Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications inventions 02/08

20080051914 - Display apparatus and information update method therefor: A display apparatus includes: a display part; a storing part which stores first driving data for driving the display part; a data interface which receives second driving data from an external apparatus; and a controller which updates the first driving data with the second driving data after receiving an instruction... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080051915 - Power system component protection system for use with an induction heating system: When a power system experiences a disruptive event, conditions may exist that threaten the survival of power devices used in the system. Embodiments described herein provide an improved means of protecting these devices under such circumstances.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080051920 - Audio information processing apparatus and audio information processing method: An audio information processing apparatus for processing input audio information is adapted to input an audio signal composed of front area audio information that should be input to a front speaker and rear area audio information that should be input to a plurality of speakers. A mixer is adapted to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080051919 - Health exercise assist system, portable music playback apparatus, service information providing apparatus, information processing apparatus, and health exercise assist method: In a health exercise assist system, a portable music playback apparatus acquires a preset exercise plan, a history of exercise information, and a music playback history and stores them. An information processing apparatus produces a service request including at least one of the preset exercise plan, the history of exercise... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080051916 - Method and apparatus for recording streamed audio: A method and an apparatus of recording from an audio stream are provided. The method receives and caches the audio stream. It is determined whether a track corresponding to at least an attribute begins by detecting a period of silence and by analyzing metadata of the audio stream. If so,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080051921 - Method for modifying configuration of business system: Configuration of a business program in a business system is modified by a managing computer using a script. Upon deployment of the business program, at least one business computer compatible with operating conditions of the business program is selected by performing a lookup on a first set of data. Programs... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080051922 - Intelligent 3d fixture design method: An intelligent 3D fixture design method, which can solve interference problems between each workpiece, tool and fixture module to design optimal types, specifications and layouts of the fixture system. The design method of the present invention is based on a parametric solid model of 3D CAD software, which uses a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080051913 - Process control: The present invention relates to a method for process control, wherein at least one process device to be controlled is controlled by at least one process module and at least one safety module in that process signals of the process module not relevant to safety and safety signals of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080051918 - Broadcast am receiver, fm receiver and/or fm transmitter with integrated stereo audio codec, headphone drivers and/or speaker drivers: An apparatus includes processor and a control interface. The processor is adapted to in a first mode of operation, operate as part of one of a wireless receiver and a wireless transmitter and in a second mode of operation. The processor also processes a first audio band signal to generate... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080051917 - Network audio speaker system: The present invention relates to speaker systems and, more particularly, to a network audio speaker system, in which a speaker management system compresses and transmits original audio signals to be reproduced and control signals, and a speaker system, assigned an IP address, decompresses the received signals and reproduces the signals... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080051923 - Method for manufacturing with engineering change override: The illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for processing orders. A request for delivery by a requested delivery date is received for an order having an original delivery date. The ordered product is broken down into one or more materials required for manufacturing... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080051924 - System to improve requirements, design manufacturing, and transportation in mass manufacturing industries through analysis of defect data: A system for optimizing at least one of a design, production, or testing process of a product in a mass manufacturing process includes: a central processing unit; a network interface operatively connected to the central processing unit; a storage device; a memory including logic for execution by the central processing... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080051925 - Kinematic pin with shear member and substrate carrier for use therewith: A kinematic pin and a substrate carrier adapted to deter dislodgment of the substrate carrier from the kinematic pin are provided. A shear member on the kinematic pin interacts with a shear feature of the substrate carrier to deter lateral movement of the substrate carrier relative to the kinematic pin.... Agent: Dugan & Dugan, PC

20080051926 - Method for connecting components by riveting: The invention relates to a method for connecting components (5), whereby at least one rivet (1) penetrates at least one component (5), and a closing head (6) is molded on the rivet (1) or any given molded part (1) by means of a molding machine. According to the invention, prior... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080051927 - Machine tool workpiece inspection system: A workpiece inspection system is disclosed for determining measurements of a workpiece on a machine tool. The system utilises a measurement device which outputs data relating to the workpiece (e.g. in place of a conventional cutter). The problem of obtaining real time data relating to the position of the machine... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080051928 - System for monitoring dismantling process of scrapped vehicle: A system for monitoring a dismantling process of scrapped vehicle includes an input means for inputting vehicle information, a weighing means for measuring a weight of dismantled parts collected in each process and a weight of collected liquid materials, and a detecting means for detecting a work start point and... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20080051929 - Scheduling method for processing equipment: Methods and apparatus for increasing the processing throughput of multiple lots of semiconductor wafers through a cluster tool while maintaining a constant wafer history for each lot are provided. A first lot of wafers containing one through n-th wafers is introduced into a cluster tool containing one or more processing... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080051930 - Scheduling method for processing equipment: Methods and apparatus for improving substrate throughput prior to processing a plurality of substrates in a cluster tool having a plurality of processing chambers and at least two robots are provided. The method comprises developing a process sequence, storing the process sequence on a storage device, and transferring the process... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080051932 - Anonymity-ensured system for providing affinity-based deliverables to library patrons: A system and method for automatically determining library patrons' interests without having to identify the patron or otherwise invade his/her privacy based on the library patron's current use of library assets. The system and method involve categorizing the library's assets using broad mapping user interest categories, associating a user interest... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20080051931 - Warehouse system: When an article is taken out from an automatic warehouse (6), value information is written in an unmodifiable manner into an ID tag fitted to the article. When the value information is needed to know, the value information is read from the ID tag (30) of the article (28) by... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080051933 - Vending machine having aerial display system: A vending or transaction-based machine having an aerial display system is provided. The aerial display system having a low-cost plastic spherical mirror includes an aerial display system having an inexpensive optical device and a high luminance liquid crystal display (LCD) imaging display to provide expensive envelope images. A display design... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080051934 - Method and apparatus for dynamically managing vending machine inventory prices: The present invention is a method and apparatus for automatically managing a price of a product in a vending machine. The method and apparatus is disclosed for implementing dynamic price adjustments at various times including after stocking, after a sale of a product and at periodic intervals. The method generally... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080051935 - Medicament container: The invention relates to a method and system that utilizes one or more cassettes or trays that hold medicaments for dispensing. In one embodiment a medicaments container includes control logic configured to enable the medicaments container to operate with an apparatus; control logic configured to determine whether the medicaments container... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080051936 - Method and arrangement for automated colour mixing: In a method for automated colour mixing in a customer-operated and enclosed arrangement, a container with colour base component can be inserted and shaken, the tin with the shaken colour base component is provided with a hole, one or more doses of colour pigment are added via the hole, the... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080051937 - Automated drug delivery bag filling system: An automated medication preparation system for delivering a dosage of medication to a drug delivery bag having a fill port through which the medication is delivered into the bag includes an automated transport device for controllably delivering each drug delivery bag from one location to another location via a driven... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080051938 - Systems and methods that facilitate motion control through coordinate system transformations: The subject invention relates to systems and methods that facilitate motion between different coordinate systems in an industrial control environment. The systems and methods accept data in one coordinate system and transform the data to a different coordinate system. Suitable transformations include instructions that transform between Cartesian, pre-defined non-Cartesian, and... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080051939 - Apparatus for autonomous data collection and processing of fuel transactions from mobile tanker trucks: An apparatus and method for autonomous fueling transaction data collection and processing from mobile fuel dispensing equipment. The apparatus features an intrinsically safe first programmed apparatus including a user interface, a second programmed apparatus for controlling fuel dispensing equipment, and a host computer system. The apparatus additionally includes a printer... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080051940 - Remote autonomous intelligent air flow control system and network: The present invention provides one or more autonomous in-duct or register grill mounted flow control devices, each of which has the capability to restrict or boost air flow through the duct or vent to which it is attached. The individual flow control devices may be in communication with other flow... Agent: Charles S. Knobloch

20080051941 - Variable toe angle control system for a vehicle: A variable toe angle control system for a vehicle that can be incorporated with a fail-safe mechanism When a fault of the system is detected, at least one of toe-angle actuators is actuated to make toe angles of two wheels agree with each other. When one of the wheels has... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20080051942 - Damping and stabilization for linear motor stage: A system that facilitates damping of mechanical vibration associated with machinery that is subject to such mechanical vibration. The system comprises machinery with at least one moveable part and a piezoelectric actuator that is selectively applied to the machinery. The piezoelectric actuator receives voltages and is employed to facilitate damping... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080051943 - Apparatus for calculating detection error of fresh air quantity detection device: The apparatus for calculating a detection error of a fresh air quantity detection device operating to detect a volume of fresh air taken into an engine intake system of an engine includes a first function of setting the engine in a fuel-cut state, a second function of obtaining a detection... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080051944 - Interface for operating and monitoring abatement systems: Method and systems are provided for monitoring and controlling one or more abatement systems. One or more abatement systems may be represented on a display alone with one or more effluent flows from processing tools. A selected effluent flow configuration is received. An interface manifold is controlled to implement the... Agent: Dugan & Dugan, PC

20080051945 - Method and apparatus for load reduction in an electric power system: A system for load control in an electrical power system is described, wherein one or more data interface devices are provided to a cooling system. The data interface devices are configured to receive commands for controlling the cooling system. A remote monitoring system, such as a monitoring system operated by... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080046097 - Graphical representation of setup state on multiple nodes: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to setting up nodes. In aspects, a setup process is started on a node to install software components to provide services to other nodes. The setup process may also install software components on other nodes to provide additional services. A management component... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080046099 - Method and system for customizing access to content aggregated from multiple sources: A method and system for customizing access to content aggregated from multiple sources. A method includes selecting at least two content items, where the at least two content items are the result of a search from at least two sources, saving the at least two content items in a container,... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080046100 - Notification of state transition of an out-of-focus application: A method, a computer program product, a computer system and a method for supporting an application. The method includes: starting an application having multiple possible states and multiple possible state transitions, the application having rules specifying computer screen display actions to be performed upon state transitions of the application; placing... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080046102 - Method for identifying the operating state of a control element, and a control apparatus: The invention also provides a control apparatus for controlling at least one process function for an area of a process installation, as well as a process installation which is suitable for carrying out the method according to the invention.... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080046103 - Control apparatus with fast i/o function, and control method for control data thereof: A control apparatus with a fast I/O function is adapted for storage of a control program, and to input a status of a target to be controlled as an input data from an I/O device, follow the control program to execute an operation of the input data, and output to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080046104 - Systems and methods to maintain process control systems: Example systems and methods to maintain process control systems are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves retrieving first information and determining whether the first information is associated with a process control system. If the first information is associated with the process control system, second information is generated to indicate that... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080046105 - Method for locating information and system using the same: A data processing system. A storage medium stores an audio data stream comprising a plurality of samples. A seek unit seeks through the audio data stream to determine a file offset of a target sample. A playback controller controls playback of the audio data stream. The playback controller is assigned... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080046098 - Combined media player and computer controller: A combined computer media player and computer controller is disclosed. The apparatus includes a main housing with media controls thereon and a processor therein. An input port for connecting a mass storage device to the processor so the processor has access to media files thereon. An optical disc reader located... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20080046101 - Control element, in particular for a vehicle: A control element, in particular for a vehicle, is provided including a plurality of individual modules which change the shape of the control element as a function of the context. There are a plurality of degrees of freedom of adjustment which are enabled or disabled as a function of the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080046106 - Production management program, production management method, and production management system: A computer-readable recording medium recording a production management program that causes a computer to execute: a first process, based on a component table in which a group of components constituting a product is defined and on production planning information of the product, determining component planning information including a required period... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080046107 - System to improve requirements, design manufacturing, and transportation in mass manufacturing industries through analysis of defect data: A computer-implemented method of optimizing a design of a product in a mass manufacturing process includes steps of: collecting error data relating to a product; classifying the error data into categories of errors to provide classifier error data; analyzing relationships among the classified error data; producing an analysis report; and... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080046108 - Buffer station for stocker system: A buffer station provides potential improvement for the operation of a facility. By storing to-be-accessed workpieces in the buffer stations of an equipment, the operation of the facility is not interrupted when the equipment is down. The workpieces can be retrieved through emergency access port of the buffer station, thus... Agent: Tue Nguyen

20080046109 - Methods and systems for position sensing: Methods and systems for position sensing are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes measuring at least three discrete point positions associated with a first component using at least one transmitter having a known position and orientation and in a line of sight with the three discrete point positions, the... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080046111 - Heat processing apparatus, heat processing method, computer program and storage medium: In a vertical-type heat processing apparatus, it is intended to stabilize the temperature of an inner wall of the reaction vessel upon loading as well as to reduce particle contamination, for example, by suppressing peeling of films attached to the inner wall. An inner wall temperature sensor is attached, in... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080046110 - Temperature regulating method, thermal processing system and semiconductor device manufacturing method: A temperature regulating method in a thermal processing system has heating means for heating an interior of a process chamber to process a substrate, a heating control section for controlling the heating means, and first and second temperature detecting means for detecting a temperature in the process chamber. The first... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080046112 - Tracking removal or processing of debris material: A computer-implemented method of tracking transportation of material from a plurality of material origination sites to one or more material disposal sites can include receiving at a central database and at multiple different times, a plurality of electronic load tickets and corresponding electronic disposal confirmations and providing, for display at... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080046113 - Method and apparatus for dynamically managing vending machine inventory prices: The present invention is a method and apparatus for automatically managing a price of a product in a vending machine. The method and apparatus is disclosed for implementing dynamic price adjustments at various times including after stocking, after a sale of a product and at periodic intervals. The method generally... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080046114 - System, packaging, and method for distributing products: A method and system for communicating a product status is provided. The product has a product indicator device that has a changeable indicator, an embedded processor, and radio. A point of sale device wirelessly reads validation data from the embedded processor, with the validation data being used to confirm that... Agent: William J. Kolegraff

20080046115 - Method and device for checking the loading of a transport device with objects: The disclosure relates to a system and method for checking the loading of a transport device, the transport device being adapted to be loaded with one or more objects that each have an optically detectable identifier that is adapted to store at least information about a destination of the respective... Agent: Fletcher Yoder

20080046116 - System and method for random mixed palletizing of products: A system and method of the present invention randomly mixes and palletizes various containers received from a conveyor. A control system received an order in advance to cooperate with an automatic storage and retrieval system to pick the containers, ordered by various customers, and to place them on a second... Agent: Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C.

20080046117 - Method of preprocessing content and a content providing apparatus using the method of preprocessing content: A method of preprocessing content including displaying a content list including content items, determining a required length of time of an interval during which one content item, included in the list, is selected by a user, and performing preprocessing of the one content item so as to prepare to execute... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080046118 - Method and apparatus for dynamically managing vending machine inventory prices: The present invention is a method and apparatus for automatically managing a price of a product in a vending machine. The method and apparatus is disclosed for implementing dynamic price adjustments at various times including after stocking, after a sale of a product and at periodic intervals. The method generally... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080046119 - Slurry monitoring system and method: System and method are disclosed for monitoring slurry from a central location and replenishing the slurry as needed. The method/system allows a slurry supplier to track various properties of the slurry, as well as monitor various aspects of the slurry storage and delivery system. When the volume of slurry at... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20080046121 - Developing system of re-configurable modularized robot: A developing system of re-configurable modularized robot is provided, and it includes a single board computer (SBC) which includes a communication interface used to receive, transmit and download the plurality of commands and responds in the communication of the run-time man-machine interface; and a master micro controller connects with the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080046122 - Maximum torque driving of robotic surgical tools in robotic surgical systems: In one embodiment of the invention, a control system for a robotic surgical instrument is provided including a torque saturation limiter, a torque to current converter coupled to the torque saturation limiter, and a motor coupled to the torque to current converter. The torque saturation limiter receives a desired torque... Agent: Patent Dept Intuitive Surgical, Inc

20080046120 - Modular robotic workpiece holder and method for using same: The invention relates to a modular positioning robotic system and method of use of the positioning system. In general, the modular positioning robotic system is comprised of a controller module, a positioning module and a base that can be either a stationary base or drive module. The positioning module also... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20080046123 - Legged mobile robot and control program: In a legged mobile robot, a pivoting motion of a foot (22) relative to a leg is controlled such that, from an intermediate time point in a period of departure of a leg from a floor to a starting time point of a period of landing of the leg on... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20080046124 - System for lapping ring and pinion gears: A system for lapping gear sets with a ring gear and a pinion gear. The system includes a lapping machine tool and a robot. The lapping machine tool has a first spindle and a second spindle. The second spindle is rotatable about an axis that is generally perpendicular to a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080046125 - Method of dividing coverage area for robot and device thereof: A method of dividing a coverage area of a robot and a device for the same. That is, a method of producing a space map for a robot to work and dividing the space map into at least one segment and a device for the same. The method includes producing... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080046126 - Methods and systems for predicting emissions: A method of predicting emissions that may include the steps of: determining a first capacity for emissions during a sliding window of time; determining a used capacity for emissions during the sliding window of time; and determining an available capacity for emissions by calculating the differential between the first capacity... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20080046127 - Method and device arrangement for automatic dose control of chemicals: The present invention relates to a method for automatic dose control of chemicals in liquid treatment, particularly for automatic dose control of chemicals in water treatment. The present invention also relates to a device arrangement for automatic dose control of chemicals. The invention utilizes adaptive linguistic equation controllers for dosing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080046128 - Control system for internal combustion engine: A control system for an internal combustion engine, wherein in the control system, an in-cylinder oxygen amount is calculated and a compression end temperature, which is a temperature of the pressurized air-fuel mixture, is calculated according to an intake air temperature. A fuel injection parameter is determined according to the... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080046129 - Variable wattage control system: A control system and methods are provided that limit power provided to a power receiving device to a value less that that produced at full line voltage. The system includes at least one power receiving device and a power controller operatively associated with the power receiving device, the power controller... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080046130 - Agricultural automation system with field robot: An agricultural automation system for use in an agricultural area includes an implement caddy carrying a plurality of implements, an elongate transport structure, and a field robot movable along the elongate transport structure. The field robot includes an arm movable in at least one direction different from the movement along... Agent: Deere & Company

20080046131 - Irrigation controller decoder converter: A method of converting a control system having steps of providing an existing control system having a centralized controller received within a housing and a plurality of independent control lines directly extending between a terminal strip in the controller and a corresponding plurality of assemblies to be controlled and a... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080046132 - Control of heat dissipation: The present invention relates to preventing electronic devices (e.g., mobile terminal devices) from overheating in a communication network environment. Heat related information indicating heat generation or a simple temperature measurement at the terminal device may be sent to a network element causing the network element to adjust an inactivity period... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080046133 - Mini environment apparatus, inspection apparatus, manufacturing apparatus and cleaning method of space: The invention provides a mini environment apparatus, an inspection apparatus, a manufacturing apparatus and a cleaning method of a space which can suppress an influence of a cleanliness of an external environment and can keep a target cleanliness of a specific space. The invention is provided with an outer dust... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080039961 - Control systems for a motor vehicle: A control system for a motor vehicle has a manual actuating device with a plurality of degrees of freedom of adjustment for selecting and/or activating entries in a menu structure with a plurality of menu levels. The system also has a screen display with a plurality of display areas for... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080039965 - Method and apparatus for estimating length of audio file: A method for estimating an audio length of an audio file in an audio player is provided. First, the method generates a predicted audio length based on the average bit rate of some selected audio frames in the audio file, and initializes an adjustable audio length by the predicted audio... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20080039967 - System and method for delivering interactive audiovisual experiences to portable devices: A system and a method for transmitting and receiving audiovisual media are provided. The system provides a network for transmitting audiovisual media and dynamic elements to a multimedia node which is connected to an electronic device, such as, for example, a portable electronic device. The audiovisual media is streaming audiovisual... Agent: Patents+tms, P.C.

20080039964 - Using a loudness-level-reference segment of audio to normalize relative audio levels among different audio files when combining content of the audio files: The present invention records a loudness-level-reference segment of audio when creating speech audio files and audio files including background sounds. The speech audio files can then be combined with the background sound containing audio files in any desirable combination. When combining the files, the relative audio level of the files... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080039956 - Arrangement of appliances for process control: The invention relates to an arrangement of devices, such as, measuring devices or actuators, which are associated with process technology, and uni-directional or bidirectional data exchange with a central point, such as a control center or display device. A transmitting/receiving device is arranged such that data can be exchanged with... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080039957 - Signal processing methods and apparatus: A control system, such as a vehicle management system, having a processing unit (20) and a sensor for providing data samples (22), includes a multi-step ahead predictive filter that predicts data samples based on a weighted function of prior data samples (26). This allows the system to continue to function... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080039959 - System and method for configuring and parametrizing a machine used in automation technology: An aim of a system and method for configuring and parametrizing a machine used in automation technology is to simplify configuration of an automation process. Said aim is achieved by graphically representing the different technological components as model components. The respective mechatronic signal flow between the technological objects can be... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080039960 - Signal processing method and apparatus: A signal processing method that includes inputting sample values of a signal and considering the signal to have a plurality of portions. For each portion, a predetermined function is fitted to the sample values of that portion of the signal by calculating values of coefficients for that predetermined function. At... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20080039962 - Firearm system for data acquisition and control: A microprocessor circuit that is used to monitor and control a firearm. The microprocessor circuit accomplishes this by monitoring various sensor & control inputs, and acting on these inputs to execute user defined functions. The microprocessor circuit can use the sensory input to determine firearm statistics. These statistics can include... Agent: Michael Mcrae

20080039963 - Method for transcribing music from music cd to mp3 player: The present invention relates to a method for transcribing music from music CD to a MP3 player which comprises after the MP3 player being connected with the computer under the state of running through a standard data interface, the computer sending an enquiring message of the device's type to the... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080039966 - System and method for rediffusion of audio data: A system and method for rediffusion of audio data. The rediffusion of audio data occurs in real-time and includes capturing live audio using a wireless communications device, such as a mobile or cell phone. The captured audio is then transmitted to a media server where it is received and processed... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20080039968 - Apparatus and method for caliper profile break recovery in a paper machine: A method includes determining one or more setpoint changes for one or more actuators in a process control system. Determining the one or more setpoint changes includes making larger or more frequent setpoint changes when operating in a first mode and making smaller or less frequent setpoint changes when operating... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080039969 - Control schema of molding-system process, amongst other things: Disclosed is: (i) a method of controlling a molding system, (ii) a molding system, (iii) a controller of a molding system, (iv) an article of manufacture of a controller of a molding system and/or (v) a network-transmittable signal of a controller of a molding system, amongst other things.... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20080039970 - Thermal management of extruder of molding system, amongst other things: Disclosed is: (i) a method of a molding system, (ii) a controller of a molding system, (iii) an article of manufacture of a controller of a metal molding system, (iv) a network-transmittable signal of a controller of a molding system and/or (v) a molding system, amongst other things.... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20080039971 - Systems and methods for programming motion control: Systems, methods and computer program code for the programming of motion control in load transportation systems are provided which may include programming motion control by specifying desired load motions.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080039972 - Products and processes for vending a plurality of products via defined groups: Products and processes are disclosed for defining at least one inventory group. This at least one inventory group includes at least two products that are available for sale by a vending machine. The vending machine outputs an indication of products that the at least one inventory group includes. The vending... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080039973 - Method for controlling parallel kinematic mechanism machine and control apparatus therefor: First of all, in a first step S1, each actuator command value for position command value and posture command value of an end-effector is determined. Next, in a second step S2, rotational resistance values of a first and a second universal joints are obtained, and in a third step S3,... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080039974 - Robot confinement: An autonomous coverage robot system includes an active boundary responder comprising a wire powered with a modulated current placed along a perimeter of a property, at least one passive boundary responder placed on a property interior circumscribed by the active boundary responder, and an autonomous coverage robot. The robot includes... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080039975 - Sulfur purge control device for an internal combustion engine: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine that can execute a sulfur purge in a favorable manner under all conditions without complicating the control action or the engine structure. The process comprises detecting a temperature of the NOx catalytic converter, detecting an exhaust air fuel ratio in... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080039976 - Method of controlling the opening of door of laundry treatment machine: A method of controlling the opening of a door of a laundry treatment machine is provided. According to the method, when a door opening signal is detected during an operation of a laundry treatment machine, the temperature and the water level in a tub are reduced, and then the door... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080039977 - Method and apparatus for remotely monitoring and controlling a pool or spa: A system for remotely monitoring and/or controlling a pool or spa. The remote control can utilize a microprocessor-based data acquisition and processing system, along with a network interface, to provide remote access to the pool or spa parameters, including but not limited to: temperature, pH, and ORP levels; and the... Agent: Law Offices Of Larry K. Roberts, Inc.

20080039978 - Systems and methods for adaptation to wireless remote control of irrigation valves from existing hardwired control devices: A low cost system and method for retrofitting an existing control device to communicate wirelessly with one or more water-flow devices is provided. For example, an existing wired irrigation system may be adapted to allow wireless communication between a commercially available irrigation controller and commercially available water-flow devices, such as... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080039979 - Smart islanding and power backup in a power aggregation system for distributed electric resources: Systems and methods are described for a power aggregation system. In one implementation, a service establishes individual Internet connections to numerous electric resources intermittently connected to the power grid, such as electric vehicles. The Internet connection may be made over the same wire that connects the resource to the power... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080039980 - Scheduling and control in a power aggregation system for distributed electric resources: Systems and methods are described for a power aggregation system. In one implementation, a service establishes individual Internet connections to numerous electric resources intermittently connected to the power grid, such as electric vehicles. The Internet connection may be made over the same wire that connects the resource to the power... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080039981 - Temperature sampling in electronic devices: In some embodiments the continuous measuring of temperature in remote memory devices operating within an electrically noisy environment is facilitated by coordinating the progressive approximation of temperature within quiescent periods of non-activity as known by a memory controller.... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate

20080033581 - Method and system for providing fitness activity tracking and gaming: An approach is provided for tracking and analyzing physical activities. Inputs are received from a plurality of users. The inputs specify one or more physical activities. The inputs are analyzed to quantitatively compare the activities among the users. A score is assigned to each user based on the analysis. The... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080033582 - Audio capture device for digitally recording analog audio files: A device for capturing and recording analog audio signals; comprising an input adapter for connecting to an analog audio source device to receive the audio signals, a processor linked to the input adapter for converting the audio signals to a digital audio file format and an output adapter linked to... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080033585 - Decimated bisectional pitch refinement: A method and system for refining an estimated pitch period estimate based on a coarse pitch useful for performing frame loss concealment in an audio decoder as well as for other applications. A normalized correlation at the coarse pitch lag is computed and used as the current best candidate. The... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20080033583 - Robust speech/music classification for audio signals: A low complexity, robust speech/music classifier useful for performing frame loss concealment (FLC) in an audio decoder or for other applications are described. The classifier uses a feature set that is to a large extent common to audio decoders and frame loss concealment (FLC) systems. The classifier uses running averages... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20080033584 - Scaled window overlap add for mixed signals: A method for overlap-adding signals useful for performing frame loss concealment (FLC) in an audio decoder as well as in other applications. The method uses a dynamic mix of windows to overlap two signals whose normalized cross-correlation may vary from zero to one. If the overlapping signals are decomposed into... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Intellevate

20080033586 - Planning production for complementary demands: Method, system and program product for planning production for complementary demands are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining complementary demand values including at least one daily going rate (DGR) demand and a service demand; running a first planning production model in which the at least one DGR demand... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080033580 - Analyzer: Analyzers are described that include a display for displaying a screen selected from a plurality of screens, which may display a hierarchical menu corresponding to a predetermined screen.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080033587 - A system and method for mining data from high-volume text streams and an associated system and method for analyzing mined data: Disclosed are embodiments of a method of mining data and a method of evaluating that data in order to discover significant changes in conditions (e.g., changes in activities, events, associations, affiliations, market preferences, etc.). The data mining technique uses predetermined scenarios that characterize specific changes as well as key variables... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080033588 - Plant monitor-control apparatus: A plant monitor-control apparatus includes a control device which controls a to-be-controlled device of a plant, an operation/monitor device which delivers an operation instruction to the plant, operates the plant via the control device and monitors the plant, and a user skill level management device which manages respective user skill... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080033589 - Data mining to detect performance quality of tools used repetitively in manufacturing: A tool with one or more chambers in a manufacturing system is identified as performing at or below an acceptable level by the following steps: Store process data from tools for each one of a plurality of individual processes for a processed object in a process database; Store tool performance... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20080033590 - Method and system for managing lot transactions: A system for managing lot transactions among business units is provided. The system comprises an interface, storage device, and a processor. The interface provides an access to a lot transaction service for the business units. The storage device stores a preset business rule and manufacturing information corresponding to a lot,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley LLP

20080033591 - System and method for surface finish management: The present disclosure relates to a motion control system for a machine tool system wherein a value of a surface finish quality parameter of the motion control system is adjusted to control the surface finish of a part machined with the machine tool system. The machine tool system may include... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080033592 - System and method for tool use management: The present invention provides a system and method for tool use management wherein a CNC machine retains information identifying the tools associated with the machine as well as their current locations (if any), and executes an algorithm for determining the source tools needed by a part program and matching the... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080033593 - Lithophane-like article and method of manufacture: An article and a method of forming an article, for example formed of plastics, confectionary product, soap, wax or liquid, by determining the intensity of different points of an original image, and forming the article with a thickness at each point of the article related to the intensity of the... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20080033594 - Method of outputting offers at a vending machine: A network of vending machines is interfaced via a controller to a network of devices installed at retail establishments. When a customer goes to a vending machine and requests a transaction such as dispensing a product from the vending machine, the vending machines outputs an offer to the customer in... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080033595 - Method of outputting offers at a vending machine field: A network of vending machines is interfaced via a controller to a network of devices installed at retail establishments. When a customer goes to a vending machine and requests a transaction such as dispensing a product from the vending machine, the vending machines outputs an offer to the customer in... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20080033596 - Vision feedback detection for vending machines and the like: A dispensing machine includes a visual detection system, having one or more cameras with a field of view sufficient to see a region through which a properly dispensed product is expected to travel, captures at least one image frame during the time in which the product is expected to be... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080033597 - Ambidextrous robotic master controller: An ambidextrous robotic master controller includes a mounting base secured to a support, a shoulder member pivotally connected to the mounting base and, connected in series to the shoulder, an upper arm member, a forearm member, an inner wrist member, and an outer wrist member. An ambidextrous grip link is... Agent: John C. Mcmahon

20080033598 - Materials management system and method: A materials management system and method configured to handle materials events is provided. The materials management system can be configured to receive event information, comprising information pertaining to a hazardous materials event, to store data pertaining to a plurality of hazardous materials, to retrieve stored data based on the event... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080033599 - Method and system for controlling heating ventilation and air conditioning (hvac) units: An HVAC control system provides a central controller that controls registers/vents which capture energy of air flowing in the duct system and convert it to an electrical current that is stored locally in energy storage units in the register/vent. Further, wireless communication between the central controller and the register/vents alleviates... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman LLP

20080033600 - Automated part procurement and service dispatch: A method for repairing an HVAC system is disclosed. The method includes monitoring a plurality of sensors positioned throughout the HVAC system and receiving data associated therewith, determining whether the data received from the plurality of sensors is within corresponding predetermined operational parameters, analyzing data determined to be outside the... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20080033601 - Lawn sprinkler play apparatus: A sprinkler play system has a central distribution station and a plurality of sprinkler stations. The sprinkler stations may be spaced apart on a lawn. The sprinkler stations are connected to the distribution station with flexible water conduits. Each of the sprinkler stations includes a low voltage solenoid valve. Electrical... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080033602 - Method and device for detecting electric arc phenomenon on at least one electric cable: The invention concerns a detecting device (1) comprising a database (10) including a plurality of membership classes, whereof one first class concerns a corona phase, and an assembly (5) comprising means for measuring electric current and electric voltage on an electric cable (2), means for filtering said measurements, and means... Agent: Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher, LLP