Patents by Inventor Vasilis Apostolides

Vasilis Apostolides 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).

  • Technique for permitting multiple virtual file systems having the same identifier to be served by a single storage system
    Patent number: 9165003
    Abstract: A technique for permitting multiple virtual file system having the same VFS identifier to be served by a single storage system. A data frame descriptor data structure is modified to include a storage pool index value that indexes into a storage pool array to identify a storage pool descriptor. The storage pool (SP) descriptor includes a SP ID, which is used in conjunction with a VFS ID to uniquely identify the VFS to which dirtied data is to be written.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Narayana R. Tummala, Michael Kazar, Vasilis Apostolides, Bruce W. Leverett