Wayne A. Sawdon
66Patents
17h-index
49Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 23, 1991 → Apr 22, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6748504B2 | Deferred copy-on-write of a snapshot | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 220 | Expired |
| US5278982A | Log archive filtering method for transaction-consistent forward recovery from catastrophic media failures | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 107 | Expired |
| US6829617B2 | Providing a snapshot of a subset of a file system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 102 | Expired |
| US6959310B2 | Generating data set of the first file system by determining a set of changes between data stored in first snapshot of the first file system, and data stored in second snapshot of the first file system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 78 | Expired |
| US6928459B1 | Plurality of file systems using weighted allocation to allocate space on one or more storage devices | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 61 | Expired |
| US7085785B2 | Writable file system snapshot with ditto address feature | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 51 | Expired |
| US7216135B2 | File system for providing access to a snapshot dataset where disk address in the inode is equal to a ditto address for indicating that the disk address is invalid disk address | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 44 | Expired |
| US7043503B2 | Ditto address indicating true disk address for actual data blocks stored in one of an inode of the file system and subsequent snapshot | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 30 | Expired |
| US7502801B2 | Providing a snapshot of a subset of a file system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 30 | Active |
| US6829678B1 | System for determining the order and frequency in which space is allocated on individual storage devices | Physics | 30 | Expired |
| US7092976B2 | Parallel high speed backup for a storage area network (SAN) file system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 28 | Expired |
| US10049121B2 | Clone file backup and restore | Physics | 27 | Active |
| US7111014B2 | Providing a snapshot of a subject of a file system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 25 | Expired |
| US7234077B2 | Rapid restoration of file system usage in very large file systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 23 | Expired |
| US8639665B2 | Hybrid backup and restore of very large file system using metadata image backup and traditional backup | Physics | 22 | Active |
| US8055864B2 | Efficient hierarchical storage management of a file system with snapshots | Physics | 22 | Active |
| US9824233B2 | Posixly secure open and access files by inode number | Electricity | 19 | Active |
| US8204863B2 | Multi-phase file system restore with selective on-demand data availability | Physics | 17 | Active |
| US8341130B2 | Scalable file management for a shared file system | Physics | 14 | Active |
| US8341122B2 | Restore of full system backup and incremental backups using multiple simultaneous device streams | Physics | 11 | Active |
| US8892531B2 | Scalable file management for a shared file system | Physics | 9 | Active |
| US10554220B1 | Managing compression and storage of genomic data | Electricity | 8 | Active |
| US9766988B2 | Restore of full system backup and incremental backups using multiple simultaneous device streams | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US8805789B2 | Using a metadata image of a file system and archive instance to backup data objects in the file system | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US11036690B2 | Global namespace in a heterogeneous storage system environment | Electricity | 6 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.