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David Hitz — 30 Patents

NANetwork Appliance: 22 patents #5 of 447Top 2%
NENetapp: 4 patents #501 of 1,846Top 30%
ASAuspex Systems: 3 patents #5 of 41Top 15%
Delphi Technologies: 1 patents #2,130 of 4,124Top 55%
Sunnyvale, CA: #762 of 14,302 inventorsTop 6%
California: #17,345 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #121,623 of 4,157,543Top 3%
30 Patents All Time
David Hitz has been granted 30 US patents while listed as an inventor at Network Appliance. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in January 2013. David Hitz ranks #121,623 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.9%). Patent records list David Hitz in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 30 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8359334 Allocating files in a file system integrated with a RAID disk sub-system Michael Malcolm, James Lau, Byron Rakitzis 2013-01-22 $31,561,000
8126935 System and method for enabling a storage system to support multiple volume formats simultaneously John K. Edwards 2012-02-28 $57,678,000
7962531 Multiple concurrent active file systems John K. Edwards, Blake H. Lewis 2011-06-14 $18,660,000
7818498 Allocating files in a file system integrated with a RAID disk sub-system Michael Malcolm, James Lau, Byron Rakitzis 2010-10-19 $43,339,000
7685169 Multiple concurrent active file systems John K. Edwards, Blake H. Lewis 2010-03-23 $13,603,000
7574464 System and method for enabling a storage system to support multiple volume formats simultaneously John K. Edwards 2009-08-11 $30,284,000
7231412 Allocating files in a file system integrated with a raid disk sub-system Michael Malcolm, James Lau, Byron Rakitzis 2007-06-12 $27,591,000
7200603 In a data storage server, for each subsets which does not contain compressed data after the compression, a predetermined value is stored in the corresponding entry of the corresponding compression group to indicate that corresponding data is compressed Mehul S. Shah, Daniel Ting, James J. Voll 2007-04-03 $16,969,000
7174352 File system image transfer Steven R. Kleiman, Guy Harris, Sean O'Malley, Michael Malcolm, James Lau +1 more 2007-02-06 $44,613,000
7133964 Raid assimilation method and apparatus Steven H. Rodrigues 2006-11-07 $90,901,000
7130873 File system image transfer between dissimilar file systems Steven R. Kleiman, Norman Hutchinson, Sean O'Malley 2006-10-31 $44,539,000
6988219 Providing parity in a RAID sub-system using non-volatile memory Michael Malcolm, James Lau, Byron Rakitzis 2006-01-17 $43,222,000
6925714 Upper steering shaft-assembly Jeffrey J. Toth, Michael John Clayton, Emanuel Gage, Jr. 2005-08-09 $3,066,000
6892211 Copy on write file system consistency and block usage Michael Malcolm, James Lau, Byron Rakitzis 2005-05-10 $102,834,000
6857001 Multiple concurrent active file systems John K. Edwards, Blake H. Lewis 2005-02-15 $107,900,000
6751637 Allocating files in a file system integrated with a raid disk sub-system Michael Malcolm, James Lau, Byron Rakitzis 2004-06-15 $23,368,000
6721764 Copy on write file system consistency and block usage Michael Malcolm, James Lau, Byron Rakitzis 2004-04-13 $81,359,000
6604118 File system image transfer Steven R. Kleiman, Guy Harris, Sean O'Malley 2003-08-05 $84,860,000
6574591 File systems image transfer between dissimilar file systems Steven R. Kleiman, Norman Hutchinson, Sean O'Malley 2003-06-03 $100,333,000
6480969 Providing parity in a RAID sub-system using non-volatile memory Michael Malcolm, James Lau, Byron Rakitzis 2002-11-12 $73,049,000
6457130 File access control in a multi-protocol file server Andrea Borr, Robert J. Hawley, Mark Muhlestein, Joan Pearson 2002-09-24 $30,013,000
6289356 Write anywhere file-system layout Michael Malcolm, James Lau, Byron Rakitzis 2001-09-11
6138126 Method for allocating files in a file system integrated with a raid disk sub-system Michael Malcolm, James Lau, Byron Rakitzis 2000-10-24 $1,014,550,000
6065037 Multiple software-facility component operating system for co-operative processor control within a multiprocessor computer system Allan R. Schwartz, James Lau, Guy Harris 2000-05-16 $5,817,000
6038570 Method for allocating files in a file system integrated with a RAID disk sub-system Michael Malcolm, James Lau, Byron Rakitzis 2000-03-14 $598,457,000