Inventor · Rochester, MN, US

Duane M. Baldwin

48Patents
9h-index
55Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 30, 1998 → Feb 25, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7330897B2 Methods and apparatus for storage area network component registration Electricity 107 Expired
US6253240A Method for producing a coherent view of storage network by a storage network manager using data storage device configuration obtained from data storage devices Physics 105 Expired
US7287063B2 Storage area network methods and apparatus using event notifications with data Electricity 92 Expired
US7171624B2 User interface architecture for storage area network Electricity 38 Expired
US9298386B2 System and method for improved placement of blocks in a deduplication-erasure code environment Physics 38 Active
US9336076B2 System and method for controlling a redundancy parity encoding amount based on deduplication indications of activity Physics 32 Active
US7430593B2 Storage area network for topology rendering Electricity 24 Expired
US7457846B2 Storage area network methods and apparatus for communication and interfacing with multiple platforms Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Expired
US7827317B2 Apparatus for management of mixed protocol storage networks Electricity 9 Active
US7673071B2 Apparatus, system, and method for generating a name for a system of devices Physics 5 Active
US8682869B2 Increased in-line deduplication efficiency Physics 4 Active
US8327004B2 Storage area network methods and apparatus with centralized management Electricity 4 Active
US7401139B1 Storage area network management and configuration method and apparatus via enabling in-band communications Electricity 3 Expired
US7340579B2 Managing SANs with scalable hosts Electricity 3 Expired
US8688652B2 Increased in-line deduplication efficiency Physics 3 Active
US7398326B2 Methods for management of mixed protocol storage area networks Electricity 3 Expired
US9298385B2 System, method and computer program product for deduplication aware quality of service over data tiering Physics 3 Active
US9251050B2 Apparatus and method for resource alerts Physics 3 Active
US9158468B2 High read block clustering at deduplication layer Physics 3 Active
US10210191B2 Accelerated access to objects in an object store implemented utilizing a file storage system Physics 2 Active
US10592415B2 Modified consistency hashing rings for object store controlled WAN cache infrastructure Electricity 1 Active
US9992298B2 Relationship-based WAN caching for object stores Electricity 1 Active
US9317363B2 Management of a secure delete operation in a parity-based system Physics 1 Active
US10785227B2 Implementing data security within a synchronization and sharing environment Electricity 1 Active
US9268497B2 Increased in-line deduplication efficiency Physics 1 Active

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