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| 7437218 | Method and device for controlling the functional unit of a motor vehicle A method and a device for controlling a functional unit of a motor vehicle are provided. In the method, a function sequence is implemented in a functional program. The functional program is verified here by a safety program, which is in turn monitored by a monitorin... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7405741 | Fuzzy logic based LCD overdrive control method A boost table stores adjusted target levels for pairs of original and target pixel levels. The adjusted target levels can be used to as a substitute for the target pixel level to improve pixel response in reaching the desired target pixel level. A reduced boost tabl... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7305368 | Virtual data entry device and method for input of alphanumeric and other data A data input device including an optically generated image of a data input device, the image including at least one input zone actuable by an action performed thereon by a user, a sensor operative to sense the action performed on the at least one input zone, and to ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 6862584 | Logical fuzzy union and intersection operation calculation circuit The calculation circuit comprises a subtracter having a first and a second input receiving a first and, respectively, a second input datum; a first output supplying a first output datum equal to the difference between the first and the second input datum; and a seco... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6771819 | System and method for dynamic image recognition A system and method for object inspection that includes an image recognition program stored on a tangible medium for classifying and subclassifying regions of interest on an image. The image recognition program can be used in an image inspection system to determine ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6152824 | Online gaming architecture A networked computer online gaming system and process arranged in a client/server online gaming architecture and utilized to run gaming programs. The client computers are configured to run a gaming client program. The server computers are coupled to the c... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5893140 | File server having a file system cache and protocol for truly safe asynchronous writes A conventional network file server has a file system that permits file attributes and file data to be written in any order. The conventional network file server may also support an asynchronous write protocol, in which file attributes and file data need n... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5390281 | Method and apparatus for deducing user intent and providing computer implemented services A method for deducing user intent and providing computer implemented services characterized by the steps of: a) noticing a significant new event occurring within the computer system; b) deducing an intent from the significant new event and from the contex... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5317725 | Landmark data abstraction paradigm to diagnose data communication networks An expert system for diagnosing data communication networks. The expert system operates according to a landmark data abstraction paradigm, wherein landmarks are interpretations of network data. The landmarks are indicators of network problems. The expert ... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5251285 | Method and system for process control with complex inference mechanism using qualitative and quantitative reasoning A prediction control of a process containing a non-linear behavior is effected by predicting a transition of process quantities (control quantities) of an object to be controlled a predetermined time period after the current time to provide predicted valu... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5204936 | Process status supervisory system There is disclosed an apparatus for supervising the status of processing performed in a system to be supervised which comprises: a first processing system having a first knowledge base, a first inference engine for making an inference with reference to th... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5175800 | Expert and data base system and method for communications network A configuration expert system and a configuration database system which provides the means for a complete (re) configuration task for communications networks. The present invention allows a human user to define and maintain a communications network requir... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5161014 | Neural networks as for video signal processing A television signal processing apparatus includes at least one neural network for processing a signal representing an image. The neural network includes a plurality of perceptrons each of which includes circuitry for weighting a plurality of delayed repre... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5159685 | Expert system for communications network An Expert System 10 for providing diagnostics to a data communications network 5. Alarms from a Network Manager 24 are received and queued by an Event Manager 117 and then filtered by an Alarm Filter 118 to remove redundant alarms. Alarms which are ready ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5081707 | Knowledge based radio A knowledge based radio that monitors changed operating parameters and environmental conditions, and that selectively varies operating parameters of the radio in response to rules. The rules can be varied over time by the radio based upon the monitored re... | 01/14/1992 |
| 4972453 | Autonomous expert system for directly maintaining remote telephone switching systems An autonomous expert system for directly maintaining remote computer systems by directly accessing the remote computer systems, diagnosing, and clearing fault conditions on those computer systems. The expert system performs those functions by first access... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4916637 | Customized instruction generator Customized instructions for installation of a device having multiple variable components is described, and are generated by an instruction generator program. A device description file lists a desired set of components for the device. Each of the component... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4890227 | Autonomous resource management system with recorded evaluations of system performance with scheduler control including knowledge learning function An autonomous resource management method for improving performance of a system in which plurality of process units compete for resources. Previously determined allocation policies are stored in memory along with system status data, control data and an eva... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4843567 | Device to assist adaptive reordering of sequential decisions A system for the adaptive reordering of sequential decisions in the search of a data base is provided with a device that simplifies and speeds up a heuristic search method by implementing in hardware the computation required for the adaptive reordering. T... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4841441 | Method of creating a computer system An expert system uses internal rules for sound software development and in the end automatically produces a correct running system, without the need for the designer to work out the solution first or to enter any more than the facts (data types and proced... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4754409 | Method for dynamically collecting current data from specified external processes and procedures for use in an expert system A method for solving problems using an expert system in which the Rulebase includes a section having specific definitions of processes or procedures which are available to the expert system as a data source. The method allows data to be collected dynamica... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4752890 | Adaptive mechanisms for execution of sequential decisions An adaptive mechanism is presented in the context of optimization of expert system applications. Both single and multiple processor implementations are disclosed. The mechanism is used to maintain a near-optimal sequence for scanning rule lists in expert ... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4736296 | Method and apparatus of intelligent guidance in natural language A method and apparatus of intelligent guidance in a natural language in which the user of an information terminal apparatus is only required to input the content of a job to be executed, in a natural language which is used in usual conversation, and not i... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4727487 | Resource allocation method in a computer system A method of resource allocating to respective unit processes is disclosed which comprises, in order to allow the resource allocation based on experimental know-how of operation without assistance of a system operator, the steps of storing information of e... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4713775 | Intelligent assistant for using and operating computer system capabilities to solve problems To help a user program a computer target system to solve problems, the computer system is provided with predefined capabilities and the user is provided with a knowledge system that includes knowledge about applying the capabilities to effectively and eff... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4658348 | Method and apparatus for configuring a controller Reading values, setting values and setting configuration options within a complex programmable controller is simplified, by chaining all user interaction points into a single path, cross linking portions of the main path into subpaths and providing keys t... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4554625 | Method for generating an optimized nested arrangement of constrained rectangles The overall arrangement of a number of non-overlapping rectangles with constraints on their size and shape, may be generated with relation to a number of objective functions such as, size and shape of the enveloping rectangle, size of an interconnecting n... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4204253 | Device for generating and correcting a user program The invention relates to a programming panel which preferably comprises a micro-processor and whereby an operator can generate or modify the contents of steps of a user program by means of a number of selection means and value input means, inter alia on t... | 05/20/1980 |
