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Colin Yong Zou
Also filed as: ZOU COLIN · ZOU COLIN YONG
42 granted patents·4 pending applications·240 citations·filing 2011–2024
96Inventor score
Files withEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC30EMC CORP9DELL PRODUCTS LP4IP Holding Company LLC1THERMO FISHER SHANGHAI INSTR CO LTD1
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46 records- 0195US10983908B1Method and system for garbage collection of data protection virtual machines in cloud computing networksEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Apr 20, 2021·24 cites·18 claims
- 0294US10229017B1Resetting fibre channel devices for failover in high availability backup systemsEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Mar 12, 2019·151 cites·16 claims
- 0393US9798534B1Method and system to perform non-intrusive online disk firmware upgradesIP Holding Company LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 24, 2017·32 cites·15 claims
- 0490US10838905B2Managing a peripheral component interface express device hotplugEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 17, 2020·4 cites·18 claims
- 0582US10848179B1Performance optimization and support compatibility of data compression with hardware acceleratorEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Nov 24, 2020·5 cites·20 claims
- 0681US11797389B2System and method for recovering an operating system after an upgrade hang using a dual-flash deviceEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Oct 24, 2023·2 cites·18 claims
- 0781US11489917B2Method and system for backing up and restoring dataEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2021·Granted Nov 1, 2022·1 cites·19 claims
- 0881US10025667B2Management of storage devicesEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Jul 17, 2018·4 cites·19 claims
- 0979US10459642B2Method and device for data replicationEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Oct 29, 2019·4 cites·22 claims
- 1073US10572432B2Managing a peripheral component interface express device hotplugEMC CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Feb 25, 2020·2 cites·14 claims
- 1173US10346238B2Determining failure location in a storage systemEMC CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Jul 9, 2019·2 cites·19 claims
- 1272US11436070B2Achieving storage system performance guarantees by applying transactional I/O schedulingEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Sep 6, 2022·1 cites·18 claims
- 1372US10585770B2Method and apparatus for accelerating data reconstruction for a disk arrayEMC CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Mar 10, 2020·2 cites·15 claims
- 1471US11093351B2Method and apparatus for backup communicationEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Aug 17, 2021·1 cites·20 claims
- 1568US11263089B2Achieving guaranteed application performance using transactional I/O scheduling for SSD storage by interleaving and splitting read/write I/Os with required latency configurationsEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Mar 1, 2022·1 cites·20 claims
- 1668US9952785B2Enabling non-volatile random access to dataEMC CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Apr 24, 2018·2 cites·20 claims
- 1761US2024102980A1Compact dehydration and trap moduleTHERMO FISHER SHANGHAI INSTR CO LTD·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 1859US11093283B2System and method of dynamically allocating compression jobsEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Aug 17, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
- 1958US12141288B2Raid array for validating and recovering operating system boot files for UEFI secure boot systemsDELL PRODUCTS LP·Filed 2022·Granted Nov 12, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 2057US12314135B2Error handling for runtime operations of operating system boot files for UEFI secure boot systemsDELL PRODUCTS LP·Filed 2022·Granted May 27, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 2156US11657018B2System and method for data-layout aware decompression and verification using a hardware accelerator chainEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2021·Granted May 23, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 2256US11438010B2System and method for increasing logical space for native backup applianceEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Sep 6, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
- 2356US11288096B2System and method of balancing mixed workload performanceEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Mar 29, 2022·0 cites·15 claims
- 2455US11334255B2Method and device for data replicationEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2019·Granted May 17, 2022·0 cites·21 claims
- 2555US10824577B1Transactional I/O scheduler using media properties to achieve guaranteed read, write, and mixed I/O performance in virtual and cloud storageEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Nov 3, 2020·0 cites·19 claims
- 2654US11481278B2System and method for recovering an operating system after a runtime hang using a dual-flash deviceEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Oct 25, 2022·0 cites·18 claims
- 2754US11243780B2System and method for operating system installation using a dual-flash deviceEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Feb 8, 2022·0 cites·18 claims
- 2854US8307127B1Device live suspend and resumeZENG JASON·Filed 2011·Granted Nov 6, 2012·2 cites·17 claims
- 2953US12164643B2Validation and recovery of operating system boot files during OS installation and runtime for UEFI secure boot systemsDELL PRODUCTS LP·Filed 2022·Granted Dec 10, 2024·0 cites·16 claims
- 3053US11824567B2Adaptive inline polling of data compression with hardware acceleratorEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2021·Granted Nov 21, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 3152US11550655B2System and method for monitoring and upgrading a dual-flash deviceEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Jan 10, 2023·0 cites·17 claims
- 3250US2025335594A1Secure boot and operating system managementDELL PRODUCTS LP·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 3349US11204872B2Achieving guaranteed application performance using transactional I/O scheduling for SSD storage using known read/write latenciesEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Dec 21, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
- 3449US10840943B1System and method of data compression between backup server and storageEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Nov 17, 2020·0 cites·15 claims
- 3547US10545841B2Method and apparatus for backup communicationEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Jan 28, 2020·0 cites·17 claims
- 3646US11954118B2Method, device and computer program product for data backupEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2018·Granted Apr 9, 2024·0 cites·15 claims
- 3746US10936560B2Methods and devices for data de-duplicationEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 2, 2021·0 cites·20 claims
- 3845US10409517B2Method and device for data backupEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Sep 10, 2019·0 cites·17 claims
- 3944US10579419B2Data analysis in storage systemEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 3, 2020·0 cites·11 claims
- 4043US11068371B2Method and apparatus for simulating slow storage diskEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Jul 20, 2021·0 cites·17 claims
- 4142US10705936B2Detecting and handling errors in a bus structureEMC CORP·Filed 2016·Granted Jul 7, 2020·0 cites·12 claims
- 4241US10198196B2Monitoring health condition of a hard diskEMC CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Feb 5, 2019·0 cites·20 claims
- 4339US2021109759A1Pipelined method to improve backup and restore performanceEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2019·Application pending·0 cites
- 4438US9798471B2Performance of de-clustered disk array by disk grouping based on I/O statisticsEMC CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 24, 2017·0 cites·18 claims
- 4537US10209923B2Coalescing configuration engine, coalescing configuration tool and file system for storage systemEMC CORP·Filed 2016·Granted Feb 19, 2019·0 cites·7 claims
- 4636US2016110246A1Disk data managementEMC CORP·Filed 2015·Application pending·0 cites
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