Inventor · Austin, TX, US

William B. Brown

18Patents
4h-index
12Co-inventors
57Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 19, 1990 → Nov 6, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5119442A Real time digital video animation using compressed pixel mappings Physics 32 Expired
US7680844B2 Method for preserving virtual filesystem information across high availability takeover Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Active
US8743680B2 Hierarchical network failure handling in a clustered node environment Electricity 6 Active
US7389298B2 Seamless remote traversal of multiple NFSv4 exported file systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US7890554B2 Apparatus and method of exporting file systems without first mounting the file systems Physics 3 Active
US9772915B2 Cluster file system support for extended network service addresses Electricity 3 Active
US8171067B2 Implementing an ephemeral file system backed by a NFS server Physics 2 Active
US10742731B2 Maintaining service configuration consistency across nodes of a clustered file system Electricity 2 Active
US9940213B2 Integrating external services with a clustered file system Physics 2 Active
US8392477B2 Seamless remote traversal of multiple NFSv4 exported file systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US10592373B2 Integrating external services with a clustered file system Physics 1 Active
US10558535B2 Cluster file system support for extended network service addresses Electricity 1 Active
US7882078B2 Method for preserving virtual filesystem information across high availability takeover Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US9524396B2 System that maintains objects created and modified within designated directories on a per-client basis in a network filesystem Electricity 1 Active
US7660826B2 Implementing adaptive buffer management on network fetches of directory contents and object attributes Physics 0 Active
US11200199B2 System that maintains objects created and modified within designated directories on a per-client basis in a network filesystem Electricity 0 Active
US11068361B2 Cluster file system support for extended network service addresses Electricity 0 Active
US8190570B2 Preserving virtual filesystem information across high availability takeover Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active

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