NetApp Inc. Patent Application Trends in 2024

NetApp Inc. patent applications in 2024

Top 10 Technology Areas

• G06F3/067 ({Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]})
  • Count: 12 patents
  • Example: 20240231672. ON-DEMAND RESTORE OF A SNAPSHOT TO AN ON-DEMAND VOLUME ACCESSIBLE TO CLIENTS simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F3/0619 ({in relation to data integrity, e.g. data losses, bit errors})
  • Count: 9 patents
  • Example: 20240231672. ON-DEMAND RESTORE OF A SNAPSHOT TO AN ON-DEMAND VOLUME ACCESSIBLE TO CLIENTS simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F3/064 ({Management of blocks})
  • Count: 7 patents
  • Example: 20240126464. DATA MANAGEMENT ACROSS A PERSISTENT MEMORY TIER AND A FILE SYSTEM TIER simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F3/065 ({Replication mechanisms})
  • Count: 6 patents
  • Example: 20240231672. ON-DEMAND RESTORE OF A SNAPSHOT TO AN ON-DEMAND VOLUME ACCESSIBLE TO CLIENTS simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F11/1469 ({Backup restoration techniques})
  • Count: 6 patents
  • Example: 20240231672. ON-DEMAND RESTORE OF A SNAPSHOT TO AN ON-DEMAND VOLUME ACCESSIBLE TO CLIENTS simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F2201/84 (ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models)
  • Count: 6 patents
  • Example: 20240231672. ON-DEMAND RESTORE OF A SNAPSHOT TO AN ON-DEMAND VOLUME ACCESSIBLE TO CLIENTS simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F3/0659 ({Command handling arrangements, e.g. command buffers, queues, command scheduling})
  • Count: 5 patents
  • Example: 20240143210. JOURNAL REPLAY OPTIMIZATION simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F3/0665 ({at area level, e.g. provisioning of virtual or logical volumes})
  • Count: 4 patents
  • Example: 20240126464. DATA MANAGEMENT ACROSS A PERSISTENT MEMORY TIER AND A FILE SYSTEM TIER simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F3/0679 ({Non-volatile semiconductor memory device, e.g. flash memory, one time programmable memory [OTP]})
  • Count: 4 patents
  • Example: 20240126464. DATA MANAGEMENT ACROSS A PERSISTENT MEMORY TIER AND A FILE SYSTEM TIER simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F16/128 ({Details of file system snapshots on the file-level, e.g. snapshot creation, administration, deletion (use of snapshots for error detection or correction)
  • Count: 4 patents
  • Example: 20240126466. TRANSFERRING SNAPSHOT COPY TO OBJECT STORE WITH DEDUPLICATION PRESERVATION AND ADDITIONAL COMPRESSION simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)

Emerging Technology Areas

• G06F16/215 (Improving data quality; Data cleansing, e.g. de-duplication, removing invalid entries or correcting typographical errors)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240045848. KEY-VALUE STORE AND FILE SYSTEM INTEGRATION simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F16/24553 ({of query operations})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240045848. KEY-VALUE STORE AND FILE SYSTEM INTEGRATION simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F16/248 (Presentation of query results)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240045848. KEY-VALUE STORE AND FILE SYSTEM INTEGRATION simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F16/217 ({Database tuning ()
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240045848. KEY-VALUE STORE AND FILE SYSTEM INTEGRATION simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F9/5083 (Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU])
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240220227. EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTED STORAGE LAYER UPGRADE simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F8/65 (Updates (security arrangements therefor)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240220227. EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTED STORAGE LAYER UPGRADE simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F16/162 ({Delete operations (erasing in storage systems)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240086374. FREEING PAGES WITHIN PERSISTENT MEMORY simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F16/1805 ({Append-only file systems, e.g. using logs or journals to store data})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240086374. FREEING PAGES WITHIN PERSISTENT MEMORY simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F11/1417 ({Boot up procedures})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240086116. WRITE ORDERING FOR PERSISTENT MEMORY simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)
• G06F9/5016 (Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU])
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20240111582. COUPLED COMPUTE AND STORAGE RESOURCE AUTOSCALING simplified abstract (NetApp Inc.)

Top Inventors

• Ananthan Subramanian of San Ramon CA (US) (11 patents)
• Roopesh Chuggani (4 patents)
• Matthew Fontaine Curtis-Maury of Apex NC (US) (4 patents)
• Tijin George of Sunnyvale CA (US) (4 patents)
• Jagavar Nehra (3 patents)
• Sumith Makam (3 patents)
• Ram Kesavan of Los Altos CA (US) (3 patents)
• Vinay Devadas of Apex NC (US) (3 patents)
• Dnyaneshwar Nagorao Pawar (3 patents)
• Abdul Basit of Morrisville NC (US) (3 patents)

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Geographical Distribution of Inventors

Geographical Distribution of US Inventors