Michael Nelson
65Patents
24h-index
41Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 27, 1992 → Mar 23, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.