Patents by Inventor Michael D. Elder

Michael D. Elder has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11599768
    Abstract: A method for recommending an action to a user of a user device includes receiving first user action data corresponding to a first user action and receiving second user action data corresponding to a second user action. The method also includes generating, based on the first user action data and the second user action data and using a feedforward artificial neural network, a recommendation for a next user action. The method also includes causing the recommendation for the next user action to be communicated to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kai Niu, Jiali Huang, Christopher H. Doan, Michael D. Elder
  • Patent number: 11086661
    Abstract: A method obtains a configuration for an automated process that includes discrete tasks. The configuration specifies a corresponding container image, of a plurality of different container images, for each discrete task of the discrete tasks, and further specifies a sequence in which to instantiate a plurality of containers from the plurality of container images to perform the discrete tasks and complete the automated process. The method identifies from the configuration a next container image from which to instantiate a next container for execution to perform a next discrete task, the next discrete task corresponding to the next container image and next container instantiated from the next container image. The method initiates instantiation of the next container from the next container image to initiate execution of the container to perform the next discrete task. The method also repeats the identifying and the initiating instantiation for each next container image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Geoffrey W. Corey, Michael D. Elder, Michael S. Mckay, Daniel D. K. Stratton
  • Publication number: 20210019592
    Abstract: A method for recommending an action to a user of a user device includes receiving first user action data corresponding to a first user action and receiving second user action data corresponding to a second user action. The method also includes generating, based on the first user action data and the second user action data and using a feedforward artificial neural network, a recommendation for a next user action. The method also includes causing the recommendation for the next user action to be communicated to the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Kai Niu, Jiali Huang, Christopher H. Doan, Michael D. Elder
  • Patent number: 10628128
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for modeling operational units, each operational unit corresponding to an operational workflow and to one or more deployment engines of a plurality of deployment engines; selecting, for each of the plurality of operational units, one of the corresponding deployment engines; ordering the operational units with respect to the operational workflow; grouping the ordered operation units according to the selected deployment engines into deployment engine groupings; mapping output parameters corresponding to a first operational unit that concludes a first deployment engine grouping to input parameters corresponding to a second operational unit that initiates a second deployment engine grouping, inserting between the first operational unit and the second operational unit a transitional operational unit for transitioning between a first deployment engine corresponding to the first deployment engine grouping and a second deployment engine corresponding to the second deployment engine grouping to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel C. Berg, Michael D. Elder, Yulia Gaponenko, Indrajit Poddar, Yuri Pravosud
  • Patent number: 10623248
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system analyzes an environment specification document that specifies a proposed configuration of a full-stack environment for a computing system and that describes infrastructure, middleware, and application elements. The system correlates the environment specification document with an environment instantiated on the computing system from the environment specification document. The system determines an impact of changes in the proposed configuration on the environment instantiated on the computing system, and configures the computing system in accordance with the proposed configuration based on the determined impact. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for analyzing an environment specification document in substantially the same manners described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Saurabh Agarwal, Steven P. Barbieri, Brad L. Blancett, Michael D. Elder, Chad M. Holliday, John A. Page, Lucinio Santos-Gomez, John E. Swanke
  • Publication number: 20190272199
    Abstract: A method obtains a configuration for an automated process that includes discrete tasks. The configuration specifies a corresponding container image, of a plurality of different container images, for each discrete task of the discrete tasks, and further specifies a sequence in which to instantiate a plurality of containers from the plurality of container images to perform the discrete tasks and complete the automated process. The method identifies from the configuration a next container image from which to instantiate a next container for execution to perform a next discrete task, the next discrete task corresponding to the next container image and next container instantiated from the next container image. The method initiates instantiation of the next container from the next container image to initiate execution of the container to perform the next discrete task. The method also repeats the identifying and the initiating instantiation for each next container image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Geoffrey W. COREY, Michael D. ELDER, Michael S. MCKAY, Daniel D.K. STRATTON
  • Patent number: 10387199
    Abstract: A method obtains a configuration for an automated process that includes discrete tasks. The configuration specifies a corresponding container image, of a plurality of different container images, for each discrete task of the discrete tasks, and further specifies a sequence in which to instantiate a plurality of containers from the plurality of container images to perform the discrete tasks and complete the automated process. The method identifies from the configuration a next container image from which to instantiate a next container for execution to perform a next discrete task, the next discrete task corresponding to the next container image and next container instantiated from the next container image. The method initiates instantiation of the next container from the next container image to initiate execution of the container to perform the next discrete task. The method also repeats the identifying and the initiating instantiation for each next container image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Geoffrey W. Corey, Michael D. Elder, Michael S. McKay, Daniel D. K. Stratton
  • Publication number: 20190044801
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system analyzes an environment specification document that specifies a proposed configuration of a full-stack environment for a computing system and that describes infrastructure, middleware, and application elements. The system correlates the environment specification document with an environment instantiated on the computing system from the environment specification document. The system determines an impact of changes in the proposed configuration on the environment instantiated on the computing system, and configures the computing system in accordance with the proposed configuration based on the determined impact. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for analyzing an environment specification document in substantially the same manners described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Saurabh Agarwal, Steven P. Barbieri, Brad L. Blancett, Michael D. Elder, Chad M. Holliday, John A. Page, Lucinio Santos-Gomez, John E. Swanke
  • Patent number: 10135680
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system analyzes an environment specification document that specifies a proposed configuration of a full-stack environment for a computing system and that describes infrastructure, middleware, and application elements. The system correlates the environment specification document with an environment instantiated on the computing system from the environment specification document. The system determines an impact of changes in the proposed configuration on the environment instantiated on the computing system, and configures the computing system in accordance with the proposed configuration based on the determined impact. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for analyzing an environment specification document in substantially the same manners described above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Saurabh Agarwal, Steven P. Barbieri, Brad L. Blancett, Michael D. Elder, Chad M. Holliday, John A. Page, Lucinio Santos-Gomez, John E. Swanke
  • Publication number: 20180285156
    Abstract: A method obtains a configuration for an automated process that includes discrete tasks. The configuration specifies a corresponding container image, of a plurality of different container images, for each discrete task of the discrete tasks, and further specifies a sequence in which to instantiate a plurality of containers from the plurality of container images to perform the discrete tasks and complete the automated process. The method identifies from the configuration a next container image from which to instantiate a next container for execution to perform a next discrete task, the next discrete task corresponding to the next container image and next container instantiated from the next container image. The method initiates instantiation of the next container from the next container image to initiate execution of the container to perform the next discrete task. The method also repeats the identifying and the initiating instantiation for each next container image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Geoffrey W. COREY, Michael D. ELDER, Michael S. MCKAY, Daniel D.K. STRATTON
  • Publication number: 20180210708
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for modeling operational units, each operational unit corresponding to an operational workflow and to one or more deployment engines of a plurality of deployment engines; selecting, for each of the plurality of operational units, one of the corresponding deployment engines; ordering the operational units with respect to the operational workflow; grouping the ordered operation units according to the selected deployment engines into deployment engine groupings; mapping output parameters corresponding to a first operational unit that concludes a first deployment engine grouping to input parameters corresponding to a second operational unit that initiates a second deployment engine grouping, inserting between the first operational unit and the second operational unit a transitional operational unit for transitioning between a first deployment engine corresponding to the first deployment engine grouping and a second deployment engine corresponding to the second deployment engine grouping to
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Daniel C. Berg, Michael D. Elder, Yulia Gaponenko, Indrajit Poddar, Yuri Pravosud
  • Patent number: 9996223
    Abstract: A contextual organization chart based on two selected individuals is constructed from a database of individual names, manager names, and profiles. Awareness data is provided for people in the organization, a people awareness indicator and a nesting control indicator are appended to names in the constructed view. A user may access profile data by selecting a name in the view, expand the view to show additional individuals by selecting a nesting control indicator, or initiate a communication with an individual by selecting an awareness indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marijane M. Zeller, Michael D. Elder, Oliver Heinz, Andrew L. Schirmer
  • Patent number: 9977653
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for modeling operational units, each operational unit corresponding to an operational workflow and to one or more deployment engines of a plurality of deployment engines; selecting, for each of the plurality of operational units, one of the corresponding deployment engines; ordering the operational units with respect to the operational workflow; grouping the ordered operation units according to the selected deployment engines into deployment engine groupings; mapping output parameters corresponding to a first operational unit that concludes a first deployment engine grouping to input parameters corresponding to a second operational unit that initiates a second deployment engine grouping, inserting between the first operational unit and the second operational unit a transitional operational unit for transitioning between a first deployment engine corresponding to the first deployment engine grouping and a second deployment engine corresponding to the second deployment engine grouping to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael D. Elder, Indrajit Poddar, Daniel C. Berg, Yulia Gaponenko, Yuri Pravosud
  • Patent number: 9940103
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for modeling operational units, each operational unit corresponding to an operational workflow and to one or more deployment engines of a plurality of deployment engines; selecting, for each of the plurality of operational units, one of the corresponding deployment engines; ordering the operational units with respect to the operational workflow; grouping the ordered operation units according to the selected deployment engines into deployment engine groupings; mapping output parameters corresponding to a first operational unit that concludes a first deployment engine grouping to input parameters corresponding to a second operational unit that initiates a second deployment engine grouping, inserting between the first operational unit and the second operational unit a transitional operational unit for transitioning between a first deployment engine corresponding to the first deployment engine grouping and as second deployment engine corresponding to the second deployment engine grouping t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel C. Berg, Michael D. Elder, Yulia Gaponenko, Indrajit Poddar, Yuri Pravosud
  • Patent number: 9921826
    Abstract: A system for visualizing a congruency of versions of an application across phases of a release pipeline includes a selecting engine to select a phase from a number of phases; a representing engine to represent, via a user interface (UI), a congruency for a number of versions of an application compared against a target version of the application across the phases of a release pipeline, the congruency for the number of versions of the application represented with identifiers; a differentiating engine to differentiate a latest-deployed version of the application against a planned version of the application in a particular environment; and a comparing engine to compare, based on a selection, properties of the versions of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael D. Elder, Sara Russell, Lucinio Santos, John-Mason P. Shackelford, John E. Swanke
  • Patent number: 9916156
    Abstract: A system for visualizing a congruency of versions of an application across phases of a release pipeline includes a selecting engine to select a phase from a number of phases; a representing engine to represent, via a user interface (UI), a congruency for a number of versions of an application compared against a target version of the application across the phases of a release pipeline, the congruency for the number of versions of the application represented with identifiers; a differentiating engine to differentiate a latest-deployed version of the application against a planned version of the application in a particular environment; and a comparing engine to compare, based on a selection, properties of the versions of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael D. Elder, Sara Russell, Lucinio Santos, John-Mason P. Shackelford, John E. Swanke
  • Publication number: 20170068647
    Abstract: Processes, machines, and manufactures of embodiments can provide for commenting out of portions of a document, such as an open standard script file, that is being drafted or edited in a dual function text and graphical editor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Saurabh Agarwal, Steven P. Barbieri, Brad L. Blancett, Michael D. Elder, Chad Holliday, John A. Page, Lucinio Santos-Gomez, John E. Swanke
  • Publication number: 20160380817
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system analyzes an environment specification document that specifies a proposed configuration of a full-stack environment for a computing system and that describes infrastructure, middleware, and application elements. The system correlates the environment specification document with an environment instantiated on the computing system from the environment specification document. The system determines an impact of changes in the proposed configuration on the environment instantiated on the computing system, and configures the computing system in accordance with the proposed configuration based on the determined impact. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for analyzing an environment specification document in substantially the same manners described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Saurabh Agarwal, Steven P. Barbieri, Brad L. Blancett, Michael D. Elder, Chad M. Holliday, John A. Page, Lucinio Santos-Gomez, John E. Swanke
  • Publication number: 20160306625
    Abstract: A system for visualizing a congruency of versions of an application across phases of a release pipeline includes a selecting engine to select a phase from a number of phases; a representing engine to represent, via a user interface (UI), a congruency for a number of versions of an application compared against a target version of the application across the phases of a release pipeline, the congruency for the number of versions of the application represented with identifiers; a differentiating engine to differentiate a latest-deployed version of the application against a planned version of the application in a particular environment; and a comparing engine to compare, based on a selection, properties of the versions of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael D. Elder, Sara Russell, Lucinio Santos, John-Mason P. Shackelford, John E. Swanke
  • Publication number: 20160306629
    Abstract: A system for visualizing a congruency of versions of an application across phases of a release pipeline includes a selecting engine to select a phase from a number of phases; a representing engine to represent, via a user interface (UI), a congruency for a number of versions of an application compared against a target version of the application across the phases of a release pipeline, the congruency for the number of versions of the application represented with identifiers; a differentiating engine to differentiate a latest-deployed version of the application against a planned version of the application in a particular environment; and a comparing engine to compare, based on a selection, properties of the versions of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael D. Elder, Sara Russell, Lucinio Santos, John-Mason P. Shackelford, John E. Swanke