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Last updated: April 19, 2026

Netapp Inc.

59 pending office actions

Portfolio Summary

59
Total Pending OAs
10
Final Rejections
49
Non-Final OAs

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
19199441 BOTTLENECK MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES USING NON-DISRUPTIVE FILE MOVEMENT MECHANISMS IN DISTRIBUTED STORAGE ENVIRONMENTS LEROUX, ETIENNE PIERRE 2161 Non-Final OA May 06, 2025
19183991 CROSS-NODE FILE SYSTEM CONTEXT CHECKS WITHIN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM USING DISAGGREGATED STORAGE HU, XIAOQIN 2168 Non-Final OA Apr 21, 2025
19096560 STORAGE TIER VERIFICATION CHECKS HOANG, HAU HAI 2154 Non-Final OA Mar 31, 2025
19094923 SNAPSHOT CREATION WITH SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION ROSTAMI, MOHAMMAD S 2154 Non-Final OA Mar 30, 2025
19068398 FREEING PAGES WITHIN PERSISTENT MEMORY CORRIELUS, JEAN M 2159 Non-Final OA Mar 03, 2025
19038216 PERSISTENT MEMORY ARCHITECTURE AHMED, ZUBAIR 2132 Non-Final OA Jan 27, 2025
19034376 NON-DISRUPTIVELY TRANSITION FROM ASYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION TO BI-DIRECTIONAL SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION FOR A MULTI-SITE STORAGE SYSTEM MACKALL, LARRY T 2139 Non-Final OA Jan 22, 2025
19034398 ENHANCING HIGH-AVAILABILITY IN MEDIATOR-LESS DEPLOYMENTS IN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S 2132 Non-Final OA Jan 22, 2025
19030358 VOLUME GROUP RESTORE FROM REMOTE OBJECT STORE ORTIZ DITREN, BELIX M 2164 Non-Final OA Jan 17, 2025
19030302 FLEXIBLE TIERING OF SNAPSHOTS TO ARCHIVAL STORAGE IN REMOTE OBJECT STORES CAO, PHUONG THAO 2164 Non-Final OA Jan 17, 2025
19016471 METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO REDUCE LATENCY OF INPUT/OUTPUT (I/O) OPERATIONS DURING CREATION OF COMMON SNAPSHOTS BASED ON BATCHING OF SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATED DATASETS AT A PRIMARY STORAGE SYSTEM TO A CROSS-SITE SECONDARY STORAGE SYSTEM KO, CHAE M 2114 Non-Final OA Jan 10, 2025
19013447 QUALITY OF SERVICE MANAGEMENT MECHANISM TSUI, DANIEL D 2132 Non-Final OA Jan 08, 2025
19011493 FACILITATING MULTIPLE DEVICE CONSUMPTION OF SHARED NAMESPACES OF EPHMERMAL STORAGE DEVICES BY A CONSUMER OF A VIRTUAL STORAGE DEVICE VERBRUGGE, KEVIN 2132 Non-Final OA Jan 06, 2025
18982911 SINGLE INPUT/OUTPUT WRITES IN A FILE SYSTEM HOSTED ON A CLOUD, VIRTUAL, OR COMMODITY-SERVER PLATFORM BENNER, JANE WEI 2139 Non-Final OA Dec 16, 2024
18982552 COORDINATING SNAPSHOT OPERATIONS ACROSS MULTIPLE FILE SYSTEMS SYED, FARHAN M 2161 Final Rejection Dec 16, 2024
18977281 METHODS AND MULTI-SITE SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE RECOVERY POINT OBJECTIVE (RPO) PROTECTION, SNAPSHOT RETENTION BETWEEN SECONDARY STORAGE SITE AND TERTIARY STORAGE SITE, AND AUTOMATICALLY INITIATING REALIGNMENT AND RECONFIGURATION OF A PROTECTION CONFIGURATION FROM THE SECONDARY STORAGE SITE TO THE TERTIARY STORAGE SITE UPON PRIMARY STORAGE SITE FAILURE CHU, GABRIEL L 2114 Non-Final OA Dec 11, 2024
18959207 ASYNCHRONOUS REGION-AWARE PREFETCHING AND CACHING CHEUNG, EDDY 2165 Non-Final OA Nov 25, 2024
18957963 LOCK RESERVATIONS FOR SHARED STORAGE ROJAS, MIDYS 2133 Non-Final OA Nov 25, 2024
18935813 DYNAMIC QUALITY OF SERVICE IMPLEMENTATION BASED UPON RESOURCE SATURATION GEBRIL, MOHAMED M 2135 Non-Final OA Nov 04, 2024
18928972 METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE INPUT/OUTPUT (I/O) RESUMPTION TIME BY BATCHING MULTIPLE NON-CONFLICTING OPERATIONS DURING A NON-DISRUPTIVE AUTOMATIC UNPLANNED FAILOVER FROM A PRIMARY COPY OF DATA AT A PRIMARY STORAGE SYSTEM TO A MIRROR COPY OF THE DATA AT A CROSS-SITE SECONDARY STORAGE SYSTEM MASKULINSKI, MICHAEL C 2113 Non-Final OA Oct 28, 2024
18929400 AUTOMATED TUNING OF A QUALITY OF SERVICE SETTING FOR A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM BASED ON INTERNAL MONITORING TSAI, SHENG JEN 2139 Non-Final OA Oct 28, 2024
18928337 CLONE VOLUME SPLIT OF CLONE VOLUME FROM PARENT VOLUME WITH DATA TIERED TO OBJECT STORE BATAILLE, PIERRE MICHE 2138 Non-Final OA Oct 28, 2024
18923440 PRESERVING STORAGE EFFICIENCY DURING RESTORATION OF DATA FROM THE CLOUD TO A DATA STORAGE SYSTEM KO, CHAE M 2114 Non-Final OA Oct 22, 2024
18921156 MULTI-TIER WRITE ALLOCATION FIELDS, COURTNEY D 2436 Non-Final OA Oct 21, 2024
18919775 Automated Application Detection And Storage Savings Based On Intelligent Workload Characterization GIARDINO JR, MARK A 2135 Final Rejection Oct 18, 2024
18920338 Isolated Snapshot Storage For Fast Ransomware Protection RAHMAN, SM AZIZUR 2434 Non-Final OA Oct 18, 2024
18917175 READ AMPLIFICATION REDUCTION IN A VIRTUAL STORAGE SYSTEM WHEN COMPRESSION IS ENABLED FOR A ZONED CHECKSUM SCHEME WONG, HUEN 2168 Final Rejection Oct 16, 2024
18888061 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING STORAGE SYSTEM MONITORING DATA USING VALUE DETECTION TRAN, NAM T 2455 Non-Final OA Sep 17, 2024
18888025 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING STORAGE SYSTEM MONITORING DATA USING PARAMETER STORAGE WILSON, YOLANDA L 2113 Non-Final OA Sep 17, 2024
18821356 DISTRIBUTED CONTROL PLANE TRACKING OBJECT OWNERSHIP CHANGES WITHIN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE ARCHITECTURE PEUGH, BRIAN R 2133 Non-Final OA Aug 30, 2024
18809930 DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE CHANGE TRACKING INTEGRATED WITH SCALABLE DATABASES MOBIN, HASANUL 2168 Non-Final OA Aug 20, 2024
18799034 Data Storage System Drive Utilization KUDIRKA, JOSEPH R 2114 Non-Final OA Aug 09, 2024
18798037 ADDITIONAL COMPRESSION FOR EXISTING COMPRESSED DATA JEANGLAUDE, JEAN BRUNER 2845 Non-Final OA Aug 08, 2024
18785830 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO REPLICATE FILE CLONE OPERATIONS ON A DUAL COPY CROSS-SITE STORAGE SYSTEM WITH SIMULATANEOUS READ-WRITE ABILITY ON EACH COPY LIN, ALLEN S 2153 Non-Final OA Jul 26, 2024
18785783 METHODS TO MAINTAIN READ-WRITE CONSISTENCY AND DEPENDENT WRITE ORDER CONSISTENCY WITHIN A CROSS-SITE STORAGE SYSTEM HUANG, BRYAN PAI SONG 2114 Final Rejection Jul 26, 2024
18785766 Data Exfiltration Monitoring Using Semantic Queries ABYANEH, ALI S 2437 Non-Final OA Jul 26, 2024
18785773 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO HANDLE DEPENDENT DATA, CONFLICTING DATA, OR METADATA OPERATIONS ON A DUAL COPY CROSS-SITE STORAGE SYSTEM WITH SIMULATANEOUS READ-WRITE ABILITY ON EACH COPY SOMERS, MARC S 2159 Non-Final OA Jul 26, 2024
18770725 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED APPLICATION ERROR DETECTION AND RESOLUTION RUSIN, KAYO LISA 2114 Non-Final OA Jul 12, 2024
18740944 Hybrid Model Of Fine-Grained Locking And Data Partitioning ELLIS, MATTHEW J 2152 Final Rejection Jun 12, 2024
18661835 REMOTE CLONING OF FILES IN DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS DWIVEDI, MAHESH H 2168 Non-Final OA May 13, 2024
18637828 Intelligent Application Restoration In Containerized Environments GEBRESENBET, DINKU W 2164 Final Rejection Apr 17, 2024
18595799 Elastic Node Growth and Shrinkage within a Distributed Storage System using Disaggregated Storage ALSIP, MICHAEL 2139 Non-Final OA Mar 05, 2024
18595785 Automatic Space Sharing of Disaggregated Storage of a Storage Pod by Multiple Nodes of a Distributed Storage System GOLDSCHMIDT, CRAIG S 2132 Non-Final OA Mar 05, 2024
18438821 METADATA ATTACHMENT TO STORAGE OBJECTS WITHIN OBJECT STORE GURMU, MULUEMEBET 2163 Non-Final OA Feb 12, 2024
18424050 Adaptive Chunk Scaling For Ransomware Detection ABYANEH, ALI S 2437 Final Rejection Jan 26, 2024
18424368 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPRESSING STORAGE SYSTEM MONITORING DATA CONYERS, DAWAUNE A 2152 Non-Final OA Jan 26, 2024
18406767 ACCUMULATING I/O OPERATIONS INTO A SINGLE COMBINED I/O OPERATION FOR IMPLEMENTATION BY AN UNDERLYING STORAGE DEVICE LAYER YEW, CHIE W 2139 Final Rejection Jan 08, 2024
18542273 Write-Back Caching with Asynchronous Write-Back Capabilities HO, AARON D 2139 Non-Final OA Dec 15, 2023
18308720 VIRTUAL MACHINE HOSTING AND DISASTER RECOVERY ACROSS VIRTUAL MACHINE HOSTING ENVIRONMENTS SUPPORTING DIFFERENT VIRTUAL MACHINE FORMATS CASTANEDA, IVAN ALEXANDER 2195 Final Rejection Apr 28, 2023
18308876 Acceleration Of Data Transmission Between Producers And Consumers Of A Distributed-Clustered Application SHARPLESS, SAMUEL 2165 Non-Final OA Apr 28, 2023
18308473 INTELLIGENT SELF-ADJUSTING METRIC COLLECTION BARRETT, RYAN S 2148 Non-Final OA Apr 27, 2023
18194874 REBALANCING SCANNER FOR USE IN REBALANCING FILES IN A DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS BAKER, IRENE H 2152 Non-Final OA Apr 03, 2023
18194332 Write-Back Caching Across Clusters HO, AARON D 2139 Non-Final OA Mar 31, 2023
18112996 Methods and Systems for Protecting and Restoring Virtual Machines CHEN, ZHI 2196 Non-Final OA Feb 22, 2023
18168739 CREATION AND RETENTION OF IMMUTABLE SNAPSHOTS TO FACILITATE RANSOMWARE PROTECTION BROWN, CHRISTOPHER J 2439 Non-Final OA Feb 14, 2023
18160653 SELF-BALANCING STORAGE SYSTEM KIM, ELIAS YOUNG 2135 Non-Final OA Jan 27, 2023
17660906 CACHE-AWARE LOAD BALANCING LU, KEVIN X 2199 Final Rejection Apr 27, 2022
17660900 OBJECT STORAGE CACHE PREWARMING MOTTER, JORDAN SCOTT 2198 Non-Final OA Apr 27, 2022
17729900 Methods and Systems for Storage Virtual Machine Migration Between Clusters of a Networked Storage System LU, KEVIN X 2199 Non-Final OA Apr 26, 2022

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