Inventor · Leavenworth, WA, US

Norbert Paul Kusters

79Patents
18h-index
83Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 8, 1995 → Apr 7, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6473775B1 System and method for growing differential file on a base volume of a snapshot Physics 252 Expired
US6651075B1 Support for multiple temporal snapshots of same volume Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 217 Expired
US6647473B1 Kernel-based crash-consistency coordinator Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 156 Expired
US6549934B1 Method and system for remote access to computer devices via client managed server buffers exclusively allocated to the client Electricity 113 Expired
US7664771B2 Optimizing defragmentation operations in a differential snapshotter Physics 107 Expired
US5819112A Apparatus for controlling an I/O port by queuing requests and in response to a predefined condition, enabling the I/O port to receive the interrupt requests Physics 87 Expired
US6421684B1 Persistent volume mount points Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 73 Expired
US6119131A Persistent volume mount points Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 70 Expired
US6904599B1 Storage management system having abstracted volume providers Physics 65 Expired
US6665786B2 Dynamic disk partition management Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 43 Expired
US6681310B1 Storage management system having common volume manager Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired
US6553387B1 LOGICAL VOLUME CONFIGURATION DATA MANAGEMENT DETERMINES WHETHER TO EXPOSE THE LOGICAL VOLUME ON-LINE, OFF-LINE REQUEST BASED ON COMPARISON OF VOLUME EPOCH NUMBERS ON EACH EXTENTS OF THE VOLUME IDENTIFIERS Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 36 Expired
US6615256B1 Quorum resource arbiter within a storage network Physics 35 Expired
US6826666B2 Method and system for transporting data content on a storage area network Physics 30 Expired
US10404613B1 Placement of control and data plane resources Electricity 23 Active
US9753813B1 Data replication snapshots for persistent storage using operation numbers Physics 22 Active
US9413680B1 Multi-tenant throttling approaches Electricity 20 Active
US6735603B2 Logical volume data structure determining configuration status of logical volume based on comparing values of examined volume epoch identifiers on each on-line extent Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Expired
US10055352B2 Page cache write logging at block-based storage Physics 18 Active
US10880204B1 Low latency access for storage using multiple paths Electricity 17 Active
US9864538B1 Data size reduction Physics 17 Active
US6496839B2 Persistent names for logical volumes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Expired
US10521135B2 Data system with data flush mechanism Physics 15 Active
US7721057B2 Method and system for transporting data content on a storage area network Physics 15 Active
US9703602B1 Burst throttling for multi-tenant storage services Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 14 Active

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