3403 results about "Process operation" patented technology

The present invention provides an improved method and system for real-time monitoring, validation, optimization and predictive fault analysis in a process control system. The invention monitors process operations by continuously analyzing sensor measurements and providing predictive alarms using models of normal process operation and statistical parameters corresponding to normal process data, and generating secondary residual process models. The invention allows for the creation of a fault analyzer directly from linearly independent models of normal process operation, and provides for automatic generation from such process models of linearly dependent process models. Fuzzy logic is used in various fault situations to compute certainty factors to identify faults and / or validate underlying assumptions. In one aspect, the invention includes a real-time sensor data communications bridge module; a state transition logic module; a sensor validation and predictive fault analysis module; and a statistical process control module; wherein each of the modules operates simultaneously.

A computerized system and method is described for classifying objects as malicious by processing the objects in a virtual environment and monitoring behaviors during processing by one or more monitors. The monitors may monitor and record selected sets of process operations and capture associated process parameters, which describe the context in which the process operations were performed. By recording the context of process operations, the system and method described herein improves the intelligence of classifications and consequently reduces the likelihood of incorrectly identifying objects as malware or vice versa.

A plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) apparatus and a method of forming a conductive thin film using the same are disclosed. According to the present invention of a PEALD apparatus and a method, a process gas inlet tube and a process gas outlet tube are installed symmetrically and concentrically with respect to a substrate, thereby allowing the process gas to flow uniformly, evenly and smoothly over the substrate, thereby forming a thin film uniformly over the substrate. A uniquely designed showerhead assembly provides not only reduces the volume of the reactor space, but also allows the process gases to flow uniformly, evenly and smoothly throughout the reation space area and reduces the volume of the reaction space, and the smaller volume makes it easier and fast to change the process gases for sequential and repeated process operation.

A floating point unit 26 is provided with a register bank 38 comprising 32 registers that may be used as either vector registers V or scalar registers S. Data values are transferred between memory 30 and the registers within the register bank 38 using contiguous block memory access instructions. Vector processing instructions specify a sequence of processing operations to be performed upon data values within a sequence of registers. The register address is incremented between each operation by an amount controlled by a stride value. Accordingly, the register address can be incremented by values such as 0, 1, 2 or 4 between each iteration. This provides a mechanism for retaining block memory access instructions to contiguous memory addresses whilst supporting vector matrix and / or complex operations in which the data values needed for each iteration are not adjacent to one another in the memory 30.

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for power loss management in a nonvolatile data storage device. A monitor module initiates a power loss mode in the nonvolatile data storage device in response to a primary power source failing to supply electric power above a predefined threshold to the nonvolatile data storage device. A secondary power source supplies electric power to the nonvolatile data storage device for at least a power hold-up time during the power loss mode. A power loss module adjusts execution of in-process operations on the nonvolatile data storage device during the power loss mode so that essential in-process operations execute within the power hold-up time.

Disclosed herein is a method and system for hardware-accelerating various data processing operations in a rule-based decision-making system such as a business rules engine, an event stream processor, and a complex event stream processor. Preferably, incoming data streams are checked against a plurality of rule conditions. Among the data processing operations that are hardware-accelerated include rule condition check operations, filtering operations, and path merging operations. The rule condition check operations generate rule condition check results for the processed data streams, wherein the rule condition check results are indicative of any rule conditions which have been satisfied by the data streams. The generation of such results with a low degree of latency provides enterprises with the ability to perform timely decision-making based on the data present in received data streams.

One illustrative method disclosed herein includes the steps of decomposing an initial overall target exposure pattern into at least a first decomposed sub-target pattern and a second decomposed sub-target pattern, performing first and second retargeting processes on the first and second decomposed sub-target patterns while using the other sub-target pattern as a reference layer, respectively, to thereby define retargeted first and second decomposed sub-target patterns, respectively, and, after performing the first and second retargeting processes, performing at least one process operation to determine if each of the retargeted first decomposed sub-target pattern and the retargeted second decomposed sub-target pattern is in compliance with at least one design rule.

A method for managing genuine characteristics of both an electronic document and a print medium comprising: a step for recognizing image data contained in the electronic document; a step for applying an extraction condition of an image feature previously determined and must be considered to the recognized image data to calculate a coordinate set corresponding to a pixel or a set of pixels, constituting the image feature; a step for recognizing at least a coordinate value among coordinate values and pixel color values, corresponding to each of coordinates constituting the coordinate set, and for embedding the recognized coordinate value as a code of a digital watermark into the pixel or the pixel set, constituting the image feature, or into an area in the vicinity; and a step for outputting the electronic document where the digital watermark embedding process operation has been carried out to the print medium.

Methods of using adaptive sampling techniques based upon categorization of process variations, and a system for performing same are disclosed. In one illustrative embodiment, the method comprises acquiring metrology data regarding at least one process operation performed on a plurality of substrates in accordance with an initial metrology sampling plan, providing the acquired metrology dam to a controller that identifies process variations in the at least one process operation based upon the acquired metrology data and further identifies a plurality of categories of the process variations. The method further comprises creating, using the controller, a modified metrology sampling plan based upon a relative weighing of the identified categories of the process variations, wherein the modified metrology sampling plan differs from the initial metrology sampling plan in at least one aspect, and acquiring metrology data from at least one subsequently processed wafer in accordance with the modified neology sampling plan.

The invention discloses a system method for intelligent control over the continuous-casting process. Firstly, signals are collected to form a data center; then a temperature field model is designed to calculate the temperatures of continuous-casting key process nodes, and the temperatures of the continuous-casting key process nodes are stored into the data center; then logistics tracking of the continuous-casting process is achieved, and a 'casting blank-technological parameter and event' related database is formed; then rules and dispatching command information are obtained through data mining and artificial expertise, and virtual reality animation displaying of the equipment state, process operation state and command execution state is conducted; then a casting blank quality online grading system is built and casting blank grading is achieved; and finally, a coordination control system is built, energy consumption and water consumption are optimized, and large-closed-loop quality control and underlying loop control are achieved. Energy conservation and consumption reduction are achieved by optimizing the related parameters of energy consumption and water consumption while the effects that the continuous casting blank quality is stable and the quality is improved continuously are ensured, so that the yield is improved, the cost of per ton of steel is reduced, the comprehensive production cost is reduced continuously, and normal and efficient operation of continuous casting is ensured.

A system for a dynamically evolving cognitive architecture for the development of a secure key and confidence level based data derived from biometric sensors and a user's behavioral activities. The system comprises one or more processors, one or more sensors, one or more databases, and non-transitory computer readable memory. The non-transitory computer readable memory comprises a plurality of executable instructions wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to process operations comprising creating a set of policies based on user data sets and inputs, creating a faceted classification, establishing a Trust Level, processing sensor data, comparing data to one or more databases, correlating data, updating Trust Levels, updating security keys, and storing the keys in memory. In certain embodiments, the stored data is used to create a usage schema independent from a user's actual identity.