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| 7260508 | Method and system for high-resolution modeling of a well bore in a hydrocarbon reservoir A method and system are disclosed for high-resolution modeling of a well bore in a reservoir. An embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of constructing a first unstructured mesh having a plurality of n-dimensional simplices corresponding to a first... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7076405 | Method for estimating power consumption and noise levels of an integrated circuit, and computer-readable recording medium storing a program for estimating power consumption and noise levels of an integrated circuit The present invention is related to a method for estimating power consumption and noise levels of an integrated circuit which is composed of logic gates connected in the form of a plurality of stages. (1) At the outset, output signal waveforms and occurrence probabi... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072818 | Method and system for debugging an electronic system Techniques and systems for debugging an electronic system having instrumentation circuitry included therein are disclosed. The techniques and systems facilitate analysis, diagnosis and debugging fabricated hardware designs at a Hardware Description Language (HDL) le... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7031897 | Software modeling of logic signals capable of holding more than two values A method of efficiently simulating logic designs comprising signals that are capable of having more than two unique decimal values and one or more unique drive states, such as designs based upon the new N-nary logic design style, is disclosed. The present invention ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027964 | Method and system for solving finite element models using multi-phase physics Systems and methods for solving finite element models, wherein the matrix that governs the solution is modified by adjusting the weighting coefficients of the matrix so that the elements which lie on the diagonal of the matrix are non-negative and the elements which... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024342 | Thermal flow simulation for casting/molding processes A numerical procedure for simulating the behavior of incompressible, viscous fluid in a casting/molding process. The method is based on classical fluid dynamic equations and uses control volume-finite element and numerical techniques to solve the momentum and energy... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6999913 | Emulated read-write disk drive using a protected medium A read-write hard disk drive is emulated using a hard disk drive image file on a protected medium such as a CD-ROM, a written disk sector database, and file system filters. A file system filter intercepts file I/O requests from the operating system. Initial read req... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996506 | Process and device for displacing a moveable unit on a base A Process and device for displacing a moveable unit on a base. The process includes: a) a force (F) is determined which, applied to the moveable unit (4), produces a combined effect, on the one hand, on the moveable unit (4) so that it ex... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6993461 | Swept volume model A method and apparatus of modeling a swept volume for a computer simulated object by generating a polyhedral representation of the object and representing motion of the object with a set of position matrices. A subset of free neighborhood entities can be determined ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6988060 | Alignment simulation An alignment simulation method simulates the signal waveform for an alignment mark using various alignment methods as well as the signal strength for an alignment mark, which is useful in optimizing the thickness of one or more layers as well as the geometry of the ... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6978232 | Method and system of demonstrating a service that provides computerized transactions using a computer network Methods and systems for demonstrating a service that provides a computerized transaction to a client via a server coupled to a computer network. One aspect of the invention is a method for demonstrating a virtual server service using a host server system over a comp... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975980 | Hierarchical linking module connection to access ports of embedded cores An integrated circuit can have plural core circuits, each having a test access port that is defined in IEEE Standard 1149.1. Access to and control of these ports is though a test linking module. The test access ports on an integrated circuit can be arranged in a hie... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975972 | Dynamic association of equations to unknowns during simulations of systems described by hardware description languages In simulating a physical circuit or system including analog and mixed signal digital-analog components, a computer models the physical circuit or system as a system of simultaneous equations. Conditional equations with associated conditions that can be true or false... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6973417 | Method and system for simulating execution of a target program in a simulated target system A method and system for simulating the execution of a software program on a simulated hardware system. An instrumented software program is divided into program segments delineated by tags and is then analyzed for data describing the program segments. The data is tab... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6973419 | Method and system for designing an impingement film floatwall panel system A method and system for designing an impingement film floatwall panel system for a combustion chamber for a gas turbine engine comprising the steps of creating an impingement film floatwall panel knowledge base of information. The knowledge base has a plurality of d... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970816 | Method and system for efficiently generating parameterized bus transactions A method and system for efficiently generating parameterized bus transactions for verification of a design-under-test (DUT) comprises providing a configuration file for the DUT to a generator program. The configuration file defines possible parameter combinations fo... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6968307 | Creation and use of virtual device drivers on a serial bus A node on a serial bus, preferably a device such as a personal computer (PC), can emulate other devices using virtual device drivers. A PC connected to a 1394 bus exposes its CROM on the bus which presents an image to other nodes on the 1394 bus and describes the fu... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6968304 | Calculation of radiation emitted by a computer system The disclosure relates to a method for calculating electromagnetic radiation emitted by a computer system. The method models the characteristic radiation from a central processing unit as a modulated Gaussian pulse. The method solves Maxwell's equation using finite ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6968305 | Circuit-level memory and combinational block modeling A method and apparatus for creating a memory model for use in modeling a physical memory of an electronic circuit design. Memory write operations to the physical memory and memory read operations are modeled in a lookup table. The number of entries in the lookup tab... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6968297 | Method and device for simulating and representing the dressing of a mannequin The invention relates to a method of viewing a garment made up of garment pieces and having seam lines on a dummy model. The method comprises: a step of placing the garment pieces (38, 40) on the surface of the dummy (32 | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965848 | Ducting system designer A method and means for automating the design of a ducting system for a fluid is proposed. Boundary data identifying boundary conditions of the ducting system, which boundary data comprises positional information in a three dimensional installation space and magnitud... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965847 | Methods and computer readable medium for improved radiotherapy dosimetry planning Methods and computer readable media are disclosed for ultimately developing a dosimetry plan for a treatment volume irradiated during radiation therapy with a radiation source concentrated internally within a patient or incident from an external beam. The dosimetry ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963824 | Method and apparatus for geometric variations to integrate parametric computer aided design with tolerance analyses and optimization The objective of the invention is a bi-level method for modeling geometric tolerances compatible with the ANSI/ASME tolerance standard. At the local level, the model represents each tolerance-zone for a plane or an axis (line) as a tolerance map, and it includes the... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961687 | Internet based product data management (PDM) system An integrated product data environment for system design and optimization, e.g., a Collaborative Engineering Environment (CEE). The CEE provides a multi-disciplinary engineering team with immediate access to all relevant product information. It is an enterprise syst... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961689 | Scheduling non-integral simulation time for mixed-signal simulation In the simulation of an analog and mixed-signal analog-digital physical circuit, events are assigned scheduled times. The events are stored in buckets in a hash table, with the scheduled times of the events in each bucket associated with the bucket. The scheduled ti... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961690 | Behaviorial digital simulation using hybrid control and data flow representations The present invention provides a method and mechanism for simulating complex digital circuits using hybrid control and data flow representations. Specifically, the invention provides a method of controlling the simulation of a digital circuit in such a way that desi... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961691 | Non-synchronized multiplex data transport across synchronous systems A method allows two substantially asynchronous system components of a logic emulation system to exchange data packets with reference to a clock signal of predetermined frequency. In one example, each bit is transmitted across the system components over two or more c... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6959268 | Product catalog for use in a collaborative engineering environment and method for using same A collaborative engineering environment (CEE) enables the effective capture, management, communication, and exploitation of all product related information to a project team. The systematic employment of this information offers substantial improvements in productivi... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6959272 | Method and system for generating an ATPG model of a memory from behavioral descriptions A method and system for constructing a structural model of a memory for use in ATPG (Automatic Test Pattern Generation). According to an embodiment of the present invention, behavioral models of memories of the simulation libraries are re-coded into simplified behav... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6957176 | Reduction processing method and computer readable storage medium having program stored thereon for causing computer to execute the method The invention relates to a reduction processing method including a step for eliminating an “inside-out side”, contained in the sides of an offset figure generated by sizing a source figure. The inside-out side detected by the presence of a first intersection poi... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6957177 | Geometric model database for use in ubiquitous computing A system and process for providing a geometric model database for use in an ubiquitous computing environment. In general, the geometric model database system and process is capable of accepting information about the geometric state of the environment, building a geo... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954725 | Multi-physics analysis method, method for setting analysis conditions therefor, and storage medium Disclosed is a method for setting analysis conditions for multi-physics analysis for analyzing an object model with a plurality of different types of physical simulation models. The method comprises the step of; setting the physical models for element groups constit... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6950789 | Traffic violation detection at an intersection employing a virtual violation line A system and method for detecting and filtering non-violation events in a traffic light violation prediction and recording system, including at least one violation prediction image capturing device, such as a video camera, and a violation prediction unit. The predic... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6950785 | Nonlinear systems, method of design thereof and computer program product The present invention relates to nonlinear systems and methods of design thereof in the frequency domain. Typically, conventional linear filter design involves attenuating signals at frequencies which are not of interest and dissipating the energy at those frequenci... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6947876 | Method for automated system identification A method for automated system identification of a linear system is disclosed. A model structure is selected and one or more reference signal values are generated for input into the system. Input signal values and output signal values are retrieved from the system an... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6947880 | Method for improving accuracy of a velocity model A first velocity model for a first object (190) and a second velocity model for a second object (195) are established. A spatial relationship between the first object and the second object is established. At least a portion of the first velocity model ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6947883 | Method for designing mixed signal integrated circuits and configurable synchronous digital noise emulator circuit A method for designing an integrated circuit having analog and digital circuit portions is disclosed. The method involves providing an emulation circuit, which preferably comprises a number of gates equivalent to a number of gates in the digital circuit portion, aff... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6944585 | Dynamic personalized content resolution for a media server A streaming media server is provided for dynamically resolving a request for digital content based upon the identity of the requester. The digital content may be specifically tailored to the demographics of the viewer, and need not be physically stored in sequence. ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6944587 | Ethernet adapting apparatus An Ethernet adapting apparatus for data transfer between a standard Ethernet data pump and an Ethernet medium access controller via telecommunication medium (4), comprising: (a) a dual mode media independent interface (9) which emulates in... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6944583 | Multi-threaded frame safe synchronization of a simulation A computer program executes a simulation. The computer program includes a plurality of service programs, where the service programs are configured to collectively determine simulated attributes of objects of an environment under simulated operation. Each service is ... | 09/13/2005 |
