Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation inventions 08/06

20060195303 - Apparatus and methods for creating sketch-based eggcrate substructures for composite parts: Apparatus and methods of creating sketch-based eggcrate substructures for manufacturing composite parts are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of creating a design includes providing an input model from a plurality of inputs, including providing a layout geometry, and providing a specification data structure. A resolution model of the input...

20060195304 - Method for lobby and common area interior: A lobby or other public space design process for providing an attractive appearance complementary to a building in which the lobby is installed, by (a) Evaluating a building for determination of appropriate lobby interior design architecture and appearance, (b) Selecting a suitable design from a series of previously prepared design...

20060195306 - Compression and compressed inversion of interaction data: A compression technique compresses interaction data. A fast method processes the compressed data without the need to first decompress the data. In one embodiment, the compression technique is used to compress data in an interaction matrix. The interaction matrix (such as a moment method impedance matrix) contains interaction data between...

20060195305 - Low vibration rectification in a closed-loop, in-plane mems device: A method for a geometry of a lateral comb drive for an in-plane, electrostatic force feedback, closed-loop, micromachined accelerometer or closed-loop Coriolis rate gyroscope device, or closed-loop capacitive pressure or force measuring device. When vibration is applied to the device, the error in the time-average output, which is vibration rectification...

20060195307 - Dynamic vibrational control: A method for reducing vibration of a drilling tool assembly is disclosed. The method includes modeling the drilling tool assembly based on input parameters, simulating a vibration of a drill string coupled with a vibration of a drill bit, determining an initial total vibration from output parameters generated by the...

20060195308 - Methods and models for cholesterol metabolism: The invention encompasses novel methods for developing a computer model of cholesterol metabolism in an animal. In particular, the models include representations of biological processes associated with both lipid flux and lipoprotein particles. The invention also encompasses computer models of cholesterol metabolism, methods of simulating cholesterol metabolism and computer systems...

20060195309 - Real-time threshold state analysis: A threshold tracking system enabling users to arrange input data according to a set time of input creation is disclosed. The tracking system defines threshold variables that maintain counts of inputs over a set threshold time and the input values associated with each count. The threshold variables also maintain timelines,...

20060195310 - Efficient clock models and their use in simulation: Methods simulating a system of devices are described. A model that simulates the system is executed. The system model includes a plurality of modules. A clock object for a module can be disabled when it is not needed or not being used....

20060195311 - Synchronizing on-chip data processor trace and timing information for export: Emulation information indicative of internal operations of a data processor can be provided for use by an apparatus external to the data processor. A stream of emulation trace information indicative of data processing operations performed by the data processor is provided. A stream of timing information indicative of operation of...

20060190220 - Method for optimizing turbine engine exhaust system: A method for optimizing the efficiency of an exhaust system of a turbomachine, such as the nacelle of a gas jet turbine engine. The method includes the steps of selecting a plurality of turbomachine exhaust system parameters for comparative analysis, varying at least some of the parameters to define a...

20060190221 - System and method for design of a fluid delivery system: Embodiments of the present invention provide system and methods for design of the fluid delivery systems. One embodiment of the present invention includes a design program that is executable to provide a graphical user interface that allows a user to specify architecture independent flow functionalities for locations in a schematic...

20060190219 - System and method(s) of mine planning, design and processing: The present invention relates to the field of extracting resource(s) from a particular location. In particular, the present invention relates to the planning, design and processing related to a mine location in a manner based on enhancing the extraction of material considered of value, relative to the effort and 1...

20060190225 - Collaborative filtering using random walks of markov chains: A collaborative filtering method first converts a relational database to a graph of nodes connected by edges. The relational database includes consumer attributes, product attributes, and product ratings. Statistics of a Markov chain random walk on the graph are determined. Then, in response to a query state, states of the...

20060190224 - Integrated circuit layout critical area determination using voronoi diagrams and shape biasing: Method, system and program product for determining a critical area in a region of an integrated circuit layout using Voronoi diagrams and shape biasing. The method includes the steps of generating a biased Voronoi diagram based on a layout geometry of the region and incorporating a shape bias; and determining...

20060190222 - Probability of fault function determination using critical defect size map: Methods, systems and program products for determining a probability of fault (POF) function using critical defect size maps. Methods for an exact or a sample POF function are provided. Critical area determinations can also be supplied based on the exact or sample POF functions. The invention provides a less computationally...

20060190223 - Sample probability of fault function determination using critical defect size map: Methods, systems and program products for determining a probability of fault (POF) function using critical defect size maps. Methods for an exact or a sample POF function are provided. Critical area determinations can also be supplied based on the exact or sample POF functions. The invention provides a less computationally...

20060190226 - Systems and methods that utilize machine learning algorithms to facilitate assembly of aids vaccine cocktails: The subject invention provides systems and methods that facilitate AIDS vaccine cocktail assembly via machine learning algorithms such as a cost function, a greedy algorithm, an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, etc. Such assembly can be utilized to generate vaccine cocktails for species of pathogens that evolve quickly under immune pressure of...

20060190227 - Group-based bcu methods for on-line dynamical security assessments and energy margin calculations of practical power systems: e

20060190228 - Method for modeling and testing a security system: A method of designing, modeling and testing a security system for protecting a defined security area. The method includes modeling the security area, modeling the security system for the security area, and testing the security system using a computer to run various breach scenarios to determine weaknesses in the security...

20060190230 - Method and apparatus for cross simulation data sharing to facilitate higher resolution data measurements for complex designs: A method and apparatus is presented for performing simulation of complex circuits. A circuit is simulated in a fast simulator. State information, which is the output of the fast simulator, is translated in a translator and then the circuit is simulated in a slow simulator. In one embodiment, the circuit...

20060190229 - Method of modeling a portion of an electrical circuit using a pole-zero approximation of an s-parameter transfer function of the circuit portion: A method (1100) of creating a behavioral model of a portion (400) of an electrical circuit. The method includes collecting data by measuring an S-parameter of the circuit portion. A transfer function approximation (412, 1000) is then constructed from the S-parameter data. The transfer function approximation is simplified to provide...

20060190231 - Tracking, analyzing, and visualizing application delay: Performance metrics related to the processing and propagation of messages related to select applications are collected during a simulation of a network. Each message associated with an application is tagged, and each simulated packet that contains some or all of a tagged message is correspondingly tagged to facilitate the creation...

20060190232 - Hardware accelerator with a single partition for latches and combinational logic: A hardware accelerator includes hardware support for a combinational only cycle and a latch only cycle in a simulation model with a single partition of latches and combinational logic. Preferred embodiments use a special 4-input 1-output function unit in the hardware accelerator in place of the normal latch function that...

20060190233 - Stimulus extraction and sequence generation for an electronic device under test: A method and system that utilizes a graphical interface that enables a user to select and capture building blocks of a Device Under Test (DUT) test scenario from a previously run test case or from multiple stimulation results. Each of these extracted building block events or “tags” are created from...

20060190234 - Property generating method, verification method and verification apparatus: When a property for verifying a logic system is generated, a list of corresponding events is generated from specifications that the logic system should meet, an event of an undefined state in a first property is extracted from the list of events, and a property representing that the extracted event...

20060190235 - Verilog hdl simulation model for retain time: A computer program product for making a machine simulating the behavior of retain and access time of output bus is presented. The computer program product can make a simulator for detecting the transition of an input/bidirectional pin. In the retain time of the related output bus, the simulator sets a...

20060190236 - Application level interface to network analysis tools: A user interface to a network simulator facilitates the use of application layer parameters and application layer logic. The user interface is configured to allow the user to define the input in a graphic form, or a text/programming form, or a combination of both. Preferably, the user interface provides common...

20060190237 - Emulation processor interconnection architecture: The present system and methods are directed to the interconnection of clusters of emulation processors comprising emulation processors in a software-driven hardware design verification system. The processors each output one NBO output signal. The clusters are interconnected by partitioning a common NBO bus into a number of smaller NBO busses,...

20060190238 - Methods and systems for managing a device: In at least some embodiments, a system comprises a first device having at least one manageable function and a second device coupled to the first device, the second device being capable of managing the at least one manageable function. The first device is configured to emulate a data endpoint recognized...

20060190239 - Method and system for hardware based reporting of assertion information for emulation and hardware acceleration: A method and system for hardware based reporting of assertion information for emulation and hardware acceleration is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of performing assertion-based verification, comprises providing a user interface to design assertions that aid in verifying an integrated circuit design. Assertion instrumentation code is generated to implement...

20060184343 - Aware and active features for computer-aided design systems: Processing data in a computer-aided design (CAD) system includes determining that a feature of a three-dimensional model has a condition that requires correction. The condition is automatically corrected by performing an action. The action may be an action that reorders a sequence of features in the three-dimensional model, an action...

20060184340 - Deterministic sampling simulation device for generating a plurality of distribution simultaneously: The trajectory of solutions is calculated by numerically integrating deterministic differential equations, and when sampling along this trajectory, it is set in such a way that a distribution obtained by combining a plurality of Tsallis distributions in which the solution of differential equations covers an energy range wider than that...

20060184341 - Method and apparatus for generating and managing a language model data structure: A method is presented comprising assigning each of a plurality of segments comprising a received corpus to a node in a data structure denoting dependencies between nodes, and calculating a transitional probability between each of the nodes in the data structure....

20060184342 - Network configuration management by model finding: Complex, end-to-end network services are set up via the configuration method: each component has a finite number of configuration parameters each of which is set to definite values. End-to-end network service requirements can be on connectivity, security, performance and fault-tolerance. A number of subsidiary requirements are created that constrain, for...

20060184344 - Simulator and simulation method using programming language interface of hardware description language: A simulator using a hardware description language programming language interface and a simulation method thereof, in which an electronic characteristic of an analogue circuit is coded into a program language of a programming language interface thereby to be interfaced. The simulator using a hardware description language programming language interface comprises:...

20060184345 - Method for producing a complex technical system: In a method for producing a complex technical system in a vehicle, as a first step, technical component states are defined for each component in the system, and used to produce an overall model in which all the states for all the components are stored. In a further step, an...

20060184346 - Modeling, simulation and comparison of models for wormhole formation during matrix stimulation of carbonates: Disclosed are methods of modeling stimulation treatments, such as designing matrix treatments for subterranean formations penetrated by a wellbore, to enhance hydrocarbon recovery. The modeling methods describe the growth rate and the structure of the dissolution pattern formed due to the injection of a treatment fluid in a porous medium,...

20060184347 - Method for recording zones on a stratified medium or the interface of a fluied situated within the medium and a flushing fluid which runs in a fixed manner: The invention relates to a method for determining the zones of a stratified porous medium whose physical properties are known, wherein the front or interface between fluids in place and injected flushing fluids moves in a stationary manner, without using a complete flow simulation. Starting from an a priori defined...

20060184348 - Method and computer system for editing documents: Techniques are described for developing a software application. For example, a system may include an editor unit configured to define a layout of a graphical user interface of the software application. The system may further include a view zone generator unit configured to determine the resolution of a device display...

20060184349 - Method and apparatus for providing virtual server blades: A first virtual machine (VM) in a processing system may emulate a first server blade, and a second VM in the processing system may emulate a second server blade. The emulated server blades may be referred to as virtual server blades. A virtual machine monitor (VMM) in the processing system...

20060184350 - Scalable reconfigurable prototyping system and method: A method and a system provide a reconfigurable platform for designing and emulating a user design. The method and system facilitates design and emulation of a system-on-a-chip type user design. The netlist of a user design may be included with netlists from customized or optimized third party circuits in an...

20060173657 - Systems and methods for dimensioning cad drawings: An automatic adaptive dimensioning program for CAD software in which dimension annotations are created by the CAD program automatically as an object is drawn and automatically associated with the object. Thereafter, changing the length of the object automatically changes the associated dimension annotation, or alternatively, changing the associated dimension annotation...

20060173661 - Method and system for optimization of general problems: Embodiments of the disclosed invention include optimization methods and systems that receive a mathematical description of a system, in symbolic form, that includes decision variables of various types, including real-number-valued, integer-valued, and Boolean-valued decision variables, and that may also include a variety of constraints on the values of the decision...

20060173659 - Storing or transmitting data representing a 3d object: A surface patch of a 3D object is represented by storing a plurality of control curves P1, P2, d1, d2 which act as boundary conditions to a partial differential equation (PDE). Solving the PDE for the boundary conditions given by the control curves P1, P2, d1, d2 allows the PDE...

20060173660 - Structural analysis method employing finite element method: A structural analysis method that saves analysis time without lowering the prediction accuracy is provided. The structural analysis method has dividing up the analysis target into a plurality of finite elements; defining a plurality of meshes that divide up the analysis target into units larger than the finite elements and...

20060173658 - System and method for numerically exploiting symmetry when using the boundary element method to perform computer-aided engineering: A method of numerically exploiting symmetry in a coupled electromechanical analysis, while still preserving the previously established advantages of the hybrid BEM/FEM approach for performing such analyses without exploiting symmetry is disclosed. The present invention allows advantageous acceleration techniques, which maximize analytical efficiency, to be employed for the analysis of...

20060173662 - Electromagnetic field analysis apparatus, method and computer program: An electromagnetic field analysis apparatus includes an information input device configured to input information regarding wirings and components of an analysis object and a modeling device configured to generate a simulation model of the analysis object based on the inputted information regarding the wirings and the components of the analysis...

20060173663 - Methods, system, and computer program products for developing and using predictive models for predicting a plurality of medical outcomes, for evaluating intervention strategies, and for simultaneously validating biomarker causality: Methods, systems, and computer program products for developing and using predictive models for predicting medical outcomes and for evaluating intervention strategies, and for simultaneously validating biomarker causality are disclosed. According to one method, clinical data from different sources for a population of individuals is obtained. The clinical data may include...

20060173664 - San modeling: A method, of modeling a storage system that includes an interconnected plurality of devices where there is at least one instance of a multi-link rather than a single-link between two of the plurality of devices, may include: providing a snapshot of the storage system (SSshot); decomposing multi-links of the SSshot...

20060173666 - Circuit verification: In one embodiment, a method for verifying one or more particular properties of a circuit using a learning strategy to determine suitable values of particular verification parameters includes classifying each of multiple properties of a circuit according to circuit size and selecting a candidate property from the properties. The candidate...

20060173665 - Method and apparatus for frequency independent processor utilization recording register in a simultaneously multi-threaded processor: Mechanism for accurately measuring useful capacity of a processor allocated to each thread in a simultaneously multi-threading data processing system. Instructions dispatched from multiple threads are executed by the processor on a same clock cycle. A determination is made whether Time Base (TB) register bit (60) is changing. A dispatch...

20060173667 - Simulation device for integrated circuit: A simulation device for an integrated circuit according to the present invention comprises a first memory unit, a first input unit, a second memory unit, an execute unit, a second input unit and an output unit. A net list of a particular path in inter-cell paths in the integrated circuit...

20060173668 - Identifying data patterns: Time series data is modeled to understand typical behavior in the time series data. Data that is notably different from typical behavior, as identified by the model, is used to identify candidate patterns corresponding to events that might be interesting. The model may be revised by removing model biasing events...

20060173669 - Process model consolidation: A computer-implemented method for creating a consolidating model includes converting a plurality of network specific models into a plurality of network common models wherein the plurality of network common models has a common granularity level and common technical terms. A consolidated model skeleton is then created based on the plurality...

20060173670 - Device emulation in programmable circuits: Device emulation implemented in programmable circuits. In one aspect, an interface for providing control of a hardware device includes functional code embedded in circuitry of the interface. Emulator code is embedded in programmable circuitry of the interface to emulate the hardware device during testing of the functional code and the...