Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation inventions 07/06

20060167665 - Automated system and method for service and cost architectural modeling of enterprise systems: An automated system and method is provided for system architects to model enterprise architectures of information systems. From an initial model of a proposed system architecture, performance metrics are modeled and compared against a set of user-defined corporate and business requirements. The performance metrics include cost, quality of service and...

20060167664 - Automatically deriving logical, arithmetic and timing dependencies: A mechanism for verifying system behavior includes: (1) A “constraint-based inference engine” and (2) a “constraint-based simulator.” The inference engine accepts logical/temporal/data dependencies describing a system implementation and automatically derives new logical/temporal/data dependencies describing the input/output (“black-box”) behavior of the system or other aspect of the system's behavior. This capability...

20060167666 - Method for extracting the equivalent model of couple transmission line in high-speed circuit: A method of extracting an equivalent model of couple transmission line in high-speed circuit includes the steps of: using signals in an even mode and odd mode to excite the couple transmission line respectively; obtaining voltages by measuring the couple transmission line in the excitation of the signals in the...

20060167663 - Problem solving method utilizing emergent clustering and case retrieval: An Adaptive, Any-Time Case Retrieval process combines existing knowledge (emergent clustering, case retrieval with CRN) in a novel and advantageous way. Although ideally suited to the Digital Body Development System (DBDS), the method is applicable to any problem solving environment involving iterative simulations. Given a description of a problem to...

20060167667 - Agent simulation development environment: The subject invention relates to integrating agents, control logic, and simulations in order to simulate and validate a control strategy for a physical system. The systems and methods integrate agents and control logic with simulations, and utilize the integrated agents, control logic, and simulations to generate a proxy. The proxy...

20060167668 - Pdc drill bit with cutter design optimized with dynamic centerline analysis and having dynamic center line trajectory: A method for designing a fixed cutter drill bit includes simulating the fixed cutter drill bit drilling in an earth formation, determining a dynamic centerline trajectory of the drill bit, and adjusting at least one design parameter based upon the graphical display of at least the dynamic centerline trajectory. To...

20060167669 - Pdc drill bit with cutter design optimized with dynamic centerline analysis having an angular separation in imbalance forces of 180 degrees for maximum time: A method for designing a fixed cutter drill bit, includes simulating the fixed cutter drill bit drilling in an earth formation, determining radial and circumferential components of imbalance forces on the drill bit and a Beta angle between the radial and circumferential components of the imbalance forces during a period...

20060167670 - Photon-based modeling of the human eye and visual perception: A photon-based model of individual cones in the human eye perceiving images on digital display devices is presented. Playback of streams of pixel video data is modeled as individual photon emission events from within the physical substructure of each display pixel. The generated electromagnetic wavefronts are refracted through a four...

20060167671 - Device and method of calibration for a modelling tool and modelling tool incorporating such a device: This calibration device for a tool for modelling a system, on the basis of an observation of the outputs of the system, comprises means of processing the output data emanating from a device for simulating the system, adapted to acquire in a prior learning phase modifications to be made to...

20060167672 - Method and apparatus for representing, managing and problem reporting in surveillance networks: A method, system and computer product for performing a system analysis of a surveillance network containing a plurality of components are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of representing selected ones of the plurality of components, providing a mapping between a plurality of observable events and a plurality of causing...

20060167673 - Method and apparatus to generate circuit energy models for macros containing internal clock gating: A method, a computer program, and an apparatus are provided for generating circuit energy models for a macro containing internal clock gating. Circuit energy models are used to estimate system power consumption. The present invention enables circuit energy models to be created for macros that contain internal clock gating and...

20060167674 - Provisioning computing services via an on-line networked computing environment: A system and method for allowing user access to software applications, data storage and retrieval, and electronic mail and messaging services in a networked computing environment are provided. The need for software installation, upgrade, and version control, and the need for certain hardware upgrades are eliminated by providing software and...

20060161403 - Method and system for analyzing data and creating predictive models: A method and system of automatically analyzing data, cleansing and normalizing the data, identifying categorical variables within the data set, eliminating co-linearities among the variables and automatically building a statistical model is provided....

20060161404 - State exploration using multiple state groupings: Exploration algorithms are relevant to the industrial practice of generating test cases from an abstract state machine whose runs define the predicted behavior of the software system under test. Here, a new exploration algorithm allows multiple state groupings to simultaneously guide the search for states that are interesting or relevant...

20060161405 - Methods for locating targets and simmulating mine detection via a cognitive, swarm intelligence-based approach: A method is provided for locating targets dispersed within a target field, whereby a plurality of like robotic scouts are provided for transmitting and receiving target detection signals, and for following a received signal's intensity gradient. The target field is foraged by the scouts according to a navigation scheme which...

20060161406 - Method and system for predictive stratigraphy images: Methods and systems are provided for displaying and forecasting the lithology and wellbore conditions to be encountered while conducting drill string operations are conducted in a wellbore. A method and system is described for predicting and modeling lithology while operating a drill string in a wellbore, comprising: developing a 3-D...

20060161407 - Modeling biological effects of molecules using molecular property models: Method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for modeling the biological effects of a molecule are disclosed. A machine learning application may be configured to process a set of training examples regarding a biological property of interest. Once trained, the machine learning application may be configured to generate a prediction regarding...

20060161408 - Population pharmacokinetic modeling and analysis (pdx-pop™): A biological modeling system and method for enhanced computer-aided analysis of biological response data provides information synthesized from multiple sources. An executable model of a biological system is developed from information and structures based on multiple sources. In a preferred embodiment, biological data sets are selected by a user from...

20060161409 - Behavioral model generation: A model of a device is generated. An input port of the device is stimulated with a large amplitude signal having a central frequency. A first port of the device is perturbed with a small amplitude signal tone. The small amplitude signal tone is at a frequency offset slightly from...

20060161410 - Three-dimensional cad system: A CAD system having a plurality of clients connected by a network enables simulations to be run that reflect design information from other client CADs. A server 100 causes a computing unit 101 to reflect in a three-dimensional model generated based on design according to any given client 110-140 design...

20060161411 - Computer program and method for determination of electronic circuit card durability under exposure mechanical shock loading: An application program and method for determining the strength of electronic products exposed to mechanical shock, including application program steps of (i) describing the mechanical configuration of the electronic product; (ii) describing the stock response; (iii) calculating natural response modes of the circuit card; (iv) calculating stress functions for each...

20060161413 - Methods for fast and large circuit simulation: A method for simulating large circuits in full-scale. To enhance the simulation efficiency, subcircuits are extracted from a circuit and thence a hierarchical structure is established using the extracted subcircuits. Subsequently, the circuit is partitioned and a current-voltage table for each subcircuit is dynamically generated. A transient analysis of the...

20060161412 - Techniques for determining parameter variability for interconnects in the presence of manufacturing uncertainty: Techniques are disclosed for determination of parameter variability for one or more given interconnects of a plurality of interconnects in a simulated semiconductor circuit. The simulated semiconductor circuit is defined at least in part by a plurality of input parameters. From a distribution of first values of a given input...

20060161414 - Event-driven model generated from an ordered natural language interface: A method and system converts statements entered in an ordered natural language into an event-driven model, which may be easily parsed to discover missing or contradictory conditions. A user interface allows a user to enter functional requirements of a design into the system in a well-defined manner. An ordered natural...

20060161415 - Driver handler object framework: Disclosed is a framework that provides a method for testing device driver installation tasks which would otherwise have to be done manually using actual hardware. By providing the capability to dynamically create the appearance of many types of hardware devices installed on the system the need to have test machines...

20060161416 - Device and method for checking railway logical software engines for commanding plants, particularyl station plants: Method and device for checking logical software engines for commanding railway plants, particularly station plants, comprising at least a computer with at least a central processing unit and at least a memory for loading and executing programs: a logical engine for commanding a plant, particularly a station plant, being loaded...

20060161417 - Evaluating hardware models having resource contention: A performance prediction simulator gives effect to the resource contention among multiple resources in a simulated system by adjusting event durations appropriately. A resource topology tree defining the resource configuration of the system is input to the simulator. The simulator includes an evaluation engine that determines the amount of resource...

20060161418 - Time multiplexed interface for emulator system: An apparatus, program product and method for emulating a hardware design by time division multiplexing data communicated between an emulator and a runtime assist unit (RTAU), such as a behavior card. Data from the emulator may be received directly at the general purpose registers of the RTAU. A programmable delay...

20060161419 - External emulation hardware: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with external virtualization are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes an emulation logic located external to an integrated circuit to which it may be operably connected. The example emulation logic may include a virtualization logic that is configured to virtualize a portion of...

20060161420 - Information processing device, information processing method, semiconductor device, and computer program: An information processing device is used which includes a host processor 1 for executing predetermined processing and a coprocessor 2 for executing emulation in accordance with a direction from the host processor 1. The coprocessor 2 determines whether the processing to be executed in accordance with emulation may be executed...

20060161421 - Software emulation of directed exceptions in a multithreading processor: A multithreading microprocessor has a plurality of thread contexts (TCs) each including sufficient state, such as general purpose registers and program counter, to execute a separate thread of execution as one of a plurality of symmetric processors controlled by a multiprocessor operating system. However, the microprocessor hardware does not support...

20060161422 - Virtual emulation modules, virtual development systems and methods for system-on-chip development: A virtual emulation module of a subsystem based on a virtual platform includes a virtual core and a virtual program code including a set of functions. The virtual core is realized using a high-level language and corresponds to a core of the subsystem to be realized onto a system-on-chip (SOC)....

20060155518 - Method for retrievably storing audio data in a computer apparatus: The invention relates to a method for retrievably storing audio data in a computer apparatus on which a CAD application program is installed in executable form. The method involves a voice input from the user being stored using generated audio data in a memory device in the computer apparatus. The...

20060155519 - Method for representing true colors with device-dependent colors on surfaces and for producing paints and coatings matching the true colors: A method for selecting paints is disclosed. This method includes the steps of selecting true paint colors, displaying device-dependent colors corresponding to the true paint colors in a simulated full size room and interacting with the buyers to change the displayed colors and select the desired colors. The method also...

20060155520 - Model-based pre-assembly testing of multi-component production devices: A multi-component production devices in accordance with a device design having performance specifications is made by a method comprising receiving respective component behavioral models of the production components constituting the production device; combining the component behavioral models in accordance with the device design to form a device behavioral model; and,...

20060155521 - Method and apparatus for supporting verification, and computer product: In a verification supporting apparatus, when an obtaining unit obtains a verification scenario, a substituting unit substitutes an undefined value for a variable value in the verification scenario. A first executing unit executes a logic simulation using an input pattern. From a result of the logic simulation, a determining unit...

20060155522 - Equivalent circuit for coil incorporated in circuit simulator, circuit simulator and method of preparation of same, and storage medium of circuit simulator program: An equivalent circuit for a coil incorporated in a circuit simulator is a model of an equivalent circuit for a coil included in a circuit simulator for analysis of an electrical device including a coil forming a magnetic circuit. The equivalent circuit of a coil included in an electric motor...

20060155523 - Method and device for representing a cell implemented in a partially depleted silison-on-insulator type cmos technology: A first simulation running through all the possible input states is used to collect information on the drain, gate and source biasing of each transistor. This transistor bias information is used to perform an interpolation in charts of internal potentials. These charts are tabulations of internal potentials for different drain,...

20060155524 - Instructions to load and store containing words in a computer system emulator with host word size larger than that of the emulated machine: Two unique instructions for the instruction set of a target 36-bit machine which is emulated on a host 64-bit machine are provided in order to achieve visibility, to an emulated application program, of a “containing” word stored in the memory of the host machine. A “LOAD64” instruction loads the emulator...

20060155525 - System and method for improved software simulation using a plurality of simulator checkpoints: A system and method is provided to improve software simulation. A software emulator is used in conjunction with a hardware simulator. A special snapshot instruction is included in the software code that is emulated. When the snapshot instruction is encountered, values such as register, memory, and program stack values, are...

20060149512 - Method and apparatus for evaluating a proposed solution to a constraint problem: A method of evaluating constraint functions, the evaluation being based at least in part on a channel deformation criteria....

20060149513 - Method and system for simulating a surface acoustic wave on a modeled structure: A method of simulating a surface acoustic wave (SAW) on a structure that is modeled on a computer or other processor-based device enables the testing of actual SAW devices or to develop improved SAW devices. In this method, the modeled structure is preferably that of a corrugated structure that includes...

20060149511 - Method of segmenting a three-dimensional data set allowing user corrections: The invention relates to a method of segmenting a three-dimensional structure from a three-dimensional, and in particular medical, data set while making allowance for user corrections. The method is performed with the help of a deformable three-dimensional model whose surface is formed by a network of nodes and mashes that...

20060149514 - Method of determining a fresh fuel bundle design for a core of a nuclear reactor: A method for determining a fresh fuel bundle design for a core of a nuclear reactor may include defining a plurality of inputs including user-defined target conditions for evaluating one or more reference fresh fuel bundle designs for each of N bundle groups, and generating a response surface based on...

20060149515 - Nuclear reactor reload licensing analysis system and method: A system and computer implemented method for automatically performing reload licensing analysis of a nuclear reactor and preparing and generating a reload licensing report. The system and method include collecting input data and processing a plurality of nuclear reactor analysis modules. Each of the nuclear reactor analysis modules receives analysis...

20060149516 - Physics simulation apparatus and method: A method and apparatus wherein complex physical interactions and collisions are modeled at a high level of detail while reducing the computational demands placed on the processing system. In one embodiment the method comprising the steps of defining a first object and a second object, each object adapted for colliding...

20060149518 - Method for evaluating and improving drilling operations: A method for improving drilling performance of a drilling tool assembly is disclosed. The method includes identifying a drilling performance parameter to be improved. One or more potential solutions are defined to improve the drilling performance parameter. A drilling simulation is performed to determine the dynamic response of the drilling...

20060149517 - Methods and systems for spring design and analysis: A spring design method is disclosed. The method begins with inputting a first set of design parameters for a spring. The design parameters include a parameter that provides an estimate of non-linearity in the spring. The spring design method determines a spring design based on the first set of design...

20060149519 - Hybrid vehicle parameters data collection and analysis for failure prediction and pre-emptive maintenance: A method of collecting and analyzing large amounts of continuous real time vehicle measurement data from more than 50 monitored parameters includes providing a system for collecting and analyzing large amounts of continuous real time vehicle measurement data from more than 50 monitored parameters; receiving continuous real time vehicle measurement...

20060149520 - Method for more rapidly producing the representative stochastic model of a heterogeneous underground reservoir defined by uncertain static and dynamic data: Method for more rapidly forming a stochastic model of Gaussian or Gaussian-related type, representative of a porous heterogeneous medium such as an underground reservoir, constrained by data characteristic of the displacement of fluids and punctual observations, these observations being uncertain and characterized by a probability law. It is based on...

20060149522 - Image-based computational mechanical analysis and indexing for cardiovascular diseases: A method and a computer system, for providing an assessment for disease status of a disease, such as a cardiovascular disease, employ construction of image-based 3D computational model of an organ representative of the disease status; computationally obtaining a certain mechanical distribution using the 3D-organ model; and computational, quantitative analysis...

20060149521 - Modulating nuclear receptor coactivator binding: The present invention comprises cocrystal of a nuclear receptor comprising a molecule bound to the coactivator binding site of said nuclear receptor. The present invention further comprises a machine-readable data storage medium encoded with machine readable data corresponding to the structure coordinates of amino acids of a nuclear receptor coactivator...

20060149523 - Software for die-stamping modelling: The invention concerns a method for digital simulation of a die-stamping process comprising the following steps: recording at least one metamodel consisting of a permanent collection of the digital representations of elementary components of die-stamping tools, each of the elementary components being defined in the form of finished elements, and...

20060149524 - Network management and control using collaborative on-line simulation: A collaborative on-line simulation system and method to provide automated and pro-active control functions for computer network. In a wide area network, clients communicate through one or several nodes (108). Each node (108) contains routers which include control plane (202) and data plane (204). Collaborative on-line simulators (206) are interfaced...

20060149525 - Multi-point model reductions of vlsi interconnects using the rational arnoldi method with adaptive orders: The work proposes a model reduction method, the rational Arnoldi method with adaptive orders (RAMAO), to be applied to high-speed VLSI interconnect models. It is based on an extension of the classical multi-point Pade approximation, using the rational Arnoldi iteration approach. Given a set of predetermined expansion points, an exact...

20060149526 - Clock simulation system and method: A simulation system, a computer product to implement a simulation method, and a method of simulating a digital circuit that has at least one element and at least one clock signal having clock attributes. The method includes maintaining a data structure for time-scheduled events scheduled to occur at particular simulation-times;...

20060149527 - System and method to determine peak power demand in an integrated circuit: A method comprises receiving a description of a power distribution network of a circuit, defining at least one DC supernode in the power distribution network, receiving a logical description of the circuit, and determining at least one logic path in the circuit. The method further comprises traversing the at least...