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Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation May archived listing by USPTO class 05/07

20070124120 - Cad device, method of setting assembly definition and program for setting assembly definition for component manufactured by cad device: It is an object of the present invention to reduce setting errors of the degrees of freedom in an assembly definition of a component manufactured by a CAD device. In an assembly definition database, a plurality of assembly definition data is registered in advance, each of which includes a name... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070124119 - Systems and methods for rendering building spaces: A method and system of rendering buildings in three-dimensional space first renders a respective floor, then adds objects and finally walls to bound each of the floors. The result, a three-dimensional rendering of a building, has translucent walls and illustrates the position of objects within the building in addition to... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070124123 - Computer system for simulating a physical system: A computer system for simulating a physical system comprising a first module configured to convert a probability distribution function of a physical property into a discrete function having at least one segment and a second module configured to receive each segment and to perform an exact transformation of each segment.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070124121 - Computerized modeling for design and evaluation of organic light emitting diodes: A computer-implemented model for use in predicting the efficiency of light emission from constructions of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The model, as implemented using computer processing, provides essentially-exact solutions to the behavior of light in the sandwiched layers and the encapsulant of the constructions, and it can predict nearly exactly... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070124122 - Method and apparatus for backlight simulation: Computer-implemented methods of simulating backlights, and machine-readable media for carrying out such methods, are disclosed. The backlight may include a plurality of components, each component having at least one element. Some methods can include: tracing rays to an output plane of the backlight; collecting information from the traced rays to... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070124124 - Generation of software thermal profiles for applications in a simulated environment: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable code are provided the generation of software thermal profiles for applications executed on a set of processors in a simulated environment. Execution of a software program being run on a software simulator is detected and hardware operations for the software... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070124125 - Modeling complex environments using an interconnected system of simulation layers: A method is provided for creating or evolving a virtual environment with a computer system. Steps of the method include: forming a plurality of layers of data, including a first layer and a second layer, each layer including a plurality of cells containing data corresponding to a variable; operating on... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20070124126 - Simulation apparatus and method for design of sensor network: A simulation apparatus and method in relation to a sensor network are provided. The apparatus includes: a space database storing space information; a database storing standard specifications of sensors or sensor nodes; and a modeling unit extracting information on a 3-dimensional (3D) virtual space in which a sensor or sensor... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070124127 - Method and device for removing oscillatory artefacts from invasive blood pressure measurement data: The invention relates to a method for removing oscillatory artefacts caused by pressure waves in a fluid-filled trans-luminal catheter from invasive blood pressure measurement data, including the steps of setting up a model for the measurement data, fitting the model to the measurement data, identifying the model components, representing the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070124128 - Systems and methods for editing a model of a physical system for a simulation: Systems and methods for modifying a medical model of a physical system is disclosed. One disclosed system includes a graphical user interface configured to display at least one parameter associated with the medical model and receive a modification of the at least one parameter. The system also includes a processor... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070124129 - Circuit evaluation method and circuit evaluation apparatus: The present invention provides a circuit evaluation method for evaluating a digital circuit which is mounted to, and operated in, a system apparatus, comprising: a first step for preparing first emulation logic which emulates an operation of the digital circuit; a second step for preparing second emulation logic which emulates... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070124130 - Systems and methods for automated diagnosis and repair of storage devices: A peripheral electronic device includes a health check application configured to execute automatically upon connection of the peripheral device to a data source, such as a personal computer. The health check application can diagnose problems and if necessary, repair the problems with the peripheral device, the data source, or both.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070118337 - Apparatus and method for inputting measurements into a software product to construct software models of architectural structures: A method for creating a three dimensional rendering of an architectural structure includes the measuring of spans of the structure using a laser measuring device which is communicatively coupled to a logic device capable of executing instruction embodied in architectural rendering software. The measurement data for the spans is transmitted... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20070118343 - Immediate buckling model, hysteresis model, and cloth simulation method based on the invented models, and computer-readable media storing a program which executes the invented simulation method: A method of simulating the movement of cloth and a computer-readable medium storing a program which executes the method of simulating the movement of cloth, wherein cloth deformation by compressive force is simulated by an immediate buckling model when the compressive force is applied to two extremities of a deformation... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070118342 - Mesh creating device, mesh creating method and mesh creating program: Herein disclosed is a mesh creating device, a mesh creating method and a mesh creating program which speed up the analysis processing without deteriorating analysis accuracy and to effectively facilitate handling of the data after creation of the analysis model. The mesh creating device creates an analysis mesh for the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070118339 - Method and apparatus for distinguishing combinational designs: Ordinary minterm counting (OMC) and weighted minterm counting (WMC) are applied as combinational design discriminators to a pair of combinational designs D1 and D2. OMC assigns the same weight to each minterm, while WMC assigns a weight that can vary. For application of minterm counting, D1 and D2 can be... Agent: Synopsys, Inc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070118344 - Method and system for detecting change in data streams: A system for detecting change in a data stream comprising a distribution maintenance engine, a difference determining means and an alert generation engine is disclosed. The system detects change in the alert stream by the distribution maintenance engine maintaining a short term distribution that models the data stream and maintaining... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070118338 - Process model based virtual sensor and method: A method is provided for a virtual sensor system. The method may include establishing a virtual sensor process model indicative of interrelationships between a plurality of sensing parameters and a plurality of measured parameters, and obtaining a set of values corresponding to the plurality of measured parameters. The method may... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070118340 - Satisfiability (sat) based bounded model checkers: A method uses a SAT solver operating to cycle k to find bugs in a model having finite computation paths therein, wherein said bugs are on computation paths of less than length k. Another method includes adding an additional state variable to a model to be checked, where a governing... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070118341 - Simulation apparatus, simulation method, and computer program product: A calculating unit calculates either one of a reaction probability between a chemical species used in a semiconductor process and a semiconductor device and a deactivation probability of the chemical species, according to either one of a structure of the semiconductor device and a plurality of materials. A simulation unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070118345 - Method and system for programming a motor controller: The invention relates to the programming of a motor controller by means of a configuration file which is sent to the motor controller. The configuration file is typically sent from a PC, but with this invention it is now possible to generate and to download the file directly to the... Agent: Altera Law Group, LLC

20070118346 - Method, system and apparatus for real-time reservoir model updating using ensemble kalman filter: A method, system and apparatus for real-time reservoir model updating using ensemble Kalman filters is described. The method includes a conforming step for bring bringing static and dynamic state variables into conformance with one another during a time step of the updating. Also, an iterative damping method is used in... Agent: Chevron Texaco Corporation

20070118348 - Disease simulation system and method: A system and method for predicting the effect of patient self-care actions on a disease control parameter. A future disease control parameter value X(tj) at time tj is determined from a prior disease control parameter value X(ti) at time ti based on an optimal control parameter value R(tj) at time... Agent: Health Hero Network, Inc.

20070118347 - Medical simulation system and computer program product: A medical simulation system includes a biological response inputting section that receives input of biological response information indicating an actual biological response of biological body, a biological model generating section that generates a biological model for reproduction of simulated response simulating the actual biological response, a pathologic condition characteristics acquiring... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070118349 - Generation and use of integrated circuit profile-based simulation information: An exemplary method and system for generating integrated circuit (IC) simulation information regarding the effect of design and fabrication process decisions includes creating and using a data store of profile-based information comprising metrology signal, structure profile data, process control parameters, and IC simulation attributes. An exemplary method and system for... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070118350 - Analytical virtual machine: An analytical virtual machine (AVM) analyzes computer code using a software processor including a register that stores behavior flags indicative of behaviors identified by virtually executing the code within the virtual machine. The AVM includes a sequencer that stores the sequence in which behavior flags are set in the behavior... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20070112546 - Context modeling architecture and framework: A context modeling architecture that includes a context representation portion, which adapted to represent context as features, is provided. The features are specifiable at runtime of an application including the context representation portion.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070112547 - Method and system for integrated reservoir and surface facility networks simulations: Integrated surface-subsurface modeling has been shown to have a critical impact on field development and optimization. Integrated models are often necessary to analyze properly the pressure interaction between a reservoir and a constrained surface facility network, or to predict the behavior of several fields, which may have different fluid compositions,... Agent: Danita J.m. Maseles Schlumberger Technology Corporation

20070112548 - Methods for fabricating micro-to-nanoscale devices via biologically-induced solid formation on biologically-derived templates, and micro-to-nanoscale structures and micro-to-nanoscale devices made thereby: The focus of this invention is the combined use of: i) one or more biological agents to promote the precipitation of one or more desired solids onto ii) a biologically-assembled 3-D microscale-to-nanoscale structure. That is, the solid precipitation and the 3-D structural assembly are both conducted with the aid of... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20070112549 - Method and apparatus for a database workload simulator: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to execute a set of instructions a selected number of times to simulate user loads for a selected number of users. A selected number of traces are obtained in response to executing the set of instructions the selected number of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070112550 - Simulation system and method for establishing reservoir operational rule curves: A simulation system is adapted to reside in a computingdevice for establishing reservoir operational rule curves. The simulation system simulates reservoir storages of consecutive time units of hydrological years based on initially assigned reservoir storages and corresponding reservoir hydrological data, and makes statistical data sets of corresponding relationship among the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070112551 - Methods and apparatus for determining equivalence and generalization of a network model: Methods and apparatus are provided for determining equivalence and generalization of a network model. A method is provided for determining whether two networks are equivalent. A model of at least two networks is obtained, and then simplified using one or more normal form rules. A test is then performed to... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP Suite 205

20070112552 - Native function of portable electronic device surfaced as soft device in host computer: A native device includes a memory storing a personal computing environment; an interface configured for coupling with a host information processing system; a native function system for performing a native function; and a native function emulator for emulating the native function in the host information processing system. According to another... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070106486 - Allocation of multiple product structures: A system, method, and computer program for allocating product structures, comprising the steps of representing a product with at least one product structure; mapping a domain relationship from said at least one product structure; and deriving a fulfilled product structure through said mapping and appropriate means and computer-readable instructions.... Agent: Ugs Corp.

20070106487 - Methods for optimizing efficiency and durability of rotary drag bits and rotary drag bits designed for optimal efficiency and durability: A method for evaluating existing drill bits and drill bit designs includes measuring several desired characteristics of a bit, including the wear experienced in drilling a formation, such as an actual formation or a simulated formation or a laboratory test fixture. A computer model may be used to evaluate the... Agent: Trask Britt

20070106488 - Incremental circuit re-simulation system: A netlist description of a circuit is processed to classify some signals of the circuit as essential signals and to classify all other signals of the circuit as non-essential signals. Thereafter when simulating behavior of the entire circuit in response to input signals supplied over some time interval, a simulator... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.

20070106489 - Abstract interface for unified communications with dynamic models: The present invention provides a method and system for interfacing with a model regardless of model type. An abstract interface is provided for interfacing a model. The abstract interface is compatible with a plurality of model types. A call can then be made to a dynamic model via a method... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070106490 - Verification support method, verification supporting apparatus, and computer product: A verification supporting apparatus includes a concept model generating unit, a function model verifying unit, a motion model verifying unit, and an ICA model verifying unit. The concept model generating unit generates a concept model aiming at a requirement specification of a customer to eliminate an error or misunderstanding of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070100590 - Apparatus for and method of calculating many-body problem: An address generator holds a cell list of cell data of a central cell containing a central particle and a predetermined number of surrounding cells located around the central cell in a system. The address generator designates particle data of a central particle and particles that are present around the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070100591 - Parameter extracting device and parameter extracting method in simulation, photomask created from parameter extracting method, and semiconductor device: The present invention provides a device for extracting optimum parameters in a simulation at high precision and in a short period of time. The present invention also provides a photomask created using the lithography parameters obtained from the device, and a semiconductor device. The device includes a parameter setting section... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070100589 - Real asset-to-simulated environment bridge and method: The present disclosure is directed to a training system comprising at least one real asset having real asset data, a transceiver coupled to the real asset, at least one simulator adapted to simulate an asset; and a bridge coupled between the at least one simulator and the transceiver, whereby training... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20070100592 - Virtual sampling system: Virtual sampling systems and methods are disclosed. Images of footwear are masked into distinct sections. Images of a variety of materials and textures and color data are stored in libraries. A computer device is configured to retrieve material and texture images and color data from the libraries and apply them... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070100593 - Method for constructing a geologic model of a subsurface reservoir: The present invention is a method for constructing a geologic model of a subsurface reservoir which is a composite sedimentary body (30) composed of many smaller fundamental sedimentary bodies (32). In one embodiment, the fundamental sedimentary bodies (32) within the composite body (30) are specified by the properties of the... Agent: Brent R Knight Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

20070100594 - Method for constructing a kinetic model allowing the mass of hydrogen sulfide produced by aquathermolysis to be estimated: Method for constructing a kinetic model allowing the mass of hydrogen sulfide produced by aquathermolysis within a rock containing crude oil to be estimated. The crude oil and the rock are described according to four chemical compound fractions: NSO fraction, aromatics fraction, resin fraction and insolubles fraction. A kinetic model... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070100595 - Behavior monitoring and reinforcement system and method: A system, method and computer software that provides for a computer implemented system and method for comprehensive reinforcement of human behavior by capturing environmental information for participants and reinforcing their daily choices in their environments. Unique applications of technology are used to record, reinforce and document the desired behavior activities... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070100596 - Generation and manipulation of realistic signals for circuit and system verification: Methods for generating realistic waveforms with controllable voltage noise and timing jitter in a computer-based simulation environment and the simulation of a subset of those waveforms with system elements along the signal path is disclosed. By deriving a generic, re-useable, parameterized Fourier series, time-domain clock and pseudo-random data signals are... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20070100597 - Utility, method and device providing vector images that may be formatted for display in different locales: In one embodiment, in response to receiving an image request, a computer-implemented method: 1) retrieves a vector image from a device that is a target of the image request, the vector image illustrating at least a portion of the device; 2) determines a locale for display of the vector image;... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070100598 - Apparatus and method for connecting a hardware emulator to a computer peripheral: A system and method for connecting a hardware emulation of an electronic device to a computer peripheral that includes a computer for receiving data from the peripheral and storing the received data in a first buffer. The computer next transmits the received data to the hardware emulation at a slower... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070100599 - Dynamic data trace output scheme: Data streams are generated for tracing target processor activity. When multiple streams are on, they are written at different times into their individual FIFO. It is possible that for a specific stream, the length and fields of the data that should be exported vary. This invention is a scheme to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated