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A method of swing on a swing is disclosed, in which a user positioned on a standard swing suspended by two chains from a substantially horizontal tree branch induces side to side motion by pulling alternately on one chain and then the other.
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| 8131529 | Method and system for simulating test instruments and instrument functions Method and system to configure a common set of electronic components using software in order to simulate different electronic, mechanical and/or electro-mechanical instruments or instrument functions. For each instrument function or traditional mode of operation to ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8020126 | Links and chains verification and validation methodology for digital devices The links and chains (LNC) of this invention is an applications verification and validation (AVV) methodology. LNC is a hierarchical and systematic approach emphasizing conservation and reuse of effort expended. LNC creates objective metrics for validation. This inv... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014993 | Transportable volume, local environment repository An operating environment emulation system includes a separate peripheral emulation system having a memory device. The memory device is operable to store one or more executable programs, referred to as emulators. The emulators are operable to emulate an original oper... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7945435 | Search method, search system, and search program A non-sensitive building is extracted according to radio environment data indicating the current condition of the radio communication environment in the search target area and digital map data including attribute information concerning the buildings in the search ta... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945888 | Model-based hardware exerciser, device, system and method thereof Device, system and method for verification of a hardware system-under-test including at least one processor. A method includes building an executable image of a hardware exerciser adapted for execution on a test platform selected from: a simulation accelerator, a ha... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7937257 | Estimating performance of application based on automatic resizing of shared memory for messaging Methods and systems for estimating the hypothetical performance of a messaging application are disclosed. A number of pool sizes may be identified, each pool size being a potential size for the memory allocated to the messaging application. An online simulation is r... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937418 | Method and system for enhancing software documentation and help systems A method and system for enhancing software documentation and help systems. In one embodiment, a virtual library for a selected combination of tools is created. The virtual library is then linked to the tools in the selected combination of tools. In another embodimen... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7890314 | Method for modeling performance of embedded processors having combined cache and memory hierarchy A method allocating firmware objects between different types of memory in a product model based on a frequency of access of each firmware object in trace data. The allocated firmware objects and trace data are used to simulate the performance of the product model. M... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7840397 | Simulation method A simulator is partitioned into a functional component and a behavior prediction component and the components are executed in parallel. The execution path of the functional component is used to drive the behavior prediction component and the behavior prediction comp... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7822593 | Production program creating system A production program creating system creates a production program having a module in which a processing for producing a board is described. The board is produced by mounting an electronic component supplied from a component feeding device onto the board by means of ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7813909 | Register mapping in emulation of a target system on a host system Methods and systems for register mapping in emulation of a target system on a host system are disclosed. Statistics for use of a set of registers of a target system processor are determined. Based on the statistics a first subset of the target system registers, incl... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7797353 | Method and system for enhancing software documentation and help systems A method and system for enhancing software documentation and help systems. In one embodiment, a virtual library for a selected combination of tools is created. The virtual library is then linked to the tools in the selected combination of tools. In another embodimen... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7680643 | Method for carrying multiple suspended runtime images A portable device is connected to a host system that operates according to a first industry standard architecture (e.g., a personal computer built according to the IBM Personal Computer standard). The user initiates a session in the host system using the software an... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7672828 | Memory access to virtual target device A software development technique is provided using target system virtualization software simulating behaviour of a target system. A target device driver running on a host system issues memory access commands to the target system virtualization software rather than t... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7650272 | Evaluation of Bayesian network models for decision support A method, apparatus, and computer program product are presented for automatically evaluating Bayesian network models. Operations performed comprise receiving a Bayesian Network (BN) model including evidence nodes and conclusion nodes that are linked with the evidenc... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7640153 | Networked client-server architecture for transparently transforming and executing applications The present invention provides for native execution of an application on a client using code segments transmitted from a server over a network. The server includes an application code source, and a server code segment manager. The server may also include an applicat... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7574345 | Method and system for simulating multiple cable modems A fixed MAC address of a cable modem is used to generate a series of unique MAC Addresses in order to simulate multiple cable modems from the CMTS's point of view. Before a scheduled maintenance operation, a simulated MAC address value is disbursed to pertinent hard... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7552044 | Simulated storage area network Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to simulating storage devices. In aspects, a test automation engine instructs a simulator to simulate a storage device having certain characteristics such as a storage area network. The test automation engine the... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7464016 | Hot plug and hot pull system simulation In one embodiment, a distributed simulation system may include a first node configured to participate in a simulation and a second node configured to transmit a hot pull command designating the first node. The first node does not participate in the simulation respon... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7444610 | Visualizing hardware cost in high level modeling systems Within a high level modeling system (HLMS), a method of visualizing a circuit design can include identifying the circuit design and reading hardware cost information for the circuit design. The method also can include presenting a graphical representation of the cir... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440885 | Method and system for deterministic control of an emulation An emulation-based event-wait simulator including an application module to configure and command verification processes on a design under test (DUT). An event dispatcher is in communication with the application module to deliver commands to the DUT. A plurality of t... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7424416 | Interfacing hardware emulation to distributed simulation environments A system for interfacing hardware emulation to software simulation environments may include a simulation node configured to simulate a first portion of a system under test and a hardware emulation node configured to emulate a second portion of the system under test.... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418006 | Virtual endpoints Disclosed is an architecture for automating testing tasks, which would otherwise have to be done manually using actual hardware, by providing the capability to dynamically create many types of networked computing devices with different network configurations, elimin... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415403 | Systems and methods for efficiently simulating analog behavior of designs having hierarchical structure A method for simulating analog behavior of a circuit in a simulation system includes representing the circuit as a hierarchically arranged set of branches, which includes a root branch and a plurality of other branches logically organized in a graph. The hierarchica... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412369 | System and method for designing and optimizing the memory of an embedded processing system There is disclosed an apparatus for designing and optimizing a memory for use in an embedded processing system. The apparatus comprises: 1) a simulation controller for simulating execution of a test program to be executed by the embedded processing system; 2) a memo... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412702 | System software displacement in a virtual computer system A computer architecture includes a first operating system (COS), which may be a commodity operating system, and a kernel, which acts as a second operating system. The COS is used to boot the system as a whole. After booting, the kernel is loaded and displaces the CO... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412367 | Transparent subsystem links A system and method provides for the formation of transparent links between subsystems or blocks within a graphical model. The transparent link allows marking one or multiple subsystems in the graphical model as the reference source that, similar to a library block,... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7397905 | Interactive voice response (IVR) system providing dynamic resolution of data An interactive voice response (IVR) system executes a call flow that references data objects holding information. The information within a data object includes a variable that holds a value utilized by the call flow, state information describing the state of the var... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7392168 | Method of compensating for etch effects in photolithographic processing A computer system reads data corresponding to an IC layout target layer and performs an etch simulation on the target layer. Etch biases are calculated and the inverse of the etch biases are used to produce a new target layer. The new target layer is provided as an ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386435 | Device for testing packet-switched cellular radio network The invention relates to a device for testing a packet-switched radio network. The device comprises a network traffic simulator for traffic in a radio access network; and a serving general packet radio service GPRS support node simulator connectable to a gateway GPR... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376917 | Client-server semiconductor verification system A client-server semiconductor verification system is described. The system comprises a client device storing a test job having test vectors and configuration data for programmable logic for testing a design of a logic circuit. A server is coupled to the client devic... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376546 | User configurable ultra320 SCSI target device simulator and error injector Disclosed is a SCSI target device simulator consisting of a personal computer, a SCSI host adapter board, and simulator software. The SCSI target device simulator is employed to test SCSI host adapter systems by simulating multiple SCSI target devices for test purpo... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373480 | Apparatus and method for determining stack distance of running software for estimating cache miss rates based upon contents of a hash table A method and apparatus for determining a stack distance histogram for running software. The method may include receiving a plurality of memory references each including a corresponding address. The method may also include performing a first hash function and a secon... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373587 | Representing sub-events with physical exertion actions A live event may be broadcasted by producing a computer coded description of the sub-events that constitute the event. The coded description is stored in a centralized computer data base and the information thus stored is accessible by a viewer's computer. That view... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369974 | Polynomial generation method for circuit modeling A method for determining polynomials to model circuit delay includes the step of determining one or more error areas in a characteristic map that exceed an error margin. Next, a current domain count is set to zero and selecting one error area of the one or more erro... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369977 | System and method for modeling timeouts in discrete event execution A system and method models regional timeout functionality in a discrete event execution environment. A timeout function is initiated associated with an entity upon occurrence of a start condition and terminated or reset upon reaching an end condition. The timeout fu... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366871 | Apparatus and method for determining stack distance including spatial locality of running software for estimating cache miss rates based upon contents of a hash table A method for determining a stack distance including spatial locality for running software. The method may include receiving a plurality of memory references each including a corresponding address. The method may also include performing a merge function on each addre... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366650 | Software and hardware simulation A verification environment is provided that co-verifies a software component 8 and a hardware component 10. Within the same environment using a common test controller 18 both hardware stimuli and software stimuli may be applied to their respecti... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363209 | System and method for controlling jobs of a production device The invention relates to a system and a method for controlling jobs of a production device. The aim of the invention is to allow a current situation to be analyzed and the required operations to be planned, executed, and monitored irrespective of mathematical routin... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363608 | Accelerating PCB development and debug in advance of platform ASIC prototype samples A system and method are provided for accelerating development and debug of a printed circuit board (PCB) designed for use with a platform ASIC in advance of availability of a prototype sample of the platform ASIC. Aspects of the invention include a pin-out adapter c... | 04/22/2008 |
