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Wayne C. Hineman

IBM: 19 patents #5,782 of 70,183Top 9%
San Jose, CA: #3,415 of 32,062 inventorsTop 15%
California: #30,698 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #232,381 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11991293 Authorized secure data movement John S. Best, Guerney D. H. Hunt, Steven R. Hetzler 2024-05-21
11930109 Encrypted storage with secure access Steven R. Hetzler, John S. Best 2024-03-12
11803648 Key in lockbox encrypted data deduplication Steven R. Hetzler, John S. Best 2023-10-31
11544387 Hash protection within an object storage library Rajamohan Gandhasri, Steven R. Hetzler, Robert M. Rees, John S. Best, Zhenxing Han 2023-01-03
11372549 Reclaiming free space in a storage system Steven R. Hetzler 2022-06-28
11295028 Multi-key encrypted data deduplication Steven R. Hetzler, John S. Best 2022-04-05
10831373 Reclaiming free space in a storage system Steven R. Hetzler 2020-11-10
10620831 High performance optical storage system for protection against concurrent data loss Mario Blaum, Steven R. Hetzler, Robert M. Rees 2020-04-14
10372334 Reclaiming free space in a storage system Steven R. Hetzler 2019-08-06
10001922 High performance optical storage system for protection against concurrent data loss Mario Blaum, Steven R. Hetzler, Robert M. Rees 2018-06-19
9760485 Fast write and management of persistent cache in a system that includes tertiary storage Veera W. Deenadhayalan, Robert M. Rees, Anurag Sharma, Pin Zhou 2017-09-12
9495247 Time multiplexed redundant array of independent tapes Mario Blaum, Veera W. Deenadhayalan, Steven R. Hetzler, Robert M. Rees, Pin Zhou 2016-11-15
9454333 Parity logs for RAID systems with variable capacity media Mario Blaum, Veera W. Deenadhayalan, Steven R. Hetzler, Robert M. Rees, Pin Zhou 2016-09-27
9348517 Using a migration threshold and a candidate list for cache management of sequential write storage Robert M. Rees, Pin Zhou 2016-05-24
8103621 HSM two-way orphan reconciliation for extremely large file systems Carsten Brixius, Dietmar Fischer, Christian Mueller, Douglas S. Noddings, Wayne A. Sawdon 2012-01-24
8055629 Transitioning an archived file to write-once-read-many Thomas K. Clark, Bruce Light Hillsberg, Bernhard J. Klingenberg, Robert M. Rees 2011-11-08
6925515 Producer/consumer locking system for efficient replication of file data Randal Chilton Burns, Atul Goel, Robert M. Rees 2005-08-02
6510505 System and method for allocating storage space using bit-parallel search of bitmap Randal Chilton Burns 2003-01-21
6112211 Reconfiguration an aggregate file including delete-file space for optimal compression Paul L. Bradshaw, David M. Cannon, Michael Allen Kaczmarski, Robert M. Rees 2000-08-29