Distributed storage cluster architecture
Joshua L. Coates, Patrick E. Bozeman and David A. Patterson
U.S. Patent 7,590,747. September 2009

Network storage system
Joshua L. Coates, F. Alan Jones, Georgina L. Russell, Michael Gonzalez, Patrick E. Bozeman, Taylor Gautier and David A. Patterson
U.S. Patent 7,428,540. September 2008

Method and apparatus for accessing remote storage in a distributed storage cluster architecture
Joshua L. Coates, Patrick E. Bozeman and David A. Patterson
U.S. Patent 6,952,737. October 2005