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Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation November recently filed with US Patent Office 11/11

20110288824 - Designing lenses using stress birefringence performance criterion: A method for designing an imaging lens having reduced susceptibility to thermally-induced stress birefringence, the imaging lens having first and second groups of lens elements located either side of an aperture stop, the method comprising: defining a set of lens design attributes; defining a set of lens performance criteria including... Agent:

20110288825 - Method and system for equivalence checking: As part of the design process it is required to design circuits in order to reduce their power consumption. This is typically done by enabling or disabling flip-flops (FFs), however, such change in the circuit requires certain verification. As sequential clock gating changes the state function it is necessary to... Agent: Atrenta, Inc.

20110288826 - Computational design of ribozymes: Disclosed herein are methods, processes, and computer programs related to the design of ribozymes.... Agent:

20110288835 - Data processing device, data processing method and program: A data processing device includes a parameter estimation unit and a structure adjustment unit. The structure adjustment unit notes each state of an HMM as a noted state, obtains, for the noted state, a value corresponding to an eigen value difference which is a difference between a partial eigen value... Agent:

20110288836 - Detection of anomalies in an aircraft engine: A method and system for detecting anomalies in an aeroengine. The method and system define a behavior model of a controller of the aeroengine using a time regression modeling the behavior of the controller as a function of a data set relating to the controller and including measurements of past... Agent: Snecma

20110288828 - Distributed model identification: A method and system for identifying a distributed model for a nonlinear system represented by a block diagram. The distributed model identification can be achieved by first replacing all signal links across the block diagram with elastic links by augmenting each input port of a plurality of blocks with a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110288830 - Finite state machine diagram generation: A method for processing machine information of a system, such as an integrated circuit design, to generate a display of a finite state machine diagram by determining a position for the states in the diagram and then showing representations of the transitions between states to create a symmetrical, compact and... Agent:

20110288834 - Fluid structure interaction simulation method and apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium: A fluid structure interaction simulation method includes a graph information forming process to form graph information of nodes obtained by discretising a computing region for each of a fluid and a structure that are represented by meshes, and a main time development loop process to simulate a physical phenomenon. The... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110288831 - Method and system for checkpointing during simulations: Method and system for more efficient checkpointing strategy in cross correlating (316) a forward (328) and backward (308) propagated wave such as in migrating (326) or inverting seismic data. The checkpointing strategy includes storing in memory forward simulation data at a checkpointed time step, wherein the stored data are sufficient... Agent:

20110288833 - Method and system for measured value simulation: A method, system and computer program product for measured value simulation. The method including the steps of: observing measured values of an event to provide observed values, where the step of observing starts at a predetermined observation time; concurrently running a plurality of simulations, where the simulations have behaviors that... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110288829 - Method and system to optimize semiconductor products for power, performance, noise, and cost through use of variable power supply voltage compression: A method of integrated circuit design and, more particularly, a method and system to optimize semiconductor products for power, performance, noise, die area, and cost through use of variable power supply voltage compression. The method is implemented in a computer-based tool and includes: embedding relationships in an optimization tool running... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110288827 - Numerical model for simulating polymeric material properties: Methods and systems using a numerical model to describe polymeric material properties are disclosed. FEM model of a product is defined. FEM model includes one or more solid elements of polymeric material. In a time-marching simulation of the product under loads, stress state of the solid elements is calculated from... Agent: Livermore Software Technology Corporation

20110288832 - System and method for nucleic acid sequence design: Described herein are systems and processes for designing the sequence of one or more interacting nucleic acid strands intended to adopt a target secondary structure at equilibrium. The target secondary structure is decomposed into a binary tree and candidate mutations are evaluated on leaf nodes of the tree. During a... Agent: California Institute Of Technology

20110288838 - Device for predicting deformation behavior of rubber material and method for predicting deformation behavior of rubber material: The present invention relates to a method for predicting a deformation behavior of a rubber material capable of accurately analyzing a deformation behavior of a rubber material even in a micro level, and more specifically, to a method for predicting a deformation behavior of a rubber material, including: generating a... Agent: Bridgestone Corporation

20110288837 - Multi-stage process modeling method: A process is modeled by resolving the process into a plurality of process stages, including at least a first process stage and a second process stage, and developing a plurality of models, each model corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of process stages, wherein the model corresponding to... Agent: Fisher-rosemount Systems, Inc.

20110288839 - Open-world modeling: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate generating an inference about events that may not have yet been observed. Open-world modeling can be used to take a history of observation so as to understand trends over time in the revelation of previously unseen events, and to make... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110288841 - Vehicle simulation system with software-in-the-loop bypass control: A vehicle simulation system includes a first simulation model that when executed simulates a software ring along with other software of a vehicle module. The vehicle simulation system further includes a second simulation model of the software ring. A bypass switch that has a first state and a second state.... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110288840 - Vehicle system modeling systems and methods: A vehicle simulation system includes a compiler module, a parser module, a wrapper module, a modeling module, and a simulation module. The compiler module generates object code that is compatible with a first type of operating system based on source code that is executable by a vehicle control module and... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110288843 - Method for interpretation of distributed temperature sensors during wellbore treatment: A method for determining flow distribution in a formation having a wellbore formed therein includes the steps of positioning a sensor within the wellbore, wherein the sensor generates a feedback signal representing at least one of a temperature and a pressure measured by the sensor, injecting a fluid into the... Agent:

20110288842 - System and method for simulating oilfield operations: A method is provided for simulating oilfield operations. The method may include receiving two or more reservoir models to be simulated and receiving two or more surface models to be simulated. The method may further include automatically generating a communication file to couple the two or more reservoir models with... Agent: Schlumberger Technology Corporation

20110288845 - Construction method and system of fragments assembling scaffold, and genome sequencing device: The present invention relates to gene engineering filed, and provides a genome sequencing device, construction method of fragments assembling scaffold and system thereof. The method comprises the following steps: mapping the double-barreled data obtained through sequencing to contigs; calculating the mean length between contigs based on multiple pairs of double-barreled... Agent:

20110288844 - Modeling of mpges-1 three-dimensional structures: applications in drug design and discovery: This invention relates to representations of prostaglandin synthase three-dimensional structures. Such representations are suitable for designing agents that modulate the activity of the enzyme by binding to the substrate binding domain.... Agent: The University Of Kentucky Research Foundation

20110288846 - Technique and tool for efficient testing of controllers in development (h-act project): An improved tool and technique for performance quality testing of a synthesized controller or a controller-in-development is disclosed. A controller's performance in a test run within a simulation testing environment is quantitatively compared to an optimal performance parameter as defined in a controller performance model. Deviation between these compared results... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110288847 - Predicting database system performance: A prediction system may perform capacity planning for one or more resources of a database systems, such as by understanding how different workloads are using the system resources and/or predicting how the performance of the workloads will change when the hardware configuration of the resource is changed and/or when the... Agent: Microsoft Corpororation

20110288848 - Passing non-architected registers via a callback/advance mechanism in a simulator environment: Embodiments of the invention provide a method of calculating performance counter data for a computer simulator, while minimizing the performance costs associated with cycle-accurate simulation. A callback may be associated with the instructions of a user program and, when the instructions are executed, the associated callbacks may be executed as... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110282633 - Component building system: A component building system that is cost effective and flexible enough to be adapted for single story to multi-stories building structures. The component system comprises of mostly standardized open rib wall panel components and floor panel components. The basic open rib wall panel component's design is comprised of a cementitious... Agent:

20110282632 - Method of computer-aided design of edges connecting faces of a modeled object: The invention is directed method of computer-aided design of edges connecting faces of a modeled object, the method comprising a step of:—determining (S100-S130) a structure of subsets of faces and edges of specified convex or concave type, by iteratively disconnecting (¦S120¦) faces connected by edges of one type from a... Agent: Dassault Systemes

20110282634 - Method and apparatus for near well structural modeling based on borehole dips: A method for structure modeling of a formation penetrated by multiple wells includes obtaining borehole dips from borehole measurements; filtering the borehole dips based on a dip sequence analysis; computing structural dips based on the filtered dips; computing structural delineation by using the structural dips; projecting the structural dips to... Agent: Schlumberger Technology Corporation

20110282637 - Numerical simulation of airflow within porous materials: Systems and methods of numerically simulating airflow within porous materials are disclosed. Engineering product (e.g., car seat) represented by a finite element analysis model containing in part porous material with permeability. In each solution cycle of a time-marching simulation, each of the elements of porous material is evaluated with airflow... Agent: Livermore Software Technology Corporation

20110282635 - Stochastic downscaling algorithm and applications to geological model downscaling: A computer-aided method of downscaling a three-dimensional geological model by generating numerical stochastic fine-scale models conditioning to data of different scales and capturing spatial uncertainties which involves a downscaling algorithm.... Agent: Conocophillips Company

20110282636 - Variable resolution uncertainty expert system for digital bathymetry database: System and method for estimating uncertainty by obtaining conditional probability densities of bathymetric uncertainty due to navigation error and bottom slope using a Monte Carlo technique, using the Monte Carlo results to train a Bayesian Network to provide the causal relationships of navigation error and bottom slope to bathymetric uncertainty,... Agent: The Government Of The United States, As Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy

20110282638 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition mechanism acquiring information on biological time of a user and information on a time difference between a movement source of the user and a movement destination; a storage mechanism storing model information produced by modeling a sunshine pattern, an expression pattern of a... Agent: Sony Corporation

20110282639 - Modeling of non-quasi-static effects during hot carrier injection programming of non-volatile memory cells: A non-quasi-static model of the programming behavior of a floating-gate metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor. This model is based on evaluation of a body current, for example determined as a function of voltages applied to the transistor from the circuit environment. The body current is used as an input to a non-quasi-static... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20110282640 - Timing analysis using formal methods: A method and tools for providing precise timing analysis scalable to industrial case studies with large numbers of tasks and messages are provided, including the capability to model and analyze task and message response times; ECU usage; bus usage; end-to-end latency of task/message chains; and timing synchronization problems in task/message... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110282641 - Method and system for real-time particle simulation: A method and system for particle simulation are provided in which the number of particles is held as close as possible below a prescribed particle limit. When adding new particles to the simulation results in approaches the particle limit, new particles which contribute most to the visual quality of the... Agent:

20110282642 - Network emulation in manual and automated testing tools: A network emulation system is described herein that allows a software developer to accurately simulate different network characteristics while testing an application, framework, or other software code on a single or multiple computers. The system also provides an ability to record a real network's characteristics and apply those characteristics during... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110276314 - Method for calculating the sphericity of a structure: Sphericity of a structure can be determined using the technology described herein. A system for determining sphericity can include a computer processor configured to compute a covariance matrix for a three dimensional model of a structure. The processor can be configured to calculate a sphericity of the structure using the... Agent: General Electric Company

20110276316 - Method for designing a tube frame: The invention relates to a method for designing a tube frame out of a number of tube parts, the method comprising the steps of: providing a selection of predefined tube parts, each tube part having at least one attachment zone; selecting a first tube part from the selection of predefined... Agent:

20110276315 - System and method for identifying under-defined geometries due to singular constraint schemes: Systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying under-defined geometries due to singular constraint schemes. A method includes receiving a CAD model having a plurality of geometries and determining the degrees of freedom for each of the geometries. The method includes identifying a number of constraints on each of the... Agent: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.

20110276318 - Method for determining the closure pressure of a hydraulic fracture: The method relates to the field of hydraulic fracturing of subsurface formations. A mathematical simulation model of a pressure pulse propagation inside a wellbore and inside a fracture is created. Pressure pulses are sent to the wellbore, and the response of the well to the pressure pulses is registered. Then,... Agent: Schlimberger Technology Corporation

20110276317 - Systems and methods for model-based qpcr: A method for determining a cycle threshold for a PCR amplification curve is provided. The method includes receiving a data set for a plurality of biological samples for a PCR amplification reaction. The data set includes a plurality of amplification curves, each amplification curve associated with a biological sample of... Agent: Life Technologies Corporation

20110276320 - Artifact reduction in iterative inversion of geophysical data: Method for reducing artifacts in a subsurface physical properties model (120) inferred by iterative inversion (140) of geophysical data (130), wherein the artifacts are associated with some approximation (110) made during the iterative inversion. In the method, some aspect of the approximation is changed (160) as the inversion is iterated... Agent:

20110276319 - Determination of material optical properties for optical metrology of structures: Methods of determining a material optical property for optical metrology of a structure is described. One method includes simulating a set of diffraction orders for a grating structure based on two or more azimuth angles and on one or more angles of incidence. A simulated spectrum is provided based on... Agent:

20110276321 - Device specific configuration of operating voltage: A method and circuit for device specific configuration of an operating voltage is provided. A circuit design is analyzed to determine a maximum gate-level delay for the circuit design. A minimum voltage value corresponding to the maximum gate-level delay is determined along with a default voltage value corresponding to a... Agent: Xilinx, Inc.

20110270584 - Building structure discovery and display from various data artifacts at scene: An approach for developing information about a building of which little or no information is known at a time when firefighters need to enter the building. The approach may incorporate obtaining an image of the building from a publicly available resource. An outside boundary of the building may be determined... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110270585 - Collimation lens having freeform surface and design method thereof: A freeform surface included collimation lens is provided, which is designed through a freeform surface design process to provide an integrally-formed unitary structure. The design method includes a step of identifying an optic field pattern of light source, a step of performing graphic analysis of freeform surface tangential vector formula,... Agent:

20110270583 - Compensation orthodontic archwire design: Method and workstation automatically designing an arch-wire including compensations for auxiliary appliances or biological constraints exerting unknown forces to achieve a pre-planned treatment goal are disclosed. The adjusted customized arch-wire is designed after an initial customized arch-wire has been used to treat a patient and is at or near equilibrium.... Agent:

20110270586 - Method and system for designing an assembly of objects in a system of computer-aided design: The invention is directed to a method for designing an assembly of objects in a system of computer-aided design, the method comprising: (i) selecting a first object and a second object of the assembly, each of the first object and the second object having interface information; (ii) computing a set... Agent: Dassault Systemes

20110270587 - Structural optimization system, structural optimization methodlogy, and structural optimization program: The present invention enables a shape of an optimum structure to be clearly represented, and structural optimization having a high degree of freedom such as the allowance of a change in topology in a material domain Ω to be performed. The present invention sets a level set function φ; under... Agent: Kyoto University

20110270581 - System and method for chaining graphical curves: A CAD system and corresponding method and computer program product. A method includes receiving a set of intersecting curves and receiving a selection of a source curve and a destination curve from the set of intersecting curves. The method includes receiving a selection intent rule and calculating a first chain... Agent: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.

20110270582 - Systems and methods providing smart nodes for three-dimensional models: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for creating physical and virtual design models. Embodiments of the invention provide methods for creating physical design models and rendering the physical design models as virtual models in design programs. Virtual indicia (smart nodes) provided by embodiments of the invention provide customizable... Agent: Disney Enterprises

20110270589 - Determining ill conditioning in square linear system of equations: Determining ill conditioning in square linear systems of equations is disclosed. Specifically, a method, system and computer program product for determining ill conditioning in square linear systems of equations is disclosed, the method including sampling condition numbers in the square linear systems of equations, and classifying the condition numbers sampled... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110270588 - Individualized orthodontic treatment index: Embodiments are provided for using an individualized orthodontic treatment index. One method embodiment includes receiving an initial virtual dental model from a first scan of a patient's dentition, modifying the initial virtual dental model to create a target virtual dental model according to a treatment goal, assigning a number of... Agent: Align Technology, Inc.

20110270593 - Method and apparatus for simulating physical fields: In order to design on-chip interconnect structures in a flexible way, a CAD approach is advocated in three dimensions, describing high frequency effects such as current redistribution due to the skin-effect or eddy currents and the occurrence of slow-wave modes. The electromagnetic environment is described by a scalar electric potential... Agent: Imec

20110270592 - Method and device for tracking the path of motion of a moving object as well as computer program and data storage media: Method, device, computer program and computer program product for tracking the path of motion of a moving object. The method includes a) providing data of at least one state variable to be determined, which influences the movement of the moving object, at a first point in time; b) initializing the... Agent: Lfk-lenkflugkoerpersysteme Gmbh

20110270590 - Nonlinear identification using compressed sensing and minimal system sampling: Compressed sensing is used to determine a model of a nonlinear system. In one example, L1-norm minimization is used to fit a generic model function to a set of samples thereby obtaining a fitted model. Convex optimization can be used to determine model coefficients that minimize the L1-norm. In one... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110270594 - Predicting a compaction point of a clastic sediment based on grain packing: An end compaction point of a clastic sediment within a subsurface region is predicted by establishing a first grain size distribution, wherein the first grain size distribution is a measured grain size distribution, or a predicted grain size distribution. A discrete element model of the subsurface region is initialized, wherein... Agent:

20110270591 - Proxy methods for expensive function optimization with expensive nonlinear constraints: A method for optimizing expensive functions with expensive nonlinear constraints. The method includes selecting sample data for evaluating an expensive function of a simulation, generating a function proxy model for the expensive function and a constraint proxy model for an expensive nonlinear constraint of the expensive function using an approximation... Agent: Schlumberger Technology Corporation

20110270595 - Model driven approach for availability management framework (amf) configuration generation: A method and system for generating an Availability Management Framework (AMF) configuration based on a model driven approach. The AMF configuration is an instance of an AMF sub-profile that can be used to model resources and services to be protected, and is generated from an instance of the Entity Type... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)

20110270596 - Apparatus, system and method for predictive modeling to design, evaluate and optimize ophthalmic lenses: An apparatus, system and method for predictive modeling to design, evaluate and optimize ophthalmic lenses is disclosed. Ophthalmic lenses may include, for example, contacts, glasses or intraocular lenses (IOLs). The apparatus, system and method may include a design tool for designing a lens for implantation in an eye having a... Agent: Amo Regional Holdings

20110270598 - Integrated circuit design and simulation: An integrated circuit design method, system and simulator, wherein the integrated circuit design method includes: determining a region in which power supply noise shall be analyzed; determining current model parameters of the region; determining model parameters of a power supply network model; inputting into a simulator a net list; judging... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110270597 - Tracking array data contents across three-valued read and write operations: A mechanism is provided in an integrated circuit simulator for tracking array data contents across three-value read and write operations. The mechanism accounts for write operations with data values and address values having X symbols. The mechanism performs writes to a tree data structure that is used to store the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110270599 - Method for testing integrated circuit and semiconductor memory device: A method for testing an integrated circuit includes simulating the integrated circuit and generating waveforms of signals at a plurality of nodes of the integrated circuit, generating a text file representing the signal waveforms by detecting a waveform change of the signals, and analyzing the text file.... Agent:

20110270600 - Method and apparatus for providing interoperability between devices: An apparatus, method, and computer program product are provided for enabling interoperability between devices, such as a mobile terminal and some other remote device or remote environment. The apparatus may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and... Agent: Nokia Corporation