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Derek Beard — 20 Patents

NENetapp: 10 patents #193 of 1,846Top 15%
Broadcom: 10 patents #1,077 of 9,346Top 15%
Austin, TX: #1,631 of 18,064 inventorsTop 10%
Texas: #6,926 of 125,132 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Derek Beard has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Netapp. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in October 2025. Derek Beard ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Derek Beard in Austin, TX, US.

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Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12455754 Data plane isolation for virtual machine (VM) mobility operations Arun Ramanathan, Siddharth Ekbote, Nathan L. PRZIBOROWSKI, Yanlei Zhao, Pavan Narasimhaprasad 2025-10-28
12333321 Application-assisted live migration Arunachalam Ramanathan, Bhavana Raj Kanthur Murnad, Jeffrey W. Sheldon, Pavan Narasimhaprasad, Li Zheng +2 more 2025-06-17
12242882 Guest cluster deployed as virtual extension of management cluster in a virtualized computing system Zachary James SHEPHERD, George Hicken, Mark Russell Johnson, Jared Sean Rosoff, Joseph Stephen Beda +1 more 2025-03-04
11863352 Hierarchical networking for nested container clusters Jianjun Shen, Mark Russell Johnson, Gaetano Borgione, Benjamin J. Corrie, Zach James Shepherd +1 more 2024-01-02
11822949 Guest cluster deployed as virtual extension of management cluster in a virtualized computing system Zachary James SHEPHERD, George Hicken, Mark Russell Johnson, Jared Sean Rosoff, Joseph Stephen Beda +1 more 2023-11-21 $17,067,000
11762681 Dynamic configuration of virtual objects Avinash Goud, Aniket Avinash Sakhardande, Praveen Vegulla, Rajesh Venkatasubramanian, Maarten Wiggers +1 more 2023-09-19 $17,952,000
11720382 Declarative VM management for a container orchestrator in a virtualized computing system Jared Sean Rosoff, Mark Russell Johnson, Brian Charles Forney 2023-08-08 $10,495,000
11681668 System and method for developing and implementing a migration plan for migrating a file system Greg Althaus, Jason D. Preston, Duen-Wen Hsiao, Alfred G. Prinz, III, Fountain L. Ray, III +1 more 2023-06-20 $27,871,000
11593139 Software compatibility checking for managed clusters in a virtualized computing system Brian Charles Forney, Mark Russell Johnson, Zachary James SHEPHERD 2023-02-28 $8,502,000
11556373 Pod deployment in a guest cluster executing as a virtual extension of management cluster in a virtualized computing system Zachary James SHEPHERD, Mark Russell Johnson 2023-01-17 $37,702,000
11334540 Namespace hierarchy preservation with multiple object storage objects Ghassan Yammine, Kris Allen Meier, Jason D. Preston 2022-05-17 $26,245,000
10929419 Object storage backed file system Guy Sirton, Garret Lance Hayes, Jason D. Preston 2021-02-23 $30,177,000
10853333 System and method for developing and implementing a migration plan for migrating a file system Greg Althaus, Jason D. Preston, Duen-Wen Hsiao, Alfred G. Prinz, III, Fountain L. Ray, III +1 more 2020-12-01 $6,561,000
10564996 Parentless virtual machine forking Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin, Li Zheng, Brian Charles Forney, Brian Rak, Ali Reza Alibhai 2020-02-18 $16,379,000
9633038 Detecting out-of-band (OOB) changes when replicating a source file system using an in-line system Duen-Wen Hsiao, Ghassan Yammine 2017-04-25 $9,391,000
9355036 System and method for operating a system to cache a networked file system utilizing tiered storage and customizable eviction policies based on priority and tiers Ghassan Yammine, Gregory A. Dahl 2016-05-31 $2,849,000
9311314 System and method for migrating data from a source file system to a destination file system with use of attribute manipulation Gregory S. Althaus, Duen-Wen Hsiao, Jason D. Preston, Damon E. Fleury 2016-04-12 $10,253,000
9311331 Detecting out-of-band (OOB) changes when replicating a source file system using an in-line system Duen-Wen Hsiao, Ghassan Yammine 2016-04-12 $10,253,000
9304997 Asynchronously migrating a file system Gregory S. Althaus, Ghassan Yammine, Gregory Alan Becker, Bryan Venteicher 2016-04-05 $3,975,000
9300692 System and method for implementing data migration while preserving security policies of a source filer Duen-Wen Hsiao 2016-03-29 $11,495,000