 0198US7730258B1System and method for managing hard and soft lock state information in a distributed storage system environmentNETAPP INC·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 1, 2010·385 cites·24 claims
- 0297US8495417B2System and method for redundancy-protected aggregatesJERNIGAN IV RICHARD P·Filed 2009·Granted Jul 23, 2013·93 cites·20 claims
- 0393US7743210B1System and method for implementing atomic cross-stripe write operations in a striped volume setNETAPP INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 22, 2010·39 cites·12 claims
- 0493US7698334B2System and method for multi-tiered meta-data caching and distribution in a clustered computer environmentNETAPP INC·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 13, 2010·28 cites·26 claims
- 0593US7587558B1System and method for managing hard lock state information in a distributed storage system environmentNETAPP INC·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 8, 2009·35 cites·34 claims
- 0692US7962689B1System and method for performing transactional processing in a striped volume setNETAPP INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 14, 2011·33 cites·19 claims
- 0791US8180983B1Caching filenames of a striped directory in predictable locations within a volume locally accessible to a storage server nodeJERNIGAN RICHARD·Filed 2008·Granted May 15, 2012·39 cites·22 claims
- 0891US8001580B1System and method for revoking soft locks in a distributed storage system environmentNETAPP INC·Filed 2005·Granted Aug 16, 2011·26 cites·21 claims
- 0990US9009206B1Method and system for optimizing traversal and storage of directory entries of a storage volumeNETAPP INC·Filed 2012·Granted Apr 14, 2015·13 cites·16 claims
- 1090US8949614B1Highly efficient guarantee of data consistencyJERNIGAN IV RICHARD P·Filed 2008·Granted Feb 3, 2015·24 cites·24 claims
- 1187US7975102B1Technique to avoid cascaded hot spottingNETAPP INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 5, 2011·18 cites·28 claims
- 1285US8301673B2System and method for performing distributed consistency verification of a clustered file systemHYER JR ROBERT WYCKOFF·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 30, 2012·27 cites·42 claims
- 1385US8015355B1System and method for managing hard lock state information in a distributed storage system environmentNETAPP INC·Filed 2009·Granted Sep 6, 2011·12 cites·27 claims
- 1482US8713077B2System and method for multi-tiered meta-data caching and distribution in a clustered computer environmentKAZAR MICHAEL·Filed 2010·Granted Apr 29, 2014·6 cites·21 claims
- 1578US8560773B1Technique to avoid cascaded hot spottingHYER JR ROBERT WYCKOFF·Filed 2011·Granted Oct 15, 2013·5 cites·16 claims
- 1673US8224864B1Striping directories across a striped volume set by the filenames contained in the directoriesJERNIGAN RICHARD·Filed 2008·Granted Jul 17, 2012·7 cites·19 claims
- 1767US11025728B2Methods for facilitating secure connections for an operating system kernel and devices thereofNETAPP INC·Filed 2016·Granted Jun 1, 2021·2 cites·20 claims
- 1864US9280396B2Lock state synchronization for non-disruptive persistent operationNETAPP INC·Filed 2012·Granted Mar 8, 2016·2 cites·20 claims
- 1956US2014237184A1System and method for multi-tiered meta-data caching and distribution in a clustered computer environmentNETAPP INC·Filed 2014·Application pending·0 cites
- 2056US2019258604A1System and method for implementing a quota system in a distributed file systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2019·Application pending·0 cites
- 2154US8880814B2Technique to avoid cascaded hot spottingNETAPP INC·Filed 2013·Granted Nov 4, 2014·0 cites·17 claims
- 2253US10140306B2System and method for adaptive data placement within a distributed file systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2017·Granted Nov 27, 2018·0 cites·14 claims
- 2352US9710478B2System and method for adaptive data placement within a distributed file systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2014·Granted Jul 18, 2017·0 cites·13 claims
- 2452US2015378993A1System and method for implementing a quota system in a distributed file systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2014·Application pending·0 cites
- 2550US9336255B2Techniques for traversal and storage of directory entries of a storage volumeNETAPP INC·Filed 2015·Granted May 10, 2016·0 cites·17 claims
- 2646US10530855B2Lock state synchronization for non-disruptive persistent operationNETAPP INC·Filed 2016·Granted Jan 7, 2020·0 cites·20 claims
- 2744US9934230B1Delegations for non-regular filesNETAPP INC·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 3, 2018·0 cites·18 claims
- 2844US2015220438A1Dynamic hot volume cachingNETAPP INC·Filed 2014·Application pending·0 cites
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