Neal Christiansen

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Bellevue, WA, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Runtime allocation and utilization of persistent memory as volatile...
- Patent number 11,789,870
- Issue date Oct 17, 2023
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal Robert Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Virtual disk storage techniques
- Patent number 11,614,873
- Issue date Mar 28, 2023
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- John A. Starks
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Techniques for handling letter case in file systems
- Patent number 11,537,561
- Issue date Dec 27, 2022
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal Robert Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Automatic hydration of feature file batches
- Patent number 11,526,362
- Issue date Dec 13, 2022
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal Robert Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Metadata storage for placeholders in a storage virtualization system
- Patent number 11,507,534
- Issue date Nov 22, 2022
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal R. Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Preventing excessive hydration in a storage virtualization system
- Patent number 11,061,623
- Issue date Jul 13, 2021
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal R. Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Hydration of applications
- Patent number 11,029,932
- Issue date Jun 8, 2021
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Aniket Krishnat Naravanekar
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Storage virtualization for directories
- Patent number 10,996,897
- Issue date May 4, 2021
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal R. Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Write-ahead style logging in a persistent memory device
- Patent number 10,936,441
- Issue date Mar 2, 2021
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal Robert Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Enhanced techniques for copying cloud stored files
- Patent number 10,929,350
- Issue date Feb 23, 2021
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal Robert Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Storage virtualization for directories
- Patent number 10,802,764
- Issue date Oct 13, 2020
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal R. Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Cloud content states determination logic
- Patent number 10,762,054
- Issue date Sep 1, 2020
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Raju Jain
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Virtual storage free space management
- Patent number 10,585,588
- Issue date Mar 10, 2020
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Karan Mehra
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Controlling reparse behavior associated with an intermediate directory
- Patent number 10,223,378
- Issue date Mar 5, 2019
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal R. Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Storage virtualization offload
- Patent number 10,209,899
- Issue date Feb 19, 2019
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Jacob Oshins
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Reducing resource consumption associated with storage and operation...
- Patent number 10,140,461
- Issue date Nov 27, 2018
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal R. Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Adapted block translation table (BTT)
- Patent number 10,126,962
- Issue date Nov 13, 2018
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal R. Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Offload read and write offload provider
- Patent number 9,817,582
- Issue date Nov 14, 2017
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Dustin L. Green
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Re-TRIM of free space within VHDX
- Patent number 9,778,860
- Issue date Oct 3, 2017
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Dustin Green
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Efficient file management through granular opportunistic locking
- Patent number 9,654,585
- Issue date May 16, 2017
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Senthil Rajaram
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Heterogenic volume generation and use system
- Patent number 9,524,300
- Issue date Dec 20, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Shiv Rajpal
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Managing capacity of a thinly provisioned storage system
- Patent number 9,436,399
- Issue date Sep 6, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Matt Garson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Directory leasing
- Patent number 9,292,539
- Issue date Mar 22, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- David Matthew Kruse
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Querying and repairing data
- Patent number 9,268,643
- Issue date Feb 23, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Chesong Lee
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Virtual disk storage techniques
- Patent number 9,146,765
- Issue date Sep 29, 2015
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- John A. Starks
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Managing capacity of a thinly provisioned storage system
- Patent number 9,146,853
- Issue date Sep 29, 2015
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Matt Garson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
File system operation on multi-tiered volume
- Patent number 9,116,904
- Issue date Aug 25, 2015
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal Robert Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Virtualization and offload reads and writes
- Patent number 9,092,149
- Issue date Jul 28, 2015
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Dustin L. Green
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Directory leasing
- Patent number 9,092,450
- Issue date Jul 28, 2015
- Microsoft Corporation
- David Matthew Kruse
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Efficient file management through granular opportunistic locking
- Patent number 9,047,281
- Issue date Jun 2, 2015
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Senthil Rajaram
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
RUNTIME ALLOCATION AND UTILIZATION OF PERSISTENT MEMORY AS VOLATILE...
- Publication number 20240078181
- Publication date Mar 7, 2024
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal Robert CHRISTIANSEN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
VIRTUAL DISK STORAGE TECHNIQUES
- Publication number 20230244395
- Publication date Aug 3, 2023
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- John A. Starks
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TECHNIQUES FOR HANDLING LETTER CASE IN FILE SYSTEMS
- Publication number 20230177009
- Publication date Jun 8, 2023
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal Robert CHRISTIANSEN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METADATA STORAGE FOR PLACEHOLDERS IN A STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION SYSTEM
- Publication number 20230080984
- Publication date Mar 16, 2023
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal R. Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
HYDRATION IN VIRTUAL MACHINES
- Publication number 20210055938
- Publication date Feb 25, 2021
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Aniket Krishnat NARAVANEKAR
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
HYDRATION OF APPLICATIONS
- Publication number 20210055922
- Publication date Feb 25, 2021
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Aniket Krishnat NARAVANEKAR
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
AUTOMATIC HYDRATION OF FEATURE FILE BATCHES
- Publication number 20200379777
- Publication date Dec 3, 2020
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal Robert CHRISTIANSEN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
RUNTIME ALLOCATION AND UTILIZATION OF PERSISTENT MEMORY AS VOLATILE...
- Publication number 20200371936
- Publication date Nov 26, 2020
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal Robert CHRISTIANSEN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PINNING IN A MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM
- Publication number 20190347027
- Publication date Nov 14, 2019
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Karan MEHRA
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
STORAGE RESERVE IN A FILE SYSTEM
- Publication number 20190332370
- Publication date Oct 31, 2019
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal Robert CHRISTIANSEN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TECHNIQUES FOR HANDLING LETTER CASE IN FILE SYSTEMS
- Publication number 20190188279
- Publication date Jun 20, 2019
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal Robert CHRISTIANSEN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
WRITE-AHEAD STYLE LOGGING IN A PERSISTENT MEMORY DEVICE
- Publication number 20190188091
- Publication date Jun 20, 2019
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal Robert CHRISTIANSEN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ENHANCED TECHNIQUES FOR COPYING CLOUD STORED FILES
- Publication number 20190171729
- Publication date Jun 6, 2019
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal Robert CHRISTIANSEN
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
VIRTUAL STORAGE FREE SPACE MANAGEMENT
- Publication number 20190146678
- Publication date May 16, 2019
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Karan MEHRA
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Metadata Storage For Placeholders In A Storage Virtualization System
- Publication number 20180329905
- Publication date Nov 15, 2018
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal R. Christiansen
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Preventing Excessive Hydration In A Storage Virtualization System
- Publication number 20180060345
- Publication date Mar 1, 2018
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal R. Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Storage Virtualization For Directories
- Publication number 20180060350
- Publication date Mar 1, 2018
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal R. Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Storage Virtualization For Files
- Publication number 20180059990
- Publication date Mar 1, 2018
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal R. Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Cloud Content States Determination Logic
- Publication number 20180025021
- Publication date Jan 25, 2018
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Raju Jain
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ADAPTED BLOCK TRANSLATION TABLE (BTT)
- Publication number 20170315742
- Publication date Nov 2, 2017
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal R. Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION OFFLOAD
- Publication number 20170131920
- Publication date May 11, 2017
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Jacob Oshins
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Reducing Resource Consumption Associated with Storage and Operation...
- Publication number 20170124345
- Publication date May 4, 2017
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal R. Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
CONTROLLING REPARSE BEHAVIOR ASSOCIATED WITH AN INTERMEDIATE DIRECTORY
- Publication number 20170124113
- Publication date May 4, 2017
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Neal R. Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
VIRTUAL DISK STORAGE TECHNIQUES
- Publication number 20160335023
- Publication date Nov 17, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- John A. Starks
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
VIRTUAL DISK STORAGE TECHNIQUES
- Publication number 20160019004
- Publication date Jan 21, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- John A. Starks
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Managing Capacity of a Thinly Provisioned Storage System
- Publication number 20160011811
- Publication date Jan 14, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Matt Garson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
EFFICIENT FILE MANAGEMENT THROUGH GRANULAR OPPORTUNISTIC LOCKING
- Publication number 20150229735
- Publication date Aug 13, 2015
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Senthil Rajaram
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DIRECTORY LEASING
- Publication number 20150149505
- Publication date May 28, 2015
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- David Matthew Kruse
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Managing Capacity of a Thinly Provisioned Storage System
- Publication number 20140297987
- Publication date Oct 2, 2014
- Microsoft Corporation
- Matt Garson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
FILE SYSTEM OPERATION ON MULTI-TIERED VOLUME
- Publication number 20140280392
- Publication date Sep 18, 2014
- Microsoft Corporation
- Neal Robert Christiansen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Neal Christiansen

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Runtime allocation and utilization of persistent memory as volatile...

Virtual disk storage techniques

Techniques for handling letter case in file systems

Automatic hydration of feature file batches

Metadata storage for placeholders in a storage virtualization system

Preventing excessive hydration in a storage virtualization system

Hydration of applications

Storage virtualization for directories

Write-ahead style logging in a persistent memory device

Enhanced techniques for copying cloud stored files

Storage virtualization for directories

Cloud content states determination logic

Virtual storage free space management

Controlling reparse behavior associated with an intermediate directory

Storage virtualization offload

Reducing resource consumption associated with storage and operation...

Adapted block translation table (BTT)

Offload read and write offload provider

Re-TRIM of free space within VHDX

Efficient file management through granular opportunistic locking

Heterogenic volume generation and use system

Managing capacity of a thinly provisioned storage system

Directory leasing

Querying and repairing data

Virtual disk storage techniques

Managing capacity of a thinly provisioned storage system

File system operation on multi-tiered volume

Virtualization and offload reads and writes

Directory leasing

Efficient file management through granular opportunistic locking

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

RUNTIME ALLOCATION AND UTILIZATION OF PERSISTENT MEMORY AS VOLATILE...

VIRTUAL DISK STORAGE TECHNIQUES

TECHNIQUES FOR HANDLING LETTER CASE IN FILE SYSTEMS

METADATA STORAGE FOR PLACEHOLDERS IN A STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION SYSTEM

HYDRATION IN VIRTUAL MACHINES

HYDRATION OF APPLICATIONS

AUTOMATIC HYDRATION OF FEATURE FILE BATCHES

RUNTIME ALLOCATION AND UTILIZATION OF PERSISTENT MEMORY AS VOLATILE...

PINNING IN A MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM

STORAGE RESERVE IN A FILE SYSTEM

TECHNIQUES FOR HANDLING LETTER CASE IN FILE SYSTEMS

WRITE-AHEAD STYLE LOGGING IN A PERSISTENT MEMORY DEVICE

ENHANCED TECHNIQUES FOR COPYING CLOUD STORED FILES

VIRTUAL STORAGE FREE SPACE MANAGEMENT

Metadata Storage For Placeholders In A Storage Virtualization System

Preventing Excessive Hydration In A Storage Virtualization System

Storage Virtualization For Directories

Storage Virtualization For Files

Cloud Content States Determination Logic

ADAPTED BLOCK TRANSLATION TABLE (BTT)

STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION OFFLOAD

Reducing Resource Consumption Associated with Storage and Operation...

CONTROLLING REPARSE BEHAVIOR ASSOCIATED WITH AN INTERMEDIATE DIRECTORY

VIRTUAL DISK STORAGE TECHNIQUES

VIRTUAL DISK STORAGE TECHNIQUES

Managing Capacity of a Thinly Provisioned Storage System

EFFICIENT FILE MANAGEMENT THROUGH GRANULAR OPPORTUNISTIC LOCKING

DIRECTORY LEASING

Managing Capacity of a Thinly Provisioned Storage System

FILE SYSTEM OPERATION ON MULTI-TIERED VOLUME