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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160861 | System and method for modelling a hardware component of a data processing apparatus The system comprises a component model for modelling aspects of the hardware component, and feature extraction logic for extending the component model to cause the component model, when executing, to output one or more features identifying execution behavior of the ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8140317 | Device simulation method and system A simulation method and system. The method includes receiving by a simulation engine in a device driver, input simulation parameters data associated with a simulation process. The simulation engine calculates a simulated scaled down process time period for a device ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131530 | Mechanism for realistic application/network modeling using a workload description A method for benchmarking a computer system comprises encoding a profile of the computer system in a readable medium to form an encoded computer readable medium. This profile is interpretable by a test server so that the test server is able to simulate the interacti... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131531 | System and method for simulating a semiconductor wafer prober and a class memory test handler A method runs a simulation. The method comprises receiving a selection of a device. The device is one of a prober used in wafer testing and a handler used in package testing. The method comprises receiving at least one parameter for a set of parameters for the simul... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126696 | Modifying length of synchronization quanta of simulation time in which execution of nodes is simulated Nodes interconnected by a network have their substantially parallel execution simulated. Substantially parallel execution of the nodes during a current quantum of simulation time having a quantum length is simulated. Simulation of execution can result in simulation ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8108196 | System for yielding to a processor An apparatus and program product for coordinating the distribution of CPUs as among logically-partitioned virtual processors. A virtual processor may yield a CPU to precipitate an occurrence upon which its own execution may be predicated. As such, program code may d... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108197 | Method to verify an implemented coherency algorithm of a multi processor environment A coherency algorithm for a multi processor environment to run on a single processor model is verified by: generating a reference model reflecting a private cache hierarchy of a single processor within the multi processor environment, stimulating the private cache h... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099272 | Multi-layered model for survivability analysis of network services A system and method of using a multi-layered network model for analyzing the survivability of network services. The model is defined in terms of layers, connections, entities, physical processing elements, physical network elements, and physical infrastructure eleme... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8082141 | Modelling and simulation method A method for simulating behavior of first and second interrelated components within a system. The method comprises modelling behavior of said first and second components using first and second functional specifications; simulating behavior of said first and second c... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8032352 | Device, system, and method of storage controller simulating data mirroring Device, system, and method of storage controller simulating data mirroring. For example, an apparatus for simulating data mirroring includes: a storage controller to control a primary storage unit that has data stored therein, wherein the storage controller is able ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032351 | Running a virtual machine directly from a physical machine using snapshots Embodiments of the present invention are directed to the running of a virtual machine directly from a physical machine using snapshots of the physical machine. In one example, a computer system performs a method for running a virtual machine directly from a physical... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027827 | Device, system, and method of storage controller having simulated volumes Device, system, and method of storage controller having simulated volumes. For example, an apparatus for data storage management includes: a storage controller to manage access to one or more physical volumes, the storage controller including a simulation module to ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024169 | Storage area network management modeling simulation A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for simulating a storage area network including a set of correlated devices, each of the devices having a device agent. The method comprises the step of forming a set of simulation agents representing said ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019587 | Software upgrade of redundant network components A method for upgrading redundant network components is disclosed. An application is installed on a network component. The network component is related as a redundant peer with a mate network component operating in an active mode and processing a stable call. The net... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7996203 | Method, system, and computer program product for out of order instruction address stride prefetch performance verification A method, system, and computer program product are provided for verifying out of order instruction address (IA) stride prefetch performance in a processor design having more than one level of cache hierarchies. Multiple instruction streams are generated and the inst... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7979262 | Method for verifying connectivity of electrical circuit components Connections between digital blocks and other circuit components, such as power supplies and clocks, are verified using a discrete property or object, such as a discrete discipline. A discrete discipline is defined for each value of an operating parameter, such as vo... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7957951 | Address translation system for use in a simulation environment Methods and systems for simulation of a testable system are provided in which a virtual testable system is used. One method includes inputting a system definition file into a translation utility, where the system definition file includes a plurality of physical addr... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7930163 | Modeling a storage environment at various times Example embodiments provide various techniques for modeling a storage environment at various times. A computer model can be composed to simulate a storage environment at various time periods. In an example, the computer model may simulate the storage environment in ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7904287 | Method and system for real-time prediction of power usage for a change to another performance state A method and system for real-time prediction of power usage for a change to another performance state provides input data for power management decision-making processes or for display to system operators. The unit(s) for which power usage is predicted may be a singl... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7885803 | System and method for simulating traffic loads in packetized communication networks A system for, and method of, simulating traffic loads in a packetized communication network. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an initial arrival generator that generates an initial arrival for a simulated user session at an independent time from a previou... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881919 | USB device simulator Techniques for simulating universal serial bus (USB) video devices are described. In one example, a document containing a USB video device descriptor set is loaded by a device simulator application. The document is parsed and the descriptor set is extracted. The des... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7873507 | Multi-core model simulator A high-speed multicore model simulator is realized. A multicore model simulator having a plurality of threads, and a plurality of core models executing the aforesaid plurality of threads is provided. The plurality of core models are a plurality of processor core mod... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7856348 | System and method for generation of synthetic parallel application kernels using tracing information A method and apparatus may automatically generate a synthetic kernel application for use in optimizing applications on a parallel computing system using protocols such as MPI. The method and system may collect trace communication data from nodes within the parallel ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7844441 | Computer-implemented method, system and program product for approximating resource consumption of computer system In general, the present invention provides a method, system and program product for approximating/estimating computer resource consumption of a computer system. Specifically, under the present invention, a more efficient or reduced computer work gradient matrix (her... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7827021 | System for modeling LPAR behaviors in a simulation tool A simulation tool for modeling LPAR behavior in a mainframe computer. The simulation tool comprises: a system for calculating a resource percentage, wherein the resource percentage represents a percentage of total resources allocated to the LPAR, wherein the resourc... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822594 | Service-oriented infrastructure management A method for computing includes specifying a data processing system using a logical system definition, which defines logical system components having respective functionalities and a topology for interconnecting the logical system components. The logical system comp... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7788080 | Paper interface for simulation environments Techniques for using a paper interface to replay time-based media information captured for a simulation and/or restart execution of a simulation program from a user-selectable time point. A static representation is generated for time-based media information captured... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7774188 | Running a virtual machine directly from a physical machine using snapshots Embodiments of the present invention are directed to the running of a virtual machine directly from a physical machine using snapshots of the physical machine. In one example, a computer system performs a method for running a virtual machine directly from a physical... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7774189 | System and method for simulating data flow using dataflow computing system A system and method for implementing a unified model for integration systems is presented. A user provides inputs to an integrated language engine for placing operator components and arc components onto a dataflow diagram. Operator components include data ports for ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7684970 | Graphical user interface for use during processor simulation In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the present disclosure includes a method for executing application software during a simulation that models a processor for which the application software was developed. The method may include capturing results of the sim... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7680644 | Method and system, with component kits, for designing or deploying a communications network which considers frequency dependent effects A computerized model provides a display of a physical environment in which a communications network is or will be installed. The communications network is comprised of several components, each of which are selected by the design engineer and which are represented in... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676356 | System, method and data structure for simulated interaction with graphical objects Object simulation and interaction of and between computer-generated or graphical objects in a virtual space includes neutral scene graphs, data structures and procedures for using such graphs and data structures. ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7650273 | Performance simulation of multiprocessor systems An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to simulate performance of a multi-core system. A micro-architecture effect is estimated from each core in the multi-core system. A model of a memory hierarchy associated with each core is simulated. The simulate... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7650274 | Microcomputer logic development system A system for developing the preceding logic to be implemented in a built-in microcomputer that is used while being incorporated in an electronic control unit. The system includes: a motherboard having a first CPU, a first memory, and a first interface via which the ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7643982 | Debugging prototyped system solutions in solution builder wizard environment A system and method for debugging system solutions under design which cooperates with a solution design platform in which relationships between two or more system-level computing components are defined, in which each system-level computing component is associated wi... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7636655 | Extracting synchronous secondary signals by functional analysis Programmable devices include configurable logic hardware for implementing logic gates, registers for storing data, and secondary hardware for additional functions, such as loading and clearing. The secondary hardware can implement portions of the user design, thereb... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7630877 | Architecture for distributed computing system and automated design, deployment, and management of distributed applications A design tool includes a service definition model to enable abstract description of distributed computing systems and distributed applications. The design tool also includes a schema to dictate how functional operations within the service definition model are to be ... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7617086 | Monitoring simulating device, method, and program A design data storage unit stores design data of constituent elements constituting a computer system to be monitored. A monitoring condition storage unit stores monitoring conditions of abnormal detection of the object to be monitored and error information to be out... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7610186 | Load simulation tool for server resource capacity planning A methods and systems for capacity planning of server resources are described wherein a load simulation tool is used to use actual data gathered from a server cluster during operation to simulate server cluster operation in which the load (requests per second) can b... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7580825 | Redistribution of parts in a distribution network Redistributing parts includes defining locations. An actual inventory of parts is established among the locations, and a desired allocation of the parts is established among the locations. A demand for the parts at each location is determined using the actual invent... | 08/25/2009 |
