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Eric Hamilton — 32 Patents

NANetwork Appliance: 17 patents #9 of 447Top 3%
NENetapp: 15 patents #107 of 1,846Top 6%
Durham, NC: #126 of 4,103 inventorsTop 4%
North Carolina: #1,193 of 45,564 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
Eric Hamilton has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at Network Appliance. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in March 2015. Eric Hamilton ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list Eric Hamilton in Durham, NC, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8990539 Extension of write anywhere file system layout John K. Edwards, Blake H. Lewis, Robert M. English, Peter F. Corbett 2015-03-24 $27,243,000
8583892 Extension of write anywhere file system layout John K. Edwards, Blake H. Lewis, Robert M. English, Peter F. Corbett 2013-11-12 $26,284,000
8271724 Controlling write request access to a non-volatile log John A. Scott, Darrell Suggs 2012-09-18 $32,872,000
8266191 System and method for flexible space reservations in a file system supporting persistent consistency point image Himanshu Aggarwal 2012-09-11 $31,578,000
8156163 Storage server cluster implemented in and operating concurrently with a set of non-clustered storage servers Peter F. Corbett 2012-04-10 $16,958,000
8099576 Extension of write anywhere file system layout John K. Edwards, Blake H. Lewis, Robert M. English, Peter F. Corbett 2012-01-17 $11,567,000
8095730 System and method for providing space availability notification in a distributed striped volume set Tianyu Jiang, Richard P. Jernigan, IV 2012-01-10 $29,224,000
7996636 Uniquely identifying block context signatures in a storage volume hierarchy Ashish Prakash, Robert M. English 2011-08-09 $18,208,000
7984085 Rate of change of data using on-the-fly accounting Himanshu Aggarwal, Andy C. Kahn 2011-07-19 $24,625,000
7979395 Method and system for determining reclaimable space occupied by a set of snapshots Himanshu Aggarwal, Andy C. Kahn 2011-07-12 $14,054,000
7979402 System and method for managing file data during consistency points Jeffrey S. Kimmel, Robert L. Fair, Ashish Prakash 2011-07-12 $14,054,000
7933936 Method and system for automatic management of storage space Himanshu Aggarwal 2011-04-26 $35,563,000
7797489 System and method for providing space availability notification in a distributed striped volume set Tianyu Jiang, Richard P. Jernigan, IV 2010-09-14 $30,226,000
7783611 System and method for managing file metadata during consistency points Jeffrey S. Kimmel, Robert L. Fair, Ashish Prakash 2010-08-24 $12,376,000
7752180 File system group consistency point Robert L. Fair, Jeffrey S. Kimmel 2010-07-06 $12,396,000
7739250 System and method for managing file data during consistency points Jeffrey S. Kimmel, Robert L. Fair, Ashish Prakash 2010-06-15 $10,774,000
7734888 Capacity guarantees in a storage system Peter Griess, Robert L. Fair, Himanshu Aggarwal, John K. Edwards 2010-06-08 $11,160,000
7721062 Method for detecting leaked buffer writes across file system consistency points Robert L. Fair 2010-05-18 $13,388,000
7664791 Concurrent creation of persistent point-in-time images of multiple independent file systems 2010-02-16 $41,801,000
7636744 System and method for flexible space reservations in a file system supporting persistent consistency point images Himanshu Aggarwal 2009-12-22 $102,488,000
7600083 Method and system for automatic write request suspension Himanshu Aggarwal 2009-10-06 $48,399,000
7562189 Write-in-place within a write-anywhere filesystem John A. Scott 2009-07-14 $11,077,000
7562203 Storage defragmentation based on modified physical address and unmodified logical address John A. Scott 2009-07-14 $11,077,000
7533235 Reserve stacking John K. Edwards 2009-05-12 $21,888,000
7506111 System and method for determining a number of overwitten blocks between data containers 2009-03-17 $17,624,000