Inventor · Fremont, CA, US

Alan S. Driscoll

31Patents
12h-index
48Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 30, 2008 → Jan 7, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8671072B1 System and method for hijacking inodes based on replication operations received in an arbitrary order Physics 193 Active
US8364920B1 System and method for transferring and backing up luns and lun clones on primary and secondary servers Physics 171 Active
US9244626B2 System and method for hijacking inodes based on replication operations received in an arbitrary order Physics 163 Active
US8099571B1 Logical block replication with deduplication Physics 80 Active
US10503427B2 Synchronously replicating datasets and other managed objects to cloud-based storage systems Physics 53 Active
US8655848B1 Unordered idempotent logical replication operations Physics 49 Active
US8117165B1 Disk-to-disk backup of database archive logs Physics 35 Active
US8326798B1 File system agnostic replication Physics 31 Active
US8078816B1 Transparent transfer of qtree and quota metadata in conjunction with logical replication of user data Electricity 27 Active
US10353777B2 Ensuring crash-safe forward progress of a system configuration update Physics 14 Active
US9659026B2 Unordered idempotent logical replication operations Physics 13 Active
US10454810B1 Managing host definitions across a plurality of storage systems Electricity 13 Active
US11086555B1 Synchronously replicating datasets Physics 6 Active
US10545987B2 Replication to the cloud Physics 5 Active
US10496556B1 Dynamic data protection within a flash storage system Physics 2 Active
US10656864B2 Data replication within a flash storage array Physics 2 Active
US11221970B1 Consistent application of protection group management policies across multiple storage systems Physics 1 Active
US11803567B1 Restoration of a dataset from a cloud Physics 1 Active
US11032123B1 Hierarchical storage system management Electricity 1 Active
US10860542B2 Unordered idempotent logical replication operations Physics 1 Active
US10296469B1 Access control in a flash storage system Electricity 1 Active
US10348675B1 Distributed management of a storage system Electricity 1 Active
US10374868B2 Distributed command processing in a flash storage system Electricity 1 Active
US12079143B2 Dynamically managing protection groups Physics 0 Active
US10852958B2 System and method for hijacking inodes based on replication operations received in an arbitrary order Physics 0 Active

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