Inventor · Tucson, AZ, US

Yan Xu

28Patents
6h-index
40Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 31, 2003 → Mar 24, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9928246B1 Managing snapshots of data Physics 18 Active
US9372630B2 Migration of newly allocated data to a storage tier Physics 15 Active
US8024517B2 Proactive technique for reducing occurrence of long write service time for a storage device with a write cache Physics 13 Active
US9639293B2 Migration of newly allocated data to a storage tier Physics 11 Active
US9916202B1 Redirecting host IO's at destination during replication Physics 8 Active
US9298555B1 Managing recovery of file systems Physics 7 Active
US9983942B1 Creating consistent user snaps at destination during replication Physics 6 Active
US9304689B2 Modeling workload information for a primary storage and a secondary storage Physics 5 Active
US7539150B2 Node discovery and communications in a network Electricity 5 Active
US9176681B1 Managing provisioning of storage in storage systems Physics 4 Active
US8117619B2 System and method for identifying least busy resources in a storage system using values assigned in a hierarchical tree structure Physics 3 Active
US9996270B2 Storage in tiered environment with cache collaboration Physics 2 Active
US10082979B2 Input/output operation management in a device mirror relationship Physics 2 Active
US7379989B2 Method for dual agent processes and dual active server processes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Expired
US10209898B2 Estimation of performance utilization of a storage device Physics 1 Active
US11354312B2 Access-plan-based querying for federated database-management systems Physics 1 Active
US10484470B2 Peak cyclical workload-based storage management in a multi-tier storage environment Electricity 1 Active
US7899897B2 System and program for dual agent processes and dual active server processes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US10303369B2 Storage in tiered environment with cache collaboration Physics 0 Active
US7818752B2 Interface for application components Physics 0 Active
US12197440B2 Database query performance improvement Physics 0 Active
US8782366B2 Executing host data transfer operations during setup of copy services operations Physics 0 Active
US9524101B2 Modeling workload information for a primary storage and a secondary storage Physics 0 Active
US8874854B2 Method for selectively enabling and disabling read caching in a storage subsystem Physics 0 Active
US8055868B2 Apparatus and method to store original point-in-time data Physics 0 Active

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