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Symantec Operating Corporation

557Patents
390Active
557Granted
59Portfolio score

Filing activity: May 18, 2001 → Nov 11, 2014 · 355 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.