Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation inventions 10/08

20080262800 - Construction method: A method for construction of structures from blocks of building material, such as quarried rocks, which includes scanning irregularly or randomly shaped blocks of building material, the blocks having no pre-existing required arrangement, to obtain scan data representing the respective size and shape of each of the blocks. Each scanned... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20080262802 - System and method for oilfield production operations: The invention relates to a method of performing production operations. The method includes identifying a plurality of simulators from a group consisting of a wellsite simulator for modeling at least a portion of the wellsite of the oilfield and a non-wellsite simulator for modeling at least a portion of a... Agent: Osha . Liang L.L.P. / Slb

20080262801 - Tower of numeric types: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing a numeric tower that represents a structure supporting statically defined numeric data types. The numeric data types each are operable to implement a different but accurate representation of a particular value. Numeric operations are supported for the numeric tower that can be... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080262799 - Welding deformation computing method, welding deformation computing device, and computer program product: A region for which nonlinear analysis should be carried out is extracted and welding deformation of only the extracted region is computed by nonlinear analysis. Specifically, the displacement and reaction force at the limit surface are computed by linear analysis of the object to be welded, the reaction force at... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080262807 - Cmos model generating apparatus and method, program of the method and recording medium: A CMOS model generating apparatus 1 according to the present invention generates a CMOS model by converting an In-Ip space into an xn-xp space such that a typical condition TT and corner conditions FF, SS in the In-Ip space become (0, 0), (α, α) and (−α, −α) in the xn-xp... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080262806 - Frequency response optimisation of a movement simulator by adaptive sinusoidal reference tracking: The control device of a movement simulator, between its input formed of a control signal and its output formed of a measured magnitude among its speed, its position and its acceleration, by a transfer function B(z−1)/A(z−1) includes a corrector synthesized from the modelling of the movement simulator and equivalent to... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080262803 - Method and apparatus for modeling systems: A method and apparatus is disclosed for processing a Potts model which uses random walk (RW) algorithms to improve the efficiency of the processing of the simulation data.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080262808 - Method for dimensioning industrial installations where a two-phase gas-liquid mixture flows in an intermittent regime: m

20080262805 - Method for online modeling illumination design: A method for online modeling illumination design is applied to communicate an illumination modeling system with a user end via an Internet so as to provide for a user to execute an online operation of the modeling illumination design. The method comprises the steps of: pre-writing an illumination modeling program;... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080262804 - System and method for automated population splitting to assist task management through analytics: Task management supported by analytics has enhanced effectiveness through automated population splitting for generating models that predict task associated outcomes. Subpopulations are automatically analyzed for adequate sample size and selectively recombined based on characteristics of the subpopulations, such as to combine homogeneous subpopulations or to optimize a subpopulation characteristic. As... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080262809 - Method and system for modelling petroleum migration: A method for modelling the migration of reactant in a subsurface petroleum system is described. The method comprises in part generating a mesh for an area of the petroleum system. The mesh comprises a plurality of nodes, with each node representing a point in space in the area. The method... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080262810 - Neural net for use in drilling simulation: A method of optimizing a drilling tool assembly including inputting well data into an optimization system, the optimization system having an experience data set and an artificial neural network. The method further including comparing the well data to the experience data set and developing an initial drilling tool assembly based... Agent: Osha, Liang LLP / Smith

20080262811 - Crystal structure of haemophilus influenzae nad dependent dna ligase and uses thereof: The present invention relates crystals of LigA and computer-assisted methods for screening, identifying, and designing inhibitors and allosteric modulators of LigA.... Agent: Astrazeneca R&d Boston

20080262813 - Generating simulated neural circuits in a voxel space: A three-dimensional voxel space is generated in which to generate a simulated neural circuit. The voxel space includes a plurality of voxels that store localized information. After the voxel space is generated, a plurality of simulated branched neurons, each of which has one or more input and/or output branches that... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080262812 - Implant planning using captured joint motion information: The description relates to surgical computer systems, including computer program products, and methods for implant planning using captured joint motion information. Data is captured representative of a range of motion of a joint associated with a particular individual, where the joint includes a first bone and a second bone. The... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080262814 - Method and system for generating a four-chamber heart model: A method and system for building a statistical four-chamber heart model from 3D volumes is disclosed. In order to generate the four-chamber heart model, each chamber is modeled using an open mesh, with holes at the valves. Based on the image data in one or more 3D volumes, meshes are... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080262817 - Method and apparatus for performance and policy analysis in distributed computing systems: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for performance and policy analysis in distributed computing systems includes representing a distributed computing system as a state transition model. A queuing network is then superimposed upon the state transition model, and the effects of one or more policies on the distributed... Agent: Pattcrson & Shcridan, LLP Suite 100

20080262816 - Method and system for testing a building control system: A building control system comprises a central control station and at least one control panel connected to the central control station over a network. At least one loop is connected to at least one control panel. The at least one loop comprises a plurality of installed building control devices connected... Agent: Elsa Keller, Legal Assistant Intellectual Property Department

20080262815 - Processing logic modeling and execution: Provides processing logic modeling and executing methods, systems and apparatus. These facilitate collaboration between business analyst and IT staff for process modeling and maintenance of the consistency between business level design and IT implementation design. A task is decomposed into sub-tasks and is represented by a tree. Annotations to the... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080262818 - Creation of clock and data simulation vectors with periodic jitter: Methods for generating simulation vectors incorporating periodic jitter, or phase-shifted periodic jitter are disclosed. Periodic jitter, such as sinusoidal jitter, is preferably represented by a mathematical equation which defines the amount of jitter experienced at each cycle of a clock or data signal. The calculated periodic jitter for each cycle... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080262819 - Programmable logic array for schedule-controlled processing: The electronic data processing circuit targets the emulation of a logic function. The circuit includes a single clock providing time unit signals, a programmable synchronous logic array for processing values on a time unit basis, detection of internal or external value state changes known as events, programmer for state changes... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20080262820 - Real-time predictive systems for intelligent energy monitoring and management of electrical power networks: A system for intelligent monitoring and management of an electrical system is disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, a power analytics server and a client terminal. The data acquisition component acquires real-time data output from the electrical system. The power analytics server is comprised of a real-time energy... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080262821 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for dynamically managing simulated addresses: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for dynamically generating and managing addresses in a simulation environment. Address parameters and requests for addresses for performing commands from multiple simulation components are received. The multiple simulation components are associated with address maps. The requests include configuration parameters. Addresses are... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080262822 - Simulation using resource models: Operational resource modeling is usable to analyze application and computer system performance over a wide range of hypothetical scenarios. Operational resource modeling involves creating and training one or more resource models, and/or simulating hypothetical scenarios using resource models.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080262824 - Creation of resource models: Operational resource modeling is usable to analyze application and computer system performance over a wide range of hypothetical scenarios. Operational resource modeling involves creating and training one or more resource models, and/or simulating hypothetical scenarios using resource models.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080262823 - Training of resource models: Operational resource modeling is usable to analyze application and computer system performance over a wide range of hypothetical scenarios. Operational resource modeling involves creating and training one or more resource models, and/or simulating hypothetical scenarios using resource models.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080262825 - Arrangement for transmitting information: Arrangement for bidirectionally transmitting information between a unit configured to emulate a data processing system and a data processing unit, wherein the data processing unit has a data input device and a data output device, the emulating unit is configured to generate emulator information, and the emulator information relates to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080262800 - Construction method: A method for construction of structures from blocks of building material, such as quarried rocks, which includes scanning irregularly or randomly shaped blocks of building material, the blocks having no pre-existing required arrangement, to obtain scan data representing the respective size and shape of each of the blocks. Each scanned... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20080262802 - System and method for oilfield production operations: The invention relates to a method of performing production operations. The method includes identifying a plurality of simulators from a group consisting of a wellsite simulator for modeling at least a portion of the wellsite of the oilfield and a non-wellsite simulator for modeling at least a portion of a... Agent: Osha . Liang L.L.P. / Slb

20080262801 - Tower of numeric types: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing a numeric tower that represents a structure supporting statically defined numeric data types. The numeric data types each are operable to implement a different but accurate representation of a particular value. Numeric operations are supported for the numeric tower that can be... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080262799 - Welding deformation computing method, welding deformation computing device, and computer program product: A region for which nonlinear analysis should be carried out is extracted and welding deformation of only the extracted region is computed by nonlinear analysis. Specifically, the displacement and reaction force at the limit surface are computed by linear analysis of the object to be welded, the reaction force at... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080262807 - Cmos model generating apparatus and method, program of the method and recording medium: A CMOS model generating apparatus 1 according to the present invention generates a CMOS model by converting an In-Ip space into an xn-xp space such that a typical condition TT and corner conditions FF, SS in the In-Ip space become (0, 0), (α, α) and (−α, −α) in the xn-xp... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080262806 - Frequency response optimisation of a movement simulator by adaptive sinusoidal reference tracking: The control device of a movement simulator, between its input formed of a control signal and its output formed of a measured magnitude among its speed, its position and its acceleration, by a transfer function B(z−1)/A(z−1) includes a corrector synthesized from the modelling of the movement simulator and equivalent to... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080262803 - Method and apparatus for modeling systems: A method and apparatus is disclosed for processing a Potts model which uses random walk (RW) algorithms to improve the efficiency of the processing of the simulation data.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080262808 - Method for dimensioning industrial installations where a two-phase gas-liquid mixture flows in an intermittent regime: m

20080262805 - Method for online modeling illumination design: A method for online modeling illumination design is applied to communicate an illumination modeling system with a user end via an Internet so as to provide for a user to execute an online operation of the modeling illumination design. The method comprises the steps of: pre-writing an illumination modeling program;... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080262804 - System and method for automated population splitting to assist task management through analytics: Task management supported by analytics has enhanced effectiveness through automated population splitting for generating models that predict task associated outcomes. Subpopulations are automatically analyzed for adequate sample size and selectively recombined based on characteristics of the subpopulations, such as to combine homogeneous subpopulations or to optimize a subpopulation characteristic. As... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080262809 - Method and system for modelling petroleum migration: A method for modelling the migration of reactant in a subsurface petroleum system is described. The method comprises in part generating a mesh for an area of the petroleum system. The mesh comprises a plurality of nodes, with each node representing a point in space in the area. The method... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080262810 - Neural net for use in drilling simulation: A method of optimizing a drilling tool assembly including inputting well data into an optimization system, the optimization system having an experience data set and an artificial neural network. The method further including comparing the well data to the experience data set and developing an initial drilling tool assembly based... Agent: Osha, Liang LLP / Smith

20080262811 - Crystal structure of haemophilus influenzae nad dependent dna ligase and uses thereof: The present invention relates crystals of LigA and computer-assisted methods for screening, identifying, and designing inhibitors and allosteric modulators of LigA.... Agent: Astrazeneca R&d Boston

20080262813 - Generating simulated neural circuits in a voxel space: A three-dimensional voxel space is generated in which to generate a simulated neural circuit. The voxel space includes a plurality of voxels that store localized information. After the voxel space is generated, a plurality of simulated branched neurons, each of which has one or more input and/or output branches that... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080262812 - Implant planning using captured joint motion information: The description relates to surgical computer systems, including computer program products, and methods for implant planning using captured joint motion information. Data is captured representative of a range of motion of a joint associated with a particular individual, where the joint includes a first bone and a second bone. The... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080262814 - Method and system for generating a four-chamber heart model: A method and system for building a statistical four-chamber heart model from 3D volumes is disclosed. In order to generate the four-chamber heart model, each chamber is modeled using an open mesh, with holes at the valves. Based on the image data in one or more 3D volumes, meshes are... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080262817 - Method and apparatus for performance and policy analysis in distributed computing systems: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for performance and policy analysis in distributed computing systems includes representing a distributed computing system as a state transition model. A queuing network is then superimposed upon the state transition model, and the effects of one or more policies on the distributed... Agent: Pattcrson & Shcridan, LLP Suite 100

20080262816 - Method and system for testing a building control system: A building control system comprises a central control station and at least one control panel connected to the central control station over a network. At least one loop is connected to at least one control panel. The at least one loop comprises a plurality of installed building control devices connected... Agent: Elsa Keller, Legal Assistant Intellectual Property Department

20080262815 - Processing logic modeling and execution: Provides processing logic modeling and executing methods, systems and apparatus. These facilitate collaboration between business analyst and IT staff for process modeling and maintenance of the consistency between business level design and IT implementation design. A task is decomposed into sub-tasks and is represented by a tree. Annotations to the... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080262818 - Creation of clock and data simulation vectors with periodic jitter: Methods for generating simulation vectors incorporating periodic jitter, or phase-shifted periodic jitter are disclosed. Periodic jitter, such as sinusoidal jitter, is preferably represented by a mathematical equation which defines the amount of jitter experienced at each cycle of a clock or data signal. The calculated periodic jitter for each cycle... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080262819 - Programmable logic array for schedule-controlled processing: The electronic data processing circuit targets the emulation of a logic function. The circuit includes a single clock providing time unit signals, a programmable synchronous logic array for processing values on a time unit basis, detection of internal or external value state changes known as events, programmer for state changes... Agent: Egbert Law Offices

20080262820 - Real-time predictive systems for intelligent energy monitoring and management of electrical power networks: A system for intelligent monitoring and management of an electrical system is disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, a power analytics server and a client terminal. The data acquisition component acquires real-time data output from the electrical system. The power analytics server is comprised of a real-time energy... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080262821 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for dynamically managing simulated addresses: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for dynamically generating and managing addresses in a simulation environment. Address parameters and requests for addresses for performing commands from multiple simulation components are received. The multiple simulation components are associated with address maps. The requests include configuration parameters. Addresses are... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080262822 - Simulation using resource models: Operational resource modeling is usable to analyze application and computer system performance over a wide range of hypothetical scenarios. Operational resource modeling involves creating and training one or more resource models, and/or simulating hypothetical scenarios using resource models.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080262824 - Creation of resource models: Operational resource modeling is usable to analyze application and computer system performance over a wide range of hypothetical scenarios. Operational resource modeling involves creating and training one or more resource models, and/or simulating hypothetical scenarios using resource models.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080262823 - Training of resource models: Operational resource modeling is usable to analyze application and computer system performance over a wide range of hypothetical scenarios. Operational resource modeling involves creating and training one or more resource models, and/or simulating hypothetical scenarios using resource models.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080262825 - Arrangement for transmitting information: Arrangement for bidirectionally transmitting information between a unit configured to emulate a data processing system and a data processing unit, wherein the data processing unit has a data input device and a data output device, the emulating unit is configured to generate emulator information, and the emulator information relates to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080255810 - Cad system, control method and control program for same: The present invention reduces the number of diagrams and the workload of management and the like, by aggregating spools of a common format, in plant design technology using a three-dimensional CAD system. Format specific data which is stored separately according to spool format is obtained by aggregating the respective spools... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080255809 - Locally updating a three-dimensional model: Updating a three-dimensional model includes generating a three-dimensional model comprised of components, modifying one of the components, determining other components having a possible changing effect on the three-dimensional model as a result of modifying the one component, and constructing a modified version of the three-dimensional model by regenerating the modified... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080255811 - System and method for determining surface roughness: The present application provides a method and system for modeling surface roughness or cosmetic appearance as the result of manufacturing process performed on metal products. The method and system include loading of the desired dimensions of a metal product to be manufactured into a computer aided design program. A computer... Agent: Jeanne E. Longmuir

20080255813 - Probabilistic regression suites for functional verification: Methods, apparatus and systems are provided that enable the generation of random regression suites for verification of a hardware or software design to be formulated as optimization problems. Solution of the optimization problems using probabilistic methods provides information on which set of test specifications should be used, and how many... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080255812 - Texturing a translucent surface: A computer-implemented method for texturing a modeled surface includes receiving an albedo map corresponding to light scattering under uniform incident diffuse light. The method includes determining, using the albedo map, a local scattering parameter for a multipole bidirectional scattering surface reflectance distribution function (BSSRDF). The method includes texturing a modeled... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080255814 - Apparatus and method for model-based control: Various methods and systems for the parametric control of a process include representing the process with a process model used to generate future predictions of a process variable. In one embodiment, the process exhibits integrating behavior that is represented by a non-integrating process model. In another embodiment, an inverse of... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080255815 - Automatic insertion point identification in model merging operations: Methods and systems are provided for automatic identification of an insertion point. Comparison defining the correspondence between elements of models is done. The sequence order of elements in the second model is analyzed to identify predecessor and successor elements of the element t. The comparison is used to identify a... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080255817 - Modeling the transient behavior of bha/drill string while drilling: A method, system and computer program product for performing a drilling operation for an oil field, the oil field having a subterranean formation with geological structures and reservoirs therein. The method involves creating a finite-difference model to simulate behavior of a drilling assembly used to drill a wellbore in the... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080255816 - System and method for evaluating petroleum reservoir using forward modeling: This invention relates to petroleum reservoir characterization. It uses a novel system and method to generate a system of reservoir models, and then use a series of simulation techniques to simulate the models. The models are refined through each simulation and comparison step by comparing the results of the simulation... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20080255819 - High-accuracy virtual sensors for computer systems: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that estimates the value of a virtual sensor. The system first samples values for performance metrics using external sensors that are coupled to a system and internal sensors that are built into the system. Next, the system generates an inferential sensing model... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080255818 - Test system design tool with model-based tool support: A computer aided design apparatus performs context-sensitive modeling of a test and measurement system that includes a plurality of actual system components including instruments and interconnections therebetween. The apparatus comprises a graphical user interface; a library of models of system components, each model including a graphical representation of the system... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080255820 - Behavioral modeling of high speed differential signals based on physical characteristics: A method of modeling the output drivers in an integrated circuit, for example a serializer/deserializer circuit, is provided. In accordance with embodiments of the invention, at least one parameter of the circuit is physically measured and a behavioral model utilizing that parameter is constructed. The behavioral model can then be... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080255821 - Controlling operation of a digital system utilizing register entities: In at least one hardware definition language (HDL) file, at least one design entity containing a functional portion of a digital system is specified. The design entity logically contains first and second latches each having a respective plurality of different possible latch values. With one or more statements, a first... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080255822 - Automatic generation of test suite for processor architecture compliance: A parametrically controlled model-based test generator automatically generates architectural compliance test suites for different implementations of a processor architecture, based on a set of architectural decisions chosen among optional behaviors for each implementation. Thus, different implementations of the same architecture can be easily supported by modifying the parameter values. In... Agent: Suzanne Erez IBM Corporation

20080255823 - System of automated creation of a software interface: A system of automated creation of a software interface between an operator and electronic device functional cores arranged in a target platform. The system includes a designing module comprising a designing window, wherein there are arranged interface visual elements corresponding to control members of the platform and a state machine... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080249749 - Interactive truss objects in computer-aided design models: Embodiments of the invention provide a computer-aided design (CAD) application configured for generating interactive truss objects in a CAD model. In one embodiment, a truss creation tool allows the user to select a truss family and the endpoints of the truss. Based on these selections, the truss creation tool generates... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080249750 - Acoustic structure of porous material: Empirical equations for porous material to describe the frequency property of the microstructure and predict their sound absorption performance. These empirical equations systematically establish a solid system that relates the porosity, the flow resistance and the air mass to their frequency property and describe how to predict sound absorption coefficient... Agent: Chi-min Mao

20080249751 - Method and apparatus for modeling atherosclerosis: The invention encompasses novel computer models of atherosclerosis and systems for predicting development and progression of atherosclerosis as well as associated cardiovascular risk. In particular, the computer model of atherosclerosis comprises a) a cholesterol metabolism module; b) an atherogenesis module; and c) a plaque stability module. The computer model optionally... Agent: Entelos, Inc. C/o Law Offices Of Karen E. Flick

20080249752 - Prediction of trends based on history values of an observable: The proposed prediction of trends is based on history values of an observable. In more detail, a mathematical model is fitted on history values of an observable, said mathematical model having a ratio factor defined as a ratio between a number of history values used for calculation of a given... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080249753 - Apparatus, method and program storage device for determining high-energy neutron/ion transport to a target of interest: An apparatus, method and program storage device for determining high-energy neutron/ion transport to a target of interest. Boundaries are defined for calculation of a high-energy neutron/ion transport to a target of interest; the high-energy neutron/ion transport to the target of interest is calculated using numerical procedures selected to reduce local... Agent: National Aeronautics And Space Administration Langley Research Center

20080249754 - Generation of a library of periodic grating diffraction signals: A method of generating a library of simulated-diffraction signals (simulated signals) of a periodic grating includes obtaining a measured-diffraction signal (measured signal). Hypothetical parameters are associated with a hypothetical profile. The hypothetical parameters are varied within a range to generate a set of hypothetical profiles. The range to vary the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080249755 - Modeling cerebral aneurysms in medical images: Methods and systems for modeling cerebral aneurysm and their incoming and outgoing vessels from 3D image data are disclosed. Aneurysms and vessels are segmented from their background using a graph-cuts method. Begin and end of vessels are determined. Construction of a centerline of the incoming and outgoing vessels using a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080249757 - Method and apparatus for grid project modeling language: A method and apparatus for modeling grid projects, such that their network and node resources may be readily determinable for simulation, scheduling, and control purposes. A model of a grid project is generated using a standardized grid project modeling language that sets forth a sequence of grid project phases. Within... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080249756 - Method and system for integrating computer aided design and energy simulation: A software system and method for providing interoperability between computer aided design and energy simulation. The method includes preparing an electronic construction plan, extracting structure information from the electronic construction plan, executing an energy simulation using at least a portion of the structure information, and displaying an energy efficiency analysis... Agent: Douglas H. Pauley Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20080249758 - Program product for defining and recording minimum and maximum event counts of a simulation utilizing a high level language: According to one method of simulation processing, instrumentation code, such as an runtime executive (rtx), receives one or more statements describing an count event and identifying the count event as an outlying count event. While simulating a design utilizing the HDL simulation model, occurrences of the outlying count event are... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080249759 - Usb device simulator: Techniques for simulating universal serial bus (USB) video devices are described. In one example, a document containing a USB video device descriptor set is loaded by a device simulator application. The document is parsed and the descriptor set is extracted. The descriptor set is then used to define a simulated... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080243445 - Bridge information modeling: Systems, methods, and computer-storage media are provided that allow data from different sources and aspects of bridge design and construction to be merged into a common bridge information model. The bridge information model may include geometric, structural, survey, and construction information associated with a bridge-development project. The bridge information model... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080243442 - Determination of process operations in order to describe forming processes on a forming part: s

20080243447 - Method for gradually modifying lithologic facies proportions of a geological model: A group of facies referred to as selection and a subgroup of facies referred to as association are selected. A transformation parameter is defined by the ratio between the average proportions of the facies of the association and those of the selection. Within the context of history matching, a difference... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080243443 - Method for the construction of vertical power transistors with differing powers by combination of pre-defined part pieces: A method for designing a first vertical MOS power transistor having a specified design power level. The method comprises the steps of composing a layout of the vertical MOS power transistor as a combination of at least partly differing layout part pieces, each of the part pieces having known design... Agent: Stevens & Showalter LLP

20080243448 - Method of performing computational aeroelastic analyses: Computational aeroelastic analyses typically use a mathematical model for the structural modes of a flexible structure and a nonlinear aerodynamic model that can generate a plurality of unsteady aerodynamic responses based on the structural modes for conditions defining an aerodynamic condition of the flexible structure. In the present invention, a... Agent: National Aeronautics And Space Administration Langley Research Center

20080243444 - Method of predicting and communicating the performance of an installed building component based on the transient hygrothermal behavior of the component: A method of predicting and communicating transient hygrothermal behavior of an installed building component in a building wherein an interior environment of the building is materially affected by an environment exterior of the building, includes: defining a performance characteristic of the building component that is affected by transient hygrothermal behavior... Agent: Johns Manville

20080243446 - Tire model determining method, tire transient response data calculating method, tire evaluating method, and tire designing method: A transient response of a tire is simulated by using a effective data of a physical amount. The physical amount is set as a rolling condition of the tire and varies in time. The effective data of the physical amount is calculated by a convolution integral of a response function... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080243452 - Approaches and architectures for computation of particle interactions: A generalized approach to particle interaction can confer advantages over previously described method in terms of one or more of communications bandwidth and latency and memory access characteristics. These generalizations can involve one or more of at least spatial decomposition, import region rounding, and multiple zone communication scheduling. An architecture... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080243449 - Method for declarative semantic expression of user intent to enable goal-driven information processing: A method for constructing a processing request so that an information processing application satisfying the processing request can be assembled, includes: inputting a processing request, wherein the processing request includes a goal that is represented by a graph pattern that semantically describes a desired processing outcome; and assembling a processing... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080243450 - Method for modeling components of an information processing application using semantic graph transformations: A method for modeling a component of an information processing application, includes: defining an applicability condition of a component, wherein the applicability conditions includes variables representing objects that must be included in a pre-inclusion state and a graph pattern that semantically describes the objects that must be included in the... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080243451 - Method for semantic modeling of stream processing components to enable automatic application composition: A method for modeling components of a stream processing application, includes: defining an input message pattern of a processing element, wherein the input message pattern includes variables representing data objects that must be included in a message input to the processing element, and a graph pattern that semantically describes the... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080243453 - Capacitance modeling: A method of modeling capacitance for a structure comprising a pair of long conductors surrounded by a dielectric material and supported by a substrate. In particular, the structure may be on-chip coplanar transmission lines over a conductive substrate operated at very high frequencies, such that the substrate behaves as a... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080243454 - Partitioning algorithm for building a stratigraphic grid: Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for partitioning data for modelling a geological structure including laterally partitioning the data into multiple columns, where each column may be substantially laterally centered about a dual fiber and vertically partitioning each column at each of multiple intersection points of multiple... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080243456 - Constraint reduction for dynamic simulation: Methods, program products and systems for preparing a mechanical model for a dynamic simulation. A first plurality of bodies in a mechanical model are identified including at least one grounded body and at least one free body, each of the bodies in the first plurality of bodies being related to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080243455 - Methods for system component installation utilizing direct manufactured components: A method for fabricating a structure to include at least a portion of a conduit retention system is described. The method includes receiving parameters for the structure and the portion of the conduit retention system associated with the structure via a user interface, providing the parameters to a machine configured... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080243457 - Process for determining a remaining life for a part: A process for determining a remaining life of a part, such as an airfoil in a gas turbine engine, comprising the steps of establishing the boundary conditions that act on the part, determining the material properties of the part, creating a 3D finite element model of the part and determining... Agent: John Ryznic

20080243458 - Method for the production of a biologically active prosthetic device for the reconstruction of bone tissue and the prosthetic device itself: The invention relates to a method for the production of a biologically active prosthetic device for the reconstruction of bone tissue comprising the steps of: a CAT (Computerized Axial Tomography) scan of the patient and obtaining a three-dimensional electronic model (1) of the part of the bone and of a... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080243459 - Optimization using indirect design coding: A method for optimizing a material structure. The method comprises the steps of encoding an initial design of the material structure to be optimized as a parameter set, subjecting the initial design to an optimization according to at least one preset criterion, using an evolutionary algorithm, terminating the optimization when... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080243460 - Precursor selection method for chemical vapor deposition techniques: A method of precursor selection for thin film deposition is provided, that includes a group of precursors, using a rule-set for selecting one or more candidate precursors for thermal stability, high growth rate, and low contamination. Candidate geometries and constituent geometries are simulated and optimized, and bond strengths of the... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm, Inc.

20080243461 - Method and apparatus for thermal modeling and analysis of semiconductor chip designs: A method and apparatus for modeling and thermal analysis of semiconductor chip designs is provided. One embodiment of a novel method for performing thermal testing of a semiconductor chip design includes calculating full-chip temperatures over the semiconductor chip design (e.g., to identify steep thermal gradients) and modeling the full-chip temperatures... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080243462 - Instruction encoding in a hardware simulation accelerator: A hardware simulation accelerator to simulate logic designs, a method to encode instructions for use in the hardware simulation accelerator, and a computer program product having code of the method by which the hardware simulation accelerator can read encoded instructions to simulate the logic design, and computer program product of... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.c

20080243464 - Method of transactional simulation of a generic communication node model, and the corresponding computer program product and storage means: A method of transactional simulation of a generic communication node model is proposed. The method includes steps, performed at each simulation step corresponding to transaction start events and transaction end events, including: calculating a remaining quantity of data to be transmitted for each transaction not completed in a list of... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080243463 - Non-intrusive event capturing for event processing analysis: A system and a method for capturing, storing and replaying data describing application of an event-based process to an event are described. As an event processing engine processes an input event, specified data is captured by a store monitor included in the event processing engine. Hence, while the event processing... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080243465 - Facilitating input/output processing of one or more guest processing systems: An article of manufacture, method and system are provided for facilitating input/output (I/O) processing of at least one guest processing system. The article of manufacture includes at least one computer-usable medium having computer-readable program code logic to facilitate the I/O processing of the at least one guest processing system. The... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080243466 - Systems and methods for converting a media player into a backup device: A data backup system is provided that when coupled to a data source, such as a personal computer, and a media player, such an Apple Computer iPod, the data backup system blocks certain communications between the data source and the media player thus preventing the data source from recognizing the... Agent: Gard And Kaslow, LLP

20080243467 - Emulated z-series queued direct i/o: The emulation of an adapter for I/O to link a host data processing system to a local area network provides advantages of memory to memory transfer which results in higher data transfer rates while at the same time providing a mechanism for working with two data transfer vectors in an... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080243469 - Emulation system: An emulation system emulates a sound IC having a built-in ROM and reproducing sound data stored in the built-in ROM or received sound data. The emulation system includes: a sound data storage section storing sound data to be stored in the built-in ROM; a command reception section; a command conversion... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080243468 - Providing memory consistency in an emulated processing environment: Memory consistency is provided in an emulated processing environment. A processor architected with a weak memory consistency emulates an architecture having a firm memory consistency. This memory consistency is provided without requiring serialization instructions or special hardware.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080243470 - Logical check assist program, recording medium on which the program is recorded, logical check assist apparatus, and logical check assist method: A computer-readable medium stores a program which, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to execute functions including an extraction operation of extracting a sequence of character strings that are arranged in order of transitions and indicate meanings of transition conditions of transition branches that are taken to reach... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080243471 - system and a method for checking lock-step consistency between an in circuit emulation and a microcontroller: A system and a method for checking consistency of a lock-step process while debugging a microcontroller code. The virtual microcontroller and the microcontroller simultaneously and independently run a microcontroller code. The microcontroller includes a first memory and the virtual microcontroller residing in the ICE includes a second memory. A host... Agent: Cypress C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP