| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 700049000 | Expert system | 13 |
| 20080269921 | System and Method for Providing Support Assistance - A system and method for providing support assistance and guidance include the creation of process maps and use of such maps in a service application. Process maps may be created using a creation tool that embeds interactive features in process steps. The interactive features may include the activation of an application, linking of a website and/or the display of an image or document. Process maps may be associated with clients/customers, applications and/or issue categories. Users may use and follow the process map to aid customers in resolving various issues such as technical questions and troubleshooting. Tracking and logging components may be used to track information relating to a case including the interactions of a support personnel and/or information entered. Compliance may also be measured based on, for example, an amount of time spent on various processes. Change management system may also be used to manage changes made to process maps. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080269922 | PERFORMANCE MAPS FOR ACTUATOR INTELLIGENCE - A four level fault tolerant architecture for the intelligent machine system is based on the basic component of a self contained actuator module with standardized interfaces. This system architecture organizes all of the operational software to make it universal, high performing, fault tolerant, and use condition-based maintenance. The independent structural layers are structured and prioritized by the advanced electronic controllers. The sensor module creates an accurate parametric representation of the electro-mechanical actuator, and manages all resources in the electro-mechanical actuator. The system will also comprise of operational criteria, maximum performance envelopes, condition-based maintenance, fault tolerance, layered control, and force/motion control. The system allows independent development of different components of the framework, categorized into three levels: the management level, the servo control level, and the senor and communication level. The present disclosure establishes a fully responsive actuator whose intelligence manages a sufficiently broad set of choices. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090326680 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING, MONITORING, OR ANALYZING A PROCESS - The invention presents a method and an apparatus for optimizing or monitoring or analyzing process sequences of an automated device, such that a visualization of the data sets is implemented by means of a display means | 12-31-2009 |
| 20110144776 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE SIMPLIFIED OPERATION AND MANIPULATION OF AN AUTOMATION AND/OR PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM - A system and method are provided for the simplified operation of an automation system. The system and method link knowledge-based and/or empirical and historical data to real-time data, such as alarm messages and/or event messages, in cooperation with a control system, such as a process control system. Data and/or links or references to data and/or process states are acquired and stored by means of a first data processing device and can be made available to at least one second data processing device for further processing via at least one allocated communication link, such as a network or bus system. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20120143356 | AUTOMATED FACILITIES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An automated facilities management system has the ability to predict occupant behavior by identifying recurring patterns in the way that people use buildings and comparing them with environmental characteristics. This technology is not limited to human behavior patterns, but extends to any mechanical systems or data points that tend to vary in recurring patterns. The data processing is carried out by rules engines triggered by relational database modifications. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120191225 | PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE FOR THIRD PARTY SUPPORT EQUIPMENT - A server receives equipment data from third party support equipment during operation of the third party support equipment in a manufacturing environment. The server receives the equipment data via a first port on the third party support equipment. The third party support equipment communicates with a process tool via a second port on third party support equipment. The server determines a future state of the third party support equipment based on the equipment data and notifies a user of the future state of the third party support equipment. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20140114443 | PROGRAMMABLE PROBABILITY PROCESSING - An inference task is performed using a computation device having a plurality of processing elements operable in parallel and connected via a connectivity system. Performing the task includes accepting at the device a specification of at least part of the inference task. The specification characterizes a plurality of variables and a plurality of factors, each factor being associated with a subset of the variables. Each of the processing elements is configured with data defining one or more of the plurality of factors. At each of the processing elements, computation associated with one of the factors is performed concurrently with other of the processing elements performing computation associated with different ones of the factors. Messages are exchanged via a connectivity system. The messages provide inputs and/or outputs to the processing elements for the computations associated with the factors and provide a result of performing of the at least the part of the inference task. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140277605 | MOBILE ANALYSIS OF PHYSICAL PHENOMENA IN A PROCESS PLANT - In a process plant, a mobile device detects a physical phenomenon and converts the detected physical phenomenon to digital data representative of the physical phenomenon. The data are transmitted to an expert system and analyzed by the expert system to determine a state of one or more process elements. Abnormal conditions associated with the process elements may be detected, and a cause of the abnormal condition may be determined from the digital data. Process control parameters may be automatically changed to correct the abnormal condition, work items may be created to cause personnel to take action to correct the abnormal condition, and/or an operator may be prompted to take a corrective action to resolve the abnormal condition. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20150309490 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION CONTROL SERVICES - Aspects of the disclosure relate to intelligent automation control of an environment based at least on intelligence associated with behavior of an operator and/or equipment. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150370226 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANAGING FUNCTION IN ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed are an electronic apparatus and function management method in the electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a sensor unit that includes at least one sensor and outputs sensor data by each of the at least one sensor, and a controller that infers a user's situation by collecting and pre-processing the sensor data, determines the user's tendency, infers a redundancy function by using the inferred user's situation and the determined user's tendency, and adjusts the inferred redundancy function. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20160004236 | A CONTROL SYSTEM - This invention concerns a control system that makes use of a computer user interface to control a process having a plurality of different stages of operation, in particular a multi-stage legal process. The system comprises a computer memory that stores a decision tree having a network of interconnected nodes, each of which represents a stage of the multi-stage process. The system further includes historical patterns of entries made by users and a plurality of different types of resource information for each stage of the multi-stage process. In use, each node requires an input to satisfy specified criterion, in response to which, one of the downstream nodes is automatically selected and the computer screen is updated. Input is made by a user either directly or automatically as determined by a selected historical pattern of entries. | 01-07-2016 |
| 20160040603 | METHOD FOR THE COMPUTERIZED CONTROL AND/OR REGULATION OF A TECHNICAL SYSTEM - The invention concerns a method for the computerized control and/or regulation of a technical system. Within the context of the method according to the invention, an action-selection rule (PO′) is determined which has a low level of complexity and yet is well suited to the regulating and/or control of the technical system, there being used for determination of the action-selection rule (PO′) an evaluation measure (EM) which is determined on the basis of a distance measure and/or a reward measure and/or an action-selection rule evaluation method. The action-selection rule is then used to control and/or regulate the technical system. The method according to the invention has the advantage of the action-selection rule being comprehensible to a human expert. Preferably, the method according to the invention is used for regulating and/or controlling a gas turbine and/or a wind turbine. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160070245 | METHOD AND DEVICE TO MONITOR AND ANALYZE BIOSIGNAL OF USER - A method and device to monitor and analyze a biosignal are provided. The device may measure a biosignal from a user of the device, analyze an emotion event associated with the user of the device based on the biosignal, and generate a control command in response to a result of analyzing the emotion event. The generated control command may be used to control an external device. | 03-10-2016 |
