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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6477472 | Analyzing signals generated by rotating machines using an order mask to select desired order components of the signals A signal analysis system and method for analyzing an input signal acquired from a mechanical system. The mechanical system may include at least one rotating apparatus. The signal analysis system may be configured to: (a) receive samples of the input signa... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6425033 | System and method for connecting peripheral buses through a serial bus A Wide Area Serial PCI system for connecting peripheral devices to a computer. The WASP system includes a host computer system connected through a serial bus to a remote device. The serial bus can range from several meters to several kilometers or more. T... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6412028 | Optimizing serial USB device transfers using virtual DMA techniques to emulate a direct memory access controller in software A USB-based data acquisition system including virtual DMA software which increases USB data transfer rates with minimal changes to DAQ driver level software. The virtual DMA software operates to receive or intercept DMA instructions provided by the DAQ dr... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6411987 | Industrial automation system and method having efficient network communication The system and method of industrial automation provides improved network transfer of data between nodes. The system comprises a plurality of computer systems which are interconnected through a network, wherein each of the computer systems executes industr... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6324504 | System and method for bit interleaving of full-rate speech data A memory-efficient system and method for generating data blocks "on demand" for TDMA data bursts. In one embodiment of the present invention, a GSM transmitter module converts forward error correction (FEC) coded full-rate speech frames into TDMA data blo... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6263013 | Fast tracking of PN synchronization in a direct-sequence spread-spectrum digital communications system In a direct sequence spread spectrum communication receiver, a system and method for recovering the timing of a pseudo-random noise (PN) sequence used for despreading the received signals. In one embodiment of the method, the receiver waits for detection ... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6232831 | Electrical power supply with floating current source suitable for providing bias voltage and current to an amplified transducer An electrical power supply is described which includes a floating current source. The floating current source includes a current source providing a selected amount of electrical current to a first terminal, and a current sink receiving the selected amount... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6215500 | Compression of three-dimensional geometry data representing a regularly tiled surface portion of a graphical object Methods and systems for compressing and decompressing 3-D geometry data which includes regularly tiled surface portions. One compression method includes representing a surface portion as a "vertex raster", which comprises specifying an extent value and en... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6188347 | Analog-to-digital conversion system and method with reduced sparkle codes Analog-to-digital conversion with reduce sparkle codes. An analog-to-digital converter includes a plurality of comparators each coupled to receive an analog input signal, and an adder decoder coupled to receive the outputs of the comparators. Each compara... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6182179 | System that is able to read and write using a transmission medium and is able to read stored information via a model information structure using a different transmission medium A modular distributed I/O system includes a computer coupled to module banks through a network bus. A module bank includes a communication module, terminal bases, and I/O modules. The adjoined terminal bases form a local bus mastered by the communication ... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6175932 | System and method for providing state capture and restoration to an I/O system A modular distributed I/O system includes a computer coupled to module banks through a network bus. A module bank includes a communication module, terminal bases, and I/O modules. The adjoined terminal bases form a local bus mastered by the communication ... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6173438 | Embedded graphical programming system A computer-based virtual instrumentation system including a host computer and an embedded system or device, wherein graphical programs created using the computer system can be downloaded to the embedded system for execution in a real-time or more determin... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6161154 | System and method for extracting and restoring a video buffer from/to a video acquisition cycle A system and method for dynamically re-programming the acquisition cycle of a video acquisition system. The video acquisition system comprises a host computer and a video source. The host computer comprises a CPU, a system memory, and a video capture boar... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6148438 | System and method for creating composite classes for objects having virtual functions for avoidance of user mode/kernel mode transitions A system and method for creating composite classes for objects having virtual functions, wherein the composite classes enable avoidance of user mode/kernel mode transitions in the operating system. The method first comprises defining the class A, an empty... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6122347 | System and method for self-announcing a caller of an incoming telephone call The present invention comprises a telephone system and method for self-announcing a caller of an incoming telephone call. After an incoming telephone call is received from a caller, the telephone answers the incoming telephone call before any ring signals... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6085156 | Instrumentation system and method having instrument interchangeability A system and method for controlling an instrumentation system, wherein the present invention includes an improved instrument driver software architecture. The instrument driver software architecture of the present invention provides a number of features, ... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6076952 | Fieldbus network configuration utility with improved parameter control A system and method for displaying and configuring parameters in a fieldbus configuration system. The fieldbus configuration utility first determines the devices and blocks present in the system, and then determines the parameters of each block. When the ... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6068197 | Pivoting lateral move irrigation system which waters in the pivot mode A pivoting lateral move irrigation system which operates to water in the pivot mode. The irrigation system includes a conduit extending over the field to be irrigated, and a series of support towers which are spaced along the length of the conduit and sup... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6064812 | System and method for developing automation clients using a graphical data flow program A method for developing an automation client program in a graphical programming environment. The graphical programming environment provides a set of automation nodes and controls which may be dropped and connected together to create a graphical program. T... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6064409 | System and method for providing audio probe and debugging features in a graphical data flow program An audio probe feature which enables a user to select a wire or connector connected to a graphical object and "hear" the signals propagating on the wire or input to/output from the object. This provides a more complete and more informative debugging envir... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6052380 | Network adapter utilizing an ethernet protocol and utilizing a digital subscriber line physical layer driver for improved performance An improved network adapter and architecture which combines the Ethernet bus access protocol with a digital subscriber line-based physical layer driver to provide improved performance. The use of a digital subscriber line-based physical layer driver, such... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6052743 | Buffer object for performing buffered data transfers in a data acquisition system A buffer object for performing intelligent buffering functions in a data acquisition (DAQ) system. The buffer object stores information regarding data to be transferred and includes one or more iterators for performing burst transfers. When a DAQ user app... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6049298 | System and method for generating a linearity error correction device for an analog to digital converter A system and method for reducing linearity errors in an A/D converter, such as a delta-sigma converter. The linearity errors in the delta-sigma converter are modeled by generating a set of digital signals representative of an inputted sine wave. The set o... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6035307 | Enterprise data movement system and method including opportunistic performance of utilities and data move operations for improved efficiency An Enterprise Data Movement (EDM) system and method for performing data move operations in an enterprise computing system with improved efficiency. Data move operations preferably use operations of an existing database utility, for example, one or more of... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6029239 | Configuring a communications system with a configurable data transfer architecture A communications system utilizes an embedded Digital Signal Processor (DSP), a DSP interface and memory architecture, a micro-controller interface, a DSP operating system (OS), a data flow model, and an interface for hardware blocks. The design allows sof... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6029178 | Enterprise data movement system and method which maintains and compares edition levels for consistency of replicated data A system and method for providing consistency of replicated data in a distributed enterprise computing system by maintaining and using edition level values for data objects in both source and target database systems. When the EDM method captures changes m... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6026130 | System and method for estimating a set of parameters for a transmission channel in a communication system The present invention comprises a system and method for a GSM receiver to perform channel estimation under the assumption that the analog-to-digital (A/D) converter is free-running. A search process is employed, whereby the known GSM training signal is sa... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6026357 | First formant location determination and removal from speech correlation information for pitch detection A vocoder system and method for estimating the pitch of a speech signal. The speech signal comprises a stream of digitized speech samples. The speech samples are partitioned into frames. For each frame of the speech signal, the following processing steps ... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6020838 | System and method for generating a sigma-delta correction circuit using matrix calculation of linearity error correction coefficients A system and method for reducing linearity errors in a delta-sigma converter. The linearity errors in the delta-sigma converter are modeled by generating a set of digital signals representative of an inputted sine wave. The set of digital signals are low-... | 02/01/2000 |
| 6016149 | Lighting unit for a three-dimensional graphics accelerator with improved processing of multiple light sources A lighting unit for improved processing of multiple light sources. The lighting unit includes an input buffer for receiving one or more attributes corresponding to a given polygon. The lighting unit further includes a first light parameter storage locatio... | 01/18/2000 |
| 6016501 | Enterprise data movement system and method which performs data load and changed data propagation operations An Enterprise Data Movement (EDM) system and method for performing bulk data move operations and changed data propagation operations in an enterprise computing system with improved efficiency. The present invention provides synergy of operations between a... | 01/18/2000 |
| 6014144 | Rapid computation of local eye vectors in a fixed point lighting unit A rapid method for calculating a local eye vector in a fixed point lighting unit. For a given triangle primitive which is to be projected into a given viewport in screen space coordinates, the local eye vector corresponds to a given eye position and a fir... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6012109 | Video capture device with adjustable frame rate based on available bus bandwidth An image acquisition apparatus, for acquiring frames of a video signal and storing these frames in a computer memory, is disclosed. An analog video input signal, comprising a sequence of video frames, is digitized by an A/D converter. The resulting digiti... | 01/04/2000 |
| 6005624 | System and method for performing motion compensation using a skewed tile storage format for improved efficiency An MPEG decoder system and method for decoding frames of a video sequence. The MPEG decoder includes motion compensation logic which analyzes motion vectors in an encoded frame of the MPEG stream and uses prior decoded reference blocks to recreate the dat... | 12/21/1999 |
| 6002411 | Integrated video and memory controller with data processing and graphical processing capabilities An integrated memory controller (IMC) which incorporates novel memory, graphics, and audio processing capabilities in a single logical unit. The IMC includes numerous significant advances which provide greatly increased performance over prior art systems.... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5995120 | Graphics system including a virtual frame buffer which stores video/pixel data in a plurality of memory areas A graphics controller (IMC) which performs pointer-based and/or display list-based video refresh operations that enable screen refresh data to be assembled on a per window basis, thereby greatly increasing the performance of the graphical display. The gra... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5995376 | Chassis which includes configurable slot 0 locations A VXI chassis which has user selectable or configurable slot 0 locations. The VXI chassis includes a personality module interface coupled to the VXI backplane comprised in the chassis. The personality module interface or slot is adapted to receive a perso... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5980298 | Strain relief for cable connector A strain relief device for coupling of a cable connector to a terminal of an electrical device. The strain relief device includes an elongated base member having a flat surface extending between first and second end portions. A fastener is fixedly connect... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5982809 | Method and apparatus for carrier recovery and compensation in spread spectrum communications An improved system and method for determining and tracking the carrier offset in a communications system. In an exemplary implementation, sampled spread spectrum digital signals are compensated with an expected carrier offset and stripped of pseudo-noise ... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5978850 | System and method for accessing parameters in a fieldbus network using a tag parameters interface A system and method for accessing parameters or objects using a tag parameter interface in a fieldbus system. The present invention enables access to parameters or objects using the tag parameter construct without requiring the user to perform any pre-con... | 11/02/1999 |
