Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing inventions 04/08

20080097701 - Short term and long term forecasting systems with enhanced prediction accuracy: The present invention provides a short term weather forecaster for nowcasting using a Numerical Weather Predictor (NWP). The system of the present invention tracks the evolution of differences between NWP and radar based precipitation patterns and adjusts the NWP forecast to account for theses differences. These differences are due to... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080097702 - Method for determining impedance coefficients of a seismic trace: A method for determining impedance coefficients of a seismic trace comprises determining reflection coefficients of the seismic trace, for example using a sparse spike inversion, integrating the reflection coefficients with respect to time to obtain impedance coefficients, and filtering the impedance coefficients by applying a low-cut window filter. The window... Agent: Koppel, Patrick & Heybl

20080097703 - Method and apparatus for optimizing the performance envelope of an engine: A method for doing an optimization of the performance envelope initially authorized for an existing rotorcraft engine (M) to enable the engine (M), to be used in an optimized performance envelope that is different from the performance envelope initially authorized for the engine, is remarquable in that this optimization is... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080097706 - Method of monitoring line faults in a medium voltage network: The present invention relates to a method of monitoring line faults in a medium voltage network (1) of the type comprising an electricity generating plant (3) supplying electricity to a plurality of customers over a network of medium voltage power lines (5), a control centre computer (9) and a plurality... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080097710 - Method for measuring the phase jitter of a high-frequency signal and a measuring device for the implementation of this method: In order to measure the phase jitter of a high-frequency signal, a spectrum analyzer is used. The high-frequency signal (HF) to be measured is either multiplied by M and/or the output frequency of the variable frequency oscillator of the spectrum analyzer is divided by N, and both signals are set... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080097712 - Test equipment and portable test device: The present invention relates to an equipment, device (10; 110) and apparatus for applying electrical stimuli to a system and acquiring a system response. According to the present invention there is provided a test equipment such as a portable test device (10; 110) for testing a system, the equipment comprising:... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080097713 - Spurious signal detection: A circuit for a data processing apparatus is disclosed, said circuit comprising a data input operable to receive digital signal values, said circuit comprising: spurious signal detection logic operable to monitor a digital signal value within said circuit, and determine at least one of: a safe time window during which... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080097714 - Methods and systems for performing real-time wireless temperature measurement for semiconductor substrates: A monitor device includes a substrate and a plurality of temperature sensors disposed in the substrate. The monitor device also includes a processor coupled to the substrate and adapted to receive one or more signals from the plurality of temperature sensors. The processor is further adapted to convert the one... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080097704 - Arrangement and method for monitoring pressure within a battery cell: The invention relates to an arrangement for monitoring pressure within a battery cell, comprising: at least one battery cell, and at least one strain gauge for monitoring mechanical deformation of the battery cell. The invention also relates to a method of monitoring internal pressure of a battery cell, preferably by... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080097705 - Method for implementing vibration suppression system under control from a remote site: A method of implementing vibration suppression at equipment residing at a local site is provided. The method comprises transmitting a prompt from a remote site to the local site, automatically sensing vibration response information from the equipment in response to the prompt, and transmitting the sensed vibration response information to... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20080097708 - System and method utilizing virtual switching for electrical panel metering: A system and method utilizing virtual switching in an electrical panel meter. The virtual switching enables the meter to be upgraded or downgraded through a switching signal, by activating or deactivating the metering functions that are to be performed in the meter. Accordingly, when the upgrade or downgrade is necessary,... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080097707 - Va metering in polyphase systems: An arrangement includes an A/D converter and a processing circuit. The A/D converter is configured to generate digital samples of voltage and current waveforms in a polyphase electrical system. The processing circuit is operably coupled to receive the digital samples from the A/D converter. The processing circuit is further configured... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck Chase Tower

20080097709 - Apparatus and method for rangings and noise reduction of low coherence interferometry lci and optical coherence tomography oct signals by parallel detection of spectral bands: Apparatus and method for increasing the sensitivity in the detection of optical coherence tomography and low coherence interferometry (“LCI”) signals by detecting a parallel set of spectral bands, each band being a unique combination of optical frequencies. The LCI broad bandwidth source is split into N spectral bands. The N... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080097711 - Information processing apparatus and method, program, and record medium: An information processing apparatus is disclosed. An analyzing section chronologically continuously analyzes sound data which chronologically continue in each of predetermined frequency bands. A continuous characteristic quantity extracting section which extracts a continuous characteristic quantity which is a characteristic quantity which chronologically continues from an analysis result of the analyzing... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080097715 - Method of separating the process variation in threshold voltage and effective channel length by electrical measurements: A IC wafer is fabricated using a process of interest to have a plurality of FET devices with different channel lengths (Leff) form a plurality of channel length groups. The threshold voltage (VT) is measured of a statistical sample of the FET devices in each channel length group at two... Agent: Ibm Corp (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20080097716 - Automatic acquisition of data referenced in user equation: An instrument having a set of data acquisition capabilities recognizes an operand in an equation as a data reference when the operand refers to data which the instrument is capable of acquiring. The instrument automatically configures itself to acquire the data to which the operand refers.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080097717 - Data generating method, connection checking system, and computer product: A computer terminal retrieves pin data related to respective pins of a plurality of Field Programmable Gate Array that are mounted on a board. The computer terminal retrieves setting data related to a connection check. Upon retrieving the pin data and the setting data, the computer terminal assigns, as data... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080097718 - Interfacing apparatus and method for mounting sensors on the same: Disclosed is an interfacing apparatus including an interfacing structure, at least one association region defined by the interfacing structure, the at least one association region configured for association with a sensor association region of at least one sensor, at least one electrical contact region disposed with the interfacing structure, the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080097719 - Service providing system, service providing method, and program: A judgment section (200) judges the presence or absence of a specific event-related potential in an event-related potential of user's (50) electroencephalogram measured by a biological signal detection section (101). A judgment standard storage section (203) stores a plurality of judgment standards according to the number of occurrences of the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080097720 - Method for determining relative mobility or regions of an object: A method for determining a mobility of foot comprising: measuring at least a portion of a shape of the foot under a first weight load; measuring the at least the portion of the shape of the foot under a second weight load; and comparing the measurement under the first weight... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080097721 - Measure module: The present invention relates to a measure module. The measure module is installed on an inclinable machine tool. The machine tool has an inclinable member. The measure module includes a monitor and a sensor. The sensor is electrically connected with the monitor. The sensor is installed on the inclinable member.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080097722 - Method for determining the orientation of an antenna array: The aim of the invention is to limit the number of possible phase ambiguity resolutions when taking measurements by means of satellite-aided positioning systems. Said aim is achieved by a method which allows the search sector to be better restricted. To this avail, information about the geometry of an antenna... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080097723 - Intelligent monitoring system and method for mill drives in mineral grinding processes: The present invention refers to an intelligent monitoring system and method of a 12-pulse LCI drive that controls the motors in charge of driving SAG and ball mills present in the mineral grinding process. It includes a monitoring module which is able to efficiently determine the origin of certain types... Agent: Eric A. Hanscom, Esq. Law Offices Of Eric Hanscom

20080097724 - Programmable data acquisition device: Described is a wearable data acquisition device which includes (i) a data acquisition arrangement to collect data and (ii) a trigger arrangement activating one or more functions. The functions may include an activation of the data acquisition arrangement and/or a data operation function. An operation of the trigger arrangement corresponds... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080097725 - Monitoring system and method: Disclosed is a monitoring system implementing a network. The system includes at least one source of dynamic data, the at least one source configured to be in signal communication with a machine, a monitoring module configured for communication with the at least one source, configured for receiving the dynamic data,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080097726 - Method and system for managing and operating a plurality of farm houses: A system for monitoring, managing, and/or operating a plurality of farm houses on a plurality of farms. The system includes a controller and/or a monitor box in the farm house and a computer in communication with the controller for controlling and adjusting various parameters of the farm house or with... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080097727 - Apparatus for detecting uplink ranging codes in a wireless communication system: An apparatus for detecting uplink ranging codes includes a first transform unit for transforming data received from a mobile station to generate first outputs; a cross-correlation unit for comparing the first outputs with possible ranging codes to generate second outputs; a screening unit for selectively passing the second outputs representing... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20080091353 - Systems and methods for detecting shallow buried objects: The invention relates to a seismic system having an array of nodes, each capable of emitting and detecting seismic signals. The array of nodes is mounted on a mobile platform in a certain geometry and is configured to acquire subsurface data, and more particularly detect shallow buried objects, while being... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080091354 - Methods of processing magnetotelluric signals: Methods for processing magnetotelluric data to identify subterranean deposits are provided for. The data comprise the amplitude of alternating magnetic or electrical fields recorded over time in at least two vector components at one or more locations in an area of interest. Amplitude pulses are identified in the data, wherein... Agent: Keith B. Willhelm, Attorney At Law

20080091356 - Computing values for surveying a subterranean structure based on measurements according to different electromagnetic survey techniques: To survey a subterranean structure, first measurement data according to a first electromagnetic survey technique and second measurement data according to a second, different electromagnetic survey technique are received. An output value for surveying the subterranean structure is computed based on the first and second measurement data.... Agent: Schlumberger Oilfield Services

20080091357 - Method to identify epitopes: The present invention is directed to methods, computer software and assay kits to identify epitopes, such as HLA epitopes. The preferred method comprises steps of constructing data tables of possible polymorphic sites of epitopes defined by a single antigen product, such as single antigen beads and, for a given string... Agent: Cislo & Thomas LLP

20080091360 - System and method for measuring surface appearance of a surface: The embodiments described herein include a system and method for measuring a surface appearance of a surface. An appearance sensor is positionable about a surface and is configured to measure the surface appearance. A surface relationship sensor senses the distance between the appearance sensor and the surface. The appearance sensor... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20080091361 - Method and computer programme for determining operating parameters in a roller bearing and a roller bearing which may be analysed thus: The invention relates to a method and a computer program for determining operating parameters such as, in particular, the rotational speed, the rotational direction, the radial force, the axial force or of structural sound events of a rotating roller bearing to which a sensor arrangement is fixed which, on rotation... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080091363 - Battery management system (bms) and driving method thereof: A Battery Management System (BMS) and a battery management method include a sensing unit to measure a battery terminal voltage, current, and temperature, and a Main Control Unit (MCU) to compare the measured battery terminal voltage, current, and temperature to a State of Charge (SOC) reset condition and to reset... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080091364 - Battery management system (bms) and driving method thereof: A Battery Management System (BMS) includes a sensing unit and a Micro Control Unit (MCU). The sensing unit measures a battery current, a battery voltage, and a battery temperature. The MCU determines a State of Charge (SOC) reset point based on the measured battery current and voltage. The BMS determines... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080091362 - Battery management system and driving method thereof: The present invention relates to a battery management system and method. In some embodiments the battery management system includes a sensing unit and an MCU. The sensing unit measures the current, the voltage and the temperature of a battery. The MCU receives the voltages, the currents, and the temperatures, calculates... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080091365 - Image verification with tiered tolerance: Comparing a sample image to a reference image. Differences between the color channel values of the pixels in the sample image and the corresponding color channel values for the corresponding pixels in the reference image are calculated and compared to predefined tolerances. Based on the comparisons, a pixel status for... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080091367 - Method and apparatus for measurement of fuel cell high frequency resistance in the presence of large undesirable signals: A method and apparatus for a high frequency resistance measurement instrument with a reasonable dynamic range, which militates against saturation in the presence of one or more large undesirable signals, the high frequency measurement instrument capable of employing multiple alternating currents of differing frequencies to maintain measurement capability despite signal... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080091370 - Methods and apparatus for time-of-flight mass spectrometer: Disclosed is a method of determining when to calibrate a time-of-flight mass spectrometer. In various embodiments, the method comprises storing within a controller a set of parameters for the mass spectrometer; providing an updated set of parameters while retaining at least one set of previously stored parameters; computing at least... Agent: Applied Biosystems

20080091371 - Calibration apparatus, calibration method, and testing apparatus: There is provided a calibration apparatus that calibrates a jitter measuring circuit for outputting a jitter measuring signal with a level according to an amount of jitter in an input signal based on the input signal and a delay signal obtained by delaying the input signal by means of a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080091355 - Attaching drilling information to three-dimensional visualizations of earth models: A system and method for perceiving drilling learning through visualization is provided. In one embodiment using three-dimensional visualization of the earth model as a foundation, a new IT development strategy focuses on perceiving “Drilling Learning” by an intuitive method. Symbols, known as “Knowledge Attachments” are attached to each wellbore trajectory... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Conley, Rose & Tayon, P.C.

20080091358 - Method and system for identifying gene-trait linkages: Utilization of genomic markers from whole-genome scans or gene association studies from one or more related disease/genetics publications to determinate possible single or average contribution of any gene to marker scores. The invention includes the ability to use multiple data sets from multiple publications to consider broader pools of genes... Agent: Howrey LLP

20080091359 - Normalizing spectroscopy data with multiple internal standards: Normalization of spectra, including: preparing experiment runs; processing them in an LC/MS spectrometer to obtain a spectrum for each experiment run; internally representing each spectrum as mass/charge (m/z) versus retention time (rt); performing a peak detection of each spectrum; internally aligning the detected peaks; and normalizing the spectra, which includes... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080091366 - Method of characterizing the overlap of two media segments: A method of characterizing the overlap of two media segments is provided. In an instance where there is some amount of overlap of a file and a data sample, the file could be an excerpt of an original file and begin and end within the data sample. By matching identified... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080091368 - Method of determining an autocorrelation function: A method for determining the autocorrelation function q(τ) of an optical signal, including the steps of: determining the times (ti) of occurrence of pulses corresponding to photons: calculating, for a predetermined set of pulses (w), the function s(w)=Σie−jwti, where e−jwti=coswti+jsinwti, the summing-up being performed over all the received pulses determining... Agent: HowardIPLaw Group

20080091369 - Event tracing with time stamp compression and history buffer based compression: An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for generating trace data. In response to detecting a trace event, a determination is made as to whether identifiers for the trace event match recorded identifiers for a record in a set of previously recorded trace events. Location information for the record is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080091372 - Compass sensor unit and portable electronic device: In a compass sensor unit, an azimuth data computing method is carried out by the steps of: inputting a signal from a geomagnetic sensor to measure magnetic field; determining whether to store measurement data of the magnetic field based on a distance from the last stored measurement data; calculating an... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080091373 - Method for calibrating sensor positions in a human movement measurement and analysis system: A method for calibrating the position and orientation of a 6-DOF sensor system mounted on a multi-segmented structure, such as the human body, is provided. The method includes a stage for mounting the sensors on the body, a stage for acquiring the 6-DOF kinematics from those sensors, a calibration stage... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080091374 - Analog high sensitivity continuous phase and amplitude detection device for a harmonic microcantilever sensor: An analog high sensitivity continuous phase and amplitude detection device for a harmonic microcantilever sensor which is widely used in ultra-high resolution measurement is developed in this patent. The aforementioned detection device contains a central control unit, a numerically-controlled oscillator, a dynamic driving signal magnitude compensator, a sensor-actuator, a microcantilever... Agent: Yuan-jay Wang

20080091376 - field device calibration: A calibrator for field devices is provided. In one aspect, the calibrator has the ability to communicate in accordance with at least two process communication protocols, and tests an attached process connection before engaging communication. In another aspect, the calibrator includes isolation circuitry to facilitate compliance with at least one... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080091375 - Systems and methods for reducing an effect of a disturbance: A method for reducing an effect of a disturbance signal on an output of a dynamic system. The method includes generating an increment of the disturbance signal, and modifying an incremental signal input to the dynamic system based on the increment of the disturbance signal.... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080091377 - Test apparatus, and control method: A test apparatus that tests a device under test is provided. The test apparatus includes: a control processor that executes a test program to test the device under test; a test unit connected to the device under test that tests the device under test according to an instruction by the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080091378 - Circuit and method of outputting temperature data of semiconductor memory apparatus: A circuit for outputting temperature data of a semiconductor memory apparatus includes a temperature detecting circuit that generates a temperature voltage corresponding to a change in temperature and outputs the temperature voltage, an A/D converter that converts the temperature voltage into a first temperature code and outputs it, and a... Agent: Venable LLP

20080091379 - Methods and systems for analysis of combustion dynamics in the time domain: Methods and systems for analyzing combustion dynamics of a combustor system in the time domain are provided. The combustor system includes an inlet pipe coupled in flow communication with a combustion chamber. The method includes determining a characteristic equation of a wave traveling in the inlet pipe, determining an acoustic... Agent: John S. Beulick (17851)

20080091380 - Velocity sensor and ground vehicle velocity sensor using the same: There is provided a highly accurate velocity sensor having a reduced detection error. A sensor circuit unit generates an electromagnetic wave and emits it from a transmission antenna. Furthermore, a reception antenna receives a reflection wave from the ground and a mixer mixes it with a local signal, thereby generating... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080091381 - Substrate measuring method, computer-readable recording medium recording program thereon, and substrate processing system: In the present invention, substrates in a plurality of lots are successively processed in a coating and developing treatment system, and line width measurement is performed for some of substrates of the substrate which have been through processing in each lot. The line width measurement of two successive lots is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080091382 - System and method for measuring tool performance: A system and method for measuring tool performance of a multi-path cluster semiconductor fabrication tool. The system comprises a status data unit for receiving up or down status data for each element of the tool for respective operational time periods; a performance value assignment unit for assigning a performance value... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080091383 - Abnormality diagnostic method and device thereof: An abnormality diagnostic device selects a previously stored diagnostic measuring orbit (S110), and makes a machine to perform a specified operation for diagnosis so as to measure a driving power value of an actuator (S120). In S140, the abnormality diagnostic device compares the measured driving power value and a driving... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080091384 - Causal ladder mechanism for proactive problem determination, avoidance and recovery: A plurality of causal ladder is assembled in advance from component system events taken from previous system failures. The ladders classify the various transitions the system goes through from one set of observed states to another in multiple stages representing issues of differing urgency, importance and need for remediation. These... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080091385 - Cable use tracking apparatus: A cable use tracking apparatus includes a switch module fixed to a cable, a detecting module, and a computer communicating with the detecting module. The switch module switches from a first state to a second state based on activity of the cable relative to an electronic device. The detecting module... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080086273 - Analyte sensor: Systems and methods of use for continuous analyte measurement of a host's vascular system are provided. In some embodiments, a continuous glucose measurement system includes a vascular access device, a sensor and sensor electronics, the system being configured for insertion into communication with a host's circulatory system.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080086271 - Method of partially copying first and last private arrays for parallelized loops based on array data flow: A computer-implemented method for determining whether an array within a loop can be privatized for that loop is presented. The method calculates the array sections that require first or last privatization and copies only those sections, reducing the privatization overhead of the known solutions.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Rsw

20080086275 - End of life prediction of flash memory: Disclosed are a method, electronic device, and computer readable medium for determining an end-of-life stage of the flash memory. The method comprises detecting at least one life cycle event associated with a flash memory residing on an electronic device A counter that is associated with the life cycle event is... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080086276 - Stress component measurement method: The stress component measurement device 1 comprises a stress component comparison section 413 that compares a Raman spectrum L obtained in a predetermined area W1 of a reference specimen W to which a given stress component is applied with the stress component, a correlation data production section 414 that produces... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20080086278 - Optical time domain reflectometer, and optical fiber measuring method and optical fiber measuring system ...: In order to easily and efficiently carry out various characteristic evaluations of optical fibers which have been laid down, a table file which is for carrying out association of optical fibers serving as measuring objects with measured data when the optical fibers have been measured, based on optical fiber management... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080086279 - Method for data compression and encoding: Systems and methods for compressing and encoding data are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for communicating known calibration data for a microsurgical cassette to a surgical console with which the cassette will be used.... Agent: Alcon

20080086270 - Seismic measurements while drilling: Measurements are made continuously with a seismic while drilling (SWD) system and the measured data are stored in a working memory of a downhole processor along with quality control (QC) measurements. The QC data are analyzed and based on the analysis, portions of the data in working memory are recorded... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.c.

20080086272 - Identification and use of biomarkers for the diagnosis and the prognosis of inflammatory diseases: A method and a computer-based system for determining a classifier for a biological condition of a specific disease, an essay and a kit for assessing whether a subject is afflicted with such specific disease.... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20080086274 - Method and apparatus for protein sequence alignment using fpga devices: Disclosed herein is a hardware implementation for performing sequence alignment that preferably deploys a seed generation stage, an ungapped extension stage, and at least a portion of a gapped extension stage as a data processing pipeline on at least one hardware logic device. Hardware circuits for the seed generation stage,... Agent: Thompson Coburn LLP Attn: Richard E. Haferkamp

20080086277 - Method for determining battery capacity: A method includes monitoring the voltage of a power source connector for charging a battery. A determination is made that the battery has entered a transition phase based on sensing an abrupt change in the voltage. In response to determining that the battery is in the transition phase, a capacity... Agent: Joseph M. Sauer Jones Day Reavis & Pogue

20080086280 - Method and system for evaluating cd player response to vibration during playback of a cd: A system and methods for evaluating the response of an optical digital disk player to vibration encountered during playback of optical digital disks are provided. The system includes a simulator configured to provide digital simulated output signals simulating the output of an optical digital disk player encountering vibration during playback... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080086281 - Control system for wind turbine: A control system for a wind turbine comprises: a sensor arrangement for capturing measures related to the turbine operation and fatigue accumulation; an upper level controller, which, on the basis of a statistical treatment of said measures, calculates optimized control settings at discrete points of time; a measurement module which... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080086282 - Method for validation of thermal solution for an electronic component: An information handling system and method of operating an information handling system are disclosed. In one embodiment the method comprises operating a component coupled to the system at a first steady state average power consumption, measuring the temperature of the component to produce a first temperature measurement, operating the component... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080086283 - Bayesian sensor estimation for machine condition monitoring: A method for monitoring a system includes receiving a set of training data. A Gaussian mixture model is defined to model a probability distribution for a particular sensor of the system from among a plurality of sensors of the system based on the received training data. The Gaussian mixture model... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080086284 - Remote maintenance system, monitoring center computer used for the same, monitoring system and method of communication for maintenance: A remote maintenance system is comprised of: a monitoring computer for monitoring a facility; and a monitoring center computer for using maintenance management. The monitoring computer has a database for storing image data of the monitored facility. The monitoring center computer includes: a database for storing CAD data for the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080086285 - System and method for monitoring complex distributed application environments: A system and method for monitoring applications is described. Embodiments of the present invention support three layers of monitoring: selected monitoring of applications and their transactions; SQL monitoring through JDBC; and attribute and metric monitoring at a sub-component level.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080086286 - Method and apparatus for detecting a presence of a signal in a communication channel: An apparatus, a cognitive radio, a processor, a method, and a machine-readable medium for detecting a presence of a signal in a communication channel are disclosed. An apparatus includes a processor configured to select one or more peak samples of two or more fields of a sampled signal and configured... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080082269 - Method for acquiring and interpreting transient electromagnetic measurements: A method for interpreting transient electromagnetic survey data includes measuring transient response of a medium over a plurality of switching events. The measured transient response to a first one of the current switching events is modeled. Transient response to the model for at least one current switching event prior in... Agent: Richard A. Fagin

20080082270 - Method for analyzing data having shared and distinct properties: A method to determine formation properties using two or more data sets in which the solutions corresponding to the data sets represent shared and distinct formation properties. The method analyzes the data sets and computes distributions for the shared and distinct formation properties from which the formation properties are determined.... Agent: Schlumberger Oilfield Services

20080082271 - Computational systems for biomedical data: Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting an input identifying at least one allergy, searching an individual's health data to identify at least one innate allergy determinant of the allergy; searching the individual's health data to identify at least one acquired allergy determinant... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080082275 - System for power sub-metering: An electrical sub-metering system for making available information associated with power consumption is disclosed. The system includes an electrical panel board configured to distribute power to a plurality of circuits, means for measuring voltage of each circuit, a module including means for measuring current flow, a hub in signal communication... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080082276 - System for power sub-metering: An electrical sub-metering system for making available information associated with power consumption of at least one circuit of a plurality of circuits is disclosed. The system includes an electrical panel board configured to distribute power to the plurality of circuits, a circuit breaker in power connection with a conductor of... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080082277 - Ac output power supply with digital feedback loop: An AC power supply includes a digital feedback loop for output regulation. The feedback loop generates an RMS control signal that is mixed with a desired waveform to produce an input for a feedback loop that generates an instantaneous control signal. The instantaneous control signal is used to regulate power... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080082278 - Realtime spectrum trigger system on realtime oscilloscope: A realtime spectrum trigger system on a realtime oscilloscope considers both the magnitude and phase of an input signal having a periodic component so that successive acquisitions of the input signal are time aligned. A user inputs a frequency, threshold and phase for triggering on the periodic component. Input signal... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080082279 - Real-time clock calibration method and system: Real-time clock calibration is accomplished by generating a fast clock signal and a slow clock signal from an uncompensated clock signal; selectively, momentarily, replacing the uncompensated clock signal with the fast and slow clock signal to generate a compensated clock signal; generating from the compensated clock signal a calibration strobe... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20080082280 - Adaptive self-linearization with separation filter: A signal processing system includes an input terminal configured to receive an unknown signal having a distorted component and an undistorted component, the distorted component and the undistorted component having a nonlinear relationship; and a separation block coupled to the input terminal, configured to separate from the unknown signal a... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080082268 - Predicting the formation of intense hurricanes: A method of predicting the formation of strong hurricanes using energetic internal oscillations in an ocean.... Agent: Feldmangale, P.A.

20080082272 - Computational systems and methods related to nutraceuticals: The present disclosure relates to computational systems and methods related to nutraceuticals.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080082273 - Computer algorithm for automatic allele determination from fluorometer genotyping device: The present invention provides methods and systems for an automated method of identifying allele values from data files derived from processed fluorophore emissions detected during the observation of fluorophore labeled nucleotide probes used in analyzing polymorphic DNA are provided. These methods are used in the rapid and efficient distinguishing of... Agent: Kilyk & Bowersox, P.l.l.c.

20080082274 - Measuring method for electromagnetic field intensity and apparatus therefor, measuring method for electromagnetic field intensity distribution and apparatus therefor, measuring method for current and voltage distributions and apparatus therefor: A measuring method for electromagnetic field intensity capable of easily and accurately measuring, with a compact and simple facility, each of the electric field component and the magnetic field component of an electromagnetic field formed in space is to be provided. By simultaneously measuring output currents O1 and O2 from... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080082281 - Adaptive self-linearization: A method of signal processing includes receiving an unknown signal that includes a distorted component and an undistorted component, and performing self-linearization based at least in part on the unknown signal to obtain an output signal that is substantially undistorted, wherein performing self-linearization includes adaptively generating a replica distortion signal... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080082282 - Accurate on-die temperature measurement using remote sensing: An embodiment of the present invention is a technique for thermal sensing. A sensing structure generates a response according to a local temperature at a first location on a die. A sensor core coupled to the sensing structure via routing lines to provide a measurement of the local temperature from... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080082283 - Method and system for facilitating preventive maintenance of an optical inspection tool: A method of determining preventive maintenance for an optical inspection system for inspecting photolithography processed substrates. The method includes measuring at least one operational characteristic of the optical inspection system and comparing a measurement result for said at least one operational characteristic with predetermined preventive maintenance criteria for the operational... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080082284 - System performance monitoring system: An industrial controller performance monitoring system includes a detector connected to a controller. The detector is optically coupled to an output, such as a display, of equipment under test and the controller is configured to receive a signal from the equipment under test that is indicative of an instruction to... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./bf

20080082285 - Method and system to self-test single and multi-core cpu systems: A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and system, the method including, in some embodiments, performing an in-system (or in-the-field) self-test on a first core of a multi-core (or multi-CPU) processor to obtain at a value for at least one operational parameter of the first core, storing the value for the... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20080082286 - Circuit for testing a usb device using a packet to be measured controlled by test signals: A USB test circuit for use in a USB device such as a system LSI with a USB function for testing the USB function generates and outputs a packet to be measured for a signal quality test. In the test circuit, a test signal including a test_sin signal carrying operation... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080082287 - Measurement system, and program product for measurement system: A measurement system obtains a predetermined estimated value, using multiple measurement data. The measurement system includes a measuring section for acquiring measurement data with respect to a measurement object, a display section for displaying indication concerning a measurement, a display controller, a measurement controller, a storing section for storing the... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080082289 - Method and system for estimating exhaust gas temperature and internal combustion engine equipped with such a system: A method for estimating temperature of an internal combustion engine exhaust gases, a system for estimating exhaust gas temperature and an engine equipped with such a system The method uses an estimator with a neural ne work provided with a feedback loop returning directly or indirectly in the network input... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080082290 - On die thermal sensor: An on die thermal sensor (ODTS) for use in a semiconductor device includes a temperature information output unit for measuring an internal temperature of the semiconductor device to generate a temperature information code having temperature information, and updating the temperature information code according to a refresh period.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080082288 - Thermography measurement system for conducting thermal characterization of integrated circuits: A system and method to fully characterize the thermal behavior of complex 3D submicron electronic devices. The system replaces and/or supplements laser-based surface temperature scanning with a CCD camera-based approach. A CCD camera records multiple points of light energy reflected from an integrated circuit to obtain a static temperature measurement.... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20080082291 - On die thermal sensor: An on die thermal sensor (ODTS) for use in a semiconductor memory device includes: a temperature information code generation unit for sensing an internal temperature of the semiconductor memory device in response to first and second enable signals and for generating a temperature information code which includes the sensed temperature... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080082292 - Method for contracting transportation: A method for contracting transportation. A contractor uses scanning apparatus to accurately determine the volume of objects to be moved, and sends out contractor requests for quotation to a large number of moving companies. The contractor forwards the resulting moving company quotes to the customer, who communicates the winning quote... Agent: Paul S. Rooy Registered Patent Attorney

20080082293 - Generating an alert to indicate stale data: A method comprises a receiving system computing a time difference between a current time and a time that a last sync message was received from a sending system. If such a time difference meets or exceeds a first threshold, the method further comprises generating an alert (e.g., visual alert, audible... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080082295 - Abnormal situation prevention in a coker heater: A system and method to facilitate the monitoring and diagnosis of a process control system and any elements thereof is disclosed with a specific premise of abnormal situation prevention in a coker heater of a coker unit in a product refining process. Monitoring and diagnosis of faults in a coker... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080082294 - Method and system for detecting abnormal operation in a stirred vessel: A system and method for detecting abnormal situations associated with a stirred vessel in a process plant receives statistical data associated with a pressure within a stirred vessel. A pressure signal associated with the pressure in the vessel is filtered by a digital filter to isolate a frequency component corresponding... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080082296 - Low power vibration sensor and wireless transmitter system: A low power vibration sensor and wireless transmitter system has one or more sensors that sense parameters of a machine including vibration and produces dynamic signals representing the sensed parameters. The system converts the signals to a digital format, digitally filters the signals, and processes the signals. A processor determines... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20080082297 - Multivariate monitoring and diagnostics of process variable data: A system and method of monitoring and diagnosing on-line multivariate process variable data in a process plant, where the multivariate process data comprises a plurality of process variables each having a plurality of observations, includes collecting on-line process data from a process control system within the process plant when the... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080082298 - Method for storing and accessing data: A method for storing data in an electronic device, using tags to mark events carried out in the electronic device during a certain time period. The method involves defining a tag which is assignable to data related to events which are carried out and stored using the electronic device; defining... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080082299 - On-line monitoring and diagnostics of a process using multivariate statistical analysis: A system and method of monitoring and diagnosing on-line multivariate process variable data in a process plant, where the multivariate process data comprises a plurality of process variables each having a plurality of observations, includes collecting on-line process data from a process control system within the process plant when the... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)