Inventor · Fort Collins, CO, US

Bret A. McKee

37Patents
16h-index
22Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 14, 1997 → Jul 19, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8185893B2 Starting up at least one virtual machine in a physical machine by a load balancer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 130 Active
US7073059B2 Secure machine platform that interfaces to operating systems and customized control programs Physics 115 Expired
US6195650A Method and apparatus for virtualizing file access operations and other I/O operations Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 98 Expired
US8341626B1 Migration of a virtual machine in response to regional environment effects Physics 84 Active
US7925923B1 Migrating a virtual machine in response to failure of an instruction to execute Physics 60 Active
US6889244B1 Method and apparatus for passing messages using a fault tolerant storage system Electricity 51 Expired
US6745307B2 Method and system for privilege-level-access to memory within a computer Physics 50 Expired
US6694457B2 System and method for monitoring execution of privileged instructions Physics 41 Expired
US8181175B1 Accounting for resource usage time by a virtual machine Physics 29 Active
US8185894B1 Training a virtual machine placement controller Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Active
US6381615B2 Method and apparatus for translating virtual path file access operations to physical file path access Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US8903888B1 Retrieving data of a virtual machine based on demand to migrate the virtual machine between physical machines Physics 25 Active
US8332847B1 Validating manual virtual machine migration Physics 24 Active
US8732699B1 Migrating virtual machines between physical machines in a define group Physics 24 Active
US5915114A Dynamic trace driven object code optimizer Physics 23 Expired
US7051238B2 Method and system for using machine-architecture support to distinguish function and routine return values Physics 18 Expired
US8365169B1 Migrating a virtual machine across processing cells connected to an interconnect that provides data communication without cache coherency support Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Active
US9418220B1 Controlling access to memory using a controller that performs cryptographic functions Physics 15 Active
US8904383B2 Virtual machine migration according to environmental data Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US9092250B1 Selecting one of plural layouts of virtual machines on physical machines Physics 12 Active
US8910152B1 Migrating a virtual machine by using a hot-plug event Physics 10 Active
US8296760B2 Migrating a virtual machine from a first physical machine in response to receiving a command to lower a power mode of the first physical machine Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Active
US6950135B2 Method and apparatus for gathering three dimensional data with a digital imaging system Physics 8 Expired
US8670971B2 Datacenter workload evaluation Physics 4 Active
US11301276B2 Container-as-a-service (CaaS) controller for monitoring clusters and implemeting autoscaling policies Physics 3 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.