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William P. Delaney
Also filed as: DELANEY WILLIAM · DELANEY WILLIAM P · DELANEY WILLIAM PATRICK
54 granted patents·12 pending applications·3,080 citations·filing 1997–2023
99Inventor score
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66 records- 0199US6594744B1Managing a snapshot volume or one or more checkpoint volumes with multiple point-in-time images in a single repositoryLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Jul 15, 2003·408 cites·13 claims
- 0298US7032125B2Method for loosely coupling metadata and data in a storage arrayLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 18, 2006·329 cites·15 claims
- 0397US9930133B2System and method for managing application performanceNETAPP INC·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 27, 2018·82 cites·19 claims
- 0497US6480901B1System for monitoring and managing devices on a network from a management station via a proxy server that provides protocol converterLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Nov 12, 2002·483 cites·2 claims
- 0596US6675258B1Methods and apparatus for seamless firmware update and propagation in a dual raid controller systemLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Jan 6, 2004·274 cites·17 claims
- 0695US6877109B2Method for the acceleration and simplification of file system logging techniques using storage device snapshotsLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 5, 2005·113 cites·2 claims
- 0795US6157963ASystem controller with plurality of memory queues for prioritized scheduling of I/O requests from priority assigned clientsLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 5, 2000·278 cites·29 claims
- 0893US5996086AContext-based failover architecture for redundant serversLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 30, 1999·219 cites·15 claims
- 0992US9690703B1Systems and methods providing storage system write elasticity buffersJESS MARTIN·Filed 2012·Granted Jun 27, 2017·21 cites·21 claims
- 1092US6769022B1Methods and apparatus for managing heterogeneous storage devicesLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Jul 27, 2004·252 cites·22 claims
- 1190US8190816B2Embedded scale-out aggregator for storage array controllersBALASUBRAMANIAN SRIDHAR·Filed 2009·Granted May 29, 2012·26 cites·21 claims
- 1289US6959413B2Method of handling unreadable blocks during rebuilding of a RAID deviceLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 25, 2005·56 cites·10 claims
- 1388US6678809B1Write-ahead log in directory management for concurrent I/O access for block storageLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Jan 13, 2004·59 cites·6 claims
- 1484US9052834B2Storage array assist architectureNETAPP INC·Filed 2013·Granted Jun 9, 2015·6 cites·20 claims
- 1584US6105103AMethod for mapping in dynamically addressed storage subsystemsLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 15, 2000·115 cites·23 claims
- 1683US9501420B2Cache optimization technique for large working data setsNETAPP INC·Filed 2014·Granted Nov 22, 2016·7 cites·17 claims
- 1783US6622302B1Methods and apparatus for dynamic version transition of management applications and attached subsystemsLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 16, 2003·50 cites·15 claims
- 1881US10798207B2System and method for managing application performanceNETAPP INC·Filed 2018·Granted Oct 6, 2020·3 cites·20 claims
- 1980US11662929B2Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing arbitrary sizing of data extentsNETAPP INC·Filed 2020·Granted May 30, 2023·1 cites·20 claims
- 2080US9037671B2System and method for simple scale-out storage clustersNETAPP INC·Filed 2013·Granted May 19, 2015·4 cites·20 claims
- 2180US8595397B2Storage array assist architectureDEKONING RODNEY A·Filed 2009·Granted Nov 26, 2013·10 cites·13 claims
- 2280US6384842B1User interface to provide a physical view of movable physical entitiesLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 1999·Granted May 7, 2002·92 cites·13 claims
- 2379US11449239B2Write-ahead log maintenance and recoveryNETAPP INC·Filed 2020·Granted Sep 20, 2022·1 cites·20 claims
- 2478US7146427B2Polling-based mechanism for improved RPC timeout handlingLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 5, 2006·30 cites·10 claims
- 2578US6836821B2System and method for providing graph structuring for layered virtual volumesLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 28, 2004·25 cites·20 claims
- 2677US8595313B2Systems and method for simple scale-out storage clustersWEBER BRET S·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 26, 2013·7 cites·16 claims
- 2776US10838630B2Write-ahead log maintenance and recoveryNETAPP INC·Filed 2016·Granted Nov 17, 2020·2 cites·17 claims
- 2876US7117323B1Cyclic redundancy checking for managing the coherency of mirrored storage volumesLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Oct 3, 2006·23 cites·29 claims
- 2975US12265716B2Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing arbitrary sizing of data extentsNETAPP INC·Filed 2023·Granted Apr 1, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 3073US9990261B2System and method for recovering a storage arrayNETAPP INC·Filed 2016·Granted Jun 5, 2018·2 cites·20 claims
- 3171US10339017B2Methods and systems for using a write cache in a storage systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2016·Granted Jul 2, 2019·1 cites·20 claims
- 3270US6976263B2Mechanism for encoding and decoding upgradeable RPC/XDR structuresLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 13, 2005·15 cites·7 claims
- 3369US10802740B2Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing arbitrary sizing of data extentsNETAPP INC·Filed 2016·Granted Oct 13, 2020·1 cites·20 claims
- 3465US11644978B2Read and write load sharing in a storage array via partitioned ownership of data blocksNETAPP INC·Filed 2021·Granted May 9, 2023·0 cites·20 claims
- 3565US6671777B1Data storage system and method for managing critical data in an N-way mirrored storage device using first and second sequence numbersLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 30, 2003·11 cites·24 claims
- 3664US7240237B2Method and system for high bandwidth fault tolerance in a storage subsystemLSI CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Jul 3, 2007·9 cites·20 claims
- 3763US6931499B2Method and apparatus for copying data between storage volumes of storage systemsLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Aug 16, 2005·17 cites·22 claims
- 3861US7376756B2HDD firmware downloadLSI CORP·Filed 2003·Granted May 20, 2008·7 cites·21 claims
- 3960US11500592B2Systems and methods for allocating data compression activities in a storage systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2019·Granted Nov 15, 2022·0 cites·20 claims
- 4060US7774545B2System and method of volume group creation based on an automatic drive selection schemeLSI CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Aug 10, 2010·4 cites·15 claims
- 4159US6954810B2Transparent switchLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 11, 2005·14 cites·17 claims
- 4256US9489149B2Methods and systems for using a write cache in a storage systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2014·Granted Nov 8, 2016·0 cites·17 claims
- 4356US2019138517A1Hot-Spot Adaptive Garbage CollectionNETAPP INC·Filed 2019·Application pending·0 cites
- 4455US11175831B2Read and write load sharing in a storage array via partitioned ownership of data blocksNETAPP INC·Filed 2017·Granted Nov 16, 2021·0 cites·19 claims
- 4554US10503443B2Systems and methods for allocating data compression activities in a storage systemNETAPP INC·Filed 2017·Granted Dec 10, 2019·0 cites·20 claims
- 4654US8255676B2Non-disruptive methods for updating a controller of a storage systemDELANEY WILLIAM PATRICK·Filed 2009·Granted Aug 28, 2012·1 cites·20 claims
- 4754US2008147227A1Systems and methods for improved product variant configuration and distribution in hub-based distributionDELANEY WILLIAM P·Filed 2006·Application pending·0 cites
- 4853US7146481B2Methods and systems for pre-merge read of configuration data from a foreign volume group inserted in storage arrayLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Dec 5, 2006·4 cites·20 claims
- 4951US7085910B2Memory window manager for control structure accessLSI LOGIC CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 1, 2006·3 cites·13 claims
- 5049US2017220623A1Hot-Spot Adaptive Garbage CollectionNETAPP INC·Filed 2016·Application pending·0 cites
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