Inventor

Michael L. Kazar

Inventor

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Overview

2003–2020

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 56 as inventor

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

G06Fprimary

G06FElectric digital data processing63%

H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication20%

Y10STechnical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests17%

PatentTitleYear

10,860,542Unordered idempotent logical replication operations2020 10,769,108File storage system, cache appliance, and method2020 10,338,853Media aware distributed data layout2019 10,248,655File storage system, cache appliance, and method2019 10,042,916System and method for storing data in clusters located remotely from each other2018 9,710,195'Media aware distributed data layout'2017 9,696,944'Media aware distributed data layout'2017 9,659,026'Unordered idempotent logical replication operations'2017 9,405,487'Media aware distributed data layout'2016 9,389,806'Media aware distributed data layout'2016 9,342,528'Method and apparatus for tiered storage'2016 9,323,681'File storage system, cache appliance, and method'2016 9,170,953'System and method for storing data in clusters located remotely from each other'2015 9,165,003'Technique for permitting multiple virtual file systems having the same identifier to be served by a single storage system'2015 8,909,885'File system capable of generating snapshots and providing fast sequential read access'2014 8,874,864'Maintaining snapshot and active file system metadata in an on disk structure of a file system'2014 8,832,026'Identifying snapshot membership for blocks based on snapid'2014 8,713,077'System and method for multi-tiered meta-data caching and distribution in a clustered computer environment'2014 8,655,931'Media aware distributed data layout'2014 8,655,848'Unordered idempotent logical replication operations'2014 8,533,410'Maintaining snapshot and active file system metadata in an on-disk structure of a file system'2013 8,510,524'File system capable of generating snapshots and providing fast sequential read access'2013 8,495,417'System and method for redundancy-protected aggregates'2013 8,489,811'System and method for addressing data containers using data set identifiers'2013 8,429,341'Method and system for responding to file system requests'2013 8,429,368'Providing an administrative path for accessing a writeable master storage volume in a mirrored storage environment'2013 8,412,742'Media aware distributed data layout'2013 8,352,518'Mechanism for handling file level and block level remote file accesses using the same server'2013 8,312,046'System and method for enabling a data container to appear in a plurality of locations in a super-namespace'2012 8,214,404'Media aware distributed data layout'2012 8,195,875'Method and system for responding to file system requests'2012 8,185,633'Method and apparatus for offloading network processes in a computer storage system'2012 8,032,697'Method and system for responding to file system requests'2011 8,015,355'System and method for managing hard lock state information in a distributed storage system environment'2011 7,987,167'Enabling a clustered namespace with redirection'2011 7,962,689'System and method for performing transactional processing in a striped volume set'2011 7,937,474'Method and apparatus for offloading network processes in a computer storage system'2011 7,917,693'Method and system for responding to file system requests'2011 7,917,461'Mechanism for handling file level and block level remote file accesses using the same server'2011 7,849,057'Identifying snapshot membership for blocks based on snapid'2010 7,805,568'Method and apparatus for data storage using striping specification identification'2010 7,730,258'System and method for managing hard and soft lock state information in a distributed storage system environment'2010 7,721,045'System and method for efficiently guaranteeing data consistency to clients of a storage system cluster'2010 7,698,289'Storage system architecture for striping data container content across volumes of a cluster'2010 7,698,334'System and method for multi-tiered meta-data caching and distribution in a clustered computer environment'2010 7,590,798'Method and system for responding to file system requests'2009 7,587,558'System and method for managing hard lock state information in a distributed storage system environment'2009 7,519,813'System and method for a sidecar authentication mechanism'2009 7,466,659'System and method for performing version negotiation of a network protocol and associated interfaces'2008 7,454,567'Method and apparatus for data storage using striping'2008 7,443,872'System and method for multiplexing channels over multiple connections in a storage system cluster'2008 7,409,497'System and method for efficiently guaranteeing data consistency to clients of a storage system cluster'2008 7,302,520'Method and apparatus for data storage using striping'2007 7,127,565'Method and system for safely arbitrating disk drive ownership using a timestamp voting algorithm'2006 6,868,417'Mechanism for handling file level and block level remote file accesses using the same server'2005 6,671,773'Method and system for responding to file system requests'2003

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

2003–2020Based in Pittsburgh, PA, US· patent location history

2009–2020Patents assigned to NETAPP INC (32)· patent assignee history

2012–2017Patents assigned to KAZAR MICHAEL L (16)· patent assignee history

2012–2020Patents assigned to AVERE SYSTEMS INC (14)· patent assignee history

2012–2015Patents assigned to KAZAR MICHAEL (8)· patent assignee history

2012–2016Patents assigned to NYDICK DANIEL S (7)· patent assignee history

2013–2014Based in Sunnyvale, CA, US· patent location history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
NETAPP INC	32	2009–2020
KAZAR MICHAEL Lself	16	2012–2017
AVERE SYSTEMS INC	14	2012–2020
KAZAR MICHAELself	8	2012–2015
NYDICK DANIEL S	7	2012–2016

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US	52	2003–2020
Sunnyvale, California, US	4	2013–2014