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Walter C. Forrester
Also filed as: FORRESTER WALTER · FORRESTER WALTER C
48 granted patents·1 pending application·647 citations·filing 2008–2023
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49 records- 0199US9594514B1Managing host data placed in a container file system on a data storage array having multiple storage tiersEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Mar 14, 2017·114 cites·22 claims
- 0298US8996837B1Providing multi-tenancy within a data storage apparatusEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Mar 31, 2015·75 cites·19 claims
- 0396US9569455B1Deduplicating container filesEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Feb 14, 2017·42 cites·22 claims
- 0495US10915497B1Multi-tier storage system with controllable relocation of files from file system tier to cloud-based object storage tierEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Feb 9, 2021·17 cites·21 claims
- 0595US9305071B1Providing virtual storage processor (VSP) mobility with induced file system format migrationEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 5, 2016·28 cites·21 claims
- 0695US9280555B1Unified data protection for block and file objectsEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Mar 8, 2016·26 cites·21 claims
- 0795US9122697B1Unified data services for block and file objectsEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Sep 1, 2015·30 cites·26 claims
- 0895US9092290B1Performing a non-disruptive software upgrade on physical storage processors having access to virtual storage processorsEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Jul 28, 2015·31 cites·22 claims
- 0994US9424117B1Virtual storage processor failoverEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Aug 23, 2016·24 cites·20 claims
- 1094US9304999B1Virtual storage processor load balancingEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 5, 2016·25 cites·21 claims
- 1193US9122712B1Compressing container filesEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Sep 1, 2015·20 cites·18 claims
- 1292US9535630B1Leveraging array operations at virtualized storage processor levelEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Jan 3, 2017·17 cites·24 claims
- 1392US9507787B1Providing mobility to virtual storage processorsEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Nov 29, 2016·17 cites·24 claims
- 1492US9330103B1Preserving file handles when moving file system operation between storage processorsEMC CORP·Filed 2014·Granted May 3, 2016·23 cites·20 claims
- 1591US10146703B1Encrypting data objects in a data storage systemEMC CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Dec 4, 2018·9 cites·25 claims
- 1690US10514861B1Reporting of space savings due to pattern matching in storage systemsEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Dec 24, 2019·7 cites·20 claims
- 1790US10447524B1Unified datapath processing with virtualized storage processorsEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Oct 15, 2019·14 cites·18 claims
- 1890US10268693B1Managing migration of virtual file serversEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2018·Granted Apr 23, 2019·6 cites·20 claims
- 1990US9805105B1Automatically creating multiple replication sessions in response to a single replication command entered by a userEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Oct 31, 2017·13 cites·18 claims
- 2089US9916102B1Managing data storage reservations on a per-family basisEMC CORP·Filed 2016·Granted Mar 13, 2018·7 cites·20 claims
- 2189US8516022B1Automatically committing files to be write-once-read-many in a file systemKANTETI KUMAR·Filed 2012·Granted Aug 20, 2013·26 cites·22 claims
- 2287US10089316B1Managing multiple file system expansionsEMC CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 2, 2018·6 cites·11 claims
- 2386US9256603B1File system over fully provisioned volume file in direct modeEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Feb 9, 2016·9 cites·11 claims
- 2484US9696906B1Storage managementEMC CORP·Filed 2014·Granted Jul 4, 2017·7 cites·20 claims
- 2583US10592469B1Converting files between thinly and thickly provisioned statesEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Mar 17, 2020·4 cites·20 claims
- 2683US10521398B1Tracking version families in a file systemEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Dec 31, 2019·4 cites·15 claims
- 2781US9329803B1File system over thinly provisioned volume file in mapped modeEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted May 3, 2016·6 cites·22 claims
- 2879US9916312B1Coordination of file system creation to ensure more deterministic performance characteristicsEMC CORP·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 13, 2018·5 cites·15 claims
- 2979US9256629B1File system snapshots over thinly provisioned volume file in mapped modeEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Feb 9, 2016·5 cites·19 claims
- 3077US10521400B1Data reduction reporting in storage systemsEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Dec 31, 2019·2 cites·20 claims
- 3176US11449468B1Enforcing minimum space guarantees in thinly-provisioned file systemsEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Sep 20, 2022·3 cites·19 claims
- 3276US10013217B1Upper deck file system shrink for directly and thinly provisioned lower deck file system in which upper deck file system is stored in a volume file within lower deck file system where both upper deck file system and lower deck file system resides in storage processor memoryEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Jul 3, 2018·4 cites·20 claims
- 3376US9256614B1File system snapshots over fully provisioned volume file in direct modeEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Feb 9, 2016·4 cites·15 claims
- 3475US10838634B1Managing storage capacity in version families having both writable and read-only data objectsEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Nov 17, 2020·2 cites·19 claims
- 3574US10613787B2Techniques for rebalancing storage between subspacesEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2018·Granted Apr 7, 2020·2 cites·18 claims
- 3674US10409768B2Managing data inconsistencies in files of file systemsEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Sep 10, 2019·2 cites·18 claims
- 3774US9779105B1Transaction logging using file-system-specific log filesEMC CORP·Filed 2014·Granted Oct 3, 2017·3 cites·21 claims
- 3870US10929342B2Techniques for limiting the maximum storage consumed by a file system without shrinking an underlying volumeEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2018·Granted Feb 23, 2021·1 cites·12 claims
- 3967US9690803B1Auxiliary files in a container file systemEMC CORP·Filed 2014·Granted Jun 27, 2017·2 cites·17 claims
- 4062US11204703B2Techniques for scavenging of free provisioned blocksEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Dec 21, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
- 4162US9946729B1Sparse recall and writes for archived and transformed data objectsSTACEY CHRISTOPHER H E·Filed 2008·Granted Apr 17, 2018·4 cites·20 claims
- 4261US12417284B2System and method for software-defined network attached storage (SDNAS) ransomware attack detection and preventionDELL PRODUCTS LP·Filed 2023·Granted Sep 16, 2025·0 cites·17 claims
- 4361US12386752B2Systems and methods for cooperative caching between file systems and block storageDELL PRODUCTS LP·Filed 2023·Granted Aug 12, 2025·0 cites·17 claims
- 4460US11762808B2Deletion of snapshot of filesystemEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2021·Granted Sep 19, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 4558US10831705B2Managing migration of virtual file serversEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Nov 10, 2020·0 cites·20 claims
- 4657US10534556B2Techniques for scavenging of free provisioned blocksEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2018·Granted Jan 14, 2020·0 cites·18 claims
- 4756US9152637B1Just-in time formatting of file system metadataFORRESTER WALTER C·Filed 2012·Granted Oct 6, 2015·1 cites·17 claims
- 4850US10545671B1Mapping between volume data block and file data block system and methodEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Jan 28, 2020·0 cites·20 claims
- 4943US2019339911A1Reporting of space savings due to compression in storage systemsEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2018·Application pending·0 cites
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