Patents by Inventor Erich M. Ruetsche
Erich M. Ruetsche has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20210278826Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a quality control method. The method includes verifying one or more sensors as part of a verification process and assessing a quality of an item or a technical process as part of a quality control process. Two or more measurements values characterizing the item or the technical process from the one or more sensors are obtained. One or more output values based on a computerized process taking the two or more measurements values as inputs are obtained. At least one of the output values obtained is compared to one or more corresponding reference values, to obtain a quality assessment of the item or the technical process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2020Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Patrick Ruch, Erich M. Ruetsche, Gero Dittmann
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Publication number: 20190279525Abstract: A system, method and computer program product to train a user to reproduce a reference motion with a haptic feedback system having one or more sensors. The method includes receiving a user-selection of a reference motion pattern, selected from a plurality of motion patterns each of which is machine-interpretable as a time-ordered sequence of reference datasets. The sequence corresponds to a respective reference motion. The method includes capturing a user motion of a user attempting to reproduce the reference motion corresponding to the selected, reference motion pattern. This is accomplished by sampling, via the haptic feedback system, sensor values obtained from the one or more sensors, to obtain appraisal datasets that are representative of the captured user motion. A real-time haptic feedback is provided to the user while capturing the user motion based on comparisons between the appraisal datasets obtained and the reference datasets of the selected, reference motion pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2018Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Jonas Weiss, Erich M. Ruetsche, Patricia Sagmeister, Thomas Gschwind, Yuksel Temiz, John M. Cohn
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Patent number: 9054074Abstract: A series of hierarchical channels are formed in a first member surface of a first member using a continuous-feed manufacturing process. The channels are configured to control particle stacking. The first member is pressed to a second member with a layer of particle-filled viscous material between the first member surface and a second member surface of the second member. An inventive assembly includes mating surfaces with at least one surface formed with a series of parallel hierarchical channels configured to control stacking of the particles during pressing together of the surfaces. The surface is substantially free of any other hierarchical channels formed thereon.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2007Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Ryan J. Linderman, Erich M. Ruetsche
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Patent number: 8825555Abstract: Processes are described for provision of privacy-sensitive sample analysis results to a sample provider. The sample provider generates a cryptographic commitment encoding a secret value, r, and a sample identifier, s, associated with a sample container. The sample provider provides the commitment to an analysis provider in association with the sample container containing a sample for analysis. The analysis provider analyzes the sample to obtain a set of analysis results corresponding to the sample identifier, s, and generates a cryptographic pre-credential, ??, corresponding to the sample identifier, s. The pre-credential, ??, encodes the set of analysis results and the commitment. Completion of the pre-credential, ??, requires knowledge of the secret value, r, in the commitment.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Thomas R. Gross, Erich M. Ruetsche
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Patent number: 8107234Abstract: Disclosed herein is a data center having a plurality of liquid cooled computer systems. The computer systems each include a processor coupled with a cold plate that allows direct liquid cooling of the processor. The cold plate is further arranged to provide adapted flow of coolant to different portions of the processor whereby higher temperature regions receive a larger flow rate of coolant. The flow is variably adjusted to reflect different levels of activity. By maximizing the coolant temperature exiting the computer systems, the system may utilize the free cooling temperature of the ambient air and eliminate the need for a chiller. A data center is further provided that is coupled with a district heating system and heat is extracted from the computer systems is used to offset carbon emissions and reduce the total cost of ownership of the data center.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Ryan J. Linderman, Bruno Michel, Erich M. Ruetsche
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Patent number: 8108381Abstract: A system and method for analyzing electronic data records including an annotation unit being operable to receive a set of electronic data records and to compute concept vectors for the set of electronic data records, wherein the coordinates of the concept vectors represent scores of the concepts in the respective electronic data record and wherein the concepts are part of an ontology, a similarity network unit being operable to compute a similarity network by means of the concept vectors and by at least one relationship between the concepts of the ontology, the similarity network representing similarities between the electronic data records, wherein the vertices of the similarity network represent the electronic data records and the edges of the similarity network represent similarity values indicating a degree of similarity between the vertices and steps for executing the system.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Frey Aagaard Eberholst, André Elisseeff, Peter Lundkvist, Ulf H. Nielsen, Erich M. Ruetsche
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Publication number: 20120005098Abstract: Processes are described for provision of privacy-sensitive sample analysis results to a sample provider. The sample provider generates a cryptographic commitment encoding a secret value, r, and a sample identifier, s, associated with a sample container. The sample provider provides the commitment to an analysis provider in association with the sample container containing a sample for analysis. The analysis provider analyzes the sample to obtain a set of analysis results corresponding to the sample identifier, s, and generates a cryptographic pre-credential, ??, corresponding to the sample identifier, s. The pre-credential, ??, encodes the set of analysis results and the commitment. Completion of the pre-credential, ??, requires knowledge of the secret value, r, in the commitment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Thomas R. Gross, Erich M. Ruetsche
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Patent number: 8004832Abstract: Disclosed herein is a data center having a plurality of liquid cooled computer systems. The computer systems each include a processor coupled with a cold plate that allows direct liquid cooling of the processor. The cold plate is further arranged to provide adapted flow of coolant to different portions of the processor whereby higher temperature regions receive a larger flow rate of coolant. The flow is variably adjusted to reflect different levels of activity. By maximizing the coolant temperature exiting the computer systems, the system may utilize the free cooling temperature of the ambient air and eliminate the need for a chiller. A data center is further provided that is coupled with a district heating system and heat is extracted from the computer systems is used to offset carbon emissions and reduce the total cost of ownership of the data center.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Ryan J. Linderman, Bruno Michel, Erich M. Ruetsche
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Patent number: 7907330Abstract: A display element having circuitry adapted to at least partially electrochemically dissolve a first layer by means of supplying an electrical current through the first layer. The first layer separates a first reservoir filled with a liquid from a second reservoir. By dissolving the first layer at least partially, at least a portion of the liquid can flow from the first to the second reservoir. Consequently, the display element transitions from a first to a second optical state.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2008Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Emmanuel Delamarche, Erich M. Ruetsche
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Patent number: 7866173Abstract: Disclosed herein is a server system having a plurality of computer systems and a liquid cooling system. The computer systems are capable of operating in a first mode of operation at a first operating speed and a first temperature. The computer systems are further capable of operating in a second mode of operation at a second operating speed and a second temperature. The server system switches from the second mode and the first mode in response to a request for processing services rising above a first threshold. The server system further uses a cold battery to store coolant during times of low demand and releases coolant from said cold battery when the system switches to the first mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2008Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Ryan J. Linderman, Bruno Michel, Erich M. Ruetsche
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Patent number: 7808780Abstract: Disclosed herein is a data center having a plurality of liquid cooled computer systems. The computer systems each include a processor coupled with a cold plate that allows direct liquid cooling of the processor. The cold plate is further arranged to provide adapted flow of coolant to different portions of the processor whereby higher temperature regions receive a larger flow rate of coolant. The flow is variably adjusted to reflect different levels of activity. By maximizing the coolant temperature exiting the computer systems, the system may utilize the free cooling temperature of the ambient air and eliminate the need for a chiller. A data center is further provided that is coupled with a district heating system and heat is extracted from the computer systems is used to offset carbon emissions and reduce the total cost of ownership of the data center.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2008Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Ryan J. Linderman, Bruno Michel, Erich M. Ruetsche
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Publication number: 20100246117Abstract: Disclosed herein is a data center having a plurality of liquid cooled computer systems. The computer systems each include a processor coupled with a cold plate that allows direct liquid cooling of the processor. The cold plate is further arranged to provide adapted flow of coolant to different portions of the processor whereby higher temperature regions receive a larger flow rate of coolant. The flow is variably adjusted to reflect different levels of activity. By maximizing the coolant temperature exiting the computer systems, the system may utilize the free cooling temperature of the ambient air and eliminate the need for a chiller. A data center is further provided that is coupled with a district heating system and heat is extracted from the computer systems is used to offset carbon emissions and reduce the total cost of ownership of the data center.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2010Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES COPORATIONInventors: Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Ryan J. Linderman, Bruno Michel, Erich M. Ruetsche
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Publication number: 20100241278Abstract: Disclosed herein is a data center having a plurality of liquid cooled computer systems. The computer systems each include a processor coupled with a cold plate that allows direct liquid cooling of the processor. The cold plate is further arranged to provide adapted flow of coolant to different portions of the processor whereby higher temperature regions receive a larger flow rate of coolant. The flow is variably adjusted to reflect different levels of activity. By maximizing the coolant temperature exiting the computer systems, the system may utilize the free cooling temperature of the ambient air and eliminate the need for a chiller. A data center is further provided that is coupled with a district heating system and heat is extracted from the computer systems is used to offset carbon emissions and reduce the total cost of ownership of the data center.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES COPORATIONInventors: Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Ryan J. Linderman, Bruno Michel, Erich M. Ruetsche
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Publication number: 20090234705Abstract: Disclosed herein is a server system having a plurality of computer systems and a liquid cooling system. The computer systems are capable of operating in a first mode of operation at a first operating speed and a first temperature. The computer systems are further capable of operating in a second mode of operation at a second operating speed and a second temperature. The server system switches from the second mode and the first mode in response to a request for processing services rising above a first threshold. The server system further uses a cold battery to store coolant during times of low demand and releases coolant from said cold battery when the system switches to the first mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2008Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Ryan J. Linderman, Bruno Michel, Erich M. Ruetsche
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Publication number: 20090218078Abstract: Disclosed herein is a data center having a plurality of liquid cooled computer systems. The computer systems each include a processor coupled with a cold plate that allows direct liquid cooling of the processor. The cold plate is further arranged to provide adapted flow of coolant to different portions of the processor whereby higher temperature regions receive a larger flow rate of coolant. The flow is variably adjusted to reflect different levels of activity. By maximizing the coolant temperature exiting the computer systems, the system may utilize the free cooling temperature of the ambient air and eliminate the need for a chiller. A data center is further provided that is coupled with a district heating system and heat is extracted from the computer systems is used to offset carbon emissions and reduce the total cost of ownership of the data center.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2008Publication date: September 3, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Ryan J. Linderman, Bruno Michel, Erich M. Ruetsche
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Publication number: 20090154107Abstract: A series of hierarchical channels are formed in a first member surface of a first member using a continuous-feed manufacturing process. The channels are configured to control particle stacking. The first member is pressed to a second member with a layer of particle-filled viscous material between the first member surface and a second member surface of the second member. An inventive assembly includes mating surfaces with at least one surface formed with a series of parallel hierarchical channels configured to control stacking of the particles during pressing together of the surfaces. The surface is substantially free of any other hierarchical channels formed thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2007Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Thomas J. Brunschwiler, Ryan J. Linderman, Erich M. Ruetsche
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Publication number: 20090135471Abstract: A display element having circuitry adapted to at least partially electrochemically dissolve a first layer by means of supplying an electrical current through the first layer. The first layer separates a first reservoir filled with a liquid from a second reservoir. By dissolving the first layer at least partially, at least a portion of the liquid can flow from the first to the second reservoir. Consequently, the display element transitions from a first to a second optical state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2008Publication date: May 28, 2009Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Emmanuel Delamarche, Erich M. Ruetsche
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Publication number: 20090083231Abstract: A system and method for analyzing electronic data records including an annotation unit being operable to receive a set of electronic data records and to compute concept vectors for the set of electronic data records, wherein the coordinates of the concept vectors represent scores of the concepts in the respective electronic data record and wherein the concepts are part of an ontology, a similarity network unit being operable to compute a similarity network by means of the concept vectors and by at least one relationship between the concepts of the ontology, the similarity network representing similarities between the electronic data records, wherein the vertices of the similarity network represent the electronic data records and the edges of the similarity network represent similarity values indicating a degree of similarity between the vertices and steps for executing the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2008Publication date: March 26, 2009Inventors: Frey Aagaard Eberholst, Andre Elisseeff, Peter Lundkvist, Ulf H. Nielsen, Erich M. Ruetsche