NetApp, Inc. Patent Application Trends in 2025

NetApp, Inc. patent applications in 2025

Top 10 Technology Areas

• G06F3/0631 ({by allocating resources to storage systems})
  • Count: 7 patents
  • Example: 20250068460. Quality of Service for Cloud Based Storage System (NETAPP, INC.)
• G06F3/067 ({Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]})
  • Count: 7 patents
  • Example: 20250068460. Quality of Service for Cloud Based Storage System (NETAPP, INC.)
• G06F3/0659 ({Command handling arrangements, e.g. command buffers, queues, command scheduling})
  • Count: 5 patents
  • Example: 20250068460. Quality of Service for Cloud Based Storage System (NETAPP, INC.)
• G06F3/0613 ({in relation to throughput})
  • Count: 4 patents
  • Example: 20250036597. READ AMPLIFICATION REDUCTION IN A VIRTUAL STORAGE SYSTEM WHEN COMPRESSION IS ENABLED FOR A ZONED CHECKSUM SCHEME (NetApp, Inc.)
• G06F3/0665 ({at area level, e.g. provisioning of virtual or logical volumes})
  • Count: 4 patents
  • Example: 20250036597. READ AMPLIFICATION REDUCTION IN A VIRTUAL STORAGE SYSTEM WHEN COMPRESSION IS ENABLED FOR A ZONED CHECKSUM SCHEME (NetApp, Inc.)
• G06F3/0604 (Digital input from, or digital output to, record carriers {, e.g. RAID, emulated record carriers or networked record carriers})
  • Count: 4 patents
  • Example: 20250038756. FILE SYSTEM FORMAT FOR PERSISTENT MEMORY (NetApp, Inc.)
• G06F11/1469 ({Backup restoration techniques})
  • Count: 4 patents
  • Example: 20250004887. RECOVERY MECHANISM WITH SELECTIVE ORDERING AND CONCURRENT OPERATIONS (NetApp, Inc.)
• G06F3/064 ({Management of blocks})
  • Count: 3 patents
  • Example: 20250036597. READ AMPLIFICATION REDUCTION IN A VIRTUAL STORAGE SYSTEM WHEN COMPRESSION IS ENABLED FOR A ZONED CHECKSUM SCHEME (NetApp, Inc.)
• G06F3/0689 ({Disk arrays, e.g. RAID, JBOD})
  • Count: 3 patents
  • Example: 20250036597. READ AMPLIFICATION REDUCTION IN A VIRTUAL STORAGE SYSTEM WHEN COMPRESSION IS ENABLED FOR A ZONED CHECKSUM SCHEME (NetApp, Inc.)
• G06F3/0653 ({Monitoring storage devices or systems})
  • Count: 3 patents
  • Example: 20250038756. FILE SYSTEM FORMAT FOR PERSISTENT MEMORY (NetApp, Inc.)

Emerging Technology Areas

• G06F16/182 (Distributed file systems)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250013614. Distributed File System that Provides Scalability and Resiliency (NetApp, Inc.)
• H04L67/75 (Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250013544. Collection Of State Information By Nodes In A Cluster To Handle Cluster Management After Master-Node Failover (NetApp, Inc.)
• H04L67/143 (Termination or inactivation of sessions, e.g. event-controlled end of session)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250013544. Collection Of State Information By Nodes In A Cluster To Handle Cluster Management After Master-Node Failover (NetApp, Inc.)
• H04L67/1051 ({Group master selection mechanisms})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250013544. Collection Of State Information By Nodes In A Cluster To Handle Cluster Management After Master-Node Failover (NetApp, Inc.)
• H04L41/0668 (by dynamic selection of recovery network elements, e.g. replacement by the most appropriate element after failure)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250013544. Collection Of State Information By Nodes In A Cluster To Handle Cluster Management After Master-Node Failover (NetApp, Inc.)
• G06F11/2012 ({between storage system components})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: [[20250053488. METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE INPUT/OUTPUT (I/O) RESUMPTION TIME BY BATCHING MULTIPLE NON-CONFLICTING OPERATIONS DURING A NON-DISRUPTIVE AUTOMATIC UNPLANNED FAILOVER FROM A PRIMARY COPY OF DATA AT A PRIMARY STORAGE SYSTEM TO A MIRROR COPY OF THE DATA AT A CROSS-SITE SECONDARY STORAGE SYSTEM (NetApp, Inc.)]]
• G06F3/0644 ({Management of space entities, e.g. partitions, extents, pools})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250053325. CLONE VOLUME SPLIT OF CLONE VOLUME FROM PARENT VOLUME WITH DATA TIERED TO OBJECT STORE (NetApp, Inc.)
• G06F2201/805 (ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250053316. LOW OVERHEAD RESYNCHRONIZATION SNAPSHOT CREATION AND UTILIZATION (NetApp, Inc.)
• G06F11/20 (using active fault-masking, e.g. by switching out faulty elements or by switching in spare elements)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250053316. LOW OVERHEAD RESYNCHRONIZATION SNAPSHOT CREATION AND UTILIZATION (NetApp, Inc.)
• G06F11/3419 (Recording or statistical evaluation of computer activity, e.g. of down time, of input/output operation {; Recording or statistical evaluation of user activity, e.g. usability assessment})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250053303. AUTOMATED TUNING OF A QUALITY OF SERVICE SETTING FOR A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM BASED ON INTERNAL MONITORING (NetApp, Inc.)

Top Inventors

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• Ananthan Subramanian of San Ramon CA (US) (6 patents)
• Daniel McCarthy of Erie CO (US) (5 patents)
• Abdul Basit of Morrisville NC (US) (4 patents)
• Cheryl Marie Thompson of Sunnyvale CA (US) (3 patents)
• Akhil Kaushik of San Jose CA (US) (3 patents)
• Jagadish Vasudeva (2 patents)
• Arindam Banerjee of Fremont CA (US) (2 patents)
• Anil Paul Thoppil of Sunnyvale CA (US) (2 patents)
• Roopesh Chuggani (2 patents)
• Christopher Lee Cason of Boulder CO (US) (2 patents)

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