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Don Trimmer — 19 Patents

NENetapp: 14 patents #121 of 1,846Top 7%
Sunnyvale, CA: #1,360 of 14,302 inventorsTop 10%
California: #31,067 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Don Trimmer has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Netapp. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in May 2016. Don Trimmer ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Don Trimmer in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

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Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9355103 System and method for bandwidth optimization in a network storage environment Paul Jardetzky, Steven R. Kleiman, Roger Stager, Ling Zheng, Yuval Frandzel 2016-05-31 $2,849,000
9344112 Sampling based elimination of duplicate data Ling Zheng, Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yuval Frandzel 2016-05-17
8793226 System and method for estimating duplicate data Sandeep Yadav, Yong Eun Cho 2014-07-29 $9,590,000
8768898 Performing direct data manipulation on a storage device Sandeep Yadav, Pratap V. Singh 2014-07-01 $20,540,000
8281066 System and method for real-time deduplication utilizing an electronic storage medium Steven C. Miller 2012-10-02 $80,677,000
8234327 System and method for bandwidth optimization in a network storage environment Paul Jardetzky, Steven R. Kleiman, Roger Stager, Ling Zheng, Yuval Frandzel 2012-07-31 $23,010,000
8165221 System and method for sampling based elimination of duplicate data Ling Zheng, Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yuval Frandzel 2012-04-24 $32,822,000
8024172 Method and system for emulating tape libraries Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang, Gavin David Cohen, Rico Blaser 2011-09-20 $20,400,000
7882081 Optimized disk repository for the storage and retrieval of mostly sequential data Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang, Jerry Kai Lau 2011-02-01 $51,013,000
7797582 Method and system for storing data using a continuous data protection system Roger Stager, Pawan Saxena, Randall Johnson, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang +1 more 2010-09-14 $30,226,000
7567993 Method and system for creating and using removable disk based copies of backup data Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang, Rico Blaser 2009-07-28 $86,772,000
7487009 System and method for virtual vaulting Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston, Rico Blaser 2009-02-03 $12,828,000
7454529 Protectable data storage system and a method of protecting and/or managing a data storage system Roger Stager, Rico Blaser 2008-11-18 $22,346,000
7437492 Method and system for data compression and compression estimation in a virtual tape library environment Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston, Rico Blaser 2008-10-14 $4,096,000
7437387 Method and system for providing a file system overlay Gavin David Cohen, Rico Blaser 2008-10-14 $4,096,000
7069466 Method and system for copying backup data Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston, Rico Blaser 2006-06-27
6973369 System and method for virtual vaulting Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston, Rico Blaser 2005-12-06
6862656 System and method for exporting a virtual tape Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang, Jerry Kai Lau, Gavin David Cohen +1 more 2005-03-01
6851031 Method of importing data from a physical data storage device into a virtual tape library Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang, Jerry Kai Lau, Gavin David Cohen +1 more 2005-02-01