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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7643959 | Methods, systems, and computer readable media that provide programming for a sensor monitoring system using a softprocessor Methods, systems, and computer readable media provide a softprocessor that is executed by a hardware processing device of a sensor monitoring system and provide an application that is executed by the softprocessor being executed by the hardware processing device. Th... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7640132 | Recording medium and test apparatus A recording medium recording thereon a program for a test apparatus including test modules that test devices under test is provided. The program includes: a common function provision program which is executed on a controller for controlling the test apparatus and pr... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7558694 | Network-based system for configuring a system using configuration information generated based on a user specification A system and method for online configuration of a measurement system. The user may access a server over a network and specify a desired task, e.g., a measurement task, and receive programs and/or configuration information which are usable to configure the user's mea... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7536269 | Network-based system for configuring a system using software programs generated based on a user specification A system and method for online configuration of a measurement system. The user may access a server over a network and specify a desired task, e.g., a measurement task, and receive programs and/or configuration information which are usable to configure the user's mea... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7519497 | Apparatus and method for state selectable trace stream generation A trace test and debug system for a target processor generates a program counter trace stream, a timing trace stream and a data trace stream. The target processor has three states, a program code execution state, an interrupt service routine code execution state, an... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7502708 | Test apparatus, and control method A test apparatus that tests a device under test is provided. The test apparatus includes: a control processor that executes a test program to test the device under test; a test unit connected to the device under test that tests the device under test according to an ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7499824 | Graphical user interface for easily configuring measurement applications System and method for using a graphical user interface (GUI) to generate a measurement task specification (MTS) for performing a measurement task. The measurement task includes measurement and/or signal generation. A measurement task specifier presents a GUI which g... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7444258 | Automated simulation testbench generation for serializer/deserializer datapath systems Embodiments herein present a method for automated simulation testbench generation for serializer/deserializer datapath systems. The method provides a database of transactors for generating and checking data within the datapath system, wherein the transactors are ada... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444259 | Automatic acquisition of data referenced in user equation An apparatus includes a parser, a semantic checker, a data manager and an equation processor. The parser receives a first equation for manipulating data acquired by an instrument and detects an operand in the first equation, the instrument having a set of data acqui... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440867 | System and method for measuring workpieces An exemplary method for measuring workpieces is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: measuring a workpiece; recording the measuring procedures of the workpiece; generating procedure codes according to the measuring procedures; storing the procedure codes in ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7421632 | Mapping logic for controlling loading of the select ram of an error data crossbar multiplexer Methods and circuits for efficient configuration an error data crossover configuration circuit of an integrated circuit tester allows simultaneous DUT channel configuration for multiple identical DUTs for an error data control circuit. ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7404122 | Mapping logic for loading control of crossbar multiplexer select RAM A circuit and method for efficiently configuring an ACAM Select RAM for an ACAM circuit of a tester that tests multiple devices under test (DUTs). ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7395170 | Methods and apparatus for data analysis A method and apparatus for data analysis according to various aspects of the present invention is configured to automatically select one or more outlier identification algorithms for identifying statistical outliers in test data for components. ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392149 | Automatic software testing A computer implemented method of automatic software testing. Status information of a software test running on a test system is stored to a common information point. The common information point is typically on a computer system independent from a computer system run... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392148 | Heterogeneous multipath path network test system A test system for a heterogeneous multipath network. A tester system evaluates a plurality of status indicators from a plurality of types of test components in a network. Based on the status indicators of at least one of the test components, the tester system select... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7373360 | Methods and apparatus that use contextual test number factors to assign test numbers In a method for assigning test numbers, current testflow context information is maintained during the execution of a testflow. If one or more test number factors have been specified for one or more levels of the current testflow context, the test number factors are ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373263 | Analog-type measurements for a logic analyzer A logic analyzer that performs analog-type measurements on digital data includes circuitry in its acquisition system that is programmable to search through acquired data to detect analog-type signal characteristics. In a first embodiment, the logic analyzer includes... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369957 | Method and system for generating test pulses to test electronic elements A method and system for generating test pulses to test electronic elements are disclosed. After determining a transmission clock, which is smaller than a test clock, and a serial of predetermined pulses, the serial of data bits corresponding to the serial of predete... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366630 | Management of electrical cable installations in a building The installation of an electrical cable in a building and its subsequent testing are managed by first creating a computer database indicating the type of cable, the location where the cable is to be installed, the performance standard it should meet when installed i... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363617 | Database breakpoint apparatus and method An apparatus and method define the concept of a “database breakpoint.” One or more conditions in the database are specified as a database breakpoint in a debug environment for debugging a computer program that accesses the database. When the database conditions ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360120 | Methods for adaptive problem determination in distributed service-based applications A technique for problem determination in a distributed application is provided. Testing results of the application are first obtained through execution of test cases of a test group in the application. The testing of the application is then adaptively refined when t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359820 | In-cycle system test adaptation Disclosed are a method, information processing system and computer readable medium for performing a system test on a program. The method comprises creating a test plan associated with a system test. The system test is for testing a program within an environment. At ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357646 | Removable electronic assembly that requires validation A dual-in-line adaptor for mounting an electronic assembly that requires validation includes a pair of substantially parallel pin strips mounted to a first side of a dual-in-line adaptor circuit board and a first land pattern on at least one of the first side and a ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359819 | Evaluation of device driver output The testing of driver output is automated. Embodiments of the invention filter out data that is known to change between two similar outputs of a driver. By filtering this dynamic data out, the remaining data can be compared to known-good data to identify any variati... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356430 | Methods and apparatus for data analysis A method and apparatus for data analysis according to various aspects of the present invention is configured to automatically identify a characteristic of a component fabrication process guided by characteristics of the test data for the components. A method and app... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356804 | Language integrated unit testing Techniques for testing production code include providing a common source unit having production source code and test source code, the test source code having test methods for testing the production source code. Executable production code is produced based on the pro... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350185 | System, method, and computer program product for effort estimation A system and method for establishing an estimate for proposals and other customer requests which precludes an extensive up front investment in expert opinion and design. This is accomplished by applying a pattern-based technique toward rough application effort sizin... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343522 | Apparatus having a transfer mode abnormality detecting function, storage controlling apparatus, and interface module for the storage controlling apparatus A storage controlling apparatus controlling an access, for example, from a host to a physical device has a determining means determining whether or not a basic mode predetermined among two or more modes agrees with a mode set in a mode setting sequence run when the ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340725 | Smart test attributes and test case scenario in object oriented programming environment Smart test attributes are objects that are arranged to incorporate attributes functionality in the attributes themselves and to provide a standard way to interact with the attributes through a set of interfaces. The set of interfaces includes interfaces for class le... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340650 | Method to measure stored procedure execution statistics The invention is a method to obtain actual stored procedure execution statistics while an overlying application is running. The method is accomplished by a software module running in background and acquires the execution statistics, including database writes and rea... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334219 | Method and system for object level software testing A system, method, and computer program product for software testing, including analyzing the source code under test to generate a scan file, including a map of the source code under test and a tree structure for the source code under test; generating a stub file for... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330044 | Method and apparatus for semiconductor testing A semiconductor testing system including an input; a display; multiple testing units; a memory in which is stored multiple applications that specify the operating procedure of the testing units and multiple categories that are related to the applications; and a cont... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324911 | Method of planning, installing, and verifying a set of electrical cables in a building A business method for comprehensively planning the installation into a building of various dissimilar types of electrical cables. A feature of the method is that each individual cable, when installed in place, is then tested for the level of performance which will b... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324912 | Method, system and programming language for device diagnostics and validation A method and system for performing diagnostics and validation operations on a device under test uses near natural language commands. A host machine controls the testing either locally or remotely, such as through the Internet. Various options for running a test or b... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319940 | Method for managing semiconductor characteristic evaluation apparatus and computer program therefor A management method for data in a semiconductor characteristic evaluation apparatus comprised of a control unit, a memory unit, and input/output units includes steps for selecting the workspace including the test programs for testing a plurality of wafer types, for ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7316000 | Interactive agent for a topological multi-tier business application composer A computer-implemented Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for use in constructing a multi-tier business application for a multiple tier computer network. The IDE is used to create and maintain the multi-tier business application quickly and easily on the multi... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310581 | Bulk material analyzer system A real-time bulk material analyzing system is disclosed for analyzing the elemental characteristics of bulk material passing by the system on a moving conveyor belt. An exemplary embodiment includes a source of illumination emitting white light for exciting bulk mat... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305659 | Handling parameters in test scripts for computer program applications Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for handling parameters in a test script for testing a computer program application. A method includes executing a test script for testing a function of a computer program, the test script including a comma... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305654 | Test schedule estimator for legacy builds A test schedule estimator for performing fixes on released software. In a preferred embodiment, historic data from similar builds are used with other data to estimate a time required to perform testing and release based on the number of fixes implemented. ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295953 | Scenario based testing and load generation for web applications In a Web application testing method which has been configured in accordance with the present invention, a network message from one of several network clients can be intercepted. Session data in the network message can be identified and state information retrieved fo... | 11/13/2007 |