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Robert L. Fair
Also filed as: FAIR ROBERT · FAIR ROBERT L · FAIR ROBERT LAWRENCE
65 granted patents·3 pending applications·1,621 citations·filing 2000–2022
99Inventor score
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68 records- 0198US7757056B1System and method for efficiently calculating storage required to split a clone volumeNETAPP INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 13, 2010·132 cites·43 claims
- 0298US7409522B1Method and system for reallocating data in a file systemNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2005·Granted Aug 5, 2008·89 cites·17 claims
- 0397US7409511B2Cloning technique for efficiently creating a copy of a volume in a storage systemNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2004·Granted Aug 5, 2008·149 cites·35 claims
- 0497US7334095B1Writable clone of read-only volumeNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2004·Granted Feb 19, 2008·160 cites·29 claims
- 0595US8117396B1Multi-level buffer cache management through soft-division of a uniform buffer cacheFAIR ROBERT L·Filed 2006·Granted Feb 14, 2012·97 cites·19 claims
- 0695US7979402B1System and method for managing file data during consistency pointsNETAPP INC·Filed 2010·Granted Jul 12, 2011·29 cites·24 claims
- 0794US7752180B1File system group consistency pointNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2006·Granted Jul 6, 2010·49 cites·21 claims
- 0894US6594775B1Fault handling monitor transparently using multiple technologies for fault handling in a multiple hierarchal/peer domain file server with domain centered, cross domain cooperative fault handling mechanismsFiled 2000·Granted Jul 15, 2003·95 cites·9 claims
- 0993US9800459B1Dynamic creation, deletion, and management of SCSI target virtual endpointsEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 24, 2017·18 cites·13 claims
- 1093US7334094B2Online clone volume splitting techniqueNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2004·Granted Feb 19, 2008·80 cites·29 claims
- 1193US7321962B1Technique for translating a hybrid virtual volume file system into a pure virtual file system data streamNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jan 22, 2008·34 cites·19 claims
- 1293US6718481B1Multiple hierarichal/peer domain file server with domain based, cross domain cooperative fault handling mechanismsEMC CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 6, 2004·87 cites·3 claims
- 1392US9747180B1Controlling virtual endpoint failover during administrative SCSI target port disable/enableEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Aug 29, 2017·16 cites·15 claims
- 1492US8359430B1Techniques for efficient mass storage layout optimizationNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jan 22, 2013·23 cites·22 claims
- 1591US9817732B1Method for controlling failover and failback of virtual endpoints in a SCSI networkEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Nov 14, 2017·12 cites·19 claims
- 1691US9390034B1Unified SCSI target management for performing a delayed shutdown of a service daemon in a deduplication applianceEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Jul 12, 2016·14 cites·22 claims
- 1791US7996445B2Block reallocation planning during read-ahead processingNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 9, 2011·25 cites·22 claims
- 1891US7752395B1Intelligent caching of data in a storage server victim cacheNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 6, 2010·25 cites·25 claims
- 1991US7734888B1Capacity guarantees in a storage systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 8, 2010·29 cites·13 claims
- 2090US9110599B1Thin provisioning of VTL tape pools with MTree logical quotasEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Aug 18, 2015·13 cites·27 claims
- 2189US8838840B1Method and apparatus for recovering from slow or stuck SCSI commands at a SCSI targetEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Sep 16, 2014·14 cites·17 claims
- 2288US7809883B1Cached reads for a storage systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 5, 2010·24 cites·20 claims
- 2388US7549014B1Method and apparatus for coalesced multi-block readNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 16, 2009·16 cites·13 claims
- 2487US9009742B1VTL adaptive commitEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 14, 2015·10 cites·24 claims
- 2587US7694166B1Integrating control of service during cluster failoverNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 6, 2010·19 cites·24 claims
- 2686US8935470B1Pruning a filemark cache used to cache filemark metadata for virtual tapesFAIR ROBERT L·Filed 2012·Granted Jan 13, 2015·9 cites·21 claims
- 2785US9548888B1Technique for setting WWNN scope for multi-port fibre channel SCSI target deduplication appliancesEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Jan 17, 2017·13 cites·23 claims
- 2885US7676633B1Efficient non-blocking storage of data in a storage server victim cacheNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 9, 2010·15 cites·22 claims
- 2985US7593948B2Control of service workload managementNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 22, 2009·26 cites·21 claims
- 3085US7401093B1System and method for managing file data during consistency pointsNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2003·Granted Jul 15, 2008·43 cites·15 claims
- 3185US7243207B1Technique for translating a pure virtual file system data stream into a hybrid virtual volumeNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2004·Granted Jul 10, 2007·40 cites·20 claims
- 3284US9678861B2Techniques for efficient mass storage layout optimizationNETAPP INC·Filed 2015·Granted Jun 13, 2017·3 cites·16 claims
- 3384US7333993B2Adaptive file readahead technique for multiple read streamsNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 19, 2008·34 cites·34 claims
- 3483US11093342B1Efficient deduplication of compressed filesEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Aug 17, 2021·7 cites·20 claims
- 3583US9098419B1Techniques for efficient mass storage layout optimizationNETAPP INC·Filed 2013·Granted Aug 4, 2015·5 cites·11 claims
- 3683US7698506B1Partial tag offloading for storage server victim cacheNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2007·Granted Apr 13, 2010·20 cites·22 claims
- 3782US9928120B1Configuring logical unit number mapping for multiple SCSI target endpointsEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Mar 27, 2018·5 cites·16 claims
- 3882US9063842B1Technique for integrating VTL tape pools with MTree quotasEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Jun 23, 2015·7 cites·25 claims
- 3982US7827349B1Method and apparatus for coalesced multi-block readNETWORK APPLIANCE INC·Filed 2009·Granted Nov 2, 2010·9 cites·14 claims
- 4081US9384151B1Unified SCSI target management for managing a crashed service daemon in a deduplication applianceEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Jul 5, 2016·5 cites·24 claims
- 4180US9378160B1Unified SCSI target management for shutting down and de-configuring a service daemon in a deduplication applianceEMC CORP·Filed 2013·Granted Jun 28, 2016·5 cites·21 claims
- 4280US9152503B1System and method for efficiently calculating storage required to split a clone volumeFAIR ROBERT L·Filed 2010·Granted Oct 6, 2015·5 cites·29 claims
- 4376US10129081B1Dynamic configuration of NPIV virtual ports in a fibre channel networkEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Nov 13, 2018·4 cites·20 claims
- 4476US9152352B1Filemark cache to cache filemark metadata for virtual tapesFAIR ROBERT L·Filed 2012·Granted Oct 6, 2015·4 cites·16 claims
- 4575US7631148B2Adaptive file readahead based on multiple factorsNETAPP INC·Filed 2004·Granted Dec 8, 2009·20 cites·33 claims
- 4673US7783611B1System and method for managing file metadata during consistency pointsNETAPP INC·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 24, 2010·19 cites·55 claims
- 4772US10929247B2Automatic creation of application-centric extended metadata for a storage applianceEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2018·Granted Feb 23, 2021·2 cites·20 claims
- 4872US7739250B1System and method for managing file data during consistency pointsNETAPP INC·Filed 2008·Granted Jun 15, 2010·8 cites·20 claims
- 4972US7627779B2Multiple hierarichal/peer domain file server with domain based, cross domain cooperative fault handling mechanismsEMC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 1, 2009·14 cites·2 claims
- 5071US9858233B1Transparent virtualization of SCSI transport endpoints between base and virtual fibre channel portsEMC CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Jan 2, 2018·2 cites·19 claims
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