Inventor · Milpitas, CA, US

Narayanan Balakrishnan

28Patents
15h-index
14Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: May 4, 2006 → Mar 29, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8498967B1 Two-node high availability cluster storage solution using an intelligent initiator to avoid split brain syndrome Physics 418 Active
US8010485B1 Background movement of data between nodes in a storage cluster Physics 387 Active
US8046548B1 Maintaining data consistency in mirrored cluster storage systems using bitmap write-intent logging Physics 372 Active
US7908448B1 Maintaining data consistency in mirrored cluster storage systems with write-back cache Physics 363 Active
US7778960B1 Background movement of data between nodes in a storage cluster Physics 360 Active
US8595455B2 Maintaining data consistency in mirrored cluster storage systems using bitmap write-intent logging Physics 353 Active
US8244999B1 Maintaining data consistency in mirrored cluster storage systems with write-back cache Physics 352 Active
US7721044B1 Expanding the storage capacity of a virtualized data storage system Physics 86 Active
US8286030B1 Information lifecycle management assisted asynchronous replication Physics 38 Active
US8554734B1 Continuous data protection journaling in data storage systems Physics 33 Active
US7562200B1 Method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for locking and synchronizing input/output operations in a data storage system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 32 Active
US7996608B1 Providing redundancy in a storage system Physics 25 Active
US8954399B1 Data de-duplication for information storage systems Physics 20 Active
US8127096B1 High capacity thin provisioned storage server with advanced snapshot mechanism Physics 19 Active
US8806274B1 Snapshot assisted synchronous replication Physics 17 Active
US8245078B1 Recovery interface Physics 15 Active
US8521685B1 Background movement of data between nodes in a storage cluster Physics 12 Active
US7953929B1 Expanding the storage capacity of a virtualized data storage system Physics 10 Active
US8930653B1 Data de-duplication for information storage systems Physics 9 Active
US8108580B1 Low latency synchronous replication using an N-way router Physics 8 Active
US7774569B1 Locking and synchronizing input/output operations in a data storage system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active
US7689766B1 Method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for integrating a caching module into a storage system architecture Physics 5 Active
US8667330B1 Information lifecycle management assisted synchronous replication Physics 5 Active
US8639878B1 Providing redundancy in a storage system Physics 4 Active
US9524104B2 Data de-duplication for information storage systems Physics 2 Active

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