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William B. Brown
Also filed as: BROWN WILLIAM A · BROWN WILLIAM B · BROWN WILLIAM BOYD
18 granted patents·3 pending applications·95 citations·filing 1990–2019
92Inventor score
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21 records- 0189US9772915B2Cluster file system support for extended network service addressesIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Sep 26, 2017·6 cites·20 claims
- 0285US8743680B2Hierarchical network failure handling in a clustered node environmentBROWN WILLIAM B·Filed 2011·Granted Jun 3, 2014·9 cites·20 claims
- 0383US7680844B2Method for preserving virtual filesystem information across high availability takeoverIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 16, 2010·11 cites·18 claims
- 0476US9940213B2Integrating external services with a clustered file systemIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Apr 10, 2018·2 cites·20 claims
- 0575US10742731B2Maintaining service configuration consistency across nodes of a clustered file systemIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Aug 11, 2020·3 cites·16 claims
- 0673US10558535B2Cluster file system support for extended network service addressesIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Feb 11, 2020·1 cites·20 claims
- 0772US10592373B2Integrating external services with a clustered file systemIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Mar 17, 2020·1 cites·17 claims
- 0872US5119442AReal time digital video animation using compressed pixel mappingsPINNACLE SYSTEMS INC·Filed 1990·Granted Jun 2, 1992·46 cites·19 claims
- 0970US7882078B2Method for preserving virtual filesystem information across high availability takeoverIBM·Filed 2010·Granted Feb 1, 2011·2 cites·6 claims
- 1062US11068361B2Cluster file system support for extended network service addressesIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Jul 20, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
- 1162US9524396B2System that maintains objects created and modified within designated directories on a per-client basis in a network filesystemBROWN WILLIAM B·Filed 2009·Granted Dec 20, 2016·2 cites·17 claims
- 1261US8171067B2Implementing an ephemeral file system backed by a NFS serverBROWN WILLIAM B·Filed 2009·Granted May 1, 2012·2 cites·20 claims
- 1357US7389298B2Seamless remote traversal of multiple NFSv4 exported file systemsIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 17, 2008·5 cites·1 claims
- 1455US7890554B2Apparatus and method of exporting file systems without first mounting the file systemsIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Feb 15, 2011·4 cites·12 claims
- 1552US11200199B2System that maintains objects created and modified within designated directories on a per-client basis in a network filesystemIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Dec 14, 2021·0 cites·4 claims
- 1652US8392477B2Seamless remote traversal of multiple NFSv4 exported file systemsBROWN WILLIAM BOYD·Filed 2008·Granted Mar 5, 2013·1 cites·24 claims
- 1749US8190570B2Preserving virtual filesystem information across high availability takeoverBROWN WILLIAM B·Filed 2010·Granted May 29, 2012·0 cites·30 claims
- 1845US2006129558A1Method, system and program product for presenting exported hierarchical file system informationIBM·Filed 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 1943US7660826B2Implementing adaptive buffer management on network fetches of directory contents and object attributesIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Feb 9, 2010·0 cites·17 claims
- 2043US2007073993A1Memory allocation in a multi-node computerIBM·Filed 2005·Application pending·0 cites
- 2137US2008294748A1Proxy between network file system version three and network file system version four protocolBROWN WILLIAM BOYD·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
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