Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation inventions 09/07

20070225953 - Management system and management method of cad data: A management system of CAD data is provided, which stores sets of the CAD data, and a set of mesh conditions under which a CAE model is created from each of the sets of the CAD data and a set of analysis conditions under which CAE analysis on the created... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070225955 - Inundation simulator and program: The present invention displays a map, let a user to input a starting point and an ending point in a bank breakage section on the map, and shows a broken place on the map with a line connecting the starting point and the ending point. Further, the present invention calculates... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070225956 - Causal analysis in complex biological systems: Disclosed are software assisted systems and methods for analyzing biological data sets to generate hypotheses potentially explanatory of the data. Active causative relationships in the biology of complex living systems are discovered by providing a data base of biological assertions comprising a multiplicity of nodes representative of a network of... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070225948 - It-system design supporting system and design supporting method: Inputting data necessary for designing an IT system leads a throughput evaluation part to draft a system idea meeting a design standard value for throughput and leads a reliability evaluation part to draft the system idea meeting a design standard value for failure probability. A cost evaluation part evaluates a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070225951 - Adaptive look up table : a graphical simulation component for recursively updating numeric data storage in table form: A graphical block that defines the functionality of a lookup table and can be used in a block diagram model to capture time-varying characteristics of a system's behavior in the lookup table is presented. The block uses input and output data of the system to dynamically create and update the... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070225954 - Implementing a graphical program on a programmable hardware element to configure an instrument to perform a measurement function: 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: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel PC

20070225952 - Method for managing graphics lines: The field of the invention is that of graphics libraries supplying graphics functions used in the tracing of symbolic images. For certain applications, the screen comprises restricted areas, referred to as ‘clipboxes’, inside which no graphics objects must be traced. The method according to the invention allows elementary straight lines... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070225949 - Modeling of forecasting and production planning data: A forecast class is defined that represents forecasts of different types and identifies relationships of a forecast with various entities related to the forecast.... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20070225950 - Ophthalmic lens calculation method and corresponding lens: Method for calculating an ophthalmic lens comprising: [a] calculating and constructing a computational model of an initial lens with a given prescription, [b] calculating the three sections of the optical path traveled by rays using the computational model, [c] determining the first surface of a lens equivalent to the initial... Agent: Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

20070225957 - Image forming device simulation apparatus and image forming device simulation method: An image forming device simulation apparatus includes: an image formation command acquisition unit that acquires an image formation command including information about a target image targeted for formation by the image forming device; a simulation unit that performs a simulation of image formation processing in which the image forming device... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070225958 - Charge-based circuit analysis: A solution for analyzing a circuit using initial charge information is provided. In particular, one or more nodes in a design for the circuit is initialized with an initial charge. The charge can comprise a non-equilibrium charge, thereby simulating the history effect, the impact of a charged particle, electro-static discharge... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070225959 - Mechanism for estimating and controlling di/dt-induced power supply voltage variations: A system for delivering power to a device in a specified voltage range is disclosed. The system includes a power delivery network, characterized by a response function, to deliver power to the device. A current computation unit stores values representing a sequence of current amplitudes drawn by the device on... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070225960 - Subchip boundary constraints for circuit layout: An electric circuit is laid out through a process comprising estimating signal propagation time in an interface between a source and a destination subcircuit, calculating a margin time based on the difference between a clock period and the estimated signal propagation time, and distributing the calculated margin time to at... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070225961 - Visual debugging system for 3d user interface program: In one embodiment, apparatus are provided, including an embedded device simulation engine, an application run controller, and a status provider. The embedded device simulation engine is provided to simulate, on a computer platform other than a target embedded device, a 3D application authored for the target embedded device. The application... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070225962 - Automatic connection to an online service provider from a backup system: A software application is provided for a user to select a backed up data file and specify a task to be performed by an online service provider on the selected file. The application automatically connects to the online service provider and uploads the selected file for the online service provider... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070225963 - Method to process instruction requests for a digital hardware simulator and instruction request broker: The present invention relates to the processing of hardware simulator instruction requests. A request broker is processing high-level simulator instruction requests submitted by different drivers. A high-level instruction request comprises multiple simulator instructions. The request broker is receiving and splitting the requests into simulator instructions. The instructions are put in... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070219760 - System and method for designing a free form reflector: A system for designing a free form reflector includes a user input interface (1), a free form reflector design unit (2), and a free form reflector output unit (3). The user input interface is configured for receiving various data associated with a desired free form reflector, via an input device.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070219762 - Electromagnetic field simulator and electromagnetic field simulation program: A wavelength computation unit computes a wavelength inside a substance based on the values of an analytical model that is set with an analytical model setting unit and values defining a wave source that is set by a wave source setting unit. A coefficients computation unit calculates the coefficients of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070219764 - Synchronized physical and analytical flow system models: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing a physical computer aided design (CAD) model comprising a plurality of physical objects in a flow system. Each of the plurality of physical objects are joined at one or more physical linkages. An analytical model of the flow system is generated... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070219759 - Method of subdividing a plot of land for housing and a housing subdivision so formed: A method for sub-division of a plot of land comprises the steps of forming, on a polygonal basic tile shape, a layout of a basic precinct unit comprising an array of occupiable spaces of predetermined shape, at least one access way communicating with each occupiable space and tessellating the polygonal... Agent: Law Offices Of James C Wray

20070219763 - Methods of and apparatus for analysing a signal: A method of and apparatus for analysing a signal is disclosed, the method comprising producing a model of the signal and comparing the model to a predetermined model of a signal due to a phenomenon, thereby to determine whether the model represents a signal due to that phenomenon. A method... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070219761 - System and method of generating equation-level diagnostic error messages for use in circuit simulation: A mechanism for providing equation-level diagnostic error messages for system models undergoing circuit simulations is discussed. The components in a model of a system being simulated are converted into multiple numerical equations where each equation corresponds to a component in the system being simulated or a topology equation for the... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070219765 - Method for constructing 3-d geologic models by combining multiple frequency passbands: A process for constructing a three-dimensional geologic model of a subsurface earth volume wherein resolution scales of multiple diverse data types, including seismic data, are accounted for by generating multiple frequency passband models and combining them together to form the complete geologic model. Preferably, a model is generated for each... Agent: Keith A. Bell Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

20070219766 - Computational fluid dynamics (cfd) coprocessor-enhanced system and method: The present invention provides a system, method and product for porting computationally complex CFD calculations to a coprocessor in order to decrease overall processing time. The system comprises a CPU in communication with a coprocessor over a high speed interconnect. In addition, an optional display may be provided for displaying... Agent: LatimerIPLaw, LLP

20070219767 - Atomic coordinates of albumin drug complexes and method of use of pharmaceutical development: A method is provided for evaluating drug compounds based on their binding properties to human serum albumin wherein structural information at particular albumin binding regions is entered into a computer database and assessed with regard to particular contacting binding residues located in accordance with the invention. The information obtained through... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20070219769 - Method and device for segmenting a digital representation of cells: The invention relates to a method and a device for segmenting a digital image (22) of biological cells (2, 3), a method and a device for analyzing the dynamic behavior of biological cells (2, 3) and a method and a device for visualizing the dynamic behavior of biological cells (2,... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20070219768 - System and method for prediction of drug metabolism, toxicity, mode of action, and side effects of novel small molecule compounds: A system is provided for the prediction of human drug metabolism and toxicity of novel compounds. The system enables the visualization of pre-clinical and clinical high-throughput data in the context of a complete biological organism. Substructure and similarity structure searches can be performed using the underlying databases of xenobiotics, active... Agent: David B. Waller

20070219770 - Simulation method: A simulation method can be provided which hardly generates a voltage source loop, the method includes: a first process which conducts simulation in which a circuit node at a higher level layer of layered circuit data is set to a result output node and stores a result; and a second... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070219771 - Branching and behavioral partitioning for a vliw processor: In one aspect, the present invention overcomes the limitations of the prior art by provident a logic simulation ;system that uses a VLIW simulation processor with many parallel processor elements to accelerate the simulation of synthesizable tasks but that also supports non-synthesizable tasks and/or branching. In one approach, the VLIW... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070219772 - Method and apparatus for rewinding emulated memory circuits: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for emulating a memory circuit in a logic emulation system. The system includes at least one log memory associated with the emulated memory. Each log memory location is marked invalid at a predetermined time. The system receives one or more memory write requests... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070213965 - Method and system for preclassification and clustering of chemical substances: Systems and methods for intuitive visualization of the relationships between molecules. Acyclic and cyclic compounds are converted to base frameworks. The molecules are mapped with each base framework, representing a multitude of molecules, mapped as a single point. The base frameworks are positioned relative to each other using similarity tests... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070213966 - Traffic generator program: Systems and methods for a traffic generator for use in a network. A computer program product such as a plug in for a browser captures data that is sent over a network. The plug in does not need to understand or capture keyboard or mouse input. Rather, the plug in... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070213969 - Vector replacement method: The present invention relates to computer-implemented method for generating one or more system calls from a command originating from a software process. The method comprises the steps of receiving the command from the software process; translating the command into a first set of system calls for execution by an operating... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070213959 - Computer-implemented method and system for designing a nuclear reactor core which satisfies licensing criteria: In a computer-implemented method of designing a nuclear reactor of a given reactor plant, an initial, test reactor core design is generated for the given plant based on a plurality of limits input by a user. The limits include a plurality of transient licensing constraints to be satisfied for operating... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070213960 - Loq.kit building component system: Loq·kit is a mass-produced system of interchangeable building components for assembling single or multi-family houses. The building components are of three varieties: structural frame, in-fill, or snap-cladding components. Except for bolted structural frame connections, all connections between parts are snap-lock, and maybe released. With snap-lock interfaces and a modular dimensional... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070213962 - Simulation of objects in imaging using edge domain decomposition: A complex two-dimensional layout of a photomask or other three-dimensional object is systematically decomposed into a finite number of elementary two-dimensional objects with the ability to cause one-dimensional changes in light transmission properties. An algorithmic implementation of this can take the form of creation of a look-up table that stores... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070213961 - System and methods for optimized drug delivery and progression of diseased and normal cells: Systems for recommending an optimal treatment protocol for a specific individual are disclosed. The systems comprise generally a system model, a plurality of treatment protocols, a system model modifier, wherein said system model is modified by the system model modifier based on parameters specific to the individual; and a selector... Agent: Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas, PLLC

20070213963 - System and method for determining flow rates in a well: A system and method is provided for determining flow rates of fluid in a well. The system and method utilize temperature measurements and a modeling technique that enable the determination of flow rates from one or more well zones via the temperature data.... Agent: Schlumberger Technology Corporation

20070213964 - Method and device for predicting risk of decompression sickness: A mathematical model that models gas exchange of a central compartment with an environment having a model gas is provided. The central compartment is modeled to be in direct fluid communication with a plurality of peripheral compartments and with the environment to exchange the model gas therewith. Using a measure... Agent: Clark & Elbing LLP

20070213967 - Method of performing multiple stage model calibration for optical imaging simulation models: A method of calibrating a simulation model of a photolithography process. The method includes the steps of defining a set of input data; defining a simulation model having model parameters which affect the simulation result produced by the simulation model; performing a first stage calibration process in which the model... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070213968 - User interface software design system: In order to improve efficiency of user interface software design and development according to differential development, a rule processor reads out unorganized design data stored in an unorganized design data storage, which has been designed by individual software designers and accumulated, and an organizing rule group, stored in a rule... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070213970 - Application communication session method and apparatus: Generally speaking, pursuant to these various embodiments, a network element (such as, but not limited to, a gateway) can use (101) a first communication resource to support an application communication session with a first communication platform. By one approach this application communication session is not native to the first communication... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070208550 - Virtual heart valve: A computational technique to construct a 3-D valve leaflet geometry. The invention pertains to methodology to construct a 3-D heart valve leaflet geometry using finite element analysis (FEA) to simulate the manual assembly process or, in other words, provide a virtual assembly process as an input to a subsequent simulated... Agent: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

20070208548 - Modeling of systems using canonical form functions and symbolic regression: An apparatus and method to generate and evolve canonical form expressions representing a characteristic of a given system. Static and dynamic behavior of non-linear electrical circuits can be modeled. Searching of canonical form expressions can use evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing and Tabu searching.... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

20070208547 - Numerical modeling process and system of singular vector physical quantities and corresponding software product: Numerical process to model singular vector physical quantities associated to at least a body (E), with possible local singular behavior of the physical quantities that may assume unlimited values in the singularity region. According to this invention this process is characterized by the following operations: to scan (10) the geometry... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070208549 - 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)

20070208551 - Computer networks for providing a test environment: A computer network for providing a test environment is disclosed. The computer network may include at least one simulated network for simulating at least a portion of the infrastructure of a production network. The computer network may further include a network simulation module in communication with the simulated network for... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070208552 - Analyzing timing uncertainty in mesh-based architectures: A method of analyzing timing uncertainty involves creating an accurate model of one or more circuit elements of a mesh circuit residing within a window that covers a subset of the mesh circuit. An approximate model of one or more circuit elements of the mesh circuit residing outside of the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.