Inventor · Hillsborough, NC, US

Rickard E. Faith

15Patents
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20Co-inventors
68Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 23, 2009 → Apr 27, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8539008B2 Extent-based storage architecture Physics 104 Active
US8732406B1 Mechanism for determining read-ahead length in a storage system Physics 47 Active
US8600949B2 Deduplication in an extent-based architecture Physics 45 Active
US8156290B1 Just-in-time continuous segment cleaning Physics 39 Active
US8745338B1 Overwriting part of compressed data without decompressing on-disk compressed data Physics 38 Active
US9043287B2 Deduplication in an extent-based architecture Physics 28 Active
US8918378B1 Cloning using an extent-based architecture Physics 14 Active
US9984004B1 Dynamic cache balancing Physics 11 Active
US10114751B1 Method and system for implementing cache size estimations Physics 6 Active
US8312181B1 Initiation of read-ahead requests Physics 6 Active
US8484433B2 Dynamic detection and reduction of unaligned I/O operations Physics 5 Active
US9477420B2 Overwriting part of compressed data without decompressing on-disk compressed data Physics 2 Active
US8924440B2 Extent-based storage architecture Physics 2 Active
US8880842B2 Dynamic detection and reduction of unaligned I/O operations Physics 0 Active
US10698823B2 Method and apparatus for using cache size estimations for guiding hot-tier insertion decisions Physics 0 Active

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