Inventor · Shakopee, MN, US

Roderick B. Wideman

38Patents
6h-index
27Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 10, 1995 → Apr 21, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8650228B2 Methods and systems for space management in data de-duplication Physics 13 Active
US5559982A Method and apparatus for controlling storage utilization Physics 10 Expired
US7743205B2 Apparatus and method for virtualizing data storage media, such as for use in a data storage library providing resource virtualization Physics 8 Active
US10761758B2 Data aware deduplication object storage (DADOS) Physics 8 Active
US8504533B2 De-duplication reference tag reconciliation Physics 8 Active
US8886606B2 File system based exchange between disk-based network attached storage and tape Physics 7 Active
US9176978B2 Classifying data for deduplication and storage Physics 6 Active
US10318389B2 Joint de-duplication-erasure coded distributed storage Physics 5 Active
US8381020B1 Method and apparatus for facilitating control interface failover in a removable media storage device Physics 5 Active
US9734051B2 Garbage collection and defragmentation for solid state drives (SSD) and shingled magnetic recording (SMR) drives Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US8112557B2 Method and apparatus for tape drive data logging Physics 3 Active
US10853187B2 Joint de-duplication-erasure coded distributed storage Physics 2 Active
US9503127B2 Data deduplication with adaptive erasure code redundancy Electricity 2 Active
US8463757B2 File repair Physics 2 Active
US8743501B2 Tape library initiated actions Physics 1 Active
US10484016B2 Data deduplication with adaptive erasure code redundancy Electricity 1 Active
US8320569B2 Generating unique aliases for keys used with tape libraries Electricity 1 Active
US11042299B2 Removable media based object store Physics 1 Active
US9692452B2 Data deduplication with adaptive erasure code redundancy Electricity 1 Active
US8886353B2 Satisfying a request for a physical import/export slot with a slot that is not a physical import/export slot Physics 1 Active
US8612697B2 Apparatus and method for virtualizing data storage media, such as for use in a data storage library providing resource virtualization Physics 1 Active
US8898240B2 Messaging policy controlled email de-duplication Electricity 1 Active
US10169345B2 Moving data from linear tape file system storage to cloud storage Physics 1 Active
US10503692B2 Filter file system with inode number as primary database key Physics 1 Active
US9876746B2 Messaging policy controlled email de-duplication Electricity 1 Active

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