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

20080183438 - Method and system for analyzing three-dimensional linkages: A method for analyzing a mechanical system is disclosed. The method includes, using a computer program product, importing from an engineering design software program data related to a mechanical assembly. The method further includes, using the computer program product, selecting two or more points and one or more connections associated... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080183436 - Method of evolutionary optimization algorithm for structure design: The present invention discloses a method of evolutionary optimization algorithm for structure design which comprises steps of: meshing a geometric structure with applied geometric boundary conditions; analyzing the meshed geometric structure by finite element analysis to determine the relative stress distribution of the structure; and evolving the geometric structure by... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080183435 - Pairwise fragment interaction computation: An information processing system includes a processor configured for: defining a simulation space comprising a plurality of fragments and a plurality of processing nodes; determining a weight corresponding to the computational cost for a given pairwise fragment interaction; assigning the weight to the simulation space at a point between the... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080183441 - Rotating stall: In a method of numerical modelling of the operation of a gas turbine engine, randomly chosen numerical modifications are made to values within the model, to represent a disturbance for triggering rotating stall. This results in a faster onset of rotating stall within the model, reducing the computational effort required... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter

20080183437 - Simulation method, medium and apparatus: A simulation method, medium and apparatus, in which objects to be simulated are simulated at various precisions that are selectable according to an environmental context, thereby efficiently using computing resources for simulation.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080183439 - System and method for automatic selection of transmission line macromodels: Transmission line macromodels can be classified into main categories of delay-extraction and rational approximation. The exponential solution of the Telegrapher's Equation is used to create a system and method that enable a time-domain circuit simulator to automatically select the most appropriate macromodel for a given transmission line structure.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080183434 - System and method for generating grading transitions: Embodiments of the invention include a method for generating a three-dimensional (3D) model of a grading transition. Advantageously, the method for generating a 3D model of a grading transition may be used to generate generating a CAD drawing that includes realistic grading transitions, both in terms of a visual appearance... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080183440 - System, apparatus and method for facilitating pattern-based clothing design activities: A system usable by a processor to enable a user to select a type of garment and view an image of the pattern for the garment. Under direction of the system, the processor enables the user to input data relating to the characteristics of an intended wearer of the garment,... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080183447 - Automatic input function estimation for pharmacokinetic modeling: This system (200), apparatus (300), and method (100) of the present invention provide an analytic way to solve the (input) estimation problem of pharmacokinetic modeling: estimating parameters of a kinetic model from a series of tracer (radioactively labeled imaging agent) activity measurements (e.g. by positron emission tomography). Since the model... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080183442 - Efficient methodology for the accurate generation of customized compact model parameters from electrical test data: Disclosed herein are embodiments of an automated, fast and efficient method of generating a customized compact model that represents a semiconductor device at the chip, wafer or multi-wafer level in a specific manufacturing environment. Specifically, measurement data is collected from a specific manufacturing environment and sorted by channel lengths. Then,... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080183446 - Method, program product and apparatus for predicting line width roughness and resist pattern failure and the use thereof in a lithography simulation 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; defining a first model representing the imaging performance of the optical imaging... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080183444 - Modeling and monitoring method and system: A computer-implemented method for monitoring machine performance includes creating one or more computational models for generating one or more estimated output values based on real-time input data. The method includes collecting real-time operational information from the machine, including real-time input data reflecting a plurality of input parameters and real-time output... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080183443 - Statistical simulation of on chip interconnects: Systems and methods for statistical simulation of on chip interconnect models are provided. In on embodiment, the method comprises creating a non-linear on chip interconnect simulation model from parameters associated with the silicon chip process manufacturing; pre-calculating a linear function from the non-linear simulation model; replacing increments of variable parameters... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20080183445 - System and method for providing sparkline related information to a user: The present invention relates to a system for providing information to a user, said system comprising means for representing a sparkling which is composed of one or more than one graphical element which is/are based on two or more than two values, wherein the system further comprises trend-determining means for... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20080183448 - Attributive data prediction apparatus, an attributive data prediction method and a recording medium storing an attributive data prediction program: The disclosed apparatus includes a storage unit storing differential information between a simulated value of attributive data of a product and an actually measured value of the attributive data of the product, a prediction unit predicting attributive data of a new product by simulation using design information of the new... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080183449 - Machine parameter tuning method and system: A method for setting up setup parameters for a machine to perform a time-constraint task over a fixed course. The method may include establishing a process model indicative of interrelationships between performance parameters of the machine and a plurality of setup parameters of the machine based on data records generated... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080183450 - Determining absorbent article effectiveness: A method for determining absorbent article effectiveness of a virtual absorbent article. The steps of the method include providing a virtual body model, providing a virtual absorbent article model, providing virtual simulation software, running a virtual simulation of deformation of the virtual absorbent article model in proximity with the virtual... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20080183451 - Simulations for hydraulic fracturing treatments and methods of fracturing naturally fractured formation: A hydraulic fracture design model that simulates the complex physical process of fracture propagation in the earth driven by the injected fluid through a wellbore. An objective in the model is to adhere with the laws of physics governing the surface deformation of the created fracture subjected to the fluid... Agent: Schlumberger Technology Corporation David Cate

20080183455 - Computational method and apparatus for predicting polypeptide aggregation or solubility: A prediction method for predicting the effect of an amino acid modification on the rate of aggregation (solubility) of a reference polypeptide comprising: calculating the difference in hydrophobicity (ΔHydr) between the reference polypeptide and a modified polypeptide, calculating the difference in β-sheet propensity (ΔΔGcoil-α+ΔΔGβ-coil) between the reference polypeptide and modified... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner, P.A.

20080183454 - Disease diagnoses-bases disease prediction: A system for predicting future disease for a subject comprising: a population information set comprising population disease diagnoses for members of a population; a subject-specific information set comprising at least one subject-specific disease diagnosis; and a diagnoses-based prediction module configured to predict one or more future diseases for the subject... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP Suite 1100

20080183453 - System and method for optimizing animal production based on empirical feedback: A system for generating optimized values for variable inputs to an animal production system. The system includes a simulator engine configured to receive a plurality of animal information inputs and generate a performance projection. At least one of the animal information inputs is designated as a variable input. The system... Agent: Cargill, Incorporated

20080183452 - Visual analysis of a protein folding process: A method, information processing system, and computer readable medium, are provided for analyzing a protein folding process. The method includes conducting an incremental pattern discovery process. The incremental pattern discovery process includes judging multidimensional data from a simulation of a protein folding process. The incremental pattern discovery process captures at... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080183456 - Method for testing an electronic control system: The method according to the invention prevents the drawbacks known in the prior art by executing on test device (3) at least one test model (5) to influence the environment model (4) and/or to calculate the environment model (4) and/or the electronic control system (1), in which the test model... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080183457 - Simulation display tool: A simulation of an execution of a software program in an electronic circuit design can be analyzed to determine values simulated as being stored, such as in the memory and registers of the design, including values that are not necessarily observable on the outputs of the design. In some embodiments,... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080183458 - Method, system and program product supporting print events in the simulation of a digital system: According to a method of simulation processing, one or more HDL source files describing a digital design including a plurality of hierarchically arranged design entities are received. The one or more HDL source files include one or more statements instantiating a plurality of print events within the plurality of hierarchically... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080177510 - Method and system for distinctively displaying selected floor with sufficient details in a three-dimensional building model: A method, system and program product for distinctively displaying selected floors with sufficient details in a three-dimensional building model includes graphical metaphors that permit a selected or highlighted floor and their respective elements to be absolutely clear and distinct from the floors immediately above and below. The graphically displayed metaphors... Agent: Attorney, Intellectual Property Honeywell Internationl Inc.

20080177511 - Method and system for simulating flow of fluid around a body: A simulation method for flow of fluid around a body, according to the present invention, comprising dividing a target domain of simulation into a plurality of computational unit domains named cubes, generating an uniform number of Cartesian mesh elements named cells, in each of the cubes, performing computation in the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p.

20080177512 - Online determination of the quality characteristics for punch riveting and clinching: The present invention discloses a method for the online determination of a bulge/upset dimension xST and rivet head end position K of a rivet 3 with a length L in a punch rivet process with the help of a moveable punch 10 and a rigid die 20. The path covered... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20080177513 - Method and system for modeling behavior in a process plant: In a method for generating a model for modeling at least a portion of the process plant, M process variable data sets, where M is an integer, may be used to determine statistical data that may be utilized to scale process variable data sets. The M process variable data sets... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080177514 - Method for modeling varactor by direct extraction of parameters: A method for modeling a varactor with a MOS structure, and transforms an s-parameter obtained by the measurement using measurement equipment into a y-parameter and a z-parameter and then directly extracts parameters required for the modeling by means of equations in accordance with embodiments. The modeling can be made reflecting... Agent: Sherr & Nourse, Pllc

20080177515 - Method for predicting the operational reliability of an aircraft system: The present invention relates to a method for predicting the reliability of an aircraft system (S) onboard an aircraft, constituted by a plurality of elements. The operation of the aircraft is constituted by a sequence of cycles, each cycle comprising a flight phase and a ground station phase. The method... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080177516 - System and method for predicting material fatigue and damage: A method and system for determining damage prediction of a component. The component may be critical component used in an aircraft or other vehicle experiencing cyclic loading. The method and system determines the ΔK, Kmax and Kinternal values for the component and utilizes these values in order to predict damage... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20080177517 - Techniques for calculating circuit block delay and transition times including transistor gate capacitance loading effects: Techniques for modeling delay and transition times of logical circuit blocks including transistor gate capacitance loading effects provides improved simulation of logical circuit block transition times and delay times. The non-linear behavior of transistor gates of other logical circuit block inputs that are connected to the logical circuit block output... Agent: Ibm Corporation (mh) C/o Mitch Harris, Attorney At Law, L.l.c.

20080177518 - Integrated microfluidic system design using mixed methodology simulations: The present invention is a simulation-based method for rapidly designing, evaluating, and/or optimizing a microfluidic system or biochip. The method provides an environment for schematic generation, system layout, problem setup, simulation, and post-processing. The method comprises a system solver used to simulate microfluidic processes such as pressure driven and electroosmotic... Agent: Tomas Friend, Llc

20080177519 - System and method for simulating shallow water effects on arbitrary surfaces: A system and method for shallow water simulation may provide a framework for solving General Shallow Wave Equations (GSWE) to efficiently simulate 3D fluid effects on arbitrary surfaces using a height field representation. The height field representation may include height columns constructed along surface normals, which may be dependent on... Agent: Robert C. Kowert Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.c.

20080177520 - Characterising biological tissues: The invention describes a method for characterising and/or analysing body tissue, the method comprising: obtaining a first measured data set comprising data representing a first measured tissue property of a body tissue sample; obtaining a second measured data set comprising data representing a second measured tissue property of the body... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080177521 - Modeling of mpges-1 three-dimensional structures: applications in drug design and discovery: This invention relates to representations of prostaglandin synthase three-dimensional structures. Such representations are suitable for designing agents that modulate the activity of the enzyme by binding to the substrate binding domain.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080177522 - Method and apparatus for controlling multiple simulations: Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for controlling multiple simulations. One embodiment is a method that includes executing plural architectural simulators being interconnected to form a platform for hardware simulation; placing at least one of the plural architectural simulators into a pause state; and automatically minimizing windows associated with the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080177523 - Method for quality assured semiconductor device modeling: According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for producing a quality assured semiconductor device model when at least one critical parameter of a semiconductor device process is upgraded includes verifying the quality assured semiconductor device model for consistency against measured data or projected targets. The method further includes verifying the... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080177524 - Simulation execution apparatus, method and computer readable medium: There is provided with simulation execution apparatus including: a receiving unit configured to receive a cyclic signal; registers; a simulation execution unit configured to execute simulation of a logic circuit model which operates with the use of the cyclic signal and the registers; a counter configured to count time based... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080177526 - Computer program, computer apparatus and method for scheduling processes for project progress: A method and apparatus for arranging a progress schedule of a project includes steps for causing a computer to execute multiple simulations of the project, to select the simulation results indicating that the project would not be complete by the deadline among all the obtained simulation results, to modify the... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080177525 - Integrated debugger simulator: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that provide an integrated debugger simulator. A debugger is provided that allows a user to debug an application in a live mode. A simulator is provided to read recorded data from an earlier point in time in an execution of the application. An integrated... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080177527 - Simulation system, simulation method and simulation program: Disclosed is a simulation system including an instruction processor, a simultaneous execution condition determination unit and an execution machine cycle correction unit. The instruction processor executes each of instructions included in an analysis target program. The simultaneous execution condition determination unit divides the instructions into execution instruction sets, at least... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080172208 - Method and computer program product of computer aided design of a product comprising a set of constrained objects: The invention system and method of computer aided design of a product having a set of objects, identifies constraints linking objects of said set of objects. Each of the constraints is oriented from a first object to a second object so as to ensure, upon solving the constraints, that the... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080172207 - Semi-automated generation of frame structures in cad models: Embodiments of the invention include a method for the semi-automated generation of frame structures in a computer-aided design (CAD) model. Advantageously, the disclosed method allows users to create a model of a frame structure directly from the geometry of an existing solid model assembly in a CAD model. For example,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080172211 - Crack growth evaluation apparatus, crack growth evaluation method, and recording medium recording crack growth evaluation program: The analysis model generation unit generates an analysis model for use in an analysis by a finite-element method. A stress distortion analysis unit analyzes a stress and a distortion occurring in finite elements of a continuum by a load using the analysis model for each load cycle cyclically applied to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080172210 - Hybrid finite element method for traveling surface acoustic waves with thickness effect: The present invention is a process for simulating a SAW device, while taking into account the thickness of the substrate. An aspect of the present invention is simulating a traveling surface acoustic wave in a periodic waveguide. The surface acoustic wave is simulated by analyzing an upper portion of the... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080172209 - Identifying associations using graphical models: Statistical models for identifying associations are described herein. By way of example, a system for identifying associations between variables can include a model builder and an association identifier. The model builder can receive observations about the variables and generate a null model and a non-null model. The association identifier can... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080172212 - Modeling of control systems with open-loop representations and factorization of components: A method of manipulating a block diagram model with a plurality of graphical modeling components by defining an open loop anywhere on the block diagram model is provided. Graphical modeling components in series with the open loop may be automatically recognized and a plurality of parameters of the graphical modeling... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP/the Mathworks

20080172213 - Apparatus and method for creating analysis model for an elastomeric material member with a strong nonlinearity: A simple analysis model for an elastomeric material member with a strong nonlinearity is created, that is, for a rubber member gripped between a first member and a second member, first shell elements are created for the contact surface of the rubber member contacting the first member, second shell elements... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080172214 - System for optimizing treatment strategies using a patient-specific rating system: The combined effects of a selected treatment option on multiple causes of morbidity or mortality are simulated for evaluation. Various patient-specific and model-specific parameters, including parameters related to diseases to be modeled, are used in modeling incidence and mortality rates for each disease. These disease-specific models are used for defining... Agent: Norma E Henderson Henderson Patent Law

20080172215 - T-cell epiotope prediction: Epitope prediction models are described herein. By way of example, a system for predicting epitope information relating to a epitope can include a classification model (e.g., logistic regression model). The trained classification model can illustratively operatively execute one ore logistic functions on received protein data, and incorporate one or more... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080172216 - Forward synthetic synthon generation and its useto identify molecules similar in 3 dimensional shape to pharmaceutical lead compounds: A forward synthetic method is described that utilizes recursive application of established organic chemical reactions to derive more complex synthons from available reagents than are available from the reagent synthons themselves. The product of each reaction serves as the starting point for further reactions thereby permitting the generation of multiple... Agent: Laurence A Weinberger, Esq.

20080172217 - Medium storing model creation program, model creation apparatus and model creation method: There are provided a medium storing a model creation program for creating a model for communicating with an object apparatus to be verified, a model creation apparatus and a model creation method. A medium storing a model creation program for causing a computer to create a model for communicating with... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080167845 - Designing system of dc superconducting cable: First correlation-calculation means for calculating the relationship between a ratio Xf and a contraction amount Cf, the ratio Xf being a ratio between the winding diameter and the winding pitch of a superconducting wire constituting the conductor layer, and the contraction amount Cf being capable of absorbing the thermal contraction... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080167842 - Method and system for detecting, analyzing and subsequently recognizing abnormal events: A system and method for detecting and subsequently recognizing abnormal events. A variety of discrete process event data and continuous process data can be collected over an extended period and then incorporated into a principal component analysis (PCA). The PCA model describes the variability associated with characteristics of normal and... Agent: Kris T. Fredrick Honeywell International Inc.

20080167839 - Method and system for modeling a process in a process plant: A system for detecting abnormal operation of at least a portion of a process plant includes a composite model for modeling at least the portion of the process plant. The model may be configurable to include multiple regression models corresponding to multiple different operating regions of the portion of the... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080167840 - Methods and computer program products for benchmarking multiple collaborative services provided by enterprise software: Generating a simulated collaborative mix workload for determining the performance of enterprise software executed on a hardware platform. The collaborative mix workload includes a combination of mail, instant messaging, electronic meetings, documents, and electronic learning. The workload is generated by executing a team spaces path, documents path, learning path, messaging... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080167843 - One pass modeling of data sets: The system and process used for modeling of data sets is improved by achieving one pass modeling which proactively anticipates issues with the model and deals with these issues prior to model formation. The anticipated issues include those involving offending variables, which are initially identified and eliminated so as to... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

20080167841 - Scaled exponential smoothing for real time histogram: A system, method and program product for processing a stream of data events using scaled exponential smoothing for maintaining a histogram. A system is provided having: a set of histogram data that maintains a running value for each of a plurality of buckets; a bucket identification system for identifying a... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080167844 - Systems and methods for providing real-time predictions of arc flash incident energy, arc flash protection boundary, and required personal protective equipment (ppe) levels to comply with workplace safety standards: A system for making real-time predictions about an arc flash event on an electrical system is disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, an analytics server 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

20080167847 - Device for simulating a medium evolution by asynchronous and chaotic processing in the presence of autonomous interacting entities and a multi-agent system: A computer supporting an active object program in a multi-purpose mode comprises a device (D) for simulating the time evolution of a medium. Said device (D) comprises a software dedicated for simulating by objects the joint evolution of certain activated objects comprising enaction objects defining autonomous spatiotemporal entities each of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080167846 - System and method for regulating messages between networks: A system and method for interconnecting networks. In one embodiment, a message is received from a first network to be communicated to a target device of a second network. Data within the message is identified. A determination is made whether the data is allowable based on a policy. The message... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20080167848 - System and method for dynamic generation of environmental operational models: A system and method for system and method for dynamic generation of environmental operational models is disclosed. In one form, an information handling system can include a planning tool operable to enable selection of a system for use at a site. The information handling system can also include a thermal... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080167849 - Reservoir simulation: Disclosed are methods for simulating pressures and saturations of oil, gas, and water in an oil reservoir with production and injection wells, which include (1) using of new approximating linear algebraic (finite difference) equations that more accurately represent actual pressures by basing the equations on new functional forms: ln(r) or... Agent: James Sonntag James Sonntag, Patent Attorney

20080167850 - Method and apparatus for detecting consensus motifs in data sequences: Disclosed are a method of and system for detecting a consensus motif in a data sequence. The method comprises the steps of obtaining the data sequence, identifying potential signal (PS) segments of interest in the data sequence, and carrying out comparison and alignment processes amongst the PS segments to extract... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080167852 - Nonlinear model predictive control of a biofuel fermentation process: System and method for managing batch fermentation in a biofuel production process. A nonlinear control model of yeast growth and fermentable sugar concentration for biofuel (e.g., fuel ethanol) production in a batch fermentation process (pure and/or fed-batch fermentation) of a biofuel production process is provided. Process information for the batch... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20080167851 - Systems for genome selection: Systems, methods, compositions and apparatus relating to genome selection are disclosed.... Agent: Searete LLC

20080167853 - Method and system for testing an operation of integrated circuitry: A general purpose computational resource is provided for performing general purpose operations of a system. A special purpose computational resource is coupled to the general purpose computational resource. The special purpose computational resource is provided for: storing test patterns, a description of integrated circuitry, and a description of hardware for... Agent: Ibm Corp. (mad) C/o Davis Law Group, P.C.

20080167854 - System and method for incorporating design behavior and external stimulus in microprocessor emulation model feedback using a shared memory: A system and method for incorporating design behavior and external stimulus in microdevice model feedback using a shared memory is presented. The invention describe herein uses the attached memory model to provide additional heuristics to an application executing on an emulation system's device model, which results in a more detail... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080162091 - Method and computer program product of computer aided design of a product comprising a set of constrained objects: Disclosed is a method and system of computer aided design of a product comprising a set of objects (11-51). The invention system and method identify (S10) constraints (1121-4151) linking objects (11,51) of said set of objects. Each of the identified constraints is oriented from a first object to a second... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080162090 - System, methods, and computer readable media, for product design using t-spline deformation: Methods, systems, and computer readable media are disclosed for analyzing a simulation model. The method includes defining the simulation model utilizing a Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) tool. A parametric volume including mesh elements at least partially bounding a design object of the simulation model is formed. The parametric volume includes at... Agent: Trask Britt

20080162094 - Method and apparatus for drilling waste disposal engineering and operations using a probabilistic approach: A method for determining distribution data for a disposal domain parameter to increase assurance in a cuttings injection process, including performing a fracturing simulation using a site specific datum to obtain a fracturing result, determining a probability of creating a new fracture using the fracturing result and a probability model,... Agent: Osha Liang/mi

20080162092 - Method for estimating the touchdown point of the wheels of an aircraft on a landing runway and the distance to be traveled from the touchdown point to reach a controlled speed: The present invention relates to a method for estimating the touchdown point of the wheels of an aircraft on a landing runway and the distance to be traveled by the aircraft on the runway from the touchdown point to reach a controlled speed below which it can perform any maneuver... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080162093 - Method of constructing a geological model of a subsoil formation constrained by seismic data: An method of constructing a geological model of a subsoil formation constrained by seismic data having application to petroleum reservoir development is disclosed. Logs relative to geological properties are acquired and a seismic facies cube is constructed. Logs relative to geological properties and logs relative to seismic facies are then... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080162095 - Adaptive models framework: A system for extending a business object used in a user interface. The system includes a service layer comprising the business object. The system also includes a models framework comprising a meta model including business data of the business object, wherein the meta model is extended for use in the... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20080162097 - Assembling manipulability evaluation apparatus, method, and program: An analysis model control unit disposes at least two component models, which are to be used in assembly of a product to be evaluated, in virtual space displayed in a screen. A virtual glove controller which functions as a virtual operation control unit moves and operates component models, which are... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080162096 - Signal waveform analyzing device: A signal waveform analyzing device includes an extracting unit that extracts, from waveform information indicating temporal variation in signal level of a component of an electronic circuit, a signal level that satisfies a condition for a phenomenon to be observed, and outputs extracted signal level as an extraction result.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080162099 - Bayesian production analysis technique for multistage fracture wells: A method for characterizing a fractured wellbore involves obtaining static data and production data from the fractured wellbore, integrating the static data and the production data using Bayes's theorem, and calculating a plurality of model parameters from Bayes's theorem, where the plurality of model parameters is used to alter completion... Agent: Osha . Liang L.l.p. / Slb

20080162098 - Method and apparatus for multi-dimensional data analysis to identify rock heterogeneity: A method, apparatus and computer usable program code for identifying regions in the ground at a well site. Continuous data is received from the well site; reducing redundancies in the continuous data received from the well site to form processed data. Cluster analysis is performed using the processed data to... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20080162100 - Method, system and program storage device for history matching and forecasting of hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs utilizing proxies for likelihood functions: A method, system and program storage device for history matching and forecasting of subterranean reservoirs is provided. Reservoir parameters and probability models associated with a reservoir model are defined. A likelihood function associated with observed data is also defined. A usable likelihood proxy for the likelihood function is constructed. Reservoir... Agent: Chevron Services Company Law, Intellectual Property Group

20080162101 - Method for predicting the state of the gastric mucosa: The present invention is directed to a method for assessing or predicting the state of the gastric mucosa in a subject by determining, in said subject, the probability for the gastric mucosa belonging to at least one gastric mucosa class, the method comprising: measuring, from a sample of said subject,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080162102 - System and method for identifying a gapped permutation pattern: A system and method for identifying gapped permutation patterns, includes discovering all clusters in the input data sequence that occur with a predetermined gap.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080162103 - Method, system, and computer program product for concurrent model aided electronic design automation: Disclosed are improved methods, systems, and computer program products for predicting performance, manufacturability, and reliability (PMR) using concurrent model analyses for electronic designs. Various embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for predicting PMR with concurrent process model analysis in which a method with concurrent model(s) generate a design... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080162104 - Simulation data creation supporting device: A simulation data creation supporting device which facilitates creation of an input/output operation window when a sequence control program is simulated through operation using the input/output operation window. The simulation data creation supporting device reads out the configuration set-up information of an input/output unit that is stored in a controller.... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080162105 - Equivalent circuit of inductor: An equivalent circuit of an inductor is provided with a five wire structure. A first wire has a first resistor, an inductor, and a third resistor connected in series. A second wire is connected in parallel with the first wire and has a second resistor. A third wire is connected... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080162106 - Method for selecting conductors of an overhead power transmission line: Methods for selecting a conductor configuration of an overhead power transmission line tension section between two dead-end towers when the conductor configuration includes at least two different types of conductors. Geographical profile information and overhead power transmission line preferences are used along with predetermined selection rules when selecting the appropriate... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080162108 - Analyzing software performance without requiring hardware: An approach of analyzing software performance without requiring hardware is presented. A timing description generator logs instruction performance characteristics for each of the assembly code's instructions. The performance characteristics identify whether an instruction issued or stalled during particular instruction cycles. Once the timing description generator cycles through the instructions and... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080162107 - Conceptual configuration modeling for application program integration: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for integrating first and second applications having disparate concrete configuration models into a unified abstract model comprising through mapping corresponding configuration objects with similar functions in each application, defining an equivalence between at least one particular object within the first application... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)