Inventor · Alamo, CA, US

Michael Nelson

65Patents
24h-index
41Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 27, 1992 → Mar 23, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5452447A Method and apparatus for a caching file server Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 314 Expired
US7484208B1 Virtual machine migration Electricity 275 Expired
US5819019A System/method for recovering network resources in a distributed environment, via registered callbacks Electricity 265 Expired
US6961941B1 Computer configuration for resource management in systems including a virtual machine Physics 213 Expired
US5774715A File system level compression using holes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 194 Expired
US5577252A Methods and apparatus for implementing secure name servers in an object-oriented system Physics 146 Expired
US7424710B1 TCP/IP offloading for virtual machines Electricity 121 Expired
US5561799A Extensible file system which layers a new file system with an old file system to provide coherent file data Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 120 Expired
US6725289B1 Transparent address remapping for high-speed I/O Physics 114 Expired
US7529897B1 Generating and using checkpoints in a virtual computer system Physics 95 Expired
US5287507A Method and apparatus for portable object handles that use local caches Physics 86 Expired
US7680919B2 Virtual machine migration Electricity 73 Active
US6498897B1 Media server system and method having improved asset types for playback of digital media Electricity 69 Expired
US8924967B2 Maintaining high availability of a group of virtual machines using heartbeat messages Physics 69 Active
US7620955B1 High-performance virtual machine networking Physics 66 Expired
US5475840A High performance dynamic linking through caching Physics 65 Expired
US5396614A Method and apparatus for a secure protocol for virtual memory managers that use memory objects Physics 62 Expired
US5581761A Methods and apparatus for providing an extensible set of auxiliary services for objects in an object-oriented system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 47 Expired
US7865663B1 SCSI protocol emulation for virtual storage device stored on NAS device Physics 47 Active
US6880022B1 Transparent memory address remapping Physics 40 Expired
US7844954B2 Using branch instruction counts to facilitate replay of virtual machine instruction execution Physics 29 Active
US7412702B1 System software displacement in a virtual computer system Physics 25 Expired
US8661213B2 Method and system for frequent checkpointing Physics 24 Active
US8250586B2 High-performance virtual machine networking Physics 24 Active
US8527673B2 Direct access to a hardware device for virtual machines of a virtualized computer system Physics 24 Active

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