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Michael Nelson — 65 Patents

Broadcom: 51 patents #116 of 9,346Top 2%
Oracle: 8 patents #1,517 of 14,854Top 15%
SGSilicon Graphics: 3 patents #151 of 758Top 20%
KAKasenna: 2 patents #8 of 19Top 45%
Alamo, CA: #6 of 279 inventorsTop 3%
California: #5,108 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #33,516 of 4,157,543Top 1%
65 Patents All Time
Michael Nelson has been granted 65 US patents while listed as an inventor at Broadcom. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in June 2023. Michael Nelson ranks #33,516 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.81%). Patent records list Michael Nelson in Alamo, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 65 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11681639 Direct access to a hardware device for virtual machines of a virtualized computer system Mallik Mahalingam 2023-06-20 $21,698,000
10970242 Direct access to a hardware device for virtual machines of a virtualized computer system Mallik Mahalingam 2021-04-06 $14,410,000
10859289 Generating and using checkpoints in a virtual computer system Carl A. Waldspurger, Daniel J. Scales, Pratap Subrahmanyam 2020-12-08 $10,229,000
10534735 Direct access to a hardware device for virtual machines of a virtualized computer system Mallik Mahalingam 2020-01-14 $13,138,000
10241709 Elastic temporary filesystem Daniel J. Scales, Tariq Magdon-Ismail, Razvan Cheveresan, Richard McDougall 2019-03-26 $10,075,000
10193963 Container virtual machines for hadoop Jayanth Gummaraju, Richard McDougall, Rean Griffith, Tariq Magdon-Ismail, Razvan Cheveresan +1 more 2019-01-29 $9,130,000
10073713 Virtual machine migration 2018-09-11 $25,160,000
9952988 Direct access to a hardware device for virtual machines of a virtualized computer system Mallik Mahalingam 2018-04-24 $10,935,000
9804904 High-performance virtual machine networking 2017-10-31 $6,152,000
9727420 Generating and using checkpoints in a virtual computer system Carl A. Waldspurger, Daniel J. Scales, Pratap Subrahmanyam 2017-08-08 $5,624,000
9558070 Maintaining high availability of a group of virtual machines using heartbeat messages Keith Farkas, Elisha Ziskind, Sridhar Rajagopal, Guoqiang Shu, Ron Passerini +1 more 2017-01-31 $7,260,000
9489265 Method and system for frequent checkpointing Daniel J. Scales, Pratap Subrahmanyam, Ganesh Venkitachalam 2016-11-08 $13,494,000
9354921 Virtual machine migration 2016-05-31 $6,638,000
9329958 Efficient incremental checkpointing of virtual devices Shrinand Javadekar 2016-05-03 $8,452,000
9304803 Cooperative application workload scheduling for a consolidated virtual environment Jayanth Gummaraju, Kinshuk Govil, Anne Holler, Richard McDougall 2016-04-05 $5,659,000
9213570 High-performance virtual machine networking 2015-12-15 $5,299,000
9122594 Direct access to a hardware device for virtual machines of a virtualized computer system Mallik Mahalingam 2015-09-01 $19,446,000
8984508 System and method for restarting a workload based on global load balancing Guoqiang Shu, Keith Farkas, Eddie Ma, Elisha Ziskind, Sridhar Rajagopal +1 more 2015-03-17 $30,291,000
8977702 Selecting a master node using a suitability value 2015-03-10 $19,716,000
8977736 Virtual machine migration 2015-03-10 $19,716,000
8959529 High-performance virtual machine networking 2015-02-17 $33,012,000
8924967 Maintaining high availability of a group of virtual machines using heartbeat messages Keith Farkas, Elisha Ziskind, Sridhar Rajagopal, Guoqiang Shu, Ron Passerini +1 more 2014-12-30 $12,787,000
8914575 SCSI protocol emulation for virtual storage device stored on NAS device Hao Xu, Daniel J. Scales, Matthew Benjamin Amdur 2014-12-16 $10,901,000
8713273 Generating and using checkpoints in a virtual computer system Carl A. Waldspurger, Daniel J. Scales, Pratap Subrahmanyam 2014-04-29 $44,711,000
8694828 Using virtual machine cloning to create a backup virtual machine in a fault tolerant system Daniel J. Scales, Andrew G. Tucker 2014-04-08 $24,004,000