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

20080208361 - Dynamic load balancing using virtual controller instances: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates enabling efficient load allocation within an industrial automation environment. A controller with a processing capability can be associated with an industrial automation environment. A balance component can distribute a portion of a load to the controller based upon an... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080208365 - Dynamic versioning utilizing multiple controller engine instances to limit complications: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates deploying data within an industrial environment. A controller can execute with a real-time operating system such that the controller can include two or more controller engine instances executing as processes on the controller. An update component that can dynamically... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080208364 - Language-based organization of controller engine instances: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates utilizing multiple computer languages within an industrial environment. A controller can execute with a real-time operating system such that the controller can include two or more controller engine instances executing as processes on the controller. A language isolation component... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080208363 - Prioritization associated with controller engine instances: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates management within an industrial environment. A controller can execute with a real-time operating system such that the controller can include two or more controller engine instances executing as processes on the controller. A partition component can organize one or... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080208362 - Scalability related to controller engine instances: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates providing manageability within an industrial environment. A controller can execute with a real-time operating system such that the controller can include two or more controller engine instances executing as processes on the controller. A distribution component can divide a... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080208366 - Communication system comprising a controller system and a master control means connected via a multipole connection means: A communication system comprising a controller system, a master control means (2) and at least one slave control means (3), the controller system and the master control means (2) being connected via a multipole connection means (4), the master control means (2) being adapted to receive a multipole signal via... Agent: The Ollila Law Group Llc

20080208367 - Controller sensor networks: A control element for a sensor network having a set of different sensors. In operation, the control element transfers connections between the control element and the set of different sensors, where the transfer connections are compliant with respective sensor-specific protocols. A sensor controller element is provided for each sensor, and... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.c.

20080208368 - Construction of an industrial control system using multiple instances of industrial control engines: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates optimizing a controller within an industrial automation environment. A controller can be associated with an industrial automation environment. Two or more controller engine instances can execute on the controller to enable dynamic control related to at least one of... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080208369 - Services associated with an industrial environment employing controller engine instances: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates providing a service to an industrial environment. A selection component can identify a portion of data hosted by a remote server. A build component can construct at least one of a portion of a customized application or a portion... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080208370 - System and method for gap length measurement and control: The present subject matter relates generally to a system and method for controlling functions in a mail sorting system based on gap length measurement and tracking. The system and method includes a plurality of sensors located along one or more mail piece transport paths. The sensors are used to collect... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080208371 - Control system for a plant: A system for controlling a plant process wherein the plant is over-actuated with N+1 actuators and provides N performance variables is disclosed. The system includes an outer-loop controller operable to compare N performance variable values from the plant with a reference set point and provide a desired virtual control input... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.c.

20080208372 - Scheduling with neural networks and state machines: Software for controlling processes in a heterogeneous semiconductor manufacturing environment may include a wafer-centric database, a real-time scheduler using a neural network, and a graphical user interface displaying simulated operation of the system. These features may be employed alone or in combination to offer improved usability and computational efficiency for... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080208373 - Method for operating a process plant, process plant and computer program product: There is described a method for operating a process plant, in which a number of alarm notifications for indicating non-compliant operating events of the process plant are generated at process level. Alarm notifications which can be generated during the operation of the process plant are defined. At least a number... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080208374 - Testing utilizing controller engine instances: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates enhancing simulation within an industrial environment. A controller can execute with a real-time operating system such that the controller can include two or more controller engine instances executing as processes on the controller. A testing component can sand-box a... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080208375 - On-line editing associated with controller engine instances: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates programming in an industrial environment. An online controller can execute with a real-time operating system such that the online controller can include two or more controller engine instances executing as processes on the online controller, wherein at least one... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080208378 - Media play system: A method and system for playing media are disclosed. The media play system comprises a media server comprising a plurality of outputs, wherein each of the plurality of outputs is connected to a playback station, wherein the media server is connected to at least one device that is configured to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080208376 - Method and apparatus for controlling portable audio device: A method to control a portable audio device in a power-saving mode using a wireless headset includes transmitting a host wake-up signal (HOST_WAKEUP) according to a signal requesting reproduction of music transmitted from the wireless headset, transmitting a control signal corresponding to the host wake-up signal, and controlling the portable... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080208379 - System and method for sharing playlists: A system for sharing playlists utilizes a network, such as the Internet. A player device other than a general purpose computer, such as a dedicated media player or a remote control for a dedicated media player, is in communication with the server over the network. The player device is configured... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20080208377 - Universal audio interface apparatus and audio processing device using the same: A universal audio interface apparatus includes one input/output circuit comprising an input/output interface and a switch unit; an interface control module for monitoring the input/output interface, detecting whether the input/output interface is coupled with an external audio input device or an external audio output device, and sending predetermined display signals... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080208380 - Manufacturing station with improved controller: A manufacturing station comprises a tool which performs a manufacturing operation on a part, a controller programmed by a product line which controls the tool to determine that the operation is carried out, which receives information about the manufacturing operation and communicates information about the operation, and an interface between... Agent: Miller, Canfield, Paddock And Stone P.L.C C/o Robert Kelley Roth

20080208381 - Product repair support system, product manufacturing system, and product manufacturing method: A product repair support system is configured to support repair of a product rejected in an inspection based on a prescribed inspection standard. The product repair support system includes: repair information storage part; reference information storage part; and repair condition optimization part. The repair information storage part is configured to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080208382 - Method and system for fabricating a dental coping, and a coping fabricated thereby: A wax model of a required coping is produced using CNC machining techniques based on a virtual model of the coping created from digital data obtained from the intraoral cavity. The dental coping is then fabricated from the wax model.... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080208384 - Pcb circuit modification from multiple to individual chip enable signals: A semiconductor package is disclosed having a single CE signal during electrical test and a plurality of CE signals during normal operation thereafter. After electrical testing of the memory die during fabrication, the electrical traces carrying the single CE signal from the memory test pad matrix to each of the... Agent: Vierra Magen/sandisk Corporation

20080208385 - Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, method of detecting abnormality, identifying cause of abnormality, or predicting abnormality in the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, and storage medium storing computer program for performing the method: In order to detect an abnormality of semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, a biaxial coordinate system having first and second axes respectively assigned two different monitoring parameters selected from plural apparatus status parameters representing statuses of semiconductor manufacturing apparatus is prepared. As monitoring parameters, for example, a cumulative film thickness for deposition... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080208386 - Semiconductor manufacturing system, controller, semiconductor manufacturing system control method, and processing liquid collection method: A semiconductor manufacturing system includes a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, a first controller for controlling the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, an auxiliary machine for the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, a second controller for controlling the auxiliary machine, and a third controller for electrically coupling the first and second controllers. The second controller outputs... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080208383 - Stitched ic chip layout methods, systems and program product: Stitched integrated circuit (IC) chip layout methods, systems and program products are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining from a first entity a circuit design for an IC chip layout that exceeds a size of a photolithography tool field at a second entity, wherein the IC chip layout... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080208387 - Power source selector: A computerized method for aiding a user in selecting a proper power source for a welding, heating, or cutting application is provided. The user is prompted to provide data about the process type, power source type, and materials used in the application, and is provided with data regarding typical applications... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080208388 - Method and apparatus for controlling the spatial position of repetitive units: An apparatus and method for a system for synchronously positioning repetitive units spatially comprising a plurality of repetitive units, each attached on an end of a plurality of arms, each angularly attached on an opposing end to a computer-controlled rotating axle, each having a synchronously computer-controlled position along a path... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080208389 - Automated storage system: An automated storage system comprises a plurality of storage locations, at least one access location, a plurality of storage containers provided on the storage locations, a control system and at least one user interface, the control system further comprising a retrieval mode and a storage mode, and a delivery system... Agent: Graham Curtin

20080208390 - Sorting parcels with implicit identification: A method for sorting parcels may include reading, during a first sortation pass, machine readable indicia applied to the parcel prior to mailing and at least a portion of delivery address information on a parcel. The method may also include selecting a reference indicium from the machine readable indicia and... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge Pc

20080208391 - Gait pattern generating device and controller of legged mobile robot: A gait generating system of a legged mobile robot is provided with a device for determining a desired trajectory of an external force to be applied to a robot 1, a device for determining a parameter of a desired gait (current time gait) for a predetermined period on the basis... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080208392 - Apparatus and method for environmentally conditioning a space: An apparatus situated in a space for controlling an air terminal device to affect at least one environmental condition in the space includes: (a) at least one sensor unit for presenting at least one sensed indication related with at least one respective environmental condition of the at least one environmental... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul

20080200996 - Process control apparatus: A process control apparatus for controlling a control target includes, but is not limited to, first and second control units. The first control unit is designed in a design environment unspecifying any period of disturbance. The first control unit performs a feedback control to the control target by using a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080200997 - Broadcast control of cellular stochastic control systems with applications to actuators: A broadcast feedback method is presented for distributed stochastic control of an actuator system consisting of many cellular units. The method can be implemented for an artificial cellular actuator, consisting of many units of smart actuator material with a random signal generator. The output of the actuator system is an... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080200998 - Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method: In a lithographic apparatus, a feedforward transfer function of a control system, is determined by: a) iteratively learning a feedforward output signal of the control system by iterative learning control for a given setpoint signal; b) determining a relation between the learned feedforward output signal and the setpoint signal; and... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080201000 - Contextual grouping of media items: An apparatus including: a memory for recording a first context output, which is contemporaneous with when a media item was operated on, and a second context output, which is also contemporaneous with when the media item was operated upon but different to the first context output; and processing circuitry operable... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080200999 - Player device controllable by functional meta-data, content item comprising such meta-data, and computer program product therefor: The invention relates to a player device (1) controllable by functional meta-data (9), and particularly devised to receive meta-data containing an object (10) used to add, adapt or control features of the device. The player device comprises: a decoder means (3) for extracting meta-data (9) from a data file (2)... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080201001 - Inventory mechanism that generates logical inventory from assemblies in inventory: A logical inventory mechanism takes components in assemblies into account when determining purchase requirements. The inventory control system determines assemblies that are available, determines their components and whether or not each component may be reused, then adjusts physical inventory to generate therefrom logical inventory based on physical inventory plus parts... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080201002 - Machining template based computer-aided design and manufacture of an aerospace component: A CAD model of a component is designed by means of a CAD system that modifies the shape of the design of the component represented by the CAD model by means of templates held in a database of templates. The templates include machining data concerning the machining actions necessary to... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080201003 - Method and system for reticle scheduling: Methods and systems for reticle scheduling in semiconductor manufacturing providing a trade-off between complying with level priority and maximizing scanner utilization for critical scanners as a whole is disclosed. The extent of trade-off is specified by user, depending on scanner excess capacity. The method invented comprises, first, the steps of... Agent: Stephen B. Ackerman

20080201004 - Locus-interference verification method, apparatus, and recording medium storing locus-interference verification program: A locus-interference verification apparatus and method including generating locus models for the respective objects and storing the locus models, where each locus model represents a locus of at least a position where a maximum size is obtained and is generated by virtually moving model data of a corresponding object in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080201005 - Machine tool having workpiece reference position setting function by contact detection: A machine tool having a function of setting a workpiece reference position to a central position of a workpiece. The workpiece has a machining surface symmetrical with respect to two orthogonal lines and is mounted on the machine tool having movable axes supported by fluid bearings so that the two... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080201006 - Weigh batching: A method of weigh batching for batch formulae using a number of ingredients conveyed to a weigh hopper by a number of different conveyers. Free fall weights and conveyor delivery speeds for each of the ingredients and each of the conveyors used to convey each ingredient are stored in a... Agent: Sturm & Fix LLP

20080201007 - Methods and systems for making a blood vessel sleeve: Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that include accepting one or more blood vessel sleeve dimensions based on blood vessel data from an individual; and making a rapid-prototyped blood vessel sleeve at least partly based on the one or more blood vessel sleeve dimensions.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080201008 - System and method for an integrated additive manufacturing cell for complex components: An integrated additive manufacturing cell (IAMC) that combines conventional manufacturing technologies with additive manufacturing processes is disclosed. Individual IAMCs may be configured and optimized for specific part families of complex components, or other industrial applications. The IAMCs incorporate features that reduce hardware cost and time and allow for local alloy... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C. (p&w)

20080201009 - Determining tool set matching using production data: A method, system and computer program product for determining matching of a tool set in a production process are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a method for determining matching of a tool set in a production process comprises: selecting a measurement step within the production process, a subset of tools... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080201010 - Punch machining program generating device, recording medium storing a program for generating a punch machining program, and wire-cut electric discharge machine: A machining program generating device and a wire-cut electric discharge machine that can shorten a machining time to machine multiple punch shapes. A distance L from one punch shape machining end position Pe to a next punch shape machining start position Ps is obtained. When the distance L is shorter... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080201011 - Electric press: The electric press is provided with a main CPU 1 and a sub CPU 3, the main CPU1 being responsive to a signal from a servo driver 10 to give an detecting signal to a relay 2 when a ram 51 is located in a predetermined position, thereby to give... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080201012 - Library apparatus and position controlling method: A library apparatus includes a cell unit having a plurality of cells arrayed in a matrix, a holder to insert the storage medium to one of the cells or extract the storage medium from the cell, and a position controller to move the holder over the cell unit in X-axis... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080201013 - Device for contactless detection of filling levels: An apparatus for contactless detection of filling levels of automatic machine shafts, each including removal units of an order-picking system, wherein the removal units dispense piece goods on one or more conveyor units. A distance measuring device is provided which can travel along a guidance track to measurement positions associated... Agent: Kevin J. Mcneely, Esq.

20080201014 - Robot and method for controlling the same: A robot includes: a main body; a traveling mechanism attached to the main body to move the main body; an image pickup device which picks up an image of an object in a space including a traveling plane; an object detector which detects the object existing in the space based... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080201015 - System for calibration of an industrial robot and a method thereof: A method for calibration of an industrial robot including a plurality of movable links and a plurality of actuators effecting movement of the links and thereby of the robot. The method includes mounting a measuring tip on or in the vicinity of the robot, moving the robot such that the... Agent: Venable LLP

20080201017 - Medical tele-robotic system: A robotic system that includes a remote controlled robot. The robot may include a camera, a monitor and a holonomic platform all attached to a robot housing. The robot may be controlled by a remote control station that also has a camera and a monitor. The remote control station may... Agent: Ben J. Yorks, Irell & Manella

20080201016 - Robot and method of registering a robot: A robot has a controllable arm which carries an instrument or tool. The robot is provided with a camera to obtain an image of a work piece, including images of markers and an indicator present on the work piece. The robot processes the images to determine the position of the... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20080201018 - System, method, and apparatus for managing wastewater treatment installation: Apparatus for managing a residential wastewater treatment system includes an in situ control unit that monitors an individual system. The control unit provides local control and alarms, and also sends status reports and/or alarms to a remote monitoring center via a telemetry device. The remote monitoring center makes information concerning... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080201019 - Method and computer software code for optimized fuel efficiency emission output and mission performance of a powered system: A method for operating at least one powered system having at least one power generating unit that may be a part of at least one of a fleet and a network of powered systems, the method including evaluating an operating characteristic of the at least one power generating unit, comparing... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20080201020 - Adaptive provision of protection function settings of electrical machines: A protection setting determiner (118) adaptively updates settings of protection functions in memory of a protection device (106) that protects a machine (102) that provides power to a power system (104), wherein the settings are updated based at least in part upon sensed data acquired during operation of the machine... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080201021 - Fault electric arc protection circuits and method for detecting fault electric arc: The present invention relates to an fault electric arc protection circuits which comprising a power source, a signal sampling device, a signal processing module, an arc detection control device and a power cut-off module; the signal sampling device comprising a matching resistor R3 and a current transformer without iron core;... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20080195234 - Control assembly, in particular for the top part of automobile vehicle steering column: The invention concerns a control assembly, in particular for motor vehicle steering column top portion (1), comprising several switching modules (7; 9; 13; 15) and a microcontroller (19) mounted on a motherboard (17) for interpreting a switching state based on the identifier of the module to deliver an appropriate control... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080195235 - System, method and program for dynamic control and optimization of a process having manipulated and controlled variables: A system, method and computer program are provided for controlling and optimizing the operation of a process having a plurality of independently controlled, manipulated variables and at least one controlled variable dependent on the manipulated variables. The system, method and program input specified constraints for a linear program optimizer to... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080195236 - Apparatus and method for proportional-integral-derivative control: A PID controlling apparatus and method for providing a control value to a control object according to the difference between an output value of the control object and a target value are provided, in which an error calculator outputs an error value between the target value and the output value... Agent: Cha & Reiter, Llc

20080195237 - Store management system, stone control device, store control method, management server, management method and program: A sensor 1 measures environmental information. A management server 11 stores the environmental information in a storage unit not shown. The management server 11 predicts environmental information after a predetermined time from the present time on the environmental information stored in the storage unit, and determines advance control operations for... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080195238 - Storage medium storing questionnaire answering program and questionnaire answer system: A game apparatus includes a CPU, and the CPU executes a questionnaire application. In the game apparatus, a player object utilized in the application is registered, and each player object makes an answer to a questionnaire. Information of the questionnaire answered by the player object is managed by corresponding player... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.c.

20080195239 - Collaborative playlist system and method: A method and computer program product for monitoring a listening history of a first user. A listening history of at least a second user is monitored. At least a portion of the listening history of the first user is combined with at least a portion of the listening history of... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080195240 - Method of designing orthopedic plates and plates made in accordance with the method: The present invention relates to a method of designing an orthopedic implant in which a plurality of samples of the bone are selected and a CT scan of each of the samples of the bone is taken so that the data from the CT scan can be used to generate... Agent: Hudak, Shunk & Farine, Co., L.p.a.

20080195241 - Method and system for wafer lot order: Methods and systems for wafer lot ordering using including estimation of allowable queue time based on utilization loss and rework percentage have been achieved. The method invented comprises steps of ranking lots, allocating equipment to the exit step of queue time, calculating and determining the optimal allowable queue time based... Agent: Stephen B. Ackerman

20080195242 - Method, computer program product and apparatus for configuring a gauge display: An apparatus for configuring a gauge includes a gauge building element and a gauge driver. The gauge building element may be configured to receive user selection of one or more characteristics of a gauge at least partially defining at least one of a gauge skin or a indicator skin of... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080195243 - Method and system for improving critical dimension uniformity: A method for improving critical dimension of a substrate is provided. Manufacturing data of a plurality of critical dimension deviations corresponding to a plurality of areas on the substrate is collected. A plurality of sensitivity data corresponding to the plurality of areas is also collected. A plurality of exposure dosage... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080195244 - Apparatus for detecting manufacturing parameters of a machine tool: An apparatus for detecting manufacturing parameters of a machine tool is provided, which comprises at least a sensing and transmitting module, and a receiving module. The sensing and transmitting module has a sensor and a wireless transmitting module. The sensor generates a sensing signal with respect to processing parameter of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080195245 - Identifying quality molded article based on determination of plug blow: Disclosed is: (i) a method of a molding system, (ii) a method of a controller of a molding system, (iii) a method of an article of manufacture of a controller of a molding system, (iv) a method of a network-transmittable signal of a controller of a molding system, (v) a... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20080195246 - Centralized sterile drug products distribution and automated management of sterile compounding stations: Central management of dose order preparation retrieves an unprocessed dose order record, selects a workstation from a set of workstations, forwards the order for conversion into a drug dosage form, and repeats the process for additional unprocessed dose order records. Depending on the operation type of the selected workstation (manual,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080195247 - Method for combined disposal and dispensing of medical items: A system and method related to dispensing and disposing medical items is provided. The dispensing portion is generally configured to dispense medical items stored within compartments based on dispensing instructions. The disposal portion is generally configured to sort waste items into a plurality of containers according to applicable rules and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080195248 - Method and apparatus for moving material: A method and apparatus for moving magnetic material includes an electromagnet for lifting the magnetic material where upon its release, the residual magnetic flux of the lifted magnetic material is reduced. The apparatus includes a generator coupled to the electromagnet. The generator includes a control input and an armature having... Agent: Factor & Lake, Ltd

20080195249 - Radiopharmaceutical dispensing, administration, and imaging: Apparatus is provided for use with at least one labeled radiopharmaceutical agent, the apparatus including a container (22) containing the at least one labeled radiopharmaceutical agent, and a portable computer-communicatable data carrier (120, 24) associated with the container (22), the data carrier (120, 24) containing imaging protocol information for use... Agent: Wolf, Block, Shorr And Solis-cohen LLP

20080195250 - System and method for making paints from prepaints: A manufacturing system for making paints from prepaints, along with a method related thereto.... Agent: Rohm And Haas Company Patent Department

20080195251 - Beverage control system: Pourer (14) including a beverage dispensing controller (23) including a pinch valve solenoid (40, 83) to control the dispensing of a beverage; a cap (21) includes a locking system to releasably secure the cap to a beverage container (12). The cap has a cap body (31) having an outer duct... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20080195252 - Device for dispensing beverages in glasses: A dispensing machine with one or more dispensing stations, each provided with a transceiver antenna connected to the programmed electronic unit of the machine. Each dispensing station accommodates a bottle of beverage to be dispensed, having a transponder card, bearing information and/or parameters of the beverage contained therein, which, read... Agent: Modiano & Associati

20080195253 - Robot for cleaning wall/window: A robot according to the present invention cleans the outer surface of a window/wall by performing automatic movement along the outer surface of the window/wall while being vacuum-sucked onto the outer surface. The robot includes a moving unit for moving the robot in a first direction, a direction changing unit... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080195254 - Building management system and a method thereof: The present invention relates to a building management system and a method thereof, the system including: a building management controller for controlling the building management by integrating power distribution, an air conditioning system, energy management, etc., and a BACnet gateway for transmitting control messages of the multi-type air conditioners which... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080195255 - Utility grid, controller, and method for controlling the power generation in a utility grid: A utility grid is provided, the utility grid comprising a centralized control means, an intermittent renewable energy source for generating electrical power: at least one further power generation system; and at least one local controller for controlling the total power output of said intermittent renewable energy source and said as... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080195256 - Method for controlling a refrigerator appliance: A method for controlling a refrigerator having at least two compartments and actuators adapted to maintain temperatures of said compartments close to predetermined set values comprises a comparison between a signal (CCR) indicative of the cooling request of each compartment and a signal variable according to a predetermined carrier function.... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080188953 - Method for operating machines with adaptable motion profiles: For operating controlled machines, a slave motion of at least one movable machine element of the machine is controlled using a motion profile specific to that motion, and this motion profile of the motion of the machine element is subdivided into a plurality of profile segments. The profile segments are... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080188954 - Machine operator interface having linked help feature: An operator interface for a machine is disclosed. The operator interface may have an operator interface device for receiving operator input corresponding to a requested machine function, wherein a machine function signal is generated in response to the received operator input. The operator interface may also have a help request... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080188955 - Control systems and methods for virtual power plants: Systems and methods for the control of distributed systems are presented, particularly virtual power plants. Control software therefore communicates through an interface with decentralized devices. Modules are provided to formulate strategies based on predicted demand for the system, for controlling individual system devices, for system evaluation, for accounting purposes and... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Foley & Lardner, LLP

20080188956 - Module structure and use for industrial control systems: A logical module for an industrial automation system is provided. This includes one or more resources to perform an action and a logic component to control a state of the resources. A module employs the resources and the logic component to expose functionality of the module while providing generic interfaces... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080188957 - Adaptive multivariable mpc controller with lp constraints: A method is disclosed for developing and using a high-speed adaptive multivariable controller by removing the dynamics of the PID controllers from a Model Predictive Controller that was developed using identification testing of a process. The resulting multivariable controller, based on final control elements as the manipulated variables is then... Agent: M. A. Ervin & Associates

20080188958 - Using historical data to estimate wear profiles of consumable wear products: An example method for estimating a wear profile of a consumable wear product used in conjunction with the processing of ore includes obtaining historical data related to wear of the consumable wear product, building a historical wear model based on the historical data, and obtaining a current single measurement point... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080188959 - Method for control of a device: The invention describes a method for control of a device (D1, D2). This method comprises the steps of: aiming a pointing device (1) comprising a camera (2) and a source (3) of invisible light in the direction of an object (O1, O2, O3) associated with the device (D1, D2) to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080188960 - Methods and module class objects to configure absent equipment in process plants: Methods and module class objects to configure equipment absences in process plants are disclosed. An example disclosed method of creating a configuration entity for use in configuring a process plant comprises creating a class object representative of a process entity within the process plant that includes a first data structure... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080188961 - Gemstone weight calculating method and system: A method of calculating a weight of a gemstone via an electronic device by selecting at least one gemstone characteristic from a list of predetermined gemstone characteristics wherein the device calculates a weight of a gemstone by processing the at least one gemstone characteristic within a gemstone weight algorithm and... Agent: Edward M. Livingston, Pa

20080188962 - Vascular image extraction and labeling system and method: A technique for producing a three-dimensional segmented image of blood vessels and automatically labeling the blood vessels. A scanned image of the head is obtained and an algorithm is used to segment the blood vessel image data from the image data of other tissues in the image. An algorithm is... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20080188963 - Distributed object-oriented appliance control system: The invention relates to an object-oriented control system for an appliance, configurable by a configuration mechanism in selective operable communication with a plurality of object oriented control systems using a packet protocol for constructing messages comprising identifiers from a plurality of namespaces associated with the building blocks of object-oriented systems.... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20080188966 - Apparatus, method, and computer program for recording and reproducing digital data: A media player/recorder, and a method and computer program product for same comprises a wireless receiver to receive a signal representing encoded media data; a storage device to store the encoded media data; a processor comprising a storage controller to retrieve the encoded media data from the storage device, and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20080188967 - Music transcription: Methods, systems, and devices are described for automatically converting audio input signal data into musical score representation data. Embodiments of the invention identify a change in frequency information from the audio signal that exceeds a first threshold value; identify a change in amplitude information from the audio signal that exceeds... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080188964 - Procedure and apparatus for generating automatic replay of recordings: The invention relates to the automatic generation of playlists based on a collection of digital recordings and a desire to listen to a particular artist or genre, or to re-create the mood generated by a particular recording. The procedure comprises automatic analysis of the musical content expressed as combinations of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080188965 - Remote audio device network system and method: A remote audio device network (RADN) provides a high-value solution for connecting remote audio input and output devices to audio processing equipment in a control/rack room. Costs are kept low through the use of Category 5 (CAT 5) unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cabling and standard technologies for digital audio, control... Agent: Jablonski Law Group

20080188968 - Sound data processing apparatus: A sound data processing apparatus includes a decoder for performing decoding processing of sound data, an interface unit connected to an external memory, a data transfer control unit for reading the sound data from the external memory mounted on the interface unit to transfer the read sound data to the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080188969 - Reusable data constructs for a modeling system: Reusing design data in a computer-aided design model includes automatically analyzing a computer-aided design file to identify a set of elements, storing information corresponding to each element in a manner enabling querying and retrieval of the information, presenting one element in a user interface upon retrieval of the information corresponding... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080188971 - Method for electronically operating two machine tools: There is described a method for electronically operating a machine tool which comprises an electronic machine tool control and is positioned on a working place. Said machine tool is connected, through a data connection, to a server platform which is independent of the working place and on which software model... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080188970 - Methods and arrangement for creating recipes using best-known methods: A method for affecting a creation of a recipe for processing a substrate in a processing system is provided. The method includes providing a best-know method driven recipe editor. The best-known method driven recipe editor incorporates best-known methods (BKMs), which are best practice specifications for the recipe. The method also... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20080188975 - Control system for monitoring plastics injection molding machines: A control system for monitoring plastics injection molding machines having a multiwire electric cable connecting the electronic central control unit of the machine to both the electric power unit of the machine and to the thermocouples arranged on the liquid-plastic injection device of the machine. The control system having a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080188972 - Method and system for detecting faults in a process plant: In methods and systems that may facilitate detecting abnormal operation in a process plant, values of a plurality of process variables may be analyzed to determine whether any of a plurality of faults associated with the process plant exist. If one or more faults are detected, one or more indicators... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080188973 - Method for analyzing operation of a machine: A constraint analysis and reliability agent executes a method for analyzing operation of a manufacturing asset, and includes the steps of collecting operation data for a machine over a plurality of predetermined time periods. The operation data includes a plurality of mutually exclusive events that describe operation of the machine.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20080188974 - Multi-dimensional serial containment process: A computer implemented method, an apparatus, and computer usable program product for identifying a defective product is provided. A data processing system identifies a product status for products comprising at least one range of serial numbers. The data processing system then narrows the at least one range of serial numbers... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080188976 - Method and apparatus for operating controlled machines: In a method for operating controlled machines, a motion of at least one movable machine element of the machine is controlled using a motion profile specific to that motion, and this motion profile of the motion of the machine element is subdivided into a plurality of profile segments. Each of... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080188977 - Processing, storage and distribution system for perishable food products: A distribution system for perishable or contaminable food products includes automated storage apparatus for storing articles in a temperature controlled environment. The apparatus includes a number of product carrying shelves arranged on a carousel. The shelves are moveable by rotation of the carousel to facilitate placement or removal of articles... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080188978 - Method and system for mitigating errors when processing print stream data: A method and system for processing data indicative of pages of mailpiece content material, and for printing pages “on demand” for use in a mailpiece inserter. The method comprises the steps of: (i) transmitting data from the application software to a print processor along read and write paths and (ii)... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080188979 - Systems, methods and products for shipping passenger/individual belongings for travel: Described are systems, methods and products for the shipment of passenger or other traveler containers, e.g. containing personal items for use during travel. In certain aspects, systems and methods for such shipment involve the use of transport vessels other than those that will be occupied by a passenger during travel,... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080188980 - Vending system for gas tank: An automatic vending system for gas tanks is provided herein. The vending system contains a container assembly having a number of containers. Each container contains a door sensor to sense whether the door to the container is opened, an electronic lock to lock and unlock the door, an availability indicator... Agent: Leong C Lei

20080188983 - Calibration device and method for robot mechanism: A calibration device and method for automatically determining the position and the orientation of a robot used for measurement. First, an initial position of a preliminary position is generated based on a designated basic position, and it is judged whether the initial position is within an operation range of the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080188981 - Cell auditing system and method for storage library systems: operating the picker in a manner to search for the presence of the radio emitting chip within each cell for auditing numbers of cartridges and empty cells in the storage library system by moving the picker with the radio frequency sensor from one cell to the next to measure the... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080188982 - Vacuum traction device system and method of use: A system is described for performing work or maintenance on a structure having an inclined working surface that includes a support robot for positioning at a high point on the structure and a payload robot attached to the support robot by an umbilical or tension cord for maneuvering along the... Agent: Jason M. Hunt Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20080188984 - Methods to prevent wheel slip in an autonomous floor cleaner: Tread structures, wave motion navigational controls, and ramp up recovery controls are provided to an autonomous floor cleaner to reduce wheel slippage. The floor cleaner delivers liquid to the floor as part of the cleaning process. Wheels on the device are provided with relatively deep peripheral grooves to minimize the... Agent: S.c. Johnson & Son, Inc.

20080188985 - Robot control unit for stopping a movement of a robot according to a force detection value detected by a force sensor: A robot control unit (10) having a designated speed adjusting means for adjusting a designated speed, which is contained in a robot command program, to a value not more than the designated speed, comprises: a decoding means (38) for decoding a movement stopping command of stopping a movement of the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080188986 - Method and system to provide improved accuracies in multi-jointed robots through kinematic robot model parameters determination: A method and system to provide improved accuracies in multi jointed robots through kinematic robot model parameters determination are disclosed. The present invention calibrates multi-jointed robots by using the chain rule for differentiation in the Jacobian derivation for variations in calculated poses of reference points of a reference object as... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20080188987 - Systems and methods for optimal component composition in a stream processing system: A system and method are provided for optimizing component composition in a distributed stream-processing environment having a plurality of nodes capable of being associated with one or more of a plurality of stream processing components. The system includes an adaptive composition probing (ACP) module and a hierarchical state manager. The... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080188988 - Multi-purpose computer system for locking mechanism and method: Multi-purpose computers positioned throughout the facility are interfaced to respective locking mechanisms to operate the respective locking mechanism in response to access codes, which may be transmitted over the network. Additional steps may involve programming an authorization computer for providing all or part of the access codes in whole or... Agent: Browning Bushman P.C.

20080188989 - Integrated management system and method for controlling multi-type air conditioners: An integrated management system for controlling multi-type air conditioners can effectively enable to perform maintenance, management and after-service to at least one air conditioner systems by adding provision for product information into a communication protocol such that operation information and product information related to multi-type air conditioners from the at... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080188990 - Apparatus and method for controlling temperature in a chuck system: An apparatus and method of controlling the temperature of a thermal chuck system are disclosed. The system includes a temperature controller which controls a temperature transition in a thermal chuck. The temperature controller comprises inputs that receive air and fluid from an air source and water source, respectively, and an... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080188991 - Fluid supply monitoring system: A method for monitoring a fluid supply system includes detecting a fluid flow through the fluid supply system, and monitoring at least a length of time the fluid flow has flown without interruption, a total volume of the fluid flow that has flown, and a flow rate of the fluid... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20080188992 - Medium-voltage or high-voltage switchgear comprising at least one switching device: The disclosure relates to a medium-voltage or high-voltage switchgear comprising at least one switching device. The aim is to enable the associated switchgear to be functionally integrated with the greatest possible technical functional comfort. To this end, the switching device or the switching devices is/are respectively provided with a data... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080188993 - Power source management apparatus: Disclosed is a power source management apparatus including: a receiving section to receive information about a consumed electric power value in a predetermined area; a transmitting section to transmit a control instruction to an image forming apparatus; and a control section to allow the transmitting section to transmit an instruction... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080188994 - Fan speed control from adaptive voltage supply: Measurement circuit components are included in an integrated circuit fabricated on a semiconductor substrate. A method is provided for controlling the speed of a cooling fan provided to cool an integrated circuit in which includes the steps of receiving a voltage from a thermal diode, addressing a table of digital... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080188995 - Water heater monitor/diagnostic display apparatus: A water heater is provided with monitor/diagnostic display apparatus that selectively provides a user with visual or other type of indicia of the remaining hot water availability of, the recovery time for, and the overall efficiency of the water heater. The apparatus includes a monitoring unit that may be mounted... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP