Inventor · Vail, AZ, US

Howard N. Martin

60Patents
12h-index
27Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 29, 1997 → Jan 8, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6021415A Storage management system with file aggregation and space reclamation within aggregated files Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1,019 Expired
US7567188B1 Policy based tiered data deduplication strategy Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 197 Active
US9904717B2 Replication of data objects from a source server to a target server Physics 170 Active
US9910904B2 Replication of data objects from a source server to a target server Physics 167 Active
US8161255B2 Optimized simultaneous storing of data into deduplicated and non-deduplicated storage pools Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 75 Active
US7117322B2 Method, system, and program for retention management and protection of stored objects Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 59 Expired
US7418464B2 Method, system, and program for storing data for retrieval and transfer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 58 Expired
US8788466B2 Efficient transfer of deduplicated data Physics 31 Active
US5963961A Database reconstruction using embedded database backup codes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Expired
US7526621B2 Method for implementing retention policies to archive records Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Active
US6230247A Method and apparatus for adaptive storage space allocation Physics 19 Expired
US8838529B2 Applying replication rules to determine whether to replicate objects Physics 12 Active
USD904388S1 Stand for smartphone General 12 Active
US9489270B2 Managing backup operations from a client system to a primary server and secondary server Physics 11 Active
US6886019B1 Optimized selection and accessing of stored files to avoid mount and position thrashing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US7600086B2 Method, system, and program for retention management and protection of stored objects Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Active
US7356622B2 Method and apparatus for managing and formatting metadata in an autonomous operation conducted by a third party Physics 8 Expired
US8583881B1 Method, system, and program for implementing retention policies to archive records Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Active
US7660834B2 Maintaining an aggregate including active files in a storage pool Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Active
US7353299B2 Method and apparatus for managing autonomous third party data transfers Electricity 7 Expired
US8738575B2 Data recovery in a hierarchical data storage system Physics 7 Active
US8347151B2 Error tracking method and system Physics 5 Active
US8281087B2 Method, system, and program implementing retention policies to archive records Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US7606845B2 Apparatus, systems, and method for concurrent storage to an active data file storage pool, copy pool, and next pool Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US7181647B2 Error tracking method and system Physics 5 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.