Inventor · Hudson, NH, US

Daniel E. Cummins

36Patents
8h-index
39Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 14, 2013 → Jan 30, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9830082B1 Hybrid hyper-converged infrastructure and storage appliance Physics 70 Active
US9778865B1 Hyper-converged infrastructure based on server pairs Physics 19 Active
US9558068B1 Recovering from metadata inconsistencies in storage systems Physics 19 Active
US9921912B1 Using spare disk drives to overprovision raid groups Physics 17 Active
US10402091B1 Managing data in log-structured storage systems Physics 15 Active
US10635315B1 Performing compression and deduplication at different granularities Physics 10 Active
US9785366B1 Unbuffered log-structured storage Physics 8 Active
US9367405B1 Managing software errors in storage systems Physics 8 Active
US9348761B1 Weighted-value consistent hashing for balancing device wear Physics 8 Active
US10713129B1 System and method for identifying and configuring disaster recovery targets for network appliances Physics 7 Active
US9619149B1 Weighted-value consistent hashing for balancing device wear Physics 6 Active
US10318166B1 Preserving locality of storage accesses by virtual machine copies in hyper-converged infrastructure appliances Physics 6 Active
US10521145B1 Method, apparatus and computer program product for managing data storage Physics 5 Active
US9244632B1 Data storage system configuration Physics 3 Active
US11200082B2 Data storage system employing dummy namespaces for discovery of NVMe namespace groups as protocol endpoints Physics 2 Active
US11226774B2 Deep data-compression Physics 2 Active
US11163678B2 Managing storage space for metadata consistency checking Physics 2 Active
US9405626B1 At risk data caching (ARDC) Physics 2 Active
US10353771B1 Managing data storage Physics 1 Active
US10789018B2 Supporting non-disruptive movement of a logical volume of non-volatile data storage between storage appliances Physics 1 Active
US10769020B2 Sharing private space among data storage system data rebuild and data deduplication components to minimize private space overhead Physics 1 Active
US11947803B2 Effective utilization of different drive capacities Physics 1 Active
US12068979B2 System and method for dividing a physical ethernet port Electricity 0 Active
US10846005B2 Method, apparatus and computer program product for determining ownership of a data segment Physics 0 Active
US10901843B2 Managing data storage Physics 0 Active

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