Inventor · Redwood City, CA, US

James P. Smith

60Patents
15h-index
74Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 2, 1981 → Aug 19, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8352540B2 Distinguishing data streams to enhance data storage efficiency Physics 247 Active
US9632875B2 Automated and self-adjusting data protection driven by business and data activity events Physics 168 Active
US6857053B2 Method, system, and program for backing up objects by creating groups of objects Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 96 Expired
US9684567B2 Hypervisor agnostic interchangeable backup recovery and file level recovery from virtual disks Physics 78 Active
US6615225B1 System and method for relating files in a distributed data storage environment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 52 Expired
US8458419B2 Method for application backup in the VMware consolidated backup framework Physics 46 Active
US7788230B2 Backing-up and restoring files including files referenced with multiple file names Physics 44 Active
US7440984B2 Reconciliation of local and remote backup data Physics 41 Active
US4661360A Filled snack product having a hydrophilically coated filling Human Necessities 40 Expired
US4752484A Dual-textured cookie products containing a unique saccharide mixture Human Necessities 36 Expired
US7953945B2 System and method for providing a backup/restore interface for third party HSM clients Physics 35 Active
US7660836B2 Controlling incremental backups using opaque object attributes Physics 31 Active
US4360534A Method of providing soft flavor chips in aged cookies and composition thereof Human Necessities 30 Expired
US10049121B2 Clone file backup and restore Physics 27 Active
US7941404B2 Coordinated federated backup of a distributed application environment Physics 17 Active
US7240171B2 Method and system for ensuring consistency of a group Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US4781938A Shelf-stable snack product Human Necessities 10 Expired
US8176272B2 Incremental backup using snapshot delta views Physics 10 Active
US8762743B2 Encrypting data objects to back-up Electricity 7 Active
US7461102B2 Method for performing scheduled backups of a backup node associated with a plurality of agent nodes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Expired
US8805789B2 Using a metadata image of a file system and archive instance to backup data objects in the file system Physics 6 Active
US7716433B2 Dynamically determining and managing a set of target volumes for snapshot operation Physics 5 Active
US8055862B2 System and method for providing a backup/restore interface for third party HSM clients Physics 5 Active
US9058298B2 Integrated approach for deduplicating data in a distributed environment that involves a source and a target Physics 5 Active
US8914334B2 Using a metadata image of a file system and archive instance to restore data objects in the file system Physics 5 Active

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