Patents by Inventor Ben de Waal

Ben de Waal 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).

  • Using an intermediate virtual disk format for virtual disk conversion
    Patent number: 9817592
    Abstract: A virtual disk conversion system determines location ranges for data on a storage device that are found in files representing a virtual disk in a source format. An intermediate virtual disk data structure containing the location ranges for the data is generated, and the intermediate virtual disk data structure is used to associate data at the location ranges with a new file on the storage device that represents a virtual disk in a destination format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
    Inventors: Sunny Ratra, Sungwook Ryu, Steven Beam, Shweta Behere, Sreenivasa Potakamuri, Seema Kamat, Ben de Waal
  • USING AN INTERMEDIATE VIRTUAL DISK FORMAT FOR VIRTUAL DISK CONVERSION
    Publication number: 20170315739
    Abstract: A virtual disk conversion system determines location ranges for data on a storage device that are found in files representing a virtual disk in a source format. An intermediate virtual disk data structure containing the location ranges for the data is generated, and the intermediate virtual disk data structure is used to associate data at the location ranges with a new file on the storage device that represents a virtual disk in a destination format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Sunny Ratra, Sungwook Ryu, Steven Beam, Shweta Behere, Sreenivasa Potakamuri, Seema Kamat, Ben de Waal