Patents by Inventor Timothy E. Nicholson

Timothy E. Nicholson 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).

  • Systems and methods for rapidly provisioning virtual storage objects
    Patent number: 9092530
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for rapidly provisioning of virtual storage objects, whereby such rapid provisioning does not require clearing of physical storage resources when initialized for use in a virtual storage object. Accordingly, a virtual storage object of embodiments of the invention is provisioned without the time-intensive process of clearing (e.g., writing zeroes to) data blocks of the physical storage resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: John K. Fulbright, Clinton D. Knight, Timothy E. Nicholson