Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation inventions 09/08

20080234987 - Amalgamation of data models across multiple applications: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to synchronize project data models across multiple computer applications. A first computer design application in a first client computer obtains files that provide a first application project definition specific to the first computer design application. A first application specific conversion... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20080234990 - Computation of multiple body interactions: Distributed computation of multiple body interactions in a region uses multiple processing modules, where each of the processing modules is associated with a respective corresponding portion of the region. In some examples, the approach includes establishing multiple coordinate frames of reference, each processing module corresponding to one the coordinate frames... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080234991 - Customizing of computer aided design models: A CAD model customized, which represents a mechanical design of an artifact comprising a set of parts with respective dimensions. A configuration model defines an exhaustive range of ways to customize the CAD model by changing a subset the dimensions. A model translation module is arranged to convert the configuration... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080234989 - Design support system, support method and support program of resin molded article: To quick and accurately predict filling behavior at the time of injecting resin of thermosets molded articles having a complex obstacle. A model creation portion includes a space/obstacle separation model creation portion and a space/obstacle combination model creation portion. The space/obstacle combination model creation portion handles, as porous media, an... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080234986 - Intelligent lamm schematics: A computer implemented method and computer usable program code for interacting with a system schematic. A system schematic having a plurality of components is graphically displayed. In response to receiving a selection of a control component, a state of the control component is altered. A set of effector components from... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080234985 - Non-adhered paint calculation method and solvent weight calculation method: Appropriate performance design of various mechanisms, e.g. a mist removing filter, employed in post-paint treatment of various mechanisms, e.g. a deodorizer, employed in post-dry treatment is realized. Paint weight calculation is executed. Firstly, the amount of dry adhered paint is calculated by multiplying the work area by a coating thickness... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20080234988 - Upscaling multiple geological models for flow simulation: A method, system and machine-readable medium encoded with machine-executable instructions for creating an ensemble of estimated upscaled reservoir models from fine-scale geological models of the subsurface region to produce coarse-scale models of the subsurface region, the method includes computing coarse-scale attributes for a plurality of realizations, numerically simulating coarse-scale properties... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080234992 - Systems and methods for pattern recognition in diabetes management: A diabetes management system or process is provided herein that may be used to analyze and recognize patterns for a large number of blood glucose concentration measurements and other physiological parameters related to the glycemia of a patient. In particular, a method of monitoring glycemia in a patient may include... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20080234994 - Method and system for accommodating deterioration characteristics of machines: A method for multi-objective deterioration accommodation using predictive modeling is disclosed. The method uses a simulated machine that simulates a deteriorated actual machine, and a simulated controller that simulates an actual controller. A multi-objective process is performed, based on specified control settings for the simulated controller and specified operational scenarios... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080234995 - System and method for optimizing animal production based on a target output characteristic: 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

20080234996 - Annotating descriptions of chemical compounds: A one-dimensional structural description of a ligand molecule can be annotated to include, for one or more atoms, information from a force field database. The information can be provided by an Assisted Model Building and Energy Refinement parameter list or a similar source. The annotation can be carried out using... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080234997 - Design structure for compensating for variances of a buried resistor in an integrated circuit: A design structure comprising elements that when processed in a computer-aided design system generates a machine-executable representation of a circuit that compensates for variances in the resistance of the buried resistor during operation of the integrated circuit using a waveform that is representative of the thermal characteristics of the buried... Agent: W. Riyon Harding International Business Machines Corporation

20080234998 - Coordinating instances of a thread or other service in emulation: A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for indicating a virtually-instantiable service via a data flow between a user interface and an operating system, the virtually-instantiable service including at least a first instance; and accessing a second instance of the virtually-instantiable service at least partly in response... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080235001 - Implementing emulation decisions in response to software evaluations or the like: A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for to obtaining a decision whether to host an instruction sequence natively in a physical environment in response to an operational history of software apparently containing the instruction sequence or obtaining a decision whether to host an instruction sequence in... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080234999 - Implementing performance-dependent transfer or execution decisions from service emulation indications: A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for obtaining data from a first emulator and from a first emulation environment hosting software and signaling a decision whether to transfer any of the data to a second emulator at least partly as a result of the first emulation... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080235002 - Implementing performance-dependent transfer or execution decisions from service emulation indications: A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for obtaining data from a first emulator and from a first emulation environment hosting software; and signaling a decision whether to transfer any of the data to a second emulator at least partly as a result of the first emulation... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080235000 - Implementing security control practice omission decisions from service emulation indications: A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for obtaining an indication of an emulation of a service in a first environment with a first security control practice or obtaining one or more gradational norms of software performance in an emulation environment; and signaling a decision whether to... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080234993 - Orthogonal basis bubble function element numerical analysis method, orthogonal basis bubble function element numerical analysis program, and orthogonal basis bubble function element numerical analyzing apparatus: A known analytical physical quantity of the analysis subject is obtained (S401) by a first acquiring unit (202). The element level consistent mass matrix of each element is obtained (S402) by a second acquiring unit (203). A bubble function is integrated per element (S403), and the element level diagonal mass... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080228449 - Systems and methods for 2-d to 3-d conversion using depth access segments to define an object: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for controlling 2-D to 3-D image conversion. The system and method includes receiving an image and masking the objects in the image using segmentation layers Each segmentation layer can have weighted values for static and dynamic features. Iterations are used to... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080228450 - Automatic generation of building instructions for building element models: A computer-implemented method of generating building instructions for a building element model, the model including a plurality of building elements, the building instructions being indicative of a sequential order of construction steps for constructing the building element model, each construction step including adding at least one building element to the... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080228452 - Hybrid finite element method for simulating temperature effects on surface acoustic waves: The embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for simulating a SAW and/or an LSAW device, while taking into account the temperature and thickness of the substrate into consideration. The method for simulating a SAW or an LSAW device is a hybrid FE (HFE) method. The HFE simulation... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080228451 - Predisposition prediction using co-associating bioattributes: A bioinformatics method, software, database and system are presented in which statistical predictions are generated to indicate an individual's predisposition toward each of a plurality of query attributes (i.e., attributes of interest). The predictions are generated based on the identification of predisposing attribute combinations within the attribute profile of the... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228453 - Flexible modeling concept for discretely simulating and implementing, in particular, material processing and distribution systems: A method for modeling conveyance or flows of material or other functional behaviors, particularly in the form of components that generate material actions; a method for modeling a system having components, particularly a postal item distribution system, and; the generation of a discrete component-oriented simulation model based on the modelings,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080228454 - Method and device for simulating bending of a tube: The method for simulating bending of a tube by means of at least one bending machine comprises a step of calculating at least one cycle of bending commands (30, 35) related to at least one tube-manufacturing parameter as a function of a set of tube data (10) and of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080228457 - Methods, computer-accessible medium, and systems for generating a genome wide haplotype sequence: Methods, computer-accessible medium, and systems for generating a genome wide probe map and/or a genome wide haplotype sequence are provided. In particular, a genome wide probe map can be generated by obtaining a plurality of detectable oligonucleotide probes hybridized to at least one double stranded nucleic acid molecule cleaved with... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080228456 - Modeling wound healing: Provided are methods of simulating tissue healing. The methods comprise using a mechanistic computer model of the interrelated effects of inflammation, tissue damage or dysfunction and tissue healing to predict an outcome of healing of damaged tissue in vivo, thereby predicting the outcome of healing of damaged tissue in vivo.... Agent: Jesse A. Hirshman, Esq.

20080228455 - Reverse bioengineering a vascular tree: o

20080228459 - Method and apparatus for performing capacity planning and resource optimization in a distributed system: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for performing capacity planning and resource optimization in a distributed system. In particular, the capacity needs of individual components (e.g., server, operating system, CPU, application software, memory, networking device, storage device, etc.) in a distributed system can be analyzed using relationships between measurements collected... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080228458 - Radar altimeter model for simulator: A method of simulating a radar altimeter for a simulator having an ownship includes projecting a field of view at about ninety degrees from a bottom of the ownship; determining distances from the bottom of the ownship to each pixel in the field of view; and sorting the distances to... Agent: Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Office Of Counsel Bldg 435

20080228460 - Method for determining best and worst cases for interconnects in timing analysis: Roughly described, signal propagation delay values are estimated for a plurality of interconnects in a circuit design. For each interconnect, the propagation delay value(s) are estimated in dependence upon a preliminary approximate determination of whether the signal propagation delay is dominated more by an interconnect capacitance term or by an... Agent: Synopsys, Inc. C/o Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080228461 - Method of simulating a complex system including scheduler hierarchy, and corresponding storage means and computer program product: A method is provided for simulating a complex system including a scheduler hierarchy. The complex system includes at least one processor that executes a set of functions under the control of a hierarchical group of schedulers. The method includes a step of constructing an architectural model of the complex system... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080228462 - Generating synthetic workloads to measure power utilization in a computer system: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that generates a synthetic workload to test power utilization in a computer system. During operation, the system monitors power utilization of a reference computer system while the reference computer system executes a workload-of interest, wherein the monitoring process produces a power... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080221839 - Annular sealing assembly for insertion between two mechanical members in relative motion, in particular a linear reciprocating motion, as a rod and the relative guiding seat of a mono-tube shock-adsorber: A method of improving a 2D or 3D multiblock-structured mesh of an object that moves through a fluid medium, such as an aircraft, which is used in the design of said object in connection with a defined analytical scheme, said mesh having being generated with rectangular (2D) or hexahedral (3D)... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080221842 - Computerized method and system for designing an aerodynamic focusing lens stack: A computerized method and system for designing an aerodynamic focusing lens stack, using input from a designer related to, for example, particle size range to be considered, characteristics of the gas to be flowed through the system, the upstream temperature and pressure at the top of a first focusing lens,... Agent: Lawrence Livermore National Security, Llc

20080221841 - Method and recording media: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method comprises an extracting an interference existing between parts of a three-dimension CAD model from data of the three-dimension CAD model, modifying a shape of an interfering part based on the extracted interference, and creating a modified model having no interference based... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080221840 - Multi-representational model having two or more models of a mechanical object: Apparatuses and methods for automating the generation of additional different models of a mechanical object from a first model by logically partitioning the different models based on parameters that are specific to the particular model being generated. All of the models are independent representations of the same mechanical object, and... Agent: Michael J. Mallie Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080221843 - System and method for cost-effective, high-fidelity 3d-modeling of large-scale urban environments: p

20080221845 - Apparatus and methods for performing process simulation using a hybrid model: The invention provides an apparatus and methods for performing process simulation and structural analysis using a hybrid model. For example, a method of the invention automatically defines a hybrid solution domain by dividing a representation of a plastic component or mold cavity into two portions—a portion in which a simplified... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080221846 - Context-aware, adaptive approach to information selection for interactive information analysis: Improved information analysis techniques are disclosed. For example, a computer-implemented method of automatically assisting an analyst in a current information analysis task includes the following steps. An analytic context is modeled in a user-system cooperative manner, wherein the analytic context is a structure representative of user analytic actions and relationships... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080221844 - Numerical toolbox for design of fluidic components and systems: A described exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a computational “toolbox” for the a priori design of optimized fluidic components. These components consist of a channel under low-Reynolds number, pressure-driven flow, with an arrangement of grooves cut into the top and/or bottom to generate a tailored cross-channel flow. An... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20080221848 - Biomolecular structure determination involving swarm intelligence: A method and computer program for determining biomolecular structures from experimental data that includes ambiguous experimental observables comprising the steps of: creating a swarm of molecular structure generators; having the ability to allow the communication between said generators via a global set of molecular restraints; determining said molecular structure in... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c.

20080221847 - Method of developing a pharmacokinetic profile of a xenobiotic disposition in a mammalian tissue: There is provided a method of developing a pharmacokinetic profile of an xenobiotic disposition in a mammalian tissue, the method comprising inputting mammalian-specific data into a physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model, where said mammalian-specific data comprises tansporter properties related data, where said transporter properties related data reflect genetic and environmental... Agent: Brouillette & Partners

20080221851 - Aid design system for analog integrated circuit and the method thereof: The aid design system for analog ICs includes an analog IC database, a peripheral component database, an input module, a computing simulation module, a selection module and an output module. The analog IC database includes parameters of a plurality of analog ICs. The peripheral component database includes parameters of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080221850 - Effective current density and continuum models for conducting networks: An Effective Current Density (ECD) method for continuum representation of conducting networks is disclosed. ECD is a method for representing large numbers of conductors in a single, compact model for use in circuit simulation and in other such applications. The models created through the application of ECD are continuum models,... Agent: Rajendran Nair Comlsl Inc.

20080221852 - Method for order selection in passive transmission line macromodels based on the lie criteria: A passive macromodel for lossy, dispersive multiconductor transmission lines uses a multiplicative approximation of the matrix exponential known as the Lie product. The circuit implementation of the macromodel is a cascade of elementary cells, each cell being the combination of a pure delay element and a lumped circuit representing the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080221849 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for creating electric circuit models of semiconductor circuits from fabrication process parameters: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus that automatically generate an electric circuit model from process parameters used to specify a semiconductor fabrication procedure, wherein at least one of the process parameters is specified as a statistical distribution. The methods and apparatus convert the process parameters into an electric circuit model.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080221853 - Simulating and verifying signal glitching: A simulation system includes glitch injection circuitry in one or more hardware design units to allow the injection of glitches or noise to evaluate the system's response to errors on signals between the hardware design units. The simulation system includes a stimulation module with a set of drivers to input... Agent: Martin & Associates, Llc

20080221854 - Computer aided design apparatus, computer aided design program, computer aided design method for a semiconductor device and method of manufacturing a semiconductor circuit based on characteristic value and simulation parameter: A simulation instructing unit instructs a simulation unit, which generates signal characteristics, to generate the signal characteristics. A characteristic value extracting unit extracts, from the signal characteristics, characteristic values for distinguishing between a signal characteristic generated by setting a first simulation parameter and a signal characteristic generated by a second... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080221855 - Simulating partition resource allocation: An apparatus, system, and storage medium that, in an embodiment, simulate allocation of a simulated resource to simulated partitions in a simulated logically-partitioned computer and determine whether the allocation conflicts. The simulation may include summing amounts of the simulated resource for the simulated partition in an order, where the order... Agent: Ibm Corporation Rochester Ip Law Dept. 917

20080221857 - Method and apparatus for simulating the workload of a compute farm: A method for simulating the workload of a compute farm produces simulation data that include statistics about executed jobs and the use of the compute farm's resources. The simulation data can be further generated in response to a plurality of “what-if” scenarios, in which different operation scenarios of the compute... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080221856 - Method and system for a self managing and scalable grid storage: The present invention generally provides a method for grid storage including balancing read and write requests from applications across a first group of nodes in a grid storage system for avoiding hot spots and optimizing performance through smart caching; balancing storage capacity across a second group of nodes in the... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080221858 - Dynamic online multi-parameter optimization system and method for autonomic computing systems: An improved method and system for performing dynamic online multi-parameter optimization for autonomic computing systems are provided. With the method and system of the present invention, a simplex, i.e. a set of points in the parameter space that has been directly sampled, is maintained. The system's performance with regard to... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080221859 - Emulation mode for emulating optical record medium types: In summary, when new optical record media types become available in the market that are not supported by the optical drive 530 a user has, in addition to upgrading the existing optical drive to be able to read/write these new optical record media types, the host application that is being... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080221860 - Hardware interface board for connecting an emulator to a network: A system and method are disclosed to provide an interface between an emulator and a network that is readily scalable. In one aspect, a scalable solution is achieved through a hardware interface board positioned between the network and the emulator to allow proper transfer there between. A computer is separated... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080221861 - Verification apparatus and verification method: When performing a process in an object to be authenticated, there is a case that an execution result depends on the reference data value to be referenced and remains undefined. When the execution result is undefined and a process after that references the execution result, the execution results may have... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080215299 - Asynchronous hidden markov model method and system: A system, method and program storage device implementing a method for modeling a data generating process, wherein the modeling comprises observing a data sequence comprising irregularly sampled data, obtaining an observation sequence based on the observed data sequence, assigning a time index sequence to the data sequence, obtaining a hidden... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080215300 - Simulation of multi-antenna radio channel: The invention provides a device for simulating a multi-antenna radio channel, a module and a method. The device comprises channel modules for incorporating propagation effects into channel signals which represent radio signals propagating along propagation paths, which channel modules are electrically connected to neighbour channel modules for forming an (m,n)... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080215301 - Method and apparatus for predicting protein structure: A method of determining predicting putative contacting sites of a target protein is disclosed. The method uses a substitution matrix for calculating contact probabilities for pairs of columns in a sequence alignment containing the amino acid sequence of the target protein. The contact probabilities can also be used for predicting... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080215302 - Systems and methods for real-time dynamic simulation of uninterruptible power supply solutions and their control logic systems: The virtual system modeling engine generates predicted data output for the electrical system. The analytics engine monitors real-time data output and predicted data output of the electrical system. The UPS transient stability simulation engine stores and processes patterns observed from the real-time data output and utilizes a user-defined UPS control... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080215304 - Coherent state among multiple simulation models in an eda simulation environment: A circuit design is simulated in a simulation environment. When a simulation model in the simulation environment transfers state information to a second simulation model, the simulation environment receives the state information and makes it available to the second simulation model without simulating the transfer through the simulated circuit design.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080215303 - Method, apparatus and program for creating a power pin model of a semiconductor integrated circuit: A method of creating a power pin model of an LSI having appropriate analysis accuracy in consideration of information on positions within the LSI is provided. A divided cell size decision unit automatically decides a divided cell size of the LSI from power supply circuit network wire information, transistor structure... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080215305 - Emulated memory management: A first software program executing on a computing device emulates a second computing device executing a software program using emulated memory. The first software program permits the second software program to perform an operation on a contiguous portion of the emulated memory only when a pointer and a table entry... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080215306 - Device and method for managing a retransmit operation: A method and device for managing retransmit operations. The device, includes a FIFO memory unit, a read pointer, a retry pointer and a write pointer. The device is characterized by including a gray code stat e machine connected to an emulated read pointer logic; whereas the gray code state machine... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department