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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Network Appliance, Inc.


USPTO Granted Patents = 540



Trademarks = 20

Forward Citations = 25,767

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452 inventors (with patents filed for the assignee):

goldMedal Steven Robert Kleiman (35 out of 69 patents)

silverMedal John K Edwards (32 out of 73 patents)

bronzeMedal Robert M English (29 out of 68 patents)

4.  Peter Frank Corbett (24 out of 78 patents)

5.  David Hitz (22 out of 29 patents)

6.  Robert L Fair (20 out of 67 patents)

7.  Stephen Lee Manley (20 out of 47 patents)

8.  Scott A Schoenthal (18 out of 29 patents)

9.  Alan Rowe (17 out of 47 patents)

10.  Eric C Hamilton (17 out of 33 patents)

11.  Srinivasan Viswanathan (16 out of 32 patents)

12.  Mark Muhlestein (16 out of 27 patents)

13.  Abhijeet Prakash Gole (16 out of 66 patents)

14.  Atul Goel (15 out of 50 patents)

15.  Joydeep Sen Sarma (15 out of 26 patents)


Core Competencies:
Filesystem Versioning
Storage Resource Topology
Virtualized Computing
Dynamic Load Balancing
Data Migration
Access Control
RAID Configuration
Storage Security
Data Integrity Verification
Cache Memory Optimization
Snapshot Management
Storage Resiliency

540 patents:

1. 8620970 - Methods and apparatus for changing versions of a filesystem (2013-12-31),
2. 8458138 - Dynamic discovery of storage resource topology (2013-06-04),
3. 8453036 - System and method for dynamically resizing a parity declustered group (2013-05-28),
4. 8452921 - Provisioning a pass-through disk in a virtualized computing environment (2013-05-28),
5. 8429514 - Dynamic load balancing of distributed parity in a RAID array (2013-04-23),
6. 8429360 - Method and system for efficient migration of a storage object between storage servers based on an ancestry of the storage object in a network storage system (2013-04-23),
7. 8402514 - Hierarchy-aware role-based access control (2013-03-19),
8. 8387127 - Storage security appliance with out-of-band management capabilities (2013-02-26),
9. 8386834 - Raid storage configuration for cached data storage (2013-02-26),
10. 8370401 - Merging containers in a multi-container system (2013-02-05),
11. 8364985 - Buffer-caches for caching encrypted data via copy-on-encrypt (2013-01-29),
12. 8364920 - System and method for transferring and backing up luns and lun clones on primary and secondary servers (2013-01-29),
13. 8364644 - Exclusion of data from a persistent point-in-time image (2013-01-29),
14. 8359430 - Techniques for efficient mass storage layout optimization (2013-01-22),
15. 8359334 - Allocating files in a file system integrated with a RAID disk sub-system (2013-01-22),
Network Appliance, Inc. is an American computer storage and data management company. They provide a range of innovative products and solutions for managing and storing data. With over 25 years of experience, Network Appliance has become a trusted leader in the industry, helping organizations around the world to simplify their data infrastructure and achieve greater efficiency, flexibility, and scalability.
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540 Patents

#10 in Sunnyvale, CA

#202 in California

#871 in US

#1,748 in the World

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Network Appliance, Inc.

Forward Citations = 25,767

452 inventors:

goldMedal Steven Robert Kleiman (35 out of 69 patents)

silverMedal John K Edwards (32 out of 73 patents)

bronzeMedal Robert M English (29 out of 68 patents)

4.  Peter Frank Corbett (24 out of 78 patents)

5.  David Hitz (22 out of 29 patents)

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