Inventor · San Francisco, CA, US

David Grunwald

100Patents
15h-index
93Co-inventors
89Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 16, 2002 → Dec 4, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7689609B2 Architecture for supporting sparse volumes Physics 497 Active
US7171469B2 Apparatus and method for storing data in a proxy cache in a network Physics 144 Expired
US7284030B2 Apparatus and method for processing data in a network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 91 Expired
US7552223B1 Apparatus and method for data consistency in a proxy cache Electricity 85 Expired
US9043530B1 Data storage within hybrid storage aggregate Physics 57 Active
US7702873B2 Managing common storage by allowing delayed allocation of storage after reclaiming reclaimable space in a logical volume Physics 53 Expired
US10503427B2 Synchronously replicating datasets and other managed objects to cloud-based storage systems Physics 53 Active
US8589447B1 Efficient file system scan for shared data blocks Physics 30 Active
US11036677B1 Replicated data integrity Physics 24 Active
US7562078B1 Retention of active data stored in memory Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 21 Active
US10365982B1 Establishing a synchronous replication relationship between two or more storage systems Electricity 18 Active
US11360689B1 Cloning a tracking copy of replica data Physics 16 Active
US8627331B1 Multi-level parallelism of process execution in a mutual exclusion domain of a processing system Physics 16 Active
US8793223B1 Online data consistency checking in a network storage system with optional committal of remedial changes Electricity 15 Active
US7631078B2 Network caching device including translation mechanism to provide indirection between client-side object handles and server-side object handles Physics 15 Active
US10558537B1 Mediating between storage systems synchronously replicating a dataset Electricity 15 Active
US7783932B1 Method and apparatus for generating dynamic microcores Physics 14 Active
US7496794B1 Creating lightweight fault analysis records Physics 14 Active
US10992598B2 Synchronously replicating when a mediation service becomes unavailable Electricity 14 Active
US10454810B1 Managing host definitions across a plurality of storage systems Electricity 13 Active
US10585733B1 Determining active membership among storage systems synchronously replicating a dataset Electricity 12 Active
US8055702B2 System and method for caching network file systems Electricity 11 Active
US7783598B1 Avoiding frozen-volume write penalties Physics 11 Active
US11321006B1 Data loss prevention during transitions from a replication source Physics 11 Active
US8312548B1 Volume metadata update system for antivirus attributes Physics 10 Active

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