Specific Criteria Of System Performance Patents (Class 700/32)
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Patent number: 7930058Abstract: Processing a wafer using a double side grinder having a pair of grinding wheels. Warp data is obtained by a warp measurement device for measuring warp of a wafer as ground by the double side grinder. The warp data is received and a nanotopography of the wafer is predicted based on the received warp data. A grinding parameter is determined based on the predicted nanotopography of the wafer. Operation of the double side grinder is adjusted based on the determined grinding parameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2007Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.Inventors: Sumeet S. Bhagavat, Roland R. Vandamme, Tomomi Komura, Tomohiko Kaneko, Takuto Kazama
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Publication number: 20110087342Abstract: A controlling method using an ultrasonic sensor is provided. Firstly, a first ringing time of the ultrasonic sensor is set when the ultrasonic sensor is in a standby status. Then, a sensing wave is transmitted, and a second ringing time is detected. Then, the second ringing time is compared with the first ringing time. If the second ringing time is not equal to the first ringing time, a function control signal is generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: LITE-ON IT CORP.Inventors: Sian-Cing Liao, Yuan-Hung Liao
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Patent number: 7925471Abstract: Brings the response time of a Web server and the like closer to a targeted value. A controller controlling the average response time elapsed between reception by information processing apparatus of a processing request and response of information processing apparatus to the processing request. The controller including: a section for obtaining a response time goal which is a target value of the average response time; a section for calculating a predicted response time which is a predicted value of the average response time at the time point when a predetermined reference period has elapsed from setting an operation mode in the information processing apparatus, the operation mode being any of a plurality of operation modes which provide different throughputs; and a section for setting the operation mode in the information processing apparatus if predicted response time calculated by the predicted response time calculating section is less than goal.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2008Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Takuya Nakaike, Hideaki Komatsu
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Patent number: 7908025Abstract: Disclosed herein is technology for, among other things, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, and a control system and a control method therefor, by which a target parameter that is measured from a wafer processed with a plurality of processing parameters that are processing conditions of the semiconductor manufacturing apparatus to process a wafer, a multiple classification analysis is performed with the plurality of processing parameters and the target parameter to calculate a model formula expressing the target parameter in a selected parameter, a predicted value of the target parameter of the wafer being processed by use of the model formula is calculated, while the processing is being performed, the processing parameters of the processing is modified on the basis of the predicted value, and the processing is continuously performed.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2006Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Spansion LLCInventors: Kazuhiro Miwa, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Akito Mifune
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Patent number: 7908546Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for detection of performance conditions in processing systems. For example, a method of detecting a performance condition in at least one particular processing device of a processing system having a plurality of processing devices includes the following steps. Data is input to a data structure associated with the particular processing device, over a given time period. The input data may be a buffer or a bucket. The input data represents data associated with the execution of at least one function performed by the particular processing device. The given time period includes the time period between consecutive heartbeat signals transmitted by the particular processing device. At least a portion of the input data is removed from the data structure associated with the particular processing device, near the end of the given time period. The removed input data is compared to an expected function execution level.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2007Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.Inventors: Stuart Owen Goldman, Richard E. Krock, Karl F. Rauscher, James Philip Runyon
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Patent number: 7904185Abstract: A MEMs-based system (and method), includes a sensor array including at least two sensors providing a basis for ensemble averaging.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2008Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sri M. Sri-Jayantha, Arun Sharma, Hien Dang, Evangelos S. Eleftheriou, Mark A. Lantz, Charalampos Pozidis
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Publication number: 20110054642Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for optimizing consumption of one or more resources are presented. For example, a method that may be implemented on a processor device and includes obtaining user preferences for the consumption of resources that include water and electricity, predicting the consumption of, and a first metric for the consumption of, the resources for each of a plurality of first time periods, determining a projected second metric for the consumption of the resources during a second time period according to the predicted consumption and the predicted first metric, and optimizing the consumption of the resources according to the projected second metric and the user preferences. The second time period includes the plurality of first time periods. The first metric is associated with the user preferences and at least one of the plurality of first time periods. The second metric indicates full or partial projected attainment of the preferences during the second time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Vitaliy Bondar, Ching-Hua Chen-Ritzo, Rick Allen Hamilton, II, Clifford Alan Pickover, Ralph Peter Williams
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Publication number: 20110054693Abstract: According to various embodiments, a method is provided for determining aberration data for an optical system. The method comprises collecting a data signal, and generating a pre-transformation algorithm. The data is pre-transformed by multiplying the data with the pre-transformation algorithm. A discrete Fourier transform of the pre-transformed data is performed in an iterative loop. The method further comprises back-transforming the data to generate aberration data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicants: Space AdmiInventor: BRUCE H. DEAN
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Publication number: 20110054640Abstract: Example methods and apparatus to adjust control loop timing in a process control system are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving a first input signal generated via a first process control device within a process control system, determining within the process control system if the first input signal is received during a first scheduled time period of a control loop, and adjusting within the process control system a timing of a subsequent input signal received from the first process control device to cause the subsequent input signal to be received during a subsequent scheduled time period of the control loop, wherein the timing of the subsequent input signal is based on at least when the first input signal was received.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2009Publication date: March 3, 2011Inventors: Gary Keith Law, Godfrey Roland Sherriff, Marty James Lewis
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Patent number: 7890204Abstract: To provide a method for determining a mounting condition to be set for at least one apparatus among apparatuses for manufacturing component-mounted boards. The method includes: determining, from among the apparatuses, a specific apparatus which satisfies a predetermined standard in performance associated with a manufacturing operation; obtaining the mounting condition associated with the manufacturing operation from the specific apparatus determined in the determining; and setting the mounting condition obtained in the obtaining for an apparatus other than the specific apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2007Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Yasuhiro Maenishi
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Patent number: 7875463Abstract: A generalized printhead control model is provided herein as a basis for configuring printhead control software that will operate any selected printhead or group of printheads. The subject model covers a hierarchy of classes for the attributes of software that controls the printheads in a system, such as for producing a biopolymer array.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2004Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventors: David R. Adaskin, Bill J. Peck, Stanley P. Woods, William G. Chesk
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Publication number: 20110015763Abstract: An automation system and a method for controlling a process and for monitoring the condition of process equipment. The method comprises the steps of measuring process signals indicating the condition of the process by means of a first sensor; measuring condition monitoring signals indicating the condition of process components by means of a second sensor; processing the process signals by means of a first I/O module; processing the condition monitoring signals by means of a second I/O module; transmitting the processed process signals obtained from the first I/O module to a process station. The method also comprises the steps of transferring the processed condition monitoring signals obtained from the second I/O module to the same process station; and processing both the said processed process signals and the said processed condition monitoring signals by process station software in the said process station.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: METSO AUTOMATION OYInventors: Harri Mustonen, Aki Lehikoinen, Ale Borg
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Patent number: 7873422Abstract: A process model specified using, for example, UML activity diagrams can be translated into an event-based model that can be executed on top of a coordination middleware. For example, a process model may be encoded as a collection of coordinating objects that interact with each other through a coordination middleware including a shared memory space. This approach is suitable for undertaking post-deployment adaptation of process-oriented composite applications. In particular, new control dependencies can be encoded by dropping new (or enabling existing) coordinating objects into the space and/or disabling existing ones.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2005Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Marlon G. Dumas, Julien J. P. Vayssiere, Tore Fjellheim
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Publication number: 20110004589Abstract: Providing diagnostic functions for a distributed directory employed in an industrial control environment is described herein. By way of example, status of directory entries can be monitored, updated based on activity within the control environment, and propagated to entities coupled with the environment by way of distributed directory nodes. Directory entries can be validated over time and optionally flagged as valid or deleted if invalid. In some aspects, validation can occur via direct communication with entities coupled to the control environment. Changes to directory entries can be tracked, and can be propagated through the distributed directory. Further, automatic reconfiguration of control entities can be implemented based on the changes, resulting in a dynamic and self-adapting control environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Charles Martin Rischar, Raymond John Staron, Subbian Govindaraj, Kenwood H. Hall, David A. Vasko
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Patent number: 7860586Abstract: A parameter value estimator is provided for a process performed primarily to control emission of a particular non-particulate pollutant, such as NOx and SO2, into the air. The process has multiple process parameters (MPPs) including a parameter representing an amount of the particular non-particulate pollutant emitted. The parameter value estimator includes either a neural network process model or a non-neural network process model. In either case the model represents a relationship between one of the MPPs, other than the parameter representing the amount of the emitted particular non-particulate pollutant, and one or more other of the MPPs. Also included is a processor configured with the logic, e.g. programmed software, to estimate a value of the one MPP based on a value of each of the one or more other MPPs and the one model.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2004Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.Inventors: Scott A. Boyden, Stephen Piche
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Patent number: 7859692Abstract: A system is provided for forming a print shop configuration with a first set of equipment, the first set of equipment being derived from a second set of equipment from a first print shop and a third set of equipment from a second print shop. The system includes a manager and application, the manager and application working together to generate a list of at least some of all possible print shop configurations that could be formed with a selected number of cells. The cells are populated with selected pieces of equipment from the second and third sets of multiple pieces of equipment. A criterion is used to select, from the list of possible print shop configurations, the print shop configuration with the first set of equipment.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2006Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: David Snyderman, Timothy W. Jacobs, Jie Lin
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Patent number: 7856280Abstract: An integrated optimization and control technique performs process control and optimization using stochastic optimization similar to that used in biological immune systems during on-line operation of a process, the technique collects and stores indications of process control states. During steady-state operation, the technique optimizes process operation by developing sets of process control inputs from stored process control states using an objective function that defines an optimality criterion. Moreover, after one or more disturbance inputs experiences a significant change, the technique responds by comparing the changed disturbance inputs to the disturbance inputs of at least some of the stored process control states to determine the stored process control states that are closest to the new process operating condition.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2006Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: Emerson Process Management Power & Water Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey J. Grott, Jeffery J. Williams, Konrad Ĺšwirski, Tomasz Chomiak, Konrad Wojdan
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Patent number: 7856281Abstract: A method of creating and using an adaptive DMC type or other MPC controller includes using a model switching technique to periodically determine a process model, such as a parameterized process model, for a process loop on-line during operation of the process. The method then uses the process model to generate an MPC control model and creates and downloads an MPC controller algorithm to an MPC controller based on the new control model while the MPC controller is operating on-line. This technique, which is generally applicable to single-loop MPC controllers and is particularly useful in MPC controllers with a control horizon of one or two, enables an MPC controller to be adapted during the normal operation of the process, so as to change the process model on which the MPC controller is based to thereby account for process changes.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2008Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.Inventors: Dirk Thiele, Wilhelm K. Wojsznis
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Patent number: 7853338Abstract: The invention comprises apparatuses and methods for providing the capability to stabilize and control a non-minimum phase, nonlinear plant with unmodeled dynamics and/or parametric uncertainty through the use of adaptive output feedback. A disclosed apparatus can comprise a reference model unit for generating a reference model output signal ym The apparatus can comprise a combining unit that combines and differences a plant output signal y of a non-minimum phase plant for which not all of the states can be sensed, and a plant output signal y, to generate an output error signal {tilde over (y)}. The apparatus can further comprise an adaptive control unit for generating an adaptive control signal uad used to control the plant.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2007Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Georgia Tech Research CorporationInventors: Naira Hovakimyan, Anthony J Calise, Bong-Jun Yang
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Patent number: 7849449Abstract: System and method for implementing a design flow for a programmable hardware element (PHE) that includes a processor. A graphical program (GP) is received, where the GP specifies performance criteria. The GP is mapped for deployment, with a first portion targeted for execution by the processor, and a second portion targeted for implementation in the PHE. A determination is made as to whether the graphical program meets the performance criteria. If not, the GP is remapped for deployment, including identifying and specifying the sub-portion for implementation in the PHE, thereby moving the sub-portion from the first portion to the second portion, and/or identifying and specifying the sub-portion for execution on the processor, thereby moving the sub-portion from the second portion to the first portion. The determining and remapping is repeated one or more times until the performance criteria are met. The first and second portions are deployed to the PHE.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2006Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: National Instruments CorporationInventors: Hugo A. Andrade, Joseph E. Peck
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Patent number: 7840293Abstract: A production information reporting/recording system is disclosed herein including a number of features to ensure efficient, flexible and reliable recording of production data in a manufacturing system. Such features include validating the content of event messages to ensure compliance of event report information with a standard. The system also supports caching IDs associated with particular aspects of an event message (e.g., a production request, a process segment) as well as a unique ID corresponding to the ID assigned by the production event database to reduce the need to access the database when assigning unique database IDs to received events. The production event messaging system also supports both asynchronous and synchronous transactional messaging between the sources of events and the production database service.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2006Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.Inventors: Steven M. Weinrich, James C. Long, Eric P. Grove, Don R. Tunnell, George E. Bachman
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Patent number: 7818594Abstract: A data center may be operated to achieve reduced power consumption by matching workloads to specific platforms. Attributes of the platforms may be compiled and those attributes may be used to allocate workloads to specific platforms. The attributes may include performance attributes, as well as power consumption attributes.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2007Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Eugene Gorbatov, Canturk Isci, Ripal Nathuji
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Patent number: 7813826Abstract: Audio files for an audio piece are stored in cross-scene optimized manner, so that when reading out audio files for a scene entailing high utilization of a wave field synthesis system, very short memory access times are achieved, whereas for scenes not entailing such a high utilization of the wave field synthesis system, longer memory access times in turn are accepted.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2007Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Katrin Reichelt, Gabriel Gatzsche, Sandra Brix
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Patent number: 7809537Abstract: A computer-implemented process simulates production of oil and gas from hydrocarbon reservoirs. The process is used to help forecast the optimal future oil and gas recovery from large hydrocarbon reservoirs. At the same, this process is flexible to allow for further addition of new options; robust and reliable; and easy to use. The process is also comprehensive in that it allows a forecast of future performance of a wide range of reservoirs and future operation scenarios. By using the high-resolution models provided, a reservoir can be described much more accurately.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2004Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Kesavalu Hemanthkumar, Henry H. Hoy, William Thomas Dreiman, Usuf Middya
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Patent number: 7805205Abstract: A control system for a wind turbine comprises: a sensor arrangement for capturing measures related to the turbine operation and fatigue accumulation; an upper level controller, which, on the basis of a statistical treatment of said measures, calculates optimized control settings at discrete points of time; a measurement module which processes said measures into instantaneous values; and a lower level controller that receives said control settings and said instantaneous values and calculates instantaneous optimal commands to control turbine actuators. The lower level controller comprises a continuous-time damage model which calculates the rate at which damage is accumulated at any time, and an optimal controller which controls operational states of the turbine, either by directly giving feedback of the instantaneous values to the actuators, or by generating a turbine performance objective function which is continuously optimized by repeatedly solving a receding horizon optimization problem.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2006Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Ecotecnia, s. coop.c.l.Inventor: Richard Arsenio Santos
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Publication number: 20100241247Abstract: A system and method for performing modeling, prediction, optimization and control, which would permit what is, described herein as embedded alarm control. In the proposed method of embedding alarm control, the alarm limits are used to constrain the controlled variables dynamically such that the controller actions are affected to minimize and prevent alarm limit violations in addition to the constraints commonly included. It is proposed in the present invention that the alarm limits be incorporated as part of optimization and constrained control action calculation in a model predictive control. As an exemplary case, this method of incorporation of alarm limits within optimization and control is described and the results obtained from it are presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2009Publication date: September 23, 2010Inventor: Fakhruddin T. Attarwala
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Publication number: 20100234970Abstract: A method includes: initializing first and second variables; operating equipment based on the variables; measuring first and second parameters; determining a new value for the first variable based on the first parameter, and calculating a new value for the second variable based on the second parameter and the current value of the second variable; and repeating the operating, measuring, determining and calculating. According to a different aspect, an apparatus includes a computer-readable medium storing a computer program. When executed, the program causes: initializing of first and second variables; operating equipment based on the variables; receiving measured first and second parameters; determining a new value for the first variable based on the first parameter, and calculating a new value for the second variable based on the second parameter and the current value of the second variable; and repeating the operating, measuring, determining and calculating.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2009Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Po-Feng Tsai, Andy Tsen
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Patent number: 7797113Abstract: A gas turbine performance analysis system includes a performance computation module for receiving an actual measured value of an inlet air temperature introduced to a compressor, a compressor pressure ratio, and a flow rate of fuel supplied to the gas turbine, and for calculating and outputting values of the gas turbine's power output and exhaust temperature based on these actual measured values. A performance estimation module evaluates the performance of the gas turbine based on the deviation between the values of power output and exhaust temperature outputted from the performance computation module and the actual measured values of power output and exhaust temperature. An adjustment module calculates a corrected value of the fuel flow rate based on the actual measured values of inlet air temperature, compressor pressure ratio and fuel flow rate, and inputs the corrected fuel flow rate value into the performance computation module.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2008Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Yoshida, Toshihiro Morikawa, Jinichirou Gotou, Yoshiharu Hayashi
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Patent number: 7797082Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program for stiction compensation in a process control system are provided. A determination is made as to whether a valve is suffering from stiction. A control signal provided to the valve is adjusted in order to at least partially compensate for the stiction suffered by the valve. Adjusting the control signal could include (i) adjusting the control signal to cause the valve to move into a steady-state position and (ii) adjusting the control signal to cause the valve to remain in the steady-state position. Adjusting the control signal to cause the valve to move into the steady-state position could include (a) adjusting the control signal to cause the valve to move from a current position into a new position and (b) adjusting the control signal to cause the valve to move from the new position into the steady-state position.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2006Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Ranganathan Srinivasan, Raghunathan Rengaswamy
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Patent number: 7787135Abstract: A system is provided for forming a print shop configuration with a first set of equipment, the first set of equipment being derived from a second set of equipment from a first print shop and a third set of equipment from a second print shop. The system includes a print shop configuration manager for determining whether a selected relationship exists between (1), one or more sets of job requirements and at least one of a set of print processing related cells or (2) two sets of print processing related cells. A possible print shop configuration may be discarded or prioritized, based on the existence of the selected relationship.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2006Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: David Snyderman, Timothy W. Jacobs, Jie Lin
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Publication number: 20100161132Abstract: A system for monitoring an industrial production process includes one or more sensors configured to facilitate generating process data and a processor configured to calculate a value of a monitoring variable using the process data. The monitoring variable is optimized with respect to an abnormal space of a process space. The process space includes process parameters and principle components of a multivariate model of the process. The abnormal space includes a subspace of the process space.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: Manish Harish Bharati, Phillip Guy Hamilton, Nirmal Tatavalli-Mittadar, Eugene Harry Theobald
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Patent number: 7742830Abstract: A data center control system includes a storage configured to maintain an emission usage value indicative of an estimated amount of greenhouse gas emission caused by consumption of power by resources within one or more data centers. The control system also includes a controller that may provide a signal to control an operation of at least one of the resources depending upon the indication of the estimated amount of greenhouse gas emission.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2007Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Symantec CorporationInventor: Par Botes
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Patent number: 7739077Abstract: A method determines a mounting condition of a mounter mounting a component onto a board, which includes the steps of: obtaining an operational sate parameter; and determining, in the case where a value of the obtained operational state parameter is not within a predetermined range, a mounting condition so that the value of the operational state parameter falls within the predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2006Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Yasuhiro Maenishi
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Publication number: 20100141198Abstract: A method of closed-loop controlling determines a first feedback variable by sampling a control variable and a second feedback variable by averaging the control variable, compares the first and second feedback variables with a command variable, and sets the control variable on the basis of the comparing result so that the control variable follows a command variable.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2010Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: Beckhoff Automation GmbHInventor: Jens Onno Krah
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Publication number: 20100145481Abstract: An apparatus having at least one sensor for registering at least one chemical and/or physical, process variable, and at least one modularly constructed, measuring transducer circuit, which has at least one sensor unit, which ascertains a measured variable from the process variable registered by the sensor and supplies the sensor with energy as needed, and at least one application specific, signal processing unit for ascertaining a measured value of the measured variable, wherein a conditioned output signal is provided between the sensor unit and the application specific, signal processing unit, wherein the application specific, signal processing unit is exchangeably embodied, and wherein, as a function of a predeterminable accuracy of measurement with which the apparatus ascertains the measured values, a plurality of different types of application specific, signal processing units are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2007Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: ENDRESS & HAUSER GMBH $ CO. KGInventor: Michael Philipps
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Patent number: 7734370Abstract: A disposal processing system is provided and includes: a disposal section that disposes of a document; a reading section that reads identification information of the document, the identification information being attached to an image on the document; a judging section that makes a judgment whether disposal of the document is permitted on the basis of the identification information; and a controller that controls the disposal section so that the disposal section disposes of the document at least one of: when the judging section makes a judgment that the disposal of the document is permitted; and when the controller acquires information indicating that the disposal of the document is permitted while the judging section makes a judgment that the disposal of the document is prohibited, and so that the disposal section does not dispose of the document when the judging section makes the judgment that the disposal of the document is prohibited.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2006Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Sugawara, Hitoshi Suzuki, Hiroyoshi Uejo, Kengo Shinozaki, Ryuuichi Shiraishi, Shunsuke Hamasuna
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Publication number: 20100127681Abstract: Methods and systems, utilizing simplified digital hardware, for measuring parameters needed for control of a system (referred to as a plant) such as a power supply or motor. In one embodiment, the system for measuring the desired parameters includes simplified digital hardware to implement the functionality of transfer function measurement in the plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2009Publication date: May 27, 2010Inventors: Stewart Kenly, Paul W. Latham, II
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Patent number: 7725760Abstract: In a data storage system, a storage management device includes at least a target mode driver, a data classifier in communication with the target mode driver, a plurality of storage buffers in communication with the target mode driver, a plurality of I/O managers in communication with the data classifier, and a physical store interface in communication with the plurality of I/O managers and with the plurality of storage buffers.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2004Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Symantec Operating CorporationInventors: Michael Rowan, Kevin Rodgers, Jeff Darcy
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Patent number: 7716016Abstract: Improved management feedback-based controller techniques are disclosed for use in accordance with a computing system. For example, a method for managing a computing system includes the following steps. At least one measured performance metric is obtained from the computing system being managed. At least one control input value is generated based on parameters including a control error and a control deadzone such that uncertainty associated with the computing system is accounted for in accordance with the parameters. The control error is determined from a computation comprising the at least one measured performance metric and at least one performance metric goal. The control deadzone is defined such that the control input value is not generated when the control error is within the control deadzone. The control input value is sent to the computing system to effectuate achievement of the at least one performance metric goal associated with the computing system.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2006Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yixin Diao, Hidayatullah Habeebullah Shaikh, Maheswaran Surendra
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Patent number: 7712065Abstract: An automatic layout method for performing an automatic layout of components on a diagram, the automatic layout method includes: generating a layout engine control object based on an operation of an application program; selecting at least one layout engine object from a plurality of layout engine objects for calculating coordinates of the components by different algorithms, at least one layout engine object being selected based on an instruction of the application program by the layout engine control object; and creating the diagram by the application program based on the coordinates calculated by the selected layout engine object.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2006Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventor: Yuichi Sakuraba
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Publication number: 20100089067Abstract: A system includes a correction factor module that receives modeled data generated from a simulation model and measured data, that determines a difference between the modeled data and the measured data, and that applies a filter to the difference to determine a correction value; and a performance monitoring module that analyzes the correction value, and that generates a component alert based on the analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2008Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Kevin Wood Wilkes, Timothy Andrew Healy, Randy Scott Rosson
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Publication number: 20100087934Abstract: Closed-loop and open-loop systems are used for automated control of the operation of arbitrary systems. An open-loop control apparatus, which controls at least one controlled variable of a system such as a fuel cell system, has a pilot control module and an associated storage module, for storing pilot control characteristic data. The pilot control module carries out pilot control, based on a pilot control value determined from a desired value of the controlled variable from the pilot control characteristic data. A closed-loop control module performs closed-loop control of the controlled variable using a controlled portion determined on the basis of the actual value of the controlled variable. In the open-loop control apparatus, the pilot control value and the controlled portion each make respective contributions to a manipulated variable. An adaptation module matches the pilot control characteristic data in the storage module adaptively during the run time of the open-loop control apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2006Publication date: April 8, 2010Inventors: Joachim Blum, Arnulf Sponheimer, Su Zhou
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Patent number: 7693586Abstract: A process model specified using, for example, UML activity diagrams can be translated into an event-based model that can be executed on top of a coordination middleware. For example, a process model may be encoded as a collection of coordinating objects that interact with each other through a coordination middleware including a shared memory space. This approach is suitable for undertaking post-deployment adaptation of process-oriented composite applications. In particular, new control dependencies can be encoded by dropping new (or enabling existing) coordinating objects into the space and/or disabling existing ones.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2005Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Marlon G. Dumas, Julien J. P. Vayssiere, Tore Fjellheim
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Publication number: 20100082123Abstract: An object can be used in an industrial control configuration in relation to performing a function or task. Matching can occur such that an object with operational requirements can bind with a host that has capabilities that meet those operational requirements—matching can occur automatically as well as through user operation. Once matched, different functionality can be presented to a user pertaining to the object. To assist the user, the object can include external references, logic, local or private data, as well as others in addition to resources. To facilitate operation, capabilities and resources can be published in a directory that can be accessed by different entities—sometimes with security constraints in order to protect configuration integrity. Likewise, a subscription system can be employed such that when a change to a related entity is made, a notice can transfer to related entities and operation can alter based upon the change.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2008Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Kenneth Scott Plache, Daniel Baliey Seger, Raymond John Staron, Taryl Jon Jasper, James Harry Jarrett, Russell William Brandes, Ronald Eric Bliss, Michael Dan Kalan, Subbian Govindaraj, Kenwood Henry Hall, Douglas James Reichard, Robert John Kretschmann
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Patent number: 7672740Abstract: Systems and methods that provide for event driven downloading, via defining storage thresholds in an embedded historian (e.g. micro historian). Upon reaching predetermined thresholds (e.g., low/high water marks), stored data in the embedded historians can automatically down load to a central plant historian. An automatic download engine is provided that down loads historian data based on satisfaction of such conditions defined for the download. The download engine can further include a detector component, which detects whether a predetermined condition (e.g., associated with the storage capacity of the micro-historians have been met. Moreover, a notification component can notify the embedded historians that the data have been permanently persisted in the central historian.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: John J. Baier, Robert J. McGreevy, Taryl J Jasper, Robert J. Herbst
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Publication number: 20100049337Abstract: A tracing-result optimization processing unit generates an optimized tracing result. A tracing-result collation processing unit collates the optimized tracing result and a time chart as a basis of a sequence processing for an external apparatus and detects shift of the optimized tracing result. A tracing-result storing unit accumulates and stores therein a tracing result obtained by a programmable logic controller at predetermined time intervals. Every time the tracing result is stored in the tracing-result storing unit, the tracing-result optimization processing unit generates the optimized tracing result.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2006Publication date: February 25, 2010Inventors: Kaori Sakagami, Masanobu Sumiya, Tomohiro Sato, Makoto Nonomura
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Publication number: 20100016995Abstract: A method for dynamically providing feedback is presented. The method includes monitoring one or more steps performed by one or more components in a machine, where the one or more steps are associated with a workflow. Further, the method includes analyzing the one or more steps performed by the one or more components to dynamically determine feedback based on the one or more steps performed by the one or more components, where the feedback comprises other steps in the workflow. In addition, the method includes presenting the feedback. Systems and computer-readable medium that afford functionality of the type defined by this method is also contemplated in conjunction with the present technique.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventor: VENKATESH BARAT
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Patent number: 7650251Abstract: A fabrication history a group of wafers is provided, having a record for each wafer of the manufacturing events that did or did not occur in its fabrication, and having the measured value of a given target. A binary decision rule is formed based on the fabrication history, the rule being that if a wafer has a particular pattern of manufacturing events in its fabrication history then the statistic of the given fabrication target for that wafer is a first value; otherwise, the statistic is a second value having at least a given distance from the first value. The pattern of manufacturing events in the binary decision rule is identified in the generation of the binary decision rule. The identified pattern is significant with respect to the given target.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2008Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert J. Baseman, Fateh A. Tipu, Sholom M. Weiss
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Patent number: 7647136Abstract: The present application is directed to an apparatus and method of managing transport of fluid commodities in a pipeline network. The method includes obtaining operational settings, which include equipment settings and measured parameters, associated with a pipeline network as a fluid commodity is transported through the pipeline network. From the operational settings, a recommendation is generated concurrently with the transport of the fluid commodity through the pipeline network to optimize at least one of the operational settings. The recommendation comprises revised equipment settings associated with equipment disposed along the pipeline network. The equipment settings in the recommendation may be based on empirical data from previous experience with the transport of fluid commodities through the pipeline network and/or based on theoretical data from modeling of the transport of the fluid commodity through the pipeline network.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2007Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventor: Keith C. McDowell
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Patent number: 7643892Abstract: A simulation that integrates historical data and real-time data as a test or simulation tool can capture an entry that relates to a desired output as function points. A determination can intellectually be made as to which activities can achieve the desired output. The activities can be process steps that can represent a workflow that can be automatically implemented by an MES Appliance or other enterprise components. If a simulation reveals that the desired output might not be achieved, a change to one or more function points can be analyzed in an attempt to achieve the desired result. This change can be input into a simulation tool through a feedback loop, for example. Another simulation can performed on the modified data until a determination is made that the desired output can be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Crisler Terrill Moor, John J. Baier, Kevin Chao, Lance Christopher Rodenfels, Richard Lee Ryan, Robert J. McGreevy