Patents Examined by Angel Calle
  • Patent number: 8532974
    Abstract: A method for optimizing energy consumption of an application program for a DSP includes a program code generating unit is adapted to edit and generate a program code, a program compiling unit is adapted to receive the program code, and according to the program code and the instructional wise energy consumption database generate a plurality of assembly codes, and a DSP simulator adapted to receive the assembly codes and at least one stimulus to simulate the total and the amount of energy every instruction of the assembly codes consumes and transmit the results to the program compiling unit. The program compiling unit modifies the compiling scheme to recompile the program code and transmits the new assembly codes to the DSP simulator, until the simulation results reach or are lower than a predetermined energy consumption value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Sentelic Corporation
    Inventors: Zhi-Yang Guo, Yu-Chung Tsao, Yu-Kai Wang, Mao-Sung Wu, Chun Hsieh, Tsai-Lin Lee
  • Patent number: 8527244
    Abstract: A method of generating model data representing a body section of a biological organism, like e.g., a head or part thereof, a joint, or soft tissue, includes the steps of providing object data representing a first portion of the body section, providing standard data representing a complete standard body section, and subjecting the standard data to a registration process, wherein the model data to be generated are created by adapting the standard data to the object data, said model data representing the first portion of the body section and a second portion of the body section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MMH)
    Inventor: Hoen-oh Shin
  • Patent number: 8521500
    Abstract: A method and device for measuring integrated circuit power supply noise and calibration of power supply noise analysis models. The method includes collecting power supply noise monitor data from an integrated circuit having one or more power supply noise monitors connected between a power supply and respective scan cells of a scan chain and one or more functional circuits connected to the scan chain by scanning a power supply noise generation pattern into the scan chain and scanning a resultant pattern out of the scan chain; converting the resultant data into actual values of selected power supply parameters; generating simulated values of the selected power supply parameters using a power supply noise simulation model based on design data of the integrated chip; comparing the actual values of the selected power supply parameters to the simulated values of the selected power supply parameters; and modifying the power supply noise simulation model based on the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Igor Arsovski, Bruce Balch, Umberto Garofano, Nazmul Habib
  • Patent number: 8521501
    Abstract: A system and method of managing computing systems and, more particularly, to a system and method for modeling applications in a network. The method includes determining dependency of components in a shared distributed computing environment and measuring consumption of the dependent components. The method further includes building a model to compare component behavior with a current load of the dependent components to optimize component performance or to find a deviation and hence a “troubled spot”. The system includes a local agent configured to perform the method and to provide data to a centralized storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Akm K. Alam, Vyacheslav Barsuk
  • Patent number: 8515725
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for modeling a semiconductor device structure. The system and method implemented includes performing a simulation of the circuit by applying at least one input waveform on a circuit input port, and loading an output port with at least one of output load; determining, at successive time steps of the circuit simulation, a voltage value Vi on the input port, a voltage value Vo on the output port, and a current values (ia) and (ib) on the respective input and output ports. Then there is computed from the respective current value for each successive time step of the simulation, at least one charge value (Qa(Vi, Vo)) and (Qb(Vi, Vo)), respectively, as a function of Vi and Vo voltage values; and generating a nonlinear charge source from the at least one charge value, the nonlinear charge source used in modeling a dynamic behavior of the cell. A voltage controlled charge source (VCCS) is thereby determined by capturing the natural digital circuit cell behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Feldmann, Sampath Dechu, Soroush Abbaspour, Ratan Singh
  • Patent number: 8515721
    Abstract: A method for determining rock and fluid properties of a fluid-containing subsurface geological formation is provided. First, a low resolution model of the geological formation is initially created from a lumped average parameter estimation derived from at least fluid pressure transient data obtained along a linear wellbore that traverses the formation. Next, the model parameters are updated using grid-based parameter estimation in which the low resolution pressure transient data are combined with data from at least one of seismic data, formation logs, and basic geological structural information surrounding the linear wellbore. Depending on the data available, this process may be carried out in a sequential manner by obtaining and combining additional dynamic data at selected areas. Through this process, multiple realizations of the properties of the geological formation (within the geological structural model) may be created based from the pressure-data conditioned geostatistics i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kristy Morton, Fikri Kuchuk, Richard Booth, Mustafa Onur
  • Patent number: 8510089
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for forecasting performance of polymer flooding of an oil reservoir system. For example, property data of the oil reservoir system and polymer flooding scenario data are received. Numerical simulations are performed to generate values of an effective mobility ratio and response time for the polymer and water flooding. A correlation for the polymer flooding effective mobility ratio is determined and used in a predictive model to generate polymer and water flooding performance data, representative of oil recovery by the polymer and water flooding of the oil reservoir system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Khyati Rai, Arnaldo L. Espinel, Ganesh C. Thakur
  • Patent number: 8510085
    Abstract: A method of constructing a digital model of a road, includes the steps of acquiring a first set of data relating to the geometry of the road via a differential global positioning system (DGPS), acquiring a second set of data relating to the geometry of the road via a hybridized inertial unit with a global positioning system (GPS), indexing the values of the first and second sets of data by determining their confidence level, discarding the values of the first and second sets of data below a predefined confidence level in order to obtain a first and second set of corrected data, and aggregating the data of the first and second sets of corrected data in order to obtain the digital model of the road. The applicable to the fields of road cartography for navigation and road management, for the creation of adaptive localized algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Nodbox
    Inventors: Thierry Fargas, Dominique Clarac
  • Patent number: 8494815
    Abstract: A method for designing a sound waveguide surface is described. The method includes the steps of forming a parametric model of the sound waveguide surface where the parametric model has at least one input parameter and then simulating a sound field that is formed by the sound waveguide surface. A frequency dependent spatial distribution measure is then determined for the sound field associated with the sound waveguide surface and the at least one input parameter is varied to change the sound waveguide surface to adjust the value of the frequency dependent spatial distribution measure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Krix Loudspeakers Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Anthony Charles Zander, David John Murphy, Richard Christie Morgans, Colin Henry Hansen
  • Patent number: 8489379
    Abstract: A simulation system and method for generating equivalent circuits compatible with HSPICE reads data corresponding to N-port network system format in a storage device, and obtains S-parameter matrixes from the N-port network system. S-parameters in the S-parameter matrix that satisfy passivity are checked, and an interpolation algorithm to supplement S-parameters with passivity when some S-parameters not satisfy passivity is performed. Numbers of pole-residue, times for recursion and a tolerant system error of a rational function are generated for determining S-parameters. A rational function matrix composed of S-parameters is generated by performing a vector fitting algorithm, and an equivalent circuit is generated compatible with HSPICE format based on the generated rational function matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wen-Laing Tseng, Cheng-Hsien Lee, Shen-Chun Li, Yu-Chang Pai, Shou-Kuo Hsu
  • Patent number: 8478575
    Abstract: A method for identifying an anomaly in an electronic system includes receiving, from a computer-readable storage medium, a plurality of entries from a successful simulation test of the electronic system, each of the plurality of entries including information about simulation time. The method also includes, with one or more computer processors, determining time sequence relationship between pairs of entries selected from the plurality of entries and identifying allowable sequences of entries using information related to the first plurality of entries and the time sequence relationship. The method includes receiving a second plurality of entries from a failed simulation test of the electronic system, each of the second plurality of entries including information about simulation time. The method includes analyzing the second plurality of entries and identifying one or more anomalies in the electronic system based on the analysis of the failed simulation test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Yaron Kashai
  • Patent number: 8433551
    Abstract: A machine, computer program product, and method to enable scalable parallel reservoir simulations for a variety of simulation model sizes are described herein. Some embodiments of the disclosed invention include a machine, methods, and implemented software for performing parallel processing of a grid defining a reservoir or oil/gas field using a plurality of sub-domains for the reservoir simulation, a parallel process of re-ordering a local cell index for each of the plurality of cells using characteristics of the cell and location within the at least one sub-domain and a parallel process of simulating at least one production characteristic of the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Larry S. K. Fung, Mokhles M. Mezghani
  • Patent number: 8423337
    Abstract: A method of predicting earth stresses in response to changes in a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir within a geomechanical system includes establishing physical boundaries for the geomechanical system, acquiring logging data from wells drilled, and acquiring seismic data for one or more rock layers. The well and seismic data are automatically converted into a three-dimensional digital representation of one or more rock layers within the geomechanical system, thereby creating data points defining a three-dimensional geological structure. The method also includes (a) applying the data points from the geological structure to derive a finite element-based geomechanical model, and (b) initializing a geostatic condition in the geomechanical model, and then running a geomechanics simulation in order to determine changes in earth stresses associated with changes in pore pressure or other reservoir characteristics within the one or more rock layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Sheng-Yuan Hsu, Rahul Pakal, Kevin H. Searles, Brian W. Duffy
  • Patent number: 8355901
    Abstract: A CPU emulation system includes; a plurality of virtual CPUs each operating on a different physical CPU; an instruction sequence selecting section for selecting an instruction sequence to be optimized; a virtual CPU selecting section for selecting one of the plurality of virtual CPUs, which is to perform optimization processing of the selected instruction sequence, based on usage rates of the plurality of virtual CPUs; and an optimization level selecting section for determining an optimization level of the optimization processing that is to be executed by the selected one of the plurality of virtual CPUs, and giving a direction to perform the optimization processing to the selected one of the plurality of virtual CPUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Hieda
  • Patent number: 8352222
    Abstract: In accordance with aspects of the present principles, an over-approximation of reachable states of a hybrid system may be determined by utilizing template polyhedra. Policy iteration may be utilized to obtain an over-approximation of reachable states in the form of a relaxed invariant based upon template polyhedra expressions. The relaxed invariant may be used to construct a flowpipe to refine the over-approximation and thereby determine the reachable states of the hybrid system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Franjo Ivancic
  • Patent number: 8321185
    Abstract: There is provided a model that can evaluate properties of viscoelasticity and also rubber elasticity of an elastic material. A correlation equation between stress and strain that is calculated from: a correlation equation between stress, strain, elastic modulus and relaxation time, calculated based on a Maxwell model in which an elastic element and a viscous element are placed in series; and a correlation equation between strain and elastic modulus, including different moduli depending on properties, the correlation equation between stress and strain including different moduli depending on said properties as parameters is output as a stress-strain curve formula. There is one feature in finding a correlation between the strain and the elastic modulus, and this allows a large deformation behavior of an elastic material having properties of both rubber elasticity and viscoelasticity to be expressed with high quantitative characteristics on simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignees: Nitto Denko Corporation, Hiroshima University
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Maeda, Shigenobu Okazawa, Koji Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 8271258
    Abstract: The emulation of an adapter for I/O to link a host data processing system to a local area network provides advantages of memory to memory transfer which results in higher data transfer rates while at the same time providing a mechanism for working with two data transfer vectors in an overlapping fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ping T. Chan, Paul M. Gioquindo, Gary R. Morrill, Bruce H. Ratcliff, Stephen R. Valley
  • Patent number: 8260598
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to generate code to represent a graphical model formed of multiple graphical modeling components and at least one variable-sized signal is presented. Each variable-sized signal is represented using a size-vector in the generated code. The generated code is optimized by representing multiple variable-sized signals with the same size-vector such that at least two variable-sized signals share a size-vector in the generated code. The size of the variable-sized signal is capable of changing during the execution of the graphical model. The method and apparatus also identifies the owners of the variable-sized signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongbo Yang, Xiaocang Lin, Haihua Feng
  • Patent number: 8229725
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for modeling processor-based circuit models are described. Some examples relate to designing a circuit model having a processor system and custom logic. A bus adapter coupled to a bus of the processor system is generated. A shared memory interface between the custom logic and the bus adapter is generated. The shared memory interface includes a memory map for the processor system. A clock wrapper having a first clock input and a second clock input is generated. The first clock input drives the custom logic and first shared memory of the shared memory interface. The second clock input drives the processor system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventors: Jingzhao Ou, Chi Bun Chan, Shay Ping Seng
  • Patent number: 8229720
    Abstract: Provided is an atmospheric flow simulation method for reducing a simulation error of wind speed caused due to an influence of different terrain resolutions using a numerical simulation; and, more particularly, an atmospheric flow simulation method which can compensate the wind speed of the atmospheric flow field using low-resolution terrain data by introducing an influence of different terrain resolutions as a terrain roughness and adding it to the terrain condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Energy Research
    Inventor: Hyun-Goo Kim