Patents by Inventor J. Chris Wagner

J. Chris Wagner 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).

  • System and method for caching network file systems
    Patent number: 9152600
    Abstract: A network caching system has a multi-protocol caching filer coupled to an origin server to provide storage virtualization of data served by the filer in response to data access requests issued by multi-protocol clients over a computer network. The multi-protocol caching filer includes a file system configured to manage a sparse volume that “virtualizes” a storage space of the data to thereby provide a cache function that enables access to data by the multi-protocol clients. To that end, the caching filer further includes a multi-protocol engine configured to translate the multi-protocol client data access requests into generic file system primitive operations executable by both the caching filer and the origin server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Ansel Lango, Robert M. English, Paul Christopher Eastham, Qinghua Zheng, Brian Mederic Quirion, Peter Griess, Matthew Benjamin Amdur, Kartik Ayyar, Robert Lieh-Yuan Tsai, David Grunwald, J. Chris Wagner, Emmanuel Ackaouy, Ashish Prakash
  • System and method for caching network file systems
    Patent number: 8626866
    Abstract: A network caching system has a multi-protocol caching filer coupled to an origin server to provide storage virtualization of data served by the filer in response to data access requests issued by multi-protocol clients over a computer network. The multi-protocol caching filer includes a file system configured to manage a sparse volume that “virtualizes” a storage space of the data to thereby provide a cache function that enables access to data by the multi-protocol clients. To that end, the caching filer further includes a multi-protocol engine configured to translate the multi-protocol client data access requests into generic file system primitive operations executable by both the caching filer and the origin server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Ansel Lango, Robert M. English, Paul Christopher Eastham, Qinghua Zheng, Brian Mederic Quirion, Peter Griess, Matthew Benjamin Amdur, Kartik Ayyar, Robert Lieh-Yuan Tsai, David Grunwald, J. Chris Wagner, Emmanuel Ackaouy, Ashish Prakash
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CACHING NETWORK FILE SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20130304844
    Abstract: A network caching system has a multi-protocol caching filer coupled to an origin server to provide storage virtualization of data served by the filer in response to data access requests issued by multi-protocol clients over a computer network. The multi-protocol caching filer includes a file system configured to manage a sparse volume that “virtualizes” a storage space of the data to thereby provide a cache function that enables access to data by the multi-protocol clients. To that end, the caching filer further includes a multi-protocol engine configured to translate the multi-protocol client data access requests into generic file system primitive operations executable by both the caching filer and the origin server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Ansel Lango, Robert M. English, Paul Christopher Eastham, Qinghua Zheng, Brian Mederic Quirion, Peter Griess, Matthew Benjamin Amdur, Kartik Ayyar, Robert Lieh-Yuan Tsai, David Grunwald, J. Chris Wagner, Emmanuel Ackaouy, Ashish Prakash
  • System and method for caching network file systems
    Patent number: 8055702
    Abstract: A network caching system has a multi-protocol caching filer coupled to an origin server to provide storage virtualization of data served by the filer in response to data access requests issued by multi-protocol clients over a computer network. The multi-protocol caching filer includes a file system configured to manage a sparse volume that “virtualizes” a storage space of the data to thereby provide a cache function that enables access to data by the multi-protocol clients. To that end, the caching filer further includes a multi-protocol engine configured to translate the multi-protocol client data access requests into generic file system primitive operations executable by both the caching filer and the origin server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Ansel Lango, Robert M. English, Paul Christopher Eastham, Qinghua Zheng, Brian Mederic Quirion, Peter Griess, Matthew Benjamin Amdur, Kartik Ayyar, Robert Lieh-Yuan Tsai, David Grunwald, J. Chris Wagner, Emmanuel Ackaouy, Ashish Prakash