Patents by Inventor Pieter J. Mosterman

Pieter J. Mosterman 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).

  • Patent number: 9582768
    Abstract: A device may receive, from a user, a selection of one of a graphical representation of a data store included in a model or a string of text that identifies a variable associated with the model. The device may provide, based on the selection, a user interface for providing pattern information associated with the data store. The device may receive, via the user interface, the pattern information associated with the data store. The pattern information may identify one or more elements included in the model and a pattern associated with the one or more elements accessing the data store during an execution of the model. The device may analyze the model based on the pattern information and may output a result. The result may indicate whether the model accesses the data store in compliance with the pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Englehart, Zhi Han, Pieter J. Mosterman
  • Patent number: 9582933
    Abstract: A device may provide, for display by a technical computing environment (TCE), a group of model elements of a model. The model, when executed, may simulate behavior of a system. The group of model elements may correspond to a group of physical elements of the system. The device may further detect interaction with a three-dimensional (3D) structure located within a spatial environment. The 3D structure may correspond to one or more physical elements of the group of physical elements of the system. The device may further cause the TCE to modify the model based on the detected interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Pieter J. Mosterman, Ebrahim Mestchian, Jay R. Torgerson, Daniel F. Higgins, Paul F. Kinnucan
  • Patent number: 9569179
    Abstract: A method may include receiving, by a device, information associated with a model. The method may include determining, by the device, performance criteria for program code generated based on the model. The method may include determining, by the device, profiling information associated with the program code. The method may include determining, by the device and based on the profiling information, that the performance criteria is not satisfied. The method may include applying, by the device and based on determining that the performance criteria is not satisfied, a modification technique to a portion of the model to create a modified model. The modification technique may be applied to the portion of the model to cause program code, generated based on the modified model, to satisfy the performance criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Mazen Kachmar, David Koh, Pieter J. Mosterman, Murat Belge
  • Patent number: 9547481
    Abstract: A device receives a state chart that includes a state block, and receives a time-based or an event-based operator (time-based/event-based operator) associated with the state block. The time-based/event-based operator includes textual code understood by a textual engine of technical computing environment (TCE), and a portion of the time-based/event-based operator is not understood by a graphical engine of the TCE. The device transforms the portion of the time-based/event-based operator into a form that is understood by the graphical engine, and initiates execution of the state chart. The device processes, during the execution of the state chart, the transformed portion of the time-based/event-based operator and the state block with the graphical engine to generate graphical results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinath Avadhanula, Pieter J. Mosterman, Ebrahim Mestchian
  • Patent number: 9547423
    Abstract: A system and method automatically generating one or more message view windows or panes based on an analysis of the execution behavior of a model, such as a computer-generated, executable graphical model. A model analyzer examines execution instructions including schedules generated for the model and the sending and receiving of messages by model components or elements. An auto diagram builder generates the one or more message view windows that includes graphical affordances representing at least some of the messages. The messages may be presented in the one or more message view windows in the order of the occurrence of the messages during execution of the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan J. Moore, Ebrahim Mehran Mestchian, Pieter J. Mosterman
  • Patent number: 9547746
    Abstract: Systems and methods receive a model of a physical system. The model includes a virtual mechanical component that represents a physical mechanical component of the physical system, and a virtual transducer that represents a physical transducer of the physical system. The systems and methods include generating a wiring diagram that includes information for connecting the physical mechanical component or the physical transducer to a data processing device or an embedded system. The model may be executed by the data processing device or the embedded system to interact with the physical mechanical component or the physical transducer as part of Hardware-in-the Loop (HIL), Processor-in-the-Loop (PIL), or other simulation or testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Gaudette, Pieter J. Mosterman
  • Patent number: 9542164
    Abstract: A system is configured to receive a notification that variable information, associated with a variable, is stored in a logical workspace; obtain, in response to the notification, the logical workspace; and generate meta information associated with the variable, where the meta information includes information associated with a temporal attribute of the variable, information associated with an application that generated the variable information, information associated with a contextual attribute of the variable, or information associated with a spatial attribute of the variable. The system is also configured to associate, the meta information with the variable information, where associating the meta information with the variable information permits an operation to be performed on the meta information or on the variable information based on the meta information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventor: Pieter J. Mosterman
  • Patent number: 9530102
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments described herein provide methods, mediums, and systems for recognizing a formalism type present in an input and generating an output that is consistent with the formalism type. In order to generate an output that is consistent with the formalism type, exemplary embodiments analyze elements of the input together. Such a holistic analysis determines or uses a likelihood that the different elements coexist together in a given formalism type. Based on this holistic analysis, an appropriate formalism type that is consistent with the coexistence of the elements may be selected. After the appropriate formalism type is selected, the input may be processed to generate an output consistent with the formalism type. The output may be computer-based representations of the input defined according to a program associated with the identified formalism type, and/or the input may be translated or transformed into another representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Pieter J. Mosterman, Srikanth Parupati, Ankit A. Desai, Ashish Uthama, Michael J. Quinn
  • Patent number: 9513880
    Abstract: A device receives a state chart generated via a technical computing environment. The state chart includes a function block that includes a function that includes function input(s)/output(s). The state chart includes a state block that includes a function call to the function of the function block. The function call includes call input(s)/output(s). The device initiates execution of the state chart, parses the function into the function input(s)/output(s), and parses the function call into the call input(s)/output(s). The device processes, during the execution of the state chart, the function input(s)/output(s) with a graphical engine of the technical computing environment to generate function-related code. The device processes, during the execution of the state chart, the call input(s)/output(s) with a textual engine of the technical computing environment to generate function call-related code, and provides the function-related code and the function call-related code in generated code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinath Avadhanula, Pieter J. Mosterman, Ebrahim Mestchian
  • Patent number: 9507572
    Abstract: A device may receive a state chart generated via a technical computing environment. The state chart may include a state block with a single section of textual code. The single section of textual code may include a time-based portion and an output portion. The device may initiate execution of the state chart, and may process, during the execution of the state chart, the time-based portion with a graphical engine of the technical computing environment to generate a time-based method. The device may process, during the execution of the state chart, the output portion with a textual engine of the technical computing environment to generate an output method. The device may provide the time-based method and the output method in output code, where the time-based method may be separate from the output method in the output code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinath Avadhanula, Pieter J. Mosterman, Ebrahim Mestchian
  • Patent number: 9489283
    Abstract: A device receives information specifying a functional model that includes a set of variables and a set of computations, and receives debugging information associated with the functional model. The device generates computer code based on the set of computations associated with the functional model, the set of variables associated with the functional model, and the received debugging information. The device executes the generated computer code based on the debugging information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Katalin Maria Popovici, Pieter J. Mosterman, Brian K. Ogilvie, Rajiv Ghosh-Roy, Adam C. Leon, Jared D. Macdonald
  • Patent number: 9424005
    Abstract: A system and method provides top-down programming in a graphical programming environment. A developer may utilize a component constructor to create a graphical skeleton component that represents a template for a procedure. The graphical skeleton component may include one or more hole elements that mark locations in the component at which functions may be specified. An instance of the component may be included in a graphical model, and one or more functions specified for the hole elements, thereby completing the component. The one or more functions may refer to model parameters, and bindings may be captured among the parameters. Upon execution or simulation of the model, the one or more functions specified for the component are executed, and the parameters evaluated. The functionality of the completed may depend on the one or more functions specified for the hole elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: The Mathworks, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinath Avadhanula, Vijaya Raghavan, Michael D. Tocci, John E. Ciolfi, E. Mehran Mestchian, Pieter J. Mosterman
  • Publication number: 20160239751
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments described herein provide methods, mediums, and systems for recognizing a formalism type present in an input and generating an output that is consistent with the formalism type. In order to generate an output that is consistent with the formalism type, exemplary embodiments analyze elements of the input together. Such a holistic analysis determines or uses a likelihood that the different elements coexist together in a given formalism type. Based on this holistic analysis, an appropriate formalism type that is consistent with the coexistence of the elements may be selected. After the appropriate formalism type is selected, the input may be processed to generate an output consistent with the formalism type. The output may be computer-based representations of the input defined according to a program associated with the identified formalism type, and/or the input may be translated or transformed into another representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Pieter J. MOSTERMAN, Srikanth PARUPATI, Ankit A. DESAI, Ashish UTHAMA, Michael J. QUINN
  • Patent number: 9411559
    Abstract: A device may receive a chart generated via a technical computing environment, where the chart includes a textual portion and a graphical portion, and the graphical portion includes state information. The device may parse the chart into the textual portion and the graphical portion, and may process the textual portion with a textual engine of the technical computing environment to generate textual results. The device may process the graphical portion with a graphical engine of the technical computing environment to generate graphical results, and may combine the textual results with the graphical results to generate chart results. The device may output or store the chart results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinath Avadhanula, Pieter J. Mosterman, Yit Phang Khoo, John P. Dirner, Krishna Balasubramanian, Ebrahim Mestchian
  • Publication number: 20160196377
    Abstract: A method, performed by a computer device, may include selecting one or more input and output points in an executable graphical model in a modeling application and simulating the executable graphical model over a plurality of time points. The method may further include generating a time domain response plot for the executable graphical model based on the simulating; obtaining matrices of partial derivatives based on the selected one or more input and output points at particular time points of the plurality of time points; generating a frequency domain response plot for the executable graphical model based on the obtained matrices of partial derivatives; and generating a bidomain simulator user interface, the bidomain simulator user interface including the generated time domain response plot and the generated frequency domain response plot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Fu ZHANG, Zhi Han, Murali K. Yeddanapudi, Pieter J. Mosterman
  • Publication number: 20160196376
    Abstract: A method, performed by a computer device, may include selecting one or more input and output points in an executable graphical model in a modeling application and simulating the executable graphical model over a plurality of time points. The method may further include generating a time domain response plot for the executable graphical model based on the simulating; obtaining matrices of partial derivatives based on the selected one or more input and output points at particular time points of the plurality of time points; generating a frequency domain response plot for the executable graphical model based on the obtained matrices of partial derivatives; and generating a bidomain simulator user interface, the bidomain simulator user interface including the generated time domain response plot and the generated frequency domain response plot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Zhi HAN, Fu ZHANG, Murali K. YEDDANAPUDI, Pieter J. MOSTERMAN
  • Patent number: 9377998
    Abstract: A method, performed by a computer device, includes obtaining an in-memory representation of computer code from a block step method of an executable model in a modeling application, wherein the computer code in-memory representation includes one or more variables. The method also includes identifying, from the one or more variables, a subset of persistent variables and determining if any of the one or more variables in the subset of persistent variables are state variables. When none of the subset of persistent variables are state variables, a block output method is generated based on the computer code in-memory representation and the one or more variables. When the subset of persistent variables includes a state variable, both the block output method and a block update method are generated based on the computer code in-memory representation and the one or more variables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhi Han, Fu Zhang, Murali K. Yeddanapudi, Pieter J. Mosterman
  • Patent number: 9354846
    Abstract: A method, performed by a computer device, may include selecting one or more input and output points in an executable graphical model in a modeling application and simulating the executable graphical model over a plurality of time points. The method may further include generating a time domain response plot for the executable graphical model based on the simulating; obtaining matrices of partial derivatives based no the selected one or more input and output points at particular time points of the plurality of time points; generating a frequency domain response plot for the executable graphical model based on the obtained matrices of partial derivatives; and generating a bidomain simulator user interface, the bidomain simulator user interface including the generated time domain response plot and the generated frequency domain response plot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Fu Zhang, Zhi Han, Murali K. Yeddanapudi, Pieter J. Mosterman
  • Patent number: 9348889
    Abstract: A computing device may be configured to interact with a requirement object using an object-based requirements framework. The computing device may further provide a design to the object-based requirements framework. The design may comply with design criteria of the object-based requirements framework. The computing device may also determine whether the design complies with the requirement object. The determining may be based on the interacting, and may produce a result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew B. Behr, Pieter J. Mosterman
  • Patent number: 9323851
    Abstract: A system may receive a model, extract information from the model, form a group of tags using the extracted information, and associate the group of tags with the model. The system may further receive a search query including one or more sequences of characters and determine whether to provide the model in a list of models created for the search query, based on the one or more sequences of characters and the group of tags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Pieter J. Mosterman, Farid A. Abi-Zeid, Hidayet Tunc Simsek, Claudia Gaudagnini Wey, Mojdeh Shakeri, Jay Ryan Torgerson