Neill M. Clift

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Kirkland, WA, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Efficient priority-aware thread scheduling
- Patent number 10,606,653
- Issue date Mar 31, 2020
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Arun Upadhyaya Kishan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
One-time initialization
- Patent number 9,600,325
- Issue date Mar 21, 2017
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Arun Kishan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
One-time initialization
- Patent number 9,582,316
- Issue date Feb 28, 2017
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Arun Kishan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Efficient priority-aware thread scheduling
- Patent number 9,569,260
- Issue date Feb 14, 2017
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Arun Upadhyaya Kishan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Preventing unnecessary context switching by employing an indicator...
- Patent number 9,384,049
- Issue date Jul 5, 2016
- Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Andrew D. Rogers
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Wait on address synchronization interface
- Patent number 8,782,674
- Issue date Jul 15, 2014
- Microsoft Corporation
- Gregory J. Colombo
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Parallel DLL tree initialization
- Patent number 8,707,283
- Issue date Apr 22, 2014
- Microsoft Corporation
- Kenneth M. Jung
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Preventing unnecessary context switching by employing an indicator...
- Patent number 8,510,738
- Issue date Aug 13, 2013
- Microsoft Corporation
- Andrew D. Rogers
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Wait on address synchronization interface
- Patent number 8,490,118
- Issue date Jul 16, 2013
- Microsoft Corporation
- Gregory J. Colombo
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Using asynchronous changes to memory to detect malware
- Patent number 8,065,736
- Issue date Nov 22, 2011
- Microsoft Corporation
- Neill M. Clift
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Small barrier with local spinning
- Patent number 8,060,881
- Issue date Nov 15, 2011
- Microsoft Corporation
- Neill M. Clift
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
One-time initialization
- Patent number 7,962,912
- Issue date Jun 14, 2011
- Microsoft Corporation
- Arun Kishan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Dynamic DLL cycle resolution
- Patent number 7,900,217
- Issue date Mar 1, 2011
- Microsoft Corporation
- Kenneth M. Jung
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Handle passing using an inter-process communication
- Patent number 7,870,558
- Issue date Jan 11, 2011
- Microsoft Corporation
- Genevieve Fernandes
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Cooperative DLL unload
- Patent number 7,865,914
- Issue date Jan 4, 2011
- Microsoft Corporation
- Kenneth M. Jung
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Conditional variables without spinlocks
- Patent number 7,770,172
- Issue date Aug 3, 2010
- Microsoft Corporation
- Neill Michael Clift
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Blocking local sense synchronization barrier
- Patent number 7,770,170
- Issue date Aug 3, 2010
- Microsoft Corporation
- John Rector
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Identifying malware that employs stealth techniques
- Patent number 7,743,418
- Issue date Jun 22, 2010
- Microsoft Corporation
- Neill Clift
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Controlling the isolation of an object
- Patent number 7,698,741
- Issue date Apr 13, 2010
- Microsoft Corporation
- Adrian Marinescu
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Scalable rundown protection for object lifetime management
- Patent number 7,571,288
- Issue date Aug 4, 2009
- Microsoft Corporation
- Ravisankar Pudipeddi
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method, system, and apparatus for managing access to a data object
- Patent number 7,428,539
- Issue date Sep 23, 2008
- Microsoft Corporation
- Neill M Clift
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
System and method for capturing kernel-resident information
- Patent number 7,302,613
- Issue date Nov 27, 2007
- Microsoft Corporation
- Andrew L. Bliss
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Scalable rundown protection for object lifetime management
- Patent number 7,133,977
- Issue date Nov 7, 2006
- Microsoft Corporation
- Ravisankar Pudipeddi
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
System and method for fast referencing a reference counted item
- Patent number 6,513,100
- Issue date Jan 28, 2003
- Microsoft Corporation
- Neill Clift
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
EFFICIENT PRIORITY-AWARE THREAD SCHEDULING
- Publication number 20170228260
- Publication date Aug 10, 2017
- Microsoft Corporation
- Arun Upadhyaya Krishan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
EFFICIENT PRIORITY-AWARE THREAD SCHEDULING
- Publication number 20140359632
- Publication date Dec 4, 2014
- Arun Upadhyaya Kishan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PREVENTING UNNECESSARY CONTEXT SWITCHING BY EMPLOYING AN INDICATOR...
- Publication number 20130318537
- Publication date Nov 28, 2013
- Microsoft Corporation
- Andrew D. Rogers
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
WAIT ON ADDRESS SYNCHRONIZATION INTERFACE
- Publication number 20130298143
- Publication date Nov 7, 2013
- Gregory J. Colombo
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
WAIT ON ADDRESS SYNCHRONIZATION INTERFACE
- Publication number 20120144406
- Publication date Jun 7, 2012
- Microsoft Corporation
- Gregory J. Colombo
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ONE-TIME INITIALIZATION
- Publication number 20110219379
- Publication date Sep 8, 2011
- Microsoft Corporation
- Arun Kishan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ONE-TIME INITIALIZATION
- Publication number 20110214128
- Publication date Sep 1, 2011
- Microsoft Corporation
- Arun Kishan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Manipulating a spin bit within the wait primitive
- Publication number 20110047549
- Publication date Feb 24, 2011
- Microsoft Corporation
- Andrew D. Rogers
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
LOW OVERHEAD ATOMIC MEMORY OPERATIONS
- Publication number 20100017581
- Publication date Jan 21, 2010
- Microsoft Corporation
- Neill M. Clift
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Small barrier with local spinning
- Publication number 20080288750
- Publication date Nov 20, 2008
- Microsoft Corporation
- Neill M. Clift
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
COOPERATIVE DLL UNLOAD
- Publication number 20080243965
- Publication date Oct 2, 2008
- Microsoft Corporation
- Kenneth M. Jung
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DYNAMIC DLL CYCLE RESOLUTION
- Publication number 20080244550
- Publication date Oct 2, 2008
- Microsoft Corporation
- Kenneth M. Jung
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PARALLEL DLL TREE INITIALIZATION
- Publication number 20080244551
- Publication date Oct 2, 2008
- Microsoft Corporation
- Kenneth M. Jung
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Using asynchronous changes to memory to detect malware
- Publication number 20080022406
- Publication date Jan 24, 2008
- Microsoft Corporation
- Neill M. Clift
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Synchronizing dataflow computations, particularly in multi-processo...
- Publication number 20080005357
- Publication date Jan 3, 2008
- Microsoft Corporation
- Dahlia Malkhi
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
One-time initialization
- Publication number 20070266386
- Publication date Nov 15, 2007
- Microsoft Corporation
- Arun Kishan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Controlling the isolation of an object
- Publication number 20070130621
- Publication date Jun 7, 2007
- Microsoft Corporation
- Adrian Marinescu
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Identifying malware that employs stealth techniques
- Publication number 20070101431
- Publication date May 3, 2007
- Microsoft Corporation
- Neill Clift
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Shared resource acquisition
- Publication number 20070094669
- Publication date Apr 26, 2007
- Microsoft Corporation
- John Austin Rector
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Handle passing using an inter-process communication
- Publication number 20070014295
- Publication date Jan 18, 2007
- Microsoft Corporation
- Genevieve Fernandes
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Blocking local sense synchronization barrier
- Publication number 20070016905
- Publication date Jan 18, 2007
- Microsoft Corporation
- John Rector
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Scalable rundown protection for object lifetime management
- Publication number 20060253655
- Publication date Nov 9, 2006
- Microsoft Corporation
- Ravisankar Pudipeddi
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Scalable rundown protection for object lifetime management
- Publication number 20060200635
- Publication date Sep 7, 2006
- Microsoft Corporation
- Ravisankar Pudipeddi
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Conditional variables without spinlocks
- Publication number 20060048149
- Publication date Mar 2, 2006
- Microsoft Corporation
- Neill Michael Clift
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Method, system, and apparatus for managing access to a data object
- Publication number 20060004760
- Publication date Jan 5, 2006
- Microsoft Corporation
- Neill M. Clift
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
System and method for capturing kernel-resident information
- Publication number 20050102578
- Publication date May 12, 2005
- Microsoft Corporation
- Andrew L. Bliss
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Scalable rundown protection for object lifetime management
- Publication number 20040255087
- Publication date Dec 16, 2004
- Microsoft Corporation
- Ravisankar Pudipeddi
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Neill M. Clift

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Efficient priority-aware thread scheduling

One-time initialization

One-time initialization

Efficient priority-aware thread scheduling

Preventing unnecessary context switching by employing an indicator...

Wait on address synchronization interface

Parallel DLL tree initialization

Preventing unnecessary context switching by employing an indicator...

Wait on address synchronization interface

Using asynchronous changes to memory to detect malware

Small barrier with local spinning

One-time initialization

Dynamic DLL cycle resolution

Handle passing using an inter-process communication

Cooperative DLL unload

Conditional variables without spinlocks

Blocking local sense synchronization barrier

Identifying malware that employs stealth techniques

Controlling the isolation of an object

Scalable rundown protection for object lifetime management

Method, system, and apparatus for managing access to a data object

System and method for capturing kernel-resident information

Scalable rundown protection for object lifetime management

System and method for fast referencing a reference counted item

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

EFFICIENT PRIORITY-AWARE THREAD SCHEDULING

EFFICIENT PRIORITY-AWARE THREAD SCHEDULING

PREVENTING UNNECESSARY CONTEXT SWITCHING BY EMPLOYING AN INDICATOR...

WAIT ON ADDRESS SYNCHRONIZATION INTERFACE

WAIT ON ADDRESS SYNCHRONIZATION INTERFACE

ONE-TIME INITIALIZATION

ONE-TIME INITIALIZATION

Manipulating a spin bit within the wait primitive

LOW OVERHEAD ATOMIC MEMORY OPERATIONS

Small barrier with local spinning

COOPERATIVE DLL UNLOAD

DYNAMIC DLL CYCLE RESOLUTION

PARALLEL DLL TREE INITIALIZATION

Using asynchronous changes to memory to detect malware

Synchronizing dataflow computations, particularly in multi-processo...

One-time initialization

Controlling the isolation of an object

Identifying malware that employs stealth techniques

Shared resource acquisition

Handle passing using an inter-process communication

Blocking local sense synchronization barrier

Scalable rundown protection for object lifetime management

Scalable rundown protection for object lifetime management

Conditional variables without spinlocks

Method, system, and apparatus for managing access to a data object

System and method for capturing kernel-resident information

Scalable rundown protection for object lifetime management