Neal R. Christiansen
65Patents
10h-index
77Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 13, 1996 → Sep 13, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5915253A | Method and system for implementing objects in a storage system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 96 | Expired |
| US7610307B2 | Method and system of detecting file system namespace changes and restoring consistency | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 54 | Expired |
| US7571288B2 | Scalable rundown protection for object lifetime management | Physics | 28 | Active |
| US9116904B2 | File system operation on multi-tiered volume | Physics | 20 | Active |
| US7636946B2 | Unwanted file modification and transactions | Physics | 18 | Active |
| US7496565B2 | Method and system for maintaining namespace consistency with a file system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 14 | Expired |
| US10209899B2 | Storage virtualization offload | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US7599907B2 | Method and system applying policy on screened files | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US8078639B2 | File system filters and transactions | Physics | 10 | Active |
| US6993603B2 | Managed file system filter model and architecture | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 10 | Expired |
| US7779425B2 | Managed file system filter model and architecture | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 10 | Active |
| US9817582B2 | Offload read and write offload provider | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US9092149B2 | Virtualization and offload reads and writes | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US7783677B2 | Tracking file system namespace changes during transactions | Physics | 7 | Active |
| US7150018B2 | Method and system for deterministic ordering of software modules | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US7444317B2 | System and method for managing file names for file system filter drivers | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 7 | Expired |
| US9436399B2 | Managing capacity of a thinly provisioned storage system | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US9654585B2 | Efficient file management through granular opportunistic locking | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US7421560B2 | Method and system of computing quota usage | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US8713270B2 | Efficient file system metadata scanning using scoped snapshots | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US8589553B2 | Directory leasing | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US9146765B2 | Virtual disk storage techniques | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US8121061B2 | Efficient file management through granular opportunistic locking | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US7133977B2 | Scalable rundown protection for object lifetime management | Physics | 3 | Expired |
| US7877424B2 | Quota enforcement with transacted file systems | Physics | 3 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.