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Charles Binford — 40 Patents

NENetapp: 20 patents #68 of 1,846Top 4%
LSLsi: 11 patents #299 of 3,238Top 10%
Oracle: 7 patents #1,781 of 14,854Top 15%
SLSymbios Logic: 2 patents #13 of 87Top 15%
HAHyundai Electronics America: 1 patents #75 of 148Top 55%
ATAT&T: 1 patents #10,636 of 18,772Top 60%
Wichita, KS: #15 of 1,728 inventorsTop 1%
Kansas: #137 of 12,005 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
Charles Binford has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at Netapp. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in April 2025. Charles Binford ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list Charles Binford in Wichita, KS, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12265716 Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing arbitrary sizing of data extents Randolph Sterns, William P. Delaney, Joseph Blount, Reid A. Kaufmann, Joseph Moore 2025-04-01
11662929 Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing arbitrary sizing of data extents Randolph Sterns, William P. Delaney, Joseph Blount, Reid A. Kaufmann, Joseph Moore 2023-05-30 $25,904,000
11644978 Read and write load sharing in a storage array via partitioned ownership of data blocks Randolph Sterns, Joseph Blount, Joseph Moore, William P. Delaney 2023-05-09 $32,890,000
11500592 Systems and methods for allocating data compression activities in a storage system William P. Delaney, Keith Moyer, Randolph Sterns, Joseph Moore, Joseph Blount 2022-11-15 $28,518,000
11449239 Write-ahead log maintenance and recovery Randolph Sterns, William P. Delaney, Joseph Blount, Keith Moyer, Joseph Moore 2022-09-20 $13,140,000
11175831 Read and write load sharing in a storage array via partitioned ownership of data blocks Randolph Sterns, Joseph Blount, Joseph Moore, William P. Delaney 2021-11-16 $41,681,000
10915405 Methods for handling storage element failures to reduce storage device failure rates and devices thereof Tim K. Emami, Ratnesh Gupta 2021-02-09 $70,716,000
10838630 Write-ahead log maintenance and recovery Randolph Sterns, William P. Delaney, Joseph Blount, Keith Moyer, Joseph Moore 2020-11-17 $34,336,000
10802740 Systems, methods, and computer readable media providing arbitrary sizing of data extents Randolph Sterns, William P. Delaney, Joseph Blount, Reid A. Kaufmann, Joseph Moore 2020-10-13 $91,979,000
10691339 Methods for reducing initialization duration and performance impact during configuration of storage drives Mahmoud K. Jibbe 2020-06-23 $14,646,000
10503443 Systems and methods for allocating data compression activities in a storage system William P. Delaney, Keith Moyer, Randolph Sterns, Joseph Blount, Joseph Moore 2019-12-10 $26,316,000
10366065 Memory efficient lookup structure William P. Delaney, Joseph Blount, Joseph Moore, Randolph Sterns, Jeff Stilger 2019-07-30 $23,714,000
10303362 Methods for reducing initialization duration and performance impact during configuration of storage drives Mahmoud K. Jibbe 2019-05-28 $99,784,000
10180885 Prioritized data recovery from an object storage service and concurrent data backup Mitch Blackburn, Reid A. Kaufmann 2019-01-15 $49,912,000
10127117 Online backup to an object service using bulk export Theresa Segura, William Hetrick 2018-11-13 $99,085,000
9990261 System and method for recovering a storage array Joseph Blount, William P. Delaney, Joseph Moore, Randolph Sterns 2018-06-05 $23,590,000
9832270 Determining I/O performance headroom Sai Rama Krishna Susarla, Vishal Kumawat 2017-11-28 $3,459,000
9830094 Dynamic transitioning of protection information in array systems Mahmoud K. Jibbe, Wei Sun 2017-11-28 $3,459,000
9830233 Online backup to an object service using bulk export Theresa Segura, William Hetrick 2017-11-28 $3,459,000
9367245 Data access request monitoring to reduce system resource use for background operations Satish Sangapu, Wei Sun, Keith Moyer 2016-06-14 $4,672,000
8539109 Third party direct memory access protocol extension to separate data path from control path Whay Sing Lee, Richard Meyer, Rodney A. DeKoning, William Stronge 2013-09-17 $61,969,000
8527661 Gateway for connecting clients and servers utilizing remote direct memory access controls to separate data path from control path Whay Sing Lee, Richard Meyer, Rodney A. DeKoning, William Stronge 2013-09-03 $31,610,000
8468313 Asynchronous replication with write concurrency grouping Wai C. Yim 2013-06-18 $43,031,000
8396981 Gateway for connecting storage clients and storage servers Whay Sing Lee, Richard Meyer, Rodney A. DeKoning, William Stronge 2013-03-12 $45,865,000
8121993 Data sharing and recovery within a network of untrusted storage devices using data object fingerprinting Joseph Blount, Stacy Lee Maydew 2012-02-21 $45,968,000