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Vijayan Rajan — 33 Patents

NENetapp: 33 patents #30 of 1,969Top 2%
Sunnyvale, CA: #677 of 14,302 inventorsTop 5%
California: #15,252 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #105,480 of 4,157,543Top 3%
33 Patents All Time
Vijayan Rajan has been granted 33 US patents while listed as an inventor at Netapp. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in January 2015. Vijayan Rajan ranks #105,480 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.5%). Patent records list Vijayan Rajan in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2011.peak 92006: 3 patents20062007: 3 patents20072008: 4 patents20082009: 2 patents20092010: 5 patents20102011: 9 patents20112012: 1 patents20122013: 5 patents20132015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 33 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8943295 System and method for mapping file block numbers to logical block addresses 2015-01-27 $27,758,000
8621172 System and method for reclaiming unused space from a thinly provisioned data container David Brittain Bolen, Douglas P. Doucette 2013-12-31 $2,640,000
8612481 System and method for proxying data access commands in a storage system cluster James R. Grier, John Meneghini, Arthur F. Lent 2013-12-17 $21,355,000
8566845 System and method for optimizing multi-pathing support in a distributed storage system environment 2013-10-22 $17,222,000
8549253 Integrated storage virtualization and switch system Brian Pawlowski, Jeffrey S. Kimmel, Gary Ross 2013-10-01 $26,618,000
8423732 Writable virtual disks of read-only snapshot file objects 2013-04-16 $28,878,000
8135678 System and method for restoring a single data stream file from a snapshot Raymond C. Chen, Kayuri Patel 2012-03-13 $37,124,000
8073899 System and method for proxying data access commands in a storage system cluster James R. Grier, John Meneghini, Arthur F. Lent 2011-12-06 $24,461,000
8060695 System and method for proxying data access commands in a clustered storage system Herman Lee 2011-11-15 $42,823,000
8041888 System and method for LUN cloning Vinay Gupta 2011-10-18 $13,600,000
8010503 System and method for restoring a single data stream file from a snapshot Raymond C. Chen, Kayuri Patel 2011-08-30 $24,731,000
8001090 System and method for examining client generated content stored on a data container exported by a storage system 2011-08-16 $22,133,000
7958168 System and method for restoring a virtual disk from a snapshot Raymond C. Chen, Kayuri Patel 2011-06-07 $25,888,000
7930473 System and method for supporting file and block access to storage object on a storage appliance David Brittain Bolen 2011-04-19 $17,520,000
7904482 System and method for transparently accessing a virtual disk using a file-based protocol Arthur F. Lent, Brian Pawlowski, Jeffrey S. Kimmel, Mohan Srinivasan 2011-03-08 $18,825,000
7873700 Multi-protocol storage appliance that provides integrated support for file and block access protocols Brian Pawlowski, Mohan Srinivasan, Herman Lee, Joseph C. Pittman 2011-01-18 $48,579,000
7747836 Integrated storage virtualization and switch system Brian Pawlowski, Jeffrey S. Kimmel, Gary Ross 2010-06-29 $23,159,000
7743035 System and method for restoring a virtual disk from a snapshot Raymond C. Chen, Kayuri Patel 2010-06-22 $16,006,000
7739543 System and method for transport-level failover for loosely coupled iSCSI target devices Joseph C. Pittman, Mohan Srinivasan, Herman Lee, Brian Pawlowski, Arthur F. Lent 2010-06-15 $10,774,000
7694302 Symmetric multiprocessor synchronization using migrating scheduling domains Jeffrey S. Kimmel, Steven R. Kleiman, Joseph CaraDonna 2010-04-06 $11,008,000
7685178 System and method for examining client generated content stored on a data container exported by a storage system 2010-03-23 $13,603,000
7603532 System and method for reclaiming unused space from a thinly provisioned data container David Brittain Bolen, Douglas P. Doucette 2009-10-13 $16,889,000
7512832 System and method for transport-level failover of FCP devices in a cluster Arthur F. Lent, Mohan Srinivasan, Herman Lee, Brian Pawlowski 2009-03-31 $17,234,000
7457982 Writable virtual disk of read-only snapshot file objects 2008-11-25 $20,785,000
7437530 System and method for mapping file block numbers to logical block addresses 2008-10-14 $4,096,000