Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Pfau

Jeffrey Pfau 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: 9128942
    Abstract: Many applications and computing environments allow users to migrate data from a source object to a target object (e.g., a file may be cut/pasted, copied, etc.). It may be advantageous to provide users with access to the data (e.g., migrated data at the target object and/or data that has yet to be migrated from the source object) before all of the data is completely migrated (e.g., a user may otherwise have to wait hours for a 2 TB file to be copied between various data volumes). Accordingly, as provided herein, migration of a source object to a target object may be declared as completed, even though the target object may not comprise all of the data that is to be migrated. In this way, an I/O request may be satisfied based upon migrated data within the target object and/or data, not yet migrated, retrieved on-demand from the source object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Pfau, Devang K. Shah, Amber Palekar, Ashish Prakash