Inventor · Vadnais Heights, MN, US

Weibao Wu

61Patents
18h-index
67Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 13, 2001 → Jul 5, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6981114B1 Snapshot reconstruction from an existing snapshot and one or more modification logs Physics 226 Expired
US8041907B1 Method and system for efficient space management for single-instance-storage volumes Physics 104 Active
US7827150B1 Application aware storage appliance archiving Physics 97 Active
US7284104B1 Volume-based incremental backup and recovery of files Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 87 Expired
US8291170B1 System and method for event driven backup data storage Physics 78 Active
US9424136B1 Systems and methods for creating optimized synthetic backup images Physics 71 Active
US8224875B1 Systems and methods for removing unreferenced data segments from deduplicated data systems Physics 56 Active
US8392384B1 Method and system of deduplication-based fingerprint index caching Physics 56 Active
US8650159B1 Systems and methods for managing data in cloud storage using deduplication techniques Physics 54 Active
US7099900B1 Mapping driver for use in data backup systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 46 Expired
US8572055B1 Method and system for efficiently handling small files in a single instance storage data store Physics 45 Active
US7937545B1 Method and apparatus for file-level restore from raw partition backups Physics 43 Active
US8375181B1 System and method for performing replication based on change tracking information Physics 39 Active
US8204868B1 Method and system for improving performance with single-instance-storage volumes by leveraging data locality Physics 37 Active
US7941621B1 Automatically mounting and unmounting a volume during a backup or restore operation Physics 29 Active
US9928210B1 Constrained backup image defragmentation optimization within deduplication system Physics 28 Active
US8572163B1 Systems and methods for deduplicating data based on performance of a deduplication system Physics 20 Active
US8489830B2 Implementing read/write, multi-versioned file system on top of backup data Physics 19 Active
US8307176B1 Method and system for efficient space management for single-instance-storage volumes Physics 14 Active
US8255365B2 Source classification for performing deduplication in a backup operation Physics 14 Active
US8224874B2 Systems and methods for removing unreferenced data segments from deduplicated data systems Physics 12 Active
US8281143B1 Protecting against chosen plaintext attacks in untrusted storage environments that support data deduplication Electricity 11 Active
US8914324B1 De-duplication storage system with improved reference update efficiency Physics 10 Active
US8195688B1 Deconstruction and transformation of complex objects for de-duplicated storage Physics 9 Active
US9298561B1 Systems and methods for prioritizing restoration speed with deduplicated backups Physics 9 Active

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