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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8155766 | Methods and apparatus to provision power-saving storage system A power-saving computer system comprises a plurality of storage areas provided by one or more storage systems, including at least one first storage area which is always powered on and at least one second storage area which is periodically powered on and off accordin... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8082049 | Method and apparatus for safe switching of an automation bus system The invention provides a method for operation of an automation system having at least one bus system connected to at least one subscriber, and having a central control system. The method includes parameterizing and/or programming the at least one bus subscriber by t... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7933667 | Industrial robot system with a portable operator control device An industrial robot including a manipulator, a control unit for controlling the manipulator, a portable operating unit for teaching and manually operating the robot, which operating unit is adapted for wireless communication with the control unit and including an op... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7620465 | Fault-tolerant node architecture for distributed systems A distributed architecture system including a plurality of nodes operatively coupled together by a bus. Each node includes a main controller configured to provide data to the bus and to an actuator, and a supervisory controller configured to provide data to the bus ... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7515976 | Apparatus and method for acquiring plant operation data of power plant There is disclosed a plant operation data acquiring apparatus, which acquires and stores plant operation data, and backs up the plant operation data using a backup storage medium in accordance with a backup request. The plant operation data acquiring apparatus combi... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7437596 | Self-healing control network for building automation systems In building automation architectures, components may be associated through physical communications paths and at a different level through building automation applications. Building automation applications implement control processes for a building function. Due to c... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437203 | Remote terminal unit assembly A construction of RTU assembly having a number of independently operational cells for systems functions is provided. Each cell is formed from a configurable component and effectively could be of the same construction as a conventional RTU that would be used for a pa... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7428473 | Health monitoring in a system of circumvention and recovery A system comprises at least one non-hardened processor configured to run a plurality of mission related processes; at least one threat detector configured to detect one or more conditions which indicate the onset of a threat to the operation of the at least one non-... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424642 | Method for synchronization of a controller A system and method for reintegration of a redundant controller after occurrence of a fault is provided, comprising synchronizing outputs of a primary controller with outputs of secondary controllers. The controller is placed in a different mode of operation in whic... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7383408 | Storage device that uses virtual ordered writes Ordering data writes include a host computer providing a plurality of data writes to a primary storage device, the primary storage device assigning a first sequence number to data writes begun after a first time and before a second time, the primary storage device a... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7373447 | Multi-port processor architecture with bidirectional interfaces between busses A multi-port processor architecture having a first bus, a second bus and a central processing unit. The central processing unit having a first and second ports coupled to first and second busses respectively. A first bus to second bus bi-directional interface couple... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7364922 | Automated semiconductor wafer salvage during processing The present invention provides a recovery processing method to restore the substrate processing apparatus to an operating state after correcting an abnormality having occurred in the substrate processing apparatus in operation and having resulted in a stop in the op... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366921 | Selecting input/output devices to control power consumption of a computer system Input/output (I/O) devices may be controlled to reduce power consumption of a computer system. A power consumption metric for the I/O devices connected to the computer system is determined. At least one of the I/O devices is selected based on the determined power co... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7340500 | Providing peer groups in a peer-to-peer environment A system and method for providing peer groups in a peer-to-peer environment. A peer group may be one or more peers in a peer-to-peer environment that share a set of network services and content. A peer group may define an implicit scope for messages originating from... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330473 | System and methodology providing network data exchange between industrial control components The present invention relates to a system and methodology facilitating network communications between network components operative between a local network and a higher-level, remote, and/or information network in an industrial controller environment. The system incl... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328170 | Multi-device supervisor support for self-checkout systems A customer self-checkout system includes one or more checkout stations and multiple supervisor terminals. The supervisor terminals provide support to, and control over, the self-checkout system and checkout stations. The supervisory terminals may be wireless termina... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325162 | Configurable multiple channel discrete output module Certain exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a control system device, comprising a multiple channel discrete output module, said module storing a plurality of fail-state parameters, each fail-state parameter from the plurality of fail-state paramet... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318107 | System and method for automatic stream fail-over A method is described comprising: maintaining a plurality of data relating to client streaming connections across a plurality of servers; and assigning a particular client streaming connection to a first server upon detecting that a second server previously serving ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7292897 | Multiplexing control system and multiplexing method therefor A multiplexing control system has a common process input/output unit for distributing process signals from sensors for measuring the same state variable of a process to digital controllers. One process input/output unit for inputting/outputting a process signal betw... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7290170 | Arbitration method and system for redundant controllers, with output interlock and automatic switching capabilities An arbitration mechanism is provided for arbitrating between redundant controllers having outputs electrically connected together and provided as input to at least one device under control. The arbitration mechanism includes logic for automatically determining which... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7290192 | Test apparatus and test method for testing plurality of devices in parallel A test apparatus according to the present invention includes: a plurality of test modules, connected to either of the plurality of devices under test, for supplying a test signal to the connected device under test; a plurality of control apparatuses for controlling ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287185 | Architectural support for selective use of high-reliability mode in a computer system In one aspect of the present invention, a circuit is provided which implements an instruction set architecture defining a first instruction group, a second instruction group to enter a high-reliability mode of operation, and a third instruction group to enter a non-... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7278043 | System, method, and apparatus for overload detection in real-time data processing applications A method for overload detection according to one embodiment of the invention includes a control process and a data process. In response to a timing signal, the control process sets a state of a timing indicator. Upon execution of a time-constrained operation, the da... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275167 | Task-oriented processing as an auxiliary to primary computing environments A computing system that incorporates an auxiliary processor to the main system processor. The auxiliary system utilizes a separate application runtime for processes and is capable of operating even when the primary system is in an off state. Methods for load-balanci... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269465 | Control system for controlling safety-critical processes There is provided a control system for controlling safety-critical processes that includes a fieldbus, a bus master for controlling a communication via the fieldbus, at least one signal unit for linking to at least one of the safety-critical processes, and a first c... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263476 | High speed information processing and mass storage system and method, particularly for information and application servers A high speed, microcomputer based, Fibre Channel compatible and fault tolerant information processing and mass storage system especially suited for information servers and application servers. A unique and extremely versatile system architecture, including a dual lo... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263061 | Packet routing apparatus for routing packets via a pre-established connection in a store and forward network The present invention relates to a packet routing apparatus for routing packets via a pre-established connection in a store and forward network. It is an object of the present invention to realize adaptability to a desired redundant configuration and to avoid degrad... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263630 | Fault tolerant computer controlled system An error tolerant computer controlled system comprises several computers working redundantly and controlling actuators based on signals from sensors and input devices. Each data item emitted by each computer is simultaneously sent through differing communication pat... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260624 | Systems and methods for establishing interaction between a local computer and a remote computer Methods and devices provide for remote management of a local computer by transferring screen frames produced by the local computer for viewing at a remote computer. The screen frame data may be obtained by digitizing an analog video output of the local computer and ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260166 | Systems for synchronizing resets in multi-clock frequency applications Methods and systems for synchronizing a reset signal with a local clock that drives a circuit. In the circuit, the reset signal can be used to reset one or more flip-flops, memory devices, and/or logic. Sychronization of the reset signal allows the reset signal to c... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254452 | Distributed input/output control systems and methods Apparatus and methods for controlling a system that operates responsive to a plurality of input control signals are disclosed. During operation the system generates a plurality of output status/control signals. A master controller has at least first and second contr... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248932 | Electronic control unit A main CPU transmits data used in determination of whether or not a target throttle opening degree calculation logic and an estimated target throttle opening degree calculation logic are normal (a target degree and an estimated target degree of throttle opening, and... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245725 | Dual processor framer A dual processor framer includes a receiver and a transmitter which share common circuitry and/or code. Separate direct memory access controllers may be used for each of the receiver and transmitter. Processing is distributed over two or more processors. One process... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7246270 | Programmable controller with CPU and communication units and method of controlling same A programmable controller has two communication units connected to a same network and a CPU unit. These two communication units are both identified by same unit-identifying data such as node numbers and unit numbers and function such that one of them operates in an ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7233120 | Optimal fan presence detection Detecting the presence of an electric fan is described. A current sink circuit is coupled to a pulse width drive output of a fan control circuit. A logic state in a logic input buffer is defined based on current flow through the current sink. The logic state indicat... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233830 | Application and service management for industrial control devices The subject invention provides systems and methods that facilitate accessing and management of information (e.g., instructions, executables, classes, objects . . . ) associated with a control system. The systems and methods enable a control system entity the ability... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233336 | Systems and methods for capturing screen displays from a host computing system for display at a remote terminal The present invention provides systems and methods for monitoring a host computing system from a maintenance computing system located at a remote location. The system of the present invention includes a frame grabber that is connected the digital output of a video c... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231276 | Printed product incorporating inorganic semiconductors A printing system including at least one printhead for printing material to create a printed product, and an object incorporation device that incorporates inorganic semiconductors into the product being printed whilst the at least one printhead prints the product. | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231531 | Personal electronics device with a dual core processor A novel personal electronic device includes a processor having first (embedded) and second (non-embedded) cores including associated operating systems and functions. In one aspect, the first core performs relatively limited functions, while the second core performs ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227748 | Cooling module A cooling module is provided for an electrically powered apparatus. The cooling module comprises a non-volatile memory arranged to store a module identifier code for the module. ... | 06/05/2007 |
