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

20090216502 - Carrier design system: An article of manufacture and method is disclosed to design an interior space having a plurality of components that includes displaying a plurality of interior design elements each having a common first attribute within a first attribute group, with the first attribute associated with a first interior space component. Further,... Agent: Jackson Esquire Roger A. Jackson

20090216503 - Method and system for converting a traditional architecual plan for a structure into a panelized system plan for the structure: An (note: an electronic version is not always received. Many times it's traditional hard copy and must be converted to electronic format) traditional architectural plan along with any structural drawings for a structure is received as input. Selected walls of the structure depicted in the architectural plan, such as external... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20090216501 - System and apparatus for vicinity and in-building visualization, planning, monitoring and exploring: The present invention is a method and system of planning, monitoring and exploring the interior and vicinity of a building or an infra-structure utilizing a computer. The method provides a GUI that optimizes the limited screen space of the computer to provide important functions and toolsets to design scenarios for... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090216506 - Method and system that optimizes mean process performance and process robustness: A method, system and computer readable medium are disclosed. The method, system and computer readable medium comprises providing a mathematically linked multi-step process for simultaneously determining operating conditions of a system or process that will result in optimum performance in both mean performance requirements and system robustness requirements. In a... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090216504 - Selecting spectral elements and components for optical analysis systems: Methods of selecting spectral elements and system components for a multivariate optical analysis system include providing spectral calibration data for a sample of interest; identifying a plurality of combinations of system components; modeling performance of a pilot system with one of the combinations of system components; determining optimal characteristics of... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.a.

20090216505 - System and method for efficient well placement optimization: The disclosed methods, systems, and software are described for optimizing well placement in a reservoir field. A geological model of a reservoir field, a grid defining a plurality of cells, one or more wells to be located within the plurality of cells, and an objective function are all provided. The... Agent: Chevron Services Company Law, Intellectual Property Group

20090216507 - Engine control experimenting apparatus: The invention aims at providing an engine control experimenting apparatus which enables to easily carry out a confirmation test of an operation in all operation states with regard to the performance of various engine control parts constituting an engine system. In this engine control experimenting apparatus, various engine control parts,... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer Pllc

20090216508 - Well modeling associated with extraction of hydrocarbons from subsurface formations: A method and apparatus for associated with various phases of a well completion. In one embodiment, a method is described that includes identifying first principle physical laws governing performance of a well completion and parameters associated with the first principle physical laws or the well. A coupled physics simulator is... Agent: Douglas W. Mcarthur Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

20090216509 - User interface for modeling thermal comfort: Predicting thermal strain and providing a visual representation of the predicted thermal strain on a subject. A computerized model combines subject data, fabric data, and environmental conditions to simulate the thermal comfort of the subject wearing a plurality of fabric layers over time. The visual representation indicates the simulated thermal... Agent: Christopher M. Goff (27839) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090216510 - Mobile node simulator and program for mounting the same: A mobile node simulator (100) includes: a behavior simulator section (140) for simulating behaviors of a plurality of mobile nodes in accordance with a behavior model, the behavior model being definable by a user; and a network simulator section (120) for simulating a communication on a network including the plurality... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.l.p. (main)

20090216511 - Sensor simulator: Sensor simulator for testing behavior of a process installation as a function of signals of a sensor, whose signals are simulated by the sensor simulator, wherein the process installation includes at least one measurement path having a sensor interface for connecting the sensor, to which the sensor simulator can be... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20090216513 - Design verification using directives having local variables: n

20090216512 - Method and apparatus for indirectly simulating a semiconductor integrated circuit: A method and an apparatus for indirectly simulating a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) are described. A circle chain is formed using input pins and output pins to provide an intellectual property (IP) core model that substitutes for a real IP core circuit. A test bench for the IP core model... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20090216514 - Resource remapping in a hardware emulation environment: A system and method is disclosed in an emulation environment that dynamically remaps user designs. In one embodiment, a request is received to load an integrated circuit design to be emulated in a desired partition within the emulator. The emulator automatically determines the availability of the partition requested. If the... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090216515 - Using a serial profiler to estimate the performance of a parallel circuit simulation: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that profiles a serial simulation of a circuit to estimate the performance of a parallel simulation of the circuit. During operation, the system profiles execution of module instances during a serial simulation of the circuit, wherein each module instance includes code... Agent: Pvf -- Synopsys, Inc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090216517 - Dedicated simulator for testing a usb host solution: An apparatus, system and method for testing USB host solutions, which provide for interactions with simulated USB devices according to the USB specification and also the behavior of actual USB devices as determined in a working environment.... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20090216516 - Method, system and computer program product for generating trace data: There is provided a method, system and computer program product for generating trace data related to a data processing system event. The method includes: receiving an instruction relating to the system event from a location in the system; determining a minimum number of trace segment records required to record instruction... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090216518 - Emulated multi-tasking multi-processor channels implementing standard network protocols: A computer program product, apparatus and method for emulating channels in a multi-tasking multi-processor environment, including identifying a plurality of physical channels having an associated physical channel identifier for each of the plurality of physical channels, associating an emulated channel from a plurality of emulated channels for each of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20090216519 - Data processing system and method: Embodiments of the invention relate to a data processing system and method for supporting dynamically assigning devices within a virtualisation environment.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090216521 - Emulation export sequence with distrubuted control: Emulation information including emulation control information and emulation data is exported from a data processor by arranging the emulation information into information blocks, and outputting a sequence of the information blocks from the data processor. Some of the information blocks of the sequence have relative proportions of emulation control information... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090216520 - System and method for interfacing a media processing apparatus with a computer: A system comprising a media processing apparatus and a computer where the media processing apparatus emulates a mass storage device and interfaces with the computer is disclosed. In one embodiment the media processing apparatus appears to the computer as a Universal serial bus (USB) mass storage device, and the operating... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090210203 - Cell-planning method for wireless optical communication system: A cell-planning method for a wireless optical communication system includes: implementing a target region for constructing a wireless optical communication system as a virtual space; disposing a virtual light source within the virtual space; checking a sequence number of a virtual light ray generated by the virtual light source; checking... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20090210202 - Method and apparatus for simulating quasi-periodic circuit operating conditions using a mixed frequency/time algorithm: Described is a process for performing an improved mixed frequency-time algorithm to simulate responses of a circuit that receives a periodic sample signal and at least one information signal. The process selects a set of evenly spaced distinct time points and a set of reference time points. Each of the... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20090210204 - Segmentation and interpolation of current waveforms: A method for generating a linear piecewise representation of a driver output current signal includes segmenting the driver output current signal such that an integral of each segment matches an actual voltage change in corresponding portion of an associated output voltage signal (within a desired tolerance). The beginning and ending... Agent: Bever, Hoffman & Harms, LLP

20090210201 - System and method to predict chip iddq and control leakage components: A method for predicting and controlling leakage wherein an IDDQ prediction macro is placed in a plurality of design topographies and data is collected using the IDDQ prediction macro. The IDDQ prediction macro is configured to measure subthreshold leakage and gate leakage for at least one device type in a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090210205 - Geospatial modeling system providing simulated tree trunks and branches for groups of tree crown vegetation points and related methods: A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model data storage device containing geospatial model data including a plurality of groups of tree crown vegetation points and a display. The system may further include a processor cooperating with the geospatial model data storage device and the display for displaying a... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20090210206 - Method and for wide track erasure in a hard disk drive: A method and its implementation as a program system are disclosed herein for generating an air flow report based upon a cellular model of the air flow of a hard disk drive including a parameterized component approximated by a component parameter list and a map of the partitioned regions of... Agent: Gregory Smith & Associates

20090210209 - Apparatus and method for simulating effects of substances: A method and system for simulating the effect of pharmaceutical substances inside a living body, the method including inputting medication details and pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic data of the medication, storing the input medication details and pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic data, calculating concentration and effect of the medication on at least one... Agent: Deborah A. Gador

20090210208 - Brains stimulation models, systems, devices, and methods: This document discusses, among other things, brain stimulation models, systems, devices, and methods, such as for deep brain stimulation (DBS) or other electrical stimulation. In an example, a target volume of activation (VOA) can be received, a test VOA can be simulated, and at least one of a target electrode... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090210207 - System and method for sequence variation/prediction and genetic engineering detection using documented codon/amino acid mutation and/or substitution patterns: The present invention primarily relates to protein identification and can be particularly useful for bioinformaticists employing a mass spectrometry analysis. The present invention provides systems and methods to produce virtual databases, virtual database entries, or virtual amino acid sequences that can be used to improve the identification of unknown proteins... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090210211 - Method for reconstructing statement, and computer system having the function therefor: Provided is a computer system (1) including a storage (2) for storing a netlist (31), and a contents generator (12) for generating a program (32) containing a statement to execute a plurality of operations of an operation portion contained in the netlist (31). The operation portion includes an operation performing... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090210210 - Method of accurate prediction of electrostatic discharge (esd) performance in multi-voltage environment: The present invention relates generally to semiconductor wafer fabrication and more particularly but not exclusively to predictive, pre-fabrication methodologies for determining inefficiencies in an integrated circuit (IC) design. The present invention, in one or more implementations, provides an effective pre-production methodology for predicting the efficiency and behavior of a designed... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090210212 - Validating one or more circuits using one or more grids: In one embodiment, a method includes simulating by one or more computer systems a larger circuit to assign one or more values to one or more latch variables associated with the larger circuit, generating by the one or more computer systems one or more reduced circuits from the larger circuit... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090204373 - System, method and computer program product for computer modeling with generative components: A computer-implemented method in a computer modeling environment having generative components may include defining an update method of a parent generative component (GC) feature including means for creating a collection containing at least one child GC feature; creating a parent GC feature having the defined update method; executing the update... Agent: Venable LLP

20090204374 - Methods and systems for the identification of components of mammalian biochemical networks as targets for therapeutic agents: Systems and methods for modeling the interactions of the several genes, proteins and other components of a cell, employing mathematical techniques to represent the interrelationships between the cell components and the manipulation of the dynamics of the cell to determine which components of a cell may be targets for interaction... Agent: Attention Of: Barry Evans, Esq. C/o Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20090204375 - Numerical simulation apparatus for time dependent schrodinger equation: To provide a numerical simulation apparatus capable of executing a numerical simulation with high speed and precision by reducing computational complexity. A numerical simulation apparatus (100) that executes a numerical simulation using a wave function which is a solution of a time dependent Schrödinger equation includes: a real time evolution... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090204376 - Method for measuring a nonlinear dynamic real system: In order to provide rapid and precise generation of the experimental designs, and the global optimization thereof, while taking into account the test constraints and additional criteria, at least two subsets selected as a function of each other are determined in succession, a common experimental design is generated taking into... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20090204377 - Method for constructing geologic models of subsurface sedimentary volumes: A method is disclosed for using a three-dimensional seismic image of a subsurface earth volume to construct a geologic model specifying the spatially-varying grain size distribution, porosity, and permeability throughout the volume. The method applies to earth volumes composed of water-lain clastic sedimentary deposits and involves, in one embodiment, (a)... Agent: Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

20090204379 - Integrated biosensor and simulation system for diagnosis and therapy: BioMEMS/NEMS appliance biologically monitors an individual, using biosensors to detect cellular components. Data is simulated or analyzed using systems-biology software, which provides diagnostic or therapeutic guidance.... Agent: Fernandez & Associates LLP

20090204378 - Protein crystal of human cytochrome p450 aromatase and uses thereof: The present invention relates to a protein crystal of at least one binding site of a human aromatase. The present invention also relates to a fully processed human cytochrome P450 aromatase and a protein crystal thereof. The present invention further relates to methods of making and using the aromatase and... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20090204380 - Performance evaluation simulation: A performance evaluation simulation apparatus divides a process into basic process units based on an execution log, calculates a throughput of each basic process unit from information held in the execution log, changes an arrangement structure so that a basic process unit with the calculated throughput exceeding a predetermined threshold... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090204381 - Simulation methods and systems for carriers having multiplications: A simulation of a multiplication process includes tracing histories of a plurality of carriers, increasing a weight factor of a carrier to simulate a multiplication of the carrier, and summing the number of the plurality of carriers. Each of the plurality of carriers is multiplied by its respective weight factor.... Agent: Feng Ma

20090204382 - System for assembling behavior models of technology components: A system is described for assembling a behavior model of a technology component. The system may include a memory, and a processor. The memory may store a behavior model of a technology component. The processor may to monitor the technology component over a period of time to determine a plurality... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090204384 - Debugging device, debugging method and hardware emulator: A hardware emulator having: a verification target circuit that includes a CPU in which progress of instruction execution is controlled by a program counter, and a circuit that operates according to the instruction execution by the CPU; at least one replica circuit that is formed by replication of the verification... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090204383 - Procedure and device for emulating a programmable unit providing system integrity control: A method and corresponding equipment for emulation of a target programmable unit, which has at least one CPU, by means of an external emulation device, which is coupled to the target programmable unit by means of a communication link, comprising: transferring predetermined initialization data through the communication link to the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090204373 - System, method and computer program product for computer modeling with generative components: A computer-implemented method in a computer modeling environment having generative components may include defining an update method of a parent generative component (GC) feature including means for creating a collection containing at least one child GC feature; creating a parent GC feature having the defined update method; executing the update... Agent: Venable LLP

20090204374 - Methods and systems for the identification of components of mammalian biochemical networks as targets for therapeutic agents: Systems and methods for modeling the interactions of the several genes, proteins and other components of a cell, employing mathematical techniques to represent the interrelationships between the cell components and the manipulation of the dynamics of the cell to determine which components of a cell may be targets for interaction... Agent: Attention Of: Barry Evans, Esq. C/o Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20090204375 - Numerical simulation apparatus for time dependent schrodinger equation: To provide a numerical simulation apparatus capable of executing a numerical simulation with high speed and precision by reducing computational complexity. A numerical simulation apparatus (100) that executes a numerical simulation using a wave function which is a solution of a time dependent Schrödinger equation includes: a real time evolution... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090204376 - Method for measuring a nonlinear dynamic real system: In order to provide rapid and precise generation of the experimental designs, and the global optimization thereof, while taking into account the test constraints and additional criteria, at least two subsets selected as a function of each other are determined in succession, a common experimental design is generated taking into... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20090204377 - Method for constructing geologic models of subsurface sedimentary volumes: A method is disclosed for using a three-dimensional seismic image of a subsurface earth volume to construct a geologic model specifying the spatially-varying grain size distribution, porosity, and permeability throughout the volume. The method applies to earth volumes composed of water-lain clastic sedimentary deposits and involves, in one embodiment, (a)... Agent: Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

20090204379 - Integrated biosensor and simulation system for diagnosis and therapy: BioMEMS/NEMS appliance biologically monitors an individual, using biosensors to detect cellular components. Data is simulated or analyzed using systems-biology software, which provides diagnostic or therapeutic guidance.... Agent: Fernandez & Associates LLP

20090204378 - Protein crystal of human cytochrome p450 aromatase and uses thereof: The present invention relates to a protein crystal of at least one binding site of a human aromatase. The present invention also relates to a fully processed human cytochrome P450 aromatase and a protein crystal thereof. The present invention further relates to methods of making and using the aromatase and... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20090204380 - Performance evaluation simulation: A performance evaluation simulation apparatus divides a process into basic process units based on an execution log, calculates a throughput of each basic process unit from information held in the execution log, changes an arrangement structure so that a basic process unit with the calculated throughput exceeding a predetermined threshold... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090204381 - Simulation methods and systems for carriers having multiplications: A simulation of a multiplication process includes tracing histories of a plurality of carriers, increasing a weight factor of a carrier to simulate a multiplication of the carrier, and summing the number of the plurality of carriers. Each of the plurality of carriers is multiplied by its respective weight factor.... Agent: Feng Ma

20090204382 - System for assembling behavior models of technology components: A system is described for assembling a behavior model of a technology component. The system may include a memory, and a processor. The memory may store a behavior model of a technology component. The processor may to monitor the technology component over a period of time to determine a plurality... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090204384 - Debugging device, debugging method and hardware emulator: A hardware emulator having: a verification target circuit that includes a CPU in which progress of instruction execution is controlled by a program counter, and a circuit that operates according to the instruction execution by the CPU; at least one replica circuit that is formed by replication of the verification... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090204383 - Procedure and device for emulating a programmable unit providing system integrity control: A method and corresponding equipment for emulation of a target programmable unit, which has at least one CPU, by means of an external emulation device, which is coupled to the target programmable unit by means of a communication link, comprising: transferring predetermined initialization data through the communication link to the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090198476 - 4-d inversion of geophysical data and 4-d imaging method of geological structure using it: The method for 4-D inversion of geophysical data for calculating distribution of subsurface material properties from geophysical data includes (a) defining measured data into space-time coordinates, and defining a reference space-time model vector (U) composed of many reference space model vectors (U) for a plurality of pre-selected reference times to... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090198477 - Method for comparing and back allocating production: Methods and system for incorporating downhole and surface data with models and adjustment algorithms to back allocate flow rates of commingled zones. The models include fluid flow in the reservoir and wellbore, pressure drop across a choke, and fluid flow in the well completion. The models are coupled with an... Agent: Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Company

20090198478 - Oilfield emulator: A method for performing oilfield operations for an oilfield. The method includes receiving modeling data and user instructions from a graphical user interface, selectively adjusting at least a portion of the modeling data to generate adjusted modeling data, obtaining an oilfield model based on the user instructions, instantiating first and... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20090198479 - Methods to design probes and primers: A web-based computational system and method for high-throughput gene mining and target identification and validation based on conserved functional blocks automates the generation of conserved regions of high sequence similarity using algorithms and optimizes probe design for fragment amplification from homologous genomes.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090198480 - System and method for simulating conciousness: A simulated consciousness method (10) for an improved human/computer interface. A computer system (12) is programmed to have a Digital Life Form (32) possessing a plurality of attributes (65). A plurality of actions (64) taken relative to objects (60) in the environment (30) contribute to simulated feelings (76) which ultimately... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20090198483 - Apparatus and method for network emulation by using hardware accelerated network interface cards: This invention is an apparatus and a method to emulate packet networks at maximum network physical layer speeds by using hardware accelerated network interfaces cards (HANIC) in a host computer system. The system emulates packet network characteristics by introducing all possible impairments such as latency, packet loss, bandwidth throttling to... Agent: Sezen Uysal

20090198481 - Business process optimizer: A system and method for optimizing enterprise applications driven by business processes is provided. The method for optimizing business processes comprises the steps of obtaining process data, optimizing the process data using algorithms, simulating execution of one of the process data and the optimized process data, publishing the optimized process... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090198482 - Methods and systems for predicting application performance: A method for identifying and evaluating potential computer network configuration problems as related to deployment of one or more computer applications accessed via an associated computer network architecture is described. The method includes emulating the computer network architecture and a capability associated with network interconnections between computer application points of... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090198484 - Scalable automated empirical testing of media files on media players: Scalable empirical testing of media file playback utilizes test hooks in each media player to support simulated human interaction and playback monitoring. A media crawler catalogs media files accumulated in a media file database to create a wordlist. One or more scalable instances of media tester accesses the wordlist to... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20090198485 - Integrated circults to control access to multiple layers of memory in a solid state drive: Circuits to control access to memory; for example, third dimension memory are disclosed. An integrated circuit (IC) may be configured to control access to memory cells. For example, the IC may include a memory having memory cells that are vertically disposed in multiple layers of memory. The IC may include... Agent: Unity Semiconductor Corporation