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American Megatrends, Inc.

549Patents
465Active
549Granted
62Portfolio score

Filing activity: Oct 10, 2000 → Jul 17, 2018 · 171 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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US8046548B1 Maintaining data consistency in mirrored cluster storage systems using bitmap write-intent logging Physics 372 Active
US8010829B1 Distributed hot-spare storage in a storage cluster Physics 372 Active
US7908448B1 Maintaining data consistency in mirrored cluster storage systems with write-back cache Physics 363 Active
US7778960B1 Background movement of data between nodes in a storage cluster Physics 360 Active
US8595455B2 Maintaining data consistency in mirrored cluster storage systems using bitmap write-intent logging Physics 353 Active
US8244999B1 Maintaining data consistency in mirrored cluster storage systems with write-back cache Physics 352 Active
US8706694B2 Continuous data protection of files stored on a remote storage device Physics 311 Active
US7406592B1 Method, system, and apparatus for efficient evaluation of boolean expressions Physics 113 Expired
US7587289B1 Data cable powered sensor fixture Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 106 Active
US8260841B1 Executing an out-of-band agent in an in-band process of a host system Physics 102 Active
US8332354B1 Asynchronous replication by tracking recovery point objective Physics 99 Active
US7721044B1 Expanding the storage capacity of a virtualized data storage system Physics 86 Active
US7373366B1 Method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for taking and managing snapshots of a storage volume Physics 70 Expired
US8011794B1 Data cable powered light fixture Electricity 67 Active
US8255739B1 Achieving data consistency in a node failover with a degraded RAID array Physics 60 Active
US9495370B1 Data recovery point review in a continuous data protection system Physics 48 Active
US8046547B1 Storage system snapshots for continuous file protection Physics 46 Active
US9811481B2 Distributed intelligent platform management interface (D-IPMI) system and method thereof Physics 46 Active
US8495618B1 Updating firmware in a high availability enabled computer system Physics 46 Active
US9201751B1 Data migration between multiple tiers in a storage system using policy based ILM for QOS Physics 44 Active
US7260624B2 Systems and methods for establishing interaction between a local computer and a remote computer Electricity 42 Expired
US7536529B1 Method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for provisioning space in a data storage system Physics 39 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.