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Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation July category listing 07/09

20090192766 - Method for simulating the behavior of a bonded joint of two parts: The invention relates to a method for simulating the behavior of a bonded joint of two composite material parts (11, 15) with an adhesive material layer (13), comprising the following steps: a) Providing a Finite Element Model with all the relevant information for analyzing said structural joint; b) Providing a... Agent: William R. Evans Ladas & Parry LLP

20090192769 - Method and apparatus for modeling the modal properties of optical waveguides: A method and apparatus models one or more electromagnetic field modes of a waveguide. The method includes calculating a first matrix having a plurality of elements and having a first bandwidth using a refractive index profile of the waveguide. The plurality of elements of the first matrix represents an action... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090192768 - Methods and apparatus for characterization of petroleum fluid and applications thereof: An improved method and system for characterizing the compositional components of a hydrocarbon reservoir of interest and analyzing fluid properties of the reservoir of interest based upon its compositional components.... Agent: Schlumberger Canada Limited

20090192767 - Model-based theory combination: A method is described for combining models of a plurality of theory solvers in order to produce a model which may be satisfiable by each of the plurality of theory solvers. A model is accessed for a first theory solver which is satisfiable in the first theory solver. It is... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090192770 - Analysis supporting apparatus, analysis supporting method, and analysis supporting program: An analysis supporting apparatus that supports a product analyzing operation includes a model-data generating unit that generates model data regarding an analysis model of an analysis target component in association with component hierarchy data representing a hierarchy of components forming an analysis target product; a model-data updating unit that reflects... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090192771 - Analysis supporting apparatus, analysis supporting method, and analysis supporting program: An analysis supporting apparatus that supports a product analyzing operation, includes a model-data generating unit that generates model data regarding an analysis model of an analysis target component in association with component hierarchy data representing a hierarchy of components forming an analysis target product; a model-data updating unit that reflects... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090192773 - Modifying a magnified field model: An example method of modifying a model of a field includes presenting a representation of field data in a first window and receiving a selection of a portion of the representation of the field data. The method further includes presenting the portion of the representation in a second window, creating... Agent: Patent Counsel Schlumberger Information Solutions

20090192772 - Operation simulation system for plant construction: An operation simulation system for plant construction, in which operating expense in a construction operation is calculated based on crane type determined by a command input; the expense to construct foundation is calculated based on the foundation placement on which the determined crane is put; the operating expense is calculated... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090192774 - Engine transition test instrument and method: A transition test on an engine is conducted by simulation using a simulation model of the engine, and a transition test on an actual engine is conducted using the control value. In the actual engine transition test, alteration of the control value by an ECU is efficiently carried out thereby... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090192775 - Robot simulator and method of controlling robot simulator: In a robot simulator of the present invention, when a portion of an operable area set for each figure to be selected and controlled, a right-hand system and a left-hand system, of a robot overlaps, when an obstacle is positioned within the operable areas, a personal computer color-codes and displays... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090192776 - Charge-based circuit analysis: A solution for analyzing a circuit using initial charge information is provided. In particular, one or more nodes in a design for the circuit is initialized with an initial charge. The charge can comprise a non-equilibrium charge, thereby simulating the history effect, the impact of a charged particle, electro-static discharge... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090192777 - Method for estimating a noise generated in an electronic system and related method for testing noise immunity: The invention concerns a method for testing immunity to noise derived from interferences between components in a mixed analogic and digital electronic system. The method comprises determining by simulating the highest-level noise observed in the system, or the worst noise generated by interferences. If a test for noise sensitivity is... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20090192778 - Tracking converge results in a batch simulation farm network: A method and system for providing centralized access to count event information from testing of a hardware simulation model within a batch simulation farm which includes simulation clients and an instrumentation server. Count event data for said hardware simulation model is received by the instrumentation server from one or more... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090192779 - System for modeling lpar behaviors in a simulation tool: A simulation tool for modeling LPAR behavior in a mainframe computer. The simulation tool comprises: a system for calculating a resource percentage, wherein the resource percentage represents a percentage of total resources allocated to the LPAR, wherein the resource percentage is equal to: 100%—a percentage of resources allocated to all... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090192780 - Hardware emulation using on-the-fly virtualization: At least one anomaly associated with at least one actual hardware element in a computer system having a plurality of hardware elements is addressed. The anomaly is detected, and, responsive to the detection, a virtualization layer is inserted between (i) an operating system of the computer system, and (ii) the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090187384 - Method for generating data of plant construction simulation and system thereof: P

20090187385 - Reducing the size of a model using visibility factors: A computer-implemented method and system reduces size of a data structure of a computer-aided design (CAD) model. Given a CAD model formed of a plurality of modeling elements, the method and system provide one or more geometric entities defining modeling elements of the CAD model. The geometric entities have corresponding... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090187386 - Finite element modeling of the cornea: A system and method for simulating a corneal reconfiguration in response to LIOB uses a computer-programmed, finite element model. The model has a plurality of elements; with each element pre-programmed with coefficients based on diagnostic corneal data. Collectively the coefficients replicate biomechanical properties of the cornea. In use, designated biomechanical... Agent: Nydegger & Associates

20090187388 - Method and system for locating landmarks on 3d models: A plurality of landmarks are automatically located on a 3-dimensional polygonal mesh of connected vertices. A probabilistic graph is generated for the plurality of landmarks pre-identified on each of a first set of 3-dimensional models. The graph represents local surface characteristics for each landmark and relational positions between neighboring pairs... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090187387 - System and method for simulating an liob protocol to establish a treatment plan for a patient: A system and method are provided for simulating a Laser Induced Optical Breakdown (LIOB) protocol to establish a surgical LIOB treatment for a patient. In the system, a library of finite element models characterizing various visual defects in corneas are programmed into a computer. Further, a library of nomograms indicating... Agent: Nydegger & Associates

20090187389 - Immersive collaborative environment using motion capture, head mounted display, and cave: A collaborative visualization system integrates motion capture and virtual reality, along with kinematics and computer-aided design (CAD), for the purpose, for example, of evaluating an engineering design. A virtual reality simulator creates a full-scale, three-dimensional virtual reality simulation responsive to computer-aided design (CAD) data. Motion capture data is obtained from... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20090187390 - Engine transition test instrument and method: A transition test on an engine is conducted by simulation using a simulation model of the engine. In the test, the operator can visually grasp the setting state of a control value of the engine when setting the control value. The simulation results and the control value used for the... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090187391 - Three-dimensional mechanical earth modeling: A technique includes receiving a first dataset that is indicative of seismic data acquired in a seismic survey of a field of wells and receiving a second dataset that is indicative of wellbore data acquired in a wellbore survey conducted in at least one of the wells. The technique includes... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20090187393 - Method for creating a personalized digital planning file for simulation of dental implant placement: The present invention provides a method for creating a personalized digital planning file for simulation of dental implant placement. After planning, the digital representation in a plaster model may be used to design and produce dedicated surgical templates to assist the surgeon in transferring the implant plan to a patient... Agent: Clark & Elbing LLP

20090187392 - System and method for monitoring a health condition of an animal: An ingestible bolus may be disposed within the stomach of an animal. The bolus may comprise one or more sensors to monitor one or more internal and/or external animal characteristics. The bolus may comprise a data transmitter in wireless communication with a base station. The base station may receive messages... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20090187394 - Hdl re-simulation from checkpoints: A computer-based simulation process executes a checkpoint operation while simulating behavior of an electronic circuit by forking an active checkpoint process having the same state as the original simulation process. While simulation time for the simulation process continues to increase after executing the checkpoint operation, simulation time for the checkpoint... Agent: Smith-hill And Bedell, P.C.

20090187395 - Event-synchronization protocol for parallel simulation of large-scale wireless networks: An event synchronization protocol called time-based synchronization (TBS) is employed to control operation of a network simulation. In TBS, processors in the simulated network execute events based on comparisons between timestamps for each event and a value generated by a time tracking device in the processor. In this manner, event... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20090187396 - Software behavior modeling apparatus, software behavior monitoring apparatus, software behavior modeling method, and software behavior monitoring method: A software operation modeling device (100) includes: a stack information recording unit (120), an end information recording unit (150), a stack difference information generation unit (130) for generating information for generating stack difference information by concatenating a call stack upper node of stack information with information until the end information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090182539 - Multi-objective optimal design support device, method and program storage medium: An objective function can be mathematically approximated using a prescribed number of sample sets of design parameters and sets of a plurality of objective functions computed corresponding to them. A logical expression indicating a relation between or among arbitrary two or three objective functions of the plurality of mathematically approximated... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090182538 - Multi-objective optimum design support device using mathematical process technique, its method and program: A unit 101 calculates a plurality of sets of objective functions of sample sets of input parameters. A unit 102 approximates the objective functions using a polynomial on the basis of the calculation result of the unit 101. A unit 103 calculates a logical expression indicating a logical relation between... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090182537 - Simulation system for a construction crane and the simulation method thereof: A simulation method and a simulation system for a construction crane are disclosed. The simulation system includes an input device, a processing device, and a display device. The input device is used for inputting an instruction. Furthermore, the processing device includes a computation unit, a collision detection unit, a storage... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090182536 - System and method for estimating probabilities of events: A dual adaptive importance-sampling system and method is provided that can estimate the probability of events by combining dual complementary importance-sampling simulations. The present invention exploits the ability to determine an optimal biased pdf using an iterative procedure that requires relatively little a priori knowledge of how to bias. Hence,... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20090182540 - Input deck migrator for simulators: An example method for performing an operation includes obtaining an input deck of a first simulator, the input deck being prepared based on field data for performing a simulation of the operation using the first simulator. The method further includes migrating the input deck from the first simulator to generate... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20090182541 - Dynamic reservoir engineering: An example method for performing reservoir engineering includes generating a geological model of a reservoir including a geological horizon, obtaining an offset relative to the geological horizon, and positioning a wellbore equipment item in a well completion design based on the offset. The method further includes calculating an absolute position... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20090182543 - Automatic voxel selection for pharmacokinetic modeling: This relates to a method of automatically selecting preferred voxels from a group of voxels for pharmacokinetic modeling of a biological system, where the voxels contain data points indicating a change of activity-levels over time. For each respective voxel the changes of the data points over time with at least... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090182544 - Multiple chassis emulation environment: A method and system is disclosed for a multi-chassis emulator. A user can select between chassis and view additional information about the chassis of interest. In one embodiment, once the user selects a chassis, further information about the chassis can be displayed, such as through folders and files. The user... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090182545 - Simulating an operation of a digital circuit: A method for simulating an operation of a digital circuit (01) is described. The method utilizes cycle simulation, wherein in a cycle based simulation model (34) of the digital circuit (01) components (02, 03, 04, 05) of the digital circuit (01) are clocked synchronously every cycle (19) of a functional... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Richard Lau

20090182546 - Mobile device comprising an operating system emulator: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for running an application (APPL) of a mobile device (MB) on an external device (PC). The mobile device comprises an application (APPLI) for running on an operating system (OS_H) of the mobile device, and an emulator (E_M) for emulating the operating... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090182542 - Hybrid classical-quantum computer architecture for molecular modeling: A method of simulating a molecular system using a hybrid computer is provided. The hybrid computer comprises a classical computer and a quantum computer. The method uses atomic coordinates {right arrow over (R)}n and atomic charges Zn of a molecular system to compute a ground state energy of the molecular... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090177444 - Automated hierarchical splitting of anatomical trees: A method for splitting a dataset relating to an anatomical tree structure (12) comprises establishing a plurality of seed points (24) within the tree structure; establishing a length of a path (20) along the tree structure from each of the plurality of seed points (24) to each of a plurality... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090177445 - Design structure for an apparatus for monitoring and controlling heat generation in a multi-core processor: A design structure for a processor may be embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing or testing a processor integrated circuit. The design structure may control heat generation in a multi-core processor. The design structure may specify that each processor core includes a temperature sensor that reports temperature... Agent: Mark P. Kahler

20090177448 - Compact model methodology for pc landing pad lithographic rounding impact on device performance: A method and computer program product for modeling a semiconductor transistor device structure having an active device area, a gate structure, and including a conductive line feature connected to the gate structure and disposed above the active device area, the conductive line feature including a conductive landing pad feature disposed... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090177449 - Duration estimation of repeated directed graph traversal: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for duration estimation of simulating a process model embodied in a directed graph. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for estimating a duration of simulation for a process model embodied in a directed graph can... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090177447 - Method for estimating software development effort: A method for estimating software development effort comprises the steps of: generating a database containing a plurality of source softwares; calculating the Grey relational coefficients between the software to be developed and a source software in the database for each feature they exhibit; calculating the weights for each Grey relational... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090177446 - Method of designing magnetorheological fluid energy absorbing device using hydromechanical analysis: A method of designing a magnetorheological (MR) fluid energy absorbing damper is provided that uses hydromechanical analysis with lumped parameters to allow a determination as to whether a potential damper design will provide predetermined characteristics, such as a desired dynamic force range and maximum piston velocity, with a selected MR... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20090177450 - Systems and methods for predicting response of biological samples: Embodiments relate to genomic technologies using adaptive spline analysis that predict responses of cancer cells. For example, responses of cancer cells to specific medications and/or treatments may be predicted based on adaptive linear spline analyses.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090177451 - Apparatus and method for accelerating simulations and designing integrated circuits and other systems: A method of accelerating a Monte Carlo (MC) simulation for a system including a first component having a first input parameter and a second component having a second input parameter. The simulation model provided includes a first component model including a first model parameter corresponding to the first input parameter... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090177453 - Medical diagnosis support computer system, computer program, and server computer: A medical diagnosis support computer system for supporting diagnosis of a patient by a doctor, the system comprising: a display device; and a controller in communication with the display device, the controller comprising a processor configured to build a biological model representing biological functions of the patient on a computer,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090177454 - System and method for performing computerized simulations for image-guided procedures using a patient specific model: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method of performing computerized simulations of image-guided procedures. The method may include producing a digital image-based model of an anatomical structure based on medical image data, producing, based on the image-based model and extrapolated data, an extended model that represents the anatomical... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090177452 - Virtual tool manipulation system: In the field of virtual reality, virtual tool manipulation systems and related methods and software are described in the present disclosure. One implementation of a virtual tool manipulation system, among others, comprises a motion tracking system configured to generate motion information related to the position of a part of a... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20090177455 - Method for animating chemical mechanisms: A method and system for animating a chemical mechanism begins with user selections of an initial chemical structure and an operation to be performed on the chemical structure via a graphical user interface. Based on these selections, an engine determines a resulting modified chemical structure and a chemical mechanism animation.... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090177457 - Duty cycle distortion (dcd) jitter modeling, calibration and generation methods: A method and system for modeling and calibrating duty cycle distortion (DCD) of a Serializer and Deserializer (SerDes) device, including first generating a clock DCD signal. Once the clock DCD signal is generated, it is calibrating based upon results obtained from a filtering process of the clock DCD signal. Once... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090177456 - Mixed decoupled electromagnetic circuit solver: In a method, system and computer readable medium for determining a composite circuit model of a 3D geometry, first and second sides of an analytical model of the 3D geometry are discretize into first and second surface and/or volume meshes. For each mesh, a current that flows in each cell... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090177458 - Systems and methods for solar mapping, determining a usable area for solar energy production and/or providing solar information: A method of determining usable area of a structure for solar energy production may include obtaining a three-dimensional model of a structure and obstructions associated therewith, and performing a shading analysis using the obtained three-dimensional model to obtain a usable area of the structure. A method of providing solar information... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090177459 - Fault support in an emulation environment: An emulator is disclosed that allows for diagnoses of failures or defects within the emulator. A map of faulty resources is generated to identify which resources should be avoided during compilation. Thus, in a transparent and automated manner, defects found during diagnostics are stored in a database of unusable emulator... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090171626 - Integrated engineering analysis system: An integrated engineering analysis system comprises: a) a first integrated computational process, the first process being comprised of a plurality of computational solvers adapted to compute characteristics of a first component; b) a second integrated computational process, the second process being comprised of a plurality of computational solvers adapted to... Agent: General Electric Company

20090171629 - Network diagram display device, program and recording medium: Means to Solve the Problems: A physical connection between a router 10 and a switch 11 is expressed by drawing a connecting line A from circles (outer circles) indicative of the router 10 and the switch 11. By connecting between an outer circle and an intermediate circle/an inner circle with... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090171628 - Planning a sensor array in accordance with tempo-spatial path estimation of potential intruders: A computerized method and system for providing a user with at least one scenario in a modeled theater. The computerized method may include the following steps: a) selecting a plurality of threat-sites in the modeled theater, wherein the threat-site comprises at least one of the following: at least one threat-area,... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090171627 - System and method for surface reconstruction from an unstructured point set: A method of modeling a surface from a plurality of geometry points representing an object generally includes binning the plurality of geometry points into an n-dimensional array of cells and associating a binary value with each cell; applying a dilation algorithm to the binned plurality of geometry points to output... Agent: Sjm/afd-wiley

20090171632 - Automatic bne seed calculator: An automatic background noise estimator (BNE) seed calculator for determining a starting point for a BNE circuit which tracks the noise floor received by a receiver. The BNE seed calculator may sample a plurality of data points from the receiver and calculate the magnitude of each point. The seed calculator... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20090171633 - Computer-aided method for predicting particle uptake by a surface of a moving object: The invention relates to a computer-aided method for predicting particle uptake by a surface of an object moving in a flow current, comprising the following steps: preparing a discrete model of said object and the surrounding flow, including a projection area (21) for projecting said particles formed by a mesh... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090171635 - Electrostatic discharge voltage resistive current modeling method of electrostatic discharge protection device: Provided is a method for modeling an ESD breakdown current. According to one variation, a first proportional constant is based on a circumference of the ESD protection device and a second proportional constant based on an area of the ESD protection device. A dual first order equation is derived by... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20090171636 - High-speed operation method for coupled equations based on finite element method and boundary element method: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a high-speed operation method for directing a computer to process a coefficient matrix constituting simultaneous equations generated by modeling an analysis target into a mesh by using the finite element method and the boundary element method, said method includes obtaining two edges that... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090171631 - Integrated engineering analysis process: A method for performing analytical engineering analyses on a plurality of components comprises the steps of: a) performing a first integrated computational process, the first process being comprised of a plurality of computational solvers adapted to compute characteristics of a first component; b) performing a second integrated computational process, the... Agent: General Electric Company

20090171634 - Method for reconstructing gusts and structural loads at aircraft, in particular passenger aircraft: A method for reconstructing gusts and/or structural loads at aircraft, in particular passenger aircraft. The method includes generating an observer on the basis of a nonlinear model of the aircraft which describes the movement of the aircraft in all six degrees of freedom (DoF) and the elastic motion of the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090171630 - Multiple interest matchmaking in personal business networks: The present invention can increase the odds of choosing the right people for a team by considering their “rate of interest/knowledge” in multiple topics. Given a known contacts network, represented by nodes interconnected by links, several different sub-networks are identified within it, corresponding to different topics or areas of expertise... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090171637 - Analyzing model creating apparatus and method, and computer-readable storage medium: An analyzing model creating apparatus obtains a three-dimensional analyzing model (3D mode) of an analyzing target and regions of the 3D model, obtains a reference point on an impact surface from a normal vector of the impact surface represented by a unit vector and minimum and maximum values of each... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090171638 - Advanced-process-control system utilizing a lambda tuner: An advanced process control (APC) system. The APC system comprises a database for receiving process data from a measurement tool for a plurality of process runs and for storing the process data. A lambda tuner determines a tuned-lambda value corresponding to a process-capability-index value based on upper and lower process... Agent: Hitachi C/o Wagner Blecher LLP

20090171639 - Method to identify modulators for human 3alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase: 3 α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3α-HSD) plays a central role in the metabolism and action of steroid hormones and neurosteroids (steroids synthesized in the central nervous system). The high resolution structure of human type III 3α-HSD crystallized in complex with cofactor NADP is determined by X-ray diffraction. Furthermore the active site is... Agent: Novartis Corporate Intellectual Property

20090171641 - Novel homology model of the glycogen synthase kinase 3 alpha and its uses thereof: The present invention provides a novel homology three-dimensional structure of Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3-Alpha (GSK3-Alpha) or a variant thereof for screening, designing and/or synthesizing a modulator that modulates the activity of GSK3-Alpha and method of generating said three dimensional structure thereof. The three-dimensional structure of GSK3-Alpha is defined by at... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090171640 - Population sequencing using short read technologies: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate generating population sequences of strain variants included in a sample. Sequencing can be based on high throughput of short reads. Further, site variants exhibited in the short reads can be linked to reconstruct multiple full strains of a targeted gene,... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090171642 - Methods and systems for improving free energy estimation of fragments: Methods and systems for estimating the free energy of molecules from a plurality of fragments are disclosed. A number of poses for each fragment in an unbound state and a sum of the free energy values for each fragment may be determined. A number of acceptable poses for each of... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090171643 - Method to aid the design of a system architecture: The present invention relates to a method for aiding the design of a system architecture. The method for design of an architecture of a system according to an embodiment of the invention includes at least the following steps: functional and non-functional analysis of a technical requirement with which the system... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090171644 - Ca resistance variability prediction methodology: A methodology for obtaining improved prediction of CA resistance in electronic circuits and, particularly, an improved CA resistance model adapted to capture larger than anticipated “out of spec” regime. In one embodiment, a novel bucketization scheme is implemented that is codified to provide a circuit designer with considerably better design... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090171645 - Logic simulator and logic simulation method: According to one embodiment, a logical circuit to be simulated includes a timing network and a specific logical device. The timing network transmits a logical value change of an input signal in correspondence with an elapse of time or clock number increments. The specific logical device receives a timing network... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090171646 - Method for estimating power consumption: A method for determining system and software configuration that includes: calculating a power consumption estimate of a modeled system associated with an execution of a certain software code; and altering, in response to the power consumption estimate, the certain software code or the modeled system. A method of determining a... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090171648 - Instruction check program, instruction check apparatus, and i/o simulator: A computer-readable medium encoded with an instruction check program for making a computer to check a status of execution of an instruction by an I/O simulator that performs an operation simulation according to a structure of an I/O area of a microcomputer, the instruction check program when executed by a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090171647 - Interconnect architectural state coverage measurement methodology: A method and apparatus for ensuring efficient validation coverage of an architecture, such as protocol or interconnect architecture, is herein described. A coverage space of states for an architecture is generated and stored in a database. During simulation, states of the coverage space encountered are marked. From this, the states... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090171649 - User-defined application models: A system (and corresponding method) that employs wiki-type models to consider authoring rather than composition in an application environment is provided. The innovation enables collaborative information and templates to be used to enhance quality, productivity, etc. within a software application environment. These wiki-type models can provide features, functions and benefits... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090171650 - Non-volatile memories in interactive entertainment systems: In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, an interactive entertainment system includes a processor configured to operate interactive entertainment programs, a non-volatile memory connected with the processor including a first portion for random access memory (RAM) emulation, an input/output (I/O) interface connected with the processor and the non-volatile... Agent: Unity Semiconductor Corporation

20090171651 - Sdram-based tcam emulator for implementing multiway branch capabilities in an xml processor: The system and method of the present invention “emulates” the TCAM function using a data structure which is stored in an SDRAM device in such way that the size of emulated TCAM is substantially larger than the original TCAM device, thereby allowing the increase of the number of PPE programs... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090171652 - Virtualization program, simulation apparatus and virtualization method: A virtualization program for being able to execute a simulation at high speed, allows a native code simulator to have a stack specific to each task that is managed by a multitask OS. Processes of creation, save, restoration and erasure of a context that a target CPU executes by means... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP