Patents by Inventor Thomas K. Doerk

Thomas K. Doerk 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).

  • Data integrity in deduplicated block storage environments
    Patent number: 10031691
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for maintaining data integrity in deduplicated storage environments. A processor receives a request to write a first block of data to a storage device. A processor compares the first block of data to a second block of data, wherein the second block is stored on the storage device. A processor writes the first block of data to the storage device based, at least in part, on the first block of data matching the second block of data and an amount of pointers to the second block of data being above a predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas K. Doerk, Itzhack Goldberg, Thorsten Muehge, Erik Rueger, Neil Sondhi