Inventor

William A. Hetrick

Inventor
Wichita, KS, US

Overview

24→
Patents
2004–2019
Patent span
Physics
Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 24 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Fprimary
G06FElectric digital data processing71%
H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication16%
Y10STechnical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests10%
G11BInformation storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer3%
PatentTitleYear
10,423,641Hierarchical coherency log for managing a distributed data storage system201910,127,117Online backup to an object service using bulk export20189,830,233Online backup to an object service using bulk export20179,703,645'Data recovery technique for recovering data from an object storage service'20179,607,065'Hierarchical coherency log for managing a distributed data storage system'20178,364,809'Method and apparatus for debugging protocol traffic between devices in integrated subsystems'20138,190,816'Embedded scale-out aggregator for storage array controllers'20127,805,633'Optimized reconstruction and copyback methodology for a disconnected drive in the presence of a global hot spare disk'20107,757,057'Optimized rollback of copy-on-write snapshot volumes'20107,627,789'Polymorphic management of embedded devices using web interfaces'20097,616,631'Method and apparatus for debugging protocol traffic between devices in integrated subsystems'20097,571,430'Adaptive dispatch table based on templates'20097,430,635'Methods and structure for improved import/export of RAID level 6 volumes'20087,418,550'Methods and structure for improved import/export of raid level 6 volumes'20087,376,756'HDD firmware download'20087,171,518'Data storage system recovery from disk failure during system off-line condition'20077,149,846'RAID protected external secondary memory'20067,146,481'Methods and systems for pre-merge read of configuration data from a foreign volume group inserted in storage array'20067,136,966'Method and apparatus for using a solid state disk device as a storage controller cache'20067,085,910'Memory window manager for control structure access'20067,010,646'Methods and structure for improved volume migration between storage array subsystems'20066,996,752'System, method, and computer program product within a data processing system for converting a spare storage device to a defined storage device in a logical volume'20066,931,499'Method and apparatus for copying data between storage volumes of storage systems'20056,751,136'Drive failure recovery via capacity reconfiguration'2004

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

2004–2009Patents assigned to LSI LOGIC CORP (11)· patent assignee history
2004–2018Based in Wichita, KS, US· patent location history
2008–2010Patents assigned to LSI CORP (6)· patent assignee history
2012–2019Patents assigned to NETAPP INC (7)· patent assignee history
2012–2013Patents assigned to HETRICK WILLIAM A (2)· patent assignee history
2012Patents assigned to BALASUBRAMANIAN SRIDHAR (1)· patent assignee history
2017–2019Based in Eastborough, KS, US· patent location history
2017Based in Eastbrorough, KS, US· patent location history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees
AssigneePatentsSpan
LSI LOGIC CORP112004–2009
NETAPP INC72012–2019
LSI CORP62008–2010
HETRICK WILLIAM Aself22012–2013
BALASUBRAMANIAN SRIDHAR12012
Locations
LocationPatentsSpan
Wichita, KS, US212004–2018
Eastborough, KS, US22017–2019
Eastbrorough, KS, US12017