Patents by Inventor Brad Lisson

Brad Lisson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11940954
    Abstract: Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that ensure correctness of file system analytics are disclosed. With this technology, a first generation number for a volume is incremented in response to a modification of a rule set that defines properties of objects of a file system associated with the volume. A determination is made when a second generation number in a first inode for a first one of the objects matches the first generation number. The first inode is identified based on a traversal of a directory tree associated with the file system. The modified rule set is applied to the properties for the first one of the objects to obtain values, when the second generation number fails to match the first generation number. Analytics data is output after the traversal has completed. The analytics data is generated in response to a query and is based on the values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Jernigan, Xin Wang, Subramanian Natarajan, Richard Chow, Adam Ciapponi, Brad Lisson, Dave Rose
  • Publication number: 20230153271
    Abstract: Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that ensure correctness of file system analytics are disclosed. With this technology, a first generation number for a volume is incremented in response to a modification of a rule set that defines properties of objects of a file system associated with the volume. A determination is made when a second generation number in a first inode for a first one of the objects matches the first generation number. The first inode is identified based on a traversal of a directory tree associated with the file system. The modified rule set is applied to the properties for the first one of the objects to obtain values, when the second generation number fails to match the first generation number. Analytics data is output after the traversal has completed. The analytics data is generated in response to a query and is based on the values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Richard Jernigan, Xin Wang, Subramanian Natarajan, Richard Chow, Adam Ciapponi, Brad Lisson, Dave Rose
  • Patent number: 11561935
    Abstract: Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that ensure correctness of file system analytics are disclosed. With this technology, a first generation number for a volume is incremented in response to a modification of a rule set that defines properties of objects of a file system associated with the volume. A determination is made when a second generation number in a first inode for a first one of the objects matches the first generation number. The first inode is identified based on a traversal of a directory tree associated with the file system. The modified rule set is applied to the properties for the first one of the objects to obtain values, when the second generation number fails to match the first generation number. Analytics data is output after the traversal has completed. The analytics data is generated in response to a query and is based on the values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Jernigan, Xin Wang, Subramanian Natarajan, Richard Chow, Adam Ciapponi, Brad Lisson, Dave Rose
  • Publication number: 20220405248
    Abstract: Methods, non-transitory machine readable media, and computing devices that ensure correctness of file system analytics are disclosed. With this technology, a first generation number for a volume is incremented in response to a modification of a rule set that defines properties of objects of a file system associated with the volume. A determination is made when a second generation number in a first inode for a first one of the objects matches the first generation number. The first inode is identified based on a traversal of a directory tree associated with the file system. The modified rule set is applied to the properties for the first one of the objects to obtain values, when the second generation number fails to match the first generation number. Analytics data is output after the traversal has completed. The analytics data is generated in response to a query and is based on the values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Richard Jernigan, Xin Wang, Subramanian Natarajan, Richard Chow, Adam Ciapponi, Brad Lisson, Dave Rose