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Eric W. Thomas

Examiner (ID: 13316)

Most Active Art Unit
2848
Art Unit(s)
2831, 2847, 2848, 2835
Total Applications
2367
Issued Applications
1925
Pending Applications
173
Abandoned Applications
302

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/345828
Persistent metadata storage in a storage system Jun 10, 2021 Issued
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17/344112
Storage device processing stream data, system including the same, and operation method Jun 9, 2021 Issued
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17/342185
Tiering data strategy for a distributed storage system Jun 7, 2021 Issued
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17/330724
Mapping partition identifiers May 25, 2021 Issued
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17/324883
Method and apparatus for managing memory in memory disaggregation system May 18, 2021 Issued
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17/315585
Non-volatile storage controller with partial logical-to-physical (L2P) address translation table May 9, 2021 Issued
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17/313793
Data storage device and method for host-initiated cached read to recover corrupted data within timeout constraints May 5, 2021 Issued
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17/307765
Hierarchical memory apparatus May 3, 2021 Issued
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17/301949
Management of coherency directory cache entry ejection Apr 19, 2021 Issued
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17/232971
Elastic persistent memory regions Apr 15, 2021 Issued
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17/229096
Memory system storing management information and method of controlling same Apr 12, 2021 Issued
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17/208825
Systems and methods for random fill caching and prefetching for secure cache memories Mar 21, 2021 Issued
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17/198054
Migrating data from a large extent pool to a small extent pool Mar 9, 2021 Issued
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17/196390
Memory device and host device Mar 8, 2021 Issued
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17/184352
File system management in memory device Feb 23, 2021 Issued
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17/907206
Verifying address translation integrity Feb 7, 2021 Issued
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17/165569
Techniques for secure writes by non-privileged users Feb 1, 2021 Issued
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17/156827
Information processing device, external storage device, host device, relay device, control program, and control method of information processing device Jan 24, 2021 Issued
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17/149366
Storage device and operating method thereof Jan 13, 2021 Issued
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17/143153
Cost-effective solid state disk data-protection method for power outages Jan 5, 2021 Issued
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