Inventor · Rochester, MN, US

Michael D. Pfeifer

28Patents
8h-index
39Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 27, 1990 → May 4, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5276776A System and method for building a computer-based Rete pattern matching network Physics 30 Expired
US8732300B2 Application monitoring in a stream database environment Electricity 30 Active
US8327337B2 Stream based debugging techniques Physics 16 Active
US6978269B1 Apparatus and method for generating and displaying a schema diagram for a database Physics 14 Expired
US6915298B1 User-defined relationships for diagramming user-defined database relations Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US8452756B2 Database execution detail repository Physics 13 Active
US5159662A System and method for building a computer-based rete pattern matching network Physics 10 Expired
US6374239B1 Method and computer program product for implementing translatable text in user modifiable SQL scripts Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Expired
US6842878B1 Method to document relations between objects using a graphical interface tree component Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US7584200B2 Graphical database navigator with relation level control Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US8776062B2 Determining desired job plan based on previous inquiries in a stream processing framework Physics 5 Active
US8600976B2 Invalidating streams in an operator graph Physics 4 Active
US7743052B2 Method and apparatus for projecting the effect of maintaining an auxiliary database structure for use in executing database queries Physics 4 Active
US9396158B2 Stream application performance monitoring metrics Electricity 3 Active
US9396157B2 Stream application performance monitoring metrics Electricity 3 Active
US11269929B2 Combining semantic relationship information with entities and non-entities for predictive analytics in a cognitive system Physics 3 Active
US8856766B2 Generating layouts for graphs of data flow applications Physics 3 Active
US8656369B2 Tracing flow of data in a distributed computing application Physics 2 Active
US10460239B2 Generation of inferred questions for a question answering system Physics 1 Active
US10885025B2 Answer management in a question-answering environment Physics 1 Active
US8601477B2 Reducing instability within a heterogeneous stream processing application Physics 1 Active
US9519719B2 Resource management in a presentation environment Electricity 0 Active
US9923898B2 Resource management in a presentation environment Electricity 0 Active
US10043024B2 Intelligent governance controls based on real-time contexts Physics 0 Active
US9389918B2 Job plan selection for reducing instability of a job within a heterogeneous stream processing application Physics 0 Active

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