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Rico Blaser — 21 Patents

NENetapp: 16 patents #126 of 1,969Top 7%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
Berkeley, CA: #225 of 3,731 inventorsTop 7%
California: #27,449 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Rico Blaser has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Netapp. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in September 2011. Rico Blaser ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Rico Blaser in Berkeley, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2008.peak 72004: 1 patents20042005: 3 patents20052006: 1 patents20062008: 7 patents20082009: 4 patents20092010: 2 patents20102011: 3 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8024172 Method and system for emulating tape libraries Don Trimmer, Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang, Gavin David Cohen 2011-09-20 $20,400,000
7979654 Method and system for restoring a volume in a continuous data protection system Roger Stager, Donald Alvin Trimmer, Pawan Saxena, Randall Johnson, Craig Anthony Johnston +1 more 2011-07-12 $14,054,000
7904679 Method and apparatus for managing backup data Roger Stager, Donald Alvin Trimmer, Pawan Saxena, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang 2011-03-08 $18,825,000
7797582 Method and system for storing data using a continuous data protection system Roger Stager, Don Trimmer, Pawan Saxena, Randall Johnson, Craig Anthony Johnston +1 more 2010-09-14 $30,226,000
7720817 Method and system for browsing objects on a protected volume in a continuous data protection system Roger Stager, Donald Alvin Trimmer, Pawan Saxena, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang 2010-05-18 $13,388,000
7567993 Method and system for creating and using removable disk based copies of backup data Don Trimmer, Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang 2009-07-28 $86,772,000
7559088 Method and apparatus for deleting data upon expiration Gavin David Cohen, Donald Alvin Trimmer 2009-07-07 $36,935,000
7490103 Method and system for backing up data Roger Stager, Donald Alvin Trimmer, Pawan Saxena, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang 2009-02-10 $58,787,000
7487009 System and method for virtual vaulting Don Trimmer, Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston 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, Don Trimmer 2008-11-18 $22,346,000
7437387 Method and system for providing a file system overlay Gavin David Cohen, Don Trimmer 2008-10-14 $4,096,000
7437492 Method and system for data compression and compression estimation in a virtual tape library environment Roger Stager, Don Trimmer, Craig Anthony Johnston 2008-10-14 $4,096,000
7426617 Method and system for synchronizing volumes in a continuous data protection system Roger Stager, Donald Alvin Trimmer, Pawan Saxena, Randall Johnson, Craig Anthony Johnston +1 more 2008-09-16 $22,963,000
7406488 Method and system for maintaining data in a continuous data protection system Roger Stager, Donald Alvin Trimmer, Pawan Saxena, Randall Johnson, Craig Anthony Johnston +1 more 2008-07-29 $24,050,000
7325159 Method and system for data recovery in a continuous data protection system Roger Stager, Donald Alvin Trimmer, Pawan Saxena, Randall Johnson, Craig Anthony Johnston +1 more 2008-01-29 $11,758,000
7315965 Method and system for storing data using a continuous data protection system Roger Stager, Donald Alvin Trimmer, Pawan Saxena, Randall Johnson, Craig Anthony Johnston +1 more 2008-01-01
7069466 Method and system for copying backup data Don Trimmer, Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston 2006-06-27
6973369 System and method for virtual vaulting Don Trimmer, Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston 2005-12-06
6862656 System and method for exporting a virtual tape Don Trimmer, Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang, Jerry Kai Lau +1 more 2005-03-01
6851031 Method of importing data from a physical data storage device into a virtual tape library Don Trimmer, Roger Stager, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang, Jerry Kai Lau +1 more 2005-02-01
6718486 Fault monitor for restarting failed instances of the fault monitor Drew Roselli, Mikel Carl Lechner 2004-04-06