Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications inventions 12/08

20080319554 - Real world object control in connected systems: The invention is directed towards providing control in a first computerised control system of a real world object provided in a second computerised control system that is connected to the first system. The real world object is represented in the second system by an originating container being linked to originating... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080319555 - Method for evaluating, an automation system and a controller: The invention relates to a method for evaluating an application for controlling a process within an automation system. The application is stored within a controller, and at least two versions of it are present within the controller. The method comprises the steps of: inputting to the different versions of the... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080319556 - Intelligent device control system: A device for controlling devices in a monitored space. A sensor senses an event in an initial state indicating an occupant may be present in the monitored space. A switch activates the controlled device in response to the sensed event. A processor enables the device to change from the initial... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP

20080319557 - Program-controlled process: A drilling machine drills at a multiplicity of target locations on a component. Two robots, calibrated with calibration data, move the component in a 6-D coordinate system. A metrology system ascertains the position of the component relative to the drilling machine. The movement of the robots is effected by means... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080319558 - Global optimization by continuous greedy randomized adaptive search procedure: Disclosed are method and apparatus for generating a global minimum value of a function representing a characteristic of a system comprising at least one object, wherein the function is based at least in part on a set of data elements within a bounded domain. At an initial randomly chosen data... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080319559 - Apparatus and method for transferring two or more wafers whereby the positions of the wafers can be measured: A method and an apparatus for transferring a substantially flat and substantially circular objects, such as wafers, from a pick-up position to a delivery position, the apparatus comprising, a manipulator, at least one source for emitting a source signal, at least one sensor for sensing said source signal and for... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080319560 - Automated recipe composer: Disclosed in the present invention is a way to automatically combine a recipe with an automated recipe composer.... Agent: Michael Ries

20080319563 - Audio coding apparatus and audio decoding apparatus: An audio coding apparatus includes an audio coding unit 101 for, when it has received an audio signal input, performing coding to the audio signal input and outputting coded audio data and coding related data which is data relating to the coding, as specific data, an ancillary audio coding unit... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080319561 - Portable digital media device with a force sensor: There is provided a portable digital media device, including: a storage device; a force sensor coupled to the storage device; a display; and a controller coupled to both the storage device and the display, wherein the display shows information. The device may also be used as a cursor control and... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20080319562 - Single user input mechanism for controlling electronic device operations: A unique input mechanism for controlling several operations of an electronic device is provided. Using the unique input mechanism, which may be the single input mechanism for providing user inputs to the electronic device, a user may provide different inputs or combinations of inputs to control different operations based on... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080319564 - Sound processing system for configuration of audio signals in a vehicle: A sound processing system for a vehicle includes a sound processor that is configured to mix at least one real audio input signal to form at least one virtual output signal. At least one audio signal that is available to drive at least one loudspeaker may be formed using the... Agent: Harman - Brinks Hofer Indy Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080319565 - System and methods for managing process flow changes: A computer program product for performing automated error checking in an automated production line, includes instructions for: receiving change information for changing a production process; comparing the change information to standard information for the production process; and reporting information from the comparing. Manufacturing execution software and a system for employing... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20080319566 - Custom package wrap: One method embodiment herein inputs a package size and a package wrap pattern. The method calculates a sheet size corresponding to the package size, and prints the sheet of package wrap. The sheet of package wrap has the package wrap pattern and can have fold markings corresponding to corners of... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080319567 - Location based programming and data management in an automated environment: A method and system for providing information related to a set of automated resources that may cooperate in an environment to perform an automated process, the method comprising the steps of associating a specific environment location with the automated process, determining the locations of resources with respect to the specific... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc. Attention: Susan M. Donahue

20080319569 - Lithographic projection apparatus and method for controlling a support structure: A control system controls a support structure of a lithographic apparatus. A first measurement system measures the position of a substrate supported by the support structure, in a first coordinate system. A second measurement system measures the position of the support structure in a second coordinate system, the first measurement... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080319568 - Method and system for creating array defect paretos using electrical overlay of bitfail maps, photo limited yield, yield, and auto pattern recognition code data: A method for creating defect array paretos for semiconductor manufacturing, the method includes: merging a set of ETPLY data {the electrical overlay of bitfail map (BFM) data with inline photo inspection (PLY) data), and auto pattern recognition code (APRC) failure data to create an electrical failure data set along with... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20080319570 - System and method for fastener installation: A system for monitoring installation of fasteners in an assembly process utilizes printed symbology, such as a barcode, to uniquely identify the location at which a fastener will be installed. An installation tool includes torque measuring capability and further includes a reader capable of reading the printed symbology. The output... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080319571 - Method and device for controlling and regulating a hollow body manufacturing unit: A method for controlling and regulating a unit for producing hollow bodies, including a compressor, a blowing machine and a control unit, which controls both the compressor and the blowing machine. A system also provided for returning blast air from the finished blown container to the compressor. Also, a device... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080319572 - Method and apparatus for operating terminal: An apparatus and method for operating a terminal, are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes receiving angle adjustment information of a terminal; and automatically controlling a position of the terminal according to the angle adjustment information.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080319573 - Method and system for optimizing containers in a block: A method for optimizing the position of a plurality of containers in a block, including at least one crane configured to move the containers is provided. A crane control unit (CCU) is provided in which the following steps are performed: identifying a selected container to be moved from a current... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080319574 - Method and device for transporting objects to distribution points: An apparatus for controlling transportation of objects provided with machine-readable codes to specified distribution points by means of a transport vehicle includes a reading device and a determination unit. The transport vehicle has a rack module for accommodating the objects, wherein the rack module has a plurality of levels. The... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20080319575 - Handling of multi-use item systems, methods, and devices: Systems, methods, and devices are described related to the assignment and management of patient-specific bins. A dispensing device at a healthcare facility includes a number of bins for storage of medical supplies, with some of the bins designated as patient-specific bins allocated to be assigned to patients for storage of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080319578 - Handling of patient's own medicine systems, methods, and devices: Systems, methods, and devices are described related to the assignment and management of patient-specific bins. A dispensing device at a healthcare facility includes a number of bins for storage of medical supplies, with some of the bins designated as patient-specific bins allocated to be assigned to patients for storage of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080319577 - Removal or return of items associated with a patient-specific bin systems and methods: Systems, methods, and devices are described related to the assignment and management of patient-specific bins. A dispensing device at a healthcare facility includes a number of bins for storage of medical supplies, with some of the bins designated as patient-specific bins allocated to be assigned to patients for storage of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080319576 - Status designation for dispensing device systems and methods: Systems, methods, and devices are described related to the assignment and management of patient-specific bins. A dispensing device at a healthcare facility includes a number of bins for storage of medical supplies, with some of the bins designated as patient-specific bins allocated to be assigned to patients for storage of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080319581 - Bin allocation systems, methods, and devices: Systems, methods, and devices are described related to the assignment and management of patient-specific bins. A dispensing device at a healthcare facility includes a number of bins for storage of medical supplies, with some of the bins designated as patient-specific bins allocated to be assigned to patients for storage of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080319580 - Identifying items for restocking of a dispensing device systems and methods: Systems, methods, and devices are described related to the assignment and management of patient-specific bins. A dispensing device at a healthcare facility includes a number of bins for storage of medical supplies, with some of the bins designated as patient-specific bins allocated to be assigned to patients for storage of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080319579 - Patient-specific bin systems, methods, and devices: Systems, methods, and devices are described related to the assignment and management of patient-specific bins. A dispensing device at a healthcare facility includes a number of bins for storage of medical supplies, with some of the bins designated as patient-specific bins allocated to be assigned to patients for storage of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080319582 - Device for in-line process control during the production of emulsions or dispersions: Disclosed is a device for on-line process control during the production of emulsions or dispersions. Said device comprises a vessel for accommodating an emulsion or dispersion, a stirring tool located in the vessel for generating a stirring input into the emulsion or dispersion, an apparatus for continuously measuring the stirring... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080319583 - Method for on-line monitoring and control of polymerization processes and reactors to prevent discontinuity events: Generally, a method of monitoring a polymerization reaction in a fluid bed reactor to generate, in on-line fashion, data indicative of the imminent occurrence of a discontinuity event (for example, sheeting) and optionally also control the reaction to prevent the occurrence of the discontinuity event is provided. Typical embodiments include... Agent: Univation Technologies, LLC

20080319584 - Procedure for controlling an injection valve: The invention concerns a procedure for controlling an injection valve, at which the injection valve is supplied with current that is provided by a condenser during a holding phase, at which the injection valve is kept open. The invention further concerns a device for controlling an injection valve, which is... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080319585 - Modular and expandable irrigation controller: Described herein are several embodiments relating to modular irrigation controllers. In many implementations, the irrigation controllers are modular in that various functional components of the irrigation controller are implemented in removable modules that when inserted into position within the controller, expand the capabilities of the controller. Also described are various... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080319586 - On-site power plant control including adaptive response to transient load requirements: An on-site power plant (24) has a controller (40) that selectively controls operation of prime movers (26, 28, 30). In one example, the controller (40) changes the number of operating prime movers responsive to a transient in a load (22) requirement while continuing to operate at least one of the... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20080319587 - Thermal control system and method: A system and method for controlling the temperature of a process tool uses the vaporizable characteristic of a refrigerant that is provided in direct heat exchange relation with the process tool. Pressurized refrigerant is provided as both condensed liquid and in gaseous state. The condensed liquid is expanded to a... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20080319588 - Method and control arrangement for terminating accidental switch on of a deep fryer apparatus not filled with oil: Method and control arrangement for terminating an accidental switch on of a deep fryer apparatus when it is not filled with oil, the apparatus comprises a vessel having closed bottom and sides, and a horizontally formed electric heating element for direct contact with the oil within the vessel. At one... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20080312754 - System and method for command execution handling: System and method for controlling at least one device such as for example an operator for a door, a gate, a window, blinds, shutters, a curtain, an awning or a light source including a controllable unit associated with the at least one device and a plurality of nodes for transmitting... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080312755 - Safe plc, sequence program creation support software and sequence program judgment method: Preparation supporting software for sequence programs in a safety PLC capable of rewriting sequence programs, wherein the preparation supporting software for sequence programs judges whether or not an output section corresponding to an object sequence program is of the configuration ensured to be safe, based on input device kind information,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080312756 - Virtual sensor system and method: A method is provide for providing sensors for a machine. The method may include obtaining data records including data from a plurality of sensors for the machine and determining a virtual sensor corresponding to one of the plurality of sensors. The method may also include establishing a virtual sensor process... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080312763 - Ad hoc selection of voice over internet streams: A method and apparatus for a communication system technique involving ad hoc selection of at least two audio streams is provided. Each of the at least two audio streams is a packetized version of an audio source. A data connection exists between a server and a client where a transport... Agent: Nasa Johnson Space Center

20080312761 - Audio playing apparatus and audio playing method: An audio playing apparatus that plays a multiplexed audio stream resulting from the multiplexing of multiple kinds of audio is disclosed. The apparatus can be switched at least between a mixing output mode for mixing decoded data or uncompressed data of the audio streams of multiple kinds of audio and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080312758 - Coding of sparse digital media spectral data: An audio encoder/decoder provides efficient compression of spectral transform coefficient data characterized by sparse spectral peaks. The audio encoder/decoder applies a temporal prediction of the frequency position of spectral peaks. The spectral peaks in the transform coefficients that are predicted from those in a preceding transform coding block are encoded... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080312759 - Flexible frequency and time partitioning in perceptual transform coding of audio: An audio encoder/decoder performs band partitioning for vector quantization encoding of spectral holes and missing high frequencies that result from quantization when encoding at low bit rates. The encoder/decoder determines a band structure for spectral holes based on two threshold parameters: a minimum hole size threshold and a maximum band... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080312762 - Media playing device: A media playing device includes a housing with a cylindrical end and a middle portion, a knob, a PCB, a cover, and an attachment means. The end has a reduced diameter with respect to the middle portion, thus forming a step, and has an opening. The knob has a cylindrical... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080312760 - Method and system for generating and processing digital content based on text-to-speech conversion: A method and system is provided for generating digital content using text-to-speech (TTS) conversion. A predetermined script is selected using a portable terminal or user personal computer (PC). A format for converting the selected script into an audio data file is determined. The selected script is generated into the audio... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080312764 - Methods and systems for explicit representation of composite structures: A three dimensional Computer Aided Design (CAD) model of a composite part to include a plurality of plies is described. The model includes an explicit representation for each individual ply utilized to form the composite part, where each individual ply is created as one of a solid or tessellated volume.... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080312757 - Enhanced tool for managing a process control network: A process control configuration and management system provides a plurality of function blocks representing a plurality of devices in relation to a spatial layout of a facility in which the process control system is implemented. The configuration and management system also provides process control information and process simulation information related... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080312765 - Design and production of garments: A customer body scan is used to produce a body model. The body model is matched to the best fitting one of a family of standard body models. In one arrangement, that family is a series of standard size models. In another arrangement, the family is a series of body... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080312766 - Route modifications: A computer system and media for delivering routing information are provided. The computer system includes a routing engine, a database, and routing network that are employed to respond to routing requests and user modifications of routing information received in response to the routing requests. The routing engine receives the routing... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080312767 - Automated prescription filling system/method with automated labeling and packaging system/method and automated order consolidation system/method: Computer assisted systems, methods and mediums for filling one or more orders. One embodiment of the present invention is a system that includes an order consolidation station configured to receive at least one bottle containing pills individually counted and/or at least one package containing pharmaceutical products without having been designated... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080312768 - Devices and methods for detecting hazardous materials: A container screening system that uses multiple orthogonal sensors for detecting hazardous materials, such as liquid explosives and precursors of liquid explosives, in sealed containers. The container screening system comprises a first sensor that detects materials inside the container using a first detection technology, a second sensor that detects materials... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080312769 - Fitting apparatus: A fitting apparatus includes a robot arm having, at the forward end thereof, a gripper for holding a workpiece, a force detector for detecting a force and moment received by the workpiece held by the gripper, and a controller for controlling an operation of the robot arm. The controller includes... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080312770 - Camera and animation controller, systems and methods: Novel controllers for filmmaking and/or animation, as well as systems and methods for their use. In a set of embodiments, a controller has an actuator (e.g., a joystick, etc.) that receives input from a user for controlling an object, such as a camera, a light, an animated character, etc. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080312771 - Robots with occlusion avoidance functionality: A method for controlling a robot having at least one visual sensor. A target for a motion of the robot is defined. A motion control signal adapted for the robot reaching the target is calculated. A collision avoidance control signal based on the closest points of segments of the robot... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080312772 - Motion control system, motion control method, and motion control program: The present invention provides a motion control system control a motion of a second motion body by considering an environment which a human contacts and a motion mode appropriate to the environment, and an environment which a robot actually contacts. The motion mode is learned based on an idea that... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080312773 - Barrier-free appliance: The present invention provides a method for barrier-free control of a household appliance, said method comprising, providing a program-controlled household appliance with a control panel having a plurality of operating program selectors for selecting programs of appliance operations and corresponding program cycles controlled by a micro controller, a memory component... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080312774 - Process of controlling an operation of electric kettle: A process of controlling an operation of an electric kettle includes the steps of initializing a microprocessor to detect a water temperature via a temperature sensor to set a system parameter; checking a status of a control circuit; determining a preserve temperature of the water; verifying the temperature sensor to... Agent: David And Raymond Patent Firm

20080306613 - Safety unit, controller system, connection method of controllers, control method of the controller system and monitor method of the controller system: Safety units 1d to 1f for executing a safety function processing are connected to a non-safety controller constituted by connecting a plurality of units 1b, 1c including CPU units 1a. A CPU bus 10 to be connected with the CPU units and a safety dedicated bus 11 for mutually connecting... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080306614 - Four sensor control: Combinations of four sensors control an object, enabling movement for robots, toys, video games, etc. Activating four sensors independently controls an object in four different directions. Multiple methods of using only four sensors to control the state of an object in a two dimensional environment or a three dimensional environment.... Agent: Thomas Michael Behunin

20080306615 - Control device of substrate processing apparatus and control program therefor: A control device is provided that flexibly controls a substrate processing apparatus for each product process. Four process recipes PM 1 to PM 4 are stored in a first storage unit 255a. Corresponding to each of the process recipes, a high temperature, a medium temperature, and a low temperature pre-recipe... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080306616 - Control apparatus with a balance feedback function: A control apparatus with a balance feedback function includes a direction control module for outputting several direction signals of different directions; an operation control module outputting several control signals of different operations; a balance control module for detecting the control apparatus and presetting a tilting angle between horizontal planes to... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080306617 - Core object-oriented type system for semi-structured data: A type system employing structural subtyping is disclosed herein. A core type system supports several structural types, such as stream, choice, intersection and sequence. Also part of the core type system is a new invariant type, which denotes values whose dynamic type is the same as its static type, and... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080306618 - Car-use extended device and setting method for operation interface of car-use control system: A car-use extended device is applied to electrically communicate to a car-use audio device to form a car-use control system, so as to simulate a user-to-machine operation interface for controlling an electronic computing device installed with an operation system to execute at least one preset assignment. The car-use audio device... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080306619 - Systems and methods for synchronizing music: The present invention relates to music systems. In particular, the present invention relates to music systems capable of altering the rate of play (e.g., beats per time interval) of a musical piece such that it matches a user's rate of movement per time interval.... Agent: Casimir Jones, S.c.

20080306620 - Method for machining a workpiece: The invention relates to a method for machining a workpiece (20) on a numerically controlled machining device (9), whereby two or more machining steps (11, 12, 13) are provided for machining the workpiece (20). A machining data record (28) for controlling and/or adjusting the numerically controlled machining device (9) can... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC Henry M Feiereisen

20080306621 - Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus control system and statistical process control method thereof: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus control system and a statistical process control method thereof increase reliability. A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus control system includes a plurality of unit process devices for performing various semiconductor unit processes; a plurality of measuring devices for measuring a pattern characteristic of wafer completed in respective unit... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080306622 - Machine and method for pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical-like product assembly: A method and apparatus for assembling a plurality of independently formed solid components is provided thereby forming a single delivery vehicle for a pharmaceutical or pharmaceutical-like product. The solid components can be held and fed to the apparatus via a plurality of magazines. Pusher rods and the like can be... Agent: Smithkline Beecham Corporation Corporate Intellectual Property-us, Uw2220

20080306624 - Advanced finishing control: A factory, an apparatus, and methods of using an in situ finishing information for finishing workpieces and semiconductor wafers are described. Changes or improvements to cost of manufacture of a workpiece using current in-process cost of manufacture information, tracked current in-process cost of manufacture information, or current cost of manufacture... Agent: Charles J. Molnar

20080306623 - Method for automatically checking sequence of loading boats and batches for semiconductor manufacturing process: A method for automatically checking a sequence of loading boats and batches for a semiconductor manufacturing process is provided. According to a developed logic, a loading sequence is automatically calculated by a system. By comparing the actual loading sequence with the calculated sequence when the boats are entering, it is... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080306625 - Dual-phase virtual metrology method: A dual-phase virtual metrology method is disclosed for considering both promptness and accuracy by generating dual-phase virtual metrology (VM) values, wherein a Phase-I conjecture step emphasizes promptness by immediately calculating the Phase-I virtual metrology value (VMI) of a workpiece once the entire process data of the workpiece are completely collected;... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20080306626 - Feedback-based document handling control system: A method and system for performing sheet registration are disclosed. Output values for a sheet may be identified within a reference frame. A difference between each output value and a corresponding desired output value may be determined. Input values may be determined based on at least the differences. State feedback... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080306628 - Multi-modal push planner for humanoid robots: Multi-modal planning method and system that search a path for the most constrained mode first, and then expands the searches for path in a less constrained mode. By searching the path for the most constrained mode first, less resource are wasted on searching for paths that does not result in... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20080306629 - Robot apparatus and output control method thereof: The present invention relates to a robot apparatus and an output control method adapted for the robot apparatus. The method includes steps of: receiving radio frequency (RF) signals of identification (ID) codes from several wireless communication devices within a predetermined area and time period; sensing people and obtaining the number... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080306627 - System and method for generating robot genome: A system and method for generating a robot genome. Internal state attribute preferences of internal states and behavior preferences are input by a user, and a set of one or more robot genomes containing initial values of genes is generated. A masking process of each robot genome of the generated... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080306630 - System of manipulators and method for controlling such a system: A system of manipulators including several manipulators, namely robots and/or external axes, such as workstations or transport tracks, whereby each manipulator is controlled by a control system via communication means and is programmed to carry out a plurality of tasks. The system of manipulators is movable in a first coordinate... Agent: Venable LLP

20080306631 - Adaptive reductant dosing and emission control strategies: The present disclosure relates to a method or apparatus for controlling reductant dosing level introduced to a selective catalytic reduction device. The method or apparatus may determine available reductant and determine a distance to a source of reductant. This may be followed by adjusting a reductant dosing level based upon... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080306632 - Air conditioning control device: An air conditioning control device is configured to obtain and control data on an air conditioner, which includes a plurality of indoor units. The air conditioning control device includes a data retrieval component, a data collection component, an analysis component, and an analyzed results display component. The data retrieval component... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080306634 - Method of controlling temperature of a computer system: A computer-implemented method for controlling temperature of a computer system is disclosed. The computer system contains multiple modules and at least one cooling fan. The method contains the steps of collecting thermal data from a first set of modules, calculating an initial fan speed, collecting thermal data from a second... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080306635 - Method of optimizing air mover performance characteristics to minimize temperature variations in a computing system enclosure: A computer-implemented method optimizes air mover performance to minimize temperature variations in a computer system enclosure. The computer system includes one or more modules and at least one air mover. The method includes collecting thermal data from the modules; using the collected thermal data, determining a maximum value of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080306633 - Optimized power and airflow multistage cooling system: A system for adjusting the operation of a cooling device includes a cooling device, an input sensory device, a control algorithm, and a controller that adjusts operation of the cooling device based on the control algorithm. An embodiment of the control algorithm approximates a plurality of substantially linear cooling curves... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080300693 - Process control system and method: An automated process control system (100) and method includes a controller (101) and a number of peripheral devices (104) that are controlled by the controller (101). The devices are located in a number of environments and sub-environments. The devices, environments, and sub-environments are organised in hierarchies and each device has... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080300695 - Integrated programmer reference for industrial control device data: A computer program to assist in programming an industrial control system provides a programmer with a functional description of the data of low-level devices in the industrial controller, as gleaned from electronic data sheets, whose data is extracted and combined with mapping data used during the configuration of the industrial... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./bf

20080300694 - Operator interface terminal for correlating data points to time points: An operator interface terminal receives individual data points from a machine at individual time points. The operator interface terminal correlates the individual data points to the individual time points as the data points are received. The operator interface terminal transfers the data points correlated to the time points to a... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc/sr

20080300696 - Environment adaptation for schizophrenic user: An environmental controller (100) includes a detector (120) configured to detect and select a master (155) from multiple identities (170, 175, 180) of a person in an environment, which may be a real person (165) or virtual person (185). A processor (110) may be configured to control parameters of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080300697 - Measurement project analyzer: System and method for creating a measurement application. User input specifying a sequence of functions implementing a measurement application is received, where the sequence of functions are executable to perform a specified task utilizing one or more hardware devices, and where the user input further specifies the hardware devices. Configuration... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20080300698 - User configurable alarms and alarm trending for process control system: Various graphical displays for plant process operators are provided which combine aspects of alarm priority and alarm age to assist operators in making better choices in responding to alarms. The disclosed graphical displays provide improved contextual information about specific alarms and the relationships with other alarms in the same control... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080300699 - Golf handicap and statistics display unit: An apparatus for calculating a golfer's handicap and other statistics for determining such golfer's strengths and weaknesses. The apparatus comprises a portable unit containing software for recording, storing and analyzing pertinent data. A keyboard is disposed on one side of the portable unit for entering data, such keyboard having an... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080300701 - Command transmitting apparatus: A command transmitting apparatus includes: an input section having a first key and a second key; a mode setting section having a normal mode and a menu mode, shifting from the normal mode to the menu mode in response to an operation of the first key, and shifting from the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080300700 - Crowd noise analysis: The present invention generally provides a way to analyze crowd noise to identify “highlights” or the like. Specifically, an audio stream containing crowd noise from an event (e.g., sporting event, political rally, religious gathering, etc) is captured (e.g., using microphones) and time coded. The audio stream is normalized based on... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080300702 - Music similarity systems and methods using descriptors: Systems and methods for determining similarity between two or more audio pieces are disclosed. An illustrative method for determining musical similarities includes extracting one or more descriptors from each audio piece, generating a vector for each of the audio pieces, extracting one or more audio features from each of the... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20080300703 - Hearing device with embedded channel: A hearing device having at least one of an acoustical/electrical converter and an electrical/acoustical converter respectively with an acoustical input or output. The input or output, as the case may be, is linked to a coupling opening at the outer surface of the device via a channel. At least a... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080300704 - Method and process for producing personalized ornamental bulbs: A method and system for producing a personal ornamental product and a custom 3D color or monochrome sculpture incorporated into the ornamental product as a keepsake ornament. The method includes the collecting three-dimensional data from one or more sensors, adjusting the 2½D or 3D data, merging the 2½D or 3D... Agent: Kevin T. Price

20080300705 - Integration of job shop scheduling with discrete event simulation for manufacturing facilities: A method and system for integrating job shop scheduling with discrete event simulation for manufacturing facilities are provided. In one aspect a simulator simulates discrete events of a facility using a job schedule generated by a scheduler. The simulator simulates the facility based on one or more local rules, one... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080300706 - System and method for real-time system control using precomputed plans: Features described herein relate to optimizing a job plan procedure for selecting a plan for executing a manufacturing job. A planner can receive a model of a system that is to perform a job, and may select a precomputed plan that is sufficient to perform the job. The precomputed plan... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20080300707 - System and method for on-line planning utilizing multiple planning queues: Features described herein relate to concurrently processing multiple batches of job requests for one or more machines and/or components thereof, using a plurality of job planning queues. Each batch of job requests is allocated to a planning queue, and each planning queue comprises an unplanned subqueue that stores unplanned jobs,... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20080300708 - Model-based planning using query-based component executable instructions: A method for planning machine control for a system includes determining one or more capabilities and one or more capability constraints for each component used to execute a plan for processing a job by the system. The plan is incrementally constructed based on the components, the one or more capabilities,... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20080300709 - Process control system using spatially dependent data for controlling a web-based process: System and method for controlling a process with spatially dependent conditions for producing a product with spatially dependent properties, e.g., a web/sheet-based process for producing a web/sheet-based product. Input data comprising a plurality of input data sets are provided to a neural network (analog or computer-based), each data set comprising... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(fy)

20080300710 - Methods and systems for managing electronic work instructions for manufacture of product: Methods and systems for interfacing computer modeled design and manufacture data from an Manufacturing Process Planning (MPP) system to a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and allowing, via an integration server interface, electronic work instructions of the MPP system to be revised promptly and efficiently in mid-production manufacturing processes.... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080300711 - System and method for translating variation information between computer 3d variation models and geometric dimensioning & tolerancing callouts: Systems and methods are disclosed for consistently translating or converting between geometric dimensioning and tolerancing information and variation parameters for a three dimensional variation analysis tool. The methods and systems may receive geometric dimensioning and tolerancing information; translate, with a computer, the received geometric dimensioning and tolerancing information into variation... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080300712 - Method for tracking and controlling grainy and fluid bulk goods in stream-oriented transportation process using rfid devices: A method and system for tracking non-discrete goods. The method includes inserting a first identification device into a non-discrete good, detecting the first identification device within the non-discrete good, and determining a characteristic of the non-discrete good from the first identification device. The system includes a plurality of identification devices... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080300714 - Method and apparatus for producing paint: A paint manufacturing system includes a paint component storage system and a colorant storage system. A dispenser is in fluid communication with the paint component and colorant storage systems. A spectrophotometer is operatively coupled with a computer system. The computer system controls the flow of paint components from the paint... Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

20080300713 - Truss assembly systems and methods: An automated assembly system for assembling a truss from a plurality of truss members and connection plates includes a plurality of rail assemblies, a plurality of trolleys, a plurality of press assemblies, and a control system. The rail assemblies include stationary rail assemblies and moveable rail assemblies. The trolleys are... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080300715 - System for carrying out automatic drilling / riveting process in aeronautical assembly pieces: A system of automatic drilling/riveting of pieces for aeronautical assembly, includes a robot governed by a numerical control device containing drilling/riveting information. A module allows for introduction of data by the operator. A piece checking module detects a piece starting from the data input by the operator. A converter module... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080300716 - Method for manipulating a dental virtual model, method for creating physical entities based on a dental virtual model thus manipulated, and dental models thus created: A 3D virtual model of an intra oral cavity in which at least a part of a finish line of a preparation is obscured is manipulated in virtual space by means of a computer or the like to create, recreate or reconstruct finish line data and other geometrical corresponding to... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080300717 - Apparatus and methods for processing mailpiece information by an identification code server: Apparatus and methods consistent with the present invention provide for processing delivery item information in an identification code sorting system by an identification code server. In one embodiment, a primary identification code server receives an identification file containing identification information uniquely corresponding to a delivery item. In this embodiment, the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080300718 - Personalized medication packaging: A system for personalized packaging of prescription medication includes a processing device having a CPU and a user interface. The user interface is configured to receive input data related to at least one type of medication to be packaged, wherein the user interface communicates the input data to the CPU... Agent: Xerox Corporation (cdfs)

20080300719 - Drug dispensing control system: A drug dispensing control system and a drug dispensing unit are disclosed. The drug dispensing control system includes a prescription filling system and a drug dispensing unit. The drug dispensing unit is configured to interface with the prescription filling system. The drug dispensing unit includes a canister configured to receive... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080300720 - Cleaning robot: An improved cleaning robot that uses a simple structure to sense an obstacle is disclosed. The cleaning robot includes a robot main body comprising a driving unit to drive the cleaning robot, and a cleaning unit to remove dust, a bumper unit which is movably mounted in the robot main... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle L.L.P.

20080300721 - Legged mobile robot and control program for the robot: According to a robot 1 in accordance with the present invention, a deformation amount (mechanism deformation amount) of a compliance mechanism 42 that occurs due to a desired floor reaction force of a foot (ground contacting portion) 22 is determined, and the operation of a leg 2 is controlled such... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080300722 - Amphibious robotic device: A robotic device for navigating in at least a liquid medium, includes a legged propulsion system having a series of legs external of a body of the robotic device, each of the legs being independently driven and mounted to the body for pivotal movement about a respective transverse axis. The... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080300723 - Teaching position correcting device: A teaching position correcting device which can easily correct, with high precision, teaching positions after shifting at least one of a robot and an object worked by the robot. Calibration is carried out using a vision sensor (i.e., CCD camera) that is mounted on a work tool. The vision sensor... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080300724 - Method for controlling the horizontal brush of a vehicle washing system: The method for controlling the movement of the horizontal brush of a vehicle washing system, provides for a first and a second vector velocity control mode of the brush and an alternating logic between the first and the second control mode, the first control mode being based on the control... Agent: Ip Patent Docketing K&l Gates LLP

20080300725 - Identification and characterization of recirculation in electronic systems: Systems and methods for detecting and analyzing elevated temperatures at a component rack to identify and characterize air recirculation anomalies. In one embodiment, temperatures are sensed in proximity to an air intake of the component rack. Temperature sensors communicate with a workstation having system management software including a thermal management... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/nc) C/o Streets & Steele

20080300726 - Control system for active vibration isolation of a supported payload: The invention relates to a control system for active vibration isolation of a supported payload with a control device that comprises a processing unit (41) for processing position data and orientation data of all available sensors to supply a sensor control matrix, as well as for subsequent calculation of axis... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080300728 - Flow rate control system and shower plate used for partial pressure control system: A partial pressure control system 45 includes two valves 2 which are branched from an operation gas supply pipe 44 and which variably control operation gas, pressure sensors 3 which are respectively connected to the each valves 2 in series and which detect pressure of the operation gas, and a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080300727 - Method of calculating pump flow rates and an automated pump control system: A method of determining a flow rate of a pump involves determining a volume capacity for a flow line carrying produced fluids from the pump, determining a starting pressure for the flow line and setting an arbitrary target pressure for the purpose of testing. The test is initiated by preventing... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080300729 - Mobile body: A disclosed mobile body includes an energy generator configured to generate energy from a supplied fuel gas; a gas leakage detecting unit configured to detect leakage of the fuel gas out of the energy generator; a control unit configured to control power output of the energy generator; an information obtaining... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP