Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation inventions 03/08

20080077366 - Apparatus and method for capacity planning for data center server consolidation and workload reassignment: A server migration tool used to construct data center migration scenarios allowing for a user to rapidly manipulate a large number of input parameters required to describe a transformation from one data center configuration to a new data center configuration. The tool then performs the transformation and allows the user... Agent: George R. Schultz Schultz & Associates, P.C.

20080077367 - Electromagnetic field simulator and electromagnetic field simulating program product: An electromagnetic field simulator for repeatedly calculating a space distribution of an electromagnetic field at a next point in time using a distribution of an electromagnetic field in a 3-dimensional space includes: a unit for calculating a distribution of an electric field and a distribution of an magnetic field on... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080077369 - Apparatus and method for simulating a mold cooling process for injection molding: The invention provides an apparatus and method for simulating a mold cooling process for injection molding. The mold includes a moldbase and a cavity; the method comprises the steps of creating a plurality of cavity meshes for the cavity, automatically creating a plurality of uniform or adaptive moldbase meshes for... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080077376 - Apparatus and method for the determination of seu and set disruptions in a circuit caused by ionizing particle strikes: This application discloses a new, and useful computer implemented method and apparatus that can be used for the determination of SEU and SET disruptions in a cell or circuit, caused by ionizing particle strikes, including those caused by neutrons (cosmic rays), alpha particles or heavy ions. The method of the... Agent: Basinski & Associates

20080077378 - Circuit simulation method and circuit simulation apparatus: A circuit simulation apparatus has a means to acquire data regarding a transistor, a model parameter generation unit for generating a model parameter representing effects of stress upon the transistor active region caused by the isolation region, and a simulation execution unit for evaluating characteristics of the transistor using a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080077382 - Simulation system and computer-implemented method for simulation and verifying a control system: A simulation system and A method for computer-implemented simulation and verification of a control system under development are provided, the simulation system having a host-target architecture. An operating system of the target representing at least a part of the control system is reconfigured by the host via a application programming... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080077365 - Apparatus for loading cad data: To provide an automatic loading determination apparatus that completely loads necessary models without specification by a user, out of models for which complete loading is not specified, and suppresses the occurrence of waiting time due to complete loading when the user performs manipulations, for example, reference and editing, in which... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080077364 - Computer-implemented building design and modeling and project cost estimation and scheduling system: A computer-implemented building design and modeling system and method are provided. In one embodiment, the system comprises a spatial database; means for defining a plurality of parametric objects, each of the parametric objects representing a construction component of at least a portion of a building being modeled and including an... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080077368 - Automatic real-time optimization and intelligent control of electrical power distribution and transmission systems: A system for real-time optimization of power resources on an electrical system is disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, an analytics server, a control element and a client terminal. The data acquisition component is communicatively connected to a sensor configured to acquire real-time data output from the electrical... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080077370 - System and method for integrating a process control system into a training simulator: The disclosure relates to a system and method for integrating a process control system for a technical installation or a technical process into a training simulator, where the training simulator interacts with a virtual PC. The virtual PC stores a piece of software for modelling the technical installation or the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080077371 - Method for history matching and uncertainty quantification assisted by global optimization techniques utilizing proxies: A method for forecasting production from a hydrocarbon producing reservoir, the method includes defining an objective function and characteristics of a history-matched model of a reservoir and acceptable error E. At least one geological realization of the reservoir is created representing a probable geological setting. For each geological realization, a... Agent: Chevron Services Company Law, Intellectual Property Group

20080077372 - Conformation-activity relationship of apoptosis-inducing phosphodiester oligonucleotides: The present invention facilitates in silico evaluation of molecules for biological activity by providing a computer-based method to predict whether oligonucleotides may possess biological activity and the efficacy of the biological activity based on the three-dimensional structure and charge characteristics of the oligonucleotides. Biological activities include, but are not limited... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080077375 - Integrated biosensor and simulation system for diagnosis and therapy: BioMEMS/NEMS appliance biologically monitors an individual, using biosensors to detect cellular components. Data is simulated or analyzed using systems-biology software, which provides diagnostic or therapeutic guidance.... Agent: Fernandez & Associates LLP

20080077374 - Method for predicting biological, biochemical, biophysical or pharmacological characteristics of a substance: The method for predicting biological, biochemical, biophysical, or pharmacological characteristics of a substance comprises the steps of providing sample data, scaling the sample data by coding the sample data, classifying the coded data, and providing a prediction output on the basis of the classification result.... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20080077373 - Spatial profiling of proteins using hydrophobic moments: Generally, the present invention provides a number of procedures to spatially profile proteins by using hydrophobic moments. In all procedures, a hydrophobicity distribution of a protein is shifted and normalized. In one procedure, a shape or profile of a curve of a second-order moment of hydrophobicity is determined. A second... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080077377 - 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

20080077379 - Computer program product for verification of digital designs using case-splitting via constrained internal signals: A method of verifying a digital design is disclosed. The method comprises generating a reference model for a first digital design and creating an operational model for a second digital design, wherein the first digital design and the second digital design are intended to have a same logical function. A... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080077380 - Power consumption peak estimation program for lsi and device therefor: As a program tool of the embodiment estimating the peak of power consumption, primary processing is performed in which logic simulation is executed in a first time period to extract operation data of a gated clock for every predetermined section within the first time period, e.g. operation waveform data or... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080077381 - System for verification of digital designs using case-splitting via constrained internal signals: A method of verifying a digital design is disclosed. The method comprises generating a reference model for a first digital design and creating an operational model for a second digital design, wherein the first digital design and the second digital design are intended to have a same logical function. A... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080077383 - Arrangement and method for generating information: A method for generating input information associated with a question to be provided to a simulation device on-board a platform. The question is elected among a plurality of questions. A simulation criterion corresponding to the simulation is determined. A simulation scenario is modified depending upon the question. The input information... Agent: Venable LLP

20080071505 - Method and system to invert tectonic boundary or rock mass field in in-situ stress computation: A method, system and computer program product for inverting boundary conditions for rock mass field in-situ stress computation for a geologic structure are disclosed. According to an embodiment, the current invention includes a method for inverting boundary conditions for rock mass field in-situ stress computation for a geologic structure, the... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20080071511 - Prediction and control of nbti of integrated circuits: A modeling system for modeling integrated circuits includes a process variation generator for generating a first statistic distribution of a process parameter; a performance parameter distribution generator for generating a second distribution of a performance parameter; a stress generator for generating a third statistic distribution of the performance parameter under... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20080071513 - Test generation for low power circuits: In the field of integrated circuit design and testing, especially directed towards integrated circuits intended to operate at low power, a method and system are provided for circuit design and simulation and testing for mapping portions of a circuit, such as a power domain or portion of a power domain,... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080071515 - System and method for circuit symbolic timing analysis of circuit designs: A method, data processing system, and computer program product are provided for performing time-based symbolic simulation. A delay-aware representation of a circuit is created that includes a plurality of circuit nodes. The data-aware representation is simulated. In particular, the simulator simulates transitions from a first set of circuit nodes to... Agent: Freescale - Jvl C/o Vanleeuwen & Vanleeuwen

20080071517 - Emulations system and emulation method: An emulation system emulates an operation of a target device including a first analog signal processing section and includes: an emulation device and a semiconductor device having a second analog signal processing section and an external terminal to which at least one of an input and an output of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080071506 - Transient response of a distributed rlc interconnect based on direct pole extraction: A computer system for simulating performance of transmission lines, such as on-chip interconnects. The simulation uses direct extraction of poles, in contrast to conventional methods using poles obtained by a truncated transfer function. Using the directly extracted poles, far end response characteristic(s) can be determined to thereby aid in design... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20080071507 - Methods and apparatus for capturing and rendering dynamic surface deformations in human motion: A method for a computer system includes receiving global positional data associated with a set of markers from a plurality of markers associated with a surface of an object at one or more time instances, wherein global positional data associated with a first marker from the plurality of markers is... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc. C/o Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080071509 - Method of designing a drill bit, and bits made using said method: A method for designing a drill bit that involves simulating a drill bit having cutting elements disposed thereon is provided. In particular, the method involves determining the axial forces acting on at least one of the cutting elements at a first orientation... Agent: Osha, Liang LLP / Smith

20080071508 - Synchronous drive apparatus and methods: A synchronous drive apparatus includes first and a second rotors. The rotors have multiple teeth for engaging sections of an elongate drive structure. A rotary load assembly couples to the second rotor. The elongate drive structure engages about the rotors. The first rotor drives and the second rotor is driven... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080071510 - Moment analysis of tertiary protein structures: Techniques for analyzing protein structures, such as a tertiary protein structure, are provided. A centroid of the residue centroids is calculated. The centroid of the residue centroids is used as a spatial origin of a global linear hydrophobic moment. The correlation between residue centroid magnitude and residue solvent accessibility is... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP Suite 205

20080071512 - Methodology for image fidelity verification: A method for predicting functionality of an integrated circuit segment to be lithographically printed on a wafer. Initially there is provided a two-dimensional design of an integrated circuit, including an integrated circuit segment having critical width, and a two-dimensional printed image of the critical width integrated circuit segment is simulated.... Agent: Law Office Of Delio & Peterson, LLC.

20080071514 - Apparatus for handling register-transfer-level description, method thereof, and program storage medium storing program thereof: A circuit description is separated into sequential-circuit descriptions as a sequential-circuit-description part and combinational-circuit descriptions as a combinational-circuit-description part. The sequential-circuit-description part is modified and converted into combinational-circuit descriptions. A simulation description is configured with the combinational-circuit-description part and the combinational-circuit descriptions converted from the sequential-circuit-description part. This arrangement can... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080071516 - Dsl system estimation and parameter recommendation: Estimates of a communication system configuration, such as a DSL system, are based on operational data collected from a network element management system, protocol, users and/or the like. The operational data collected from the system can include performance-characterizing operational data that typically is available in an ADSL system via element-management-system... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080065357 - Optimal methodology for allocation and flowdown: A system and method of implementing a top-down flow down of at least one system requirement to allocate variability to system components such that overall system response meets the at least one system requirement, includes specifying a target value for the system response, and using a non-linear model to relate... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080065360 - Methods for on-line determination of degree of resin stickiness using a model for depression of melt initiation temperature: In some embodiments, a method including the steps of: during a polymerization reaction producing a polymer resin in a fluid bed reactor, measuring reaction parameters including at least reactor temperature, at least one property of the resin, and amount of at least one condensable diluent gas in the reactor; determining... Agent: Univation Technologies LLC

20080065362 - Well completion modeling and management of well completion: The present application describes a method and modeling system for managing and modeling well completions. The method includes constructing a wellbore model of a completion. Then, the wellbore model may be applied to generate one or more simulated production profiles, wherein the simulated production profiles include two or more of... Agent: Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Company

20080065367 - Design support method, design support apparatus, design support program, and storage medium: A design support method of inspecting control on an image forming apparatus based on a simulation result of operation control on a virtual device which is modeled to simulate operation of the image forming apparatus includes the steps of referring to control definition information for determining whether an operation request... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080065358 - Method for optimizing cockpit support structures: A method for optimizing a design of a cockpit support structure for motor vehicles for flexible utilization of the available installation space includes initially measuring the maximum installation space available for the support structure and depicting the maximum installation space as a wire-mesh structure. The wire-mesh structure undergoes an iterative... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080065361 - Compression of interaction data using directional sources and/or testers: A compression technique compresses interaction data. The interaction data can include a matrix of interaction data used in solving an integral equation. For example, such a matrix of interaction data occurs in the moment method for solving problems in electromagnetics. The interaction data describes the interaction between a source and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080065359 - Methods and apparati for efficiently parametrizing, describing, generating, modifying and manipulating configurations, conformations, and deformations of systems that comprise multiple physical or virtual objects: Multi-object systems include such concrete, practical objects as robot hands, arms, and platforms; protein, polymer, and other complex molecules; and complex graphic displays. Multi-point systems are idealized mathematical constructs that model multi-object systems. Many natural, practical, and important problems involving such models have proven to be computationally expensive or intractible... Agent: Lee N. Rudolph

20080065363 - Method for enhancing production allocation in an integrated reservoir and suface flow system: A method for enhancing allocation of fluid flow rates among a plurality of wellbores coupled to surface facilities is disclosed. The method includes modeling fluid flow characteristics of the wellbores and reservoirs penetrated by the wellbores. The method includes modeling fluid flow characteristics of the surface facilities. An optimizer adapted... Agent: Gary D. Lawson Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

20080065364 - System and method for modulating a humoral immune: The present application relates, in general, to a system and/or method related to detection and/or treatment.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080065365 - System and method for modulating a humoral immune response: The present application relates, in general, to a system and/or method related to detection and/or treatment.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080065366 - System and method for modulating a humoral immune response: The present application relates, in general, to a system and/or method related to detection and/or treatment.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080059131 - Force sense presentation device, mixed reality system, information processing method, and information processing apparatus: A force sense presentation device for presenting a sense of force in virtual space to a user, comprises: a fixed unit which is gripped by the user; a force sense presentation unit which presents a sense of force; an actuator which supplies a driving force and operates the force sense... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080059132 - Method of designing a sound waveguide surface: A method for designing a sound waveguide surface is described. The method includes the steps of forming a parametric model of the sound waveguide surface where the parametric model has at least one input parameter and then simulating a sound field that is formed by the sound waveguide surface. A... Agent: Klauber & Jackson

20080059142 - Input/output buffer information specification (ibis) model generation for multi-chip modules (mcm) and similar devices: In one embodiment, the invention is a method for modeling electrical behavior of a packaged module having multiple integrated circuits (ICs), such as a multi-chip module (MCM). The method includes: (a) identifying one or more pin groups in the module, wherein a pin group comprises two or more buffers connected... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20080059144 - Emulation of dissimilar removable medium storage device types assisted by information embedded in the logical format: The present invention provides systems and methods for allowing a holographic storage device to emulate optical WORM drives and tape drives.... Agent: Jagtiani + Guttag

20080059128 - Method, program product and apparatus for modeling resist development of a lithography process: A method of generating a model for simulating the imaging performance of an optical imaging system. The method includes the steps of defining the optical imaging system and a process to be utilized by the optical imaging system; and defining a model equation representing the imaging performance of the optical... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080059127 - Spatio-temporal reasoning method of moving object based path data: Disclosed is a method for predicting the spatial/temporal location of a moving user based on analysis of his/her past movement paths. The method includes the steps of defining a similarity function based on a location of each point of a movement path of a user, a time point when the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080059129 - Method and system for measuring patterned structures: A method and system are presented for determining a line profile in a patterned structure, aimed at controlling a process of manufacture of the structure. The patterned structure comprises a plurality of different layers, the pattern in the structure being formed by patterned regions and un-patterned regions. At least first... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080059130 - Method for modeling and testing a security system: A method of designing, modeling and testing a security system for protecting a defined security area. The method includes modeling the security area, modeling the security system for the security area, and testing the security system using a computer to run various breach scenarios to determine weaknesses in the security... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20080059133 - Medical injector simulation device: An apparatus includes a simulated medicament delivery device and an electronic circuit system coupled to the simulated medicament delivery device. The electronic circuit system is configured to output an electronic output associated with a use of the simulated medicament delivery device.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080059134 - Tire characteristic calculation method, tire dynamic element parameter value derivation method, vehicle traveling simulation method, and tire designing method and vehicle designing method in which consideration is given to tire friction ellipse: Values of multiple tire dynamic element parameters are set for a tire dynamic model constructed using the tire dynamic element parameters for calculating a tire axial force and a self-aligning torque under a given slip ratio. Next, the values of the tire axial force and the self-aligning torque are calculated... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080059135 - Pathogen detection using coherent anti-stokes raman scattering microscopy: The invention provides a system and method for automatic real-time monitoring for the presence of a pathogen in water using coherent anti-stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy. Water sample trapped in a trapping medium is provided to a CARS imager. CARS images are provided to a processor for automatic analyzing for... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080059136 - System and method for augmenting a humoral immune response: The present application relates, in general, to a system and/or method for detection and/or treatment.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080059137 - System and method for heightening an immune response: The present application relates, in general, to a system and/or method for detection and/or treatment.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080059138 - Tactile feedback man-machine interface device: A man-machine interface which provides tactile feedback to various sensing body parts is disclosed. The device employs one or more vibrotactile units, where each unit comprises a mass and a mass-moving actuator. As the mass is accelerated by the mass-moving actuator, the entire vibrotactile unit vibrates. Thus, the vibrotactile unit... Agent: Immersion -thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080059140 - Method of quantifying hydrocarbon formation and retention in a mother rock: The method according to the invention allows the formation of oil and the retention phenomenon in the mother rock to be modelled. Organic matter characterization experiments are used to establish the molecular model (MM) of the initial sample (E). The thermal cracking reaction of this molecular model is reproduced by... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080059139 - Virtual experiment interface for interlocking experiment measurement apparatus with virtual experiment apparatus: A virtual experiment interface is disclosed including a data acquiring section for acquiring image data of a structure of polymeric material obtained by an experiment measurement apparatus; a data conversion section for converting the image data acquired by the data acquiring section into a format compatible with a simulation apparatus;... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080059141 - Method and system for measuring patterned structures: A method and system are presented for determining a line profile in a patterned structure, aimed at controlling a process of manufacture of the structure. The patterned structure comprises a plurality of different layers, the pattern in the structure being formed by patterned regions and un-patterned regions. At least first... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080059143 - Hierarchical stochastic analysis process optimization for integrated circuit design and manufacture: An Integrated Circuit Design tool incorporating a Stochastic Analysis Process (“SAP”) is described. The SAP can be applied on many levels of circuit components including transistor devices, logic gate devices, and System-on-Chip or chip designs. The SAP replaces the large number of traditional Monte Carlo simulations with operations using a... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP