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Samuel M. Cramer — 11 Patents

NANetwork Appliance: 7 patents #42 of 447Top 10%
NENetapp: 3 patents #630 of 1,846Top 35%
Oracle: 1 patents #8,339 of 14,854Top 60%
Mountain View, CA: #1,996 of 11,022 inventorsTop 20%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Samuel M. Cramer has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Network Appliance. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in August 2010. Samuel M. Cramer ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Samuel M. Cramer in Mountain View, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7788361 System and method for transferring volume ownership in networked storage Joydeep sen Sarma, Alan Rowe, Susan M. Coatney 2010-08-31 $34,546,000
7779201 System and method for determining disk ownership model Gaurav Agarwal, Susan M. Coatney, Steven S. Watanabe, Alan Rowe, Gautam Dev Sharma 2010-08-17 $35,345,000
7707263 System and method for associating a network address with a storage device Joydeep sen Sarma, Richard O. Larson 2010-04-27 $10,215,000
7356732 System and method for allocating spare disks in networked storage Alan Rowe, Richard O. Larson, Susan M. Coatney, Joydeep Sen Sarma 2008-04-08 $35,556,000
7296068 System and method for transfering volume ownership in net-worked storage Joydeep Sen Sarma, Alan Rowe, Susan M. Coatney 2007-11-13 $39,086,000
7260678 System and method for determining disk ownership model Gaurav Agarwal, Susan M. Coatney, Steven S. Watanabe, Alan Rowe, Gautam Dev Sharma 2007-08-21 $42,554,000
7146522 System and method for allocating spare disks in networked storage Alan Rowe, Richard O. Larson, Susan M. Coatney, Joydeep Sen Sarma 2006-12-05 $99,793,000
6920579 Operator initiated graceful takeover in a node cluster Naveen Bali 2005-07-19 $42,810,000
6920580 Negotiated graceful takeover in a node cluster Scott Schoenthal 2005-07-19 $42,810,000
6728897 Negotiating takeover in high availability cluster Scott Schoenthal 2004-04-27 $17,752,000
5946685 Global mount mechanism used in maintaining a global name space utilizing a distributed locking mechanism Glenn C. Skinner 1999-08-31 $90,755,000