Symantec Operating Corporation
557Patents
390Active
557Granted
59Portfolio score
Filing activity: May 18, 2001 → Nov 11, 2014 · 355 expiring within 5 years
Most-cited patents
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US8042163B1 | Secure storage access using third party capability tokens | Electricity | 523 | Active |
| US7424592B1 | System and method for implementing volume sets in a storage system | Physics | 334 | Expired |
| US7653668B1 | Fault tolerant multi-stage data replication with relaxed coherency guarantees | Physics | 328 | Active |
| US7401338B1 | System and method for an access layer application programming interface for managing heterogeneous components of a storage area network | Electricity | 327 | Expired |
| US7941697B2 | Failure handling using overlay objects on a file system using object based storage devices | Physics | 314 | Active |
| US7370025B1 | System and method for providing access to replicated data | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 308 | Expired |
| US8234709B2 | Streaming malware definition updates | Physics | 298 | Active |
| US7814149B1 | Client side data deduplication | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 289 | Active |
| US8176480B1 | Adaptive instrumentation through dynamic recompilation | Physics | 272 | Active |
| US7389393B1 | System and method for write forwarding in a storage environment employing distributed virtualization | Physics | 194 | Expired |
| US7730274B1 | Preventing undesired trespass in storage arrays | Physics | 183 | Active |
| US7552358B1 | Efficient backup and restore using metadata mapping | Physics | 175 | Active |
| US7668981B1 | Storage paths | Electricity | 167 | Active |
| US7392421B1 | Framework for managing clustering and replication | Physics | 166 | Expired |
| US8200637B1 | Block-based sparse backup images of file system volumes | Physics | 165 | Active |
| US7415488B1 | System and method for redundant storage consistency recovery | Physics | 155 | Expired |
| US7606841B1 | Coordinated dirty block tracking | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 143 | Active |
| US8260893B1 | Method and system for automated management of information technology | Physics | 143 | Active |
| US7631066B1 | System and method for preventing data corruption in computer system clusters | Physics | 138 | Expired |
| US7328260B1 | Mapping discovered devices to SAN-manageable objects using configurable rules | Electricity | 134 | Expired |
| US7809691B1 | System and method of applying incremental changes prior to initialization of a point-in-time copy | Physics | 128 | Active |
| US7478113B1 | Boundaries | Physics | 124 | Active |
| US7617369B1 | Fast failover with multiple secondary nodes | Physics | 119 | Expired |
| US7913053B1 | System and method for archival of messages in size-limited containers and separate archival of attachments in content addressable storage | Physics | 119 | Expired |
| US7403987B1 | Transactional SAN management | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 118 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.