168 results about "Turnaround time" patented technology

A method and system is disclosed to improve the turnaround time to provide adequate time to meet project schedules in the event that adjustments or modifications to the design are necessary. A method for improving a turnaround time for design verification of a process database representing a semiconductor design includes the steps of (a) deriving a timing database and a (DNE) database from the process database; (b) performing, using the timing database, one or more design changes and one or more timing verifications and corrections to generate a modified timing database; (c) initiating, using the process database, physical validation of the semiconductor design prior to completion of step (b) to generate a modified DNE database; (d) merging the modified timing database with the modified DNE database to form a modified process database; and (e) performing, using the modified process database, one or more design verification checks of the semiconductor design.

A fully-parallelized, highly-efficient compositional implicit hydrocarbon reservoir simulator is provided. The simulator is capable of solving giant reservoir models, of the type frequently encountered in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world, with fast turnaround time. The simulator may be implemented in a variety of computer platforms ranging from shared-memory and distributed-memory supercomputers to commercial and self-made clusters of personal computers. The performance capabilities enable analysis of reservoir models in full detail, using both fine geological characterization and detailed individual definition of the hydrocarbon components present in the reservoir fluids.

A system and method for delivering highly customized, natural-sounding / appearing audio and / or visual content to existing player devices, including but not restricted to wired and wireless voicemail, sound-enabled PCs, and portable MP3 or DVD players. Subscribers register with existing content providers to receive alerts and information on topics they care about (e.g., portfolio updates, financial news, sports). If a user selects the audio and / or visual delivery option, the content provider passes his or her registration and preference information to the system. The content providers then pass news information to the system, which converts it to audio and / or visuals in one of two ways. For short, formulaic messages, the system concatenates spoken phrases and clauses previously recorded by human talent and stored in a multimedia library database, to create natural-seeming audio and / or visual sequences. For longer messages, the system uses human abilities entirely—i.e., a human reader records a complete text and inputs audio and / or visual files to the system. Turnaround time in both cases is minimal, and quality is high. The system then organizes customized audio and / or visual news deliveries in accordance with user preference information and customizable playlist rules, which order the selected news information by vertical, subject, paragraph, sentence, or other dimension(s). Customized news packages are then delivered as audio and / or visuals to the listeners' player devices.

A collaborative language translation system, computer readable storage medium, and method is disclosed that allocates as between automated and manual language translation services, wherein a manual language translator creates a unique database including manual translator languages capability, accuracy skill level, scope of translation project desired, and translation turnaround time. Also a client creates a unique information set that includes original language, desired language, scope of translated material, client desired translation formats, client desired translation timing, and client desired translation accuracy. Also included in the system is an automated language translation database and instructions for allocating a flow of the unique information set as between the unique database and the automated language translation database based upon the client unique information set and instructions to perform the selected language translation for the client.

A fully-parallelized, highly-efficient compositional implicit hydrocarbon reservoir simulator is provided. The simulator is capable of solving giant reservoir models, of the type frequently encountered in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world, with fast turnaround time. The simulator may be implemented in a variety of computer platforms ranging from shared-memory and distributed-memory supercomputers to commercial and self-made clusters of personal computers. The performance capabilities enable analysis of reservoir models in full detail, using both fine geological characterization and detailed individual definition of the hydrocarbon components present in the reservoir fluids.

One embodiment of the present invention sets forth an abstracted memory subsystem comprising abstracted memories, which each may be configured to present memory-related characteristics onto a memory system interface. The characteristics can be presented on the memory system interface via logic signals or protocol exchanges, and the characteristics may include any one or more of, an address space, a protocol, a memory type, a power management rule, a number of pipeline stages, a number of banks, a mapping to physical banks, a number of ranks, a timing characteristic, an address decoding option, a bus turnaround time parameter, an additional signal assertion, a sub-rank, a number of planes, or other memory-related characteristics. Some embodiments include an intelligent register device and / or, an intelligent buffer device. One advantage of the disclosed subsystem is that memory performance may be optimized regardless of the specific protocols used by the underlying memory hardware devices.

A system and method are provided for analyzing layout patterns via simulation using a lithography model to characterize the patterns and generate rules to be used in rule-based optical proximity correction (OPC). The system and method analyze a series of layout patterns conforming to a set of design rules by simulation using a lithography model to obtain a partition of the pattern spaces into one portion that requires only rule-based OPC and another portion that requires model-based OPC. A corresponding hybrid OPC system and method are also introduced that utilize the generated rules to correct an integrated circuit (IC) design layout which reduces the OPC output complexity and improves turnaround time.

Status information on plane, passenger, cargo, crew, fuel, food, baggage, maintenance, weather and any other process used to manage airport operations, including expediting aircraft turnaround time for takeoff, is gathered into a common decision support database. The system includes decision support tools to increase the sharing of information between airline, airport, contractors and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), to more efficiently and safely manage the service, maintenance and operations of aircraft.

A method and system for translating a JDF workflow into a colored Petri net representation. Once the workflow has been converted, the colored Petri net is validated and analyzed. This provides the ability to identify potential deadlock conditions within a JDF workflow. In addition, the model network can be used to simulate throughput and turnaround time of a workflow and the effects of resources arriving at various times.

In a print job distribution method, a distribution is determined that assigns distribution portions of a plurality of print jobs to selected print shops. The determining of the distribution includes: (i) estimating a per job turnaround time metric for each print job respective to those print shops capable of performing the print job; (ii) estimating a per shop turnaround time metric for each print shop based on the per job turnaround time metrics estimated for that print shop and distribution portions assigned to that print shop; and (iii) optimizing respective to the distribution a load-balancing metric that is functionally dependent upon the per-shop turnaround time metrics of the print shops.

A hierarchical representation encapsulates the detailed internal composition of a sub-circuit using the notion of a cell definition (a CellDef). The CellDef serves as a natural unit for operational reuse. If the computation required for the analysis or manipulation (e.g. parasitic extraction, RET, design rule confirmation (DRC), or OPC) based on a CellDef or one cell instance can be applied, with no or minimal additional effort, to all or a significant subset of other instances of the cell, very substantial reduction in computational effort may be realized. Furthermore, a hierarchical representation also allows for the partitioning of the overall analysis / manipulation task into a collection of subtasks, e.g. one per CellDef. Multiple jobs may then be distributed across a large number of computational nodes on a network for concurrent execution. While this may not reduce the aggregate computational time, a major reduction in the overall turnaround time (TAT) is in itself extremely beneficial.

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for collision avoidance in a sensor network. The method includes transmitting data by a transmitter; comparing, by the transmitter, a remaining time between the data transmission and a backoff period with a turnaround time taken for the transmitter to switch from a transmit (Tx) mode to a receive (Rx) mode; selectively transmitting, by the transmitter, a busy signal indicating that a channel is in use, according to the comparison result; and receiving, by the transmitter, an acknowledgement (ACK) signal from a receiver after the turnaround time has elapsed.

A method for reducing the turnaround time of an aircraft having at least one self-propelled undercarriage wheel comprising the step of: moving the aircraft to a required location using at least one self-propelled undercarriage wheel; wherein thrust equipment, (e.g. turbines) are turned on only when needed for takeoff or prior to landing, and are turned off until takeoff or after landing; whereby departing equipment, arriving equipment, and turnaround equipment are not at risk from operating thrust equipment, (e.g. turbines). An apparatus for reducing the turnaround time of an aircraft is disclosed comprising a control unit for facilitating voice communication between a pilot and ground staff. Said control unit may further comprise a control arm for inputting the required direction of movement of said nosewheel; means for transmitting direction information to said self-propelled nosewheel; means for receiving direction information at said self-propelled nosewheel; and means for controlling the direction of said nosewheel. The control unit may also comprise means for turning on and off an APU, parking brakes, and other aircraft features.

Tools in the form of apparatuses, systems and methods for automatic installation of a printer or other image forming device are provided. Such tools improve the turnaround time between when a printing device is received and is installed and on-line, ready for use by users.

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for reducing write-to-read turnaround times using shadow writes in memory controllers and in DRAM. Embodiments of controllers including shadow write control logic may, in response to receiving a write request, issue an external write column address strobe (CAS) to DRAM to latch a valid write CAS address, and assert a set of write data values to be stored in a set of DRAM locations corresponding to the write CAS address. After asserting the write CAS and prior to asserting the complete set of write data values, such memory controllers may, in response to receiving a read request, issue an external read CAS to DRAM to indicate a valid read CAS address. A set of read data values from a second set of DRAM locations corresponding to the read CAS address, are received with reduced turnaround time after asserting the complete set of write data values.

A system and a method for developing and dynamically constructing multi-tiered distributed computing applications using a framework which allows the major elements involved in enterprise software applications, namely, the user interface, the data access, and the processing logic, to be independently developed. Moreover, the applications are dynamically created at time of use with pre-built software components or objects. The specifics of the applications such as functions, capabilities, user interface (UI) characteristics, etc., may depend on, for example, the user identity, the user preferences, and the terminal capability. Software development cost and turn-around time are reduced, promoting consistent UI design thus reducing user training cost, and allowing the applications to be dynamically created according to the user profile.

A system and method that allows an appraiser, real estate broker or other professional, based on preliminary information about a requested appraisal, to use any of a plurality of automated valuation products to effectively calculate an appraisal value. In one embodiment, a lender places an order electronically with or through an appraisal management vendor or other entity, which transmits the order in the form of an assignment to an appraiser appropriately licensed and trained for that assignment. The appraiser will preferably, through e-mail, web site or other means, receive the order and will have the ability to access one or a variety of automated models, such as AVM models. Based on the appraiser's own knowledge and the automated results, the appraiser may arrive at a valuation that combines the relatively low cost and rapid turnaround time of an AVM with the expertise and accuracy of a skilled appraiser.

A navigation system for use in a vehicle precludes a certain search area from a scope of a facility search based on a vehicle condition, sensor data, a vehicle travel history or the like for better serving a user by reducing a turnaround time.

The invention discloses a mobile phone motor automatic assembly production line which comprises a rotor assembly production line, an end cover assembly production line and a motor assembly production line which are arranged on one production line. The rotor assembly production line and the end cover assembly production line are arranged side by side; and the motor assembly production line is arranged at the tail ends of the rotor assembly production line and the end cover assembly production line. According to the mobile phone motor automatic assembly production line disclosed by the invention, the rotor assembly production line and the end cover assembly production line are arranged side by side, a stator housing assembly is combined at the position where assembly of a rotor assembly and an end cover assembly is completed, two production lines which are arranged side by side are converged into one motor assembly production line and all production processes are completed on the same production line, and thus, automatic assembly of the rotor assembly, the end cover assembly and a motor assembly can be implemented, labor can be saved, turnaround time is reduced and production efficiency is improved.

An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit that thermally fixes a toner image, a power control unit that controls a power supply from an auxiliary power supply to the fixing unit, a job-turnaround-time predicting unit that predicts a job turnaround time for executing an image forming job, a charging-time predicting unit that predicts a charging time for charging the auxiliary power supply, and a control unit that controls a charging operation for the auxiliary power supply and execution of the image forming job based on the job turnaround time predicted and the charging time predicted, such that the job turnaround time for the image forming job is minimized.

A housing for an outside plant telecommunication equipment (OSP) which uses modular heat sink assemblies. OSP housings contain electronic circuit boards on which are mounted electrical components that generate heat. Thermal conductors or mesas contact the electrical components to conduct heat from the components to the environment. Rather than create single purpose housings with cast thermal conductors, the improved housing uses heat sink plates which can easily be swapped out to accommodate a variety of electronic circuit boards that might be needed within a general purpose housing. Together with faster turnaround time to create a new design for a housing, lower manufacturing and inventory costs result.

A vector computer executing vector operations via vector pipeline processing is restructured to dynamically perform an overtaking control on vector gather / scatter instructions. Minimum / maximum values among vector elements of vector registers are determined based on the result of fixed-point calculation defining an address dependency source instruction in accordance with a vector gather / scatter instruction, wherein minimum / maximum values are determined in a redundant time owing to a short turnaround time of the fixed-point calculation compared to floating-point calculation. An access range of addresses attributed to the vector gather / scatter instruction is specified based on minimum / maximum values. An overtaking control is performed on the vector gather / scatter instruction in light of the access range of addresses.

Disclosed herein in a preferred embodiment is an automated financial instrument brokerage system wherein a front end layer interacts with customers to generate activity requests for an intermediate layer. The intermediate layer preferably processes the activity requests and places financial instrument orders on a financial market if appropriate. A backend layer preferably provides data to the intermediate layer for processing activity requests. Multiple heterogeneous front end customer applications may be supported by the same intermediate layer. Further, multiple backend layer applications may interact with the intermediate layer in a manner transparent to the front end layer. Further, scalability can be achieved be partitioning various tasks of the intermediate layer onto separate servers, and more preferably on separate redundant servers. Load balancers may then be used in the intermediate layer to provide distributed access to these servers. Also disclosed herein is a caching technique whereby turnaround time for processing activity requests can be reduced by reducing the number of times that the intermediate layer needs to interact with the backend layer.

A method for reducing the turnaround time of an aircraft having at least one self-propelled undercarriage wheel comprising the step of: moving the aircraft to a required location using at least one self-propelled undercarriage wheel; wherein thrust equipment, (e.g. turbines) are turned on only when needed for takeoff or prior to landing, and are turned off until takeoff or after landing; whereby departing equipment, arriving equipment, and turnaround equipment are not at risk from operating thrust equipment, (e.g. turbines). An apparatus for reducing the turnaround time of an aircraft is disclosed comprising a control unit for facilitating voice communication between a pilot and ground staff. Said control unit may further comprise a control arm for inputting the required direction of movement of said nosewheel; means for transmitting direction information to said self-propelled nosewheel; means for receiving direction information at said self-propelled nosewheel; and means for controlling the direction of said nosewheel. The control unit may also comprise means for turning on and off an APU, parking brakes, and other aircraft features.

A method and system for translating a JDF workflow into a colored Petri net representation. Once the workflow has been converted, the colored Petri net is validated and analyzed. This provides the ability to identify potential deadlock conditions within a JDF workflow. In addition, the model network can be used to simulate throughput and turnaround time of a workflow and the effects of resources arriving at various times.

The invention relates to a long-range medical system and a long-range medical method, and belongs to the field of medical equipment and the application thereof. The embodiment of the invention comprises user diagnosis equipment, a user terminal, a medical terminal, medical diagnosis equipment, a medical file store and medical supply equipment, wherein the user diagnosis equipment is connected with the user terminal, the medical diagnosis equipment is connected with the medical terminal, the user terminal is connected with the medical terminal, and data transmitted between the user terminal and the medical terminal are stored in the medical file store; and the medical supply equipment is respectively connected with the user terminal and the medical file store so as to realize checking on medicine prescriptions sent from the user terminal by inquiring the medical file store. The technical scheme presented by the implementation method of the invention can easily and conveniently realize long-range medical treatment, and doctors can carry out long-range diagnosis according to the actuate information of conditions of patients, thereby improving the accuracy of the long-range diagnosis; and the patients can be diagnosed and treated on holiday so that cost and turnaround time generated among homes, hospitals and drugstores can be saved.

A method and system for performing timing analysis on an integrated circuit design are disclosed. It is always advantageous to be able to conveniently perform a timing analysis on the entire IC design at any stage of the design process in order to gain more accurate timing information about the design. However, at an early stage of the design process, the available physical circuit data are often incomplete, not to mention these preliminary data are usually of a lower quality as far as capability of providing an accurate RC delay and capacitance estimation is concerned. To make the best usage of the preliminary data, the present disclosure describes a method of performing a fleeting timing analysis that can be very useful during an early floor planning stage of the design process when there is no opportunity to buffer or widen any exceptionally long interconnect wires within the IC circuit design. As a result, much faster design turn-around time may be achieved because buffer insertion need not be run for every new pass of the physical circuit design data.

The invention discloses a flight delay statistical method and a flight delay statistical device, wherein, the flight delay statistical method comprises: real-time data of flight operation is monitored, a flight operation model is built, and a flight flying section plane is computed; flow control information is received, format conversion of the information is realized, and flights that are directly influenced are computed according to the flight flying section plane; successive connecting information and station turnaround time of flights are summarized, flights that are indirectly influenced are computed, and the flight delay number is the sum of the flight numbers that are directly influenced and indirectly influenced. The flight delay statistical method and device can analyze the directly or indirectly influenced flights and the delay degrees thereof according to the flow control information of air traffic management, improve the accuracy of delay analysis and lower delay influence.

The invention discloses a smart route changing bus system and a dynamic scheduling optimization method thereof. The method comprises that the operation quotas of a vehicle are set, the operation parameters of the vehicle are calculated, and the operation quota and the operation parameter are output to a vehicle-mounted terminal, the operation quotas of the vehicle include one-way time, turnaround time, stop time in origin and terminal stations and planned capacity of the vehicle, and the operation parameters of the vehicle include the number of buses in the route and the departure interval; bus-taking requests emitted from passenger terminals are received, if the number of passengers who send the bus-taking requests is more than ten and a passenger request route can generate a bus operation route, a vehicle departure instruction is sent to the vehicle-mounted terminal, and the license plate and arrival information of the vehicle are sent to the passenger terminals; and if the number of the passengers who send the bus-taking requests is lower than ten, a message that no bus is departed is sent to the passenger terminals.

Disclosed herein in a preferred embodiment is an automated financial instrument brokerage system wherein a front end layer interacts with customers to generate activity requests for an intermediate layer. The intermediate layer preferably processes the activity requests and places financial instrument orders on a financial market if appropriate. A backend layer preferably provides data to the intermediate layer for processing activity requests. Multiple heterogeneous front end customer applications may be supported by the same intermediate layer. Further, multiple backend layer applications may interact with the intermediate layer in a manner transparent to the front end layer. Further, scalability can be achieved be partitioning various tasks of the intermediate layer onto separate servers, and more preferably on separate redundant servers. Load balancers may then be used in the intermediate layer to provide distributed access to these servers. Also disclosed herein is a caching technique whereby turnaround time for processing activity requests can be reduced by reducing the number of times that the intermediate layer needs to interact with the backend layer.