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Roger Stager — 32 Patents

NENetapp: 24 patents #40 of 1,846Top 3%
NANetwork Appliance: 3 patents #97 of 447Top 25%
Sunnyvale, CA: #702 of 14,302 inventorsTop 5%
California: #15,919 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
Roger Stager has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at Netapp. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in May 2016. Roger Stager ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list Roger Stager in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2008.peak 72005: 3 patents20052006: 1 patents20062008: 7 patents20082009: 3 patents20092010: 5 patents20102011: 4 patents20112012: 5 patents20122014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents20152016: 2 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9355103 System and method for bandwidth optimization in a network storage environment Paul Jardetzky, Steven R. Kleiman, Don Trimmer, Ling Zheng, Yuval Frandzel 2016-05-31 $2,849,000
9344112 Sampling based elimination of duplicate data Ling Zheng, Craig Anthony Johnston, Don Trimmer, Yuval Frandzel 2016-05-17
9069787 System and method for accelerating anchor point detection Steven C. Miller 2015-06-30 $12,069,000
8762345 System and method for accelerating anchor point detection Steven C. Miller 2014-06-24 $18,720,000
8285957 System and method for preprocessing a data set to improve deduplication Giridhar Appaji Nag, Yasa 2012-10-09 $10,002,000
8234327 System and method for bandwidth optimization in a network storage environment Paul Jardetzky, Steven R. Kleiman, Don Trimmer, Ling Zheng, Yuval Frandzel 2012-07-31 $23,010,000
8195636 Predicting space reclamation in deduplicated datasets Pawan Saxena 2012-06-05 $21,916,000
8180740 System and method for eliminating duplicate data by generating data fingerprints using adaptive fixed-length windows Craig Anthony Johnston 2012-05-15 $11,709,000
8165221 System and method for sampling based elimination of duplicate data Ling Zheng, Craig Anthony Johnston, Don Trimmer, Yuval Frandzel 2012-04-24 $32,822,000
8024172 Method and system for emulating tape libraries Don Trimmer, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang, Gavin David Cohen, Rico Blaser 2011-09-20 $20,400,000
7979654 Method and system for restoring a volume in a continuous data protection system Donald Alvin Trimmer, Pawan Saxena, Randall Johnson, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang +1 more 2011-07-12 $14,054,000
7904679 Method and apparatus for managing backup data Donald Alvin Trimmer, Pawan Saxena, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang, Rico Blaser 2011-03-08 $18,825,000
7882081 Optimized disk repository for the storage and retrieval of mostly sequential data Don Trimmer, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang, Jerry Kai Lau 2011-02-01 $51,013,000
7853750 Method and an apparatus to store data patterns 2010-12-14 $45,814,000
7797582 Method and system for storing data using a continuous data protection system Don Trimmer, Pawan Saxena, Randall Johnson, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang +1 more 2010-09-14 $30,226,000
7783606 Method and system for remote data recovery Yafen Peggy Chang, Craig Anthony Johnston 2010-08-24 $12,376,000
7720817 Method and system for browsing objects on a protected volume in a continuous data protection system Donald Alvin Trimmer, Pawan Saxena, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang, Rico Blaser 2010-05-18 $13,388,000
7650533 Method and system for performing a restoration in a continuous data protection system Pawan Saxena, Yafen Peggy Chang 2010-01-19 $23,195,000
7567993 Method and system for creating and using removable disk based copies of backup data Don Trimmer, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang, Rico Blaser 2009-07-28 $86,772,000
7490103 Method and system for backing up data Donald Alvin Trimmer, Pawan Saxena, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang, Rico Blaser 2009-02-10 $58,787,000
7487009 System and method for virtual vaulting Don Trimmer, 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 Don Trimmer, Rico Blaser 2008-11-18 $22,346,000
7437492 Method and system for data compression and compression estimation in a virtual tape library environment Don Trimmer, Craig Anthony Johnston, Rico Blaser 2008-10-14 $4,096,000
7426617 Method and system for synchronizing volumes in a continuous data protection system Donald Alvin Trimmer, Pawan Saxena, Randall Johnson, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang +1 more 2008-09-16 $22,963,000
7406488 Method and system for maintaining data in a continuous data protection system Donald Alvin Trimmer, Pawan Saxena, Randall Johnson, Craig Anthony Johnston, Yafen Peggy Chang +1 more 2008-07-29 $24,050,000