Patents Examined by Jonathan C. Teixeira Moffat
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Patent number: 8867535Abstract: Relay apparatuses read the attribute values of data, i.e., numerical information representing measurement values, calculation values, control values, etc., from receive buffers in which data received from ECUs connected thereto is stored, and create trunk frames containing the numerical information and transmit and receive trunk frames via trunk lines. The relay apparatuses derive numerical information from trunk frames received from the other relay apparatuses and renew the numerical information on the data stored in their respective databases using the derived numerical information.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2009Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignees: National University Corporation Nagoya University, Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Takada, Ryo Kurachi, Yukihiro Miyashita
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Patent number: 8863587Abstract: A method for determining a first flow rate of a gas phase and a second flow rate of at least one liquid phase present in a polyphasic fluid circulating in a conduit is presented. The method essentially comprises circulating the polyphasic fluid through the neck of a venturi delimited by the conduit. The method further comprises estimating the first flow rate and the second flow rate by using a measured pressure difference of the fluid through the neck and a property representative of the relative surface occupied by the gas phase relative to a total surface over a cross-section of the neck. The step of estimating the first flow rate and the second flow rate further comprises (a1) calculating an amount representative of the liquid phase present in the gas rich core relative to the total amount of liquid phase in the neck and calculating the first and second flow rate as a function of the amount representative of the liquid phase present in the core calculated during step (a1).Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Geoservices EquipementsInventor: Sébastíen Cadalen
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Scalable high-performance interactive real-time media architectures for virtual desktop environments
Patent number: 8869141Abstract: Method for implementing a software application in networked desktop virtualization environment, desktop virtualization environment including desktop virtualization server and desktop virtualization endpoint device, both in communication with one another over network.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2010Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Avistar Communications Corp.Inventors: Jozef Paul C. Lauwers, Sumeet Vohra, Vladimir Vysotsky, Vijayalakshmi Viswanathan, Alexander Richter, Lester Ludwig, Oleg Zabluda -
Patent number: 8868359Abstract: A device and method for detecting and locating defects in a cable are provided. The device and method may include using sensor feedback to determine that an insulation defect exists and to calculate the location of the insulation defect in a cable. The method may include performing principle component analysis to determine whether an insulation defect occurs and using extracted data to determine the location of the insulation defect.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2011Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Meena Ganesh, Ashok Sundaresan
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Patent number: 8869116Abstract: An improved testing assessment tool and methodology maps the Testing Maturity Model (TMM) structure to individual test areas, thereby enabling comprehensive and targeted improvement. In this way, the present invention uses the five TMM maturity levels to assess individual areas, rather than merely assigning a single maturity level to the entire organization. Embodiments of the present invention include a quick assessment that includes a relatively small number of questions to be subjectively answered using the TMM hierarchy. Embodiments of the present invention further include a full assessment that includes a relatively large number of questions to be discretely answered, with these results being use to evaluate various testing areas using the TMM hierarchy.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2006Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Accenture Global Services LimitedInventors: Hendrik Fliek, Lea Christensen
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Patent number: 8868364Abstract: In one embodiment, a measuring device may comprise two oscillators. The first oscillator may generate a local reference signal in a frequency detector to detect a fundamental frequency of the alternating current (AC). The second oscillator may generate two substantially mutually orthogonal sinusoid signals having the selected frequency. The measuring device further may comprise a first group of multipliers that mixes the two sinusoid signals with a current and a voltage data signal of the AC respectively, a group of low-pass filters for removing high frequency components from the multiplication products, a second group of multipliers for mixing the filtered multiplication products respectively, and a plurality of adders each to sum together a pair of multiplication products of the second group of multipliers.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2011Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventor: Gabriel Antonesei
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Patent number: 8868363Abstract: Electrochemical Impedance Spectrum data are used to predict pulse performance of an energy storage device. The impedance spectrum may be obtained in-situ. A simulation waveform includes a pulse wave with a period greater than or equal to the lowest frequency used in the impedance measurement. Fourier series coefficients of the pulse train can be obtained. The number of harmonic constituents in the Fourier series are selected so as to appropriately resolve the response, but the maximum frequency should be less than or equal to the highest frequency used in the impedance measurement. Using a current pulse as an example, the Fourier coefficients of the pulse are multiplied by the impedance spectrum at corresponding frequencies to obtain Fourier coefficients of the voltage response to the desired pulse. The Fourier coefficients of the response are then summed and reassembled to obtain the overall time domain estimate of the voltage using the Fourier series analysis.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2010Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignees: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC, Qualtech Systems, Inc., Montana Tech of the University of MontanaInventors: John L. Morrison, William H. Morrison, Jon P. Christophersen, Chester G. Motloch
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Patent number: 8868378Abstract: The invention provides a hierarchically accessible monitoring system configured to be used with a standby generator, and a method of remotely accessing generator information from a standby generator. The hierarchically accessible monitoring system includes an interface unit configured to receive information from the standby generator and to communicate the generator information, and a remote data server in communication with the interface unit. The remote data server receives the generator information from the interface unit, stores the generator information, and controls access to the generator information based upon at least two hierarchical levels, each hierarchical level having different access privileges. The hierarchically accessible monitoring system also includes a user interface configured to display the generator information from the remote data server to at least one user. The user has access privileges to read the generator information based upon the user's assigned hierarchical level.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2008Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Briggs and Stratton CorporationInventors: Brandon M. Batzler, Kenny J. Stair, Russell C. Nordman, John A. Fiorenza, Wesley C. Sodemann
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Patent number: 8869111Abstract: The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for generating one or more test cases for testing a software application by identifying one or more units of functionalities of the software application, structuring use cases of the software application, using the identified units of functionalities, generating a first set of use case activity diagrams from the structured use cases, and generating test cases from the generated use case activity diagrams.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2010Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Infosys LimitedInventors: Ravi Prakash Gorthi, Anjaneyulu Pasala
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Patent number: 8862430Abstract: There is provided a method for estimating a position of a mobile node in a wireless sensor network. The method includes estimating a frequency offset between anchor nodes and estimating a difference between times when ranging frames from a mobile node are received by two anchor node, without use of a separate synchronization unit, such as a network synchronized clock supply unit that supplies a network synchronized clock via a cable, in a wireless sensor network, unlike a conventional method of estimating Time of Flight (TOF) using Two-Way Ranging (TWR) and Symmetric Double Sided-TWR (SDS-TWR) schemes. The estimated receiving time difference is directly applied to a Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) algorithm in order to estimate the position of the mobile node.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2008Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Yoon Seok Nam, Jae Doo Huh, Kwang Roh Park
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Patent number: 8862424Abstract: Processing test results from a plurality of individual semiconductor testers by analyzing each test result at an adaptive test engine. A centralized system jointly analyzes all the test results from the plurality of individual semiconductor testers. The adaptive test engine or the centralized system identifies, based on the analysis of each test result or the joint analysis of all the test results, one or more of: a test environmental issue, a tester variability issue, a tester calibration issue, a product variability issue, and a manufacturing process variability issue. The adaptive test engine or the centralized system determines whether one or more of the plurality of individual semiconductor testers causes one or more of the identified issues or whether semiconductor products tested by the plurality of individual semiconductor testers causes one or more of the identified issues.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mark C. Johnson, Deepak S. Turaga, Olivier Verscheure
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Patent number: 8855969Abstract: Whether validation of at least one of a plurality of previously validated processors on a first system produced data usable for computing a validation start frequency of an unvalidated processor on a second system is determined. If validation of at least one of the plurality of previously validated processors on the first system produced data usable for validating the unvalidated processor, a validation start frequency associated with the unvalidated processor can be computed based, at least in part, on system parametric data associated with a subset of the plurality of previously validated processors that were validated on the first system. Otherwise, the validation start frequency associated with the unvalidated processor is computed based, at least in part, on tester parametric data associated with the unvalidated processor. Validation of the guard band frequency for the unvalidated processor is initiated at the validation start frequency.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert W. Berry, Jr., Diyanesh B. Chinnakkonda, Prasanna Jayaraman, Tony E. Sawan
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Patent number: 8855946Abstract: A method measures a hybrid flow rate (Q) of a fluid using simultaneously at least two measuring technologies and a reference measurement, the method includes a hybrid value, wherein the measurements of the at least two measuring technologies are combined according to a given rule to get the hybrid value by performing a linear or non-linear interpolation within a given interval of the reference measurement.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Flow-Tronic S.A.Inventor: Jean-Marie Sevar
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Patent number: 8855958Abstract: A method for determining at least one characteristic for the correction of measurements of a Coriolis mass flowmeter which is characterized by an increased accuracy and a low error rate while determining the characteristic is implemented by detecting values of a measurand during constant flow with the reading sensors, calculating at least one location parameter from the detected values, an calculating at least one dispersion parameter from the detected values and the location parameter. The detection of additional values and the calculation of the location parameter and dispersion parameter from the existing and additional values is carried out until the dispersion parameter reaches a threshold value, and then, the location parameter corresponding to the dispersion parameter is used as the characteristic for the correction of the reading of the Coriolis mass flowmeter.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Krohne AGInventors: Xue Wang, Yousif Hussain
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Patent number: 8855959Abstract: Processing test results from a plurality of individual semiconductor testers by analyzing each test result at an adaptive test engine. A centralized system jointly analyzes all the test results from the plurality of individual semiconductor testers. The adaptive test engine or the centralized system identifies, based on the analysis of each test result or the joint analysis of all the test results, one or more of: a test environmental issue, a tester variability issue, a tester calibration issue, a product variability issue, and a manufacturing process variability issue. The adaptive test engine or the centralized system determines whether one or more of the plurality of individual semiconductor testers causes one or more of the identified issues or whether semiconductor products tested by the plurality of individual semiconductor testers causes one or more of the identified issues.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2010Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mark C. Johnson, Deepak S. Turaga, Olivier Verscheure
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Patent number: 8849590Abstract: If determination is erroneous in appliance determination according to the instantaneous flow rate output from a flow rate measurement unit, a flow rate measurement apparatus registers it as an unknown appliance, rechecks the flow rate of the unknown appliance, and makes it possible to enhance the accuracy of the appliance determination. The apparatus has a flow rate measurement unit 3, a flow rate information storage unit 8 for storing the flow rate value of the flow rate measurement unit 3, a computation unit 6 for finding a difference value between the flow rate values output from the flow rate measurement unit 3, an appliance registration storage unit 7, an appliance determination unit 9 for determining an appliance, and an unknown appliance registration unit 10 for registering information according to which the appliance cannot be determined.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2007Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hajime Miyata, Yasuhiro Umekage
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Patent number: 8849998Abstract: A method performed by one or more processing devices includes receiving a request to generate an estimate of a size of a population segment that accesses a resource; identifying, in demographic data, a number of counted users for the population segment; generating an estimate of a number of uncounted users in the population segment that access the resource; and generating, from the number of counted users and the number of uncounted users, the estimate of the size of the population segment.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: John W. Merrill
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Patent number: 8843324Abstract: The present invention provides a method to calibrate a NIR analyzer to measure monomer concentrations at one or more locations in a reactor system. The regression coefficients for the NIR analyzer are transferable between reactors using the same process (solution polymerization to solution polymerization) and may be used to control the reaction, or calibrate flow meters on line.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2011Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Nova Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventor: Yves Lacombe
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Patent number: 8843323Abstract: Complex gun code computations can be made to converge more quickly based on a selection of one or more relaxation parameters. An eigenvalue analysis is applied to error residuals to identify two error eigenvalues that are associated with respective error residuals. Relaxation values can be selected based on these eigenvalues so that error residuals associated with each can be alternately reduced in successive iterations. In some examples, relaxation values that would be unstable if used alone can be used.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2010Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Los Alamos National Security, LLCInventor: Eric M. Nelson
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Patent number: 8843342Abstract: A continuous scanning method employs one or more moveable sensors and one or more reference sensors deployed in the environment around a test subject. Each sensor is configured to sense an attribute of the test subject (e.g., sound energy, infrared energy, etc.) while continuously moving along a path and recording the sensed attribute, the position, and the orientation of each of the moveable sensors and each of the reference sensors. The system then constructs a set of transfer functions corresponding to points in space between the moveable sensors, wherein each of the transfer functions relates the test data of the moveable sensors to the test data of the reference sensors. In this way, a graphical representation of the attribute in the vicinity of test subject can be produced.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2010Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: ATA Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Havard I. Vold, Paul G. Bremner, Parthiv N. Shah