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Richard P. Ruef
Also filed as: RUEF RICHARD · RUEF RICHARD P
32 granted patents·1 pending application·1,100 citations·filing 2002–2019
97Inventor score
Technology areasG06F
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33 records- 0198US8156306B1Systems and methods for using thin provisioning to reclaim space identified by data reduction processesRAIZEN HELEN S·Filed 2009·Granted Apr 10, 2012·181 cites·5 claims
- 0298US8140821B1Efficient read/write algorithms and associated mapping for block-level data reduction processesRAIZEN HELEN S·Filed 2009·Granted Mar 20, 2012·470 cites·17 claims
- 0397US8712976B1Managing deduplication densityCHEN XIANGPING·Filed 2012·Granted Apr 29, 2014·59 cites·18 claims
- 0497US8583607B1Managing deduplication densityCHEN XIANGPING·Filed 2012·Granted Nov 12, 2013·50 cites·20 claims
- 0596US10289566B1Handling data that has become inactive within stream aware data storage equipmentEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2017·Granted May 14, 2019·22 cites·20 claims
- 0695US10037336B1Performing block deduplication using block sequence classificationsEMC CORP·Filed 2015·Granted Jul 31, 2018·21 cites·18 claims
- 0794US8805796B1Deduplicating sets of data blocksHU YING·Filed 2011·Granted Aug 12, 2014·27 cites·20 claims
- 0894US8775388B1Selecting iteration schemes for deduplicationCHEN XIANGPING·Filed 2010·Granted Jul 8, 2014·47 cites·18 claims
- 0994US8332612B1Systems and methods for using thin provisioning to reclaim space identified by data reduction processesRAIZEN HELEN S·Filed 2012·Granted Dec 11, 2012·30 cites·20 claims
- 1092US9959054B1Log cleaning and tiering in a log-based data storage systemEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2015·Granted May 1, 2018·15 cites·21 claims
- 1192US9449011B1Managing data deduplication in storage systemsEMCCorporation·Filed 2012·Granted Sep 20, 2016·62 cites·16 claims
- 1291US9846718B1Deduplicating sets of data blocksEMC CORP·Filed 2014·Granted Dec 19, 2017·16 cites·20 claims
- 1391US8538933B1Deduplicating range of data blocksHU YING·Filed 2011·Granted Sep 17, 2013·18 cites·20 claims
- 1490US10146466B1Merging mapping metadata to promote reference counting efficiencyEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Dec 4, 2018·7 cites·20 claims
- 1588US11163446B1Systems and methods of amortizing deletion processing of a log structured storage based volume virtualizationEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Nov 2, 2021·6 cites·20 claims
- 1683US10929066B1User stream aware file systems with user stream detectionEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Feb 23, 2021·3 cites·18 claims
- 1781US11144533B1Inline deduplication using log based storageEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Oct 12, 2021·5 cites·20 claims
- 1881US8457018B1Merkle tree reference countsRUEF RICHARD·Filed 2009·Granted Jun 4, 2013·12 cites·2 claims
- 1981US8352435B1Continuous data reduction for highly available synchronous mirrorsEMC CORP·Filed 2011·Granted Jan 8, 2013·7 cites·10 claims
- 2078US10366014B1Fast snap copyEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Jul 30, 2019·2 cites·19 claims
- 2175US7500246B2Sharing objects between computer systemsEMC CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 3, 2009·19 cites·14 claims
- 2273US10983705B2Handling pattern identifiers in a data storage systemEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Apr 20, 2021·1 cites·20 claims
- 2368US11340814B1Placing data in a data storage array based on detection of different data streams within an incoming flow of dataEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2017·Granted May 24, 2022·1 cites·17 claims
- 2467US11074232B1Managing deduplication of data in storage systemsEMC CORP·Filed 2016·Granted Jul 27, 2021·1 cites·20 claims
- 2564US8725690B1Time and bandwidth efficient backups of space reduced dataRUEF RICHARD·Filed 2008·Granted May 13, 2014·3 cites·14 claims
- 2664US8442957B2Efficient management of large filesSAAKE MARK·Filed 2002·Granted May 14, 2013·10 cites·17 claims
- 2756US8484172B2Efficient search for migration and purge candidatesSAAKE MARK·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 9, 2013·5 cites·18 claims
- 2851US12032534B2Inline deduplication using stream detectionEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Jul 9, 2024·0 cites·20 claims
- 2949US11327948B1Managing deduplication of data in storage systemsEMC CORP·Filed 2016·Granted May 10, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
- 3049US8560716B1Time and bandwidth efficient recoveries of space reduced dataRUEF RICHARD·Filed 2008·Granted Oct 15, 2013·0 cites·10 claims
- 3147US2021034578A1Inline deduplication using neighboring segment loadingEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2019·Application pending·0 cites
- 3246US8640136B2Sharing objects between computer systemsSAAKE MARK·Filed 2008·Granted Jan 28, 2014·0 cites·19 claims
- 3342US11194760B1Fast object snapshot via background processingEMC IP HOLDING CO LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Dec 7, 2021·0 cites·19 claims
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