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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7584074 | Diagnostic method and system A method and system comprising a diagnostic symptom tree system for diagnosing a failing system element causing a symptom in a system-under-test. A diagnostic symptom tree comprises symptom roots and dependent lower function nodes and sub-function nodes. Element nod... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7571077 | Method for evaluating anti-contamination level on a surface of optical recording medium, the apparatus and the optical recording medium A method for evaluating an anti-contamination level on a surface of optical recording medium is disclosed. The method includes forming an artificial fingerprint on the surface by contacting a stamp having an artificial material adhered thereto on an optical recordin... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7565270 | Quality analysis method and program A graphical user interface for a quality analysis computer program includes a first display area for displaying graphical representations of statistical data and a second display area containing a tree representation of a quality analysis project. The tree represent... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7565271 | Quality analysis method and program A graphical user interface for a quality analysis computer program includes a first display area for displaying graphical representations of statistical data and a second display area containing a tree representation of a quality analysis project. The tree represent... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7558701 | System to monitor the health of a structure, sensor nodes, program product, and related methods A system to monitor the health of a structure, health monitoring sensor nodes, program product, and associated methods, are provided. The system includes an array of health monitoring sensor nodes connected to or embedded within a structure to monitor the health of ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7558702 | Computer apparatus, start-up controlling method, and storage medium The present invention relates to start-up control of a computer apparatus connected with an external device such as a USB device and is intended to easily avoid abnormalities such as a start-up failure. Identification and connectivity of an external device is monito... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7558703 | Electrical substation monitoring and diagnostics A substation intelligence system (104) includes a substation computer (105) which is operatively connected to a plurality of field devices (102) through an input/output subsystem (204). Data indicative of the devices is stored in a substa... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7558700 | Equipment diagnosis device, refrigerating cycle apparatus, fluid circuit diagnosis method, equipment monitoring system, and refrigerating cycle monitoring system In a failure diagnosis apparatus for a refrigerating cycle, a plurality of instrumentation amounts concerning the refrigerant such as the pressure and temperature of the refrigerating cycle apparatus or other instrumentation amounts are detected, the state quantitie... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7555406 | Method of maintaining and automatically inspecting processing apparatus According to the present invention, as processing apparatus drive starts, the operating state of software used to drive the processing apparatus is monitored in real time to diagnose whether or not an abnormality has occurred (S110). If it is judged through t... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7555407 | Anomaly monitoring device and method An anomaly monitoring device includes: a signal input unit for receiving a periodic target signal generated by an operating apparatus; a storage unit for storing therein segmented target signals provided from the target signal in a form of a queue; a dividing unit f... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7552028 | Recording medium, test apparatus and diagnostic method A test apparatus that tests a device under test is provided. The test apparatus includes a test module that provides a test signal to the device under test. The test apparatus includes: a test module that provides a test signal to the device under test; a measuring ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7546220 | System and method for preparing trace data for analysis The present invention provides a system, method, and program product for understanding, analyzing and troubleshooting performance issues in a data storage environment. More specifically, this invention is a system and method for preparing a trace of workload data fo... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7546219 | Automated damage assessment, report, and disposition Systems and techniques to assess damage. A damage reporting module may allow a user to provide information indicative of a damage description and damage location. The damage reporting module may create a data object based on the information. The data object may be u... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7542874 | 2D and 3D display system and method for furnace tube inspection A system and method for displaying inspection data collected from a furnace is disclosed. The system comprises a storage device for storing the inspection data. The system also comprises a computer programmed to partition the inspection data at a plurality of data m... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7542875 | Reciprocating pump performance prediction Performance parameters for a reciprocating pump including pulsation energy, temperature energy, solids, Miller number and chemical energy and the like are monitored and employed to at least periodically compute a total energy number over the operating life of the pu... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7539596 | Diagnosis and state monitoring of junctions, crossings, crossroads or rail joints by means of a rail vehicle A method and a device for diagnosis and state monitoring of a wear and functional state of a junction, a crossing, a crossroads, rail joints, and/or track nonuniformities of a rail traffic path made of several tracks measures and stores swing acceleration in at leas... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7536274 | System and method for detecting an abnormal situation associated with a heater A system for detecting abnormal situations associated with a heater in a process plant receives statistical data associated with the heater unit. The statistical data is analyzed to detect whether one or more abnormal situations associated with the heater exist. The... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536275 | Method for evaluating anti-contamination level on a surface of optical recording medium, the apparatus and the optical recording medium A method for evaluating an anti-contamination level on a surface of optical recording medium is disclosed. The method includes forming an artificial fingerprint on the surface by contacting a stamp having an artificial material adhered thereto on an optical recordin... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536276 | Method and apparatus for equipment health monitoring The present invention provides for monitoring the health of a system. In one embodiment, a method includes storing benchmark data in a memory, storing a second plurality of system data indicative of system conditions during system operations, determining from the se... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7536277 | Intelligent model-based diagnostics for system monitoring, diagnosis and maintenance Systems and methods are provided for monitoring, diagnosis and condition-based maintenance of mechanical systems. The disclosed systems and methods employ intelligent model-based diagnostic methodologies to effectuate such monitoring, diagnosis and maintenance. Acco... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533002 | Medical generator with error logic A method and apparatus are disclosed for detecting, analyzing and displaying errors in a energy source of a medical treatment system. Detected errors are analyzed to define further errors. Errors may be classified, for example, in response to severity, and prioritiz... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529644 | Method of diagnosing an operations systems A method of diagnosing a distributed operational system having a field device, a field processing module coupled to the field device, a bitbus, a fieldbus, and an auxiliary processing module communicating with the bitbus and the fieldbus. The method includes generat... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7516046 | Network diagnostic system with programmable oscillator A networking system is provided. The networking system may include a diagnostic module. The diagnostic module may perform any of a variety of network diagnostic functions. A diagnostic module may include an oscillator module. The oscillator module may be configured ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7516047 | Diagnostic method for manufacturing processes A method for use in a system for diagnosing the causes of manufacturing defects involves process characterization. A set of forms is identified for a workpiece and for a piece of manufacturing equipment that acts upon the workpiece. The forms for the workpiece are p... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7516044 | Self diagnosing HVAC zone configuration In a drive circuit in which a plurality of drive motors are connected to a power source through a protective device which trips when the flow of current is excessive, provision is made to detect which circuit or circuits were active at the time of the failure. A mic... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7516043 | Triggered field device data collection in a process control system A diagnostic system and method for a field device in a process control apparatus is provided. At least one sensor is associated with the process control apparatus, and a computer is adapted to receive data from the sensor and to detect an occurrence of a predetermin... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7516045 | Method of providing content to a target device in a network A method of enabling a plurality of entities to have sufficient information concerning at least one device and at least one content item, such that each individual entity can arbitrate concerning a performance of said device and said content, on the basis of said de... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512521 | Intrinsically safe field maintenance tool with power islands A hand held configuration for coupling to a two wire process control loop for use in configuring and monitoring field units coupled to the two wire process control loop is provided which includes a power supply, and at least two power islands. The power islands are ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509232 | System for point of care diagnosis and/or analysis A system (1) for point of care diagnosis and/or analysis of a body fluid of a patient, includes at least one cartridge (2), at least one handheld diagnosis and/or analysis device (3) and at least one data processing device (4). Each cartr... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7509233 | Diagnostics for identifying a malfunctioning component in an air compressor system onboard a locomotive A method and computer program product for identifying one or more malfunctions in a locomotive air compressing system is provided. Some of the malfunctions may be correctable onboard a locomotive, and constitute onboard serviceable malfunctions, while the remaining ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7509234 | Root cause diagnostics using temporal data mining A method, system, and computer program product for fault data correlation in a diagnostic system are provided. The method includes receiving the fault data including a plurality of faults collected over a period of time, and identifying a plurality of episodes withi... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7505870 | System and method for information handling system thermal diagnostics Thermal subsystems of manufactured information handling systems are tested for compliance with desired parameters by running a thermal diagnostics module in firmware during one or more manufacturing activities performed on the information handling system. The therma... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7502717 | Method for predicting air cycle machine turbine ice formation and shedding and journal bearing wear Methods and apparatus are provided for predicting ice formation on and shedding from blades of an air cycle machine (“ACM”) turbine. The method comprises generating operational condition data representative of ACM turbine operating conditions using a software mo... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502716 | Closed-loop diagnostic method Problem diagnostics may be obtained from components that log messages using a unique component identifier which is provided within each message so as to enable routing of callbacks to the component that originated the message. Similarly, problem diagnostics may be o... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7496474 | Dynamic on-chip logic analysis An apparatus and a method for analyzing signals within an integrated circuit are described. In one embodiment of the present invention, internal IC signals are tapped, sampled and stored according to one or more sampling criteria. The signals may be taken from multi... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7496473 | Temperature sensing system A temperature sensing and diagnostics system having a temperature sensor for generating a temperature characteristic and a bitbus includes a field processing module and an auxiliary processing module. The field processing module is adapted for coupling to the temper... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7480593 | Methods and systems for high confidence utilization of datasets Methods and systems for high-confidence utilization of datasets are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a metric for determining substantially optimal combination of true positives and false positives in a data set, applying an optimization t... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7480592 | Remote diagnosis device, remote diagnosis system and program product In a remote diagnosis system, characteristics data, including at least information indicating characteristics of a terminal device is obtained. Then, a filter based on the obtained characteristics data from a filter group including a plurality of types of filters in... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7478013 | Method and system of monitoring and prognostics A neural network learns the operating modes of a system being monitored under normal operating conditions. Anomalies can be automatically detected and learned. A control command can be issued or an alert can be issued in response thereto. ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7478012 | Computerized evaluation of valve signature graphs The claimed method and system may measure or receive signature data from a process control device, such as a valve, and analyze the data against user configurable boundaries and settings to determine if there is a problem with the operation of the control device. On... | 01/13/2009 |
