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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8131792 | Apparatus and method for correlating synchronous and asynchronous data streams Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method comprising: automatically: receiving a plurality of elements for each of a plurality of continuous data streams; treating the plurality of elements as a first data stream matrix that defines a first dimensionality; redu... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8082159 | Method and systems for routing items to resources Methods, systems, and computer-program products for routing items to resources are disclosed. Potential matches between items and resources are generated and scored according to one or more match-factor criterion. An initial assignment of potential matches is made t... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8024390 | Automated data alignment based upon indirect device relationships A noisy data alignment algorithm for determining cycle count offsets for noisy pairs of n monitoring devices. A direct cycle count offset matrix is determined based upon the highest correlation coefficients produced by correlating frequency variation data from each ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8010589 | Semi-automatic system with an iterative learning method for uncovering the leading indicators in business processes Embodiments herein select performance indicators from raw data and measure the indicators over at least one time period to extract a time series of data for each of the indicators. The method determines a time order among the correlated indicators and determines a c... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7941472 | Serial correlator architecture An apparatus for correlating multibit first and second words includes a multiplexer for selecting one bit at a time of the second word, and applying the bit to a multiplier which receives the first word, for generating a product by inverting or noninverting the firs... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7870178 | Systems and methods for extracting coherent correlation data An apparatus and method allow receivers to quickly acquire a pseudorandom noise signal. A receiver advantageously detects frequency shifts using a compact parallel process hardware implementation of a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT). The simultaneous detection of m... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7849124 | Method and system for detecting difference between plural observed results A method and system for analyzing time series data. In an embodiment, a loop is executed and terminated upon a specified maximum number of iterations of the loop being performed or upon a difference between scores in successive iterations of the loop not being great... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7844652 | Efficient computation of sketches Determining a summary feature set is disclosed. A plurality of subsegments of a first segment are selected. For each subsegment, a plurality of values by applying a set of functions to each subsegment are computed. From all the values computed for all the subsegment... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7783694 | Identification of relevant metrics A method and system for identifying relevant metrics among metrics that are measured to determine conformance with a service level agreement. The method includes selecting two sets of points, each set representing a given number of measurements for an individual met... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7689638 | Method and device for determining and outputting the similarity between two data strings The present invention discloses a method and device for determining and outputting a similarity measure between two data strings each data string comprising data entities, comprising: receiving a first data string, receiving a second data string, which is characteri... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7657588 | Detection and identification of stable PRI patterns using multiple parallel hypothesis correlation algorithms A linear detection method for determining correlation values associated with an estimated Pulse Repetition Interval (PRI) executed by a linear detection module of a correlation mask disposed on a digital signal processor is provided comprising: determining a correla... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7631029 | Device and method for detecting a useful signal in a receiver The device for detecting a useful signal comprises an autocorrelation unit (AK) for autocorrelating a signal (s(t)) which can contain a periodic signal, and a cross correlation unit (CK) for cross correlating the signal s(t) with a known signal (b(t)). Further, the ... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7610324 | System for detection and estimation of periodic patterns in a noisy signal A method for the detection and estimation of periodicities in noisy signals. First the signal is sampled and preprocessed in a discrete succession of equal periods. Then, short term characteristics vectors are generated for each period. The short term characteristic... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7606851 | Correlator having user-defined processing In one embodiment of the invention, a circuit may include and/or involve a correlator, a programmable fabric, and logic to enable selection of one of default processing logic and alternate processing logic to process corresponding data and coefficient values of the ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7529790 | System and method of data analysis Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method of data analysis, comprising comparing a data point in a data stream and a previous data point in the data stream to identify a change direction of the data point based on a difference between the data point an... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7483934 | Methods involving computing correlation anomaly scores An exemplary method for computing correlation anomaly scores, including, defining a first similarity matrix for a target run of data, the target run of data includes an N number of sensors, defining a second similarity matrix for a reference run of data, the target ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7483933 | Correlation architecture for use in software-defined radio systems A re-configurable correlation unit for correlating a sequence of chip samples comprising: 1) a memory for storing the chip samples; 2) a plurality of add-subtract cells, each add-subtract cell receiving a plurality of real bits, a, and a plurality of imaginary bits,... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7447723 | Method for fast relevance discovery in time series A method for measuring time series relevance using state transition points, including inputting time series data and relevance threshold data. Then convert all time series values to ranks within [0,1] interval. Calculate the valid range of the transition point in [0... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7437397 | Apparatus and method for correlating synchronous and asynchronous data streams Certain exemplary embodiments provide a method comprising: automatically: receiving a plurality of elements for each of a plurality of continuous data streams; treating the plurality of elements as a first data stream matrix that defines a first dimensionality; redu... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437398 | Pattern matching architecture A pattern matching unit includes a selection unit to divide an input datum and one or more reference templates into input bit-fields corresponding reference bit-fields, respectively. The number of bits in the input and reference bit-fields is programmable. A distanc... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433910 | Method and apparatus for the parallel correlator and applications thereof A fast correlator transform (FCT) algorithm and methods and systems for implementing same, correlate an encoded data word (X0-XM−1) with encoding coefficients (C0-CM−1), wherein each of (X0-XM−1... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7418065 | Multicarrier receivers and methods for detecting cyclic prefixes having unknown lengths A multicarrier receiver sequentially correlates two training symbols to determine a length of a cyclic prefix associated with each of the training symbols. ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7397938 | Method and system for fast normalized cross-correlation between an image and a Gaussian for detecting spherical structures A method of identifying spherical objects in a digital image is provided, wherein the image includes a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points in a D-dimensional space. The method includes calculating a local cross-correlation between a point in... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7382286 | System and method for the correlation of multiple data feeds A method of receiving a first set of target data points from a first data feed and receiving a second set of target data points from a second data feed arrangement. Comparing a time variable included in the target data points from the first set to the time variable ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7366227 | Chip-to-symbol receiver despreader architectures and methods for despreading spread spectrum signals In a spread spectrum system, methods and despreader architectures for despreading the received spreaded codes with the use of a single correlator and a single correlation code is provided. Before despreading the incoming received spreaded codes, a single correlation... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366326 | Real-time implementation of field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) design in hyperspectral imaging A Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) design uses a Coordinate Rotation DIgital Computer (CORDIC) algorithm that can convert a Givens rotation of a vector to a set of shift-add operations. The CORDIC algorithm can be easily implemented in hardware architecture, th... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7333930 | Tonal analysis for perceptual audio coding using a compressed spectral representation The present invention provides an apparatus, method and tangible medium storing instructions for determining tonality of an input audio signal, for selection of corresponding masked thresholds for use in perceptual audio coding. In the various embodiments, the input... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330522 | Complementary code keying (CCK) sequentially decoding apparatus and process thereof An apparatus of sequentially decoding CCK codes includes a series of received signal registers used to respectively temporarily save the received signals, a phase selector used to select one numeral from 1, −1, j or −j respectively for CCK code of each chip to m... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7320014 | Method and apparatus for identifying similar events in long data records Method and apparatus for correlating data records acquired in a signal acquisition device includes the steps of extracting an area of interest from the data record displayed on said signal acquisition device, normalizing the area of interest, creating a filter based... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319943 | Optimum design method, and apparatus, and program for the same In an optimum design method comprising a first solution determining step of solving an optimization problem of a first evaluation function for a state variable vector with a design variable vector being as a parameter, and a second solution determining step of solvi... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313207 | Reducing memory usage in noncoherent signal processing A method for detecting a positioning signal includes (a) correlating a segment of a received positioning signal with a reference signal of a selected code phase and frequency to obtain a correlation value, (b) if the correlation value is less than a predetermined mi... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313196 | Method and system for baseband amplitude limiting A system for baseband amplitude limiting is provided. The system includes a CORDIC vector mode rotator device having an angle accumulator in addition to a gain device and limiter. The system also includes a second CORDIC rotator operating in rotation mode, and is co... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7308468 | Pattern matching Systems, apparatuses, and methods for searching for a match to a sequence of bits. The systems apparatuses, and methods include selecting a sequence of bits from a data stream, taking a function of the sequence of bits having a result that is a pattern that is repre... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7286594 | Determination of the correlation phase between a signal and a replica sequence The invention relates to a method for determining the correlation phase between a signal received at a receiver and a replica sequence. A matched filter multiplies samples (21) of the received signal with samples (22) of the replica and sums the result... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277476 | Determining the correlation between received samples and available replica samples The invention relates to a method, a processing unit and a system for determining the correlation between samples of a received code modulated signal and samples of replica code sequences. In order to simplify and accelerate the process, it is proposed that the rece... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7263131 | OFDM-based timing synchronization detection apparatus and method An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based synchronization detection apparatus includes an input register that stores data, a shifter that shifts the data from the input register based on the exponent of a quantized correlation coefficient, an adder ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260145 | Method and systems for analyzing the quality of high-speed signals A method and systems for analyzing the quality of high-speed signals, when signals can not be over-sampled due to sampler clock rates, is disclosed. According to the method of the invention, the position of a phase rotator is moved from one end to the other and data... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7236596 | Digital imaging system for evidentiary use The Evidentiary Imaging System (EIS) provides secure storage or transmission of a digital image into which is encoded the date, time, and location at which the image was taken, along with the camera ID and frame number. The encoding is dispersed throughout the image... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233969 | Method and apparatus for a parallel correlator and applications thereof A fast correlator transform (FCT) algorithm and methods and systems for implementing same, correlate an encoded data word (X0–XM−) with encoding coefficients (C0–CM−1), wherein each of (X0–XM−1 | 06/19/2007 |
| 7225124 | Methods and apparatus for multiple source signal separation A technique for separating a signal associated with a first source from a mixture of the first source signal and a signal associated with a second source comprises the following steps/operations. First, two signals respectively representative of two mixtures of the ... | 05/29/2007 |
