Inventor · Bellevue, WA, US

Neal R. Christiansen

65Patents
10h-index
77Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 13, 1996 → Sep 13, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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

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