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Melissa Stalder Swain

Examiner (ID: 11137, Phone: (571)270-5832 , Office: P/1732 )

Most Active Art Unit
1732
Art Unit(s)
1793, 1732
Total Applications
906
Issued Applications
619
Pending Applications
8
Abandoned Applications
279

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/472837
Storage controller replacement and firmware upgrade without service interruption Sep 12, 2021 Issued
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17/447281
Deleting data entities and deduplication stores in deduplication systems Sep 8, 2021 Issued
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17/386782
User device including a nonvolatile memory device and a data write method thereof Jul 27, 2021 Issued
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17/378212
Garbage collection adapted to host write activity Jul 15, 2021 Issued
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17/368281
DATA STORAGE DEVICE, OPERATION METHOD THEREOF AND STORAGE SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME Jul 5, 2021 Abandoned
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17/360996
System and method for transferring data from non-volatile memory to a process accelerator Jun 27, 2021 Issued
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17/303796
Journals for data cloning operations Jun 7, 2021 Issued
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17/322805
PSEUDO MAIN MEMORY SYSTEM May 16, 2021 Pending
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17/322805
PSEUDO MAIN MEMORY SYSTEM May 16, 2021 Pending
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17/998892
Method and device for allocating storage addresses for data in memory May 11, 2021 Issued
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17/314403
Raid storage system with a protection pool of storage units May 6, 2021 Issued
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17/313395
Method for reassembling local disk managers and array groups May 5, 2021 Issued
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17/306025
Optimizing Data Write Size Using Storage Device Geometry May 2, 2021 Pending
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17/228323
DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF Apr 11, 2021 Abandoned
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17/203452
Managing cloud storage for distributed file systems Mar 15, 2021 Issued
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17/197467
Automated uniform host attachment Mar 9, 2021 Issued
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17/186773
Mapping storage volumes to storage processing nodes using input/output operation constraints and designated function Feb 25, 2021 Issued
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17/166975
Dynamic memory coherency biasing techniques Feb 2, 2021 Issued
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17/160465
Copying data between storage systems Jan 27, 2021 Issued
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17/155381
Metro cluster for virtual volumes Jan 21, 2021 Issued
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