NetApp, Inc.
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2,637Active
2,740Granted
69Portfolio score
Filing activity: May 22, 2001 → Sep 27, 2024 · 638 expiring within 5 years
Most-cited patents
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US8700875B1 | Cluster view for storage devices | Electricity | 581 | Active |
| US7689609B2 | Architecture for supporting sparse volumes | Physics | 497 | Active |
| US8949863B1 | Creating environmental snapshots of storage device failure events | Physics | 495 | Active |
| US7493424B1 | Network storage system with shared software stack for LDMA and RDMA | Physics | 484 | Expired |
| US8145838B1 | Processing and distributing write logs of nodes of a cluster storage system | Physics | 402 | Active |
| US8627136B2 | Non-disruptive failover of RDMA connection | Physics | 368 | Active |
| US7613947B1 | System and method for storage takeover | Physics | 366 | Active |
| US8086911B1 | Method and apparatus for distributed reconstruct in a raid system | Physics | 363 | Active |
| US8898388B1 | NVRAM caching and logging in a storage system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 352 | Active |
| US7730258B1 | System and method for managing hard and soft lock state information in a distributed storage system environment | Physics | 349 | Active |
| US8904231B2 | Synchronous local and cross-site failover in clustered storage systems | Physics | 345 | Active |
| US9043372B2 | Metadata subsystem for a distributed object store in a network storage system | Physics | 338 | Active |
| US8819383B1 | Non-disruptive realignment of virtual data | Physics | 335 | Active |
| US8117464B1 | Sub-volume level security for deduplicated data | Electricity | 335 | Active |
| US8117388B2 | Data distribution through capacity leveling in a striped file system | Physics | 321 | Active |
| US8200922B2 | Storage system snapshot assisted by SSD technology | Physics | 314 | Active |
| US8886778B2 | System and method for proxying network management protocol commands to enable cluster wide management of data backups | Physics | 311 | Active |
| US8180855B2 | Coordinated shared storage architecture | Physics | 309 | Active |
| US9348538B2 | Selective deduplication | Physics | 308 | Active |
| US7913300B1 | Centralized role-based access control for storage servers | Electricity | 289 | Active |
| US8874850B1 | Hierarchically tagged cache | Physics | 269 | Active |
| US7657644B1 | Methods and apparatus for streaming media multicast | Electricity | 236 | Expired |
| US8972478B1 | Using append only log format in data storage cluster with distributed zones for determining parity of reliability groups | Physics | 235 | Active |
| US8200638B1 | Individual file restore from block-level incremental backups by using client-server backup protocol | Physics | 235 | Active |
| US8086652B1 | Storage system-based hole punching for reclaiming unused space from a data container | Physics | 234 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.