Inventor · Durham, NC, US

Michael D. Elder

40Patents
10h-index
57Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 31, 2002 → Jul 18, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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

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