VMware LLC
🏢 View company profile →5,453Patents
5,402Active
5,453Granted
66Portfolio score
Filing activity: Sep 10, 1998 → Jun 24, 2024 · 280 expiring within 5 years
Most-cited patents
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7356679B1 | Computer image capture, customization and deployment | Physics | 967 | Expired |
| US7577722B1 | Provisioning of computer systems using virtual machines | Physics | 584 | Expired |
| US9134922B2 | System and method for allocating datastores for virtual machines | Physics | 483 | Active |
| US6397242B1 | Virtualization system including a virtual machine monitor for a computer with a segmented architecture | Physics | 464 | Expired |
| US6496847B1 | System and method for virtualizing computer systems | Physics | 445 | Expired |
| US6795966B1 | Mechanism for restoring, porting, replicating and checkpointing computer systems using state extraction | Physics | 407 | Expired |
| US8010667B2 | On-access anti-virus mechanism for virtual machine architecture | Physics | 374 | Active |
| US8060875B1 | System and method for multiple virtual teams | Electricity | 361 | Active |
| US7802000B1 | Virtual network in server farm | Electricity | 334 | Active |
| US8510827B1 | Taint tracking mechanism for computer security | Physics | 324 | Active |
| US8233882B2 | Providing security in mobile devices via a virtualization software layer | Physics | 313 | Active |
| US9424021B2 | Capturing updates to applications and operating systems | Electricity | 312 | Active |
| US9672053B2 | Service request processing | Electricity | 298 | Active |
| US6789156B1 | Content-based, transparent sharing of memory units | Physics | 269 | Expired |
| US8166554B2 | Secure enterprise network | Electricity | 264 | Active |
| US8095931B1 | Controlling memory conditions in a virtual machine | Physics | 238 | Active |
| US8560747B1 | Associating heartbeat data with access to shared resources of a computer system | Physics | 237 | Active |
| US7702843B1 | Determining memory conditions in a virtual machine | Physics | 227 | Active |
| US10333975B2 | Enhanced computing system security using a secure browser | Electricity | 223 | Active |
| US6961941B1 | Computer configuration for resource management in systems including a virtual machine | Physics | 213 | Expired |
| US7111145B1 | TLB miss fault handler and method for accessing multiple page tables | Physics | 210 | Expired |
| US6735601B1 | System and method for remote file access by computer | Physics | 209 | Expired |
| US8037032B2 | Managing backups using virtual machines | Physics | 187 | Active |
| US8195774B2 | Distributed virtual switch for virtualized computer systems | Electricity | 184 | Active |
| US8209680B1 | System and method for disk imaging on diverse computers | Physics | 174 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.