Inventor · disambiguated record
Christopher J. Aston
Also filed as: ASTON CHRISTOPHER J · ASTON CHRISTOPHER JAMES
25 granted patents·1 pending application·474 citations·filing 1979–2018
96Inventor score
Files withHITACHI LTD6BLUEARC UK LTD5ASTON CHRISTOPHER J4BARRALL GEOFFREY S3HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS ENG UK LTD3
Top patents by PatentIndex Score
26 records- 0195US8843459B1Multi-tiered filesystemASTON CHRISTOPHER J·Filed 2011·Granted Sep 23, 2014·85 cites·39 claims
- 0295US8041735B1Distributed file system and methodBLUEARC UK LTD·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 18, 2011·137 cites·53 claims
- 0393US7457822B1Apparatus and method for hardware-based file systemBLUEARC UK LTD·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 25, 2008·69 cites·43 claims
- 0492US6826615B2Apparatus and method for hardware implementation or acceleration of operating system functionsBLUEARC UK LTD·Filed 2001·Granted Nov 30, 2004·97 cites·78 claims
- 0590US9996286B2Data storage system, process and computer program for such data storage system for reducing read and write amplificationsHITACHI LTD·Filed 2016·Granted Jun 12, 2018·7 cites·26 claims
- 0687US9424263B1Multi-tiered filesystemHITACHI DATA SYSTEMS ENG UK LTD·Filed 2014·Granted Aug 23, 2016·11 cites·87 claims
- 0784US10416928B2Data storage system and process for data compression of distributed data in a scalable cluster system and computer program for such data storage systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2017·Granted Sep 17, 2019·4 cites·14 claims
- 0884US8224877B2Apparatus and method for hardware-based file systemBARRALL GEOFFREY S·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 17, 2012·10 cites·18 claims
- 0983US7987162B2Data compression in a file storage systemBLUEARC UK LTD·Filed 2009·Granted Jul 26, 2011·13 cites·22 claims
- 1080US8504904B2Validating objects in a data storage systemASTON CHRISTOPHER J·Filed 2008·Granted Aug 6, 2013·10 cites·22 claims
- 1179US8788530B2Distributed file system and methodLACAPRA FRANCESCO·Filed 2011·Granted Jul 22, 2014·5 cites·37 claims
- 1278US9753848B2Apparatus for managing a plurality of root nodes for file systemsHITACHI DATA SYSTEMS ENG UK LTD·Filed 2013·Granted Sep 5, 2017·3 cites·26 claims
- 1375US9542310B2File server node with non-volatile memory processing module coupled to cluster file server nodeHITACHI DATA SYSTEMS ENG UK LTD·Filed 2013·Granted Jan 10, 2017·2 cites·22 claims
- 1473US10929042B2Data storage system, process, and computer program for de-duplication of distributed data in a scalable cluster systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2016·Granted Feb 23, 2021·2 cites·14 claims
- 1568US10942815B2Storage control system managing file-level and block-level storage services, and methods for controlling such storage control systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2015·Granted Mar 9, 2021·2 cites·13 claims
- 1664US8180897B2Apparatus and method for hardware implementation or acceleration of operating system functionsBARRALL GEOFFREY S·Filed 2004·Granted May 15, 2012·8 cites·41 claims
- 1760USD264575STire sidewallDUNLOP LTD·Filed 1979·Granted May 25, 1982·6 cites·1 claims
- 1857US10852959B2Data storage system, process and computer program for such data storage system for reducing read and write amplificationsHITACHI LTD·Filed 2018·Granted Dec 1, 2020·0 cites·10 claims
- 1956US9767120B2Multi-way checkpoints in a data storage systemASTON CHRISTOPHER J·Filed 2008·Granted Sep 19, 2017·1 cites·31 claims
- 2054US8028115B2File system adapter for hardware implementation or acceleration of file system functionsBLUEARC UK LTD·Filed 2009·Granted Sep 27, 2011·0 cites·45 claims
- 2148US10198193B2Computer program product, method, apparatus and data storage system for controlling write operations in the data storage systemHITACHI DATA SYSTEMS ENGINEERING UK LTD·Filed 2014·Granted Feb 5, 2019·0 cites·19 claims
- 2246US9778882B2Dynamic write balancing in a data storage systemASTON CHRISTOPHER J·Filed 2008·Granted Oct 3, 2017·0 cites·28 claims
- 2346US8639731B2Apparatus for managing plural versions of a root node for an object of a file systemBARRALL GEOFFREY S·Filed 2012·Granted Jan 28, 2014·0 cites·23 claims
- 2443USD269964STireDUNLOP LTD·Filed 1979·Granted Aug 2, 1983·2 cites·1 claims
- 2538US10956393B2Data storage system and process for providing distributed storage in a scalable cluster system and computer program for such data storage systemHITACHI LTD·Filed 2016·Granted Mar 23, 2021·0 cites·16 claims
- 2636US2017337212A1Computer program product, method, apparatus and data storage system for managing defragmentation in file systemsHITACHI DATA SYSTEMS ENGINEERING UK LTD·Filed 2015·Application pending·0 cites
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