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

20070150246 - Context-supported structures in a modeling language: The present modeling technique allows context to be associated with structural elements. These structural elements are defined within a containing class (i.e., a context-supported class). Thus, knowledge that is captured about complex internal behavior of the structural elements (e.g., constraints) may be incorporated within the context-supported class without requiring business... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070150249 - Verification operation supporting system and method of the same: A verification operation supporting system which can automatically execute complicated verification operation is provided. This system is provided with an input device for an administrator for inputting test case common information common to all test cases and test case difference information different for every test case, a text editor for... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070150254 - Simulation engine for a performance validation system: A method of simulating performance characteristics of a product to be manufactured includes identifying a plurality of simulation modules each representative of one or more components of the product. The method also includes linking the plurality of simulation modules together to provide a model capable of generating an output associated... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070150240 - Automated selection of optical systems: An automated system for designing or engineering an optical system that compares a set of user requirements (translated into corresponding optical characteristics) with the optical characteristics of a plurality of standard optical components, and automatically and interactively working with the user processes through a program to enable the user to... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20070150241 - Report generator for a mathematical computing environment: A method and apparatus, including a computer program apparatus, implementing techniques for generating a report from a technical computing environment provided by a mathematical computer program. A report generator defines a set of reporting components that can be assembled to form a report template and processes the reporting components of... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070150242 - System and method for managing documents with multiple applications: A method and system for managing documents, where the system includes a document manager server connected to image processing devices and to applications via a network. The document manager server receives an identification from the image processing devices; looks up a profile and transmits the profile to the image processing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070150243 - Apparatus and method for preparing data to generate simulation model, and program thereof: The apparatus for preparing data to generate simulation model extracts the analysis data of the parts required when a simulation is performed based on the CAD data of the parts forming a product to be processed, prepares data as a source of a simulation model of the product by combining... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070150244 - Method and apparatus for automated grid formation in multi-cell system dynamics models: Method for forming a fixed geometric grid for a fluid dynamics system multi-cell computer model, the system having one or more surfaces, includes representing the system surfaces by an array of contiguous polygons. The method also includes creating a single model cell that encompasses the entire system and assigning all... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070150245 - Method and apparatus for solving transport equations in multi-cell computer models of dynamic systems: Method and apparatus for modeling a dynamic system include a digital computer and a multi-cell system dynamics modeling program stored in the computer. The modeling program has an iterative calculation routine for calculating one or more thermophysical values for each model cell. The routine employs one or more initial iterations... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070150247 - Follicular unit transplantation planner and methods of its use: A system for planning transplantation of follicular units in a body surface of a patient includes a user interface comprising a software-controlled processor, a monitor, and an input device, wherein the system is configured for acquiring images of the body surface, processing the images to produce a three-dimensional model of... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20070150248 - Simulation method: A simulator is partitioned into a functional component and a behavior prediction component and the components are executed in parallel. The execution path of the functional component is used to drive the behavior prediction component and the behavior prediction component changes the execution path of the functional component.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070150251 - Parameter extraction method, method for inspecting circuit operation, and storage medium having program to perform the parameter extraction method: A structure includes a step of inputting a numerical value of a parameter, which forms a model formula, by a computer; a step of inputting the numerical value of the parameter to the model formula and calculating a calculation value by the computer; and a step of evaluating degree of... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070150250 - Parameter setting method and circuit operation testing method and electronic processing device: The invention provides a method for testing a circuit operation (circuit simulation), which is conducted by using a model of high precision. After parameters are extracted by using a model of which physical precision is low and parameter extraction time is short from measurement data, the parameters are converted to... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler, Ltd.

20070150252 - Digital effects analysis in modeling environments: An analysis tool analyzes a model to determine the digital effect of the model in a modeling or programming environment. With the analysis tool, a user can determine minimum hardware functionality needed to execute the software generated from the model. The hardware functionality may include the word size of the... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070150253 - Reviewing effectiveness of communication rules system: A method for reviewing effectiveness of a rules system applying one or more rules to communication traffic of a group of users. The method analyzes a log containing one or more communications reviewed by the rules system to determine if the communications in the log conforms to the communications policy.... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070150255 - Emulation export sequence with distributed control: Emulation information including emulation control information and emulation data is exported from a data processor by arranging the emulation information into information blocks, and outputting a sequence of the information blocks from the data processor. Some of the information blocks of the sequence have relative proportions of emulation control information... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070143089 - Simulating system, simulating apparatus, image forming apparatus, and simulating method: A simulating system having: a data retrieving device which time-sequentially retrieves a control value which is outputted from a control system in an image forming apparatus to a controlled system and an input value inputted from the controlled system to the control system as a control result; a data storing... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070143082 - Method and system for virtual decoration: Systems and methods for facilitating the decoration of an area, and particularly a surface such as a wall in a room, are provided. A user may view a virtual impression of the placement of selected artwork on a particular wall. The user provides an image of the area to be... Agent: Kenneth C. Winterton Holland & Hart LLP

20070143084 - Incorporation of uncertainty information in modeling a characteristic of a device: A method and model for modeling a characteristic C that is distributed within a domain. A provided base equation expresses C as a function f of a variable V through use of N+1 parameters C0, C1, . . . , CN in the form C=f(C0, C1, . . . ,... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070143083 - Method and system for designing a nuclear reactor core for uprated power operations: In a method of designing a nuclear reactor core for uprated power operations, a set of constraints are inputted to be satisfied for uprated power operations, and a test reactor core design is generated based on the constraints. One or more automated tools may be selected from a set of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070143085 - Healthcare information deficiency management system: A system automatically performs document reanalysis and identifies when a document that has been modified requires reanalysis by a Healthcare Information Management (HIM) analyst, for example. A document deficiency processing system includes an interface for receiving data identifying a document is modified by a page being inserted into the document... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070143086 - Method of manufacturing a matrix body drill bit: A method of manufacturing an earth-boring bit having a fluid plenum and a plurality of fluid pathways includes modeling flow characteristics of the fluid plenum and the plurality of fluid pathways, optimizing the flow characteristics to minimize fluid separation through each fluid pathway, constructing a plenum blank from the optimized... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070143087 - Vehicle occupant analysis model for vehicle impacts: A method of simulating a vehicle impact that involves generating a first finite element model of the vehicle, a multi-body model, and a partial vehicle finite element model. The method also involves generating a coupled model that includes at least a portion of the multi-body model and at least a... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20070143088 - System and method for predicting biting insect conditions: A system uses not only current information but also historical information to determine and predict current and future insect activity. The system includes a processing unit which receives, as input, one or more factors such as current environmental information, date, time, user input, insect trap activity and perhaps weather information... Agent: Akhil D. Garland P.o.box 134

20070143090 - Method and a system for testing of a power management system of a marine vessel: s

20070143091 - Microcomputer logic development system: Provided is a system for developing the preceding logic to be implemented in a built-in microcomputer that is used while being incorporated in an electronic control unit. The system has a CPU whose capability is good enough to implement the preceding logic, provides the same assortment of resources as the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070143095 - Run-time tunable sample time in programming or modeling environments: Programming or modeling environments in which programs or models are simulated or executed with tunable sample times are disclosed. The tunable sample times can be changed during the simulation or execution of the programs or models without recompiling the programs or models. The sample times are parameterized and the value... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070143093 - System and method to simulate conditions and drive control-flow in software: A method, information handling system, and computer program product to simulate conditions in a software module, by identifying, in the software module, whether a simulation environment has been activated, encountering a simulation point in the software module, the simulation point including one or more simulation parameters, and in response to... Agent: Vanleeuwen & Vanleeuwen

20070143094 - Systems, methods, and media for integrating and driving experimental design and analysis: Systems, methods and media for an integrated experimental planning, design, and analysis framework are disclosed for describing an experimental design in a data processing system. The framework includes a collection of structured experimental state inputs for organizing possible experimental information. A configurable table structure is simultaneously displayed along with the... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070143092 - Variable structure in physical modeling: A method and apparatus programmatically define structure within a physical modeling environment. The system and corresponding method of modeling, provides a computationally based modeling environment in which a physical entity can be modeled parametrically and hierarchically, if desired. A physical component of the physical entity is identified. The physical component... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070143096 - Data backup system including a data protection component: A data backup system is provided for backing up data files from a data source and for securing those data files against accidental modification or deletion. The system comprises storage and a data protection component that includes an application programming interface defining a command set. The system can also comprise... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070143097 - Systems and methods for selectively copying embedded data files: A backup system is provided that includes a backup application configured to automatically execute upon connection of the backup system to a data source. The backup application is configured to selectively back up data from the data source to itself or to networked storage, for example. As part of selectively... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070136030 - Method and device for detecting an overstepping of design loads of the fin of an aircraft: The device (1) comprises a set (2) of information sources, means (3) for determining, with the aid of information emanating from said set (2), a current bending moment, means (5) for determining, with the aid of information emanating from said set (2), a current twisting moment, means (7) for carrying... Agent: Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070136031 - Virtual designer: The present invention includes a method of electronically designing an article, including accessing an electronic article design system, selecting an article type to design, and iteratively configuring a group of characteristics by selecting one or more options for each characteristic and/or iteratively modeling the article performance based on a selection... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070136033 - Method for designing insulation thickness of 22.9kv class high-temperature superconducting cable using conversion coefficient: Disclosed herein is a method for designing an insulation thickness of a 22.9 kV high-temperature superconducting cable wherein conversion coefficients for use in the transmission of electric power. In the insulation thickness designing method, differently from a conventional design method wherein only AC insulation breakdown electric-field, impulse insulation breakdown electric-field,... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070136034 - Method for modeling three dimensional shape of objects using level set solutions on partial differential equation derived from helmholtz reciprocity condition: A method for modeling a three dimensional shape of object using a level set solution on a partial differential equation derived from a Helmholtz reciprocity condition is provided. The method includes the steps of: a) inputting an image pair satisfying a Helmholtz reciprocity condition; b) performing an optical correction and... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070136035 - Methods and system for predicting multi-variable outcomes: Systems methods and recordable media for predicting multi-variable outcomes based on multi-variable inputs. Additionally, the models described can be used to predict the multi-variable inputs themselves, based on the multi-variable inputs, providing a smoothing function, acting as a noise filter. Both multi-variable inputs and multi-variable outputs may be simultaneously predicted,... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070136032 - System, method, and apparatus for diverterless hypersonic inlet for integrated turbojet and ram-scramjet applications: A diverterless hypersonic inlet (DHI) for a high speed, air-breathing propulsion system reduces the ingested boundary layer flow, drag, and weight, and maintains a high capture area for hypersonic applications. The design enables high vehicle fineness ratios, low-observable features, and enhances ramjet operability limits. The DHI is optimized for a... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20070136038 - Plant simulator: A plant simulator which makes it possible to set factors which could invite a system accident and to simulate the process of occurrence of a system accident. The plant simulator has a plant monitoring and operation unit 300 which displays on a display screen parameters and the plant status computed... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070136037 - Processes for determining the strength of a plate-type exchanger, for producing a plate-type heat exchanger, and for producing a process engineering system: A process for determining the strength of a plate-type heat exchanger includes computing the temperature stresses of the plate-type heat exchanger within the heat exchanger during its operation by a three-dimensional numerical simulation. Based on the computed temperature stresses, the strength of the plate-type heat exchanger is determined. The process... Agent: Cahn & Samuels LLP

20070136036 - Radio frequency identification system deployer: A method and system for deploying radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. The system presents the floor plan of the site to which the RFID system is to be deployed. A user may add representations of RFID interrogators to the site and use information that the system presents to determine ideal... Agent: Justin Gray

20070136039 - Device and method for demonstrating stagger: In one embodiment a device is provided for visually demonstrating stagger. In this embodiment, the device includes first and second tires coaxially mounted on an axle, wherein the first tire has a smaller diameter than the second tire. The device also includes a member configured to be pushed or pulled... Agent: Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

20070136040 - Method for assessing models of vehicle driving style or vehicle usage model detector: The present invention relates to a method of determining the probability that a statistical model describes the driving style or usage of a vehicle observed. By identifying an appropriate statistical model, the driving style can be detected and vehicle operation can be optimized. The method may be applied to both... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070136041 - Vehicle operations simulator with augmented reality: This invention provides in a safe and effective manner the experience of observing potential collision obstacles or other hazard images to the human operator of an otherwise conventional vehicle, (such as an automobile or aircraft) moving in a normal manner in a natural environment (such as an outdoor test track).... Agent: Elizabeth Chien-hale

20070136042 - Quadrilateral grid extension of central difference scheme for ink-jet simulations: A central difference scheme, on which a coupled level set projection method is based, is extended to quadrilateral grids on axi-symmetric coordinate systems. The level set projection method is incorporated into a finite-difference-based ink-jet simulation algorithm. The extension involves modification of the Navier-Stokes equations and the level set convection equation.... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070136043 - Control system using immune network and control method: To provide a new method for autonomously controlling the behavior of a control target device based on a stimulating action and a suppressing action among antibodies in an immune network, an operating unit 3 calculates an antibody concentration ai(t) serving as an index for selecting an antibody module ABi, while... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070136045 - Calculating intermodulation products and intercept points for circuit distortion analysis: A pertubative approach based on the Born approximation resolves weakly nonlinear circuit models without requiring explicit high-order device derivatives. Convergence properties and the relation to Volterra series are discussed. According to the disclosed methods, second and third order intermodulation products (IM2, IM3) and intercept points (IP2, IP3) can be calculated... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070136044 - Efficient simulation of dominantly linear circuits: A method of simulating a circuit parameter such as voltage or current for a dominantly linear circuit by constructing a circuit equation matrix whose elements correspond to nodes of the circuit, decoupling linear and nonlinear contributions to the circuit parameter based on a partition of an inverse matrix of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jvm)

20070136046 - Channel emulating device: A channel emulating device includes a first choosing module, a first signal integrating module, a first parameter adjusting module, a second choosing module, a second signal integrating module, a second parameter adjusting module and a third choosing module. The first signal integrating module generates at least one first integrated signal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070136047 - Preserving emulation capability in a multi-core system-on-chip device: A system comprises a multi-core silicon-on-chip (SOC) device. The SOC device includes a core module, a test data shift path, a core power control module, and an emulation control module. The core module includes a TAP controller and a plurality of data registers. The test data shift path is operable... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070129916 - Cloth application programmer interface: A method of executing a physics simulation is performed in a system comprising a computational platform, a main application stored in the computational platform, a secondary application stored in the computational platform, and a cloth application programming interface (API) implemented in the computational platform. The method defines a cloth simulation... Agent: Volentine Francos, & Whitt PLLC

20070129917 - Updating and utilizing dynamic process simulation in an operating process environment: A simulation system that includes interconnected simulation blocks which use process models to perform simulation activities for a process plant is integrated into a process control environment for the process plant in a manner that makes the simulation system easy to use and easily updated for on-line process simulation. The... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20070129918 - Apparatus and method for expressing wetting and drying on surface of 3d object for visual effects: An apparatus and a method for expressing wetting and drying on an object surface are provided. The apparatus includes an adding water mark module adding new water on an object surface from a particle or a mesh representing water in outside environment, a wetting module considering water affinity of the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070129919 - Fluid-structure coupled numerical simulation method and program for fluid-structure coupled numerical simulation storage device: A fluid-structure coupled numerical simulation method is provided. The method uses a finite volume method employing an orthogonal mesh and a computer and memory setting a solid area based on a solid rate inside a mesh and at a tangent position to each mesh, including the steps of: setting initial... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070129920 - Automated simulation testbench generation for serializer/deserializer datapath systems: Embodiments herein present a method for automated simulation testbench generation for serializer/deserializer datapath systems. The method provides a database of transactors for generating and checking data within the datapath system, wherein the transactors are adaptable to arbitrary configurations of the datapath system. The database is provided with a single set... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070129923 - Dynamic synchronizer simulation: A synchronizer module is provided that may be used to facilitate the simulation of circuitry having clock domain crossing signals. A multiple-stage synchronizer may be used where at least one of the multiple synchronizer stages is dynamically enabled and disabled. The synchronizer module may have a delay unit for selectively... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel (amd)

20070129922 - Satellite simulation system using component-based satellite modeling: Provided is a satellite simulation system based on component-based satellite modeling. The system includes: a user interface unit for receiving simulation control commands and data and parameter required for simulation from a user; a satellite model unit for individually storing information dependant on the satellite, characteristics of the simulation object... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070129921 - System and method for generating various simulation conditions for simulation analysis: A system for generating various simulation conditions for simulation analysis is disclosed. The system includes: a signal generating module (301) for generating an N-bit binary sequence consisting of “1” and “0” according to signal source parameters; a application module (302) for applying the N-bit binary sequence to generate the various... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070129925 - Logic circuit model conversion apparatus and method thereof; and logic circuit model conversion program: A logic circuit model conversion apparatus includes a first analysis unit which analyzes a model in which a logic circuit of a register transfer level has been coded and outputs simultaneous blocks and an analysis result, a creating unit which creates a common execution frequency group that is a set... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070129924 - Partitioning of tasks for execution by a vliw hardware acceleration system: In one aspect, logic simulation of a design of a semiconductor chip is performed on a domain-by-domain basis (e.g., by clock domain), but storing a history of the state space of the domain during simulation. In this way, additional information beyond just the end result can be reviewed in order... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070129926 - Hardware acceleration system for simulation of logic and memory: A hardware-accelerated simulator includes a storage memory and a program memory that are separately accessible by the simulation processor. The program memory stores instructions to be executed in order to simulate the chip. The storage memory is used to simulate the user memory. Since the program memory and storage memory... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070129927 - System and method of interactive situation simulation: An authoring, execution, and participation software system and corresponding method for the capture and execution of real-world events (e.g., crises) involving individuals such as senior private and/or public sector leaders is presented. The authoring system and method are used to model a scenario, incorporating knowledge from domain experts, relevant media,... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070129928 - Distributed system simulation: slow message relaxation: Distributed system simulation is enhanced by extending the simulation window. In a described implementation, the simulation window extension is facilitated with a slow message relaxation scheme. For example, especially when the simulation window is extended, slow unscheduled events can arrive at a logical process with a timestamp that is prior... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070129930 - Robustness optimization system: Assume a decision strategy that is optimal for a primary objective function(s). Without unacceptably affecting the value of the primary objective function(s), Robustness Enhancing Optimizer (REO) modifies the optimal strategy's decision variable values to maximize the likelihood that implementing the new strategy in the real world will be satisfactory (will... Agent: Utah State University Technology Commercialization Office

20070129929 - System simulation using multi-tasking computer code: A system, such as hardware or software system having a number of modules, is simulated using multi-tasking computer code. Simulation computer code launches tasks simulating system execution, where each task corresponds to a module. Each task requests a processing delay to a common scheduler. Upon the common scheduler receiving a... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20070129931 - Apparatus and method for supporting prototype development of embedded system: An apparatus and method for supporting prototype development of an embedded system are provided. The apparatus includes: a requirements analysis unit analyzing information about requirements and use cases of the embedded system which are input by a user to create a use case analysis table; an architecture design unit analyzing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman