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Wayne A. Sawdon
Also filed as: SAWDON WAYNE · SAWDON WAYNE A
66 granted patents·7 pending applications·1,525 citations·filing 1991–2021
99Inventor score
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73 records- 0199US6748504B2Deferred copy-on-write of a snapshotIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Jun 8, 2004·293 cites·29 claims
- 0298US6829617B2Providing a snapshot of a subset of a file systemIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 7, 2004·166 cites·27 claims
- 0397US10049121B2Clone file backup and restoreIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Aug 14, 2018·28 cites·11 claims
- 0497US7502801B2Providing a snapshot of a subset of a file systemIBM·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 10, 2009·51 cites·15 claims
- 0596US9824233B2Posixly secure open and access files by inode numberIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Nov 21, 2017·19 cites·18 claims
- 0695US6959310B2Generating 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 systemIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 25, 2005·119 cites·35 claims
- 0794US9766988B2Restore of full system backup and incremental backups using multiple simultaneous device streamsIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Sep 19, 2017·9 cites·12 claims
- 0892US10554220B1Managing compression and storage of genomic dataIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Feb 4, 2020·24 cites·20 claims
- 0992US8639665B2Hybrid backup and restore of very large file system using metadata image backup and traditional backupBERMAN STEVEN M·Filed 2012·Granted Jan 28, 2014·26 cites·20 claims
- 1092US8055864B2Efficient hierarchical storage management of a file system with snapshotsIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 8, 2011·29 cites·18 claims
- 1191US11036690B2Global namespace in a heterogeneous storage system environmentIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Jun 15, 2021·8 cites·21 claims
- 1291US7085785B2Writable file system snapshot with ditto address featureIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Aug 1, 2006·93 cites·30 claims
- 1390US8892531B2Scalable file management for a shared file systemIBM·Filed 2012·Granted Nov 18, 2014·11 cites·19 claims
- 1490US7216135B2File 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 addressIBM·Filed 2002·Granted May 8, 2007·67 cites·21 claims
- 1590US6829678B1System for determining the order and frequency in which space is allocated on individual storage devicesIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 7, 2004·52 cites·74 claims
- 1689US6928459B1Plurality of file systems using weighted allocation to allocate space on one or more storage devicesIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Aug 9, 2005·78 cites·71 claims
- 1789US5278982ALog archive filtering method for transaction-consistent forward recovery from catastrophic media failuresIBM·Filed 1991·Granted Jan 11, 1994·155 cites·9 claims
- 1888US10885007B2Custom metadata extraction across a heterogeneous storage system environmentIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Jan 5, 2021·6 cites·26 claims
- 1987US8341130B2Scalable file management for a shared file systemKAPLAN MARC A·Filed 2009·Granted Dec 25, 2012·19 cites·13 claims
- 2087US8341122B2Restore of full system backup and incremental backups using multiple simultaneous device streamsSAWDON WAYNE A·Filed 2009·Granted Dec 25, 2012·13 cites·12 claims
- 2187US8204863B2Multi-phase file system restore with selective on-demand data availabilitySAWDON WAYNE A·Filed 2009·Granted Jun 19, 2012·18 cites·21 claims
- 2287US7111014B2Providing a snapshot of a subject of a file systemIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Sep 19, 2006·36 cites·6 claims
- 2387US7043503B2Ditto address indicating true disk address for actual data blocks stored in one of an inode of the file system and subsequent snapshotIBM·Filed 2002·Granted May 9, 2006·50 cites·26 claims
- 2485US10318649B2Implementing a secondary storage dentry cacheIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Jun 11, 2019·3 cites·18 claims
- 2585US8805789B2Using a metadata image of a file system and archive instance to backup data objects in the file systemBERMAN STEVEN M·Filed 2012·Granted Aug 12, 2014·9 cites·20 claims
- 2684US7234077B2Rapid restoration of file system usage in very large file systemsIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Jun 19, 2007·39 cites·28 claims
- 2782US10915498B2Dynamically managing a high speed storage tier of a data storage systemIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Feb 9, 2021·3 cites·23 claims
- 2882US8914334B2Using a metadata image of a file system and archive instance to restore data objects in the file systemBERMAN STEVEN M·Filed 2012·Granted Dec 16, 2014·7 cites·23 claims
- 2981US7092976B2Parallel high speed backup for a storage area network (SAN) file systemIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 15, 2006·49 cites·10 claims
- 3080US8370304B2Restore of full system backup and incremental backups using multiple simultaneous device streamsIBM·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 5, 2013·5 cites·6 claims
- 3177US10437799B2Data migration using a migration data placement tool between storage systems based on data accessIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Oct 8, 2019·2 cites·17 claims
- 3276US10417197B2Implementing a secondary storage dentry cacheIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Sep 17, 2019·1 cites·18 claims
- 3375US10778246B2Managing compression and storage of genomic dataIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Sep 15, 2020·3 cites·20 claims
- 3475US7934056B2Allocating space on data storage devices in proportion to weights associated with the devicesIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Apr 26, 2011·5 cites·10 claims
- 3574US11487730B2Storage resource utilization analytics in a heterogeneous storage system environment using metadata tagsIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Nov 1, 2022·2 cites·17 claims
- 3673US10803018B2Compressed data rearrangement to optimize file compressionIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 13, 2020·2 cites·20 claims
- 3773US9355098B2Restore of full system backup and incremental backups using multiple simultaneous device streamsIBM·Filed 2012·Granted May 31, 2016·2 cites·12 claims
- 3872US11113245B2Policy-based, multi-scheme data reduction for computer memoryIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Sep 7, 2021·1 cites·20 claims
- 3971US10804930B2Compressed data layout with variable group sizeIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 13, 2020·3 cites·20 claims
- 4070US10579587B2Space management for a hierarchical set of file systemsIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 3, 2020·1 cites·20 claims
- 4169US10592479B2Space management for a hierarchical set of file systemsIBM·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 17, 2020·1 cites·20 claims
- 4269US10437800B2Data migration using a migration data placement tool between storage systems based on data accessIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Oct 8, 2019·1 cites·17 claims
- 4368US10649955B2Providing unique inodes across multiple file system namespacesIBM·Filed 2017·Granted May 12, 2020·1 cites·15 claims
- 4467US11163750B2Dynamic, transparent manipulation of content and/or namespaces within data storage systemsIBM·Filed 2018·Granted Nov 2, 2021·1 cites·20 claims
- 4567US10311026B2Compressed data layout for optimizing data transactionsIBM·Filed 2016·Granted Jun 4, 2019·1 cites·20 claims
- 4666US11429429B2Prefetch chaining for optimizing data read-ahead for workflow and analyticsIBM·Filed 2020·Granted Aug 30, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
- 4765US10089319B2Policy-based, multi-scheme data reduction for computer memoryIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 2, 2018·1 cites·18 claims
- 4864US11429568B2Global namespace for a hierarchical set of file systemsIBM·Filed 2020·Granted Aug 30, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
- 4964US10831723B2Implementing a secondary storage dentry cacheIBM·Filed 2019·Granted Nov 10, 2020·0 cites·20 claims
- 5064US10055299B2Clone file backup and restoreIBM·Filed 2015·Granted Aug 21, 2018·1 cites·7 claims
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