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James Cowling — 15 Patents

DRDropbox: 15 patents #54 of 803Top 7%
San Francisco, CA: #2,863 of 26,999 inventorsTop 15%
California: #40,789 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
James Cowling has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Dropbox. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in September 2023. James Cowling ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list James Cowling in San Francisco, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2016 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2017.peak 62016: 1 patents20162017: 6 patents20172018: 1 patents20182019: 4 patents20192020: 1 patents20202022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11747996 System and methods for implementing a key-value data store Oleksandr Senyuk, William Ehlhardt, Jonathan Shek Wing Lee, Gevorg Karapetyan, Olga Kechina +1 more 2023-09-05 $6,975,000
11461365 Atomic moves with lamport clocks in a content management system Nipunn Koorapati, David Wetterau, Braden Walker, Sujay Jayakar 2022-10-04 $5,472,000
10726044 Atomic moves with lamport clocks in a content management system Nipunn Koorapati, David Wetterau, Braden Walker, Sujay Jayakar 2020-07-28 $37,301,000
10452271 Reconstructing in-memory indices in a distributed data storage system James Turner 2019-10-22 $6,611,000
10310904 Distributed technique for allocating long-lived jobs among worker processes James Turner 2019-06-04 $52,107,000
10296518 Managing distributed deletes in a replicated storage system Venkata Harish Mallipeddi 2019-05-21 $17,871,000
10248356 Using scratch extents to facilitate copying operations in an append-only storage system James Turner 2019-04-02 $17,525,000
9967310 Using an RPC framework to facilitate out-of-band data transfers James Turner 2018-05-08 $13,344,000
9772783 Constructing an index to facilitate accessing a closed extent in an append-only storage system James Turner 2017-09-26
9720607 Append-only storage system supporting open and closed extents James Turner 2017-08-01
9690823 Synchronizing copies of an extent in an append-only storage system James Turner 2017-06-27
9619322 Erasure-coding extents in an append-only storage system Kevin P. Modzelewski, Venkata Harish Mallipeddi 2017-04-11
9569515 Facilitating distributed deletes in a replicated storage system Venkata Harish Mallipeddi 2017-02-14
9547706 Using colocation hints to facilitate accessing a distributed data storage system — 2017-01-17
9405643 Multi-level lookup architecture to facilitate failure recovery Kevin P. Modzelewski 2016-08-02

Frequent Collaborators

James Turner7 shared
Venkata Harish Mallipeddi3 shared
Kevin P. Modzelewski2 shared
Nipunn Koorapati2 shared
David Wetterau2 shared
Sujay Jayakar2 shared

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