Michael D. Elder
40Patents
10h-index
57Co-inventors
74Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 31, 2002 → Jul 18, 2019
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7249123B2 | System and method for building social networks based on activity around shared virtual objects | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 379 | Expired |
| US7065532B2 | System and method for evaluating information aggregates by visualizing associated categories | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 67 | Expired |
| US8291378B2 | Simplified deployment modeling | Physics | 54 | Active |
| US7130844B2 | System and method for examining, calculating the age of an document collection as a measure of time since creation, visualizing, identifying selectively reference those document collections representing current activity | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 52 | Expired |
| US7853594B2 | System and method for determining founders of an information aggregate | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US7103609B2 | System and method for analyzing usage patterns in information aggregates | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 37 | Expired |
| US7257569B2 | System and method for determining community overlap | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 36 | Expired |
| US7080082B2 | System and method for finding the acceleration of an information aggregate | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 29 | Expired |
| US7694284B2 | Shareable, bidirectional mechanism for conversion between object model and XML | Physics | 16 | Active |
| US8302093B2 | Automated deployment of defined topology in distributed computing environment | Physics | 11 | Active |
| US8438468B2 | Annotation management | Physics | 10 | Active |
| US8677317B2 | Simplified deployment modeling | Physics | 9 | Active |
| US8849987B2 | Automated discovery of a topology of a distributed computing environment | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US8595693B2 | Model driven deployment of composite applications | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US8402381B2 | Automatically arranging widgets of a model within a canvas using iterative region based widget relative adjustments | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US7657870B2 | Method and apparatus for implementing dynamic function groups in a data processing system | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8369527B2 | Access control over multicast | Electricity | 3 | Active |
| US8762937B2 | Model driven deployment of composite applications | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8126693B2 | Method and system for modeling, validating and automatically resolving goals and dependencies between elements within a topology | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US9417869B2 | Visualizing a congruency of versions of an application across phases of a release pipeline | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US8126692B2 | Method and system for modeling, validating and automatically resolving goals and dependencies between elements within a topology | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US9977653B2 | Discovery and modeling of deployment actions for multiple deployment engine providers | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US9940103B2 | Discovery and modeling of deployment actions for multiple deployment engine providers | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US9015593B2 | Managing advisories for complex model nodes in a graphical modeling application | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US9235909B2 | Simplifying the presentation of a visually complex semantic model within a graphical modeling application | Physics | 1 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.