Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation inventions 12/06

20060293871 - Method and system for producing a scent from a hand-held device: A technique for producing a scent from a hand-held device involves receiving a scent mixture formula at a hand-held device, converting the scent mixture formula into dispense control signals, and generating a scent mixture in response to the dispense control signals, the scent mixture being generated from different base scents... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20060293872 - Three-dimensional wellbore analysis and visualization: A visualization system for a wellbore environment includes a graphics processor for creating a computer rendered visual model of a well, and optionally a drill string, based on data sets of depth-varying and/or time-varying parameters of the well. The model is then displayed on a graphics display. A user interface... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20060293873 - Systems and methods for reverse engineering models of biological networks: The present invention provides methods and accompanying computer-based systems and computer-executable code stored on a computer-readable medium for constructing a model of a biological network. The invention further provides methods for performing sensitivity analysis on a biological network and for identifying major regulators of species in the network and of... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20060282233 - Method for the fast exploration of bus-based communication architectures at the cycle-count-accurate-at-transaction -boundaries (ccatb) abstraction: A computer system simulation method starts with algorithmically implementing a specification model independently of hardware architecture. High level functional blocks representing hardware components are connected together using a bus architecture-independent generic channel. The bus architecture-independent generic channel is annotated with timing and protocol details to define an interface between the... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman LLP Suite 1150

20060282234 - Method of designing a structural element: A method of designing a structural element comprising providing a value for a plurality of parameters of the structural element and a plurality of loads to be supported thereby, performing an analysis step of calculating a plurality of properties of said structural element at a plurality of discrete locations on... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20060282235 - System for creating measured drawings: A system for creating as-built or measured drawings is described herein. The invention allows an operator to collect a set of data at a job-site, in such a manner that individual components of the job-site are linked relative to one another and to use that data to create accurate measured... Agent: Fliesler Meyer, LLP

20060282237 - Fixed point integer division techniques for ac/dc prediction in video coding devices: The disclosure describes a method for performing a fixed point calculation of a floating point operation (A // B) in a coding device, wherein A // B represents integer division of A divided by B rounded to a nearest integer. The method may comprise selecting an entry from a lookup... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20060282240 - Method for using coupled fea analyses of different levels of organization within an entity to analyze the entity: A method and computer-implemented system for coupling multiple, concurrently-running FEA analyses of an entity that has multiple levels of organization in a way that enables each analysis to inform and be informed by analyses of higher and/or lower levels of organization in the entity. The method and preferred system includes... Agent: Stephen J. Brown, Esq. Bryan Cave LLP

20060282239 - Method of setting-up steady state model of vsc-based multi-terminal hvdc transmission system: The power flow model of the multiterminal voltage-source converter-based high voltage DC (M-VSC-HVDC) transmission system for large-scale power systems is studied. The mathematical model is derived using the d-q axis decomposition of HVDC's control parameter. The developed model can be applied to all existing shunt voltage-source converter (VSC) based controllers,... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20060282236 - Method, data processing device and computer program product for processing data: The invention relates to a method for for data processing, to be run on a data processing device, for the mapping of input data to output data, where data objects to be processed are entered as input data, the entered data objects are processed, by using a topology-preserving mapping, by... Agent: Jeffrey S Habib Hooker & Habib

20060282238 - System and method of performing two's complement operations in a digital signal processor: A method of completing a two's complement operation includes receiving a plurality of byte values and splitting the plurality of byte values into a first portion and a second portion. Further, the method includes inputting the first portion to a first segment of a first four-to-two compressor, performing a first... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20060282241 - System modeling facilitating method and apparatus: A system modeling facilitating method and apparatus, wherein, entities and interactions among the entities are introduced gradually starting from critical entities in a system to form an abstract view of the entities. An associated sub-module is built for at least one of the entities and interfaces to other entities are... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20060282242 - Methods and apparatus for modeling gas turbine engines: A method enables modeling of a gas turbine engine that includes a pulse detonation system. The method includes providing a pulse detonation modeling system, predicting characteristics of the engine using the pulse detonation modeling system, and predicting characteristics of the pulse detonation system using the pulse detonation modeling system.... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20060282243 - Method, system and program storage device for simulating fluid flow in a physical system using a dynamic composition based extensible object-oriented architecture: The present invention provides a method, a system and a program storage device containing instructions for simulating the flow of fluid in a physical system using a composition-based extensible object-oriented program. A computer program includes: (i) a framework subsystem providing a graph package, a compute package and a property package;... Agent: Chevron Texaco Corporation

20060282245 - Biological simulation system and computer program product: With an object to seek parameters of a biological model corresponding to individual patients, the present invention provides a biological simulation system comprises an internal parameter set generating section which generates internal parameter sets constituting a biological model, and a biological model computing section computing output of a biological model... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060282244 - Method and system for modeling scenarios in clinical trials: A computer-based method for modeling scenarios for clinical trials in a drug development process is disclosed. The method provides study data to a computer system where the study data represents data from one or more studies on patients performed during the clinical trials of the drug. The method displays on... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20060282249 - Circuit simulation method and circuit simulation apparatus: In designing a semiconductor integrated circuit, circuit information used for circuit simulation is extracted from measurement values of electric characteristics of a device included in TEG and parameters included in a netlist are modified using the measurement values and simulation values. Circuit simulation is carried out using the thus modified... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060282247 - Combined hardware and network simulator for testing embedded wireless communication device software and methods: A simulator and methods for evaluating embedded wireless communication software (110) including a wireless communication device hardware simulator on which the software is to be embedded and a radio frequency environment simulator (150), wherein the software is compiled (120) for actual wireless communication device hardware (140) in which the software... Agent: Motorola Inc

20060282248 - Integrated simulation system: An integrated simulation system, for integrally simulating a simulation target having a plural number of elements therein, comprises: simulators, each being provided, independently, for each of the elements, for simulating those elements, respectively; and a corporation means having a common data area for connecting the plural number of simulators accessible... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060282246 - Methodology for image fidelity verification: A method for predicting functionality of an integrated circuit segment to be lithographically printed on a wafer. Initially there is provided a two-dimensional design of an integrated circuit, including an integrated circuit segment having critical width, and a two-dimensional printed image of the critical width integrated circuit segment is simulated.... Agent: Delio & Peterson, LLC

20060282250 - Logic simulation method and system: Correlation between a first node included in a high-level circuit and a second node included in a low-level circuit are determined. The high-level circuit and the low-level circuit are obtained by describing a single logic circuit at two different levels. In logic simulation, the expected value of the first node... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060282251 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for facilitating modeling of a combinatorial logic glitch at an asynchronous clock domain crossing: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for facilitating combinatorial logic modeling at an asynchronous clock domain crossing. The modeling technique employs a simulation value of X in combinatorial logic at the asynchronous clock domain crossing of a circuit being modeled to facilitate modeling of a potential combinatorial... Agent: Kevin P. Radigan, Esq. Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti, P.C.

20060282253 - Method and apparatus for display of windowing application programs on a terminal: A video display terminal capable of operating with a graphical user interface such as Windows provides windowing functionality to permit use of popular applications programs resident on a server, without requiring more than application data to be transmitted from the server, and keyboard and mouse information to be transmitted from... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20060282252 - Modeling of a multiprocessor system: Methods and systems for modeling a multiprocessor system in a graphical modeling environment are disclosed. The multiprocessor system may include multiple processing units that carry out one or more processes, such as programs and sets of instructions. Each of the processing units may be represented as a node at the... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield

20060282254 - System and method for dealing with component obsolescence in microprocessor-based control units: A method of dealing with a microprocessor used in a first vehicle system control unit becoming obsolete. The method comprises providing a second vehicle system control unit for performing substantially the same operation as that of the first vehicle system control unit, wherein the second vehicle system control unit includes... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20060277006 - Automatic design and sale of complex multi-vendor electronic and mechanical systems: The automation of design and sale of electronic and mechanical components is accomplished by allowing a user to design a plan for their electronic and mechanical component needs using specialized software. The software utilizes predefined models of components to aid the user in designing a system where all the components...

20060277004 - Casting design optimization system (cdos) for shape castings: A casting design system (101) is provided which comprises (a) a database (115) which contains casting design data and rules, (b) a user interface (109), in communication with the database, which accepts as input a product design (103) that is to be cast by a casting process, and (c) an...

20060277003 - Computer aided design associative design process: A system and method for designing components through the use of a computer having a computer aided design (CAD) software enables a reduction in the occurrence of infinite looping. The method includes the step of identifying common areas between the components, wherein the components have a three-dimensional relationship through the...

20060277007 - Computer-implemented building design and modeling and project cost estimation and scheduling system: A computer-implemented building design and modeling system and method are provided. In one embodiment, the system comprises a spatial database; means for defining a plurality of parametric objects, each of the parametric objects representing a construction component of at least a portion of a building being modeled and including an...

20060277005 - Creation and publishing of virtual components: A method for use in CAD modeling software to define product structure based on virtual components created independent from geometry and without the need to create files on disk. With the additional capability of assigning geometry to the virtual components of the product structure that sets and orients the virtual...

20060277008 - Analysis of boundary and/or initial value problems in thin objects and spaces: A method for simplifying engineering analysis of CAD geometric models, one which retains much of the accuracy of detailed finite element (FE) analysis while avoiding its computational burdens, is described. A skeleton, such as an exact or approximate medial mesh, is defined within the model, and the skeleton is then...

20060277009 - Simulation and modeling of rock removal control over localized zones for rock bit: A method for designing a rock bit, involving dividing a bottomhole into a plurality of zones, simulating cutting of a rock formation by the rock bit in each of the plurality of zones, outputting results of the simulation, and analyzing the results of said simulation....

20060277010 - Parameterization of a simulation working model: The invention relates to a process for the parameterization of a software-implemented working model of a simulation environment, which comprises a multitude of simulation model components and is loaded onto simulation hardware, particularly in order to simulate a test environment of at least one motor vehicle control system interfaced with...

20060277011 - Method and system for predicting the apparent flow conductivity of a heterogeneous medium: The invention concerns a method and a system for predicting the apparent flow conductivity of a heterogeneous medium. According to the invention, the following steps are implemented:—choosing a flow conductivity element type with a given set of characteristic parameters;—determining equations for said flow in said element type;—determining a network statistics...

20060277013 - Method for simulating fluid flows within a reservoir by means of a chimera type discretization: Method for simulating flows in reservoirs by means of chimera type grids. The method first consists in generating a chimera grid made up of a set of elementary grids capable of taking account of the various characteristics of the flows and of the geometry (radial grid in the well zone...

20060277012 - Method of upscaling absolute permeabilities to construct a flow simulation model: The invention is a method for calculating the inter-cell absolute permeability values associated with a reservoir model at the scale of the flow simulations representative of the porous medium from the absolute permeability values associated with a geologic model representative of the same porous medium....

20060277016 - Biological simulation system and computer program product: With an object to seek parameters of a biological model corresponding to individual patents, the present invention provides a biological simulation system comprises an internal parameter set generating section which generates internal parameter sets constituting a biological model, a biological model computing section computing output of a biological model which...

20060277014 - Dairy production information system: A method for allocating dairy end product pricing risk in a dairy production system is described. The method includes providing a fixed price for a future period for a dairy end product to a retailer of the dairy end product, determining a cost of production for the dairy end product,...

20060277015 - Simulation system for functions of biological organs and recording medium in which program therefor is recorded: A simulation system for simulating functions of biological organs, comprising a biological model in which the functions of the biological organs are expressed by mathematical models. The biological model comprises a hepatic metabolism model block having specified input and output relating to hepatic function for simulating the hepatic function. The...

20060277017 - Method for the characterization of the three-dimensional structure of proteins employing mass spectrometric analysis and computational feedback modeling: A method for characterizing the three-dimensional surface structure of molecules, particularly proteins and protein complexes, employing mass spectrometric analysis, an electrospray ionization (ES) source, a novel data interpretation process that utilizes comparisons of particular binding constants (KB) and heats of formation (ΔHf), and computational feedback modeling....

20060277020 - A reconfigurable system for verification of electronic circuits using high-speed serial links to connect asymmetrical evaluation and canvassing instruction processors: A reconfigurable scalable system for verifying electronic circuit designs in anticipation of fabrication by compiling a hardware description to instructions for canvassing processors and instructions for circuit evaluation processors which are scalably interconnected by reconfigurable high-speed serial links to provide simulation and emulation, having deterministically scheduled transfer of circuit signal...

20060277019 - A scalable system for simulation and emulation of electronic circuits using asymmetrical evaluation and canvassing instruction processors: A scalable system for verifying electronic circuit designs in anticipation of fabrication by compiling a hardware description to instructions for canvassing processors and instructions for circuit evaluation processors which are scalably interconnected to provide simulation and emulation, having deterministically scheduled transfer of circuit signal values among the large number of...

20060277021 - Circuit synthesis with sequential rules: A scheduling approach enables scheduling sequential execution of rules in a single cycle of a synchronous system without necessarily requiring explicit implementation of a composite rule for each sequence of rules than may be composed. One method for designing a synchronous digital system includes using modules with multiple successive interfaces...

20060277018 - Mixed-domain analog/rf simulation: A simulation environment is disclosed wherein both analog and RF signals are simulated in a single flow by a mixed-domain simulator. The simulator includes a simulator kernel with an analog solver and an RF solver to allow both analog- and RF-type of signals to be solved in an interrelated fashion....

20060277023 - Integration of always-on software applications: Techniques for integrating always-on software applications are provided. A simulator for the software user interface interfaces with the always-on software application. The simulator operates similar to the software user interface, except that it does not affect the hardware user interface (e.g., the screen display). For example, the simulator user interface...

20060277022 - Modelling a complex system: The invention relates to the modelling of a complex system wherein units such as data and/or products are received, processed and forwarded in event chains of the system. Said modelling uses a defined set of basic types at the lowest description level for representation of the units and in order...

20060277024 - Processing of compensation scopes in workflow management systems: The current invention relates to a technology for processing of compensation scopes comprised within atomic scopes of a process model by a Workflow Management System or a computer system with comparable functionality (WFMS). The method comprises a step of checking whether the atomic scope of the process instance of that...

20060277025 - Method and apparatus for classifying and modeling operating system image for data center management: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for classifying and modeling operating system images for data center management. An operating system image may be classified as a golden master image, a snapshot image, or a scripted operating system image. A software model is provided to abstract operating system and...

20060277026 - Universal web-based reprogramming method and system: A technique is disclosed for facilitating editing of editable code in an interface device or similar apparatus. Properties of device elements are enumerated by a general purpose engine resident on the interface device. The general purpose engine enumerates the properties in response to a query in a design-time environment. The...

20060277027 - Emulator for general purpose viewer configurable interface: An emulator is provided for an interface device. The emulator includes all functional software of the physical interface device, including configuration software, operating system, design-time environment, run-time engine, and so forth. Device elements, which may be standard COM elements objects, may be configured via the emulator, as may particular interface...