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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7979263 | Method, system and program for developing and scheduling adaptive integrated circuitry and corresponding control or configuration information A method, system and program are provided for development of an adaptive computing integrated circuit and corresponding configuration information, in which the configuration information provides an operating mode to the adaptive computing integrated circuit. The exe... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7966164 | Method for selecting enhanced oil recovery candidate A method for selecting a candidate reservoir for enhanced oil recovery from a plurality of reservoirs comprising selecting a reservoir, calculating a normalized raw score based on target oil for the reservoir (STarget Oil), calculating a normalized raw sc... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7921004 | Methods and apparatus for analyzing transmission lines with decoupling of connectors and other circuit elements Methods and apparatus are provided for analyzing transmission lines with decoupling of connectors and other circuit elements. According to one aspect of the invention, circuits with one or more parasitic elements are analyzed by partitioning at least one of the para... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7921003 | System and method for simulating shallow water effects on arbitrary surfaces A system and method for shallow water simulation may provide a framework for solving General Shallow Wave Equations (GSWE) to efficiently simulate 3D fluid effects on arbitrary surfaces using a height field representation. The height field representation may include... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7904282 | Method and system for fault accommodation of machines A method for multi-objective fault accommodation using predictive modeling is disclosed. The method includes using a simulated machine that simulates a faulted actual machine, and using a simulated controller that simulates an actual controller. A multi-objective op... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899661 | Run-time switching for simulation with dynamic run-time accuracy adjustment Systems and methods for run-time switching for simulation with dynamic run-time accuracy adjustment. In one embodiment, a computer implemented method performs a simulation of a computer instruction executing on a simulated hardware design by a first simulation model... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7885805 | Apparatus, system, and method for simulating multiple hosts An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for simulating multiple hosts. An object module creates a plurality of host object instances. Each host object instance simulates a host to a storage device connection. In addition, each host object instance includes a ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7872568 | Method for the targeted stimulation of wheel electronics systems of tire groups A method for stimulating wheel electronics systems of single tires of at least one tire group in a motor vehicle. The wheel electronics systems are stimulated with a low frequency trigger signal, as follows: a trigger signal is emitted from an LF trigger to the whee... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7873501 | Crack growth evaluation apparatus, crack growth evaluation method, and recording medium recording crack growth evaluation program The analysis model generation unit generates an analysis model for use in an analysis by a finite-element method. A stress distortion analysis unit analyzes a stress and a distortion occurring in finite elements of a continuum by a load using the analysis model for ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7860696 | Methods and systems to predict rotary drill bit walk and to design rotary drill bits and other downhole tools Methods and systems may be provided to simulate forming a wide variety of directional wellbores including wellbores with variable tilt rates, relatively constant tilt rates, wellbores with uniform generally circular cross-sections and wellbores with non-circular cro... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7844446 | Method and system for multiprocessor emulation on a multiprocessor host system A method (and system) for executing a multiprocessor program written for a target instruction set architecture on a host computing system having a plurality of processors designed to process instructions of a second instruction set architecture, includes representin... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7840394 | Method for generating a 3D earth model A method is provided for generating an invertible 3D hydrodynamic earth model suitable for defining target characteristics of a subsurface area formed by a plurality of formations and comprising drilling positions of potential and real wells. The method comprises co... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7827012 | System and method for controlling structural type integration A system and methodology for controlling structural type integration to major fittings requires creating a geometrical set of objects identified here as basic starting geometry which consist of external references and relationships to a main component structure. Str... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822595 | Systems and methods for selectively copying embedded data files A backup system is provided that includes a backup application configured to automatically execute upon connection of the backup system to a data source. The backup application is configured to selectively back up data from the data source to itself or to networked ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7801712 | Declaration and consumption of a causality model for probable cause analysis Various embodiments provide a causality model is used to express causality of system entities in terms that do not necessarily require knowledge of the overall composition of the specific system of which it comprises a part. The causality model, used in connection w... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7801717 | Method for smart dummy insertion to reduce run time and dummy count A method involves providing a circuit pattern, generating a density report for the circuit pattern that identifies a feasible area for dummy insertion, simulating a planarization process with the density report and identifying a hot spot on the circuit pattern, inse... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797142 | Simulating cavitation damage Methods and systems provide a simulation of cavitation damage. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method simulates a potential for cavitation damage. According to the method, data defining a modeled component is imported to a flow solver tool. The flow so... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7783465 | Parallel multi-rate circuit simulation A computer-implemented method for solving parallel equations in a circuit simulation is described. The method includes partitioning a circuit Jacobian matrix into loosely coupled partitions, reordering the voltage vector and the matrix according to the partitions, a... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7778811 | Method and system for predictive stratigraphy images Methods and systems are provided for displaying and forecasting the lithology and wellbore conditions to be encountered while conducting drill string operations are conducted in a wellbore. A method and system is described for predicting and modeling lithology while... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774180 | Method and system for identifying proximity areas between several digitally simulated geometrical objects The system for identifying zones of proximity between a plurality of digitally simulated objects comprises: (a) first memory (111) for storing data describing the geometry of the objects, (b) an initialization module (120) for creating a p... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7765094 | Method and system for performance profiling of software Performance profiling of software by producing a performance profile of a software processing unit and performing statistical analysis on the performance profile by matching the performance profile with at least one additional performance profile. An algorithmic app... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761278 | Semiconductor device stress modeling methodology A computational methodology that improves the accuracy of model parameters in a compact model uses methods and algorithms to self-consistently match independently developed base and stress models by re-fitting the stress model to the data set that generates the base... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7747424 | Scatterometry multi-structure shape definition with multi-periodicity A modeling approach is disclosed which addresses samples with different regions where the structures exhibit different periodicities. In this approach, a first partial model is generated which defines the shape, material properties and periodicity of the first regio... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742909 | Reconstruction of data from simulation models Systems and media for reconstructing data from simulation models are disclosed. Embodiments may include a media containing instructions for accessing an alias from an alias file. The media may include instructions for searching for a net name and, if the net name is... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7742910 | Mechanism for estimating and controlling di/dt-induced power supply voltage variations A system for delivering power to a device in a specified voltage range is disclosed. The system includes a power delivery network, characterized by a response function, to deliver power to the device. A current computation unit stores values representing a sequence ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7739084 | Simulation techniques A method for assessing wave propagation arising in a physical system by obtaining a numerical approximation of the physical system to be simulated, the method comprising defining a computational domain comprising a first grid havin... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7739095 | Method for determining best and worst cases for interconnects in timing analysis Roughly described, signal propagation delay values are estimated for a plurality of interconnects in a circuit design. For each interconnect, the propagation delay value(s) are estimated in dependence upon a preliminary approximate determination of whether the signa... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7739086 | Information delivering method The information delivering server for providing three-dimensional content is composed of a property information master storage device for storing the property information of the three-dimensional content, a skeleton master storage device for storing the content of i... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734455 | Test postcondition items for automated analysis and test generation In one embodiment, a design is verified by creating a graphical model with a graphical modeling tool executing on a computing device. The graphical model may include a plurality of model elements. A postcondition element is coupled to a selected model element of the... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7729894 | Test postcondition items for automated analysis and test generation The present invention provides methods and systems for using a element in a graphical model to represent and identify a postcondition for use by a verification tool in verifying an executable form of the design represented by the graphical model. The postcondition e... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7729895 | Methods and systems for designing and/or selecting drilling equipment with desired drill bit steerability Methods and systems may be provided for simulating forming a wide variety of directional wellbores including wellbores with variable tilt rates and/or relatively constant tilt rates. The methods and systems may also be used to simulate forming a wellbore in subterra... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725305 | Partial virtualization on computing device A computing device hosts a virtual machine executing a guest that issues guest hardware requests by way of any of a plurality of paths. Such paths include a path to non-existent virtual hardware, where an emulator intercepts and processes such guest hardware request... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720663 | Delay analysis system The present invention provides a delay analysis system which makes it possible to make delay analysis considering circuit logical information in order to give more accurate delay times. In addition to circuit connection information and delay time information on the ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716028 | Method for modeling a reservoir using a 3D wettability map generated from a wettability logging tool A method is disclosed for modeling a reservoir, comprising: receiving a set of wettability logs from a wettability logging tool adapted to be disposed in a wellbore; generating a wettability map in response to the wettability logs; generating a gridded simulation mo... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7702493 | Method for quality assurance of screw joint tightening A method for quality assurance of screw joint tightening results when tightening a screw joint to a needed pretension condition (FN) by means of a torque delivering power tool, wherein one or more simulation procedures of a screw joint tightening process ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702495 | Three-dimensional finite-element code for electrosurgery and thermal ablation simulations A method for performing a simulation of an electrosurgical procedure is provided. The method includes the step of generating a three-dimensional model of a medium comprising one or more material regions representing a physical object or a region of the tissue. The m... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702494 | Method and system for prescribing rigid body orientations in finite element analysis A system, method and software product for prescribing rigid body in finite element analysis is described. According to one aspect, user defines a rigid body orientation time history based on a variety of schemes including, but not limited to, direction cosine, orien... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698109 | Method, a computer system, and a computer product for configuring a virtual representation of an assembly of a plurality of components The invention provides a method for configuring a virtual representation of an assembly of a plurality of components, by: I) storing a first set of data representing a plurality of categories of components, and, for each category, parameters and constraints defining... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7698120 | Method for improving a working model for the management of the man-machine interaction The method according to the invention is characterized in that on the basis of an existing task model, which may be provided by an expert, it is enhanced with the current state of the user in his task, the events allowing a change of state of the user are described,... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693694 | Shape simulation method, program and apparatus A simulation environment establishment unit constructs a three-dimensional virtual space for a simulation, where a plurality of lattice points is orthogonally arranged as well as ensures in a storage step a storage region storing information for each of the pluralit... | 04/06/2010 |
