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Michael Nelson
Also filed as: NELSON MICHAEL · NELSON MICHAEL N
65 granted patents·3 pending applications·3,979 citations·filing 1992–2023
99Inventor score
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68 records- 0198US7680919B2Virtual machine migrationVMWARE INC·Filed 2009·Granted Mar 16, 2010·94 cites·29 claims
- 0298US7529897B1Generating and using checkpoints in a virtual computer systemVMWARE INC·Filed 2003·Granted May 5, 2009·149 cites·28 claims
- 0398US7484208B1Virtual machine migrationNELSON MICHAEL·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 27, 2009·410 cites·4 claims
- 0498US6961941B1Computer configuration for resource management in systems including a virtual machineVMWARE INC·Filed 2001·Granted Nov 1, 2005·325 cites·31 claims
- 0598US5452447AMethod and apparatus for a caching file serverSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1992·Granted Sep 19, 1995·426 cites·28 claims
- 0697US8924967B2Maintaining high availability of a group of virtual machines using heartbeat messagesNELSON MICHAEL·Filed 2011·Granted Dec 30, 2014·71 cites·20 claims
- 0797US7865663B1SCSI protocol emulation for virtual storage device stored on NAS deviceVMWARE INC·Filed 2007·Granted Jan 4, 2011·62 cites·27 claims
- 0897US6725289B1Transparent address remapping for high-speed I/OVMWARE INC·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 20, 2004·190 cites·53 claims
- 0996US8260904B2Virtual machine migrationNELSON MICHAEL·Filed 2010·Granted Sep 4, 2012·26 cites·38 claims
- 1096US7620955B1High-performance virtual machine networkingVMWARE INC·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 17, 2009·102 cites·12 claims
- 1195US9354921B2Virtual machine migrationVMWARE INC·Filed 2015·Granted May 31, 2016·10 cites·33 claims
- 1295US8661213B2Method and system for frequent checkpointingSCALES DANIEL J·Filed 2010·Granted Feb 25, 2014·27 cites·21 claims
- 1395US8250586B2High-performance virtual machine networkingNELSON MICHAEL·Filed 2009·Granted Aug 21, 2012·33 cites·22 claims
- 1495US8145836B2SCSI protocol emulation for virtual storage device stored on NAS deviceNELSON MICHAEL·Filed 2010·Granted Mar 27, 2012·22 cites·21 claims
- 1595US7424710B1TCP/IP offloading for virtual machinesVMWARE INC·Filed 2003·Granted Sep 9, 2008·178 cites·16 claims
- 1695US7412702B1System software displacement in a virtual computer systemVMWARE INC·Filed 2005·Granted Aug 12, 2008·41 cites·61 claims
- 1795US5819019ASystem/method for recovering network resources in a distributed environment, via registered callbacksSILICON GRAPHICS INC·Filed 1995·Granted Oct 6, 1998·317 cites·7 claims
- 1895US5774715AFile system level compression using holesSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1996·Granted Jun 30, 1998·269 cites·28 claims
- 1994US8554900B2Virtual machine migrationNELSON MICHAEL·Filed 2012·Granted Oct 8, 2013·16 cites·27 claims
- 2094US7844954B2Using branch instruction counts to facilitate replay of virtual machine instruction executionVMWARE INC·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 30, 2010·41 cites·10 claims
- 2193US8527673B2Direct access to a hardware device for virtual machines of a virtualized computer systemMAHALINGAM MALLIK·Filed 2008·Granted Sep 3, 2013·29 cites·21 claims
- 2293US7971015B2Generating and using checkpoints in a virtual computer systemVMWARE INC·Filed 2009·Granted Jun 28, 2011·22 cites·28 claims
- 2393US7840839B2Storage handling for fault tolerance in virtual machinesVMWARE INC·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 23, 2010·37 cites·18 claims
- 2492US9122594B2Direct access to a hardware device for virtual machines of a virtualized computer systemVMWARE INC·Filed 2013·Granted Sep 1, 2015·10 cites·19 claims
- 2592US8694828B2Using virtual machine cloning to create a backup virtual machine in a fault tolerant systemVMWARE INC·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 8, 2014·15 cites·16 claims
- 2692US8407518B2Using virtual machine cloning to create a backup virtual machine in a fault tolerant systemNELSON MICHAEL·Filed 2008·Granted Mar 26, 2013·24 cites·25 claims
- 2791US9304803B2Cooperative application workload scheduling for a consolidated virtual environmentVMWARE INC·Filed 2012·Granted Apr 5, 2016·18 cites·19 claims
- 2891US7853744B2Handling interrupts when virtual machines have direct access to a hardware deviceVMWARE INC·Filed 2008·Granted Dec 14, 2010·28 cites·15 claims
- 2991US6880022B1Transparent memory address remappingVMWARE INC·Filed 2004·Granted Apr 12, 2005·60 cites·5 claims
- 3091US5577252AMethods and apparatus for implementing secure name servers in an object-oriented systemSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1993·Granted Nov 19, 1996·167 cites·12 claims
- 3190US9804904B2High-performance virtual machine networkingVMWARE INC·Filed 2015·Granted Oct 31, 2017·5 cites·20 claims
- 3290US8977736B2Virtual machine migrationVMWARE INC·Filed 2013·Granted Mar 10, 2015·8 cites·24 claims
- 3389US8533382B2Method and system for frequent checkpointingSCALES DANIEL J·Filed 2010·Granted Sep 10, 2013·14 cites·23 claims
- 3489US5561799AExtensible file system which layers a new file system with an old file system to provide coherent file dataSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1996·Granted Oct 1, 1996·160 cites·27 claims
- 3587US9558070B2Maintaining high availability of a group of virtual machines using heartbeat messagesVMWARE INC·Filed 2014·Granted Jan 31, 2017·9 cites·24 claims
- 3687US9213570B2High-performance virtual machine networkingNELSON MICHAEL·Filed 2015·Granted Dec 15, 2015·4 cites·17 claims
- 3787US6498897B1Media server system and method having improved asset types for playback of digital mediaKASENNA INC·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 24, 2002·93 cites·16 claims
- 3886US5287507AMethod and apparatus for portable object handles that use local cachesSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1992·Granted Feb 15, 1994·119 cites·31 claims
- 3985US10241709B2Elastic temporary filesystemVMWARE INC·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 26, 2019·9 cites·20 claims
- 4085US8549241B2Method and system for frequent checkpointingSCALES DANIEL J·Filed 2010·Granted Oct 1, 2013·9 cites·20 claims
- 4184US8266404B2Generating and using checkpoints in a virtual computer systemWALDSPURGER CARL A·Filed 2011·Granted Sep 11, 2012·5 cites·44 claims
- 4284US6728895B1System and method for resource recovery in a distributed systemSILICON GRAPHICS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 27, 2004·26 cites·23 claims
- 4382US8713273B2Generating and using checkpoints in a virtual computer systemWALDSPURGER CARL A·Filed 2012·Granted Apr 29, 2014·4 cites·20 claims
- 4482US8560626B2Selecting a master node using a suitability valueNELSON MICHAEL·Filed 2011·Granted Oct 15, 2013·6 cites·19 claims
- 4581US8984508B2System and method for restarting a workload based on global load balancingSHU GUOQIANG·Filed 2011·Granted Mar 17, 2015·8 cites·14 claims
- 4681US6754443B2Media server system having improved asset types for playback of digital mediaKASENNA INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jun 22, 2004·19 cites·7 claims
- 4780US5396614AMethod and apparatus for a secure protocol for virtual memory managers that use memory objectsSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1992·Granted Mar 7, 1995·84 cites·34 claims
- 4880US2023289305A1Direct access to a hardware device for virtual machines of a virtualized computer systemVMWARE INC·Filed 2023·Application pending·0 cites
- 4979US10534735B2Direct access to a hardware device for virtual machines of a virtualized computer systemVMWARE INC·Filed 2018·Granted Jan 14, 2020·1 cites·20 claims
- 5079US5475840AHigh performance dynamic linking through cachingSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1993·Granted Dec 12, 1995·78 cites·42 claims
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