Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation inventions 08/07

20070203680 - Method and system for identifying lens aberration sensitive patterns in an integrated circuit chip: Disclosed is a method and a system for identifying lens aberration sensitive patterns in an integrated circuit chip. A first simulation of a layout is performed to simulate a contour without lens aberration. A second simulation is performed of the layout to simulate a contour with lens aberration. A difference... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070203681 - Monte carlo simulation of well logging data: A system and method identify hydrocarbon productive reservoir zones using Monte Carlo numerical analysis to account for uncertainties in log measurements and petrophysical parameters. Random errors in logging tool responses and core measurements, as well as reservoir heterogeneity, are incorporated in a Monte Carlo simulation to output appropriate petrophysical models... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20070203684 - Apparatus, and associated method, for assessing viability of communication system arrangement transformation: Apparatus, and an associated method, for determining viability of transformation of a conventional computer system arrangement into a virtualized arrangement. A virtualization engine is provided that includes an assessor and a scorer. The assessor carries out an assessment process, such as a system assessment, a component assessment, and a cost... Agent: Scheef & Stone, L.L.P.

20070203687 - Monitoring physical parameters in an emulation environment: A method and system is disclosed for monitoring and viewing physical parameters while the emulator is emulating a design. Additionally, the parameters are in real time or substantially real time, such as after a periodic update. In one embodiment, a monitoring portion of the emulator periodically monitors the emulator boards... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070203677 - Method for simulating and estimating sandstone properties: The invention is a method for simulating sandstone deposition. The sandstone is simulated by estimating the grain size distribution and mineral composition of grains in the sandstone, simulating sedimentation of grains from the grain size distribution and mineral composition of the grains, simulating compaction of the grains, and simulating cementation... Agent: Brent R Knight Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

20070203678 - Storage medium readable by machine, storing design support program: A storage medium readable by a machine, storing a design support program, the program comprising a configuration displaying step of displaying a multidimensional model having a hierarchical structure configured by hierarchically combining parts on the basis of part data that define a multidimensional configuration of part, assembly data that define... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070203679 - Virtual prototyping system and method: A method for modeling design of products, the method comprising: a. providing a user with a computer, the computer having software capability locally or remotely accessible to do the following: i. analyze one or more analysis inputs; ii. assemble the inputs for analysis; iii. perform a simulation analysis; iv. generate... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20070203682 - External display simulator: An external display simulator is configured to internally verify data to be transmitted from a computing device to an output device by implementing display driver functionality. The external display simulator intercepts data output from an application executing on the computing device. The external display simulator supports many different display resolutions... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070203683 - Timing wires in a graphical program: A system and method for specifying timing relationships among nodes in a graphical program. User input specifying desired timing of a first node with respect to timing of a second node may be received. In various embodiments, any kind of timing relationship or timing constraint between the first node and... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel PC

20070203685 - Data update system, data update method, data update program, and robot system: A sub system (110) included in a robot that executes a program for performing a predetermined function includes a data receiving unit (115) that receives expansion data that expands the function of the robot, a data incorporation unit (116) that incorporates the received expansion data, a password output unit (113)... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070203686 - System and method for emulating serial port communication: A method and system of emulating serial com port communication. A computer processing system has computer-executable operating system instructions including first instructions that interact with a first serial device according to a predefined input/output (I/O) hardware interface. A first serial device has a receive port and a transmit port and... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070198234 - Method for history matching a simulation model using self organizing maps to generate regions in the simulation model: A method of history matching a simulation model is disclosed comprising: (a) defining regions exhibiting similar behavior in the model thereby generating the model having a plurality of regions, each of the plurality of regions exhibiting a similar behavior; (b) introducing historically known input data to the model; (c) generating... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions Attn: Danita Maseles

20070198242 - Cross-bar switching in an emulation environment: A system and method are disclosed for crossbar switching in an emulation environment. The switch is designed to coordinate scheduling between different crossbars in the system and to be dynamically reconfigurable during operation. In one aspect, a crossbar switch includes a switching matrix and an array of control cells. The... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070198230 - Parametric modeling method and system for conceptual vehicle design: An electronic method for parametric modeling of a conceptual vehicle design. The method includes (a) receiving dimensional input including one or more vehicle level parameters and one or more component level parameters; (b) receiving geometrical input including one or more non-dimensional design inputs; and (c) generating a parametric concept model... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20070198231 - Program managed design for complex construction projects: A method for generating architectural design requirements for a building structure is disclosed. A schematic drawing file of the building structure is loaded. The building type for the building structure is designated. A topology mask identifying the functional zones demarcated by the schematic drawing is created over the schematic drawing.... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070198232 - Estimation of clinical cut-offs: Methods and systems for improving the accuracy of predicting resistance of a disease to a drug are described. More specifically, methods for assessing the impact of pre-existing variations in drug susceptibility, whether naturally occurring or selected by previous drug exposure, on treatment response in order to establish clinically relevant cut-off... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070198233 - Methods and apparatus for predicting convergence of a transversal waveform relaxation algorithm: Methods and apparatus are provided for predicting the number of iterations needed for a computed Transversal Waveform Relaxation solution to achieve a given level of accuracy. In this manner, a Transversal Waveform Relaxation algorithm is disclosed that provides full automation. According to one aspect of the invention, a circuit is... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070198235 - Variation simulation system: A variation simulation system providing for facilitated circuit design with suppressed deterioration in performance otherwise caused by variations. A variation analysis unit 100 extracts statistical features of variations from a large number of samples beforehand. A model analysis unit 200 checks response of a circuit simulation output to parameter variations.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070198236 - Generating a hardware description of a block diagram model for implementation on programmable hardware: A computer-implemented system and method for generating a hardware implementation of graphical code. The method comprises first creating a graphical program. A first portion of the graphical program may optionally be compiled into machine code for execution by a CPU. A second portion of the graphical program is converted into... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070198237 - Modeling and simulating a powergated hierarchical element: A method, system and computer program product for modeling and simulating a powergated hierarchical element of an integrated circuit is disclosed. In modeling a powergated macro, the invention does not model all logic gates or elements as powergated, instead, the invention only models latches as connected to an integrated switch... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070198238 - Modeling asynchronous behavior from primary inputs and latches: Asynchronous behavior of a circuit is emulated by modifying a netlist to insert additional logic at a driving element such as a latch. The additional logic outputs one of (i) a present output from the driving element, (ii) a delayed output from the driving element, or (iii) a random value,... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jvm)

20070198239 - Event direction detector and method thereof: Event direction detection method that distinguishes an external event from an internal event and detects a direction of an event, includes the steps of: acting as intermediary of input/output of the external event and transferring external event input to an external event output; acting as intermediary of input/output of the... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070198240 - Solver for simulating a system in real time on a programmable hardware element: A method for performing a simulation of a system. The system includes an FPGA that is configured to implement simulation logic, such as a generic solver. For example, the FPGA device may implement a generic time domain solver or a generic frequency domain solver. The FPGA device is also configured... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070198241 - Hardware emulator having a variable input primitive: A hardware emulator having a first primitive for evaluating functions having a first input width and a second primitive, coupled to the first primitive, for evaluating a function having a second input width, where the first input width is unequal to the second input width. The use of either the... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20070198243 - Virtual machine transitioning from emulating mode to enlightened mode: A computing device has a hardware device employed to provide a hardware service to the computing device and a plurality of virtual machines including a host virtual machine (VM-H) to which the hardware device is assigned, and a client virtual machine (VM-C) that can consume the hardware service by way... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070198244 - Emulation of a device protocol: A second system that comprises a receiver and an emulator. The receiver receives a packet from a first system on which a first operating system executes. The packet comprises information associated with a device driver call that comports with a device protocol of the first system and that originated on... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070192077 - Methodology for estimating statistical distribution characteristics of physical parameters of semiconductor device: A method for estimating statistical distribution characteristics of physical parameters of a semiconductor device includes manufacturing a plurality of semiconductor device chips, each having a plurality of transistors, preparing electrical characteristic data by measuring electrical characteristics of the plurality of transistors included in the plurality of chips, extracting an inter-chip... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20070192078 - Systems and methods for real-time system monitoring and predictive analysis: A system for providing real-time modeling of an electrical system under management is disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, a virtual system modeling engine, and an analytics engine. The data acquisition component is communicatively connected to a sensor configured to provide real-time measurements of data output from an... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070192079 - Run-time switching for simulation with dynamic run-time accuracy adjustment: Systems and methods for run-time switching for simulation with dynamic run-time accuracy adjustment. In one embodiment, a computer implemented method performs a simulation of a computer instruction executing on a simulated hardware design by a first simulation model, wherein the first simulation model provides first timing information of the simulation.... Agent: Coware C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20070192069 - Display, visualization, and processing tool for channel distortion and cell friction mitigation: An apparatus generating a graphical image of a core of a boiling water reactor (BWR) using at least one data set of channel deformation data including: a computer system including a display device for presenting the graphical image and a processor generating the graphical image using the at least one... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20070192068 - Method for planning a security array of sensor units: Methods for planning a security array of sensor units are provided. In one embodiment, the method provides an optimized security planning for at least one entity. The method includes the steps of: receiving design data (for instance, geographically-referenced information) indicative of the geographic location; receiving data indicative of the sensors... Agent: Bruce E. Lilling Lilling & Lilling PLLC

20070192071 - 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... Agent: Osha, Liang LLP / Smith

20070192070 - Imaging system and method for determining falling curves: A system and method are provided for determining the trajectory or falling curves of charge material, particularly charge material distributed in a blast furnace. A video is acquired of the charge as it leaves the chute of the charging equipment at various ring positions. The video is converted to still... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20070192074 - Methods and systems for designing and/or selecting drilling equipment using predictions of rotary drill bit walk: Methods and systems may be provided simulating forming a wide variety of directional wellbores including wellbores with variable tilt rates and/or relatively constant tilt rates. The methods and systems may also be used to simulate forming a wellbore in subterranean formations having a combination of soft, medium and hard formation... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070192072 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for real-time oil and gas field production optimization using a proxy simulator: Methods, systems, and computer readable media are provided for real-time oil and gas field production optimization using a proxy simulator. A base model of a reservoir, well, pipeline network, or processing system is established in one or more physical simulators. A decision management system is used to define control parameters,... Agent: Withers & Keys, LLC

20070192073 - Multiple inserts of different geometry in a single row of a bit: A method for designing a roller cone drill bit having a plurality of cutting elements in a row. The method includes defining a pitch pattern for the plurality of cutting elements such that a first group of adjacent cutting elements are arranged in a first pitch and a second group... Agent: Osha, Liang LLP / Smith

20070192075 - Organism stimulation device and program: With conventional simulation devices, the assumption was that only cells would be simulated, and thus the simulation devices had the problem that simulations on the level of tissue, organs, or individual organisms, which are collections of cells, were not possible. The present invention is an organism simulation device that is... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070192076 - Validation method for embedded systems: A method of designing a validation environment for a service implemented by an embedded electrical system. In the method one or more user requests and system responses are assigned. Next, a behavioral automata is assigned to the service, which fixes the allowed sequencing of the user requests and system responses.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070192080 - Data tree structure for automatic retention of context information: In an embodiment, there is disclosed a system for processing test data, including a data populator having code for: (1) generating data objects from test data, (2) arranging data objects in a tree structure, and (3) generating tokens referring to data objects; code for releasing data objects for reclamation of... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070192081 - Generation device of simulation model: A simulation model generator presents a screen view which defines causality between phenomena and events using nodes and links to support user's input operation. The generator includes a database for storing and controlling in a centralized way, metric information representing, for each of the registered phenomena and events, a quantity... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070192082 - System and method for generating and executing a platform emulation based on a selected application: A system operative to generate a platform emulation based on a selected application program, the system comprising a user device, an electronic device, a networked link between the user device and the electronic device, the user device including a plurality of components and having information stored thereon for generating the... Agent: Axios Law Group

20070185696 - Method of real-time drilling simulation: A method of optimizing drilling including identifying design parameters for a drilling tool assembly, preserving the design parameters as experience data, and training at least one artificial neural network using the experience data. The method also includes collecting real-time data from the drilling operation, analyzing the real-time data with a... Agent: Osha, Liang LLP / Smith

20070185699 - Ibis correction tool, ibis correction method, and waveform simulation device: An IBIS correction tool which can be used assembled in a waveform simulation device and corrects IBIS data for a certain specific power supply voltage V0 to IBIS data for a desired power supply voltage V1 with a higher precision than the past, that is, an IBIS correction tool configured... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070185692 - Apparatus and method for verifying model-design, and program thereof: An interference-check-result sorting unit sorts the result of the interference check on an entire 3D model in a 3D-model storage display unit that is implemented by an overall interference check unit of a model-design verification system into the interference information related to male-screw models and the interference information related to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070185694 - Method for determining strains, deformation and damage in workpieces composed of a solid material: The invention relates to a method for determining the effects of a mechanical force on an object consisting of a solid material, according to which the deformations and stresses caused by the mechanical force at a plurality of points on the object are determined by means of a digital calculation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070185695 - Method for energy ranking of molecular crystals using dft calculations and empirical van der waals potentials: The invention refers to a method for the accurate determination of van der Waals parameters for high-precision determination of crystal structures and/or energies, comprising the steps of: numerically simulating at least one crystal structure based on density functional theory (DFT) calculations combined with a potential energy term representing van der... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070185693 - System estimation method and program, recording medium, and system estimation device: It is possible to establish an estimation method capable of logically and optimally deciding a forgetting coefficient and develop an estimation algorithm and a high-speed algorithm which are numerically stable. Firstly, a Processing section reads out or receives an upper limit value γf from a storage section or an input... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070185697 - Using electroencephalograph signals for task classification and activity recognition: A method for classifying brain states in electroencephalograph (EEG) signals comprising building a classifier model and classifying brain states using the classifier model is described. Brain states are determined. Labeled EEG data is collected and divided into overlapping time windows. The time dimension is removed from each time window. Features... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070185698 - Configuration of a risk detection system: In a risk detection system having at least one element to be configured, a configuration procedure with at least two configuration steps is created for an element of the risk detection system to be configured. The validity of an entry of at least one item of information is examined in... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070185700 - Safety protective instrumentation system and its handling method: A safety protection instrumentation system for a nuclear reactor is constructed by using a digital logic, in which the digital logic includes functional units in which output logic patterns corresponding to all input logic patterns are verified in advance and a functional module formed by combining the functional units.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070185701 - Method for improving a working model for the management of the man-machine interaction: The method according to the invention is characterized in that on the basis of an existing task model, which may be provided by an expert, it is enhanced with the current state of the user in his task, the events allowing a change of state of the user are described,... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070179767 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for fast updating of oil and gas field production models with physical and proxy simulators: Methods, systems, and computer readable media are provided for fast updating of oil and gas field production optimization using physical and proxy simulators. A base model of a reservoir, well, or a pipeline network is established in one or more physical simulators. A decision management system is used to define... Agent: Withers & Keys, LLC

20070179766 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for real-time oil and gas field production optimization using a proxy simulator: Methods, systems, and computer readable media are provided for real-time oil and gas field production optimization using a proxy simulator. A base model of a reservoir, well, pipeline network, or processing system is established in one or more physical simulators. A decision management system is used to define control parameters,... Agent: Withers & Keys, LLC

20070179771 - Medical simulation system, computer system and computer program product: A medical simulation system has a replacing section for replacing at least a part of a plurality of biological function state values represented by the biological model and a simulating section for generating post-replacement simulated biological response on the basis of the biological model which reflects the replaced value.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070179757 - Architectural structure design methods, architectural structure design apparatuses and articles of manufacture: Architectural structure design methods, apparatuses and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects of the disclosure. In one aspect, an architectural structure design apparatus includes accessing a design of an architectural structure, accessing information regarding a location of the design of the architectural structure, designing an object using... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20070179758 - Fire suppression system design tool: A method of designing a fire suppression system that includes displaying one or more components of the fire suppression system on a visual display, wherein the displayed one or more components of the fire suppression system are formatted so as to printable in a form acceptable for a majority of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070179759 - Transferring load information and result information between analysis and design software: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for receiving in a Computer Aided Design (CAD) tool result information and load information from a first analysis program, the result information determined by performing an analysis of a plurality of physical elements in a CAD model. And providing one or more of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070179762 - Design aiding apparatus and computer program: Disclosed is a design aiding computer program which obtains an algebraic expression of an equation with an unknown function, visualizes a partial space (“reasonable area”) in which a boundary condition or so is permitted, and acquires a point in the reasonable area which minimizes an approximate error as a solution... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070179761 - Hierarchical processing in scalable and portable sensor networks for activity recognition: Binary motion events are detected by individual motion sensors placed in a physical environment. The motions events are transmitted to a cluster leader, each motion detector being a cluster leader of immediately spatially adjacent motion sensors. Movements of objects are detected by the cluster leaders according to the motion events.... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070179760 - Method of determining graph isomorphism in polynomial-time: Generating a complete graph invariant may be accomplished by initializing each card of an initial message deck to an identity matrix, propagating messages to form a first iteration message deck using a message propagation rule, generating a first iteration codebook using the first iteration message deck, recoding the first iteration... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070179763 - Apparatus and method for compressor and turbine performance simulation: A method and an apparatus for simulating the operation of a pressured air source or sink such as a compressor or a turbine for a vehicle internal combustion engine calculates momentum sources at interfaces in the compressor or the turbine. A model stores steady state values of mass flux and... Agent: Thomas Moga Butzel Long

20070179764 - Vehicular supplemental restraint device simulation using finite element modeling: A method and system for modeling an inflatable supplemental restraint device for a vehicle includes operating a simulation system according to a first step in which the restraint device is modeled in a fully inflated configuration using a finite element model. The modeled airbag is then deflated and flattened. The... Agent: Artz & Artz, P.C.

20070179765 - Method for solving transient solution and dynamics in film blowing process: The present invention concerns the dynamics and yielding of transient solutions for the film-blowing process. After solving the governing equations that takes into consideration the viscoelasticity and cooling characteristics of the film, a coordinate transformation was done to change the free-end-point problem into a fixed-end-point one. Then finally, by introducing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070179768 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for fast updating of oil and gas field production models with physical and proxy simulators: Methods, systems, and computer readable media are provided for fast updating of oil and gas field production optimization using physical and proxy simulators. A base model of a reservoir, well, or a pipeline network is established in one or more physical simulators. A decision management system is used to define... Agent: Withers & Keys, LLC

20070179770 - Automatically retaining settings of computations on models of molecules for automatic use in subsequent computations: In one embodiment, a method for automatically retaining one or more settings of a computation on a model of a molecule for automatic use in a subsequent computation includes automatically recording one or more first settings of a first computation on a model of a molecule. The first computation generates... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070179769 - Medical risk stratifying method and system: A method is provided for a medical risk stratification system. The method may include establishing a medical risk process model indicative of interrelationships between a plurality of medical risks and a plurality of health parameters and obtaining a set of values corresponding to the plurality of health parameters. The method... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070179772 - Method and apparatus for increasing the efficiency of an emulation engine: A method and apparatus for a memory efficient hardware emulator. The emulator comprises a plurality of processor dusters having data within the duster is stored in at least one data array, where the at least one data array comprises a plurality of sub-arrays. The sub-arrays that are not of uniform... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group