Inventor · Olympia, WA, US

Mark Doran

36Patents
9h-index
27Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 22, 2002 → Apr 30, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7340616B2 Power management of storage units in a storage array Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 73 Expired
US8645965B2 Supporting metered clients with manycore through time-limited partitioning Physics 47 Active
US7127600B2 Aggressive content pre-fetching during pre-boot runtime to support speedy OS booting Physics 44 Expired
US7370324B2 Switching between a service virtual machine and a guest virtual machine in a virtual machine monitor environment Physics 31 Expired
US7082527B2 Method and system for rapid repurposing of machines in a clustered, scale-out environment Physics 18 Expired
US7934209B2 Method for firmware variable storage with eager compression, fail-safe extraction and restart time compression scan Electricity 17 Active
US7162629B2 Method to suspend-and-resume across various operational environment contexts Physics 16 Expired
US7974416B2 Providing a secure execution mode in a pre-boot environment Physics 15 Expired
US7543048B2 Methods and apparatus for enabling of a remote management agent independent of an operating system Electricity 15 Expired
US7523323B2 Method and apparatus for quick resumption Physics 9 Active
US7668945B2 Network booting using a platform management coprocessor Electricity 6 Active
US7206931B2 Aggressive content pre-fetching during pre-boot runtime to support speedy OS booting Physics 6 Active
US7478141B2 Accessing firmware of a remote computer system using a remote firmware interface Physics 5 Expired
US7673126B2 Methods and apparatus to self-initialize a processor Physics 4 Active
US7480791B2 Method and apparatus for quick resumption where the system may forego initialization of at least one memory range identified in the resume descriptor Physics 4 Active
US7334120B2 Firmware emulation environment for developing, debugging, and testing firmware components including option ROMs Physics 4 Expired
US8001348B2 Method to qualify access to a block storage device via augmentation of the device's controller and firmware flow Physics 3 Active
US9026773B2 Providing a secure execution mode in a pre-boot environment Physics 3 Active
US9535711B2 Computing performance and power management with firmware performance data structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US8161258B2 Method to qualify access to a block storage device via augmentation of the device'S controller and firmware flow Physics 3 Active
US10275598B2 Providing a secure execution mode in a pre-boot environment Physics 2 Active
US7185188B2 Aggressive content pre-fetching during pre-boot runtime to support speedy OS booting Physics 2 Active
US8356168B2 Non-blocking UEFI I/O channel enhancements Physics 2 Active
US7328340B2 Methods and apparatus to provide secure firmware storage and service access Physics 2 Expired
US8631259B2 Method and apparatus for quick resumption of a processing system with volatile memory Physics 1 Active

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