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James Leong — 17 Patents

NENetapp: 16 patents #125 of 1,969Top 7%
SGSilicon Graphics: 1 patents #400 of 758Top 55%
Hillsborough, CA: #48 of 358 inventorsTop 15%
California: #35,467 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
James Leong has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Netapp. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in June 2022. James Leong ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list James Leong in Hillsborough, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2008.peak 32005: 1 patents20052007: 1 patents2008: 3 patents20082009: 2 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 2 patents20122013: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162020: 1 patents2022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11372807 Converting storage objects between formats in a copy-free transition Vani Vully, Anil Paul Thoppil, Vitaly Revsin, Qinghua Zheng, Srishylam Simharajan 2022-06-28 $13,151,000
10684985 Converting storage objects between formats in a copy-free transition Vani Vully, Anil Paul Thoppil, Vitaly Revsin, Qinghua Zheng, Srishylam Simharajan 2020-06-16 $10,743,000
9411514 Method and apparatus for decomposing I/O tasks in a RAID system Rajesh Sundaram, Douglas P. Doucette, Scott Schoenthal, Stephen H. Strange, Srinivasan Viswanathan 2016-08-09 $15,132,000
8621465 Method and apparatus for decomposing I/O tasks in a RAID system Rajesh Sundaram, Douglas P. Doucette, Scott Schoenthal, Stephen H. Strange, Srinivasan Viswanathan 2013-12-31 $2,640,000
8275939 Preventing data loss in a storage system Ratnesh Gupta, Atul Goel 2012-09-25 $29,345,000
8209587 System and method for eliminating zeroing of disk drives in RAID arrays James A. Taylor, Atul Goel 2012-06-26 $42,914,000
8074019 Preventing data loss in a storage system Ratnesh Gupta, Atul Goel 2011-12-06 $24,461,000
7958304 Dynamically adapting the fault tolerance and performance characteristics of a raid-based storage system by merging and splitting raid groups Atul Goel, Ratnesh Gupta 2011-06-07 $25,888,000
7926059 Method and apparatus for decomposing I/O tasks in a RAID system Srinivasan Viswanathan, Rajesh Sundaram, Douglas P. Doucette, Scott Schoenthal, Stephen H. Strange 2011-04-12 $15,277,000
7685462 Technique for coherent suspension of I/O operations in a RAID subsystem Scott Schoenthal, Srinivasan Viswanathan, Rajesh Sundaram 2010-03-23 $13,603,000
7587630 Method and system for rapidly recovering data from a “dead” disk in a RAID disk group Loellyn Cassell, Atul Goel, Rajesh Sundaram 2009-09-08 $18,248,000
7539991 Method and apparatus for decomposing I/O tasks in a raid system Rajesh Sundaram, Douglas P. Doucette, Scott Schoenthal, Stephen H. Strange, Srinivasan Viswanathan 2009-05-26 $11,325,000
7437727 Method and apparatus for runtime resource deadlock avoidance in a raid system Rajesh Sundaram, Douglas P. Doucette, Stephen H. Strange, Srinivasan Viswanathan 2008-10-14 $4,096,000
7389379 Selective disk offlining Atul Goel, Loellyn Cassell 2008-06-17 $24,588,000
7328364 Technique for coherent suspension of I/O operations in a RAID subsystem Scott Schoenthal, Srinivasan Viswanathan, Rajesh Sundaram 2008-02-05 $17,163,000
7254813 Method and apparatus for resource allocation in a raid system Rajesh Sundaram, Douglas P. Doucette, Scott Schoenthal, Stephen H. Strange, Srinivasan Viswanathan 2007-08-07 $71,447,000
6950833 Clustered filesystem Laurie Costello, Eric Mowat 2005-09-27 $3,076,000