Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation inventions 02/09

20090055136 - Geometric singularity detection: A system and method for geometric singularity is presented. In one aspect, the system and method are employed for detecting and quantifying envelope singularities of one or more solid shapes in relative movement. In an implementation, a solid shape having a motion is defined. A set of points in a... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090055137 - Method for obtaining geometric properties of an anatomic part: The method provides a way to obtain geometric properties of an anatomic part defined in a model representing the actual anatomic part in a computer or the like. The geometric properties are calculated using analytic-function parameter values of a plurality of basic-geometry items forming an analytic representation approximating the anatomic... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20090055138 - Methods and systems for molecular inhibition: Methods and systems are described which identify the structure of a biochemical or pathogenic molecule as well as at least one interacting molecule structure. These structures may be predicted to form at least one complex. In some embodiments, the stability and toxicity of at least one molecule structure and/or complex... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090055135 - Methods for designing secondary cutting structures for a bottom hole assembly: A method for designing a secondary cutting structure for use in a bottom hole assembly, the method including defining initial design parameters for the secondary cutting structure and analyzing forces acting on the secondary cutting structure. Additionally, the method includes modifying at least one design element of the secondary cutting... Agent: Osha, Liang LLP / Smith

20090055134 - System and method for implementing optimized creation of openings for de-gassing in an electronic package: System and method for designing an electronic package. A placement manager receives a physical design of an electronic package from a packaging design tool. The placement manager receives design constraints regarding the physical design for the electronic package. The placement manager inserts specifications for at least one de-gassing opening in... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090055142 - Method and apparatus for estimating man-hours: A method for estimating a man-hours of an entire project having a series of tasks with a computer includes, inputting an estimated man-hours of the each task, acquiring model functions for extracting estimation errors included in the estimated man-hours of the each task based on an attribute of a worker... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090055140 - Multivariate multiple matrix analysis of analytical and sensory data: A system and method is provided for predicting consumer behavior for selected products. The method includes providing a first matrix associated with N products evaluated by a plurality of consumers, providing a second matrix associated with the N products characterized by at least one of an analytical profile or an... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090055139 - Predictive discrete latent factor models for large scale dyadic data: A method for predicting future responses from large sets of dyadic data includes measuring a dyadic response variable associated with a dyad from two different sets of data; measuring a vector of covariates that captures the characteristics of the dyad; determining one or more latent, unmeasured characteristics that are not... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090055143 - Simulation method and simulation program: A simulation method includes dividing a material surface into finite computational elements, and calculating a deposition rate or etching rate at each of the computational elements to simulate a feature profile of the material surface, the calculating including calculating an indirect effect of a first computational element on the deposition... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090055141 - System and method for performing oilfield simulation operations: The invention relates to a method of performing an oilfield operation of an oilfield having at least one wellsite, each wellsite having a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation for extracting fluid from an underground reservoir therein. The method includes determining a time-step for simulating the reservoir using a reservoir model,... Agent: Schlumberger Technology Corporation/osha Liang Mr. Bryan Galloway, ManagingIPCounsel

20090055144 - Processing and display of a real world model: An analysis method takes an input model of a real world process with an output parameter, with multiple input parameters. The complexity of regions of the model is determined to locate regions of low complexity, that is to say low sensitivity of the output parameters to the input parameters. The... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090055145 - Systems and methods involving engine models: Systems and methods involving engine models are provided. A representative method for updating a gas turbine engine reference model includes: determining whether an absolute difference between a dominant time constant of a sensor and an assumed sensor model time constant is outside a tolerance value; and responsive to determining that... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20090055146 - Vanes for exposure to vibratory loading: Disclosed are methods for designing vanes that, in use, are expected to be exposed to vibratory loading, in particular rotor or stator vanes for aero engines or turbomachinery. A quantitative characteristic (modeshape) is used which is a measure of correlation between the excitation force to which the vane is to... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter

20090055147 - Cell network analysis system: A digital cell database and means for making network analysis using the database and actual data. A method for creating a database of digital cells and a device concerning the method are provided. A method for providing a service to reproduce an experiment according to a parameter to be analyzed... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090055148 - Device for assisting in the selection of a compressive orthosis by simulating its effects upon the hemodynamics of the venous return: The inventive device comprises: means for producing compression values (14; 16) for being exerted by the orthosis upon the surface of the member; digital simulation means (10) for simulating the action of the compression on the hemodynamics of the venous return furnishing values of blood flow and/or of intravenous pressure... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090055149 - Method and system for determining analyte levels: Methods and apparatus for analyte level estimation are provided.... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20090055150 - Scalable, computationally efficient and rapid simulation suited to decision support, analysis and planning: The present invention provides a means for performing scalable, computationally efficient and rapid simulations of complex or complex adaptive systems realized through the dynamic interaction of multiple modeling components to generate outputs suited to decision support, analysis and planning. In the context of disease modeling, these outputs can be used... Agent: Gomez International Patent Office, LLC

20090055151 - Method of and system for simulating a light-emitting device: A system for simulating a characteristic of a light-emitting device includes a transport calculating module for calculating a concentration of carriers in the light-emitting device. The system includes an optical calculating module for calculating data sets including a total emission power factor of excitons set and a light extraction efficiency... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090055152 - Method of modeling and producing an integrated circuit including at least one transistor and corresponding integrated circuit: A system is provided for modeling an integrated circuit including at least one insulated-gate field-effect transistor. The system includes generator means for defining a parameter representing mechanical stresses applied to the active area of the transistor, and processing means for determining at least one of the electrical parameters of the... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090055153 - Augmenting of automated clustering-based trace sampling methods by user-directed phase detection: Computer implemented method, system, and computer usable program code for simulating processor operation in a data processing system. An instruction trace is generated, wherein the instruction trace includes markers specified by a user for identifying interval boundaries for at least one interval of the instruction trace. The instruction trace is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090055154 - Method and system for generating application simulations: A method and system for generating application simulations and, more particularly, a method and system for graphical data scrubbing in application simulation image sequences. The method comprises creating a graphical representation of identified data and scrubbing instances of the identified data. The method further comprises replacing the scrubbed identified data... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090055155 - Simulating execution of software programs in electronic circuit designs: In some embodiments disclosed herein, the execution of a software program by processor can be simulated using two models of the processor: one “detailed” model that offers a relatively high level of detail and operates relatively slowly; and another “fast” model that offers a relatively low level of detail and... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090055156 - Using commercial computing package models to generate motor control code: Systems and methods for designing and/or diagnosing industrial applications including the use of a simulation of hardware and/or software elements. A correlation component can assess the degree of accuracy with which the simulation represents the operation of the hardware counterparts. A customer assistance system and method whereby a customer can... Agent: Amin Turocy & Calvin, LLP Attention: Heather Holmes

20090055157 - Server having remotely manageable emulated functions: A new and unique server having server core, storage interface I/O function, local area network interface I/O function that comprises remote graphic controller manageable emulated function (RMEF). The RMEF comprises circuitry capable of emulating a standard graphic controller to the server core so as to enable the core to generate... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20090048810 - Computer-implemented system and method for assisting in designing resilient member: The invention provides a computer-implemented system for assisting in designing a resilient member. The computer-implemented system includes a storage module, an interface module and a processing module. The storage module therein stores a plurality of response surface functions which each corresponds to one of a plurality of applicable materials. The... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090048811 - Model set adaptation by probability mass diffusion: A method of performing a sequence of measurements, z, R; M; (t1,t2), of at least one parameter and recursively performing predictions. The method comprising the steps of—based on at least on a first measurement instance (M (tk); (k)), predicting the outcome (x, P) for at least two models (C, S);... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090048813 - Simulation method and simulation program: A simulation method is configured to simulate a feature profile of a material surface. The simulation method includes using an algorithm of repeating a step of calculating a surface growth rate and a step of skipping the calculation of the surface growth rate. The surface growth rate is calculated in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090048812 - System and method for composition of nurbs surfaces: A system, method, and computer program for preserving design intent of a Non-Uniform Rational B-spline (NURBS) surface without representation of a parent surface, comprising representing an output surface having control points that is independent from a refinement of the surface; interpolating a base surface from the output surface; calculating a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090048814 - Pyrotechnic shock simulation system amd method: A system to simulate pyrotechnic shock may include a pulse or signal generator to generate a predetermined signal waveform. A signal conditioning device may be included to condition the predetermined signal waveform to produce a predetermined shock simulation for a shock test. The system may also include a power amplifier... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Boeing

20090048815 - Generalized constitutive modeling method and system: A method of modeling a material using a generalized constitutive model includes assembling a plurality of behaviors, the plurality of behaviors assembled without reference to a particular material to be modeled, and assembling a plurality of couplings, each of the plurality of couplings associated with at least one of the... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip

20090048816 - Method for on-line prediction of future performance of a fermentation unit: A method is disclosed for on-line prediction of performance of a fermentation unit, such as prediction of performance parameters like concentration of product, biomass, or sugar in the broth of a batch/fed-batch fermentation unit containing bacteria and nutrients. A computer model predicts a future product concentration based on current plant... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090048817 - Molecular structure prediction system, method, and program: A molecular structure prediction method for predicting the most stable molecular structure of a molecule based on results obtained by a plurality of appraisal systems includes steps of: generating a plurality of data sets by re-sampling from a training data set, determining a parameter set for each data set that... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090048818 - Simulation method of logic circuit: A simulation method of a logic circuit is provided. The simulation method includes operations dividing the logic circuit into a plurality of divided circuits, determining the divided circuit constructing a path circuit of the logic circuit, determining an auxiliary divided circuit that is the divided circuit not constructing the path... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090048819 - Multiple-type memory: A multiple-type memory is disclosed. The multiple-type memory includes memory blocks in communication with control logic blocks. The memory blocks and the control logic blocks are configured to emulate a plurality of memory types. The memory blocks can be configured into a plurality of memory planes that are vertically stacked... Agent: Unity Semiconductor Corporation

20090043544 - Apparatus and method for improved illumination area fill: A reflector for a light source, such as an LED, is provided with a shape which efficiently collects and directs energy to an illumined surface whereby almost 100% of the light is collected and distributed into a designer composite beam. The shape in one embodiment is comprised of three zones... Agent: Law Offices Of Daniel L. Dawes

20090043543 - Method of designing fold lines in sheet material: A method of designing fold lines in sheet material includes the steps defining the desired fold line in a parent plane on a drawing system, and populating the fold line with a fold geometry including a series of cut zones that define a series of connected zones configured and positioned... Agent: Max W. Durney C/o Industrial Origami, Inc.

20090043546 - Method and system for process control: A method and system for process control using a model predictive controller. The control system can have one or more control devices operably coupled to a processing system for controlling a process of the processing system; a modeling tool to provide a non-linear model based at least in part on... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090043547 - Nonlinear function approximation over high-dimensional domains: An algorithm is disclosed for constructing nonlinear models from high-dimensional scattered data. The algorithm progresses iteratively adding a new basis function at each step to refine the model. The placement of the basis functions is driven by a statistical hypothesis test that reveals geometric structure when it fails. At each... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20090043545 - Processing data representing energy propagating through a medium: The present invention relates to a method of processing data representing energy propagating through a medium (e.g., acoustic, elastic or electromagnetic energy) and describes an efficient and flexible e approach to forward modeling and inversion of such energy for a given medium. The representation theorem for the wave-equation is used,... Agent: Schlumberger-doll Research Attn: Intellectual Property Law Department

20090043548 - Computer implemented systems and methods for enhancing renewable energy educational activities: Systems and methods are provided for collecting, aggregating, and analyzing data associated with the performance of systems. Energy systems, specifically renewable energy generation systems, are used as examples. The aggregated data serve as the basis for a variety of services that facilitate the adoption and deployment of these systems. Services... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20090043551 - Enhanced tessellated conflict space data fusion process: A process of data fusion in potential conflict situations that provides, for the first time, a sound basis for Situation and Impact Assessment, leading to the ability to generate actionable plans and decisions. It uses a uniform representation method for relating time varying objects mapped onto a multi-dimensional space, whether... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20090043552 - Interactive simulation: Patent systems are often justified by assumptions that inventive activity will be spurred by the prospect of patent protection, leading to the accrual of greater societal benefits than would be possible under non-patent systems. One way to test this hypothesis is experimentally to simulate the behavior of inventors and licensees,... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting

20090043549 - Methods, apparatus, and products for seismic ray tracing: A computer implemented method for processing prestack seismic data representative of a subterrean contained in a model. The model may include a regular 3-D grid representative of the subterrean; attributes defined at each grid field; and at least one surface or body defined within the grid across which attributes are... Agent: Gilbreth & Associates, P.C.

20090043550 - Tessellated conflict space data fusion process: A process of data fusion in potential conflict situations that provides, for the first time, a sound basis for Situation and Impact Assessment, leading to the ability to generate actionable plans and decisions. It uses a uniform representation method for relating time varying objects mapped onto a multi-dimensional space, whether... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20090043553 - Design tool for identifying project energy interdependencies: A simulation system [200] models and optimizes parameters for a pulsed liquid slug boring system employ an energetic fluid [7]. The simulation system [200] employs a fluid flow energy unit [251], an exhaust and retention energy unit [253] and a comminuting energy unit [255] to calculate energies of the system.... Agent: Zale Patent Law

20090043555 - Method for evaluating an underground reservoir production scheme taking account of uncertainties: s

20090043554 - Updating a subterranean model using at least electromagnetic data: To update a subterranean model, an initial subterranean model is provided, and based on the initial subterranean model, changes to subterranean parameters are predicted using a reservoir simulator. Electromagnetic data representing characteristics of a subterranean structure is computed according to the predicted changes to the subterranean parameters, and the initial... Agent: Westerngeco L.L.C. Jeffrey E. Griffin

20090043556 - Method of and system for planning a surgery: A system for virtually planning a size and position of a prosthetic implant for a bone on a patient includes a database containing pre-defined form factor information for a plurality of different implants and a circuit for obtaining surface shape information of the bone. The system further includes a circuit... Agent: Mccracken & Frank LLP

20090043557 - Method, system, and apparatus for emulating functionality of a network appliance in a logically partitioned environment: A network appliance is emulated in a logically partitioned environment. Activity of a logical partition (LPAR) acting as a network appliance is monitored. When a change in activity occurs in the LPAR acting as the network appliance, a set of business logic partitions served by the LPAR acting as the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20090043558 - Delay calculation method capable of calculating delay time with small margin of error: A delay calculation method that is capable of calculating delay time with a small margin of error is provided for delay calculation in a logic circuit. The operating characteristics of transistor are expressed with a fixed resistance and a power supply voltage that changes with time. The power supply voltage... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090043559 - Hardware verification batch computing farm simulator: The exemplary embodiments provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for calculating the expected behavior of a group of hardware verification test cases. Batch simulation parameters are configured. A test case is submitted for evaluation. Historical performance data for test cases associated with the submitted test... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090043560 - Feature oriented protocol modeling: Modeling protocols. A method includes accessing a number of model programs. Each model program includes computer-executable instructions. The computer-executable instructions describe the behavior of at least one of another program, system, or component. Model programs may be disjointed in that they have independent meaning or dependent in that they include... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090043561 - system and a method for a multi device emulation in network management system: The present invention is a system and a method of emulating large numbers of network elements to enable testing the operational abilities of NMS devices to scale. According to embodiments of the present invention multiple network elements are emulated by using a single network element while ensuring that all multiple... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090037148 - Biodegradable/bioresorbable tissue augmentation/reconstruction device: A method of manufacturing biodegradable/bioresorbable tissue augmentation/reconstruction devices by defining material density distributions at selected time points during a material degradation lifecycle. These different density distributions are then superposed using general linear and/or nonlinear functions that could include both time and degraded base stiffness weighting factors. The material density distribution... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090037150 - System and method for radiation dose control: A system and method for determining a desired portion of a subject to receive a radiation dose includes iteratively chooses weight vectors to run to gradually build up a Pareto surface (PS). By examining the current points that have been found on the PS along with the weights used to... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090037151 - System and method of binding energy for polymer molecule: Provided is a design method of binding energy for polymer molecule, including: receiving a reference binding structure of a complex including a protein in a hydration state and a compound; setting an optimum structure of an unbound protein in a solution; searching for a local minimum value in a binding... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090037149 - Visualization of radio frequency coverage: Radio Frequency (RF) coverage models are visualized by displaying three dimensional unity scaled models of antenna performance in a Geographic Information System (GIS), Traditional logarithmic scaled antenna models are converted to linear models and stored as three dimensional representations which are placed and scaled using a GIS to visualize RF... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090037158 - Block diagram modeling: A modeling process includes providing blocks, each of the blocks representing functional entities that operate on input signal values, output signal values from the blocks, grouping the output signal values as an ordered set in a multiplexer as a first composite signal and outputting the first composite signal.... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP/the Mathworks Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090037156 - Design support system: The design support system regarding the present invention comprises a node data storage means that stores node data to generate functional models which present a group of function nodes which are functions divided from performance function of apparatus which is an objective to be designed and a group of part... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090037155 - Machine condition monitoring using a flexible monitoring framework: A flexible framework and a corresponding user interface allow a user to configure a machine condition monitoring system. A user-configurable computation framework offers flexibility in designing the machine condition monitoring system. In this framework, every computation based on machine attributes is represented as an input-output system. A simple computation can... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090037152 - Mapping fan noise across an hydraulic plane: A method and computer program product is presented to map noise levels onto the hydraulic operating plane. Application of this model has the potential to show which fan is quieter, where, and by how much. It is shown how the technique can be applied to a diverse set of comparisons... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090037157 - Method, apparatus and computer program providing broadband preconditioning based on reduced coupling for numerical solvers: This invention relates to computing numerical solutions of linear systems of equations, specifically to implementing preconditioning of the coefficient matrix of such a system. The preconditioning applies to any coefficient matrix, dense or sparse, based on the solutions of a physical problem of unknown functions, commonly referred to as basis... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090037153 - Product design optimization method and system: A method is provided for developing a product. The method may include obtaining data records from a plurality of stages of development of the product; identifying respective objectives of the plurality of stages and corresponding objective factors of the objectives; and determining common variables associated with the objectives based on... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090037159 - Method and system for developing lubricants, lubricant additives, and lubricant base stocks utilizing atomistic modeling tools: A method and system for developing lubricant, as well as the lubricant, is provided. According to performance requirements for the lubricant, atomistic modeling tools are used to design a formulation for the lubricant that will substantially meet a set of performance requirements. The formulation comprises lubricant additive(s), lubricant base stock(s),... Agent: Pratt & Whitney

20090037160 - Method and apparatus to serve ibis data: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method of serving IBIS data may include determining a circuit specified for signal integrity simulation. IBIS data may be obtained for the circuit specified, from which polynomials may be determined to be representative of at least a portion of the... Agent: Lattice Semiconductor Corporation

20090037164 - Datacenter workload evaluation: A method is provided for evaluating workload consolidation on a computer located in a datacenter. The method comprises inflating a balloon workload on a first computer that simulates a consolidation workload of a workload originating on the first computer and a workload originating on a second computer. The method further... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090037163 - Fast and flexible communication system simulation: A simulation system for a communication system includes a user interface to receive user definition and system configuration parameters of a simulation configuration file that includes a plurality of data structures representing various functional modules of the simulated communication system. A model library is provided to store different implementation models... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090037165 - Method and apparatus for processing transactions in a simulation environment: A method, article of manufacture and apparatus for simulating a plurality of transactions. A first group of transactions with first simulation properties are provided and a second group of transactions with second simulation properties are provided. The first simulation properties are different from the second simulation properties. During software simulation... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1