Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation inventions 10/07

20070250302 - Simulated storage area network: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to simulating storage devices. In aspects, a test automation engine instructs a simulator to simulate a storage device having certain characteristics such as a storage area network. The test automation engine then tests an application against the simulated storage device. Tests may... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070250303 - Design support apparatus: A design support apparatus is for designing a logic circuit. The apparatus includes: a display device; an behavioral description storage section that stores behavioral description that describes functions of the logic circuit; a loop statement detection section that detects a loop statement that describes a repeat operation from the behavioral... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070250295 - Multidimensional modeling system and related method: A computer-enabled system and related method to perform multi-dimensional modeling. The system includes a model building function, a data link function, a dependency inspector function and a presentation function. The system unlocks the connectivity between model logic, model structure and outcome presentation. Model cells are given understandable names, and the... Agent: Chris A. Caseiro

20070250296 - Simulation method, simulation program and simulator: A simulator is provided for simulating a real-water-droplet for an arbitrary simulation time in an entire space to be observed in which the real-water-droplets collide by a certain probability within a predetermined volume in a predetermined time interval, and in which the real-water-droplet is specified by a group of an... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070250297 - Method for reducing hazards: A method for reducing hazards in a system under development, the method including: determining a hazard; determining causal factors of the hazard; determining mitigating requirements of the hazard; linking the causal factors to the mitigating requirement; and choosing an optimal mitigating requirement.... Agent: Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Office Of Counsel Bldg 435

20070250299 - Block diagram explorer in a method and apparatus for integrated modeling, simulation and analysis of chemical and biological systems: A system for modeling, simulating and analyzing chemical and biochemical reactions includes a modeling environment for constructing a model of a chemical or biochemical system comprising a plurality of chemical reactions. The system also includes a simulation engine accepting as input said constructed model of the chemical or biochemical system... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070250300 - Method for controlling a microbiological process on the basis of successive temporal derivatives of state variables: The invention relates to a method for controlling microbiological process in a liquid microbial population-containing medium consisting in on-line measuring at least one state variable related to the microbiological process and in utilising at each instant (t) values measured for at least one state variable by calculating therefrom the first,... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070250298 - Method of identifying agonist and antagonist for target protein with use of nuclear magnetic resonance technique, and program for use in the method: A method of easily and speedily determining what structural change is experienced by a target protein upon contact and binding of any arbitrary compound to the target protein; a method of selecting and screening a compound for use in the method; and a computer program for carrying out these methods.... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070250301 - Normalizing cell assay data for models: Methods for generating models for predicting biological activity of a stimulus test population of cells are provided. The models may be used to classify or predict the effect of stimuli on cells. In certain embodiments, the methods involve receiving data comprising values for dependent variables associated with stimuli as applied... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070250304 - Mapping a new user interface onto an existing integrated interface: A method, system, computer readable medium containing instructions to execute a method for an intermediary, such as a controller, to interact between the interface of an older application and a newly programmed UI in order to take advantage of existing transactional logic while still allowing a user to interface with... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070244671 - Systems and methods for storing, retrieving, and sharing design and construction data: This invention relates generally to construction, and more specifically, to systems and methods for storing, retrieving, and sharing data relating to construction data employing maps, diagrams, and three-dimensional objects as an organizational matrix. In one embodiment, the invention includes a scalable graphical matrix, the scalable graphical matrix being a visual... Agent: Ruttler Law LLC

20070244686 - Calibration method for mixed-mode simulation: A calibration method of a mixed mode simulation calibrates standard delay times in a standard delay format and includes obtaining a digital output circuit from a digital circuit, obtaining an analog output circuit from an analog circuit, performing a simulation on the digital output circuit connected to the analog output... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070244670 - Virtual paper pattern forming program, virtual paper pattern forming device, and virtual paper pattern forming method: A warp line is set directly on the surface of a virtual three-dimensional object model. A score set portion (22) configured to set scores for a virtual dress model formed within a 3-D space according to a manipulation instruction from the user to divide the virtual dress model into plural... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070244676 - Adaptive analysis methods: This invention relates to a comprehensive method of analyzing dynamic and steady-state properties of a system. Steady state (static), short time scale dynamic, and long time scale dynamic properties of the system are described by a plurality of elements. The method unifies spatial, temporal, and frequency-domain techniques to minimize analysis... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070244674 - Apparatus and method to monitor device status: A method is disclosed to monitor the status of devices disposed in a computing system. The method provides a computing device comprising a plurality of devices, and a system monitoring algorithm comprising a monitoring interval and a device status for each of (N) devices disposed in the computing device, where... Agent: Dale F. Regelman

20070244672 - Electronic mathematical model builder: The present invention relates generally to the field of information processing by digital computers and, more particularly, to the entry and processing of information by application programs, particularly spreadsheets. The present invention is an electronic mathematical model builder that comprises a memory for storage of data, a processor for defining... Agent: Volentine & Whitt PLLC

20070244675 - Method and apparatus for optimizing multidimensional systems: Method for optimizing a flow network is disclosed. The method comprises: constructing a multidimensional graph representation which is characterized by a plurality of vertices and a plurality of edges, whereby at least one edge of the plurality of edges is associated with a vector quantity over the flow network. The... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi

20070244673 - Methods and apparatus for optimal resource allocation: Method and apparatus to automatically allocate and schedule weapon systems to threats for maximizing an engagement objective. In one aspect, methods and systems maximize threat killed. In another aspect, methods and systems maximize asset survival against threats. The methods and apparatus considers temporal and resource constraints such that weapons systems... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070244677 - Incompatibility processing: A method of processing incompatibilities for a transportation plan comprising the following steps: Receiving data which is descriptive of orders, data which is descriptive of available vehicles, and data which is descriptive of available cross-docking locations; reading a set of compatibility types, and a set of compatibility rules with respect... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070244678 - Design optimization system and method: where ûs(x,y,z,t) are the interactions between subsystems and/or between the system and its subsystem(s) on Γsubsystem(i) at iteration s, and {tilde over (w)}s(x,y,z,t) are weight functions whose spatial and temporal distributions are predetermined and whose magnitudes are varied stochastically within a selected range.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070244679 - Method of generating two-wheeled vehicle dummy model and apparatus for performing a collision simulation of a two-wheeled vehicle: A method of and an apparatus for performing a collision simulation on a two-wheeled vehicle using a virtual model of a dummy developed for use on four-wheeled vehicles.... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070244680 - Turbulence modeling using unstructured mesh system: A method for stimulated modeling includes measuring filtered values of fluid-flow variables for an object. The method includes stimulating unfiltered values of the fluid-flow variables based on the filtered values, calculating correlations of differences between the filtered values and the unfiltered values, and calculating components of Reynolds stress based on... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20070244681 - Method for large-scale modelling and simulation of carbonate wells stimulation: Method for modeling acidification within a porous medium as a result of the injection of an acid. A dual-medium model is constructed, considering a first sub-medium favourable to dissolution breakthroughs and a second sub-medium not favourable to dissolution breakthroughs. For each one of these sub-media, a metric-scale description of the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070244682 - Estimating gene networks using inferential methods and biological constraints: The accurate estimation of gene networks from gene expression measurements is a major challenge in the field of Bioinformatics. We present a general approach to reduce the search space to a biologically meaningful subspace and to find optimal solutions within the subspace in linear time by using inferential models constrained... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20070244683 - Device simulating operation of a machine that functions as either a motor or a generator: A simulator (12) having at least one input (24) and first and second outputs (30, 34) includes an inverter model (22) receiving gating signals at the at least one input (24) and producing current and voltage signals based on said gating signals and a machine model (26) receiving the current... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070244684 - Method to model 3-d pcb pth via: A methodology may be used that takes into account the inductive coupling of current transients on the power rails of a printed circuit board (PCB) that may be coupled to the barrel of a via. By taking into account the coupling of the current transients on the power rails of... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20070244685 - Method for modeling metastability decay using fence logic insertion: A method for modeling metastablilty decay in digital circuit devices includes identifying each latch at a receiving end of an asynchronous clock boundary, enumerating a latch depth for each latch within logical influence of each of the identified receive latches, and inserting fence logic immediately prior to the input of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20070239409 - Method and system for interactive simulation of materials: A method and system for interactive simulation of materials. The method and system provide flexible simulation, the ability to combine rigid and flexible simulation, a collision-detection method for simulating objects and other entities, and a system for displaying and interacting with simulated objects which includes a harness for registering the... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C. Suite 325

20070239408 - Threat matrix analysis system: A computerized system for evaluating a physical phenomenon. In some embodiments a data file defines at least one mathematical expression, and when multiple mathematical expressions are defined they are preferably defined in priority order. Each mathematical expression includes at least one physical variable. In some embodiments the mathematical expressions are... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20070239421 - Load simulator: A load simulator is used to apply access load on a web server device as a test target using a plurality of virtual web clients each of which transmits a request message and receives a response message in order according to a given scenario. The load simulator makes a computer... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070239404 - Method for examining defect in prestressed tendon and apparatus therefor: A penetrating radiation is used to examine a prestressed tendon in a prestressed concrete. A comparing object is used, whose position and size are known in advance. A magnifying rate of an image size of the comparing object projected on an imaging device is calculated. By using the magnifying rate... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070239406 - Aware and active features for computer-aided design systems: Processing data in a computer-aided design (CAD) system includes determining that a feature of a three-dimensional model has a condition that requires correction. The condition is automatically corrected by performing an action. The action may be an action that reorders a sequence of features in the three-dimensional model, an action... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070239407 - Remaining life prediction for individual components from sparse data: Predicting the remaining life of individual aircraft, fleets of aircraft, aircraft components and subpopulations of these components. This is accomplished through the use of precomputed databases of response that are generated from a model for the nonlinear system behavior prior to the time that decisions need to be made concerning... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070239405 - System and method for consensus-based knowledge validation, analysis and collaboration: A consensus-based knowledge validation and analysis system provides a way to increase use of collaboration tools among panels of experts by providing a system for analyzing and validating the responses of such experts to a set of questions. The system uses a set of response data input by a panel... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20070239410 - Location-based construction planning and scheduling system: An apparatus for location-based management of construction is provided. The apparatus includes a first layer locations system generating one or more first locations where construction activities can be performed in parallel, such as different buildings. A second layer locations system generates one or more second layer locations where construction activities... Agent: Mr. Christopher John Rourk Jackson Walker LLP

20070239411 - Optimal design support system, optical design support method and optimal design support program: The optimal design support system is to design a structure that outputs a desired load or displacement to a portion by using elastic deformation when a load or displacement is applied to a predetermined portion. More specifically, the optimal design support system comprises a structure creating part 11 that creates... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20070239413 - Local/local and mixed local/global interpolations with switch logic: System and methods for simulating fluid flow through a channel and exiting the channel. The fluid flow includes an interface between a first fluid and a second fluid. Create a mesh representative of a physical space of the channel and a portion of a physical space around the channel. Create... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070239412 - Method and system for achieving force control in externally driven hydraulic cylinders: A method/system for achieving force control in externally driven hydraulic/gas-filled cylinders estimates effective flow parameters based on sensor measurements, and predicts desired flow parameters for force control objectives and determines required control actuation signals. The system selectively uses pressure sensors to measure the pressure of fluid in each (hydraulic) cylinder,... Agent: Rama Nath

20070239414 - Method of simulating detailed movements of fluids using derivative particles: The method provides a new fluid simulation technique that significantly reduces the non-physical dissipation of velocity using particles and derivative information. In solving the conventional Navier-Stokes equations, the method replace the advection part with a particle simulation. When swapping between the grid-based and particle-based simulators, the physical quantities such as... Agent: Park Law Firm

20070239415 - General graphical gaussian modeling method and apparatus therefore: A graphical Gaussian modeling method capable of speedily and accurately estimating a genetic network from an expression profile and an apparatus therefore are provided. The present invention provides a graphical Gaussian modeling method for estimating a genetic network including the steps of (a) clustering genes based on an expression profile,... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070239416 - Pharmacokinetic analysis system and method thereof: There are provided a system and a method therefor for analyzing pharmacokinetics in such a manner that the influence of genetic polymorphism of an individual is taken into consideration, and a system and a method therefor for allowing implementation of high-accuracy haplotype frequency estimation and diplotype configuration estimation even in... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070239417 - Camera performance simulation: A method for designing a camera, which includes objective optics for forming an image on an electronic image sensor and a digital filter for filtering an output of the image sensor. The method includes defining a design of the objective optics and determining coefficients of the digital filter. An input... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070239418 - Exercise monitoring unit for executable architectures: Systems and methods for parallel, discrete, simulations include functional capabilities to incorporate one or more human operators or actors into the simulation process. Such individuals can be presented situations where one or more decisions are necessary with respect to ongoing events. Entered decisions are incorporated into simulated events and activities... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070239419 - Method for automatic generation of finite element mesh from ic layout data: The present invention includes a method for performing a thermal analysis, including the steps of determining size and placement of each of a plurality of drivers on an integrated circuit device. The determined size and placement of each driver is stored as layout data and the layout data is converted... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070239420 - Simulation of distributed networks: Simulating network connections. A method includes generating a transaction by simulating a method model of a service model. The transaction includes representations of network interactions. A sequence of actions is created. The actions define network hardware activities including network actions performed by one or more source computer models, one or... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070239422 - Hardware emulation system having a heterogeneous cluster of processors: A hardware emulation system having a heterogeneous cluster of processors is described. The apparatus for emulating a hardware design comprises a plurality of processors, where each processor performs a different function during an emulation cycle. The method performed by the apparatus comprises using a data fetch processor to retrieve data... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20070233437 - Method of evaluating the interaction between a wavefield and a solid body: Described is a finite-difference methodology for efficiently computing the response from a model subject to changes within sub-volumes with the sub-volume enclosed with an extrapolation surface within an injection boundary using Green's functions to update the injection boundary and transmitting an updated wavefield from the injection boundary back into the... Agent: Jeffrey E. Griffin Westerngeco, L.L.C.

20070233436 - Structural analysis apparatus, structural analysis method, and structural analysis program: A structural analysis method comprises: an iso-surface creation step that creates a field iso-surface from an analysis result of a mesh model; a detailed mesh model creation step that uses the field iso-surface created by the iso-surface creation step to create a detailed mesh model of a part of the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070233440 - Reduced message count for interaction decomposition of n-body simulations: Disclosed are a method of and system for creating a load balanced spatial partitioning of a structured, diffusing system of particles with pairwise interactions that is scalable to a very large number of nodes and has favorable communications characteristics including well defined bounds on the number of hops and the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070233442 - Simulation system and simulation method: Transportation commands are assigned to models, and executed in a transportation command generation process. Execution results are recorded in a log file. During execution, transportation results are transmitted, and stored in a database on a receiver side. The data of the database is processed into statistical data, and displayed as... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070233447 - Circuit simulation method and circuit simulation apparatus: A circuit simulation method for estimating electrical characteristics of a semiconductor device is provided. The circuit simulation method includes: (A) generating a device model parameter of a semiconductor device model used in a circuit simulation; and (B) executing the circuit simulation by using the semiconductor device model and the generated... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070233446 - Feedback simulation method applicable to air-conditioning system: In a feedback simulation method applicable to air-conditioning system, an error signal is fed back when a non-acceptable difference between a simulation value and a required value is found; modification procedures are conducted in response to the error signal and according to system modification criteria to adjust control direction and... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070233452 - Simulation apparatus and simulation method: A simulation apparatus is disclosed that includes an actual programmable logic controller configured for actually controlling operations of a machine based on a ladder program; a simulator configured to develop a virtual three-dimensional space, construct a three-dimensional model of the machine within the virtual three-dimensional space, control the three-dimensional model... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070233453 - Scenario generation program: Disclosed is a scenario generation program that is used to generate a scenario given to a plurality of virtual web clients each of which applies access load to a web server device of a test target. According to the program, a computer stores some first request messages transmitted to a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070233454 - Web load test method and web load test program: The web load test method makes a computer function as virtual web client generation means for generating a plurality of virtual web clients each of which transmits a request message to the web server device and receives a response message according to a scenario; memory means for storing synchronous point... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070233434 - Generic hard/soft 3d spatial collision detection method: A method for resolving collisions for placement of objects in 3D models, including attributing a first state to each object having a hard spatial volume and a second state to each object having a soft spatial volume, predefining a first set of rules to determine whether multiple objects may occupy... Agent: Baker & Hostetler, LLP For Boeing Company

20070233432 - Method and its program for cell labeling of volume data: By external data acquisition means using a computer, external data comprised of boundary data for an object is obtained; by external data input means, the external data are inputed into the computer; by cell dividing means, the external data are divided to rectangular parallelepiped cells that boundary planes intersect perpendicularly;... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20070233433 - Transforming airplane configuration requirements into intelligent spatial geometry: A system and method for knowledge based development of interior models for configurable spaces, including storing a digital definition of the interior section of the passenger vehicle and parameters related to the objects, storing a digital definition of a plurality of three dimensional stay-out spaces associated with one or more... Agent: Baker & Hostetler, LLP For Boeing Company

20070233435 - Boosted linear modeling of non-linear time series: A method and apparatus for boosted linear modeling of non-linear time series. An embodiment of a method includes receiving a series of data elements, where the series of data elements is a time series and where the time series has a non-linearity. One or more decision trees are generated for... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070233439 - Method and apparatus for simulating operation in a data processing system: Methods and systems are provided for executing a simulation of an operation in a data processing system. In one implementation, the method includes executing an operation under a first set of conditions, determining a characteristic associated with the execution of the operation under the first set of conditions, and executing... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070233438 - Method and system for simulation-based troubleshooting and fault verification in operator-controlled complex systems: Troubleshooting a cause of anomalous behavior observed during operation of a complex system is enabled by a simulation system that permits an operator to operate a simulation of the complex system to initial control conditions in which the anomalous behavior was observed, and suspend the simulation to input fault symptoms... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070233441 - Method, system, and apparatus for virtual modeling of biological tissue with adaptive emergent functionality: A method system, and apparatus for virtual modeling of biological tissue yields virtual multicellular individuals that exhibit adaptive emergent functionality in response to environmental stimuli. Virtual environmental parameters and cells with genomes are generated, and modified by genetic operations. Cells are developed into generations of multicellular individuals, which are evaluated... Agent: Chapman And Cutler

20070233443 - Computer-aided ultrahigh-frequency circuit model simulation method and system: A computer-aided ultrahigh-frequency circuit model simulation method and system is proposed, which is designed for use in conjunction with a computer platform for providing a user-operated ultrahigh-frequency circuit model simulation function, which is characterized by the provision of a graphic interface that allows the user to select a desired circuit... Agent: Fulbright And Jaworski LLP

20070233445 - Testing suite for product functionality assurance and guided troubleshooting: A system and a method for the planning of functional testing of a manufactured product and for performing the planned functional tests for quality control and for troubleshooting, where the functional tests are based on information retrieved from tools for Computers Aided Design and simulation, and on information collected by... Agent: Bruce E. Lilling Lilling & Lilling PLLC

20070233444 - Time-domain device noise simulator: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a simulator for emulating various types of device noise in time-domain circuit simulations. The simulator is capable of adding noise to transistors as well as passive elements like resistors. The simulator utilizes at least one current source in parallel to a device... Agent: RyderIPLaw C/o Portfolioip

20070233448 - Detecting computer system simulation errors: Validating simulation models. A computing environment includes a performance scenario of a system. The performance scenario includes device models defining device behavior and/or capacity. The performance scenario further includes interconnections between one or more device models. A static model analysis of the system is performed. The static model analysis analyzes... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070233450 - Simulation of connected devices: Simulating device interactions. A method may be practiced in a computing system for simulating interconnected devices. The method of simulating device interactions may be done in performing an overall transaction to obtain an output of system performance characteristics including measurement of latencies and/or device loads for actions performed by devices... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070233449 - Simulation of hierarchical storage systems: Modeling storage devices. One or more data structures define one or more storage devices including empirical characterizations or other characteristics of storage device operations for the specific storage devices. The empirical characterization are obtained as a result of laboratory testing of one or more sample components of the specific storage... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070233451 - Cycle simulation method, cycle simulator, and computer product: It is determined whether an i-th instruction is for a memory access. If the i-th instruction is the memory access, it is determined whether an address to access according to the i-th instruction coincides with an address that has been accessed by a first execution block. If the addresses coincide... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070233455 - Techniques for unified management communication for virtualization systems: Techniques for unified management communications for virtual systems are described. An apparatus may comprise a first server emulated using a first virtual machine, a second server emulated using a second virtual machine, and a virtual machine monitor. The virtual machine monitor may communicate information with one or more emulated servers... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate