Inventor · Portland, OR, US

Gilbert Neiger

165Patents
22h-index
168Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 6, 1998 → Jun 9, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6907600B2 Virtual translation lookaside buffer Physics 180 Expired
US7191440B2 Tracking operating system process and thread execution and virtual machine execution in hardware or in a virtual machine monitor Physics 92 Expired
US7225441B2 Mechanism for providing power management through virtualization Physics 64 Expired
US7296267B2 System and method for binding virtual machines to hardware contexts Physics 60 Expired
US7757231B2 System and method to deprivilege components of a virtual machine monitor Physics 59 Active
US7334107B2 Caching support for direct memory access address translation Physics 52 Expired
US7222203B2 Interrupt redirection for virtual partitioning Physics 50 Expired
US7340582B2 Fault processing for direct memory access address translation Physics 49 Expired
US8286162B2 Delivering interrupts directly to a virtual processor Physics 48 Active
US7444493B2 Address translation for input/output devices using hierarchical translation tables Physics 44 Active
US7272831B2 Method and apparatus for constructing host processor soft devices independent of the host processor operating system Physics 40 Expired
US7555628B2 Synchronizing a translation lookaside buffer to an extended paging table Physics 37 Active
US7818808B1 Processor mode for limiting the operation of guest software running on a virtual machine supported by a virtual machine monitor Physics 36 Expired
US7024555B2 Apparatus and method for unilaterally loading a secure operating system within a multiprocessor environment Physics 34 Expired
US8099581B2 Synchronizing a translation lookaside buffer with an extended paging table Physics 34 Active
US7124327B2 Control over faults occurring during the operation of guest software in the virtual-machine architecture Physics 32 Expired
US7035963B2 Method for resolving address space conflicts between a virtual machine monitor and a guest operating system Physics 32 Expired
US7467381B2 Resource partitioning and direct access utilizing hardware support for virtualization Physics 30 Expired
US7581219B2 Transitioning between virtual machine monitor domains in a virtual machine environment Physics 28 Expired
US8271978B2 Virtualization event processing in a layered virtualization architecture Physics 27 Active
US7865670B2 Invalidating translation lookaside buffer entries in a virtual machine (VM) system Physics 26 Expired
US7562179B2 Maintaining processor resources during architectural events Physics 24 Expired
US8146078B2 Timer offsetting mechanism in a virtual machine environment Physics 22 Active
US7424709B2 Use of multiple virtual machine monitors to handle privileged events Physics 22 Expired
US7305592B2 Support for nested fault in a virtual machine environment Physics 22 Expired

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