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2021
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Emc
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Richard P. Ruef
RR
Richard P. Ruef
— 6 Patents in 2021
EC
Emc Ip Holding Company
:
6
patents
#93
of
1,564
Top 6%
Santa Cruz, CA
:
#23
of
345
inventors
Top 7%
California
:
#2,940
of
66,859
inventors
Top 5%
Overall
(2021):
#20,590
of
548,734
Top 4%
6
Patents 2021
Issued Patents
2021
Showing
1–6
of
6
patents
Patent #
Title
Co-Inventors
Date
11194760
Fast object snapshot via background processing
Peter Puhov
,
William C. Davenport
,
Socheavy D. Heng
2021-12-07
11163446
Systems and methods of amortizing deletion processing of a log structured storage based volume virtualization
Joris Wils
2021-11-02
11144533
Inline deduplication using log based storage
Nickolay Alexandrovich Dalamatov
,
Kurt Everson
2021-10-12
11074232
Managing deduplication of data in storage systems
Nickolay Dalmatov
,
Kurt Everson
2021-07-27
10983705
Handling pattern identifiers in a data storage system
Rohit K. Chawla
,
William C. Davenport
2021-04-20
10929066
User stream aware file systems with user stream detection
Nickolay Dalmatov
,
Kurt Everson
2021-02-23
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