Robert D. Gardner
42Patents
13h-index
43Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Jan 14, 1991 → Feb 28, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7073059B2 | Secure machine platform that interfaces to operating systems and customized control programs | Physics | 115 | Expired |
| US8341626B1 | Migration of a virtual machine in response to regional environment effects | Physics | 84 | Active |
| US7272832B2 | Method of protecting user process data in a secure platform inaccessible to the operating system and other tasks on top of the secure platform | Physics | 40 | Expired |
| US7676405B2 | System and method for media play forecasting | Electricity | 34 | Active |
| US5165986A | Copper conductive composition for use on aluminum nitride substrate | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 33 | Expired |
| US8185894B1 | Training a virtual machine placement controller | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 29 | Active |
| US8181175B1 | Accounting for resource usage time by a virtual machine | Physics | 29 | Active |
| US8332847B1 | Validating manual virtual machine migration | Physics | 24 | Active |
| US8146079B2 | Systems and methods for controlling resource usage by a driver domain on behalf of a virtual machine | Physics | 19 | Active |
| US7051238B2 | Method and system for using machine-architecture support to distinguish function and routine return values | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US9418220B1 | Controlling access to memory using a controller that performs cryptographic functions | Physics | 15 | Active |
| US8365169B1 | Migrating a virtual machine across processing cells connected to an interconnect that provides data communication without cache coherency support | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 15 | Active |
| US8615436B2 | Advertising inventory allocation | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US7779424B2 | System and method for attributing to a corresponding virtual machine CPU usage of an isolated driver domain in which a shared resource's device driver resides | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US7797707B2 | System and method for attributing to a corresponding virtual machine CPU usage of a domain in which a shared resource's device driver resides | Physics | 13 | Active |
| US9092250B1 | Selecting one of plural layouts of virtual machines on physical machines | Physics | 12 | Active |
| US8296760B2 | Migrating a virtual machine from a first physical machine in response to receiving a command to lower a power mode of the first physical machine | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 10 | Active |
| US8910152B1 | Migrating a virtual machine by using a hot-plug event | Physics | 10 | Active |
| US8099326B2 | Traffic estimator | Electricity | 10 | Active |
| US8019056B2 | Interactive pre-programmed voice response system | Electricity | 9 | Active |
| US5120579A | Dielectric compositions | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US8214838B2 | System and method for attributing to a corresponding virtual machine CPU utilization of a network driver domain based on weighted communication | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US5070047A | Dielectric compositions | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US8209682B2 | System and method for controlling aggregate CPU usage by virtual machines and driver domains over a plurality of scheduling intervals | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US7363536B1 | Delivery of an interruption to an operating system | Physics | 5 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.