Inventor · Tucson, AZ, US

John T. Olson

73Patents
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59Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 13, 1980 → Nov 5, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5342584A Air freshener device and cartridge with battery Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 112 Expired
US5248066A Liquid dispenser with collapsible reservoir holder Human Necessities 51 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
US4511311A Fluid system control apparatus and method Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 23 Expired
USD381748S Autotransfusion machine General 18 Expired
US7143222B2 Adaptive message delivery system Physics 14 Expired
US9330108B2 Multi-site heat map management Electricity 13 Active
US9323462B2 File system snapshot data management in a multi-tier storage environment Physics 12 Active
US4318278A Ice making machine Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 7 Expired
US9996610B1 Protocol based user data management Electricity 6 Active
US9671977B2 Handling data block migration to efficiently utilize higher performance tiers in a multi-tier storage environment Physics 5 Active
US4357808A Ice making machine Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 4 Expired
US8682869B2 Increased in-line deduplication efficiency Physics 4 Active
US7051230B2 Method and system for allowing customization of remote data collection in the event of a system error Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Expired
US6411320B1 Segmented heated drum processor Physics 3 Expired
US9881018B2 File management in thin provisioning storage environments Physics 3 Active
US9613040B2 File system snapshot data management in a multi-tier storage environment Physics 3 Active
US7487408B2 Deferring error reporting for a storage device to align with staffing levels at a service center Physics 3 Active
US8688652B2 Increased in-line deduplication efficiency Physics 3 Active
US9298385B2 System, method and computer program product for deduplication aware quality of service over data tiering Physics 3 Active
US8880475B2 Reusing snapshots in a network data management protocol backup operation Physics 2 Active
US10242013B2 Snapshot management using heatmaps in a large capacity disk environment Physics 2 Active
US10528520B2 Snapshot management using heatmaps in a large capacity disk environment Physics 2 Active
US9612964B2 Multi-tier file storage management using file access and cache profile information Physics 2 Active

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