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8185248 Wireless extension to an irrigation control system and related methods  
Several embodiments provide wireless extensions to an irrigation controller system and related methods of use, as well as other improvements to irrigation control equipment. In one implementation,...
8184626 High-radix interprocessor communications system and method  
A high-radix interprocessor communications system and method having a plurality of processor nodes, a plurality of first routers and a plurality of second routers. Each first router is connected to...
8170744 Front electronic equipment system with a LIN-subbus  
A front electronic equipment system includes a load electrical parts provided at a front portion of a vehicle, a front electrical control unit which receives a control signal for controlling the...
8156017 System and method for real-time activity-based accounting  
An accounting method and system is disclosed that provides for real time financial accounting of plant performance at a sub-plant level. A multiplicity of process variable transmitters is utilized...
8155769 Industrial control with integrated machine vision  
System and method for performing industrial control. A vision engine operable to execute vision functions to control a vision element in response to received asynchronous commands is stored on a...
8143811 Lighting control system and method  
Lighting devices are configured to communicate with one another and with external systems. Sensors located at such lighting devices communicate with the external systems and with others of the...
8131878 Selective disruption of data transmission to sub-networks within a processing unit network  
A network of processing units having at least one switch that allows disruption of the network between a first and a second processing units is provided. Disruption of the network by means of the...
8124214 Fault tolerant transport mechanism in storage and method of controlling the same  
A method of controlling a transport mechanism allows a first mobile carrier to move based on a power source incorporated in the first mobile carrier when an instructions signal specifying an access...
8121706 Information processing device and home network system  
There is provided an information processing device capable of dynamically generating and presenting to the user a user interface for remotely controlling at least one other device connected via a...
8116914 Wind turbine and operating method thereof  
A pitch controller, uninterruptible power supply, and rotational speed detector are disposed in the rotor in a wind turbine. When a slip ring failure or wire breakage occurs, the pitch controller...
8086771 TCET expander  
The present invention relates to the field of embedded processing systems and electronic control units (ECUs) and to autonomic embedded computing solutions. The present invention proposes to remove...
8086880 Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program  
An information processing apparatus includes a first information processor, a plurality of second information processor, and a plurality of temperature detecting units detecting temperature in the...
8078289 Model predictive control with variable trajectory sharing  
One or more techniques are provided for the sharing of variable trajectories between multiple controllers in a control system. In general, the present technique is based upon the sharing of...
8068930 Method and system for performing a package pre-load operation in accordance with a dispatch plan  
The present invention provides systems and methods for electronically-capturing a destination address of a package and for using the destination address to automate a package pre-load operation. An...
8068114 Mechanism for granting controlled access to a shared resource  
Disclosed are methods and systems for granting an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) in a multi-ASIC environment controlled access to a shared resource. A system includes a first ASIC,...
8046855 Method and apparatus for providing redundancy in monitoring the lid switch and basket of a washing machine  
A method and control system for automatically halting operation of a washing machine by stopping operation of the washing machine motor is provided. The washing machine that implements the method...
8046519 Coupling a specialty system, such as a metering system, to multiple control systems  
A metering system configured to couple to multiple specialty systems, such as a control system. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are processing units comprising a processor, a memory...
8032605 Generation and distribution of motion commands over a distributed network  
A method of causing movement of at least one target device based on at least one of a plurality of motion programs stored on a content server connected to a network. At least one identified...
8032738 Method for the start-up of numerical controls of machine tools or production machinery and numerical control for machine tools or production machinery  
A method for the start-up of a numerical control of machine tools or production machinery, wherein the numerical control includes a main computer and a follow-up device, which are connected with...
7991485 System and method for obtaining, processing and evaluating patient information for diagnosing disease and selecting treatment  
A computer-based system and method is disclosed which constructs medical histories by direct interactions between the patient and system that acquires pertinent and relevant medical information...
7972755 Substrate processing method and substrate processing system  
There is disclosed a substrate processing method by a multi-patterning technique, which comprises a lithography process and an etching process, each of the processes is performed to one substrate...
7962246 Method and apparatus for operating a wind turbine during a loss of communication  
A method for operating a wind turbine during a loss of communication is described that includes coupling a pitch controller to at least one wind turbine blade and to a wind turbine controller,...
7941229 High-speed sequential sampling of I/O data for industrial control  
An I/O module samples an industrial process to acquire data indicative of performance of the industrial process. The I/O module has an internal memory in which the data from multiple samples is...
7925360 System for resetting subsets of motes within a network to different operational states in accordance with type of sensors  
A method may include and/or involve a mote network receiving a signal to reset and applying the signal to reset to place the mote network into a reset condition.
7922899 Medical apparatus and method for setting up a medical apparatus  
A medical apparatus comprises a user interface for setting parameters and includes: a screen for visualizing values of said parameters, a main control unit connected to the interface, a first...
7913417 System and method to control energy input to a material  
A system and method of controlling energy that is input to a material substance, for the controlled removal of moisture from the material substance, is disclosed. A controlled air flow is blown...
7908020 Architecture for control systems  
An architecture for control systems including multiple control devices. The control devices include standardized software objects having functions, application programs for engaging these functions...
7904280 Simulation of constrained systems  
A modular representation of a physical system is generated using modules and variables, each module representing a portion of the physical system, each variable representing a parameter of the...
7899559 Language-based organization of controller engine instances  
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates utilizing multiple computer languages within an industrial environment. A controller can execute with a real-time...
7894943 Real-time global optimization of building setpoints and sequence of operation  
A building heating/cooling system energy optimization method for a building having a heating/cooling system includes the steps of providing a mathematical model of the heating/cooling system,...
7881812 Editing and configuring device  
The claimed subject matter provides an editor system for employment in an industrial automation environment that enhances programmability of at least one of a controller and an industrial process....
7873962 Distributed control systems and methods that selectively activate respective coordinators for respective tasks  
Respective coordinators are spawned or activated to coordinate activities with regard to respective tasks. Where the respective tasks require cooperative efforts of a plurality of controllers, the...
7869886 Control block with a point-to-point communication link between a control master module to be connected to a data bus and expansion slave modules  
The invention relates to an input/output channel control block that comprises a number of successive input/output modules. The first is a control master module and the subsequent ones are expansion...
7865266 Cooperative minimally invasive telesurgical system  
Improved robotic surgical systems, devices, and methods include selectably associatable master/slave pairs, often having more manipulator arms than will be moved simultaneously by the two hands of...
7860583 System and method for dynamically adjusting patient therapy  
A system and method of managing therapy provided to patients in an institution. The system monitors all aspects of the medication delivery to a patient, as well as other information related to the...
7853336 Dynamic versioning utilizing multiple controller engine instances to limit complications  
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates deploying data within an industrial environment. A controller can execute with a real-time operating system such that the...
7844358 Method for material handling, materials handling cell and electric motor therefor  
The invention relates to a method for materials handling via a number of materials handling cells by passing on materials handling containers, in which each materials handling cell includes a first...
7822489 Electronic device control apparatus, method for controlling electronic device, electronic device control program, and computer-readable recording medium having recorded electronic device control program  
A device communication portion receives operational status data, and an operational status accumulation portion accumulates the operational status data. A link information management portion...
7813814 Control systems and methods for virtual power plants  
Systems and methods for the control of distributed systems are presented, particularly virtual power plants. Control software therefore communicates through an interface with decentralized devices....
7813815 Digital measuring system and method for integrated circuit chip operating parameters  
An integrated circuit contains within the chip one or more measuring devices that provide a digital value corresponding to respective physical operating parameters of the chip. The digital values...
7809448 Systems and methods for authoring lighting sequences  
The systems and methods descried herein relate in part to intuitive methods for creation and design of lighting sequences, e.g., for theatrical, entertainment or advertising purposes, using a...
7805545 Method for implementing a control channel in a system of circumvention and recovery  
A multi-function system comprising a plurality of peripherals having different levels of susceptibility to environmental events, at least one event detector configured to detect environmental...
7787967 Process control system  
A function block used in another process control system is previously associated with an data item by taking the function block being as data on a same rank as the data item. A...
7774074 Distributed input/output control systems and methods  
Apparatus and methods for controlling a system that operates responsive to a plurality of input control signals are disclosed. During operation the system generates a plurality of output...
7711451 Control device for refrigeration or air conditioning systems  
The invention relates to a control unit for a refrigeration or air conditioning device, comprising a main processor that is situated in a housing and that controls the temperature, fan and/or the...
7706915 System and software of enhanced pharmacy services and related methods  
A system, software, and methods related to enhanced pharmaceutical order entry and administration by medical personnel, and enhanced pharmaceutical inventory control within a medical institution...
7698001 Method and apparatus for improving performance of networking applications  
A method for improving performance of networking applications which receive network data from a computer network and which are executable on any one of a plurality of data processing means. The...
7689871 Method for monitoring a system  
A method for monitoring a system, having a control unit defined as a master and a number of control units defined as slaves, with the aid of a monitoring module, in which in reply to an inquiry...
7685029 System and method for real-time activity-based accounting  
An accounting method and system is disclosed that provides for real time financial accounting of plant performance at a sub-plant level. A multiplicity of process variable transmitters is utilized...
7680621 Test instrument network  
A test instrument network for testing a plurality of DUTs includes a plurality of communicating script processors, the script processors being adapted to execute computer code; and a plurality of...