Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing inventions 12/06

20060293857 - Methods and devices for analyzing and controlling the propagation of waves in a borehole generated by water hammer: A method for simulating water-hammer waves in a borehole is used to estimate formation parameters such as porosity and permeability, and to design completion strings. The simulation method uses a model that has a plurality of layers, at least one of the layers includes radial layering.... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20060293859 - Analysis of transcriptomic data using similarity based modeling: An analytic apparatus and method is provided for diagnosis, prognosis and biomarker discovery using transcriptome data such as mRNA expression levels from microarrays, proteomic data, and metabolomic data. The invention provides for model-based analysis, especially using kernel-based models, and more particularly similarity-based models. Model-derived residuals advantageously provide a unique new... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20060293858 - Disulphide bond connectivity in protein: A method, computer system, and computer program product for determining N disulphide bond connections in a protein having 2N bonded sulphur atoms. Each sulphur atom is available for forming the N disulphide bond connections through use of an undirected graph having the 2N sulphur atoms as nodes and having an... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20060293860 - System, method, and computer product for correction of feature overlap: In one embodiment, a method for correcting feature overlap in biological probe array data is described that comprises (a) receiving a first set of data comprising an intensity value for each of a plurality of features associated with a probe array; (b) calculating a crosstalk parameter for the first set... Agent: Affymetrix, Inc Attn: ChiefIPCounsel, Legal Dept.

20060293861 - Recursive base peak framing of mass spectrometry data: A method for analyzing mass spectrometry data of biological and other samples for differential expression and data analysis is provided. The method employs a recursive base peak framing process for grouping spectral data points from sample sets together. Initially, a filtered set or all of the spectral data points in... Agent: Thermo Finnigan LLC

20060293862 - Intelligent network of hydrogen supply modules: A method and apparatus for managing hydrogen deployment within a heterogeneous hydrogen supply environment is provided. An electronic controller monitors hydrogen supply modules, evaluates conditions relating to the hydrogen supply modules, and affects hydrogen deployment. The electronic controller may also monitor hydrogen utilizers within the heterogeneous hydrogen supply environment. Various... Agent: Air Products And Chemicals, Inc. Patent Department

20060293863 - System and method for sorting data: A method and apparatus that enables a user to sort data from one or more sample lots, which may be obtained via a network, such as the Internet, into a composite parameter structure. The composite parameter structure is a function of one or more parameters corresponding to one or more... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20060293864 - Sensor baseline compensation in a force-based touch device: Disclosed is method and device for compensating a force sensor signal for baseline error in a force-based touch screen. In one embodiment, baseline compensation includes determining a decaying maximum value and a decaying minimum value of the force sensor signal, and subtracting these values to obtain a range value. When... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20060293865 - Method and apparatus for direct image pick-up of granular speck pattern generated by reflecting light of laser beam: A granular speck pattern is generated by a reflecting laser beam as an object to be measured is irradiated with a laser beam. This granular speck pattern is directly picked up as an image index by a line sensor. An A/D converter converts an analog signal supplied from the line... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20060293866 - Method of managing maintenance and maintenance managing apparatus: Structural members constructing a plant are classified into a plurality of groups on basis of a likeness criterion of a predetermined operation status. An index member having a higher degradation tendency than the structural members belonging to the group is installed at at least a part of at least one... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20060293867 - Monitoring apparatus for a helmet: A distributed array of force sensors disposed in the inner lining of a safety helmet measure forces between the inner periphery of the helmet and a user's head, and a microcontroller responsive to the force measurements and other sensor data determines if the helmet fits the user properly. The force... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20060293868 - Subscriber based monitoring service with contextual analysis: Methods and apparatuses for receiving data associated with one or more system metrics, contextually analyzing that data in view of prior received data of one or more system metrics, determining, based at least in part on the results of the contextual analysis, if an alert needs to be sent, and... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20060293869 - Method and computer system for formulating potential measures for increasing the reliability of a technical system: The invention relates to a method for formulating potential measures to increase the reliability of a technical system The method according to the invention provides for at least one evaluation aid with predefined evaluation criteria, the evaluation criteria serving to evaluate measures of the technical system taking place in the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20060293870 - Method and system for tracking quality events: A method and system for tracking events during a multiple process operation. The method and system includes monitoring each of a plurality of processes as they occur, determining the existence of an event, and inputting the event into a master database as the event is determined.... Agent: Caterpillar Inc. 100 N.e. Adams Street

20060287830 - Method for coherence-filtering of acoustic array signal: A method waveform processing technique utilizing signal coherence of the array data for processing signals having poor signal-to-noise ratio. Raw waveform data is first transformed into f-k (frequency-wavenumber) domain. A coherence function is then calculated and convolved with the data in the f-k domain, which effectively suppresses non-coherent signals in... Agent: Gilbreth Roebuck Bynum Derrington Schmidt Walker & Tran LLP

20060287831 - Method for visualizing data on correlation between biological events, analysis method, and database: One of a plurality of data display formats with different units of correlation data that are prepared in advance is automatically selected depending on the variation of the amount of data in terms of the number of items thereof. One of a plurality of display methods with different summarization levels... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060287833 - Method and system for sequencing nucleic acid molecules using sequencing by hybridization and comparison with decoration patterns: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for sequencing a target molecule. In one embodiment of the present invention, a spectrum of the target molecule is determined. A decoration pattern of the target molecule is determined using physical methods. One or more candidate molecule sequences... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20060287832 - Reduction of the noise content of molecular diagnostic signals: A method and system for reducing the noise content of molecular diagnostic signals. One or more hybridized microarrays derived from one or more biological samples. Gene expression data is obtained from the microarray and is filtered utilizing a signal transduction model. By incorporating the use of numerical representation of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20060287834 - Virtual mass spectrometry: Systems, methods, computer programming product, and databases for virtual mass spectrometry (VMS) enable the identification of polypeptides in samples without acquisition of MS/MS fragmentation spectra. Methods according to the invention employ databases containing records corresponding to polypeptides potentially present in samples. In addition to identifying polypeptides, such databases may be... Agent: Torys LLP

20060287835 - Inspection system of structures and equipment and related method thereof: An inspection system and method for use in conjunction with a movably mounted platform to perform inspections of a generally upright standing structures or underground/subsurface structure. In order to perform these inspections, a technician or user can mount an interface member and the detector on the platform and/or interface member.... Agent: University Of Virginia Patent Foundation

20060287836 - Preventive defect detection and control process in composite material parts: A preventive defect detection and control process in mass produced composite material parts, comprising the following steps: a) Automatically obtaining representative parameters of backwall and intermediate echo signal results in each cell of a mesh predefined on the part. b) Storing said parameters in a database. c) Statistically analyzing the... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20060287837 - Method of executing a leak control system, and a leak control system for performing the method: The invention relates to a leak control system (1) in two-stringed pipe installations and a method of executing a leak control system comprising one stop valve (2) with an associated flow meter (3) arranged in the supply pipe (4) of the pipe installation, and one stop valve (5) with an... Agent: William J. Sapone Coleman Sudol Sapone P.C.

20060287838 - Protection system for an electrical power generator: An electrical power generator is characterized by a plurality of system parameters. The generator includes a controller for protecting the generator. The controller obtains data from which a present operating point of the generator and a power generating capacity of the generator can be determined. The controller further monitors data... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20060287839 - Switch-activated zero checking feature for a coriolis flowmeter: Descriptions are provided for implementing flowmeter zero checking techniques. In operating a flowmeter, it may be the case that, even if previously calibrated, the flowmeter will produce erroneous measurements, e.g., will indicate a non-zero flow during a period of zero flow. Therefore, zero checking features are provided that allow for... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060287840 - Sensor fusion using self evaluating process sensors: A measurement processing system is disclosed for fusing measurement data from a set of independent self-validating (SEVA™) process sensors monitoring the same real-time measurand in order to generate a combined best estimate for the value, uncertainty and measurement status of the measurand. The system also provides consistency checking between the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060287841 - Construction machinery: Construction machinery is capable of prompting an operator to control or operate the machinery to improve fuel consumption. The fuel consumption per time or the fuel consumption per work amount is measured, and an image showing a difference between the measured fuel consumption per time and a set fuel consumption... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20060287842 - Methods of networking interrogation devices for structural conditions: Methods of operating an interrogation system that has a plurality of patches attached to a host structure. Each patch is capable of generating a diagnostic wave and/or developing a sensor signal in response to the diagnostic wave. In each method, a Euclidean undirected graph is generated by forming a plurality... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20060287843 - Process management apparatus, and process management method: A process management apparatus allows even a user with a low level of technical skills to accurately and quickly estimate a failure factor when a failure occurs in an object of processing due to a failure of processing in a processing system that performs processing for the object. An estimation... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060282219 - Method and system for statistical pressure gradient and fluid contact analysis: A method and system for statistical pressure gradient and fluid contact analysis. The method and system include planning for a pressure gradient test by using expected parameters and statistical expected error analysis to set the actual pressure gradient test parameters within an acceptable range of reliability. The method and system... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20060282220 - Method of processing seismic data to extract and portray avo information: A method of seismic analysis is disclosed for extracting information relating to lithology, porosity, fluids, and AVO types and/or displaying the extracted information. In one possible embodiment, AVO points are plotted and a distance and/or angle is utilized for extracting this information. Various portrayals of the extracted information displays may... Agent: Kenneth L. Nash

20060282221 - Automatic array quality analysis: Systems, methods and computer readable media for automatically inspecting a chemical array. At least one processor is adapted to receive a digitized image of the chemical array, and at least one of hardware, software and firmware are adapted to quantify at least one visual characteristic of a feature on the... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20060282222 - Data analysis system and data analysis method: A data analysis apparatus has a first storage for storing information, a second storage for storing association between information, a unit for setting a condition to divide the information into a plurality of groups on the basis of association between the information stored in the second storage, a unit for... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20060282223 - Pharmaceutical mixture evaluation: A method of obtaining information about a heterogeneous pharmaceutical mixture is disclosed. This method involves applying an image enhancement agent, such as a stain, to the mixture. An image of the mixture can then be obtained, and information about a distribution of components of the mixture in the image can... Agent: Kristofer E. Elbing

20060282224 - Nucleic acid mismatich detection: In one aspect, the invention provides methods and apparatus for detecting a mismatch in a nucleic acid duplex by measuring the impedance of a nucleic acid layer on an electrode, for example by AC impedance spectroscopy.... Agent: Bozicevic, Field & Francis LLP

20060282225 - Autonomous monitoring method and system using sensors of different sensitivities: A method and system of monitoring for chemical or other toxic agents includes operating a plurality of first type sensors having a first level of sensitivity to an agent in a monitored area. Concurrently a second type sensor is operated having a second level of sensitivity to the agent in... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060282227 - Electronic battery tester with network communication: An electronic battery tester for testing a storage battery includes test circuitry configured to provide a battery test output related to a condition of the battery. A memory stores a battery tester address of the battery tester, and communication circuitry transmits the battery test output formatted with the battery tester... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20060282226 - Electronic battery tester with relative test output: An electronic battery tester for testing a storage battery determines a condition of the battery. The condition is a relative condition and is a function of a dynamic parameter of the battery and an empirical input variable.... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20060282228 - Method and system for use of environmental classification in precision farming: Methods and software for selecting seed products or other agricultural inputs for planting within an associated land base include dividing the field into regions, providing an environmental profile for each of regions, determining a recommendation of a seed product to plant within each of the regions based on the environmental... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C Attn: Pioneer Hi-bred

20060282229 - Quality evaluation method for single crystal ingot: The inventive quality evaluation method for a single crystal ingot generally includes a step of determining cropping and sampling positions and a step of evaluating a sample. The step of determining cropping and sampling positions includes: (a) inputting basic information on the decision of cropping, sampling and prime positions according... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20060282230 - Security device for a sensor: The invention relates to a security device for a sensor, especially a rotational speed sensor, wherein a sensor element and functional components enable the sensor to function and produce a sensor output signal. Said functional components form a functional section. Control components are provided in a control section and monitoring... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20060282231 - Shoe shape selection method, shoe shape selection system and shoe tip shape selection method: A shoe shape selection method selects an appropriate shoe shape from a plurality of kinds of shoe shapes prepared beforehand, based on a plurality of items of data on a customer. The plurality of data items include the foot length of the customer, the foot girth of the customer and... Agent: Michael E Zall

20060282232 - Method of inspecting 3d scanned data using parametric tolerance: There is provided a method of inspecting 3D scanned data using parametric tolerances, with the method including setting the number of parametric tolerance objects to be equal to that of allowable tolerances in the design data of an inspection object, connecting the design data of the inspection object with the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060276966 - Mehtod and apparatus for quantifying tissue histology: Method of analysing at least one parameter of a body component is provided. The method includes illuminating the component or body with light of at least a first and second waveband, receiving light of at least said first and second wavebands remitted by the component at a photoreceptor or photoreceptors,...

20060276967 - Method and apparatus for collecting and distributing beach water quality alerts: Information on beach water quality (and water quality generally) is collected and stored in a relational database with geographic information, such as zip codes. Information on the water quality of particular beaches is formatted and provided to the public through a website. In addition, subscribers may sign up to receive...

20060276968 - Temporal mapping and analysis: A compositing process comprises selecting a spatial data collected over a period of time, creating temporal data cubes from the spatial data, and processing and/or analyzing the data using temporal mapping algebra functions. In some embodiments, the temporal data cube is creating a masked cube using the data cubes, and...

20060276969 - Pore-scale geometric models for interpretation of downhole formation evaluation data: Parameters of a pore-scale geometric model of a clastic earth formation are adjusted so that the output of the model matches measurements made one a core sample. Additional properties of the earth formation are predicted using the pore-scale model. The additional properties may be based on additional measurements of properties...

20060276970 - Apparatus and method for the ozone preservation of crops: A method for substantially reducing the development of fungal spoilers of perishable produce such as fruit, salads and vegetables comprising the steps of arranging the products in a matrix in a substantially closed environment and introducing to the environment a gaseous mixture containing a prescribed concentration of ozone....

20060276971 - Method and device for comparative display of biological data: Embodiments of computer systems for visualizing information and data from samples, such as nucleic acids, proteins, or other bio-polymers, are disclosed. One embodiment of a method comprises displaying first and second display areas on a display, displaying an axis dividing the first display area into first and second sub-areas, and...

20060276972 - Method for determining the amount of an analyte in a sample: An automated analyzer for performing multiple diagnostic assays simultaneously includes multiple stations in which discrete aspects of the assay are performed on fluid samples contained in sample vessels. The analyzer includes stations for automatically preparing a sample, incubating the sample, preforming an analyte isolation procedure, ascertaining the presence of a...

20060276973 - Predicting animal performance: The invention provides for methods of characterizing animal performance based on the microbial profile of an animal. The invention also provides for methods of monitoring the effect of a feed or feed additive regimen on the microbial profile of one or more animals. The invention further provides for method of...

20060276974 - System for remote viewing and display of a slide: A method for creating a virtual slide is provided. A virtual slide is a digital representation of an area of interest of a microscope slide. One method is to use a motorized microscope that can move a specimen with respect to a microscope objective. With such a system, one can...

20060276975 - Quantitative method and quantitative chip for target substance: The present invention provides a quantitative measurement method and quantitative measurement chip which can perform quantitative measurement of a target substance in a short period of time. The invention provides a quantitative measurement method in which a three dimensional mesh structure material is formed, and quantitative measurements are taken of...

20060276976 - Semiconductor wafer inspection system: A method and system for identifying a defect or contamination on a surface of a material. The method and system involves providing a material, such as a semiconductor wafer, using a non-vibrating contact potential difference sensor to scan the wafer, generate contact potential difference data and processing that data to...

20060276977 - Techniques and devices for characterizing spatially non-uniform curvatures and stresses in thin-film structures on substrates with non-local effects: Techniques and devices are described to use spatially-varying curvature information of a layered structure to determine stresses at each location with non-local contributions from other locations of the structure. For example, a local contribution to stresses at a selected location on a layered structure formed on a substrate is determined...

20060276978 - Determination of the combination of ink amount for realizing the specified colors: For correlating the specified colors and ink amount, the specified color data showing the color values of the specified colors are acquired, the ink amount data showing optional ink amount are converted into color values, evaluation index including the first evaluation index for evaluating the color difference between the color...

20060276979 - Method and apparatus for improving operational reliability during a loss of a phase voltage: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for improving operational reliability during a loss of a phase voltage (LOV) in a multi-phase power system, wherein a voltage representative of the LOV phase is calculated. The representative voltage is used for computing a reference polarizing voltage suitable for...

20060276980 - Method and apparatus for detecting charged state of secondary battery based on neural network calculation: An apparatus and method of neural network type are provided to detect an internal state of a secondary battery implemented in a battery system. Electric signals indicating an operating state of the battery is detected and, using the electric signals, information indicating the internal state of the battery is calculated...

20060276981 - Calculation device calculating available capacity of secondary battery and method of calculating the same: A method of calculating an available capacity includes the steps of: calculating a first estimated SOC from a value in voltage; calculating an integral of a value of a current and adding the integral to calculate a second estimated SOC; calculating a difference between the first and second estimated SOCs;...

20060276982 - Measuring circuit and a method for determining a characteristic of the impedance of a complex impedance element for facilitating characterization of the impedance thereof: A single chip integrated circuit measuring circuit (1) for determining a characteristic of the impedance of an external complex impedance circuit (2) for facilitating characterization of the impedance of the complex impedance circuit (2) comprises a signal generating circuit (7) for generating a variable frequency stimulus signal for applying to...

20060276983 - Video quality evaluation device, video quality evaluation method, video quality evaluation program, video matching device, video aligning method and video aligning program: A subjective quality estimating part (11) receives an undeteriorated reference video signal (RI) and a deteriorated video signal (PI) produced from the reference video signal, calculates video signal feature values for both the signals, and according to a difference between the calculated video signal feature values of the signals, estimates...

20060276984 - Method for determining internal pressure of a vehicle tyre: Disclosed are different processes for the determination of the internal pressure, particularly of the minimum pressure of the tire of a motor vehicle during driving operation, through an analysis of the characteristic vibration behavior of the wheel, whereby the standardized amplitude is determined from the vibration spectrum determined and the...

20060276985 - Automated surface distress measurement system: The present invention is an apparatus, system and method for determining surface conditions in real time including a real time digital imaging device positioned relative to capture one or more images of a surface and an image processing device that processes the one or more images to identify defects (e.g.,...

20060276986 - Automatic reference voltage trimming technique: In one set of embodiments, trimming of a reference, which may be a bandgap reference and which is configured on an integrated circuit, may be controlled by an algorithm executed by logic circuitry also configured on the integrated circuit. The bandgap reference may be configured to generate a reference voltage...

20060276987 - Production of radio frequency id tags: A radio frequency ID tag, very small in size and with an onboard antenna, is manufactured, tested and applied cost-efficiently. The transmit frequency for the tag is set during manufacture approximately, within a selected range, in a gross tuning step. The gross calibration is based on one or more measured...

20060276988 - System and method for information handling system clock source insitu diagnostics: A clock diagnostics module, such as a state machine, integrated into an integrated clock controller monitors clock signals associated with the integrated clock controller and reports the status of the clock signals through a management bus, such as an SMBus. For instance, a counter integrated into the integrated clock controller...

20060276989 - System for testing smart cards and method for same: A system and method for testing multiple smart card devices in parallel and asynchronously are provided. The system includes a smart card module that may be easily inserted in a digital test system. The smart card module includes multiple smart card instrument channels, each one of which testing a separate...

20060276990 - Apparatus for monitoring tire pressure: A tire monitor and a tire pressure gauge for reading the data from the tire monitor are disclosed. The tire monitor includes an in-tire controller that stores a target inflation pressure representing the pressure to which the tire should be inflated when the tire is at a standard temperature. The...

20060276991 - Tire air pressure monitoring system: A tire air pressure monitoring system is provided with at least one trailer-use receiving unit, which is mounted at a rear end of a tractor head to receive radio wave sent by multiple tire air pressure sending units. The tire air pressure sending units are respectively attached to wheels of...

20060276992 - Segmented antenna system for offshore radio networks and method of using same: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for a segmented antenna system. The method includes determining an orientation of a first antenna, the first antenna including a plurality of segments for transmitting and receiving signals, determining a direction from the first antenna to a second antenna capable or at...

20060276993 - A method of predicting wear of a die surface: A method of predicting wear of a die surface. The method calculates a wear depth value based on a set of die characteristic values, a set of sheet material characteristic values, a coefficient of friction value, and material draw-in distance....

20060276995 - Automated and adaptive threshold setting: A method for managing a computer system includes monitoring first violations of a service level objective (SLO) of a service running on the computer system so as to determine a first statistical behavior of the first violations. Second violations of a component performance threshold of a component of the computer...

20060276994 - Data analysis method and recording medium recording data analysis program: A data analysis method allows a correlation between variables to be efficiently extracted from a record group. A record group sort unit of a computer sorts the target record group by the magnitude of a specified variable, for instance. A record group divide-and-extract unit divides the sorted target record group...

20060276996 - Fast tracking system and method for generalized lars/lasso: The present invention provides an efficient method for tracking the solution curve of sparse logistic regression with respect to the L1 regularization parameter. The method is based on approximating the logistic regression loss by a piecewise quadratic function, using Rosset and Zhu's path-tracking algorithm on the approximate problem, and then...

20060276999 - Control system for centrifugal pumps: A control system for the operation of a centrifugal pump which may be used for production of gas and/or oil from a well. The control system includes vector feedback model to derive values of torque and speed from signals indicative of instantaneous current and voltage drawn by the pump motor,...

20060276998 - System and method for test generation for system level verification using parallel algorithms: A system and method for test generation for system level verification using parallel algorithms are provided. The present invention generates test patterns for system level tests by exploiting the scalability of parallel algorithms while allowing for data set coloring and expected result checking. Based on the characteristics of the system...

20060276997 - Systems and methods for website monitoring and load testing via simulation: Described herein are systems and methods for website or web based application monitoring and load testing. A server is configured to execute monitoring or load testing agents on various agent devices that are placed in various locations across a network. The agents receive a playback script from the server and...

20060277000 - Flow measurement diagnostics: A flow meter for measuring flow of a process fluid includes a sensor configured to provide a sensor output signal. The sensor output signal is related to flow of the process fluid. Circuitry in the flow meter is configured to determine a statistical parameter related to sensor output signal. Diagnostic...

20060277001 - Systems and methods for isolating local performance variation in website monitoring: Systems and methods are provided for isolating performance variation in website monitoring. A set of geographically diverse monitoring agents are identified and a subset of baseline agents is selected from these monitoring agents. The baseline agents are those agents that are geographically close to the target website or otherwise enjoy...

20060277002 - System and method for analysis of measurement data: A system and method for providing an electronic resort and presentation of measurements, such as calls in a telephone network. The system and method allow the selection of measurement attributes and measurement attribute values in which to view statistical graphs, provide the statistical graphs, and allow the selection of a...