Inventor · Douglas, MA, US

Michael Ferrari

25Patents
2h-index
32Co-inventors
49Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 31, 2016 → Mar 18, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US10824513B1 Processing input/output operations while snapshot and extent copy operations are in progress for a logical storage volume Physics 5 Active
US11934273B1 Change-based snapshot mechanism Physics 2 Active
US11188425B1 Snapshot metadata deduplication Physics 2 Active
US10852952B1 Reducing I/O delays associated with snapshots using hints Physics 2 Active
US11340795B2 Snapshot metadata management Physics 1 Active
US11449237B2 Targetless snapshot system replication data pointer table Physics 1 Active
US11100008B2 Efficient memory usage for snapshots Physics 1 Active
US10635542B1 Support for prompt creation of target-less snapshots on a target logical device that has been linked to a target-less snapshot of a source logical device Physics 1 Active
US12430358B2 Sub-track granularity for preserving point-in-time data Physics 0 Active
US12259793B2 Allocating system RDP metadata space with IO performance priority Physics 0 Active
US11397528B2 Consistent IO performance on undefined target devices in a cascaded snapshot environment Physics 0 Active
US11281540B2 Remote data forwarding using a nocopy clone of a production volume Physics 0 Active
US11429559B2 Compliance recycling algorithm for scheduled targetless snapshots Physics 0 Active
US11693598B2 Undefined target volume input/output (IO) optimization Physics 0 Active
US10268418B1 Accessing multiple data snapshots via one access point Physics 0 Active
US11347641B2 Efficient memory usage for snapshots based on past memory usage Physics 0 Active
US12039168B2 Multiple version write pending support in shared global memory Physics 0 Active
US11237916B2 Efficient cloning of logical storage devices Physics 0 Active
US12202704B1 Spool and bobbin storage and labeling disc Performing Operations; Transporting 0 Active
US11762807B2 Method and apparatus for deterministically identifying sets of snapshots on a storage system Physics 0 Active
US12417208B2 Direct image lookup for determining quick differential for snapshots and linked targets Physics 0 Active
US11874795B2 Targetless snapshot virtual replication data pointer table Physics 0 Active
US11467757B1 Modifying data of activated target-less point-in-time images of storage volumes Physics 0 Active
US11526401B2 Grouping of multiple concurrent schedules of point-in-time snapshots for consistently defined data image protection Physics 0 Active
US10853389B2 Efficient snapshot activation Physics 0 Active

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