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Rackspace US, Inc.

87Patents
87Active
87Granted
55Portfolio score

Filing activity: May 10, 2010 → Sep 12, 2017 · 1 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

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US9141410B2 Pluggable allocation in a cloud computing system Physics 101 Active
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US9027024B2 Market-based virtual machine allocation Physics 70 Active
US9231988B2 Intercluster repository synchronizer and method of synchronizing objects using a synchronization indicator and shared metadata Physics 49 Active
US9015212B2 System and method for exposing cloud stored data to a content delivery network Electricity 35 Active
US9916232B2 Methods and systems of distributed tracing Physics 33 Active
US9135145B2 Methods and systems of distributed tracing Physics 33 Active
US8965921B2 Data management and indexing across a distributed database Physics 30 Active
US9813307B2 Methods and systems of monitoring failures in a distributed network system Electricity 27 Active
US8930693B2 Cluster federation and trust Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Active
US9397902B2 Methods and systems of tracking and verifying records of system change events in a distributed network system Physics 22 Active
US9483334B2 Methods and systems of predictive monitoring of objects in a distributed network system Electricity 22 Active
US8554951B2 Synchronization and ordering of multiple accessess in a distributed system Physics 19 Active
US9584439B2 Pluggable allocation in a cloud computing system Physics 17 Active
US8538926B2 Massively scalable object storage system for storing object replicas Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Active
US8990257B2 Method for handling large object files in an object storage system Physics 15 Active
US10210567B2 Market-based virtual machine allocation Physics 13 Active
US9411648B2 Flexible resource configuration management for computing clusters Physics 10 Active
US9009319B2 Optimizing allocation of on-demand resources using performance Electricity 10 Active
US9015709B2 Hypervisor-agnostic method of configuring a virtual machine Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Active
US8751639B2 Event queuing and distribution system Physics 10 Active
US9374395B2 Parallel upload and download of large files using bittorrent Physics 9 Active

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