Patents by Inventor Andreas Neumann

Andreas Neumann has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Medical implant, in particular stent for use in bodily lumen
    Patent number: 8016875
    Abstract: A medical implant, in particular a stent for insertion in a bodily lumen, having a base structure (2, 3), wherein a passive electronic oscillating circuit configuration (4), comprising at least one inductor (L) and at least one capacitor (C1 through C4), is integrated in the base structure (2, 3), whose natural frequency (fres0) in the implanted state of the implant (1) is externally detectable by exciting the oscillating circuit configuration (4) using electromagnetic radiation such that a significant identification feature or a change of the base structure (2, 3) is detectable by the value or a change of the natural frequency (fres0) of the oscillating circuit configuration (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Biotronik VI Patent AG
    Inventors: Jens Philipp, Andreas Neumann
  • CARDIOVERTER/DEFIBRILLATOR AND SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE FOR CLASSIFYING INTRACARDIAC SIGNALS
    Publication number: 20110196249
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of differentiating between ventricular tachycardias (VTs) and supraventricular tachycardias (SVT) with the assistance of morphology detection, and signal processing devices implementing such methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: Philipp Staeuber, Andreas Neumann, Ulrich Busch, Peter Wohlgemuth
  • Adding low-latency updateable metadata to a text index
    Patent number: 7991756
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for allowing efficient updating of metadata and high performance searching through the use of a text index and a separate updateable metadata index. Generally, an updateable metadata index is used to store document metadata. A text index is used to store document text. Documents in the text index are stored in the same order as the corresponding metadata entries. Upon receiving a search query, a search engine decomposes the query into a metadata condition and a text condition. Search engine performs a parallel scan upon the metadata index and the text index. To increase performance, metadata entries are skipped over if the corresponding text entries do not match the text condition. During the scan, when a document in the metadata index matches a document in the text index, the document is stored in the search results. After the scan, search results are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tom William Jacopi, Andreas Neumann, Liem Gioi Tran
  • Optimizing scalar search in a text indexing and search server
    Patent number: 7945578
    Abstract: Method, system, and computer program product for query processing are provided. In one implementation, the method comprises receiving a query that includes a full text portion. An invariant part of the full text portion is then compiled and stored. Additional queries received are executed by reusing the compiled invariant part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ting Yu Leung, Andreas Neumann, Pradhan Gyanaranjan Pattanayak
  • UNIVERSAL ARRANGEMENT FOR RECEIVING A CURTAIN RAIL FOR A PARTITIONING CURTAIN
    Publication number: 20110042434
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for receiving a curtain rail for a curtain for partitioning at least two regions in a cabin of a vehicle, with a bottom facing the floor of the cabin, and a top facing the ceiling of the cabin, wherein the bottom is essentially planar and is designed to receive the curtain rail, and wherein the top is designed to cover the space between a curtain held in the curtain rail and the ceiling of the cabin of the vehicle. The arrangement according to the invention is characterised in that the bottom comprises means for the variable-position holding of attachment points to which the curtain rail can be fastened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Warner, Andreas Neumann, Michael Mosler
  • Method and system for processing a text search query in a collection of documents
    Patent number: 7882107
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product implementing the method are provided to process a text search query in a collection of documents. A full posting index is generated for the documents in the collection. The full posting index comprises one or more first index terms and a full posting list for each first index term, enumerating the occurrences of the first index term in the documents. In addition to the full posting index, at least one additional posting index is generated for the documents. The additional posting index is related to a defined document part and comprises one or more second index terms and a restricted posting list for each second index term, enumerating all occurrences of the second index term in the document part of the documents of the collection. The text search query is performed using the additional posting index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrea Baader, Jochen Doerre, Monika Matschke, Andreas Neumann, Roland Seiffert
  • SLOT VALVE FOR USE IN THE PNEUMATIC SWITCHING CIRCUIT OF A RESPIRATOR
    Publication number: 20100269829
    Abstract: A slot valve (20) for use in the pneumatic switching circuit of a respirator, wherein said slot valve is designed to act bidirectionally and to pass over into the opened state to make possible the flow of a fluid at different pressure threshold values depending on the direction of flow of a fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: Drager Medical AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich HANSMANN, Kirll KOULECHOV, Tilman von BLUMENTHAL, Andreas HENGSTENBERG, Andreas NEUMANN, Torge WALL, Andreas OTTO, Markus KAEMER
  • SEARCHING DOCUMENTS USING A DYNAMICALLY DEFINED IGNORE STRING
    Publication number: 20100250580
    Abstract: Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for searching a plurality of documents using a dynamically defined ignore string. The ignore string may be specified by a user. An overlay index may be generated over the plurality of documents. The overlay index may include a posting list for each term in the ignore string. Each posting list may specify the documents of the plurality of documents in which the respective term occurs outside of the ignore string. The overlay index may also include a posting list that specifies all occurrences of the ignore string in the plurality of documents. Once generated, a user may search the plurality of documents while occurrences of the ignore string in the plurality of documents are ignored in text-based searches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES, CORPORATION
    Inventors: SREERAM V. BALAKRISHNAN, MICHAEL BUSCH, CHRISTOPHER J. HINRICHS, TOM W. JACOPI, ANDREAS NEUMANN
  • Global anchor text processing
    Patent number: 7788253
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for building a search index. While building the search index and using the search index to respond to one or more search requests, an anchor information store is maintained, wherein each entry of the anchor information store identifies a referring document, a target document, and anchor text associated with a link from the referring document to the target document; a document is received for processing; one or more entries in the anchor information store for which the document to be processed is identified as the target document are located; anchor text is retrieved from each of the identified entries; and the retrieved anchor text is stored in an entry of the search index for the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick Stephen Grennan, Ronny Lempel, Andreas Neumann
  • Pipelined architecture for global analysis and index building
    Patent number: 7783626
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for building an index. A new indexi+1 is built and an anchor text tablei+1 and a duplicates tablei+1 are output using a storei, a delta store, and previously generated global analysis computationsi, wherein the previously generated global analysis computationsi include an anchor text tablei, a rank tablei, and a duplicates tablei. New global analysis computationsi+1 are generated using the anchor text tablei+1, the duplicates tablei+1, and the previously generated global analysis computationsi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marcus Felipe Fontoura, Reiner Kraft, Tony Kai-Chi Leung, John A. McPherson, Jr., Andreas Neumann, Runping Qi, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Eugene J. Shekita, Jason Yeong Zien
  • MULTI-PART RECORD SEARCHES
    Publication number: 20100211562
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for enhancing search results generated by a search engine. A graphical user interface may display search results, which may include at least one multi-part record comprising a plurality of independent documents. Upon receiving a selection of the multi-part record from the search results a detailed view of the record may be displayed. The detailed view of the record may include a listing of the multiple documents that form the record along with an indication of whether keywords from the search criteria are present in the documents. By providing an indication of exactly which documents of a multi-part record include keywords associated with a search, embodiments of the invention allow users to easily identify desired materials from a list of search results comprising the multipart record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Busch, Andreas Neumann
  • Architecture for an indexer
    Patent number: 7743060
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for indexing data. For each token in a set of documents, a sort key is generated that includes a document identifier that indicates whether a section of a document associated with the sort key is an anchor text section or a context section, wherein the anchor text section and the context text section have a same document identifier; it is determined whether a data field associated with the token is a fixed width; when the data field is a fixed width, the token is designated as one for which fixed width sort is to be performed; and, when the data field is a variable length, the token is designated as one for which a variable width sort is to be performed. The fixed width sort and the variable width sort are performed. For each document, the sort keys are used to bring together the anchor text section and the context section of that document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marcus Felipe Fontoura, Andreas Neumann, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Eugene J. Shekita, Jason Yeong Zien
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING CARDIAC SIGNALS
    Publication number: 20100087886
    Abstract: An electromedical implant having a far-field electrocardiogram detection unit connected or connectable to at least two implantable electrodes, at least one electrode of which is to be placed in the right atrium or right ventricle and is designed to record a far-field electrocardiogram via the terminal for the electrode to be placed in the right atrium or the right ventricle and one other electrode. The far-field electrocardiogram detection unit is connected to a far-field electrocardiogram evaluation unit, which is configured to detect signal features of the far-field electrocardiogram associated with an excitation or contraction of the left atrium and/or the left ventricle of the heart in a far-field electrocardiogram recorded by the far-field electrocardiogram detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: Ulrich Busch, Andreas Neumann, Ulrich Tietze
  • Providing Foundation Application as Enterprise Services
    Publication number: 20100082497
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for a services architecture design that provides enterprise services having foundation layer functionality at the level of an enterprise application. The design includes a set of service operations, process components, and optionally deployment units. Suitable business objects are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Thomas Biesemann, Dieter Krisch, Volker Schott, Michael Meyringer, Otfried Von Geisau, Martin Haerterich, Ralf Becker, Ingo Bruss, Horst Schaude, Silke Storch, Klaus Bahr, Volker Faisst, Ralph Moessner, Vsevolod Barabanov, Andreas Kasparek, Jens Griessmann, Hendrik Geipel, Frank Lindqvist, Oliver Grande, Ute Dittmann, Ricardo Padilha, Martin Walla, Joachim Puteick, Daniel Zimmermann, Thomas Schneider, Tilmann Haeberle, Gerald Krause, Karl-Peter Nos, Peter Schwarze, Daniel Maring, Yongbin He, Martina Lahr, Ingo Pfitzner, Shadab Shafiq, Christian Haas, Olaf Schulte, Christoph Lehner, Dietmar Storz, Joachim Barnbeck, Bernhard May, Andrea Sudbrack, Michael Wachter, Thomas Kretz, Monika Kaiser, Andreas Steiner, Gurmeet Singh Dhingra, Andreas Huppert, Ashwin Reddy Yeddula, Keshav B. Desal, Tobias Traxel, Kranthi Kumar Muppala, Muttanna Sarashetti, Kritesh Vasing, Kai-Uwe Pielka, Raja Krishnamoorthy, Jyotsna Sharma, Mohit V. Gadkari, Mukesh Kumar, Toralf Grossmann, Andreas Neumann, Fabian Guenther, Jens Ruths, Matthias Richter, Walter Koller, Philipp Suenderhauf
  • ADDING LOW-LATENCY UPDATEABLE METADATA TO A TEXT INDEX
    Publication number: 20100042599
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for allowing efficient updating of metadata and high performance searching through the use of a text index and a separate updateable metadata index. Generally, an updateable metadata index is used to store document metadata. A text index is used to store document text. Documents in the text index are stored in the same order as the corresponding metadata entries. Upon receiving a search query, a search engine decomposes the query into a metadata condition and a text condition. Search engine performs a parallel scan upon the metadata index and the text index. To increase performance, metadata entries are skipped over if the corresponding text entries do not match the text condition. During the scan, when a document in the metadata index matches a document in the text index, the document is stored in the search results. After the scan, search results are displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Tom William Jacopi, Andreas Neumann, Liem Gioi Tran
  • OPTIMIZING SCALAR SEARCH IN A TEXT INDEXING AND SEARCH SERVER
    Publication number: 20090319485
    Abstract: Method, system, and computer program product for query processing are provided. In one implementation, the method comprises receiving a query that includes a full text portion. An invariant part of the full text portion is then compiled and stored. Additional queries received are executed by reusing the compiled invariant part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ting Yu Leung, Andreas Neumann, Pradhan Gyanaranjan Pattanayak
  • ELONGATED IMPLANT HAVING AN EXTERNAL ENERGY COUPLING
    Publication number: 20090306738
    Abstract: Electrotherapeutic implant for stimulation of body tissue, comprising at least two electrode poles (14) which are connected to electric feeder lines, a demodulation unit (22), at least one electric feeder line (20), which is designed as an antenna and contacts the demodulation unit (22), wherein the implant (10) is fabricated from one piece, has means (16) for affixing same at the treatment site and is equipped with a biocompatible insulation, whereby the components of the implant (10) are designed so that a therapeutic energy which can be injected from the outside over the antenna (20) during the treatment is delivered to the therapeutic target region without intermediate storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: Ingo WEISS, Thomas Doerr, Andreas Neumann, Erhard Flach, Andre Burch
  • NEUROSTIMULATOR
    Publication number: 20090264953
    Abstract: Neurostimulator (20) comprising a signal generator (40) for generating stimulation pulses, connected or connectable to at least one electrode (10) implantable in the brain of a patient, comprising a signal generator control unit (36) connected to the signal generator (40) and designed to control the delivery of stimulation pulses and to make adjustments in signal generator settings as needed, comprising a device connected to the signal generator control unit (36) for determination and analysis of the heart rate of a patient (30, 32, 34), characterized in that the signal generator control unit (36) is designed to check on the health status of a patient and/or the success of a treatment using at least one heart-rate-dependent characteristic quantity determined by the device for determination and analysis of the heart rate (30, 32, 34) and to make an adjustment in the signal generator settings if necessary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas DOERR, Ingo WEISS, Andreas NEUMANN
  • CURTAIN SUPPORT ASSEMBLY, IN A FRAMEWORK DESIGN, IN A CABIN OF A VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20090242150
    Abstract: The invention relates to a curtain support assembly to receive a curtain rail for a curtain for separating at least two regions in a cabin of a vehicle, comprising one or several header components for covering a space formed between the curtain rail and a ceiling in the cabin. The assembly according to the invention comprises one or several load-bearing frame structures, each comprising at least one profile component, on which in each case on at least one side the header components are arranged. The frame structure may be made from standard components and may comprise header components that are hardly subjected to any mechanical loads and that are therefore less demanding to produce.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: AIRBUS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Mosler, Andreas Neumann
  • Partition wall with integrated curtain rail flap
    Publication number: 20090242149
    Abstract: The invention relates to a partition wall for partitioning at least two regions in a cabin of a vehicle. The invention includes a partition comprising a body that may be moved into a first open position and into a second closed position and comprising a curtain rail, wherein the body is designed in the first position to cover an aisle that is adjacent to the partition, at least in some regions, by means of a curtain that has been affixed to the curtain rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Breuer, Andreas Neumann, Michael Mosler