Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation inventions 01/08

20080027684 - Graphical user interface for interactive construction of typical cross-section frameworks: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, apparatus and article of manufacture for modeling a variety of three dimensional structures that may be represented as a longitudinal series of repeating cross-sections. In one embodiment, users construct each cross section from a collection of subassembly components selected from a catalog of... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080027689 - Combined fast multipole-qr compression technique for solving electrically small to large structures for broadband applications: An approach that efficiently solves for a desired parameter of a system or device that can include both electrically large FMM elements, and electrically small QR elements. The system or device is setup as an oct-tree structure that can include regions of both the FMM type and the QR type.... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20080027688 - Method and system for modeling likely invariants in distributed systems: Disclosed is a method and system for modeling invariant relationships between flow intensity measurements in a distributed system. In the method, a measurement is randomly selected from a plurality of flow intensity measurements. The method searched for relationships between the randomly selected measurement and each remaining one of the plurality... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080027686 - Methods and systems for assembling rotatable machines: A method of ordering blades in a rotatable machine that includes a plurality of blades that extend radially outwardly from a rotor is provided. The method includes receiving at least one geometric parameter measurement of each blade in a row of blades, determining a maximum difference of at least one... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080027687 - Process sequence modeling using histogram analytics: A computer-implemented method for modeling a process sequence, includes constructing the process sequence, wherein the process sequence includes one or more paths comprising one or more steps connecting the process sequence start with the process sequence finish, building at least one histogram model for each step, combining the histogram models... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080027690 - Hazard assessment system: A method of hazard assessment for a given geographic scenario that establishes a Hazard Assessment Model (HAM) for the geographic scenario, including a plurality of geologic models that predict events for the geologic scenario. The method establishes a set of the parameters necessary for using the geologic models to predict... Agent: The Law Office Of John A. Griecci

20080027691 - Device manufacturing support apparatus, simulation method for device manufacturing support apparatus, and device manufacturing apparatus: In a device manufacturing support apparatus, shape models having variations are generated by a process simulator simulating a manufacturing process, and a result thereof is input to a device simulator. Then, characteristic variations of a device are evaluated, an optimal value and an acceptable range of a parameter are estimated,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080027694 - Heartbeat simulation method and apparatus: Provided are methods and apparatuses for dynamically generating a simulated tactile heartbeat sensation. The apparatus can comprise a vibrator, a processor, and a power source. The methods can comprise providing a digital pulse signal to a vibrator, the digital pulse signal being dynamically controlled by a processor.... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20080027697 - Memory circuit simulation system and method with power saving capabilities: A system and method are provided including a component in communication with a plurality of memory circuits and a system. The component is operable to interface the memory circuits an the system for simulating at least one memory circuit with at least one aspect that is different from at least... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080027700 - Simulation model of bt instability of transistor: A simulation model of BT instability of a transistor in a semiconductor integrated circuit, wherein a bias condition of at least one terminal among the drain terminal, the source terminal and the substrate terminal of the transistor is set up as an independent bias condition from other terminals; and then... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080027701 - Printed circuit board design instruction support method and device: There are provided a printed circuit board design instruction support method between a circuit design and a printed circuit board design, a printed circuit board design instruction support device between a circuit design and a printed circuit board design, a Web system, a program, an a computer-readable recording medium which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080027703 - Memory circuit simulation system and method with refresh capabilities: A system and method are provided including an interface circuit in communication with a plurality of memory circuits and a system. The interface circuit is operable to interface the plurality of memory circuits and the system for simulating at leas one memory circuit with at least one aspect that is... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080027702 - System and method for simulating a different number of memory circuits: A system and method are provided for simulating a different number of memory circuits. Included is an interface circuit in communication with a first number of memory circuits and a system. Such interface circuit is operable to interface the memory circuits and the system for simulating at least one memory... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080027704 - Real-time synchronized control and simulation within a process plant: A process control system simulation technique performs real-time simulation of an actual process control network as that network is running within a process plant in a manner that is synchronized with the operation of the actual process control network. This real-time, synchronized simulation system includes a simulation process control network... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080027685 - Methods for determining whether an existing concrete composition is overdesigned: Design optimization methods can be used to design concrete mixtures having optimized properties, including desired strength and slump at minimal cost. The design optimization methods use a computer-implemented process that is able to design and virtually “test” millions of hypothetical concrete compositions using mathematical algorithms that interrelate a number of... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080027692 - Data visualization methods for simulation modeling of agent behavioral expression: A computer simulation method is provided for modeling the behavioral expression of one or more agents in an environment to be simulated, then running a simulation of the modeled agent(s) against real-world information as input data reflecting changing conditions of the environment being simulated, and obtaining an output based on... Agent: Leighton K. Chong Patent Attorney

20080027693 - Method of designing blowout preventer seal using finite element analysis: A method of manufacturing, certifying, and optimizing a seal for a blowout preventer. The method includes generating a finite element analysis seal model, smoothing the finite element analysis seal model, and analyzing a strain plot of the smoothed finite element analysis seal model based upon a displacement condition.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080027695 - Apparatus and method for computer modeling respiratory disease: The invention encompasses novel methods for developing a computer model of a mammalian respiratory system. In particular, the models include representations of biological processes associated with obstruction of the respiratory system with constriction of the respiratory system. The invention also encompasses computer models of respiratory systems, methods of simulating respiratory... Agent: Entelos, Inc. C/o Law Offices Of Karen E. Flick

20080027696 - Display of information regarding the therapeutic or diagnostic effects: A method for simulating a distribution of at least one agent in a subject includes using the combination of subject-specific information, information concerning the administration of the at least one agent, and agent specific information to calculate an effect of the at least one agent in the subject, wherein the... Agent: Don W. Bulson (brainlab)

20080027699 - Hot carrier circuit reliability simulation: The present invention is directed to a number of improvements in methods for reliability simulations in aged circuits whose operation has been degraded through hot-carrier or other effects. A plurality of different circuit stress times can be simulated within a single run. Different aging criteria may be used for different... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

20080027698 - Method and system for handling process related variations for integrated circuits based upon reflections: Disclosed is an approach for modeling and correcting for the effects of reflections during lithography processing. Thickness differences across the surfaces in different integrated circuit layers may result in reflectance-related variations. The variations may be modeled and accounted for during the design process for the integrated circuit.... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080021679 - Physical simulations on a graphics processor: The present invention is directed to a method, computer program product, and system for performing physics simulations on at least one graphics processor unit (GPU). The method includes the following steps. First, data representing physical attributes associated with at least one mesh are mapped into a plurality of memory arrays... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080021683 - Geospatial modeling system providing building roof type identification features and related methods: A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model database and a processor. The processor may cooperate with the geospatial database for identifying a building roof type defined by building roof data points as being from among a plurality of possible building roof types. This may be done based upon... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080021689 - Method for designing semiconductor integrated circuit and method of circuit simulation: By using, as a model expression, an expression showing an inverse proportion between a change rate ΔIdsat/Idsat of saturated current value and a product of a gate protrusion length E1 and a gate width Wg of a transistor and a coefficient, modeling is executed for a transistor property that depends... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080021692 - Method for performing power simulations on complex designs running complex software applications: A power estimation system uses a hardware accelerated simulator to advance simulation to a point of interest for power estimation. The hardware accelerated simulator generates a checkpoint file, which is then used by a software simulator to initiate simulation of the processor design model for power estimation. An on-the-fly power... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080021693 - Storage device simulator: A storage device simulator is created on a computing device. The storage device simulator is connected to an operating system of the computing device, wherein the storage device simulator interacts with the operating system without modification of the operating system.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080021694 - Virtual disk drive architecture: Virtual disk drive architecture. A novel approach is presented by which a virtual design system allows for the design, development, and testing of memory storage devices including hard disk drives (HDDs). A virtual disk drive architecture allows for the implementation and emulation of a full HDD system. All of the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080021695 - Rom emulator and rom testing method using the same: A ROM emulator is used for emulating an operation of a ROM to be inserted into a ROM socket of a motherboard. The ROM emulator includes a plurality of connectors, one of which is selected to be coupled to a connector of the motherboard for communicating the ROM emulator with... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080021696 - System and method of providing a fast path link for an identified set of data: The claimed method and system collects an alert link for display at a client device. The alert link may be associated with a trigger placed on a parameter associated with a legacy application. The alert link may be used to retrieve security and configuration data for the associated legacy application... Agent: Francis C. Kowalik Walgreen Co. Law Department

20080021680 - Method and apparatus for evaluating sight distance: A method of sight distance analysis comprising: acquiring a scene-graph representation comprising three dimensional entities; acquiring at least one three dimensional object representation within the scene graph environment; acquiring a target object representation; selecting at least one camera position; positioning the acquired target object representation in the scene graph representation... Agent: Simon Kahn - Pyi Tech, Ltd. C/o Landonip, Inc

20080021681 - Process modeling and optimization method and system: A method is provided for model optimization. The method may include obtaining respective distribution descriptions of a plurality of input parameters to a model indicative of interrelationships between the input parameters and one or more output parameters. The method may also include specifying respective search ranges for the plurality of... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080021682 - Computation of radiating particle and wave distributions using a generalized discrete field constructed from representative ray sets: The present system and method for simulating particles and waves is useful for calculations involving nuclear and full spectrum radiation transport, quantum particle transport, plasma transport and charged particle transport. The invention provides a mechanism for creating accurate invariants for embedding in general three-dimensional problems and describes means by which... Agent: Mcquaide Blasko

20080021684 - Method for building a three dimensional cellular partition of a geological domain: The invention concerns a method for building a three-dimensional (3D) cellular partition covering a 3D geological domain by defining the cells of the partition, characterized in that said method comprises the following steps A “3D screen construction step” for constructing a 3D screen which is a 3D elementary partition covering... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080021685 - Swimming pool, spa, and other recreational environment controller systems, equipment, and simulators: Systems for controlling aspects of recreational or other environments are described. Such systems are especially, but not exclusively, useful for controlling either or both of pool or spa settings and operations and include equipment that may be connected, in any appropriate way, to personal or other computers or other components... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080021688 - Apparatus and method for visual stimulation indication: Methods and devices for verifying that proper visual stimulation is applied to the visual prostheses are described. In one of the methods, a retinal stimulation system implanted on a subject is simulated externally. An external testing device is also discussed.... Agent: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.

20080021686 - Cluster modeling, and learning cluster specific parameters of an adaptive double threading model: Cluster models are described herein. By way of example, a system for predicting binding information relating to a binding of a protein and a ligand can include a trained binding model and a prediction component. The trained binding model can include a probability distribution and a hidden variable that represents... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080021687 - Methods and systems for sequence-based design of multiple reaction monitoring transitions and experiments: Computer-implementable methods consistent with the present teachings can be used in the design of selective- and multiple-reaction monitoring experiments for the identification of proteins and peptides of interest. By determining candidate parent-daughter ion transition pairs and scoring the pairs based on their ability to be detected experimental design time can... Agent: Mila Kasan, Patent Dept. Applied Biosystems

20080021691 - Method, system and program product supporting presentation of a simulated or hardware system including configuration entities: Within a display device, a respective one of a plurality of design graphical representations is displayed for each of a plurality of hierarchically arranged design entity instances within a simulated system. The design entity instances include a particular design entity instance containing a latch that is represented by a particular... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080021690 - Simulation method, simulation apparatus, and computer readable medium storing simulation program: A circuit analysis portion obtains an output characteristic of each of first noise source candidates. A noise evaluate portion obtains intensity of a noise crosstalking from each of the first noise source candidates to a low noise-tolerance terminal based on a second transfer function and the output characteristic of each... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080015824 - Automatic hose and harness routing method and system: A method is provided for automatic hose and harness routing. The method may include obtaining a solid model of a structural design of a structure assembly and deriving a mathematical representation of the solid model. The method may also include selecting at least a pair of connection points, including a... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080015822 - Method and system of computer assisted vehicle seat design: Method of computer-assisted assessment of seat design. The method being applicable to any number of seating, including but not limited to vehicle seating commonly employed in automobiles, watercraft, aircraft, etc. The method optionally including overlaying a shaped data object relative to an architectural drawing to facilitated assessing component comportment with... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20080015825 - Method for computing turbulent flow using a near-wall eddy-viscosity formulation: A technique that improves large-eddy simulation consists in replacing the instantaneous sub-grid scale eddy-viscosity (such as the dynamic Smagorinsky model eddy-viscosity) in the near-wall region with an eddy-viscosity computed from Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes eddy-viscosity and corrected dynamically using the resolved turbulent stress. The near-wall eddy-viscosity formulation is applied either with... Agent: Georgi Kalitzin

20080015829 - Statistical analysis of coupled circuit-electromagnetic systems: A method and system for combining the process variations in circuits and distributed interconnect-based electromagnetic (EM) objects in order to capture a statistical behavior of overall circuit performance parameters. In an exemplary approach, a coupled circuit-EM system is decoupled at the points where the EM objects connect to the circuit... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20080015831 - Flow of self-diverting acids in carbonate reservoirs: m

20080015832 - Method for predicting acid placement in carbonate reservoirs: A computationally efficient general method of modeling or simulating matrix acidizing treatment when flow is not axisymmetric involves determining streamlines in the general flow field using complex potential theory to solve for the flow along the streamlines. The flow over a time step is used to model the propagation of... Agent: Schlumberger Technology Corporation David Cate

20080015834 - Methods and systems for molecular inhibition: Methods and systems are described which identify the structure of a biochemical or pathogenic molecule as well as at least one interacting molecule structure. These structures may be predicted to form at least one complex. In some embodiments, the stability and toxicity of at least one molecule structure and/or complex... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080015833 - Methods and systems for molecular inhibition of protein misfolding: Methods and systems are described which relate to polypeptide structural models and interacting molecule structures.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080015835 - Methods and systems for treating disease: Methods and systems described herein are applicable to the identification of pathogens, pathogenic variants and applicable treatments or remedies. In some embodiments, the pathogen or pathogens bears a causal relationship to a disease state.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080015823 - Extensible building information model toolset: A building information management (BIM) system is provided with a library platform that supports a toolset with novel functionality. Embodiments of the invention provide a library of products that can be used in a BIM and provide a virtual product set with improved functionality and more detailed information about the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080015827 - Materials-based failure analysis in design of electronic devices, and prediction of operating life: The technology includes for methods, a system, and a computer readable medium for modeling the failure of an electronic component, based on a detailed simulation of fatigue mechanisms in the component. The technology further includes methods, system, and a medium programmed to predict failure of a system that includes an... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080015826 - Method and device of predictive assessment of thermal load for solid waste incineration plants: .The invention relates to a method for the predictive assessment of the thermal load generated by solid waste when introduced into incineration furnaces and to the associated device. The invention is based on measuring the air pressure(s) under the first primary air compartment and the temperature(s) of the gases produced... Agent: Jean-christophe Ealet

20080015828 - Optimum design method and apparatus, and program for the same: In an optimum design method comprising a first solution determining step of solving an optimization problem of a first evaluation function for a state variable vector with a design variable vector being as a parameter, and a second solution determining step of solving an optimization problem of a second evaluation... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080015830 - Cascaded eddy simulation: A fluid flow is simulated by causing a computer to perform operations on data stored in the memory to compute at least one eddy of a fluid flow at a first scale and perform operations to compute at least one eddy of the fluid flow at both the first scale... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080015836 - Automatic threshold setting for quantitative polymerase chain reaction: Disclosed are systems and methods for identifying and quantitating the presence of one or more DNA species in a sample population through PCR amplification. DNA species quantitation includes a determination of a threshold fluorescence value used in the assessment of the PCR amplification reaction. Various embodiments of the present invention... Agent: Leonard D. Bowersox, Esquire Kilyk & Bowersox, P.l.l.c.

20080015837 - Systems, methods and computer program products for determining parameters for chemical synthesis: The database is populated with target chemicals, corresponding listings of reagent chemicals, corresponding listings of equipment and corresponding listings of procedures. The database is then searched in response to user identification of a target chemical. In response, a listing is displayed of reagent chemicals that are used to synthesize the... Agent: Symyx Technologies Inc Legal Department

20080015838 - Method and system for designing a structural level description of an electronic circuit: A method and system for designing a structural level description of an electronic circuit with functional behavior described by a plurality of rules, the circuit being specified by data path and control path elements wherein at least one control path element is provided in a form of unresolved variable. The... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080015839 - System, method, and program product for targeting and optimal driving force distribution in energy recovery systems: A system, methods, and user-friendly program product to calculate global energy utility targets and define optimal driving force distribution for a process or cluster of processes under all possible process changes and streams specific minimum temperature approach values, simultaneously, and without enumeration, are provided. The program product can utilize stream-specific... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20080010041 - Assembling physical simulations in a 3d graphical editor: Systems and methods for graphical simulation of physical objects are presented. Embodiments of the present invention contemplate using 3D widgets to represent physical objects as well as semantic relationships such as joints and constraints between objects. Interactive graphical markers are also used to directly manipulate properties such as material properties... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080010044 - Using interval techniques to solve a parametric multi-objective optimization problem: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that solves a parametric multi-objective optimization problem in a combined design space and parameter space using interval techniques, wherein the design space contains design-space variables which are fixed for a selected design, and wherein the parameter space contains parameters which are... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080010042 - Engineering device: An engineering device includes a drawing builder for generating a general-purpose part formed by combining functional parts, and a general-purpose part managing section for registering the general-purpose part thus generated in a database and quoting the general-purpose part thus registered in the drawing builder to utilize as a general-purpose part... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080010043 - Efficient gradient computation for conditional gaussian graphical models: The subject invention leverages standard probabilistic inference techniques to determine a log-likelihood for a conditional Gaussian graphical model of a data set with at least one continuous variable and with data not observed for at least one of the variables. This provides an efficient means to compute gradients for CG... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080010045 - Method and system for non-linear state estimation: An NSET method and system for modeling the behavior of a visitor to an e-commerce location are disclosed. The method of one embodiment of this invention comprises the steps of: obtaining one or more visitor characteristic values; developing a model of the visitor's behavior according to a nonlinear state estimation... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080010046 - Simulation apparatus, simulation method, and computer-readable recording medium in which simulation program is stored: The simulation apparatus includes mesh dividing section, process condition setting section, boundary surface simulating section for simulating a change in a shape of a boundary surface of the structure which change is caused from the process using the calculation condition set by the process condition setting section, level value determining... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080010047 - Method for interactive automation of fault modeling including a method for intelligently sensing fault-fault relationships: A method is disclosed for sensing fault-fault relationships, comprising: automatically sensing interrelationships among faults, and presenting a final model including a fault-fault intersection curve and one fault truncated at the curve to an interpreter representing the interrelationships among faults.... Agent: Osha . Liang L.L.P. / Slb

20080010048 - Efficient transistor-level circuit simulation: Techniques for performing circuits with nonlinear circuit components such as transistors based on a two-stage Newton-Raphson approach.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080010049 - Graphical language compiler system: A system having a graphical compiler connected to a function block engine. The graphical compiler may convert graphical information to non-graphical information. A resources allocation module may be connected to the function block engine and the compiler. Also, a function block execution list may be connected to the compiler and... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.