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7502707 Field bus distribution unit  
A field bus distribution unit (VE) designed for use in process automation technology involving several field devices. The unit is equipped with a microcontroller μC, which is connected to a field...
7499832 Control unit that manages the usage of electrical devices  
A control unit is disclosed for controlling the usage of an electrical device, such as a television. The control unit maintains a plurality of time accounts for a plurality of users. The control...
7496468 Apparatus for determining a number of data transmissions in sensor network and method using the same  
An apparatus and method of determining a number of data transmissions in a sensor network are provided. More particularly, an apparatus for determining a number of data transmissions preferably...
7496477 System and method for efficient and collective adjustment of sensor reporting ranges for long-lived queries  
A system and method for providing energy-efficient support of continuous aggregate queries in a sensor network by efficiently orchestrating the collection and transmission of data gathered by a...
7496478 Method of monitoring a semiconductor manufacturing trend  
A parametric parameter is selected, which has an upper specification limit and a lower specification limit. A storage percentile is determined. The storage percentile is equal to a product yield...
7493236 Method for reporting the status of a control application in an automated manufacturing environment  
Disclosed are embodiments that provide near real-time monitoring of a control application in a manufacturing environment to detect and determine the root cause of faults within the control...
7493224 Event tracing with time stamp compression and history buffer based compression  
An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for generating trace data. In response to detecting a trace event, a determination is made as to whether identifiers for the trace event...
7487048 Conveying apparatus, notification method and computer-readable medium for indicating a level of maintenance required  
A technique is proposed to provide an appropriate notification in accordance with the state of occurrence of conveyance errors. The level of maintenance required to normalize a conveying function...
7483816 Length-of-the-curve stress metric for improved characterization of computer system reliability  
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that characterizes the reliability of a computer system. The system first collects samples of a performance parameter from the computer system....
7475073 Technique for improving staff queries in a workflow management system  
A technique for improving staff queries within a process model of a workflow is provided. A workflow management system selects a set of individuals of a staff or resources to perform an activity of...
7475122 System for remotely managing maintenance of a set of facilities  
This system comprises local monitoring units installed in close proximity to the facilities to be monitored, each of which comprises a device for detecting facility malfunctions; a first computer...
7472182 Data collection policy for storage devices  
Collecting data for a storage area network includes providing a plurality of agents that collect data from objects of the storage area network, providing a plurality of data collection policies,...
7472039 Program, apparatus, and method for analyzing processing activities of computer system  
The system provides a technique for detecting changes in behavior of a computer system. An address data storing unit obtains an address being accessed by a CPU at prescribed sampling intervals,...
7467067 Self-learning integrity management system and related methods  
An integrity management system predicts abnormalities in complex systems before they occur based upon the prior history of abnormalities within the complex system. A topology of the nodes of a...
7467068 Method and apparatus for detecting dependability vulnerabilities  
The present invention is a method and an apparatus for detecting dependability vulnerabilities in production IT environments. In one embodiment, a method for detecting a dependability vulnerability...
7464003 System and method for change detection of information or type of data  
A method is provided of determining the how information from any information system changes over time. WebPages A through WebPages Z with nodes A through Z, are located, where A through Z are...
7460972 Methods and systems for performing real-time wireless temperature measurement for semiconductor substrates  
A monitor device includes a substrate and a plurality of temperature sensors disposed in the substrate. The monitor device also includes a processor coupled to the substrate and adapted to receive...
7453361 Refurbishing and resale techniques for data storage tape  
Techniques are described for reselling and/or refurbishing data tape media. The techniques may involve determining life information associated with a data tape medium and reselling the data tape...
7454317 Apparatus productivity improving system and its method  
There is provided a system and method for monitoring an apparatus from a remote location. A vendor-side computer obtains operating state data obtained by a monitoring device provided in an...
7451064 System and method for logging hardware usage data, and uses for such logged hardware usage data  
According to at least one embodiment, a system comprises at least one computer system having a Basic Input/Output System (“BIOS”). The system further comprises means for collecting, via the...
7447608 Method and apparatus for a collaborative meeting room system  
A method and apparatus for a collaborative meeting room system. In response to user input, an electronic device starts a meeting timer to begin timing a meeting at which a previously-created...
7444265 Machine and/or monitoring  
In a method of monitoring the status of a machine and/or a process run on the machine a plurality of parameters (v) containing information about the status of the machine and/or the process is...
7437450 End-to-end performance tool and method for monitoring electronic-commerce transactions  
A method and apparatus for monitoring electronic commerce transactions. A network delay agent, coupled to the access point for the electronic commerce provider's system is operable to send and...
7430494 Dynamic data stream histograms for no loss of information  
A method for creating a histogram that includes identifying a lower extreme range counter and an upper extreme range counter for a plurality of data elements. The method further includes...
7428522 Real-time search term popularity determination, by search origin geographic location  
Information is generated indicative of frequency of search terms presented to at least one online search service. As event indications, indicative of user interaction generally with front end...
7424403 Low power vibration sensor and wireless transmitter system  
A low power vibration sensor and wireless transmitter system has one or more sensors that sense parameters of a machine including vibration and produces dynamic signals representing the sensed...
7421371 Automated performance analysis and failure remediation  
A service diagnosis tool for performance analysis and failure remediation of electromechanical devices, e.g. printers or copiers. The tool communicates with an actual device of a specific type, and...
7421349 Bearing fault signature detection  
A device, and method, detects the presence of developing faults in rolling element bearings. Detection is accomplished by measuring the vibration of the apparatus in which the bearing is operating...
7415383 Compiling method, apparatus, and program  
Brings response time of a Web server and the like closer to a targeted value. A controller controlling the average response time elapsed between reception by information processing apparatus of a...
7412338 Radio frequency device within an energy sensor system  
An energy measurement system including a radio frequency (“RF”) device powered by a solar panel. The RF device comprising a wireless communication port operative to transmit and receive...
7412356 Detection and quantification system for monitoring instruments  
A method of detecting real events by obtaining a set of recent signal results, calculating measures of the noise or variation based on the set of recent signal results, calculating an expected...
7403857 Enhanced measurement of azimuthal dependence of subterranean parameters with filters and/or discretely sampled data  
A method for estimating an azimuthal dependence of a parameter of a borehole using logging sensor measurements acquired as a function of azimuth of the logging sensors is provided. The method...
7403873 Control device and analyzer  
The present invention quickly resolves troubles in an analyzer and performs effective external quality control management. An analyzer ( 2 ) and a control device ( 1 ) are connected by a network (...
7401263 System and method for early detection of system component failure  
A system and method for detecting trends in time-managed lifetime data for products shipped in distinct vintages within a time window. Data is consolidated from several sources and represented in a...
7398185 Action record support program, system, device, and method  
A system recognizes an occurrence of offline action when a state in which a person-to-be-recorded does not perform a computer operation continues for or longer than a predetermined time. Then,...
7398131 Method and system for concrete quality control based on the concrete's maturity  
Method and system for controlling and monitoring the quality of concrete based on the concrete's maturity. Various embodiments of the present invention are discussed. First, Enhanced Maturity...
7398187 Method of batching and analyzing of data from computerized process and control systems  
System that automatically captures, processes, archives, reports on and distributes data for any computerized equipment at a facility. A single data repository is provided so any authorized user...
7395310 Method and apparatus to queue a plurality of transaction messages  
An apparatus for routing a transaction message, such as for example a telephone call, e-mail, web chat request, video conferencing session, or non-call event, includes a queue engine and a...
7392107 Methods of integrating computer products with pharmaceutical manufacturing hardware systems  
Methods of integrating computer products with pharmaceutical manufacturing hardware systems are described and disclosed herein. Consequently, the methods provide a means to perform validation and...
7392157 Model update  
Methods and apparatuses for updating a forecast model quantifying the marketing of to the demand for a product and/or service are described. An original forecast model created at a reference M is...
7386417 Method and apparatus for clustering telemetry signals to facilitate computer system monitoring  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates computer system monitoring. During operation, the system receives monitored signals from a computer system. The system...
7383315 System and method for a delta page protocol for caching, replication, and client/server networking  
A method and system for a delta page protocol for caching, replication, and client/server networking. Measurement data may be received by a logger application on a first computer, and written to...
7383156 Apparatus for inspecting wafer surface, method for inspecting wafer surface, apparatus for judging defective wafer, method for judging defective wafer, and apparatus for processing information on wafer surface  
It is possible to inspect scratches and staining on a wafer surface on the basis of an LPD map obtained from a particle counter 11 , by providing a means 21 for detecting aggregation of...
7380177 Method and system for comparing individual computers to cluster representations of their peers  
The present invention is a system or method for assisting in the maintenance and servicing of computers. The system, for example, comprises a cluster database containing information relating to one...
7379849 Diagnostic image  
Diagnostic information can be stored and then collected into a large diagnostic image file upon an event, such as a prefailure condition. The diagnostic image can be compressed for emailing to a...
7376538 Systems and methods for auditing the actions performed by a remote control operator during a remote control session  
An exemplary method involves a remote control agent establishing a remote control session with another computer system. In response to the remote control session being established, the remote...
7376534 Watches and notifications  
In one embodiment, watch rules can be created for diagnosis information. The watch rules can be examined against the diagnosis information and if there is a match, a notification can be based upon...
7373279 Network  
A network including a bus through which data is transmitted and a plurality of network devices connected to the bus to form the network. In the network, at least one of the network devices performs...
7373614 Navigation history  
A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment represent previously-accessed data items as nodes in a tree or trees and display the tree or trees with the access time...
7369604 Time correlation of data acquisition samples from independent systems in a logic analyzer  
Apparatus according to the subject invention includes two independent acquisition systems, wherein one of the two independent acquisition systems acquires the acquisition clock of the other...