Michael D Frank

US Patent:

7049282, May 23, 2006

Filed:

Oct 26, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/984017

Inventors:

Michael M. Frank - Durham NC, US
Haixiang J. Jiang - Chapel Hill NC, US

Assignee:

Duke University - Durham NC

International Classification:

A01N 37/18

US Classification:

514 2, 514 21, 514 14, 514 15

Abstract:

The present invention relates to a method of blocking biochemical function of the classical complement pathway and thereby preventing immunologic damage in a variety of diseases and conditions including autoimmune diseases.

US Patent:

20050060687, Mar 17, 2005

Filed:

Sep 15, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/663455

Inventors:

David Ghazaleh - Apex NC, US
Michael Frank - Raleigh NC, US
James Shivers - Efland NC, US
John Griffin - Durham NC, US

International Classification:

G06F009/44

US Classification:

717123000

Abstract:

The invention is a method and apparatus for defining, representing, and/or documenting object oriented programming applications, and particularly, those developed to work in a graphical user interface. The invention represents the applications in one or more diagrams termed Object and Event Diagrams (OEDs). The invention allows an application architect to communicate the program idea to the programmer by defining the program basis and the program logic without concern about details of the user interface such as how actions will be executed (which will be determined by the programmer). The OED may be used as a program specification, a program requirements description or as a documentation tool to document the logic of the object and event used in a program. The application architect represents the program in an OED using a plurality of different types of symbols that represent different types of objects and other program elements, such as data transfer, inheritance and remote links. The various symbols are interconnected by lines that show their relationships to each other.

US Patent:

20180373617, Dec 27, 2018

Filed:

Jun 26, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/018701

Inventors:

- New York NY, US
Brian R. PENNELL - Galena OH, US
David Richard Kalkstein DELOVEH - Columbus OH, US
Tristan CHIAPPISI - Gahanna OH, US
Paul KNUTH - Westerville OH, US
Michael FRANK - Chicago IL, US

International Classification:

G06F 11/36

Abstract:

The invention relates to an application monitoring tool. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the application monitoring tool has an integrated event/tracing API that traces distributed and non-distributed system flows. For example, a tracing approach may be integrated with a Metrics functionality in that tracing may be throttled or turned on/off based on defined intervals, threshold breaches, and/or anomaly detection of related metrics. If an application's web service calls are beginning to take longer than “normal,” an event/tracing collection feature may be activated to trace calls to enable deeper analysis of the problem.