Inventor · Sagamihara, JP

Ai Satoyama

92Patents
11h-index
31Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 5, 2000 → Mar 10, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9606745B2 Storage system and method for allocating resource Physics 65 Active
US7051121B2 Method for controlling storage system, and storage control apparatus Physics 37 Expired
US8984221B2 Method for assigning storage area and computer system using the same Physics 28 Active
US7152146B2 Control of multiple groups of network-connected storage devices Physics 17 Expired
US7219202B2 Cluster storage system and replication creation method thereof Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Expired
US8407417B2 Storage system providing virtual volumes Physics 15 Active
US9201607B2 Computer system and method for balancing usage rate of pool volumes Physics 13 Active
US8516215B2 Computing system having a controller for controlling allocation of a storage area of a logical volume in a pool to a virtual volume and controlling methods for the same Physics 13 Active
US8769235B2 Computing system having a controller for controlling allocation of a storage area of a logical volume in a pool to a virtual volume and controlling methods for the same Physics 12 Active
US7624241B2 Storage subsystem and performance tuning method Physics 12 Active
US8549247B2 Storage system, management method of the storage system, and program Physics 11 Active
US6516385B1 Data sharing method and system between information processing systems with variable length block format to fixed length block format conversion Physics 11 Expired
US7155587B2 Storage subsystem and performance tuning method Physics 10 Expired
US6615327B1 Method and system for backing up data of data processing devices including fixed length block format data conversion to variable length block format Physics 10 Expired
US7702851B2 Logical volume transfer method and storage network system Electricity 10 Active
US7177991B2 Installation method of new storage system into a computer system Physics 9 Expired
US7209986B2 Method for controlling storage system, and storage control apparatus Physics 9 Expired
US7809906B2 Device for performance tuning in a system Physics 8 Active
US6976140B2 Computer system and a method of replication Physics 8 Expired
US8843724B2 Computer system and storage control method of the same Physics 7 Active
US7356658B2 Snapshot system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US7673110B2 Control method of device in storage system for virtualization Physics 7 Active
US8489844B2 Storage system providing heterogeneous virtual volumes and storage area re-allocation Physics 6 Active
US7606990B2 Snapshot system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US8103843B2 Snapshot system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active

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