11th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 52 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110066381 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ARTIFACTS MITIGATION WITH MULTIPLE WIRELESS SENSORS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for mitigating artifacts of biophysical signals in a body area network. Information from multiple sensors (including motion information of the body) can be employed in mitigating the artifacts. The biophysical signals in the body area network can be compressively sensed. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066382 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING NORMAL LEVELS OF BACTERIA IN WATER USING A MULTIPLE ANGLE LIGHT SCATTERING (MALS) INSTRUMENT - A particle detection system uses a camera to produce a picture based on the scattered light generated by a particle in a liquid medium, when a laser beam is incident on the particle. These pictures are then automatically analyzed through the use of a processing system (e.g., a computer). The processing system is configured to record the forward scattering intensity (e.g., amplitude) and the picture of the scattered light rays to generate a classification of the particle causing the scattering. Count rate and trends of the classified particles are monitored to detect a change that is representative of the overall health safety of the water or by knowing the levels of bacteria in process water, such as Reverse Osmosis (RO) feed water, reject brine, and product water, the operator may better monitor the life and condition of the RO membrane. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066383 | Indentifying One or More Activities of an Animate or Inanimate Object - Methods, systems and apparatus for identifying an activity of an animate or inanimate object are disclosed. One method includes identifying each elemental motion of a sequence of elemental motions of a device attached to the animate or inanimate object. The activity of the animate or inanimate object can be identified by matching the sequence of identified elemental motions of the device with a library of stored sequences of elemental motions, wherein each stored sequence of elemental motions corresponds with an activity. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066384 | Computer Aided Ligand-Based and Receptor-Based Drug Design Utilizing Molecular Shape and Electrostatic Complementarity - Methods related to the generation of shape signatures representing molecular shape, and using shape signatures in both ligand-based and receptor-based molecular design. Ray-tracing is used to explore the volume interior to a ligand, or the space exterior to a receptor site. Shape signatures are then probability distributions derived from the ray-traces. Shape signatures provide condensed descriptors of shape properties readily compared to each other to test for shape similarity or complementarity. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066385 | QUANTIFICATION OF DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEASURED VALUES AND STATISTICAL VALIDATION BASED ON THE DIFFERENCES - A system and method of validating differences between measured values of fluorescence intensities obtained from a fluorescence-based instrument, including: generating calibration histograms for calibration beads run through the instrument; calibrating a distance function configured to measure distances between the histograms by: constructing a metric using the distance function, which includes a bin-to-bin dissimilarity matrix; and populating the dissimilarity matrix to maximize the following conditions: (A) the distance function of two histograms representing two sets of different beads equals the difference of their MESF values; and (B) the distance function of two histograms representing fluorescence of two sets of identical beads is zero; applying the metric to flow cytometry histograms generated for biological samples, to determine distances between the histograms; constructing a statistical test using the metric to determine a statistical significance of the distances; and determining whether the histogram results from the biological samples are reliable based on the statistical significance. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066386 | ANESTHETIC SENSING OPTICAL MICROFLUIDIC CHIP SYSTEM - The invention discloses an anesthetic sensing optical microfluidic chip system. The anesthetic sensing optical microfluidic chip system includes a biochip, a light source, and a detector. The biochip includes a substrate, a micro-channel, and a molecularly imprinted biosensor. The micro-channel is bonded beyond the substrate. The molecularly imprinted biosensor is disposed in the micro-channel, and a surface of the molecularly imprinted biosensor has a plurality of imprinted sites. When a sample including a plurality of anesthetic molecules is injected into the micro-channel and flowing through the surface of the molecularly imprinted biosensor, some of the anesthetic molecules are captured by the imprinted sites. The light source emits a sensing light to the plastic biochip, and the detector receives the sensing light passing through the imprinted sites on the surface of the molecularly imprinted biosensor and generates a detecting result based on the received sensing light. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066387 | APPLIANCE MONITORING APPARATUS - A convention appliance monitoring apparatus handles only the amount of gas used and security information for the case of a gas cutoff and can not address social needs for a desire to obtain information about influence (e.g., an amount of CO | 2011-03-17 |
20110066388 | CORROSION RATE MONITORING - Methods and apparatus relate to measuring corrosion rate. Flowing corrosive fluid contacts a metal coupon or object and results in an effluent stream. The effluent stream contains metal from the object due to reaction of constituents in the fluid with the metal. Analysis of the effluent stream measures concentration of the metal therein. Since the concentration of the metal in the effluent stream is indicative of mass loss from the object, calculations provide the corrosion rate utilizing weight of the metal that is eluted, surface area of the object and exposure time of the object with the corrosive fluid. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066389 | Hand Held Refrigeration Gauge - The present invention is a hand held gauge for use with refrigeration systems. The gauge includes a service port connector, a display screen, and user interfacing buttons. The gauge also includes electronic storage of the pressure-to-saturation temperature data for different refrigerants. The gauge allows for the measuring of temperature and pressure of refrigeration systems. After a user inputs a refrigerant type, the gauge uses the pressure and the saturation data to determine the saturation temperature. The saturation temperature is compared to the measured temperature to get the superheat or subcooling. These results may all be displayed on the display screen. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066390 | Systems and Methods For Determining Geologic Properties Using Acoustic Analysis - Systems and methods which determine geologic properties using acoustic analysis are shown. Acoustic signals are collected during processing (e.g., crushing, shearing, striking, compressing, etc.) of geologic media, such as rock samples, for determining geologic properties according to embodiments. The acoustic signals collected may include frequency information, amplitude information, time information, etc. which may be utilized in determining geologic properties, such as geologic media properties (e.g., mineralogy, porosity, permeability, sealing capacity, fracability, compressive strength, compressibility, Poisson's Ratio, Youngs Modulus, Bulk Modulus, Shear Modulus), geologic structure properties (e.g., lithology, seal quality, reservoir quality), geologic acoustic properties (e.g., acoustic logging effectiveness, acoustic response, natural or harmonic frequencies, etc.). Embodiments may be used to provide determination of geologic properties from a variety of geologic media samples, such as cuttings, core samples, etc. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066391 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENERGY PROGNOSIS - In one embodiment, a method for managing an industrial process wherein a processor transforms electronic data into an energy prognosis is provided. An energy related test signal including effective power test data indicative of electrical energy consumed by an energy consuming machine may be received. The energy related test signal may be partitioned into an energy related test sub-signal. Mathematical functions may be applied to the energy related test sub-signal to extract a feature set of data from the energy related test sub-signal. The feature set of data may be transformed with a transformation matrix into a reduced test feature set. The reduced test feature set may be input into a performance assessment algorithm based at least in part upon a reduced training feature set derived from data indicative of electrical energy consumed during healthy operation. A power-based performance index may be generated with the performance assessment algorithm. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066392 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATION OF GYROSCOPES AND A MAGNETIC COMPASS - Calibration systems and methods simultaneously calibrate a magnetic compass and gyroscopes. An exemplary embodiment rotates the field calibration system. Based upon the rotation sensed by the magnetic compass and the gyroscopes, the field calibration system determines compensation for both the magnetic compass and the gyroscopes. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066393 | Calibration Of A Manipulator - A measuring apparatus ( | 2011-03-17 |
20110066394 | System for Determining the Load Mass of a Load Carried by a Hoist Cable of a Crane - The present disclosure relates to a system for determining the load mass of a load carried by a hoist cable of a crane, said system comprising a measurement arrangement for measuring the cable load in the hoist cable and a calculation unit for determining the load mass on the basis of the cable force, wherein the calculation unit has a compensation unit which describes and at least partly compensates the effect of the indirect determining of the load mass via the cable force in a model. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066395 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GYROSCOPE CALIBRATION - Systems and methods may be used to determine gain compensation and/or bias compensation for gyroscopes in the field where access to specialized calibration tools is limited. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066396 | Sensor device and manufacturing method for a sensor device - A sensor device includes: a sensor module mounted on a conductor board; a sensitive element which is sensitive to a variable; a self-test control unit implementing a self-test program, the self-test control unit applying a self-test variable to the sensitive element, taking the self-test program into account; a detection unit detecting a characteristic of the sensitive element which is altered as a result of the applied self-test variable and providing an actual self-test response, taking the altered characteristic into account; and a comparator unit provided on or in the sensor module, the comparator unit comparing the actual self-test response to at least one specified setpoint self-test response and providing comparative information. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066397 | MULTIPLE ACCELEROMETER APPARATUS FOR COUNTING ROTATIONS OF AN OBJECT, AND METHODS OF USE - A system determines the revolutions of an object using multiple accelerometers. A difference vector between at least 2 multi-axis accelerometers spaced some distance apart is used to calculate the two-dimensional or three-dimensional centripetal acceleration vector. The centripetal acceleration vector is then used as a rough estimate for the sampling rate for a digital tracking bandpass filter. This bandpass filter extracts angular orientation data leading to a sampling rate and to a revolution totalizer. The number of revolutions of the object, along with a known diameter of an attached object, such as a vehicle wheel, may be used to calculate distance traveled by the object. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066398 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR LOCATING AND TRACKING OBJECTS - Methods, systems, and computer program products for locating and tracking objects are disclosed. According to one system, a locating device can be configured to determine a location of an object. According to another system, an identifying device can be configured to determine the identification of an object. Further, a tracking system configured to store tracking information associated with the object. A communications system can be configured to communicate a signal to a remote computer device that identifies the location of the object and includes the tracking information associated with the object. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066399 | SMALL FORM-FACTOR DISTANCE SENSOR - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to determining a distance from a mobile device to a remote object or a size of the remote object. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066400 | SHAPE MEASURING APPARATUS - A 3D measuring apparatus includes a probe that has a spherical gauge head for measuring a measured object; a motion mechanism that holds and moves the probe; and a motion controller that controls the motion mechanism. The controller includes a contact point obtainer that obtains a contact point location of a surface of the measured object and the gauge head based on a central location of the gauge head; a radius of the gauge head; and a swing amount of the gauge head. The controller also includes a motion commander that calculates a location command value causing the motion mechanism to move the probe, based on the contact point location obtained by the contact point obtainer. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066401 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF MONITORING AND DIAGNOSING THE PERFORMANCE OF PHOTOVOLTAIC OR OTHER RENEWABLE POWER PLANTS - Energy converters are monitored to ensure that they are operating at acceptable levels. An expected output is predicted using mathematical modeling and compared to the actual output generated by the energy converter. When the difference is above a predetermined threshold, the level of underperformance, along with other parameters, are used to determine a possible cause of underperformance and actions that can be taken to increase the output to acceptable levels. The cause and actions are transmitted to personnel, who are dispatched to service the underperforming energy converter. By centrally locating the mathematical modeling, monitoring, and dispatching, multiple PV modules can be managed from a remote location. When monitoring photovoltaic modules, an irradiation sensor employs multiple photosensors oriented to detect not only the normal components of sunlight but also directional, diffused components of sunlight, thereby increasing the accuracy of the mathematical modeling. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066402 | MIXED SIGNAL ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR A MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT - A mixed signal acquisition system for a test and measurement instrument allows configuring of the number of analog and digital channels in use. The instrument includes an analog input interface and an N-channel logic input interface for receiving an analog signal and an N-channel logic signal, respectively. An ND converter converts the analog input signal into an N-bit digital signal, and N latch circuits latch the N-bit logic signal. A multiplexer selects either the N-bit digital signal from the A/D converter, or the N-bit logic signals from the N latch circuits, and the selected signal at the output of the multiplexer is stored in an acquisition memory. By controlling the multiplexer selection, the number of analog channels and the digital channels can be controlled. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066403 | METHOD FOR DETECTING AND FILTERING A RANDOM NOISE SIGNAL - A random noise signal detecting and filtering method includes: (a) calculating a difference value of data currently being input from a sensor in comparison with previous data stored in a register; (b) comparing the calculated difference value with a critical value; (c) determining whether the calculated difference value is greater than a maximum critical value or less than a minimum critical value; and (d) if the calculated difference value is greater than the maximum critical value or less than the minimum critical value, determining the current data be constitute a random signal and substituting the previous data for the current data. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066404 | METHOD FOR CREATING A 3D ROCK REPRESENTATION USING PETROPHYSICAL DATA - The present invention enables the use of a global optimization method for performing joint-inversion of multiple petrophysical data sets, using forward models based on first principle of physics, to generate a 3D rock representation of a subsurface rock structure. The resulting 3D rock representation captures the internal structure, and honors the measured petrophysical properties, of the subsurface rock structure. The 3D rock representation can then be used to predict additional properties not considered in the inversion, to further characterize the subsurface rock structure. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066405 | System and Method For Providing A Time-Based Representation of Data - A method is provided for obtaining a model of data describing a physical structure. The method comprises obtaining a set of time instance objects from a domain object. The method also comprises obtaining data describing a physical structure and time interval data related to the physical structure from each member of the set of time instance objects. The method additionally comprises creating a model of the data describing the physical structure in conjunction with the time interval data. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066406 | Method for Generating Real-Time Haptic Response Information for a Haptic Simulating Device - A method is provided for generating real-time haptic response information for a haptic simulating device during a surgery simulation performed by a virtual tool on an object volume that includes tissue voxels, null voxels, and object boundary points. The method includes: (a) receiving a select input of a selected virtual tool type; (b) obtaining tool boundary points of the virtual tool; (c) obtaining a current reference position of the virtual tool; (d) determining a current tool subvolume; and (e) when the current tool subvolume has at least one tissue voxel, (e-1) determining positions of the tool boundary points within the subvolume, (e-2) updating labels of the voxels within the subvolume and replacing an original set of the object boundary points within the subvolume with a new set of the object boundary points, (e-3) determining force-contributing ones of the tool boundary points, and (e-4) providing force information of a force to be generated by the haptic simulating device. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066407 | Systems and methods for determining volume of activation for spinal cord and peripheral nerve stimulation - This document discloses, among other things, systems and methods for determining volume of activation for spinal cord stimulation (“SCS”) using a finite element model (FEM) circuit to determine a FEM of an implanted electrode and a spinal cord in which the electrode is implanted, a Fourier FEM solver circuit to calculate a potential distribution in the spinal cord using information from the FEM circuit and a capacitive component of at least one of the implanted electrode and the spinal cord, and a volume of activation (VOA) circuit to predict a VOA using the potential distribution and a neuron model. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066408 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING THE ILLUMINATION BEAM DOSE IN SURGICAL FIELD ILLUMINATION - A method is disclosed for determining an illumination beam dose in surgical field illumination. Said method comprises the following steps: at least one actual illumination-relevant value is sensed; and an illumination beam dose is calculated from said sensed actual value. Sensing of the actual illumination-relevant value includes sensing of a value of at least one adjustable parameter of an illumination device. Furthermore, simulated dose characteristics associated with the adjustable parameter are selected, at least one simulated dose value is calculated taking into account the value of the adjustable parameter and the associated simulated dose characteristics, and the illumination beam dose is calculated taking into account the at least one simulated dose value. Also disclosed are an apparatus, a computer program product, and a surgical microscope for carrying out said method. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066409 | NETWORK ATTACK VISUALIZATION AND RESPONSE THROUGH INTELLIGENT ICONS - A network activity visualization system can include an MDL grammar database adapted to store a plurality of MDL grammars, and a pattern matching module adapted to match a received network activity data set against the MDL grammars by calculating a distance of the network activity data set from each MDL grammar. The system can also include an intelligent icon module adapted to receive the MDL grammars and distances of a network data set from each respective MDL grammar, and adapted to generate intelligent icons based on the MDL grammars and distances. The system can further include a display system adapted to display the intelligent icons so as to provide a visual indication of network security. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066410 | CIRCUIT SIMULATION METHOD - A exemplary aspect of the present invention is a simulation method for a semiconductor circuit that includes: a well resistor comprising a terminal region and a main body; and a plurality of contacts formed above the terminal region, the simulation method comprising: modeling a parasitic resistance Rt | 2011-03-17 |
20110066411 | SIGNAL JUDGMENT METHOD, SIGNAL JUDGMENT APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND SIGNAL JUDGMENT SYSTEM - Provided is a high-accuracy signal judgment method for noise or vibrations of a living environment. Provided is a signal judgment method associated with noise or vibrations of a living environment. The signal judgment method includes: inputting, into a model equation of a to-be-measured/analyzed target, unknown data; and obtaining an output value as a probability value of whether the unknown data is a to-be-measured/analyzed target. The model equation of the to-be-measured/analyzed target is created with the use of measured already-known data. The model equation is created by prediction model equation calculation means. Incidentally, a logistic regression equation can be used as the prediction model equation. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066412 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING APPLICATION LOGIC OF A VIRTUAL AND A REAL-WORLD AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE ENVIRONMENT - The invention relates to the processing of application logic of a virtual and a real-world ambient intelligence environment. An embodiment of the invention provides a system ( | 2011-03-17 |
20110066413 | METHOD FOR CREATING COORDINATED NON-MATCHING PRODUCTS - This invention is a unique method to manufacture, package, market, distribute and sell coordinated non-matching items which have traditionally been matched. This invention includes the creation and use of a system for coordinating the non-matching items. It further includes the packaging of the coordinated non-matching products in both traditional and non-traditional quantities. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066414 | System and Method of Computing and Rendering the Nature of Molecules,Molecular Ions, Compounds and Materials - A method and system of physically solving the charge, mass, and current density functions of pharmaceuticals, allotropes of carbon, metals, silicon molecules, semiconductors, boron molecules, aluminum molecules, coordinate compounds, and organometallic molecules, and tin molecules, or any portion of these species using Maxwell's equations and computing and rendering the physical nature of the chemical bond using the solutions. The results can be displayed on visual or graphical media. The display can be static or dynamic such that electron motion and specie's vibrational, rotational, and translational motion can be displayed in an embodiment. The displayed information is useful to anticipate reactivity and physical properties. The insight into the nature of the chemical bond of at least one species can permit the solution and display of those of other species to provide utility to anticipate their reactivity and physical properties. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066415 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND APPARATUS FOR COMPARING TRAFFIC PATTERN MODELS OF A COMPLEX COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Traffic pattern models of a complex communication system are compared. A normalized transmission parameter is computed for each traffic pattern model. Model parameters are also computed for each traffic pattern model. The model parameters for each traffic pattern model represent anticipated traffic flow through the complex communication system over a predetermined time period. Data representing an actual traffic flow pattern through the complex communication system over the predetermined time period is compared to the model parameters representing anticipated traffic patterns for each model. The normalized transmission parameters for each of the traffic pattern models are also compared. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066416 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULATION AND VERIFICATION OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES - Aspects of a method and system for simulation and verification of communication devices are provided. In this regard, a wireless communication system that comprises at least a wireless signal source and the wireless communication device may be simulated utilizing a plurality of configurable modules that comprises: a module under test, a processor module, and a signal source module. A subset of processor modules may be selected based on test cases to be performed for the simulation. The selection of the subset of processor modules may be performed without recompiling the processor module. A subset of signal source modules may be selected based on characteristics of a signal source to be modeled during the simulation. The selection of the subset of signal source modules may be performed without recompiling the signal source module. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066417 | ELECTRONIC LOAD FOR SIMULATING CHARACTERISTICS OF AN LED AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - An electronic load simulates an LED is to output a simulation signal after receiving an input signal. The simulation signal has a voltage value and a current value approximating to a characteristic curve of a real LED. The electronic load comprises a processor, an amplifier, and a control unit. The processor receives a control command to set up the LED. The control command includes a forward voltage parameter and an equivalent impedance parameter. The control unit generates an adjustment command according to the foregoing parameters and the voltage of the power source. The amplifier receives and further adjusts the adjustment command so as to output the simulation signal. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066418 | CIRCUIT SIMULATION METHOD - A exemplary aspect of the present invention is a simulation method for a semiconductor circuit that includes: a semiconductor resistor; a plurality of contacts arranged at regular intervals in a longitudinal direction and in a width direction of the semiconductor resistor on a terminal region of the semiconductor resistor; and a wiring line formed on the plurality of contacts, the simulation method including: defining a ratio of a parasitic-resistance by the semiconductor resistor between two of the contacts neighboring in the longitudinal direction to a resistance of one of the plurality of contacts as a constant k; and modeling a parasitic-resistance net by using the constant k, the parasitic-resistance net including the terminal region of the semiconductor resistor and the plurality of contacts. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066419 | Method to Simulate a Digital System - A simulator is partitioned into a functional component and a behavior prediction component and the components are executed in parallel. The execution path of the functional component is used to drive the behavior prediction component and the behavior prediction component changes the execution path of the functional component. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066420 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYSTEM INTEGRATION TEST (SIT) PLANNING - A method is implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions. The programming instructions are operable to receive a system architecture model of a system and receive trigger coverage rules. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to determine system integration test (SIT) coverage for each connection and interface of the system architecture model and select a set of use cases execution scenarios to satisfy the SIT coverage. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066421 | USER-INTERACTIVE AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MOBILE DEVICE - A user-interactive automatic translation device for a mobile device, includes: a camera image controller for converting an image captured by a camera into a digital image; an image character recognition controller for user-interactively selecting a character string region to be translated from the digital image, performing a character recognition function on the selected character string region based on an optical character reader (OCR) function and character recognition information to generate a text string; and user-interactively correcting errors included in the text string. Further, the user-interactive automatic translation device includes a text transmission controller for transmitting the error-corrected text string; and an automatic translation controller for receiving the error-corrected text string from the text transmission controller, performing a morpheme analysis, tagging, a structure analysis, a structure conversion, and a vocabulary conversion on the text string to generate a translation of the text string based on a grammar of a target language. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066422 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REALTIME REMOTE INTERPRETATION - The most preferred embodiments of the present invention are configured to allow a foreign language interpreter to remotely monitor, control, and interpret various legal proceedings for one or more remote locations, such as courtrooms. The interpreter will use a computer-based system to monitor and control the audio-video functions and communications that take place in one or more remote locations and to pass audio and/or video signals to and from the interpreter and the remote locations, including the people in the remote location that need interpretation services. This system allows the interpreter to monitor facial characteristics of the speakers, route the audio to isolated headsets when interpreting into the foreign language, route the audio to sound reinforcement speakers when interpreting from the foreign language, and interpret a “private” conversation between multiple parties speaking different languages. The various unique features and configurations provided by the various preferred embodiments of the present invention allow for the implementation of a comprehensive Distance Court Interpretation (DCI) system. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066423 | Speech-Recognition System for Location-Aware Applications - An apparatus and associated methods are disclosed that enable a speech-recognition system to perform functions related to the geo-locations of wireless telecommunications terminal users. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, a geo-spatial grammar is employed that comprises rules concerning the geo-locations of users, and a speech-recognition system uses the geo-spatial grammar to estimate the geo-locations of wireless telecommunications terminal users and generate actions in location-aware applications, in addition to its usual function of identifying words and phrases in spoken language. The present invention is advantageous in a variety of location-aware applications, such as interactive voice response (IVR) systems, voice-activated navigation systems, voice search, and voice dialing. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066424 | Text Stitching From Multiple Images - A reading machine has processing for detecting common text between a pair of individual images. The reading machine combines the text from the pair of images into a file or data structure if common text is detected, and determines if incomplete text phrases are present in the common text. If incomplete text phrases are present, the machine signals a user to move an image input device in a direction to capture more of the text. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066425 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED MAPPING AND INTEGRATED WORKFLOW OF A CONTROLLED MEDICAL VOCABULARY - Systems, methods, and apparatus provide clinical terminology services including a controlled medical vocabulary supplemented by local clinical content. An example method includes accessing an initial controlled medical vocabulary including at least one external terminology via a vocabulary management server; processing local clinical content including unstructured local clinical content provided via an importer framework; analyzing and extracting the unstructured local clinical content using a text analyzer and extraction tool to generate one or more proposed terms; identifying one or more synonyms for the one or more proposed terms and placing the one or more synonyms into a queue to be added to the controlled medical vocabulary; reviewing the one or more synonyms; and adding one or more synonyms to the controlled medical vocabulary with placement and relationship based on analyzing unstructured local clinical content to automatically map between the at least one external terminology and the local clinical content. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066426 | REAL-TIME SPEAKER-ADAPTIVE SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A speech recognition apparatus and method for real-time speaker adaptation are provided. The speech recognition apparatus may estimate a pitch of a speech section from an inputted speech signal, extract a speech feature for speech recognition based on the estimated pitch, and perform speech recognition with respect to the speech signal based on the speech feature. The speech recognition apparatus may be adaptively normalized depending on a speaker. Thus, the speech recognition apparatus may extract a speech feature for speech recognition, and may improve a performance of speech recognition based on the extracted speech feature. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066427 | Receiver Intelligibility Enhancement System - Embodiments of the invention provide a communication device and methods for enhancing audio signals. A first audio signal buffer and a second audio signal buffer are acquired. Thereafter, the magnitude spectrum calculated from the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) of the second audio signal is processed based on the Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) spectrum of the first audio signal to generate an enhanced second audio signal. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066428 | SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE VOICE INTELLIGIBILITY PROCESSING - An adaptive audio system can be implemented in a communication device. The adaptive audio system can enhance voice in an audio signal received by the communication device to increase intelligibility of the voice. The audio system can adapt the audio enhancement based at least in part on levels of environmental content, such as noise, that are received by the communication device. For higher levels of environmental content, for example, the audio system might apply the audio enhancement more aggressively. Additionally, the adaptive audio system can detect substantially periodic content in the environmental content. The adaptive audio system can further adapt the audio enhancement responsive to the environmental content. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066429 | VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTOR AND A METHOD OF OPERATION - A voice activity detector ( | 2011-03-17 |
20110066430 | Robust Noise Estimation - An enhancement system improves the estimate of noise from a received signal. The system includes a spectrum monitor that divides a portion of the signal at more than one frequency resolution. Adaptation logic derives a noise adaptation factor of the received signal. A plurality of devices tracks the characteristics of an estimated noise in the received signal and modifies multiple noise adaptation rates. Weighting logic applies the modified noise adaptation rates derived from the signal divided at a first frequency resolution to the signal divided at a second frequency resolution. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066431 | HAND-HELD INPUT APPARATUS AND INPUT METHOD FOR INPUTTING DATA TO A REMOTE RECEIVING DEVICE - A hand-held input apparatus includes an input unit, a translator and a wireless transmitter. The input unit generates an input signal. The translator receives the input signal from the input unit, converts the input signal to a meaningful text and translates the meaningful text to a translated signal according to a protocol used in a remote receiving device. The wireless transmitter wirelessly transmits the translated signal to the remote receiving device. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066432 | CONTENT FILTERING FOR A DIGITAL AUDIO SIGNAL - According to some embodiments, content filtering is provided for a digital audio signal. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066433 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERSONALIZATION OF ACOUSTIC MODELS FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION - Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for automatic speech recognition. The method includes selecting a speaker independent model, and selecting a quantity of speaker dependent models, the quantity of speaker dependent models being based on available computing resources, the selected models including the speaker independent model and the quantity of speaker dependent models. The method also includes recognizing an utterance using each of the selected models in parallel, and selecting a dominant speech model from the selected models based on recognition accuracy using the group of selected models. The system includes a processor and modules configured to control the processor to perform the method. The computer-readable storage medium includes instructions for causing a computing device to perform the steps of the method. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066434 | Method for Speech Recognition on All Languages and for Inputing words using Speech Recognition - The invention can recognize all languages and input words. It needs m unknown voices to represent m categories of known words with similar pronunciations. Words can be pronounced in any languages, dialects or accents. Each will be classified into one of m categories represented by its most similar unknown voice. When user pronounces a word, the invention finds its F most similar unknown voices. All words in F categories represented by F unknown voices will be arranged according to their pronunciation similarity and alphabetic letters. The pronounced word should be among the top words. Since we only find the F most similar unknown voices from m (=500) unknown voices and since the same word can be classified into several categories, our recognition method is stable for all users and can fast and accurately recognize all languages (English, Chinese and etc.) and input much more words without using samples. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066435 | IMAGE TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, IMAGE TRANSMITTING METHOD, AND IMAGE TRANSMITTING PROGRAM EMBODIED ON COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An MFP includes an accepting portion to accept an image and a speech, a speech recognition portion to recognize the accepted speech, a display screen generating portion, in response to an event that a keyword included in a predetermined output setting is recognized by the speech recognition portion, to generate a display screen in accordance with the output setting, the display screen including at least one of the accepted image and an image of object data that is stored in advance independently from the accepted image, and a transmission control portion to transmit, in accordance with the output setting, the generated display screen to at least one of a plurality of PCs operated respectively by a plurality of users. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066436 | Speaker intent analysis system - A speaker intent analysis system and method for validating the truthfulness and intent of a plurality of participants' responses to questions. A computer stores, retrieves, and transmits a series of questions to be answered audibly by participants. The participants' answers are received by a data processor. The data processor analyzes and records the participants' speech parameters for determining the likelihood of dishonesty. In addition to analyzing participants' speech parameters for distinguishing stress or other abnormality, the processor may be equipped with voice recognition software to screen responses that while not dishonest, are indicative of possible malfeasance on the part of the participants. Once the responses are analyzed, the processor produces an output that is indicative of the participant's credibility. The output may be sent to proper parties and/or devices such as a web page, computer, e-mail, PDA, pager, database, report, etc. for appropriate action. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066437 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR MEDIA EXPOSURE USING CONTENT-AWARE WATERMARKS - Methods and apparatus to construct and transmit content-aware watermarks are disclosed herein. An example method of creating a content-aware watermark includes selecting at least one word associated with a media composition; representing the word with at least one phonetic notation; obtaining a proxy code for each phonetic notation; and locating the proxy code in the content-aware watermark. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066438 | CONTEXTUAL VOICEOVER - A method for providing voice feedback with playback of media on an electronic device is provided. In one embodiment, the method may include determining one or more characteristics of the media with which the voice feedback is associated. For instance, the media may include a song, and the determined characteristics could include one or more of genre, reverberation, pitch, balance, timbre, tempo, or the like. The method may also include processing the voice feedback to alter characteristics thereof based on the one or more determined characteristics of the associated media. Additional methods, devices, and manufactures are also disclosed. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066439 | DIMENSION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - A dimension measurement system is provided. The dimension measurement system includes a speech I/O device fit in an ear canal of a worker, generating a voice signal from vibration in the air emitted from an eardrum of the worker and propagated inside the ear canal, and outputting the voice signal and an information processing device realizing a speech recognition function recognizing a measurement value of a dimension of an object from the voice signal that the speech I/O device output and a judgment function judging if the measurement value satisfies a reference value of the object. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066440 | AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODING EMPLOYING INTERCHANNEL AND TEMPORAL REDUNDANCY REDUCTION - A method of encoding a time-domain audio signal is presented. A device transforms the time-domain signal into a frequency-domain signal including a sequence of sample blocks, wherein each block includes a coefficient for each of multiple frequencies. The coefficients of each block are grouped into frequency bands. For each frequency band of each block, a scale factor is estimated for the band, and the energy of the band for the block is compared with the energy of the band of an adjacent sample block, wherein the blocks may be adjacent to each other in either or both of an interchannel and a temporal sense. If the ratio of the band energy for the first block to the band energy for the adjacent block is less than some value, the scale factor of the band for the first block is increased. The coefficients of the band for each block are quantized based on the resulting scale factor. The encoded audio signal is generated based on the quantized coefficients and the scale factors. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066441 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING REACTIVITY OF A HYDROCARBON-CONTAINING FEEDSTOCK FOR HYDROPROCESSING - Disclosed herein is a method involving the steps of (a) precipitating an amount of asphaltenes from a liquid sample of a first hydrocarbon-containing feedstock having solvated asphaltenes therein with one or more first solvents in a column; (b) determining one or more solubility characteristics of the precipitated asphaltenes; (c) analyzing the one or more solubility characteristics of the precipitated asphaltenes; and (d) correlating a measurement of feedstock reactivity for the first hydrocarbon-containing feedstock sample with a mathematical parameter derived from the results of analyzing the one or more solubility characteristics of the precipitated asphaltenes. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066442 | Influencing Consumer Behavior Modification with Utility Consumption Disaggregation - A method for performing utility consumption disaggregation includes measuring a total utility consumption of a consumer during a specified time period, generating a first disaggregated utility consumption segment and a second disaggregated utility consumption segment, based on the total utility consumption of the consumer, and providing the consumer with disaggregated utility consumption statistics based on at least one of the first and second disaggregated utility consumption segments. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066443 | Methods, system, and apparatus for enhancing child safety - This invention includes a method for providing enhanced child safety for a child including subscribing to a child safety service provider, receiving child safety material from the child safety service provider, submitting child identifying material relating to the child to the child safety service provider, associating the child identifying material with a unique identifier, determining that the child is missing, retrieving the child identifying material utilizing the unique identifier, and disseminating the child identifying material to one or more persons conducting a search for the missing child wherein it is preferable for at least one of the persons conducting the search to be a private investigator. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066444 | DIGITAL MARKETING AND REVENUE GENERATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - An Internet based digital marketing and revenue generator enables users to physically and digitally contribute value in exchange for entry, purchase, membership, services, etc. Users contribute value in the form of labor and data to the system by performing multiple work-related tasks, such as categorizing goods and services, inputting information, participating in surveys, in exchange for entry, which may include a prize draw entry to win one or more of the categorized goods and services. As well as including a prize draw entry, the system may provide a specified benefit, such as free admission, a free item, or other type of definite benefit, and/or a chance to win an additional prize(s). | 2011-03-17 |
20110066445 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS FOR ADVANCED PAYMENT TRACKING FOR HEALTHCARE CLAIMS - An example claim payment tracking system includes a data store storing historical data regarding claim submission and payment dates. A claims processor generates a representative period of time from claim submission to payment and, using that representative period of time, calculates an expected remittance payment date for each submitted claim for a payer available for provider review and determines if a payment is before or after the expected remittance payment date for the submitted claim. The claims processor translates the determination of timely payment into a payment status message to the provider for at least one submitted claim to indicate a past due payment or a pending payment approaching the expected remittance payment date for the submitted claim. The system further includes a dashboard interface to display the expected remittance payment date for each submitted claim for a provider. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066446 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING A DISTRIBUTED REGISTRATION MANAGER - A method for providing distributed registration management may include receiving, from a first health system entity, an indication of a healthcare registration event intended to register a patient for an event at a second health system entity in which the patient has a first patient identifier associated with the first health system entity, providing a second patient identifier associated with the second health system entity that correlates to the first patient identifier, and coordinating, via processing circuitry, registration of the second patient identifier for the registration event with the second health system entity. A corresponding computer program product and apparatus are also provided. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066447 | LOSSLESS ACCOUNT COMPRESSION FOR HEALTH CARE PATIENT BENEFITS ELIGIBILITY RESEARCH SYSTEM AND METHODS - A system and method for determining eligibility for reimbursement for medical claims for patients may be implemented with computer software which compares a service provider's patient information against a benefit provider's database of covered persons to determine if the patient is eligible for benefits. The service provider records may be compressed by grouping all of the medical claims relating to a particular patient into one cluster represented by a composite medical claim, which may be used to query the benefit provider databases to determine if the patient is recognized. If the patient is recognized, every record within the cluster may be checked against the benefit provider's database to determine whether one or more patient medical claims are eligible for reimbursement. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066448 | MEDICINE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MEDICINE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A medicine management apparatus includes: a medicine storage which stores a plurality of medicines used at a site of medical care; a storage and retrieval detector which, when a medicine handling personnel manipulates the apparatus to store or retrieve an accommodated medicine to be accommodated in the apparatus, physically detects the target accommodated medicine for which the apparatus is manipulated, differentiating it from the other accommodated medicines; and a counter which counts each type of the plurality of accommodated medicines. An injection prescription receiver receives injection prescription data from an external prescription analyzer. A retrieval determining unit determines whether the accommodated medicine detected as being retrieved is the accommodated medicine directed by the injection prescription data to be retrieved. A retrieval completion notification unit transmits a retrieval completion signal to the prescription analyzer, prompted by the completion of the retrieval of the accommodated medicine directed by the prescription data to be retrieved. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066449 | ENHANCED MULTIPLE RESOURCE PLANNING AND FORECASTING - A system configuration and techniques for optimizing schedules and associated use predictions of a multiple resource planning workflow are disclosed herein, applicable to environments such as radiologist scheduling in a teleradiology workflow. In one embodiment, a series of computing engines and components are provided to allow detailed forecasting and the generation of customized recommendations for scheduling and other resource usage scenarios. This forecasting can factor resource efficiencies, changes in resource demand volume, resource specialties, resource usage preferences, expected future events such as the removal or addition of resources at future times, and other resource availability or usage changes. The forecasts may be further enhanced through the use of historical data models and estimated future data models. Additionally, a calendar and other tools may be presented through a user interface to allow forecast and scenario customization based on selection of a series of future dates. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066450 | System for providing bio-identical hormone replacement therapy - A single stop computer-driven system is provided within a retail pharmacy to evaluate, test and formulate regimens for the treatment of PMS, menopause, and other illnesses relating to hormone imbalances. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066451 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING HEALTH MANAGEMENT INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for providing health management information to a patient. Patients are grouped according to their personal health records, order is determined between the patients in each group, and health management information of a patient highly ordered in each group is automatically provided to a patient lower ordered in the each group. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066452 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INSURING DIGITAL MEDIA DOWNLOAD TRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods are provided that enable a user to selectively insure purchased digital media items downloaded over a network connection. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes the steps of receiving first user data from a user at the digital media system to request the purchase of a selected digital media item from a content provider, providing a message to the user to offer loss insurance for the selected digital media item, and receiving second user data at the digital media system to indicate whether the loss insurance offer is accepted. Acceptance data is transmitted to the content provider via the digital network to indicate whether the loss insurance offer is accepted. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066453 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN ENHANCED STEP-UP PROVISION IN A DEFERRED VARIABLE ANNUITY WITH A RISING GUARANTEED STEP-UP - A computer implemented data processing system and method administers a deferred variable annuity contract during the accumulation phase for a relevant life. The annuity contract has a payment base value, a contract value, and a step-up provision. Administration of the product determines whether a step-up of the payment base value is applicable. If applicable, the product determines a step-up, wherein the step-up is guaranteed at a predetermined percentage. The investments of the deferred variable annuity contract are not limited to a specific asset allocation in order to qualify for the step-up provision. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066454 | Risk Modeling System - A system including a general-purpose decision support and decision making predictive analytics engine that is able to find patterns in many types of digitally represented data. Given data that represents a random collection of points, the system finds these internal patterns employing an inductive principle called structural risk minimization that separates the points with the maximum margin. Internal patterns in the initial data are inductively determined by employing structural risk minimization to separate the points with a maximum margin. A model based on the internal patterns in the data is then generated, and the model is used with new data to generate predictions by evaluating the new data for similarities to the model. The model is implemented to facilitate decision making processes. Special features are provided to validate incoming data, preprocess the data, and monitor the data to improve the integrity of modeling results. Results are delivered to users by a reporting capability that facilitates the decision making processes that are inherent to a business enterprise. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066455 | SIMPLIFIED CONFIGURATION OF TOUCHLESS BUYING - In one embodiment, controls for an agreement from a supplier are set up. The agreement includes a plurality of items for purchase. The controls may be used to determine a degree of touchlessness in the buying of the items. The controls may be configured at the agreement level. A requisition from a requester for a target item is received. In one embodiment, sourcing rules and ASLs may be searched to determine if a sourcing rule and ASL applies to the item. If so, then the sourcing rule and ASL may be used to determine an agreement. If a sourcing rule and ASL do not apply, agreements can be searched to determine an agreement for the target item. Once the agreement is determined, controls are determined from the agreement, where the controls govern the plurality of items of the agreement. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066456 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC PROCESS MODEL CONFIGURATION BASED ON PROCESS EXECUTION CONTEXT - Methods and systems to dynamically configure a process model based on process execution context are described. In one example embodiment, a system to dynamically configure a process model can include a context engine, a rules engine, and a business process engine. The context engine can maintain context information related to an executable business process model. The context information is dynamically extensible during execution of the executable business process model. The rules engine can obtain a relevant context form the context information. The relevant context can be associated with a step and a rule to control the step within the executable business process model. The business process engine can execute the executable business process model and can dynamically configure the executable business process model during execution based on application of the relevant context by the rules engine. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066457 | ANALYTICS INTEGRATION SERVER WITHIN A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK FOR COMPOSING AND EXECUTING ANALYTICS APPLICATIONS IN BUSINESS LEVEL LANGUAGES - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for building and executing analytics solutions. Such a solution may provide a comprehensive analytics solution (e.g., a risk assessment, fraud detection solution, dynamic operational risk evaluations, regulatory compliance assessments, etc.). The analytics solution may perform an analytics task using operational data distributed across a variety of independently created and governed data repositories in different departments of an organization. A framework is disclosed which allows a user (e.g., a risk analyst) to compose analytical tools that can access data from a variety of sources (both internal and external to an enterprise) and perform a variety of analytic functions. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066458 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING COMPLIANCE WITH RETAIL DISPLAY REGULATIONS ACROSS A PLURALITY OF JURISDICTIONS - Compliance with retail display regulations that retailers are subject to within a plurality of jurisdictions is managed. Retail display regulations may differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. To facilitate compliance, retail display regulations for a plurality of jurisdictions are centrally maintained. The regulations may then be used to dynamically generate retail display materials for locations across a plurality of jurisdictions with different regulatory schemes. The central storage and/or maintenance of the retail display regulations may facilitate compliance with disparate regulatory schemes that retailers are subject to based in part of retail location. Central storage of the retail display regulations may facilitate certification of compliance by regulating entities associated with the jurisdictions. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066459 | Correlated Analytics For Benchmarking In Community Shared Data - Exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a method that includes estimating an empirical distribution of a metric for a company. The method includes estimating a distribution of the metric for a plurality of companies. The method further includes determining whether the company is an outlier, based on the empirical distribution of the metric for the company and the distribution of the metric for the plurality of companies, and generating at least one recommendation based determining whether the company is an outlier. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066460 | SECURITY AND PROPERTY SCHEDULING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A comprehensive real property security scheduling system having an interactive system for reporting, tracking, and rectifying security incidences and for generating alerts for a building, for an office complex comprising a number of buildings, and/or for a real property management company having multiple buildings and multiple sites. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066461 | Electronic Marketplace Providing Service Parts Inventory Planning and Management - Service parts inventory planning and management are provided for one or more entities in a supply chain ( | 2011-03-17 |
20110066462 | Method, System, and Computer Readable Medium Useful in Managing a Computer-Based System for Servicing User Initiated Tasks - A method for determining whether secondary activities (activities that can be executed during system “down time”) should be executed at a time, and executing at least one of the secondary activities according to a priority or interrupt scheme. The invention monitors a threshold, which can be based on several factors, to determine when system conditions are such that secondary activities should be conducted. When system conditions are such that secondary activities should occur, the invention conducts secondary activities according to an interrupt scheme. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066463 | System and Method for Conducting an Optimized Customer Identification Program - A computer-implemented method of compiling a customer information set that complies with regulatory criteria is provided. The method comprises providing an overall question set having a plurality of questions and determining from the overall question set a basic question set, the basic question set including at least one basic question. The method further comprises associating an expected answer with at least one question of the basic question set and providing criteria for modifying the basic question set based on receiving an answer that differs from the expected answer. The method still further comprises optimizing an interactive customer survey with a customer using the overall question set, the basic question set, the expected answer and the criteria for modifying the basic question set. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066464 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF AUTOMATED CORRELATION OF DATA ACROSS DISTINCT SURVEYS - Disclosed are a method, an apparatus, and/or a system of automated correlation of data across distinct surveys. In one embodiment, a method includes conducting a survey on a set of participants. The method also includes obtaining a set of data from a set of participants through a network coupled to a data processing system. In addition, the method includes compiling the set of data in an enterprise resource based on the set of data obtained from the set of participants. The method further includes analyzing the set of data in the enterprise resource. The method also includes creating a marketing plan. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066465 | ARCHITECTURAL DYNAMIC CONTROL: INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL AND FEEDBACK SYSTEM FOR ARCHITECTURAL SETTINGS INCLUDING OFFICES - A smart, adaptive control system that monitors and influences physical conditions of an architectural setting. The architectural setting in which the system is deployed typically includes a plurality of private spaces and at least one community space. The individual private spaces, and the community spaces, may include an environmental control device that affects one or more physical conditions of the individual private space. Each private space may also include an environmental sensor that measures a particular physical condition of the private space. The private spaces may also include one or more occupant sensors, which measure either behavioral or physiological parameters of an occupant. The environmental control devices, environmental sensors, and occupant sensors are in communication with a computer. The computer is also in communication with a database, which houses a data set that describes how to best modify the physical conditions of the architectural setting. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066466 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TRANSITION PLANS FOR APPLICATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONS - A method and a system for generating one or more transition plans for one or more applications of an organization are provided. Transition information for identifying a set of applications for transition is obtained from information corresponding to the one or more applications. One or more groups of the identified set of applications are created. Further, one or more activities for transition execution are identified for each application of the identified set of applications. Thereafter, one or more transition plans comprising the one or more identified activities are generated. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066467 | SCHEDULING MULTIPLE PROJECTS USING PHASE WORK-IN-PROCESS AND RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS - Some embodiments provide a system for scheduling multiple projects. During operation, the system can receive a set of projects. Each project can be associated with a due date, and can include a group of tasks whose interdependencies are representable using a task dependency network. Next, the system can associate at least some tasks in some of the projects with a phase. The system can then determine project start times and project end times for at least some projects in the set of projects so that the aggregate weight of the projects that are in the phase at any given time is less than or equal to a work-in-process (WIP) limit associated with the phase. The system can also impose resource usage constraints. Further, the system can enable the user to evaluate the impact on the project schedules if the duration of one or more phases is changed. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066468 | DYNAMIC EVENT PLANNING THROUGH LOCATION AWARENESS - Discloses a computer-implemented apparatus for dynamic event planning for a plurality of attendees. Included is an event scheduler to schedule, update and delete events for the plurality of attendees, an event location finder invoked by the event scheduler to select at least one event location having an available timeslot for an event for the plurality of attendees, a transition requirement monitor invoked by the event scheduler to estimate a transition time from an origin location to the event location to determine if the available timeslot is feasible for the event, and a dynamic location tracker to track a location of the plurality of attendees and generate an event exception notice for the plurality of attendees if at least one attendee will be unable to attend the event at the event location at the available timeslot. Also disclosed is a computer-implemented method for dynamic event planning for a plurality of attendees and a computer program product for dynamic event planning for a plurality of attendees. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066469 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATION WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT ACROSS THE INTERNET - A method and system for managing the workflow of a translation agency between an administrator, multiple customers and multiple translators allows a business to systematically and consistently provide its customers with the best quality, in the shortest time, at the lowest cost, at any given time, given its current talent pool. The method computes a weighted value for each translator based on at least one of a translation quality rating, a translation speed rating, a translation cost rating, and a dependability rating. The method generates a dynamic availability for each translator using a translator's availability profile and a result to of a number of words already assigned for translation to a translator divided by a translator's translation speed. The method assigns a customer text file to a translator for translation based on a translator's weighted value and dynamic availability and a number of words in the customer text file. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066470 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTEXT BASED REMOTE ADVISOR CAPABILITIES TO USERS OF WEB APPLICATIONS - A method and system for providing context based remote advisor capabilities to users of web applications is provided. The method includes request for access to a live advisor by a user accessing a web application on an electronic communication device. The method further includes determining category of access of the web application. Thereafter, the method includes sending the access request through a server infrastructure to one or more advisor applications used by one or more advisors. The one or more advisor applications are executed on one or more electronic communication devices located remote to the electronic communication device used by the user. A communication session is then established between the advisor executing an advisor application with the user wherein real-time context information of the accessed web application is communicated to the advisor application. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066471 | DATA MATCHING AND SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN TWO APPLICATIONS - The invention relates to a method of data matching and synchronization between two applications using at least one management server and a client. The method includes a step of judging whether a sales opportunity in a customer relationship management service is associated with a folder in the document storage service and creating a new folder, obtaining folder identification information, and associating the sales opportunity with the new folder. Also included in the method are steps of creating a new sub-folder in the new folder, the new sub-folder corresponding to a category associated with the sales opportunity, uploading a file associated with the category and the sales opportunity and storing the uploaded file in the new sub-folder. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066472 | Internet-Based Benchmarking System and Method for Evaluating and Comparing Businesses Using Metrics - A system and method for evaluating and comparing businesses and, more specifically, to an Internet-based benchmarking or management tool or platform that provides one or more metrics by which a business owner may anonymously track, evaluate and compare the relative condition of its business with other similarly situated businesses of the same or related type whereby the one or more metrics are based upon the business' quantifiable data (e.g., profits, movement of inventory, etc) that is indicative of the business' operations such that a business owner may implement improvements to the business' operations in response to the information provided. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066473 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ONGOING EVALUATION REPORTING AND ANALYSIS - A research and development system that gathers feedback from patients and healthcare providers with respect to the their experience with various aspects of a supplier's products in order to tabulate, consolidate, compare and analyze the data received rapidly and efficiently, and which can be used on successive iterations to determine future products and services. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066474 | Method and System for for Financial Planning - A method and system for financial planning are provided. A first financial plan is prepared via a financial planning engine executing on a server for presenting to a customer via a customer interface. A second financial plan is prepared via the financial planning engine for presenting to a financial advisor via an advisor interface. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066475 | Systems and Methods for Providing Information Relating to Professional Growth - Systems and methods for providing information relating to professional growth are provided. A client provides client data regarding professional growth. The current level of professional growth of the client is determined, and the next level of professional growth is identified. The client is provided with information regarding the next level, based on the identification of the next level. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066476 | Business management assessment and consulting assistance system and associated method - The present invention is an automated system and method for managing the delivery of management knowledge and other resources. The invention includes the design of assessment instrument(s) based on affiliate/service provider objectives. Assessments include the evaluation and scoring on seven management practices. These practices and the Management Maturity Model (M3) are used to help users understand their business' or organization's maturity level. The system provides owners information from affiliates and other knowledge resource providers based on assessment results and other profile information. At different levels of access or subscription, the system assigns an advisor or consultant to a user. Advisors are provided access to assessment results and system-developed reports. The system provides the user questions to help describe the type of support needed. The advisor has access to the user's description of need and can provide a proposal for the user. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066477 | Device and method for creating, distributing, managing and monetizing widgets using templates - A computerized device, system and method for creating a widget. The device system and method may include creating a widget, including a widgetized existing code element, wherein creating the widget includes the use of at least one template widget, distributing the created widget, and reporting and tracking the distributed widget. The reporting and tracking the distributed widget may include at least one use via analytics of the distributed widget. The method, device and system may further include monetizing the widget to generate revenue based on the creating, and distributing. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066478 | ADVERTISING DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM - An advertising display control system includes a display stand on which merchandise is displayed. An audio-visual (AV) component on which a prerecorded promotional video of the merchandise is playable for viewing by consumers passing by the display stand. A controller is provided that monitors the state of the AV component, such as, whether it is powered on or off or whether there is no power to the system. A General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) module communicates the detected state of the AV component to a database. A user interface enables a remote user to access the database to monitor the detected state of the AV component. The GPRS module may also communicate video or photos of the displayed merchandise to the database to permit the user to remotely visually monitor the display stand. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066479 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMER LOYALTY AND ADVERTISING - Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for improving the operation and relevance of customer loyalty programs through geo-location, affiliate marketing and targeted advertising. | 2011-03-17 |
20110066480 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR EVENT-BASED CONTENT DISTRIBUTION AND DISPLAY - In various embodiments of the present invention, the determination of what content to distribute or play is determined by a set of triggers (events) and rules for processing the triggers. The rules are simple and actionable and the triggers are clear and unambiguous and relate directly to the rules. In such embodiments, a schedule can be accomplished by following the trigger and the rules, for example, to play a sequence of media at the occurrence of the triggers. | 2011-03-17 |