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| 20090240438 | System and method for migrating seismic data - A system and method that enable the processing of seismic data. In one embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of processing nodes and a server. The plurality of processing nodes are configured to process seismic data for migration. The server is operatively linked to each of the plurality of processing nodes to enable communication between the server and the processing nodes. The server may manage a set of stored beam tables that can be accessed by the processing nodes in order to process seismic data. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20100135115 | MULTIPLE ANISOTROPIC PARAMETER INVERSION FOR A TTI EARTH MODEL - A method for determining values of anisotropic model parameters of a Tilted Transversely Isotropic (TTI) Earth model, the anisotropic parameters including P-wave velocity (Vp | 06-03-2010 |
| 20110093203 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLUSTERING ARRIVALS OF SEISMIC ENERGY TO ENHANCE SUBSURFACE IMAGING - Seismic data acquired at or near a geologic volume of interest is processed. This may include forming an image of the geologic volume of interest from the seismic data. The seismic data may be processed by aggregating energy arrivals to reduce the number of imaging processes that must be performed to determine an image of the geologic volume of interest. This aggregation may be based on groupings of energy arrivals referred to herein as clusters. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110103185 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEISMIC BEAM FORMATION THAT ACCOUNTS FOR EQUIPMENT MISALIGNMENT - Seismic data representing the propagation of seismic energy through a geologic volume of interest is processed. The seismic energy propagates through the geologic volume of interest from one or more source locations at or near the geologic volume of interest to one or more detector locations at or near the geologic volume of interest. In processing the seismic data, the seismic energy is modeled as beams (e.g., Gaussian beams). The processing performed (i) corrects for misalignment of the one or more source locations and/or the one or more detector locations with a regular, predetermined mesh, and (ii) steers the seismic data based on the modeled beams. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110205846 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ATTENUATING ALIASING IN SEISMIC DATA CAUSED BY ACQUISITION GEOMETRY - Seismic data representing the propagation of seismic energy through a geologic volume of interest is processed. The seismic energy propagates through the geologic volume of interest from one or more source locations at or near the geologic volume of interest to one or more detector locations at or near the geologic volume of interest. In processing the seismic data, the seismic energy is modeled as beams (e.g., Gaussian beams). The processing includes determining a filter for the seismic data that attenuates aliasing which may be present in the seismic data due to spacing between detector locations. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110211761 | SURFACE SMOOTHING WITHIN AN EARTH MODEL OF A GEOLOGICAL VOLUME OF INTEREST - Surfaces may be smoothed within an earth model of a geological volume of interest. More specifically, smoothing may be done on a specific surface by smoothing or otherwise altering dip values without changing the position of the surface within the earth model. Dip values may determine certain behaviors of a surface such as reflection and refraction of seismic energy propagating within the earth model. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110320129 | SHOT GATHER DATA BEAMER AND DEBEAMER - Beamed data can be obtained from shot gather data, and debeamed data can be obtained from beamed data. Shot gather data for a geophysical volume of interest in a first domain and/or beamed data in a third domain may be received. The first domain has a component relating to seismic wave propagation time and a spatial component relating to lateral spacing. The third domain has a component relating to local plane wave arrival time at a beam center surface location and a component relating to plane wave arrival directions. Data may be transformed between the first domain and a second domain. The second domain has a frequency component and a spatial component corresponding to the spatial component of the first domain. Data may be weighted and/or deweighted in the second domain using a weighting function. A forward transform may be applied to weighted shot gather data in the first domain to obtain beamed data in the third domain. A reverse transform may be applied to beamed data in the third domain to obtain weighted debeamed data in the first domain. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120004850 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MIGRATING SEISMIC DATA - A system and method that enable the processing of seismic data. In one embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of processing nodes and a server. The plurality of processing nodes are configured to process seismic data for migration. The server is operatively linked to each of the plurality of processing nodes to enable communication between the server and the processing nodes. The server may manage a set of stored beam tables that can be accessed by the processing nodes in order to process seismic data. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120185171 | MULTIPLE ANISOTROPIC PARAMETER INVERSION FOR A TTI EARTH MODEL USING WELL DATA - A method for determining values of anisotropic model parameters of a Tilted Transversely Isotropic (TTI) Earth model, the method including obtaining an initial TTI earth model that substantially flattens common-imaging-point gathers and substantially ties seismic data to well data; inputting checkshot data and/or VSP data to determine updated values of Vp | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120243371 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEISMIC DATA MODELING AND MIGRATION - A system and computer-implemented method for accounting for temporal dispersion in low-order finite difference seismic wave propagation is disclosed. An embodiment of the method includes transforming a seismic dataset from time domain to frequency domain to obtain a frequency-domain seismic dataset, applying a frequency-domain time varying filter to the frequency-domain seismic dataset to obtain a filtered frequency-domain seismic dataset, and transforming the filtered frequency-domain seismic dataset from the frequency domain to the time domain to obtain a time-domain filtered seismic dataset. The frequency-domain time varying filter is based on the effective phase velocity inherent in a finite-difference solution to the wave equation. The frequency-domain time varying filter may be applied to a synthetic seismic dataset that was generated by low-order finite difference modeling. A different frequency-domain time varying filter may be applied to recorded seismic data prior to reverse time migration. | 09-27-2012 |
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| 20110107302 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING LIFECYCLE OF OBJECTS - A method, system and computer program product for managing the lifecycle of an object, where the lifecycle involves a plurality of states of the object, at least one transition between the plurality of states and at least one role who has authority to execute the at least one transition. At least one of the plurality of states, the at least one transition and the at least one role is mapped to Web Ontology Language (OWL) elements. The role related control information is obtained using the reasoning ability of OWL itself according to the above mapping. Furthermore, the lifecycle is managed according to the above role related control information. Using the principles of the present invention, the access control information of roles can be embedded into the lifecycle description and therefore the lifecycle management can be realized easily. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110270560 | DIGITAL OSCILLOSCOPE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - Provided are a digital oscilloscope and a method for controlling the same. The digital oscilloscope comprises a trace intensity synthesizer ( | 11-03-2011 |
| 20120159437 | MANAGING LIFECYCLE OF OBJECTS - A method for managing the lifecycle of an object, where the lifecycle involves a plurality of states of the object, at least one transition between the plurality of states and at least one role who has authority to execute the at least one transition. At least one of the plurality of states, the at least one transition and the at least one role is mapped to Web Ontology Language (OWL) elements. The role related control information is obtained using the reasoning ability of OWL itself according to the above mapping. Furthermore, the lifecycle is managed according to the above role related control information. Using the principles of the present invention, the access control information of roles can be embedded into the lifecycle description and therefore the lifecycle management can be realized easily. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20130133329 | AIR FUEL PREMIXER HAVING ARRAYED MIXING VANES FOR GAS TURBINE COMBUSTOR - A fuel-air premixer for use in a combustor of a gas turbine includes an air inlet, a fuel inlet, a shroud, a central body and a cascade of vanes. The premixer mixes fuel and air in the annular mixing passage into a uniform mixture for injecting into a combustor reaction zone. The air from a compressor is injected into the mixer through an air inlet. The fuel is introduced into air stream via fuel injection holes that pass through the walls of the vanes which contain internal fuel flow passages. The flow field inside the premixer is broken up by the arrayed vanes into a series of small regions each containing a well designed small size mixing eddy which is steadily attached to the surface of the vanes. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20150301849 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VALIDATING APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT TOPOLOGY IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for validating application deployment topology in a cloud environment. There is provided an apparatus for validating application deployment topology in a cloud environment comprising: a topology skeleton generator configured to generate, based on multiple VMs and script packages running on the VMs created by a user and required to deploy an application as well as running order of script packages and data dependency between script packages set by the user, a topology skeleton that comprises at least scripts of script packages of respective VMs and running order of the script packages; and a simulator configured to simulate a runtime environment in the cloud environment at the apparatus, thereby validating the running order and data dependency with respect to the topology skeleton, wherein the simulator is installed in the apparatus by using a simulator installation package retrieved from the cloud environment. | 10-22-2015 |
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| 20100267929 | PRRS Viruses, Infectious Clones, Mutants Thereof, and Methods of Use - The present invention provides isolated infectious polynucleotides, such as infectious clones, having a nucleotide sequence with identity to PRRS viruses such as VR-2332, Lelystad, or others, and optionally further including a deletion in a region of ORF1 that encodes the nsp2 polypeptide. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20120149096 | PRRS VIRUSES, INFECTIOUS CLONES, MUTANTS THEREOF, AND METHOD OF USE - The present invention provides isolated infectious polynucleotides, such as infectious clones, having a nucleotide sequence with identity to PRRS viruses such as VR-2332, Lelystad, or others, and optionally further including a deletion in a region of ORF1 that encodes the nsp2 polypeptide. | 06-14-2012 |
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| 20100222433 | Composite Disinfectant Cleaner - A disinfectant cleaner is provided by combining an alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride, an octyl decyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, a dioctyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, a didecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, an alkylamine, a guanidine, a penetrant, a surfactant, a chelant, an essence and deionized water. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20150274785 | ANTI-INFLAMMATORY LIPOPEPTIDE AND PREPARING METHOD AND APPLICATION THEREOF - Disclosed is an anti-inflammatory lipopeptide, which comprises peptide chains and aliphatic chains, the peptide chain being linked to the aliphatic chain through a peptide bond, and an aliphatic acid being linked to the N-terminus of the peptide chain. The lipopeptide suppresses inflammatory response induced by poly(I:C), so as to prevent inflammation after skin injury and alleviate inflammatory response of skin inflammation such as allergic dermatitis. Also disclosed is a preparing method of the lipopeptide. | 10-01-2015 |
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| 20090088092 | INTERFERENCE AVOIDANCE - A method of shaping signals intended for transmission via at least one antenna, each signal having a respective frequency spectrum and being for transmission via a respective antenna, comprises selecting at least one interference-reducing signal, each interference-reducing signal being such as to modify the signal frequency spectrum for the antenna or a respective one of the antennas to include a respective frequency notch at an interference band, and modifying the frequency spectra with the selected interference-reducing signal or signals, wherein the selection is subject to a constraint on at least one characteristic of the spectra as modified | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090233557 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS - Determining a beamforming vector for a multi-antenna transmitter commences by determining an eigen-beamformer vector from the channel matrix and, for a number of iterations commencing with the eigen-beamformer vector, rotating the vector into a reference direction in vector space such that application of the rotated vector would result in peak radiation being directed in said reference direction, sampling a radiation pattern associated with the rotated eigen-beamformer vector with respect to transmission direction, compressing resultant samples to reduce spatial directivity induced by the vector, developing a rotated candidate beamformer on the basis of said compressed samples and returning said rotated candidate beamformer to the orientation of said vector before said rotating and storing said resultant vector as a candidate vector. Then, the candidate vectors are compared for the iterations and one is selected for use which best meets one or more selection criteria. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20100091904 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS - A block of information is processed before transmission thereof in a block transmission based communication. This comprises inserting a cyclic prefix and a cyclic suffix into the block of information before applying a time reversal based prefilter prior to transmission to the data after cyclic prefix and cyclic suffix insertion, the prefilter being configured on the basis of knowledge of the condition of the channel over which communication is to be effected. Then, at the receiver, a removal operation is operable to remove the effect of cyclic prefix and suffix insertion, leaving a circulant shifted version of the original block. This can be decoded using a diagonal matrix containing frequency domain channel coefficients on its diagonal entries after FFT. For systems with more than two transmit antennas, this facilities the use of full rate OSTBC, regardless of whether real or complex signalling is transmitted. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100103997 | MMSE EQUALISER - A MMSE equaliser taking into account delays in the reception of signals from plural users. Time delays in reception of signals from plural users may be known or can be measured or estimated and can be used to for the basis for the operation of the equaliser. A low computational complexity version of the equaliser and a regularized equalizer with further reduced complexity for asynchronous reception are also disclosed. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20130258939 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHODS AND APPARATUS - In an embodiment a wireless relay device comprises a receiver configured to receive signals from at least a first wireless device and a second wireless device, and to extract, from a signal received from the first wireless device, an indication of a path metric for a path from a source node to the first wireless device, and from a signal received from the second wireless device, an indication of a path metric for a path from the source node to the second wireless device; a processor configured to select, using the extracted indications, a path from the source node to the wireless relay device and to determine a path metric for the selected path; a memory configured to store the path metric for the selected path; and a transmitter configured to transmit an indication of the path metric for the selected path to a third wireless device. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130294329 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODING A SIGNAL IN A RELAY NETWORK - A heterogeneous arrangement of encoder and precoder are provided in a multi-hop communications network. The net effect of the encoder and precoder is to present, to a destination node, a quasi-orthogonal space time block coded transmission. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130315133 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS, A METHOD AND A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING RELAY SELECTION - The embodiments relate to a wireless communications apparatus configured to operate as one of a source node, a relay node or a destination node in a network comprising a plurality of source nodes, relay nodes and destination nodes configured to support dual-hop communication using one of said relay nodes to intercede between one of said source nodes and one of said destination nodes, and a method for selecting a relay node. The wireless apparatus is configured to collect channel characteristics between the intended source node and each relay node, and between each relay node and the intended destination node, and select a relay node for relaying a signal emitted by the intended source node by determining a mode of operation for performing the selection on the basis of collected channel characteristics. The wireless communication apparatus is further configured to change the mode of operation to a different one if the channel characteristics change. The mode of operation of performing the relay node selection is one of a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode; the relay node is selected on the basis of said channel characteristics between the intended source node and each relay node and in the second mode; the relay is selected on the basis of said channel characteristics between each relay node and the intended destination node. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20140106801 | TRANSCEIVER OPERATING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION IN THE NETWORK - The embodiments provide a transceiver, a method and a system for transmission of one or more signals in a wireless communication network. The transceiver according to the described embodiments being capable of collecting channel characteristics based on a received signal from another transceiver in the network; predicting a transmission mode for a subsequent signal transmission on the basis of said collected channel characteristics by determining an interference level of said received signal and estimating an interference level for the subsequent transmission based on the determined interference level and one or more parameters of the received signal, wherein the transmission mode for the subsequent transmission is predicted based on the estimated interference level. The transceiver being further configured to adapt transmission parameters of one or more subsequent transmissions based on the predicted transmission mode. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20150043670 | RADIO APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - Channel activity and subsequent access is determined by antenna selection. A sensing period is allocated into slots, dependent on the number of available antennas. For each slot, a distinct set of antennas is used for sensing for channel activity. Results of channel activity measurements for the slots are combined to form a channel activity report. | 02-12-2015 |
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| 20120159124 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTATIONAL ACCELERATION OF SEISMIC DATA PROCESSING - A computer-implemented method and a system for computational acceleration of seismic data processing are described. The method includes defining a specific non-uniform memory access (NUMA) scheduling for a plurality of cores in a processor according to data to be processed; and running two or more threads through each of the plurality of cores. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120265445 | STABLE SHOT ILLUMINATION COMPENSATION - Various embodiments provide a system and a shot illumination compensation method implemented on a computer system for imaging a subsurface formation. The method includes receiving, by the computer system, seismic data produced by an acoustic energy source and reflected by the subsurface formation; and generating, by the computer system, an image of the subsurface formation based on the seismic data and a spatially varying damping parameter. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20150032378 | PREDICTING INTERBED MULTIPLES IN SEISMIC DATA USING BEAM DECOMPOSITION - A method of attenuating interbed multiples in multiply-reflected seismic waves is performed at a computer system, the method comprising: providing multiple beams of seismic data and an earth model related to a geological volume; selecting one of the beams as an input beam associated with a pair of source and detector located near a top surface of the geological volume; determining at least one of (i) a source-side stationary pegleg arrival and a corresponding detector-side primary beam and (ii) a detector-side stationary pegleg arrival and a corresponding source-side primary beam; predicting an interbed multiples beam using at least one of (i) the detector-side primary beam delayed by the source-side stationary pegleg arrival and (ii) the source-side primary beam delayed by the detector-side stationary pegleg arrival; and deconvolving the predicted interbed multiples beam with the input beam to remove at least a portion of interbed multiples present in the input beam. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150378039 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEISMIC IMAGING OF A COMPLEX SUBSURFACE - Seismic data may be processed to improve a geologic model of a subsurface volume of interest by receiving an initial geologic model, generating a γ-parameter family of models by perturbing parameters of an initial geologic model, migrating the seismic data using each of the models in the γ-parameter family of models to generate a set of migration images, constructing a γ-volume by scanning the set of migration images wherein each location in the γ-volume is assigned a value representing a preference of one of the migration images; and inverting the γ-volume. | 12-31-2015 |
