Electrical computers: arithmetic processing and calculating inventions 07/08

20080183779 - Method and system for optimal parallel computing performance: A system and method that optimizes reduce operations by consolidating the operation into a limited number of participating processes and then distributing the results back to all processes to optimize large message global reduce operations on non power-of-two processes. The method divides a group of processes into subgroups, performs paired... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080183780 - Method, computer program product and apparatus for capturing inexact date information: A method, computer program product and apparatus are provided for capturing inexact date information. In particular, a sophisticated date entry mechanism is provided that is capable of receiving, as input, date information associated with not only exact dates, but also “fuzzy” (i.e., partial or approximate) dates including, for example, “August... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080183781 - Multi-method input arrangement: An input arrangement for a mobile device may include (a) a manual input mechanism producing a primary input when engaged; and (b) first and second state shifting mechanisms respectively producing first and second secondary inputs when used in combination with an initial engaging of the manual input mechanism. Each of... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080183782 - Congruency and similarity of information technology (it) structures and associated applications: A method and system for consolidating N elements of an enterprise IT structure that consists of L elements (N≦L). All combinations of M elements of the N elements are generated (M<N). M is a specified positive integer of at least 1 and less than N. One or more pairs of... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080183783 - Method and apparatus for generating trigonometric results: A method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for generating a trigonometric value. The method includes receiving a request to calculate a trigonometric value for an angle value and calculating a fractional value from the angle value. The fractional value corresponds to one of a first quadrant value, a second quadrant value,... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080183784 - Full-adder of complementary carry logic voltage compensation: In a full-adder of complementary carry logic voltage compensation, two input terminals of a first multiplexer are connected to a carry input and a carry inverted phase input respectively; an add signal is connected to a select signal; an input terminal of a first inverter is connected to an output... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080183785 - Differential approach to current-mode chaos based random number generator: Disclosed is method and chaos circuit for a random number generator comprising: a differential sample and hold circuit portion having a first and a second differential signal input and a first and a second differential signal output, a differential non-linear discriminator circuit portion that applies a differential discrimination function upon... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080183787 - Method for manufacturing serial numbers for integrated circuits: The existence of physicochemical variables in semiconductor components, such as the edge effect, the ion implantation, the surface state effect, and the variation in charge carrier mobility, is exploited in a method for manufacturing random serial number for integrated circuits. The physicochemical variables are measured with a high gain amplification... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20080183786 - Systems and methods for distribution-transition estimation of key performance indicator: Systems and methods for distribution-transition estimation of key performance indicator (KPI). Exemplary embodiments include a method including establishing a state-space model in a computer memory, the model for handling measurement errors and modelling errors as noise, wherein time-varying indices have historical data and a correlation with KPI, adaptively estimating parameters... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080183788 - Apparatus and method for generating random number and data interaction system thereof: Embodiments of the present invention provide a random number generating apparatus, including a first level sampling module and a second level sampling module. The first level sampling module includes a first oscillator, a second oscillator and a first sampler capable of sampling the first oscillating signal with the second oscillating... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080183789 - Interpolation fir filter and method thereof: An interpolation FIR filter uses a coefficient to generate an interpolation value of a first and second input value. The interpolation FIR filter has several arithmetic units, an adder, and a divider. The nth arithmetic unit outputs a partial product by selecting one of the first and second input values... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080183790 - Efficient angle rotator configured for dynamic adjustment: An apparatus and method for angle is disclosed to rotate a complex input by the angle θ to produce a rotated complex output signal. A memory storage device generates control information based on a coarse angle θM. A coarse rotation butterfly circuit uses the control information to rotate the complex... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080183791 - Processor with improved accuracy for multiply-add operations: Floating-point processors capable of performing multiply-add (Madd) operations and incorporating improved intermediate result handling capability. The floating-point processor includes a multiplier unit coupled to an adder unit. In a specific operating mode, the intermediate result from the multiplier unit is processed (i.e., rounded but not normalized or denormalized) into representations... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080183792 - Method for performing arithmetic operations using a multi-core processor: A data processing system for performing a matrix calculation is disclosed. The data processing system includes a multi-core processor with multiple processing elements each having a processor and a local memory. The data processing system includes a system memory, a first and second readout units, a first and second arithmetic... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080183793 - Logic circuit: A logic circuit has a decoder converting first input data into a plurality of first bit data having a constant Hamming weight regardless of the Hamming weight of the first input data, a wiring network, and an encoder converting a plurality of second bit data generated by the wiring network... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080177812 - Hash algorithm using randomization function: A pseudo-random number generator is employed to provide the same results normally produced by hash functions. In particular, input character string data is employed to sequentially adjust the seed of a pseudo-random number generator to produce hash values.... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.c.

20080177813 - Method for fast relevance discovery in time series: A method for measuring time series relevance using state transition points, including inputting time series data and relevance threshold data. Then convert all time series values to ranks within [0,1] interval. Calculate the valid range of the transition point in [0,1]. Afterwards, a verification occurs that a time series Z... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Research Triangle Park

20080177815 - Raid system and galois field product computation method: Described is an apparatus for performing a Galois field product computation on data. A first symbol data includes a plurality of symbols each being a bit sequence on which a product operation by a factor α is to be performed in a Galois field, where α is a primitive element... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080177814 - System and method for efficient basis conversion: This invention describes a method for evaluating a polynomial in an extension field Fqm, wherein the method comprises the steps of partitioning the polynomial into a plurality of parts, each part is comprised of smaller polynomials using a q-th power operation in a field of characteristic q; and computing for... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20080177816 - Method and decimal arithmetic logic unit structure to generate a magnitude result of a mathematic: A method to generate a magnitude result of a mathematic operation of two decimal operands within one cycle in a decimal arithmetic logic unit structure, wherein the decimal operands are in hexadecimal sign magnitude format.... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080177817 - Inversion of alternate instruction and/or data bits in a computer: A basic computer circuit (30) with alternate bits inverted. Two 18-bit registers (32, 34) are connected to ALU (36) to perform ripple-carry addition, wherein 1-high number representation is implemented in the circuit portions corresponding to odd-numbered bit positions, and inverse representation, in even-numbered bit positions. Owing to alternate bit inversion,... Agent: Henneman & Associates, Plc

20080172433 - Method for modeling a structure of a spider web using computer programming: The methods for modeling a structure of a spider web using computer programming are disclosed. First method of modeling elliptical spider webs using computer programming includes inputting variables into computer program to model spider webs; number of radii, number of spirals, length of major and minor axes of hub, length... Agent: Schweitzer Cornman Gross & Bondell LLP

20080172434 - Method and device for filtering a multidemensional digital signal and associated methods and devices for encoding and decoding: The invention relates to a method of filtering a multidimensional digital signal comprising a plurality of samples, and comprises the following steps applied to each of the samples to filter, simulating the filtering of the sample to filter by applying at least one filter in a plurality of geometric orientations... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080172435 - Femtosecond spectroscopy using minimum or maximum phase functions: A method determines a transient response of a sample. The method includes providing a measured magnitude of the Fourier transform of a complex electric field temporal profile of a pulse sequence comprising a first pulse indicative of the transient response of the sample and a second pulse. The method further... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080172436 - Optimized fft/ifft module: We disclose an optimal hardware implementation of the FFT/IFFT operation that minimizes the number of clock cycles required to compute the FFT/IFFT while at the same time minimizing the number of complex multipliers needed. An input module combines a plurality of inputs after applying a multiplication factor to each of... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080172437 - Digital signal averaging using parallel computation structures: Systems and methods for digital signal averaging using parallel computation structures are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes: receiving a series of samples in the time domain, each sample containing a number of bit positions M; averaging, using coefficient polynomial arithmetic, the value in a selected one of the bit... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080172438 - Figure data verification apparatus and method therefor: A figure data verification apparatus includes an operation part configured to input design data and writing data converted from the design data and perform an exclusive OR operation between data of a figure included in the design data and data of a figure included in the writing data, a sorting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080172439 - Method and device for digitizing an analogical signal: This device (10) includes elements (12) for receiving an analogical signal including a data signal in a frequency channel, elements (18) for amplifying the received signal, elements (20) for filtering the amplified signal so as to cut out frequencies outside the frequency channel of the data signal, members (24) for... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080168113 - Time blocks and customizable time blocks: Techniques are described herein for providing a plurality of graphical elements, independent of any calendar location, associated with a distinct set of predefined data describing at least one characteristic of a calendar event comprising a plurality of characteristics. The predefined data may be user-specified. The graphical element is activated, such... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080168114 - Method for setting cyclic shift considering frequency offset: A method for establishing a cyclic shift sequence to provide against the frequency offset is disclosed. The method calculates a distance between a channel response position of the sequence and an alias channel response position caused by a frequency offset, calculates the number of cyclic shifts per group according to... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080168115 - Systems and methods for implementing logic in a processor: Systems, methods and media for implementing logic in the arithmetic/logic unit of a processor are disclosed. More particularly, hardware is disclosed for computing logical operations with minimal hardware by organizing the execution unit such that the propagate and generate functions required for the adder can be used as a basis... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080168116 - Processing speed calculation method, calculation device and program: A calculation device calculates information relating to a processing speed for a plurality of processing devices which execute various kinds of process in response to a request from a process request device. The calculation device includes a response time calculation part which calculates a response time for each processing device,... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080162613 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for quasi-adiabatic quantum computation: Methods, systems and apparatus for quasi-adiabatic quantum computation include initializing a quantum processor to a ground state of an initial Hamiltonian and evolving the quantum processor from the initial Hamiltonian to a final Hamiltonian via an evolution Hamiltonian, wherein anti-crossings of the evolution Hamiltonian are passed non-adiabatically.... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Pllc

20080162614 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing calendar application with automatic decision making for received invitation based on parameter sets: In one exemplary aspect the invention includes a method that operates by receiving an invitation to create a calendar event from an originating calendar application at a recipient calendar application, the invitation comprising at least one calendar event parameter; comparing by the recipient calendar application the at least one received... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080162615 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing user calendar interrupt button and function to automatically clear and re-schedule calendar events: In one non-limiting aspect the exemplary embodiments provide a method that includes, in response to a user-generated input, operating a calendar application to access an electronic calendar to cancel at least one scheduled event; and generating information for use in contacting at least one party associated with the cancelled at... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080162616 - Skip relation pattern for graph structures: Systems and processes may apply a filter to data in a graph structure using an interface. The filter may be applied upon request from a business application. The interface may determine which portions of the graph structure satisfy the filter criteria. The interface may replace nodes and/or relations that do... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.c.

20080162617 - High-speed radix-4 butterfly module and method of performing biterbi decoding using the same: A high-speed radix-4 butterfly module and the method of performing Viterbi decoding using the same. The high-speed radix-4 butterfly module includes first to fourth add-compare-select (ACS) circuits. The first and the second ACS circuits receive first to fourth branch metric values and first to fourth previous-stage path metric values, and... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080162618 - Method and system for checking rotate, shift and sign extension functions using a modulo function: A method of discovering a fault in a circuit is disclosed. The method comprises generating a first result of a selected function by performing the selected function on an operand, wherein the selected function employs a mask. Once the function is performed, an antimask of the mask is created, and... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP