Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation inventions 04/09

20090112529 - Analysis model generation system: An analysis model generation system, for generating an analysis model of an analysis target, by correcting a distortion configuration owned by a configuration mesh data, which is generated by changing configuration of the analysis target, being made up with hexahedrons, into meshes, comprises a mesh data read-in portion 110 for... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090112528 - Apparatus and method for analysis: An area in which a model of a soft medium is moved is divided into a plurality of elements. In response to an update of simulation time, parameters about the model of the soft medium are shifted to elements at a position to which the soft medium is to be... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090112527 - Methods and systems for improving meshes used in computational fluid simulations: 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

20090112526 - System and method for simulating fluid particle having multi-resolution: Provided are a system and method for simulating fluid particles having multi-resolution. In the method, given particle data expressing fluid is analyzed in an fluid particle analyzing module so that data for determining resolutions is obtained. A resolution of each of regions is determined using the obtained data in a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090112532 - Apparatus and method for displaying changes in statistical parameters in a process control system: At least one statistical output associated with a process model and a rate of change associated with each statistical output is identified, such as by using historical data associated with the process model. The statistical outputs and the rates of change are used to generate a graphical display, such as... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090112530 - Controlling the number of iterations in image reconstruction: An iterative reconstruction method to reconstruct an object includes determining, in a series of iteration steps, updated objects, wherein each iteration step includes determining a data model from an input object, and determining a stop-criterion of the data model on the basis of a chi-square-gamma statistic. The method further includes... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090112531 - Determining composite service reliability: The reliability of a composite service having service components is determined, where the composite service can fail only where underlying resources fail. The composite service is represented as a plurality of continuous-time Markov chains (CTMC's). Each CTMC corresponds to a resource. A product of the CTMC's is constructed. The product... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20090112533 - Method for simplifying a mathematical model by clustering data: A method for simplifying a mathematical model is disclosed. The method obtains a data set and identifies a plurality of variables within the data set. The method also performs a clustering analysis by dividing the data set into groups, where each group has a cluster center. The method further replaces... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090112536 - Method for the selection of a substitute component for a modified multiple phase system based upon a comparison with at least one predetermined desired property of an modified system: m

20090112535 - Method of integrating point mass equations to include vertical and horizontal profiles: The present invention provides a system and method for simulating aircraft flight path trajectory by integrating the point mass equations using a selectable non-time based integration variable, including altitude, velocity or range. The present invention separates the horizontal and vertical profiles of an aircraft's flight path trajectory. The horizontal profile... Agent: Burr & Brown

20090112534 - Probabilistic design tool for optimizing a technical system: A nonlinear technical product or process described by stochastic system output target values dependent on stochastic system input parameter values, thereby stating discrete technical system dependencies, is optimized by using a Response Surface Methods based on discrete technical system dependencies to generate at least one continuous auxiliary function for the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090112537 - Location expression detection device and computer readable medium: A location expression detection device extracts a location expression contained in an object text and determines one of the candidate places when the extracted location expression has a plurality of candidate places. A location expression information storage section stores correspondence of location expressions against locations. A location expression extraction section... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090112538 - Virtual reality simulations for health care customer management: Embodiments of the invention provide virtual reality tools and simulations used for improved health care customer management. The virtual reality tools may be used by a product manufacturer or seller to assist in relationship management with health care partners including identifying improved solutions for a variety of problems, strengthening infection... Agent: Christopher M. Goff (27839) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090112540 - Method and apparatus for composite part data extraction: A computer implemented method for generating a section cut in a model of a part. A location on the part is identified. An axis system is created at the location in the model of the part, wherein the axis system has an axis that is normal to a surface at... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090112539 - Valuation and simulation of required navigation performance: A method for illustrating potential benefits resulting from revised navigation procedures to a customer is described. The method includes preparing a model for a revised navigation procedure, determining a landing probability for both an existing minimum separation procedure and a minimum separation determined utilizing the revised navigation procedure, calculating a... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090112542 - Method for the selection of a substitute component for a multiple phase system based upon a comparison with at least one predetermined property of an initial system: m

20090112541 - Virtual reality tools for development of infection control solutions: Embodiments of the invention provide virtual reality tools used to develop improved infection control solutions. The virtual reality tools may be applied to a variety of health care environments to develop improved infection control solutions, including improved training systems for modifying human behavior regarding hand washing (or other infection control... Agent: Christopher M. Goff (27839) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090112543 - Method for the selection of a substitute component for a modified single phase system based upon a comparison with at least one predetermined desired property of the modified system: b

20090112544 - Method for the selection of a substitute component for a single phase system based upon a comparison with at least one predetermined property of an initial system:

20090112545 - Method for the selection of a substitute component in a single component system:

20090112546 - Method for the selection of an operative component for amalgamating a multiple phase system into a single phase system, dispersion or emulsion:

20090112548 - A method for testing in a reconfigurable tester: In some implementations, a method for testing is provided, which includes simulating a functional operational environment for a first type device-under-test with a tester. This includes recognizing a non-deterministic response signal having a predetermined protocol, receiving the non-deterministic response signal from the first type device-under-test, ascertaining an expected stimulus signal... Agent: Balzan Intellectual Property Law, PC

20090112547 - Device, system and method of underapproximated model-checking: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of model checking. A method of checking a model having a first number of inputs may include, for example, automatically underapproximating the model by an underapproximated model having a second number of inputs, wherein the second number is smaller than the first... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090112555 - Design structure for a duty cycle measurement apparatus that operates in a calibration mode and a test mode: A design structure for an on-chip duty cycle measurement system may be embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing or testing an integrated circuit. The design structure may embody an apparatus that measures the duty cycle of a reference clock signal that a clock circuit supplies to a... Agent: Mark P. Kahler

20090112553 - Display design system and method: An LCD display design system and method are disclosed. The method includes performing operations by a variety of operation modules after initial parameters are input and an operation type is selected, so as to generate operation results and transfer the operation results to an integration module; integrating the operation results... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090112551 - Matrix modeling of parallel data structures to facilitate data encoding and/or jittery signal generation: One or more embodiments of the disclosed computer-implementable method comprise a matrix-based approach to generating in parallel a plurality of realistic simulatable signal vectors, which vectors include the addition of amplitude noise and/or timing jitter and encoding. For example, each channel in a parallel bus can be populated in a... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20090112552 - Method, system and program product for reporting temporal information regarding count events of a simulation: At a simulation client, a design is simulated utilizing a hardware description language (HDL) simulation model by stimulating the HDL simulation model with a testcase. The HDL simulation model includes instrumentation not forming a portion of the design that includes a plurality of count event counters that count occurrences of... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090112556 - Reconstruction of data from simulation models: Systems, method, and media for reconstructing data from simulation models are disclosed. Embodiments may include a method for accessing an alias from an alias file. The method may generally include searching for a net name and, if the net name is not found, searching an alias index file for an... Agent: Ibm Coporation (rtp) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090112550 - System and method for generating a worst case current waveform for testing of integrated circuit devices: A system and method for generating a worst case current waveform for testing of integrated circuit devices are provided. Architectural analysis of an integrated circuit device is first performed to determine an initial worst case power workload to be applied to the integrated circuit device. Thereafter, the derived worst case... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090112549 - Techniques for generating and simulating a simulatable vector having amplitude noise and/or timing jitter added thereto: Methods for generating realistic waveform vectors with controllable amplitude noise and timing jitter, simulatable in a computer-based simulation environment are disclosed. In one implementation, a transition vector is created from a sequence of bits having a rise time and a fall time, in which the transition vector comprises voltage values... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20090112554 - Test bench, method, and computer program product for performing a test case on an integrated circuit: The disclosure relates to a test bench, method, and computer program product for performing a test case on an integrated circuit. The test bench may comprise a simulation environment representing an environment for implementing the integrated circuit and a reference model of the integrated circuit, wherein the reference model may... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090112557 - System and method of automating the addition of rtl based critical timing path counters to verify critical path coverage of post-silicon software validation tools: A system and method for modifying a simulation model and optimizing an application program to produce valid hardware-identified operating conditions that are matched with simulator-identified operating conditions in order to modify a simulator accordingly is presented. A critical path coverage analyzer includes critical path measurement logic into a simulation model... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20090112558 - Method for simultaneous circuit board and integrated circuit switching noise analysis and mitigation: A method and a design structure. The method includes: generating a board model of a circuit board design; generating a impedance spectrum of the board model; generating a chip model of an integrated circuit chip design; performing a transient analysis of the chip model using an ideal board power supply... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090112560 - Adjusting model output events in a simulation: In an embodiment, input data is received from a user and reference data is calculated based on an original simulation state. An adjustment amount is determined based on the difference between the input data and the reference data. An event value is generated via a probability function, and the event... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090112561 - Method, system and program product for defining and recording threshold-qualified count events of a simulation by testcases: A design is simulated utilizing a hardware description language (HDL) simulation model by stimulating the HDL simulation model with a testcase. The HDL simulation model includes instrumentation not forming a portion of the design that includes a count event counter for a count event in the design, and the simulation... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090112559 - Model-driven, repository-based application monitoring system: Enabling and processing events. To enable events, an application model correlated to an application is declaratively defined. The application model describes operations of the application. One or more event models correlated to the application model are declaratively defined. The event models describe application execution locations where events are desired to... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090112562 - User guided generation of network link optimization profiles: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to optimization profile generation and provide a method, system and computer program product for user guided generation of network link optimization profiles. In one embodiment of the invention, a network optimization profile generation method can be provided. The... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090112564 - Circuits for simulating dynamical systems: The present invention provides a set of analog circuit modules and a procedure for assembling them into a complete circuit that can be used for simulating dynamical systems, especially periodic, complex, or chaotic systems. The circuit is an electronic analogue of an idealized geometric model of a topological structure (called... Agent: Robert William Schmieder

20090112563 - Design structure for maintaining memory data integrity in a processor integrated circuit using cache coherency protocols: A design structure for a processor system may be embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing or testing a processor integrated circuit. The design structure may embody a processor integrated circuit including multiple processors with respective processor cache memories. The design structure may specify enhanced cache coherency protocols... Agent: Mark P. Kahler

20090112565 - Testing applications within a grid environment using ghost agents: A testing method including the step of identifying multiple hosts located within multiple grids of a grid environment, wherein each host is a software object. A ghost agent can be associated with each identified host. Actions of the host can be replicated within each ghost agent. Data relating to the... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090112566 - Automated generation of executable deployment code from a deployment activity model: Although a modeling language can be used to create a deployment diagram to graphically depict a deployment model, the utility of the deployment diagram is limited to easing understanding of the model. Automated generation of executable deployment code that implements a deployment model allows benefits of modeling to be realized.... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090112569 - Method and apparatus for simulating aircraft data processing systems: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for simulating mobile platforms. In one advantageous embodiment, a method is used to performing operations with a virtual aircraft network. A data processing system with the virtual aircraft network is connected to a ground network. The operations are performed with the virtual aircraft... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090112568 - Method for generating a simulation program which can be executed on a host computer: m

20090112567 - Preliminary data representations of a deployment activity model: A deployment activity model is automatically generated from a deployment topology model. The operations to automatically generate the deployment activity model may be visible or “under the covers.” Regardless of visibility, a deployment model tool traverses a representation (e.g., one or more data structures) of the one or more diagrams... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090112570 - Declarative model interpretation: Embodiments described herein are directed to the constructing software applications based on data models and automatically reconfiguring runtime object graphs according to data model edits input by a user. In one embodiment, a computer system performs a method for constructing at least a portion of a software application based on... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090105994 - Electronic floor plan server and method: A new and useful concept in electronic presentation and operation with a floor plan is provided, that is designed to enhance the ability of a buyer/renter to view or otherwise understand many of the attributes of a building. In an interactive version of the present invention, a user (e.g. a... Agent: Lawrence R. Oremland, P.C.

20090105995 - System and method for automated building incident response: A system and method for characterizing a building's (or building complex's) components, including all important entrances, egresses, and stairwells, collecting demographic information associated with locating people in a building, evacuating the building, and rescuing people still left in the building, etc., linking the building's components and demographic information to each... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP

20090105997 - Dynamics simulation device, dynamics simulation method, and computer program: A dynamics simulation device for dynamically simulating physical interactions acting on a plurality of objects under an environment where the objects coexist is disclosed. The device includes: nominal value providing means for providing a nominal value Λn of an operational space inertial matrix; nominal inertial force calculating means for calculating... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090105998 - Method for predicting arc flash energy and ppe category within a real-time monitoring system: A method for simulating an arc flash event on an electrical power system is disclosed. The virtual system model of the electrical system is modified to introduce a short circuiting feature. The standard to supply equations used in the arc flash event calculations is chosen. The arc flash event is... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090105996 - Methods and systems for reducing finite element simulation time for acoustic response analysis: Methods and systems for reducing finite element simulation time for acoustic response analysis are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes analytically creating a finite element model, the finite element model including a plurality of subdivisions. A plurality of cross-correlations between respective pairings of the subdivisions is then specified. A... Agent: Hugh P. Gortler

20090106001 - Digital i&c software failure simulation test facility: A test facility is obtained for software failure simulation. The test facility applies new failure modes related to software safety analysis and deduction. It is done by integrating a nuclear power plant simulation facility and a high pressure core flooder control facility. And the integration is done through a hardware... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20090106000 - Geospatial modeling system using void filling and related methods: A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model data storage device and a processor cooperating therewith for determining a void within a geospatial model data set defining a void boundary region, and selecting at least one raw fill region from within the geospatial model data set for filling the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090105999 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for implementing importation and converging system definitions during planning phase for logical partition (lpar) systems: Hardware and partition information of an existing LPAR system is collected and stored in a first system plan file. The first system plan file is applied to a partition planning tool. The partition planning tool identifies hardware to be reused in a second LPAR system and filters hardware to be... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20090106002 - Process simulation framework: A process analysis and simulation framework is configured with several adaptable libraries that provide a user with the ability to select plug-in modules that are applicable to a particular process simulation. The user may add or remove modules to configure the framework with specific functionality and parameters according to the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090106003 - System, method and apparatus for management of simulations: A method for managing a computer simulation is disclosed. The method includes providing an interface for soliciting input of initialization parameters for generating a training exercise and receiving from the interface initialization parameters entered by a user. The method further includes executing the training exercise defined by the initialization parameters... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul LLP Attn: Steven M. Greenberg, Esq.

20090106004 - Systems and methods for evaluating interventions: A system and method for evaluating one or more interventions having a direct or indirect impact on a disease identification or a disease progression incorporating a causal framework to establish relationships among the disease, complications, and comorbidities. The system and method determines population groups and risk factors for the disease,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090106005 - Simulation reproducing apparatus: A simulation reproducing apparatus performs a simulation for verifying a control program for controlling a target mechanism of a mechatronics apparatus by simulating a behavior of the target mechanism in cooperation with the control program by performing a dynamics simulation and a kinetics simulation over a given cycle times.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090106006 - Reverse engineering based coil spring design method: A finite element analysis (FEA) based coil spring design method that utilizes a reverse engineering based concept. The method involves first designing a desired jounce profile, which is typically an output in the conventional FEA based design, and then reversely determining the corresponding free profile necessary for manufacturing a spring... Agent: Butzel LongIPDocketing Dept

20090106007 - Computer-implemented model of the central nervous system: A computer-implemented model of the central nervous system includes at least one of a basal ganglia portion, a cerebral cortex portion coupled to the basal ganglia portion, a cerebellum portion coupled to the cerebral cortex, or a brainstem/spinal cord portion coupled to at least one of the cerebral cortex portion,... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090106008 - Performance sampling in distributed systems: One embodiment of the invention provides a method to identify a preferred system configuration for a distributed system to use for executing a given computing job. A benchmark profile may specify a collection of benchmarks representative of the job, and the collection of benchmarks may be executed across various permutations... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090106009 - Reconstruction of data from simulation models: Systems and media for reconstructing data from simulation models are disclosed. Embodiments may include a media containing instructions for accessing an alias from an alias file. The media may include instructions for searching for a net name and, if the net name is not found, searching an alias index file... Agent: Ibm Coporation (rtp) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090106010 - Technique for digital circuit functionality recognition for circuit characterization: A method and system of digital circuit functionality recognition for circuit characterization is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for determining the valid arcs includes receiving a truth table including state information associated with input pins and their associated output pins in the digital circuit. Valid arcs are then determined... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20090106011 - System and method for developing and deploying sensor and actuator applications over distributed computing infrastructure: The present invention discloses a method for coordinating zero or more modelings, zero or more implementations and zero or more deployments of a computer system, including but not limited to computer systems involving sensors, actuators, or both and a system providing assistance to designers, implementers, and deployers of computer systems.... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090106012 - Performance modeling for soa security appliance: A device, system, and method are directed towards optimizing a security apparatus within a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Performance data is gathered for the SOA. A plurality of queuing performance models are generated based on a plurality of components comprising a user land, a kernel, and a Central Processing Unit (CPU).... Agent: Lei Liu

20090106013 - Memory emulation using resistivity-sensitive memory: Interface circuitry in communication with at least one non-volatile resistivity-sensitive memory is disclosed. The memory includes a plurality of non-volatile memory elements that may have two-terminals, are operative to store data as a plurality of conductivity profiles that can be determined by applying a read voltage across the memory element,... Agent: Unity Semiconductor Corporation

20090106014 - Transient storage device emulation using resistivity-sensitive memory: Interface circuitry in communication with at least one non-volatile resistivity-sensitive memory is disclosed. The memory includes a plurality of non-volatile memory elements that may have two-terminals, are operative to store data as a plurality of conductivity profiles that can be determined by applying a read voltage across the memory element,... Agent: Unity Semiconductor Corporation

20090099821 - Model-diversity technique for improved proactive fault monitoring: A computer system to predict a value of a signal from a sensor schedule loads across a set of processor cores is described. During operation, the computer system generates N models to predict the value of the signal based on a set of quantized telemetry signals, where a given model... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090099822 - System and method for implementing environmentally-sensitive simulations on a data processing system: A system and method for implementing environmentally-sensitive simulations on a data processing system. According to an embodiment of the present invention, an ambient temperature associated with a player's location is provided to an environmental module. The environmental module provides the ambient temperature information to a simulation application. The simulation application... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090099823 - System and method for implementing environmentally-sensitive simulations on a data processing system: A system and method for implementing environmentally-sensitive simulations on a data processing system. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a presentation manager provides a collection of presentation levels within a simulation, wherein each of the presentation levels is associated with a collection of ambient light levels. An environmental... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090099824 - Distributed physics based training system and methods: A distributed simulation system is composed of simulator stations linked over a network that each renders real-time video imagery for its user from scene data stored in its data storage. The simulation stations are each connected with a physics farm that manages the virtual objects in the shared virtual environment... Agent: Tiajoloff & Kelly

20090099825 - System and method for a simulation based movement planner: A system and method of planning the movement of plural trains over a network of track by simulating the movement of the trains over the network of track.... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - Dc

20090099826 - Caspase-9:bir3 domain of xiap complexes and methods of use: The present invention provides polypeptides and specific binding agents that modify the activity of an initiator caspase involved in apoptosis, caspase-9. The polypeptides include the third baculoviral IAP repeat (BIR3) of an IAP and form a heterodimer complex with caspase-9. Nucleic acid molecules including expression vectors encoding the polypeptides and... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090099827 - System and method for effectively performing a network simulation procedure: A system and method for effectively performing a network simulation procedure for an electronic network includes a group of client devices that are configured to locally store content items in a distributed manner. Certain of the client devices periodically access required content items directly from other client devices. A simulation... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20090099830 - Detecting counterfeit electronic components using emi telemetric fingerprints: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that non-intrusively detects counterfeit components in a target computer system. During operation, the system collects target electromagnetic interference (EMI) signals generated by the target computer system using one or more antennas positioned in close proximity to the target computer system. The... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090099828 - Device threshold calibration through state dependent burnin: Disclosed are embodiments of a design structure for reducing and/or eliminating mismatch. The embodiments sample the bias of one or more circuit sub-components that require a balanced state (e.g., sampling the bias of the cross-coupled transistors in each memory cell and/or sense amp in a memory array) before chip burn-in,... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090099829 - Integrated circuit tester information processing system for nonlinear mobility model for strained device: A method for operating an integrated circuit tester information processing system includes: measuring current information from test structures for an integrated circuit having a stress liner; forming a transfer curve by simulating based on the current information with a first range of first mobility multipliers; forming an inverse transfer curve... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20090099831 - Method for generating and evaluating a table model for circuit simulation: A method for generating and evaluating a table model for circuit simulation in N dimensions employing mathematical expressions for modeling a device. The table model uses an unstructured N-dimensional grid for approximating the expressions. The method includes the steps of: (a) establishing a function domain having boundary limits in the... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090099832 - Systems and methods for automatically converting cad drawing files into intelligent objects with database connectivity for the design, analysis, and simulation of electrical power systems: A computer system for converting a computer aided design drawing file of an electrical power system into one or more component objects for power analytic analysis and simulation, is disclosed. The computer system can include a processor, a memory, a display device, and an input device. The memory device can... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090099833 - Method and system for selecting compatible processors to add to a multiprocessor computer: A method and system for using processor compatibility information to select a compatible processor for addition to a multiprocessor computer. A software program is executed on the multiprocessor computer to determine the number of current processors in the multiprocessor computer and the revision number of each processor. A software program... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090099834 - Method and system for using stored data items in native data formats in emulated e-mode programs: An embodiment of the invention is a technique for enabling an emulator that emulates an e-mode program to utilize stored data items whose values are stored in native data format in native memory. The emulator fetches an item referenced by the e-mode program. The referenced item comprises a tag field... Agent: Phuong-quan Hoang Unisys Corporation

20090094002 - Computer-implemented system and method for designing a pressure-dosed drain field: A computer-implemented system for designing a pressure-dosed drain field comprising: a screen that allows a user to specify length and diameter for pipes that comprise the forcemain and discharge assembly, specify the pumping liquid level and discharge elevation, select the number of laterals and enter a specified residual pressure, enter... Agent: Antoinette M. Tease

20090094003 - 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

20090094005 - Method of optimizing a model, a method of measuring a property, a device manufacturing method, a spectrometer and a lithographic apparatus: A set of parameters used in a model of a spectrometer includes free parameters and fixed parameters. A first set of values for the parameters is set and the model is used to generate a first spectrum. A value of one of the fixed parameters is changed and a second... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090094004 - Methods and systems for efficient analysis of hybrid systems using template polyhedra: In accordance with aspects of the present principles, an over-approximation of reachable states of a hybrid system may be determined by utilizing template polyhedra. Policy iteration may be utilized to obtain an over-approximation of reachable states in the form of a relaxed invariant based upon template polyhedra expressions. The relaxed... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090094006 - Modeling systems for consumer goods: The present invention relates to modeling systems for designing and/or selecting components for use in consumer products; designing consumer products; and designing and selecting processes for making said components and said consumer products as well as the use of same.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip

20090094008 - Method and system for modeling effects visually: A system for defining the effect of forces on a model. The model is displayed and the model includes a goal axis and an equilibrium line. A plurality of qualitative effects are added to the equilibrium line. Each of the added qualitative effects apply a force to the equilibrium line.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090094007 - System for defining simulation model: An issue to be settled by the present invention is to define a simulation model in accordance with the structure of a casual relation easy to be understood by human and to shorten greatly a simulation program development period. A simulation program is automatically generated by extracting, as nodes, specific... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090094009 - System and method for modeling of turbo-charged engines and indirect measurement of turbine and waste-gate flow and turbine efficiency: A real-time system for modeling a turbo-charged engine includes a model configured to estimate various exhaust states such as turbine inlet pressure, turbine outlet pressure, turbine outlet temperature, turbine mass flow rate and waste-gate valve mass flow rate. The model is dependent only on the availability of normal operating values... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090094010 - Three dimensional surface and solid query processing: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with determining whether geometries represented by geometry objects intersect are described. One example method recursively decomposes a higher order geometry (e.g., solid) into a set of lower order geometries (e.g., surfaces) and examines the lower order geometries, continuing the recursion until an intersection decision... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20090094011 - System and method for modelling a flight: A method of modelling a flight of an aircraft using at least one computer system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes: sourcing flight details from at least one data source using at least one data acquisition system, the flight details representative of the activity of the aircraft within... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090094012 - Methods and systems for grand canonical competitive simulation of molecular fragments: Methods and systems for analyzing a macromolecule for potential binding sites are disclosed. Multiple molecular species and a free energy value may be selected. An operation for a molecular fragment of one of the molecular species may be selected from insertion, deletion and movement operations. The selected operation may be... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090094013 - Two-step simulation methodology for aging simulations: The present invention is a method and system for simulating the aging process of a circuit. A two-step process is employed whereby, in a first simulation step, a simulation is conducted to obtain node voltages for the original circuit and the node voltages are stored in a file. In the... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090094014 - Software system for binding model data to view components: A flexible method of mapping view components to data model objects in an object oriented system. The mapping manages navigating the data model graph to access data needed by the view component and to listen for events indicating changes within the data model graph and relevant to the view component.... Agent: Declarative Engineering, LLC

20090094015 - Computer emulator employing direct execution of compiled functions: An emulation system that provides the functionality of an emulated computer on a host computer pre-processes the object code file to be emulated to reduce the run-time overhead due to parsing the object code. The emulator uses preprogrammed functions that model each instruction of the emulated computer. An object code... Agent: Al Kozak Unisys Corp.

20090089024 - Methods and arrangement for creating models for fine-tuning recipes: An arrangement for creating a model for gathering measurement data about a processed substrate by a user of a plasma processing system is provided. The arrangement includes a generic model builder, which is configured for at least creating the model. The model is a relationship between a set of input... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20090089023 - Model creation support system, model creation support method, and model creation support program: A model creation support system includes a model managing part that acquires and accumulates an identifier of a model, data indicating a phenomenon, data indicating a regression equation, and evaluation data from an information processing apparatus that predicts or analyzes the phenomenon, using a model represented by the regression equation,... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090089022 - Modeling nonlinear systems: Systems and techniques, including machine-readable instructions, for modeling of nonlinear systems. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a collection of two or more inputs configured and arranged to receive input signals, a collection of two or more outputs configured and arranged to output output signals, a processing unit configured to... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20090089025 - Internal feature determination from field interactions in a complex medium: A method and system is disclosed for determining the internal structure and constituent properties of complexly structured materials using a computational simulation engine to calculate field propagation properties, physical testing of the materials to obtain measured field properties, and correlation of the calculated and measured field properties. The complexly structured... Agent: Utah State University Technology Commercialization Office

20090089038 - Mechanism for realistic application/network modeling using a workload description: A method for benchmarking a computer system comprises encoding a profile of the computer system in a readable medium to form an encoded computer readable medium. This profile is interpretable by a test server so that the test server is able to simulate the interaction between the system server and... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Sun / Stk

20090089039 - System and method of emulating functionality of a web service: A system and method are provided for emulating the functionality of a web service. The system can include a web server that is configured to host web services. A web service can be configured to execute on the web server as defined by a service definition file. The web service... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090089041 - Computer emulator employing direct execution of compiled functions: An emulation system that provides the functionality of an emulated computer on a host computer pre-processes the object code file to be emulated to reduce the run-time overhead due to parsing the object code. The emulator uses pre-programmed functions that model each instruction of the emulated computer. An object code... Agent: Al Kozak Unisys Corp.

20090089040 - System and method for detecting multi-component malware: Malicious behavior of a computer program is detected using an emulation engine, an event detector and an event analyzer. The emulation engine includes a system emulator configured to emulate, in an isolated computer environment, at least a part of a computer system and a program emulator configured to emulate in... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP