Patents Examined by Mark J. Fink
  • Patent number: 8461709
    Abstract: An asynchronous power generator for a wind turbine is provided. The asynchronous power generator includes a voltage supply and a stator with stator coils supplied with an alternating voltage by the voltage supply. The voltage supply is configured to adjust the voltage supplied to the stator coils based upon an output power generated by the wind turbine. Further, a method of voltage control is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bo Birkemose, Per Egedal, Erik Groendahl
  • Patent number: 5991739
    Abstract: A system and method for providing an online ordering machine that manages the distribution of home delivered products over a distributed computer system is herein disclosed. The distributed computer system includes a group of customers connected to client computers and at least one server computer system that executes the online ordering machine. The online ordering machine provides the customers with product information from various vendors whose delivery range is within the customer's location or with product information from vendors having take out service within a specified range from the customer's location. The vendor's and customer's location is associated with a geocode representing the latitude and longitude coordinates of the location. The search for the vendors servicing the customer's location is done using the geocodes. The online ordering machine accepts orders from the customer for a particular product from a selected vendor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: FOOD.COM
    Inventors: Bryan Cupps, Tim Glass
  • Patent number: 5966523
    Abstract: A method of estimating the power consumption of a semiconductor integrated circuit provides second data for primary inputs of a logic part in the integrated circuit and for nets that determine the signal value of a given net in the logic part. The second data has a multi-terminal Boolean approximation method (MTBAM) data structure. The method prepares first data having the MTBAM data structure from a probability contained in the second data, probabilities calculated according to third data contained in the second data and having a multi-terminal binary decision diagram (MTBDD) data structure, and fourth data generated from the third data and having the MTBDD data structure. According to the first data, the method estimates a probability for the given net. The method prepares such first data for all nets in the integrated circuit, and according to which, estimates the power consumption of the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Taku Uchino
  • Patent number: 5956690
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for altering billing and accounts payable invoice deliveries. A bundled billing computer application sends messages indicating when billing and invoicing is to occur based upon a predetermined bill drop criteria. The computer application clusters billing information resulting from multiple patients activities that occur over a predetermined period of time. The bills and invoices related to the multiple patient events are generated once over that period of time according to the bill drop criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: The Detroit Medical Center
    Inventors: Michelle Marie Haggerson, Glenn Joseph Engman, James Vincent Estes
  • Patent number: 5946475
    Abstract: A method is provided for statically computing delays for transistor-level logic circuits which have input signal dependencies. This methodology may be implemented in transistor-level static timing analysis tools which compute delays of blocks or subcircuits that correspond to channel-connected components of transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Burks, Robert Edward Mains
  • Patent number: 5940812
    Abstract: A loan origination system including an apparatus and method for automatically matching a best available loan to a potential borrower, via a global telecommunications network. The loan origination system of the present invention brings together via the global telecommunications network potential borrowers and lenders. The loan origination system accepts and stores into a database borrower attributes entered by a potential borrower requesting a loan, via the global telecommunications network. The loan origination system also accepts and stores into the database credit related information regarding the potential borrower sent from at least one credit bureau. The loan origination system stores into the database respective loan acceptance criteria and respective loan attributes for an offered loan. The loan origination system compares the borrower attributes of the potential borrower with all of the loan acceptance criteria stored in the database to determine any available loans for the potential borrower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: LoanMarket Resources, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Cary G. Tengel, Thomas A. Farin, Michael L. Kowal, L. Darryl Mataya
  • Patent number: 5930155
    Abstract: A method of evaluating endurance of a vehicle wheel by computer simulation of a dynamic radial fatigue test. The modeling of the system is simplified by modeling the tire portion made of a nonlinear material by linear elements, and modeling each of the air pressure, the press-contact effect of the tire bead portion and the load applied through the contact between the tire and the drum is modeled as the direct load. With such a modeling, the stress applied to the vehicle wheel can be calculated by the linear analysis instead of the nonlinear analysis, and as a results thereof, the memory capacity and the calculation time are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuto Tohi, Susumu Kubo
  • Patent number: 5910902
    Abstract: A physical process is simulated by storing in a memory state vectors for voxels and a representation of at least one surface. The state vectors include entries that correspond to particular momentum states of set of possible momentum states at a voxel. Interaction operations are performed on the state vectors to model interactions between elements of different momentum states. In addition, surface interaction operations are performed on the representation of the surface. The surface interaction operations model interactions between the surface and elements of at least one voxel near the surface. The elements have a tangential momentum relative to the surface, and the surface interaction operations retain at least a portion of the tangential momentum of the elements. The portion of tangential momentum retained corresponds to a friction parameter. The friction parameter is varied based on changes in pressure near the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Assignee: Exa Corporation
    Inventors: Kim Molvig, Hudong Chen, Christopher M. Teixeira, Stephen Remondi, David Lawrence Hill, Fongyan Gang, Ales Alajbegovic, James E. Hoch, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5911060
    Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus and computer method, generally referred to as ANTI-FREEZE.TM., for controlling the operation of a computer running under an operating system such as WINDOWS.RTM. 95 and WINDOW.RTM. NT operating system, or their like, for making responsive a program when that program becomes unresponsive to inputs from the keyboard and/or mouse. ANTI-FREEZE.TM. provides a user interface for the selection of an unresponsive program and then causes the operating system to send a message to the selected unresponsive program. If the selected unresponsive program responds to the message from the operating system, ANTI-FREEZE.TM. determines if the selected unresponsive program has any disabled windows and if so enabling a disabled window resulting in the selected unresponsive program to again become responsive. If the selected unresponsive program does not respond to the message from the operating system, ANTI-FREEZE.TM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventor: Scott Elliott
  • Patent number: 5903471
    Abstract: A slack time, based on a required and actual delay time, is calculated for each node in a circuit (302). For each element in the circuit, a sensitivity (304) and a figure of merit (306) is calculated. A variance is determined for the calculated figure of merits (308). The circuit element having the smallest absolute figure or merit is optimized when the variance is smaller than a predefined threshold (310, 312).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Satyamurthy Pullela, Timothy J. Edwards, Joseph Norton, Abhijit Dharchoudhury, David Blaauw
  • Patent number: 5889685
    Abstract: Short-circuit current and power consumption for an integrated circuit may be calculated by measuring short-circuit current for various cells within an integrated circuit using a Verilog.TM. logic level model of the cell. Each cell within an integrated circuit may be characterized by its inputs and outputs and connectivity. A corresponding SPICE sub-circuit model having the same logic characteristics as the cell may be generated. A number of calculation passes are made for each sub-circuit within a cell to determine short circuit current for each sub-circuit at various signal rise and fall times and for various inputs and outputs. Current data may be stored in a format compatible with Verilog.TM. propagation delay data. Overall power consumption and short circuit current for an integrated circuit may then be calculated from Verilog.TM. logic model data. The use of the Verilog.TM. model eliminates the need to calculate short circuit current at a SPICE circuit level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
    Inventor: Arun Ramachandran