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Stephen L. Manley — 44 Patents

NENetapp: 20 patents #68 of 1,846Top 4%
NANetwork Appliance: 20 patents #6 of 447Top 2%
DRDruva: 4 patents #5 of 55Top 10%
Livermore, CA: #45 of 2,185 inventorsTop 3%
California: #9,924 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #66,838 of 4,157,543Top 2%
44 Patents All Time
Stephen L. Manley has been granted 44 US patents while listed as an inventor at Netapp. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in September 2025. Stephen L. Manley ranks #66,838 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.6%). Patent records list Stephen L. Manley in Livermore, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 44 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12411705 System and method for context-aware application management in container deployment environments Srikiran Gottipati, Preethi Srinivasan, Nishith Chitaliya 2025-09-09
12299491 System and method for dynamic resource allocation during data backup/restore Preethi Srinivasan, Ritesh Singh, Ajay Potnis 2025-05-13
12118390 System and method for secure recovery of application group in container deployment environments Srikiran Gottipati, Preethi Srinivasan, Nishith Chitaliya 2024-10-15
12056526 System and method for reference-aware application recreation in container deployment environments Srikiran Gottipati, Preethi Srinivasan, Nishith Chitaliya 2024-08-06
9256378 Deduplicating data blocks in a storage system Ling Zheng, Blake H. Lewis, Daniel Ting, Robert M. English 2016-02-09 $9,191,000
9043271 System and method for managing a plurality of snapshots Hugo Patterson, Harald I. Skardal 2015-05-26 $2,040,000
8849767 Method and apparatus for identifying and eliminating duplicate data blocks and sharing data blocks in a storage system Ling Zheng, Blake H. Lewis, Daniel Ting, Robert M. English 2014-09-30 $16,875,000
8296260 System and method for managing data deduplication of storage systems utilizing persistent consistency point images Daniel Ting, Ling Zheng, John Frederick DeStefano 2012-10-23 $25,379,000
8190836 Saving multiple snapshots without duplicating common blocks to protect the entire contents of a volume Ling Zheng, Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Vinay Hangud, Hsing Yuan 2012-05-29 $12,557,000
8126847 Single file restore from image backup by using an independent block list for each file Ling Zheng, Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Vinay Hangud, Hsing Yuan 2012-02-28 $57,678,000
8069149 System and method for redirecting access to a remote mirrored snapshot Raymond C. Chen 2011-11-29 $22,464,000
8046333 Incremental dump with a metadata container walk using inode-to-parent mapping information Fang Wang, Ling Zheng 2011-10-25 $27,142,000
8028135 Method and apparatus for maintaining compliant storage William McGovern 2011-09-27 $18,542,000
7991791 System and method for redirecting access to a remote mirrored snapshot Raymond C. Chen 2011-08-02 $30,943,000
7921110 System and method for comparing data sets Daniel Ting, Rimas Svarcas 2011-04-05 $14,468,000
7921077 System and method for managing data deduplication of storage systems utilizing persistent consistency point images Daniel Ting, Ling Zheng, John Frederick DeStefano 2011-04-05 $14,468,000
7904466 Presenting differences in a file system Victor Valencia, Ling Zheng 2011-03-08 $18,825,000
7818299 System and method for determining changes in two snapshots and for transmitting changes to a destination snapshot Michael L. Federwisch, Shane S. Owara, Steven R. Kleiman 2010-10-19 $43,339,000
7809693 System and method for restoring data on demand for instant volume restoration Jason A. Lango, Yong Eun Cho, Paul Eastham, Ling Zheng, John K. Edwards +2 more 2010-10-05 $19,121,000
7769723 System and method for providing continuous data protection Ling Zheng, Robert M. English, Blake H. Lewis 2010-08-03 $25,868,000
7769717 System and method for checkpointing and restarting an asynchronous transfer of data between a source and destination snapshot Michael L. Federwisch, Shane S. Owara 2010-08-03 $25,868,000
7644109 System and method for storage of snapshot metadata in a remote file Raymond C. Chen, John K. Edwards 2010-01-05 $97,616,000
7624106 Method and apparatus for generating user-level difference information about two data sets William R. Taylor 2009-11-24 $97,008,000
7617217 System and method for redirecting access to a remote mirrored snapshot Raymond C. Chen 2009-11-10 $19,358,000
7603391 System and method for determining changes in two snapshots and for transmitting changes to a destination snapshot Michael L. Federwisch, Shane S. Owara, Steven R. Kleiman 2009-10-13 $16,889,000