Inventor · Hereford, TX, US

David J. Craft

33Patents
6h-index
25Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 18, 1998 → Feb 6, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7930327B2 Method and apparatus for obtaining the absolute path name of an open file system object from its file descriptor Physics 195 Active
US6272566A System for maintaining proper buffering within video play list Electricity 54 Expired
US6609149B1 Method and apparatus for prioritizing video frame retrieval in a shared disk cluster Electricity 39 Expired
US8527650B2 Creating a checkpoint for modules on a communications stream Physics 7 Active
US8601147B2 Export of metadata streams to applications Electricity 7 Active
US8402230B2 Recoverability while adding storage to a redirect-on-write storage pool Physics 6 Active
US7882183B2 Managing a response to an email by a hidden email recipient Electricity 6 Active
US8458181B2 Distributed free block map for a clustered redirect-on-write file system Physics 6 Active
US8185870B2 Managing an application software partition Physics 5 Active
US8402008B2 Handling file operations with low persistent storage space Physics 5 Active
US8396832B2 Independent fileset generations in a clustered redirect-on-write filesystem Physics 4 Active
US8341733B2 Creating secured file views in a software partition Physics 4 Active
US8650158B2 File cloning across different filesets Physics 4 Active
US7797576B2 Checkpoint of applications using UNIX® domain sockets Physics 3 Active
US8495112B2 Distributed file hierarchy management in a clustered redirect-on-write file system Physics 3 Active
US9164676B2 Storing multi-stream non-linear access patterns in a flash based file-system Physics 2 Active
US7950019B2 Method and apparatus for checkpoint and restarting a stream in a software partition Physics 2 Active
US8495573B2 Checkpoint and restartable applications and system services Physics 2 Active
US9606747B2 Importing pre-existing data of a prior storage solution into a storage pool for use with a new storage solution Physics 2 Active
US7685172B2 In-flight file descriptors checkpoint Physics 2 Active
US8626713B2 Multiple contexts in a redirect on write file system Physics 2 Active
US9606748B2 Importing pre-existing data of a prior storage solution into a storage pool for use with a new storage solution Physics 2 Active
US8127289B2 Enabling a third party application to participate in migration of a virtualized application instance Physics 2 Active
US8108549B2 Method for using the loopback interface in a computer system having multiple workload partitions Electricity 1 Active
US8396833B2 Inode management in redirect-on-write file system Physics 1 Active

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