Inventor · Olympia, WA, US

Michael Kinney

18Patents
7h-index
15Co-inventors
59Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 11, 2001 → Apr 30, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7937701B2 ACPI communication between virtual machine monitor and policy virtual machine via mailbox Physics 23 Active
US7571090B2 Emulating a host architecture in guest firmware Physics 20 Active
US8131534B2 Emulating a host architecture in guest firmware Physics 20 Active
US7904903B2 Selective register save and restore upon context switch using trap Physics 9 Active
US7523323B2 Method and apparatus for quick resumption Physics 9 Active
US7676800B2 Method and apparatus for reducing the storage overhead of portable executable (PE) images Physics 8 Active
US6961848B2 System and method for supporting legacy operating system booting in a legacy-free system Physics 7 Expired
US7334120B2 Firmware emulation environment for developing, debugging, and testing firmware components including option ROMs Physics 4 Expired
US7673128B2 Methods and apparatus to facilitate fast restarts in processor systems 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
US7581037B2 Effecting a processor operating mode change to execute device code Physics 3 Active
US7243353B2 Method and apparatus for making and using a flexible hardware interface Physics 1 Expired
US8249853B2 Exposing device features in partitioned environment Physics 1 Active
US9262178B2 Method for reducing platform boot times by providing lazy input/output abstractions Physics 1 Active
US8407489B2 Method and apparatus for quick resumption Physics 1 Active
US8631259B2 Method and apparatus for quick resumption of a processing system with volatile memory Physics 1 Active
US9311138B2 System management interrupt handling for multi-core processors Physics 0 Active
US10929146B2 Dynamic timer adjustment to improve performance and inhibit livelock conditions Physics 0 Active

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