11th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100070213 | Method for Monitoring the Electrical Energy Quality in an Electrical Energy Supply System, Power Quality Field Device and Power Quality System - To carry out monitoring of the electrical energy quality of an electrical energy supply system using an electrical power quality field device with comparatively little complexity, a method performs the steps of: detecting a first measured value of a first power quality characteristic by a measuring device of a power quality field device arranged at a measurement point of the electrical energy supply system at a first measurement time; detecting a second measured value of the first power quality characteristic by the measuring device at a second measurement time, which directly follows the first measurement time; comparing the first and second measured values with at least one predetermined threshold value; and generating an event signal, which indicates a violation of the threshold value, precisely when one of the two measured values is above and one of the two measured values is below the threshold value. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070214 | System and method for identifying appliances by electrical characteristics - Illustrative embodiments provide systems, applications, apparatuses, computer software program products, and methods related to identification of electrical appliances by electrical characteristics. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070215 | System and method for identifying appliances by electrical characteristics - Illustrative embodiments provide systems, applications, apparatuses, computer software program products, and methods related to identification of electrical appliances by electrical characteristics. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070216 | POWER CONSUMPTION CALCULATION APPARATUS, POWER CONSUMPTION CALCULATION METHOD, AND STATE TRANSITION DATA GENERATION METHOD - A power consumption calculation apparatus is disclosed, including: a work load measurement part, a management part, and a power consumption calculation part. The work load measurement part measures a work load of a job executed by an image forming apparatus and records a measured value, at predetermined time intervals. The management part manages state transition data indicating power consumption and a required time for each of states of the image forming apparatus which transits in response to an execution of each job. The power consumption calculation part calculates a power consumption amount corresponding to one job execution at each predetermined time interval when it is determined that the job is executed, based on the measured value and the state transition data. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070217 | System and method for monitoring and management of utility usage - A system and method is provided to enable consumers to intelligently manage their consumption of energy. In one embodiment, waveform data is collected for a plurality of appliances which may be found in a residential or commercial setting using a plurality of multi-port outlet monitoring devices. The collected waveform data is processed and analyzed to obtain power consumption profiles that indicate power consumption on a per-appliance and/or per-outlet basis and/or per user basis. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070218 | System and method for identifying appliances by electrical characteristics - Illustrative embodiments provide systems, applications, apparatuses, computer software program products, and methods related to identification of electrical appliances by electrical characteristics. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070219 | EFFICIENCY MONITOR FOR INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSMISSION - An efficiency monitor for monitoring the efficiency of power transmission by an inductive power outlet. The efficiency monitor includes an input power monitor, for measuring the input power delivered to the primary coil, and an output power monitor, for measuring the output power received by the secondary coil. The input and output powers are used by a processor to determine an index of power-loss. A circuit breaker may be used to disconnect the inductive power outlet in case of excessive power loss. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070220 | Battery Charge Indication Methods, Battery Charge Monitoring Devices, Rechargeable Batteries, and Articles of Manufacture - Battery charge indication methods, battery state of charge monitoring devices, rechargeable batteries, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one aspect, a battery charge indication method includes first determining a state of charge of a battery at a first moment in time using a first method, second determining a state of charge of the battery at a second moment in time using a second method different than the first method, and providing information regarding the state of charge of the battery at the first and second moments in time using information of the first and second determinings. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070221 | System and Method for Sample Point Analysis with Threshold Setting - A signal analysis system that may include threshold setting for analyzing analog signals. The system may include a plurality of digitizers and adjustable power supplies for supplying threshold voltages for the digitizers. The system may digitize a set of analog signals, locate features and attributes in the digitized signals and determine a duty cycle for signals based on the signal features and attributes. The determined duty cycle may then be used to set threshold voltages on the power supplies. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070222 | TEST DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT A FUNCTION TEST ON A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The present invention provides a test device and a method for carrying out a function test on a communication system. The test device contains a transmission path having at least one leaky line antenna arranged in the aircraft cabin, a control device coupled to the transmission path for feeding an HF signal at a predetermined power level into the leaky line antenna, and at least one measuring mechanism coupled at a predetermined coupling point to the transmission path to measure the power level of the HF signal at the coupling point and to transmit a result signal which depends on the measured power level via the leaky line antenna to the control device. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070223 | TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUS PARAMETERS - A testing system for bus parameters includes a wave displaying unit and a control module connected to the wave displaying unit. The control module includes a decode unit, a testing unit connected to the decode unit, and an output unit connected to the testing unit. The decode unit is connected to the wave displaying unit. The wave displaying unit is configured for receiving an electronic signal from a bus to be tested. The decode unit is configured for decoding the electronic signal to determine if the electronic signal is valid. The testing unit tests parameters of the bus. The output unit displays testing results for the parameters. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070224 | System and method for identifying appliances by electrical characteristics - Illustrative embodiments provide systems, applications, apparatuses, computer software program products, and methods related to identification of electrical appliances by electrical characteristics. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070225 | System and method for identifying appliances by electrical characteristics - Illustrative embodiments provide systems, applications, apparatuses, computer software program products, and methods related to identification of electrical appliances by electrical characteristics. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070226 | Analysis of Chirp Frequency Response Using Arbitrary Resampling Filters - Log chirp testing where a log chirp may be provided to a device under test and a first time domain response from the device under test may be received. The first time domain response may be in the time domain. The first time domain response may be converted to the angular domain to create an angular domain response. Converting to the angular domain response may include resampling the time domain response from the time domain to the angular domain. The angular domain response may be filtered and/or analyzed. The angular domain response may be converted to a second time domain response. Similar to above, the conversion may include resampling the angular domain response from the angular domain to the time domain. The first time domain response and the second time domain response may be analyzed. Testing results of the device under test may be generated and stored based on said analyzing. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070227 | System and method for identifying appliances by electrical characteristics - Illustrative embodiments provide systems, applications, apparatuses, computer software program products, and methods related to identification of electrical appliances by electrical characteristics. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070228 | DETECTING NONLINEARITY IN A CABLE PLANT AND DETERMINING A CABLE LENGTH TO A SOURCE OF THE NONLINEARITY - An apparatus and a method for detecting a nonlinearity in a cable plant and for determining cable length to a source of the nonlinearity are disclosed. Upstream signal peaks are detected by averaging upstream signal waveforms. The upstream signal peaks are generated at the source of the nonlinearity from naturally occurring downstream signal peaks propagating in the cable plant. The downstream signal peaks occur due to constructive superposition of the downstream channel signals. Acquisition of the upstream signal waveforms is triggered by the downstream signal peaks. The cable length to the source of nonlinearity is determined from a time delay between the downstream signal peaks and the upstream signal peaks. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070229 | PREDICTION ALGORITHM FOR SCNNING AN OBJECT - A distance measuring measurement instrument and a method for such a station for scanning a surface or volume of an object are disclosed. The measurement instrument includes a position calculating circuit adapted to calculate position data including at least horizontal and vertical angle and distance between the measurement instrument and the object. A plurality of points in each of a number of subsets of a scanning area of the object during a measurement session and, at detection of a new point in the new subset, information related to at least one point having a corresponding location in at least one preceding subset is used, wherein the preceding subset being adjacent to the new subset. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070230 | INTEGRATED TESTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An exemplary method includes parsing data representative of an automated test case into at least one transaction defined in accordance with a global test language, translating the transaction into at least one command specific to an automated test tool, and providing the command to the automated test tool for execution. In certain examples, the method further includes parsing the data representative of the automated test case into at least one other transaction defined in accordance with the global test language, translating the other transaction into at least one other command specific to another automated test tool, and providing other command to the other automated test tool for execution. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070231 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEST CASE MANAGEMENT - The invention disclosed relates to a system and method for test case management, wherein the final ‘product’ to be developed is an amalgamation of a variety of ‘modules’ under the ‘product’ umbrella. The variety of ‘modules’ undergo metamorphosis in relation to various phases (that is, from conceptualization to designing to development to testing). At each of these stages, a different team is engaged to perform the relevant functions on the abovementioned modules. Hence, there is a need for a coherent, synchronized and hierarchical classification of the constituents (the modules in relation to their designing parameters, functionality parameters, testing parameters, performance parameters and the like), so that the different teams involved in different phases have a common platform for transferring information and for understanding the transferred information, and essentially for gaining a cohesive overview of the product to be developed. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070232 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CHIP FACILITY WAVEFORM FROM A SERIES OF CHIP SNAPSHOTS - Methods and corresponding test systems for generating a chip facility waveform from a series of chip snapshots. The methods including, (i) testing an integrated chip multiple times, each time increasing a clockstop delay delaying a clockstop generated by triggered error condition each time determining the state of state holding elements of the integrated circuit and (ii) testing an integrated circuit chip one time to generate a error condition and determining multiple times the states of state holding elements of the integrated circuit based on previous states of the state holding elements. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070233 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - A measurement apparatus includes an elastic detector configured to detect an elastic wave by utilizing a PAT and to convert the elastic wave into a detection signal, and a signal processor configured to calculate an absorption characteristic of a heterogeneous part included in a homogeneous part of a scattering medium based on μ | 2010-03-18 |
20100070234 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING CHANGES IN THE EFFICIENCY OF AN HVAC SYSTEM - The invention comprises systems and methods for evaluating changes in the operational efficiency of an HVAC system over time. The climate control system obtains temperature measurements from at least a first location conditioned by the climate system, and status of said HVAC system. One or more processors receives measurements of outside temperatures from at least one source other than said HVAC system and compares said temperature measurements from said first location with expected temperature measurements. The expected temperature measurements are based at least in part upon past temperature measurements. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070235 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A moving context and a moving time of a user are specified by acceleration information while the user is moving. The moving context represents the user's moving status. The acceleration information is measured by an acceleration sensor carried with the user. The moving context and the moving time are stored in time series. The moving context and the moving time between a moving start time and an arrival time are set as a moving pattern. A tag is set to the moving context in the moving pattern. The tag identifies a function to be executed for the moving context. A moving estimation pattern is generated as the moving pattern having the moving context and the moving time specified by acceleration information measured when the user is newly moving. The function identified by the tag is executed, when the moving context set with the tag in the moving estimation pattern coincides with a moving context specified by acceleration information measured while the user is newly moving. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070236 | BOLUS FOR RADIOTHERAPHY AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE SHAPE OF ONE SUCH BOLUS - A bolus that is intended to be irradiated during radiotherapy. Advantageously, the bolus is made from a polyurethane gel. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070237 | STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FOR MAINTENANCE OPTIMIZATION - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for identifying an interval for performing a maintenance task. The process retrieves scheduled maintenance data and un-scheduled in-service maintenance data for a given apparatus type. The process maps the un-scheduled in-service maintenance data to the scheduled maintenance data for the given apparatus type to form mapped maintenance data. The process performs a statistical analysis on the mapped maintenance data. The process identifies an optimal interval for performing the maintenance task based on a result of the statistical analysis to form a recommended maintenance interval. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070238 | Multiple sensor fusion engine - A method and system for of fusing the outputs of multiple sensors. The output of each sensor including a sensor class probability vector based on each sensor's classification database is input to a fusion engine which estimates a base class probability vector based on the sensor class probabilities output by the sensors and a preconfigured base database including base classes. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070239 | PERFORMANCE EVALUATION DEVICE AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION METHOD - A performance evaluation device and a performance evaluation method to evaluate at least one under-test module in a ROM of an electronic device are provided. The performance evaluation device comprises a time stamp counter, a measuring module, a recording module and a calculating module. The time stamp counter increments every time period to generate a time-stamp-number. The measuring module measures a unit-time time-stamp-number during a unit time to further calculates the time period. The recording module records a begin time-stamp-number when the at least one under-test module begins the operation and a finish time-stamp-number when the at least one under-test module finishes the operation. And the calculating module calculates an operation time data according to a difference between the begin time-stamp-number and the finish time-stamp-number and the time period. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070240 | DIAGNOSTIC MECHANISM IN DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURE TYPE MASS FLOW CONTROLLER - This invention provides a diagnostic mechanism of a differential pressure type mass flow controller comprising a diagnostic parameter calculating section that obtains a mass flow rate integrated value by means of an integrating calculation from the lowering pressure value of an inlet side sensor among the inlet side sensor and an outlet side sensor arranged in communication respectively at the inlet side and the outlet side of a differential pressure generating resistive element that generates a differential pressure between the inlet and the outlet by changing a flow rate control valve arranged on the channel where a fluid flows from a flow rate control state to a closed state, and further obtains a diagnostic volume value from the obtained mass flow rate integrated value, and a comparing section that compares the diagnostic volume value obtained at the diagnostic parameter calculating section with a specified volume value. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070241 | COMPUTER-BASED METHOD FOR AUTOMATED MODELLING AND DESIGN OF BUILDINGS - A computer-implemented method for producing a data representation of a specific building, in particular in the form of a house instance building information model (house instance BIM), by using a processor. A set of house product configuration data and a configuration rule instruction are retrieved, a first configuration input is received, the first configuration input triggers (a) the application of the at least one configuration rule instruction to the set of house product configuration data by using a configuration program that is executed in the processor to instantiate a configured house instance structure (HIS) formed of a plurality of HIS elements, or (b) the retrieval of a pre-instantiated house instance structure (HIS) and the application of the at least one configuration rule instruction to the set of house product configuration data and to the pre-instantiated house instance structure by using a configuration program that is executed in the processor to produce a configured house instance structure (HIS) formed of a plurality of HIS elements. From a product BIM (PBIM) element data store ( | 2010-03-18 |
20100070242 | METHOD FOR THE COMPUTER-ASSISTED DESIGN OF A MECHANICAL ASSEMBLY - The invention relates to a method for the computer-assisted design of a mechanical assembly, that comprises at least: a step of graphic three-dimensional modeling of the mechanical assembly that can be piloted by several elementary solids (SE) that can be parametered at least geometrically by the user independently from each other, each elementary solid comprising a geometric structure that can be at least geometrically parametered by the user and representing a portion of a part or a recess of a portion of a part, a part being a structure in which all the structures are immobile relative to each other, the parametered geometric structures of the elementary solids being generic for several different mechanical assemblies and having the same function, wherein the parametering of said structures can be different from mechanical assembly to the other, while the elementary solids on one hand and the graphic modeling on the other hand are stored in distinct files so that said graphic modeling can still be piloted by said elementary solids and so that the re-use of said generic geometric structures is made easier for the user. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070243 | Wire Harness Unfolding - Various implementations of the invention provide methods and apparatus for determining an unfolded connector clocking angle corresponding to a folded wire harness. More particularly, various implementations of the invention may be employed to manipulate or “unfold” a three-dimensional wire harness representation into a two-dimensional representation such that the two-dimensional connector clocking angle may be determined. In various implementations of the invention, the wire harness is approximated as an alternating series of straight segments and curved segments. Subsequently, the curved segments are straightened or “unfolded” such that the wire harness may be contained within a single geometric plane. As the curved segments are unfolded, the positioning of the wire harness connectors and the connector clocking angles is transformed. As a result, the connector clocking angles for an unfolded wire harness may be determined. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070244 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE ACTIVE DISPLAY AND UPDATING OF SITING PLANS - Systems and methods for updating and displaying the availability of models for at least one model to be sited on a set of at least one lot of a siting plan. The method includes: determining the at least one model; determining the availability of each model to be sited on each lot; displaying siting plan data corresponding to the siting plan (with the siting plan indicating the model availability for each lot); receiving a change to the model availability corresponding to a first lot in the set; determining any required change to the model availability for any of the lots in the set other than the first lot; and displaying siting plan data corresponding to an updated siting plan. The updated siting plan may reflect the received change to the model availability data for the first lot as well as the required changes to the model availability data for any of the lots in the set other than the first lot. Additionally, the method may include displaying a siting plan layout corresponding to the updated siting plan. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070245 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM INCLUDING MULTIPLE CARS IN A HOISTWAY DESTINATION ENTRY CONTROL AND PARKING POSITIONS - An elevator system includes multiple cars within a hoistway. Parking positions are provided outside the range of passenger service levels. A destination entry strategy is used by a controller for directing movement of the elevator cars. The inventive combination of multiple cars in a hoistway, parking positions outside of the normal passenger service level range and destination entry car movement control allows for reducing car travel speed, reducing car size or both while still meeting desired handling capacity needs or even exceeding the desired handling capacity associated with another elevator system that requires larger cars, higher speeds and more building space. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070246 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME CLOTH SIMULATION - A cloth simulation system is provided which comprises a position calculation module calculating relative positions of adjacent vertices among a plurality of vertices on the cloth in the next time step, using the positions of the vertices in the previous time steps; an analysis module establishing an equation of motion of the respective vertices using the relative positions; and an updating module updating the positions of the respective vertices using the equation of motion, whereby the texture and reality of cloth is increased furthermore, a motion of the cloth is calculated in real-time, so that there is no inconvenience to fabricate clothes animation in advance depending upon the number of the motions of to-be-expressed object, thereby con | 2010-03-18 |
20100070247 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING STATES OF A POWER ELECTRONIC SYSTEM - A method is disclosed for estimating states of a power electronic system, the system having a converter circuit. An exemplary method includes varying a system state vector x(k) and a system state vector x(k+1) for each of sampling times k=−N+1 to k=0 in such a manner that a sum formed by an addition of a first vector norm obtained by subtracting a first system model function f(x(k), u(k)) from the system state vector x(k+1), and another vector norm obtained by subtracting a second system model function g(x(k), u(k)) from the output variable vector y(k), becomes minimal over the sampling times k=−N+1 to k=0. A desired system state vector x(k) at the sampling time k=0 can then be selected. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070248 | GENERATION OF CONTROLS FOR A SIMULATOR MOBILE PLATFORM - The present invention relates to a method for generating motion controls for a mobile platform of a vehicle simulator. The method uses, as input, accelerations calculated by a process for simulating the behavior of the vehicle. The method according to the invention comprises the steps of: filtering the accelerations calculated accelerations by use of a filter constructed according to a mathematical model of human perception of a motion; calculating successive positions of the mobile platform as a function of the filtered acceleration controls; scaling the positions of the mobile platform as a function of physical limitations of the mobile platform, to produce scaled successive positions of the mobile platform; and calculating acceleration controls to be applied by the mobile platform, as a function of the scaled successive positions of the mobile platform, to produce calculated acceleration controls. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070249 | Method and System for Generating a Personalized Anatomical Heart Model - A method and system for generating a patient specific anatomical heart model is disclosed. Volumetric image data, such as computed tomography (CT) or echocardiography image data, of a patient's cardiac region is received. Individual models for multiple heart components, such as the left ventricle (LV) endocardium, LV epicardium, right ventricle (RV), left atrium (LA), right atrium (RA), mitral valve, aortic valve, aorta, and pulmonary trunk, are estimated in said volumetric cardiac image data. A patient specific anatomical heart model is generated by integrating the individual models for each of the heart components. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070250 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING PERFORMANCE OF ELECTRICAL POWER CABLES - A computer simulation method is disclosed for simulating an electrical cable having a stranded conductor surrounded by a conductor shield encased in an insulation jacket and having an interstitial void volume in the region of the conductor injected with a fluid composition comprising at least one dielectric enhancement fluid component so as to at least partially fill the interstitial void volume at an initial time. The simulation method comprises for a selected length of the simulated cable, defining a plurality of radially arranged finite volumes extending the selected length of the simulated cable, and estimating the radial temperature of each finite volume. For a selected time period after the initial time, performing a series of steps at least once and outputting or otherwise using the value of the new concentration for the dielectric enhancement fluid component within each finite volume. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070251 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING COMPLEX SYSTEMS BY INTEGRATING SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODELS - A method for simulating complex systems over time using a system dynamics approach is provided including defining a first model of a complex system, the first model having a first model variable; defining a second model of the complex system, the second model having a second model variable; executing the first model by modifying the first model variable to obtain a first model output; executing the second model by passing the first model output to the second model and modifying the second model variable based the first model output to obtain a second model output; defining a simulation result based on the first and second model outputs; and outputting the simulation result. Furthermore, the first model is either a non-subscripted system dynamics model or a subscripted system dynamics model, and the second model is either a non-scripted system dynamics model or a scripted system dynamics model. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070252 | MANIPULATION SIMULATOR - A manipulation simulator including an input member which moves in response to a driver's braking operation; a reaction force generation device which generates a reaction force according to an amount of deformation; an output member which deforms the reaction force generation device; and a transmission device between the input member and the output member, which transmits a reaction force of the reaction force generation device to the input member via the output member. The input member moves rectilinearly; the reaction force generation device generates a reaction force linearly according to its deformation amount; the transmission device converts the input member rectilinear motion to a rotary motion that is transmitted to the output member; and the ratio of the amount of output member motion to the amount of input member motion is varied continuously and nonlinearly according to the amount of input member motion. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070253 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRAFFIC SIMULATION OF ROAD NETWORK - According to one embodiment, a system is disclosed, which uses road parameters defining the road network and model parameters used as initial-value parameters, thereby performing traffic simulation by the microsimulation method. The system includes a traffic simulator and a display controller. The traffic simulator performs traffic simulation to predict a traffic condition on an object road of a road network. The display controller controls a display unit, displaying the result of the simulation. More precisely, the display controller displays a dynamic image showing the traffic condition of vehicles running on the road network, on the screen of the display unit, and changes the image in terms of pattern, in accordance with a display instruction. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070254 | 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 on an object volume by a virtual tool that is associated with the haptic simulating device. The object volume includes tissue voxels, null voxels, and object boundary points located between corresponding adjacent pairs of the tissue and null voxels. The method includes: (a) obtaining a current center position of the virtual tool; (b) determining a current tool subvolume of the object volume; and (c) upon determining that the current tool subvolume has at least one tissue voxel, performing the sub-steps of: (c-1) determining positions of tool boundary points within the current tool subvolume, (c-2) updating labeling of the voxels within the current tool subvolume and replacing an original set of the object boundary points within the current tool subvolume with a new set of the object boundary points, and (c-3) providing force information of a force to be generated by the haptic simulating device. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070255 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING A PLURALITY OF DEVICES - A method and system for simulating a plurality of devices are disclosed. A simulator configured to simulate a plurality of devices may output simulated device data for the plurality of devices, where the output of the simulated device data may be performed based upon execution of commands by the simulator. The commands may be received from a device abstraction layer in response to a request from the simulator for any commands associated with the plurality of devices. Additionally, the simulated device data may be communicated to a component coupled to the simulator, where a result of the processing of the simulated device data by the component may be used to analyze the performance of the component. Further, other commands may be executed by simulator for changing the frequency at which simulated device data is output, for performing another operation defined during configuration of the simulator, etc. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070256 | METHOD, SERVER, AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED DATA NETWORK - There is provided a method for predicting performance in a data network, wherein the method includes, in at least one embodiment, associating one of at least one geographical positions with a set of client communications link measurements related to a client device at a time instant, and predicting a first performance factor pertaining to an access point communications link between a new access point at the geographical position and one of a number of existing access points. In at least one embodiment, the prediction is based on a subset of the set of client communications link measurements, and the subset is associated with one of the number of existing access points. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070257 | Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Evaluating Electrical Circuits From Information Stored in Simulation Dump Files - Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer program products for evaluating performance aspects of electrical circuits, and particularly digital logic circuits. An exemplary method comprises obtaining access to a simulation dump file comprising state indications of the values of a plurality of signals of an electrical circuit at a plurality of simulation time points, and receiving an evaluation task that defines an output based on one or more input signals, with each input signal being a signal for which state indications are provided in the simulation dump file. The method further comprises generating, from the simulation dump file, one or more state representations for the input signals of the evaluation task, with each state representation being representative of the state of an input signal over a period of simulation time, and generating values of the output of the evaluation task at a plurality of simulation time points from the state representations. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070258 | System, Method, and Program Product for Targeting and Identification of Optimal Process Variables in Constrained Energy Recovery Systems - Systems, methods, and program product to calculate global energy utility targets and to model and determine an optimal solution for a non-thermodynamically constrained process or cluster of processes subject to non-thermodynamic constraints under all possible process changes and streams specific minimum temperature approaches, are provided. An exemplary system can utilize thermodynamic constraints exhibited in stream-specific minimum temperature approach values ΔT | 2010-03-18 |
20100070259 | Browser session control system and method - The present invention provides a system and method for controlling a web browser session. A system for controlling a web browser session comprises an emulating engine for automatic control of a web browser session by processing a script. The system further comprises a controlling engine for receiving a plurality of scripts and managing the distribution of the scripts to several emulating engines. A method for controlling a web browser session comprises providing a controller for receiving a script comprising unique tags and managing the script, including assigning the script to an emulator. The emulator then processes the script. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070260 | Verification device, verifying apparatus and verification system - Provided is a verification system which improves the efficiency of operation verification in the development of digital LSIs. In the verification system, a verification device can communicate with a verifying apparatus through a bus interface. In the verification device, first and second partial circuits communicating with each other constitute a target for operation verification, i.e., a to-be-verified circuit. The verifying apparatus includes a software emulator which causes a CPU to execute, through a program, calculation corresponding to processing executed by the first partial circuit. A destination selection circuit is installed in a connection path between the first and second partial circuits, and is capable of switching a communication destination of the second partial circuit between the first partial circuit and the software emulator. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070261 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING ERRORS IN MACHINE TRANSLATION USING PARALLEL CORPUS - A method for automatically detecting errors in machine translation using a parallel corpus includes analyzing morphemes of a target language sentence in the parallel corpus and a machine-translated target language sentence, corresponding to a source language sentence, to classify the morphemes into words; aligning by words and decoding, respectively, a group of the source language sentence and the machine-translated target language sentence, and a group of the source language sentence and the target language sentence in the parallel corpus; classifying by types errors in the machine-translated target language sentence by making a comparison, word by word, between the decoded target language sentence in the parallel corpus and the decoded machine-translated target language sentence; and computing error information in the machine-translated target language sentence by examining a frequency of occurrence of the classified error types. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070262 | ADAPTING CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FOR A TARGET COLLECTION - A method and system for generating a bilingual dictionary that maps words of the source language to words of a target language is provided. A Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (“CLIR”) system accesses a parallel collection that is comprised of a parallel source collection and a parallel target collection, and generates a similarity score for sentences of the parallel target collection indicating the similarity of those sentences to sentences of the target collection. When the CLIR system generates a bilingual dictionary from the sentences of the parallel collection, it factors in the similarities of the sentences of the parallel target collection to sentences in the target collection. By factoring these similarities, the CLIR system allows sentences with a high similarity to have a greater influence on the mapping of words of the source language to the words of the target language than sentences with a low similarity. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070263 | SPEECH DATA RETRIEVING WEB SITE SYSTEM - A speech data retrieving Web site system is provided which may improve erroneous indexing with participation of a user by allowing the user to correct text data obtained by conversion using a speech recognition technique. Speech data published on a Web is converted into text data by a speech recognition section | 2010-03-18 |
20100070264 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHANGING LANGUAGE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - An apparatus and a method for supporting many languages in a mobile communication terminal are provided. In the method, at least two installable languages are determined from a multi language image file comprising language packages of at least two languages. One of the at least two installable languages is selected and installed. The multi language image file is stored. When a language is to be changed, at least two changeable languages are determined from the multi language image file. The installed language is changed by selecting one of the at least two changeable languages. Therefore, a language to be used can be easily changed without separately downloading installation information of languages. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070265 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MULTILINGUAL REGULATION MANAGEMENT - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for automatically displaying regulations in a first language from a search in a second language under the invention, a regulation storage module is configured to store a regulation of a country and associated information in a first language in a database. A regulation search module is configured to search in a second language information in the database regarding a regulation in the first language. A display module is configured to display the regulation identified by the regulation search module. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070266 | Performance metrics for telephone-intensive personnel - Systems and methods for generating performance metrics to monitor and/or enhance the performance of telephone-intensive personnel are disclosed. The method generally includes detecting voice activity on a receive and/or a transmit channel in a communications system, outputting voicing decision outputs based on the detecting, storing the voicing decision outputs over a period of time to memory, and generating voice activity performance metrics based on the voicing decision output stored in the memory. The generating may include generating a running average ratio of duration of voice activity on the transmit channel to duration of voice activity on the receive channel (talk-listen ratio) over a certain period of time for one or more agents. The talk-listen ratio may be compared to a target ratio. The system may generally include a voice activity detector (VAD) configured to detect voice activity on a receive and/or transmit channel in a communications system, a memory to store outputs from the VAD, and a voice activity analyzer configured to generate performance metrics based on the VAD outputs stored in the memory. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070267 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QOS IMPROVEMENT WITH PACKET VOICE TRANSMISSION OVER WIRELESS LANS - A method for improving packetized speech transmitted over a wireless LAN is disclosed. Speech packets transmitted over the wireless LAN are monitored for errors. Any of the speech packets found to have errors are replaced with synthesized speech packets. The synthesized speech packets may be created from a vocal tract model generated from the received speech packets during periods of time when there are no errors. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070268 | MULTIMODAL UNIFICATION OF ARTICULATION FOR DEVICE INTERFACING - A system for a multimodal unification of articulation includes a voice signal modality to receive a voice signal, and a control signal modality which receives an input from a user and generates a control signal from the input which is selected from predetermined inputs directly corresponding to the phonetic information. The interactive voice based phonetic input system also includes a multimodal integration system to receive and integrates the voice signal and the control signal. The multimodal integration system delimits a context of a spoken utterance of the voice signal by using the control signal to preprocess and discretize into phonetic frames. A voice recognizer analyzing the voice signal integrated with the control signal to output a voice recognition result. This new paradigm helps overcome constraints found in interfacing mobile devices. Context information facilitates the handling of the commands in the application environment. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070269 | Adding Second Enhancement Layer to CELP Based Core Layer - In an embodiment, a method of transmitting an input audio signal is disclosed. A first coding error of the input audio signal with a scalable codec having a first enhancement layer is encoded, and a second coding error is encoded using a second enhancement layer after the first enhancement layer. Encoding the second coding error includes coding fine spectrum coefficients of the second coding error to produce coded fine spectrum coefficients, and coding a spectral envelope of the second coding error to produce a coded spectral envelope. The coded fine spectrum coefficients and the coded spectral envelope are transmitted. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070270 | CELP Post-processing for Music Signals - In one embodiment, a method of receiving a decoded audio signal that has a transmitted pitch lag is disclosed. The method includes estimating pitch correlations of possible short pitch lags that are smaller than a minimum pitch limitation and have an approximated multiple relationship with the transmitted pitch lag, checking if one of the pitch correlations of the possible short pitch lags is large enough compared to a pitch correlation estimated with the transmitted pitch lag, and selecting a short pitch lag as a corrected pitch lag if a corresponding pitch correlation is large enough. The postprocessing is performed using the corrected pitch lag. In another embodiment, when the existence of irregular harmonics or wrong pitch lag is detected, a coded-excited linear prediction (CELP) postfilter is made more aggressive. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070271 | Transmission error concealment in audio signal - A method of concealing transmission error in a digital audio signal, wherein a signal that has been decoded after transmission is received, the samples decoded while the transmitted data is valid are stored, at least one short-term prediction operator and one long-term prediction operator are estimated as a function of stored valid samples, and any missing or erroneous samples in the decoder signal are generated using the estimated operators. The energy of the synthesized signal that is thus generated is controlled by means of a gain that is computed and adapted sample by sample. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070272 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A SIGNAL - An apparatus for processing an encoded signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which an audio signal can be compressed and reconstructed in higher efficiency. An audio signal processing method includes the steps of identifying whether a coding type of the audio signal is a music signal coding type using first type information, if the coding type of the audio signal is not the music signal coding type, identifying whether the coding type of the audio signal is a speech signal coding type or a mixed signal coding type using second type information, if the coding type of the audio signal is the mixed signal coding type, extracting spectral data and a linear predictive coefficient from the audio signal, generating a residual signal for linear prediction by performing inverse frequency conversion on the spectral data, reconstructing the audio signal by performing linear prediction coding on the linear predictive coefficient and the residual signal, and reconstructing a high frequency region signal using an extension base signal corresponding to a partial region of the reconstructed audio signal and band extension information. Accordingly, various kinds of audio signals can be encoded/decoded in higher efficiency. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070273 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS AND VOICE RECOGNITION IN METROLOGIC EQUIPMENT - An electronic test equipment apparatus is provided. A metrologic device is adapted for creating stimulus signals and capturing responses from electronic devices under test (DUTs). An auditory device is in communication with the metrologic device. The auditory device is adapted for converting an output of the metrologic device to an audio signal to be heard by a user. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070274 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION BASED ON SOUND SOURCE SEPARATION AND SOUND SOURCE IDENTIFICATION - An apparatus for a speech recognition based on source separation and identification includes: a sound source separator for separating mixed signals, which are input to two or more microphones, into sound source signals by using independent component analysis (ICA), and estimating direction information of the separated sound source signals; and a speech recognizer for calculating normalized log likelihood probabilities of the separated sound source signals. The apparatus further includes a speech signal identifier identifying a sound source corresponding to a user's speech signal by using both of the estimated direction information and the reliability information based on the normalized log likelihood probabilities. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070275 | SPEECH TO MESSAGE PROCESSING - Voice message processors are configured to produce text representations of voice messages. The text representations can be compacted based on one or more abbreviation libraries or rule libraries. Abbreviation processing can be applied to produce a compact text representation based on display properties of a destination device or to enhance user perception. Text representation length can be reduced based on abbreviations in a standard abbreviation list, a user specific abbreviation list, or a combination of standard and custom lists. In some examples, text length is shortened based on stored rules. Mobile stations are configured to receive text representations of voice messages and request delivery of the associated voice messages based on message identifiers or message availability indicators that are presented on mobile station display. Network elements comprise a voice message processor and are configured to produce text representations and deliver text representation or voice messages based as requested by message recipients. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070276 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTION OR DISCOURSE ANALYTICS - A method and apparatus for analyzing and segmenting a vocal interaction captured in a test audio source, the test audio source captured within an environment. The method and apparatus first use text and acoustic features extracted from the interaction with tagging information, for constructing a model. Then, at production time, text and acoustic features are extracted from the interactions, and by applying the model, tagging information is retrieved for the interaction, enabling analysis, flow visualization or further processing of the interaction. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070277 | VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICE, VOICE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND VOICE RECOGNITION PROGRAM - A voice recognition device that recognizes a voice of an input voice signal, comprises a voice model storage unit that stores in advance a predetermined voice model having a plurality of detail levels, the plurality of detail levels being information indicating a feature property of a voice for the voice model; a detail level selection unit that selects a detail level, closest to a feature property of an input voice signal, from the detail levels of the voice model stored in the voice model storage unit; and a parameter setting unit that sets parameters for recognizing the voice of an input voice according to the detail level selected by the detail level selection unit. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070278 | Method for Creating a Speech Model - A transformation can be derived which would represent that processing required to convert a male speech model to a female speech model. That transformation is subjected to a predetermined modification, and the modified transformation is applied to a female speech model to produce a synthetic children's speech model. The male and female models can be expressed in terms of a vector representing key values defining each speech model and the derived transformation can be in the form of a matrix that would transform the vector of the male model to the vector of the female model. The modification to the derived matrix comprises applying an exponential p which has a value greater than zero and less than 1. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070279 | PIECEWISE-BASED VARIABLE -PARAMETER HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS AND THE TRAINING THEREOF - A speech recognition system uses Gaussian mixture variable-parameter hidden Markov models (VPHMMs) to recognize speech under many different conditions. Each Gaussian mixture component of the VPHMMs is characterized by a mean parameter μ and a variance parameter Σ. Each of these Gaussian parameters varies as a function of at least one environmental conditioning parameter, such as, but not limited to, instantaneous signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR). The way in which a Gaussian parameter varies with the environmental conditioning parameter(s) can be approximated as a piecewise function, such as a cubic spline function. Further, the recognition system formulates the mean parameter μ and the variance parameter Σ of each Gaussian mixture component in an efficient form that accommodates the use of discriminative training and parameter sharing. Parameter sharing is carried out so that the otherwise very large number of parameters in the VPHMMs can be effectively reduced with practically feasible amounts of training data. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070280 | PARAMETER CLUSTERING AND SHARING FOR VARIABLE-PARAMETER HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS - A speech recognition system uses Gaussian mixture variable-parameter hidden Markov models (VPHMMs) to recognize speech. The VPHMMs include Gaussian parameters that vary as a function of at least one environmental conditioning parameter. The relationship of each Gaussian parameter to the environmental conditioning parameter(s) is modeled using a piecewise fitting approach, such as by using spline functions. In a training phase, the recognition system can use clustering to identify classes of spline functions, each class grouping together spline functions which are similar to each other based on some distance measure. The recognition system can then store sets of spline parameters that represent respective classes of spline functions. An instance of a spline function that belongs to a class can make reference to an associated shared set of spline parameters. The Gaussian parameters can be represented in an efficient form that accommodates the use of sharing in the above-summarized manner. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070281 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUDIBLY PRESENTING SELECTED TEXT - Disclosed herein are methods for presenting speech from a selected text that is on a computing device. This method includes presenting text on a touch-sensitive display and having that text size within a threshold level so that the computing device can accurately determine the intent of the user when the user touches the touch screen. Once the user touch has been received, the computing device identifies and interprets the portion of text that is to be selected, and subsequently presents the text audibly to the user. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070282 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING TRANSACTION SUCCESS RATES FOR VOICE REMINDER APPLICATIONS IN E-COMMERCE - Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for improving transaction success rates for voice reminder applications in e-commerce. In one embodiment of the invention, the voice reminder applications in e-commerce utilizes a network-based text-to-speech (TTS) alert system, which can generate a purchase reminder associated with a recipient's potential purchase. The network-based text-to-speech (TTS) alert system can also deliver the purchase reminder to a recipient's voicemail and leave a transaction identifier number and a centralized or a recipient-specific call-back phone number to the recipient's voicemail. A recipient can utilize the transaction identifier number, the centralized or the recipient-specific call-back phone number, and optionally a recipient-specific password to make a phone call to retrieve the purchase reminder previously delivered to the recipient's voicemail by the network-based text-to-speech (TTS) alert system. Then, the recipient can authorize and/or complete a transaction related to the purchase reminder over the same phone call. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070283 | VOICE EMPHASIZING DEVICE AND VOICE EMPHASIZING METHOD - A voice emphasizing device emphasizes in a speech a “strained rough voice” at a position where a speaker or user of the speech intends to generate emphasis or musical expression. Thereby, the voice emphasizing device can provide the position with emphasis of anger, excitement, tension, or an animated way of speaking, or musical expression of Enka (Japanese ballad), blues, rock, or the like. As a result, rich vocal expression can be achieved. The voice emphasizing device includes: an emphasis utterance section detection unit ( | 2010-03-18 |
20100070284 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A SIGNAL - An apparatus for processing an encoded signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which an audio signal can be compressed and reconstructed in higher efficiency. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070285 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL - The present invention includes receiving a plurality of frame data including first frame data and second frame data encoded by at least one coding schemes, obtaining first flag information indicating whether the first frame data and the second frame data are encoded by frequency domain transform coding scheme, respectively, decoding the first frame data by frequency domain transform coding scheme based on the first flag information when the first frame data is encoded by frequency domain transform coding scheme, obtaining second flag information indicating whether subframe data is encoded by time domain transform coding scheme or time-frequency domain coding scheme when the second frame data is not encoded by frequency domain transform coding scheme, the at least two subframe data being included in the second frame data, decoding the subframe data by time domain transform coding scheme or time-frequency domain transform coding scheme based on the second flag information, and compensating for discontinuity existing between the first frame data decoded by frequency domain transform coding scheme and the subframe data decoded by time domain transform coding scheme, wherein the time-frequency domain coding scheme is time domain coding scheme including frequency domain transform. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070286 | Technique for controlling codec selection along a complex call path - The invention relates to a technique of operating a call control node controlling at least one section of a call path. The call path includes between two opposite edge nodes a multi-section harmonization path along which codec selection is to be harmonized. A method embodiment of the technique, wherein the call control node is a transfer node in the harmonization path between the edge nodes, comprises the steps of determining if the call control node is a transfer node of the harmonization path; determining if a codec used for the at least one section controlled by the call control node fulfils a predefined harmonization criterion; and providing, in case the used codec does not fulfill the harmonization criterion, a harmonization trigger indication to at least one of the edge nodes of the harmonization path for initiating harmonization. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070287 | ADAPTING MASKING THRESHOLDS FOR ENCODING A LOW FREQUENCY TRANSIENT SIGNAL IN AUDIO DATA - An improved audio coding technique encodes audio having a low frequency transient signal, using a long block, but with a set of adapted masking thresholds. Upon identifying an audio window that contains a low frequency transient signal, masking thresholds for the long block may be calculated as usual. A set of masking thresholds calculated for the 8 short blocks corresponding to the long block are calculated. The masking thresholds for low frequency critical bands are adapted based on the thresholds calculated for the short blocks, and the resulting adapted masking thresholds are used to encode the long block of audio data. The result is encoded audio with rich harmonic content and negligible coder noise resulting from the low frequency transient signal. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070288 | Method and System for Efficiently Transforming Online Ad Creatives Using Dynamically Compiled Templates - A method and system are provided for transforming online ad creatives using dynamically compiled ad templates. In one example, the method includes receiving one or more ad templates into a memory, pre-compiling at least one ad template into object code, converting the object code to a native dynamic library, and loading the native dynamic library into a random access memory. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070289 | Architectural Design for Embedded Support Application Software - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing embedded support. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The process components include, for example, a Support Request Processing process component that handles a request reflecting the initial inquiry to clarify and solve an incident during the operations of an IT system and a Software Problem Reporting process component that handles the collection and reporting of context data in the IT system. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070290 | Get home smart card - A gift card and toll free number for the sole purpose of a Taxi ride to a residence or motel/hotel. Gift card will be sold at retail establishments in specific monetary increments. Gift card is a four part card assembly that has a magnetic stripe, barcode, individually numbered, keytag, aperture and portion for monetary increments. There is a toll free number which will be used to contact a Taxi member by entering zip code for dispatch. There will be a website. A specific amount of gratuity will be automatically paid to destination balance. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070291 | Business_on_a_page - Enterprise architecture is an emerging discipline that cuts across arts, science and religion. Enterprise architecture is increasingly seen as the best way to optimize existing IT investment while planning for future growth in areas like green IT, healthcare IT and medical tourism. Only by establishing a blueprint with which to operate can companies comply with corporate and government mandates requiring closer alignment of business processes with IT investment. Further, since change is a constant in IT, the blueprint must be dynamic enough to anticipate and adapt to evolving business models and economic trends. The blueprints are built on the Beijing Olympics with the One World theme. They cover people, plants and animals, can be applied to person and product complaints and provides the foundation for globalization, mass customization and personalized medicine. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070292 | Masked Data Transaction Database - A database for masked data transactions is presented in which data masks are applied to sensitive personal information so that non-masked portions of that information can be used in the selection of products, services and service providers for a consumer. In one application the database is utilized in the selection of healthcare products, services and providers based on pangenetic (genetic and epigenetic) and non-pangenetic information associated with the consumer. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070293 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING A COURSE OF ACTION IN A REAL-TIME CASE BASED ON ANALYSIS OF TREND DATA IN HISTORICAL CASES - Systems and methods for determining a course of action in a real-time case based on analysis of trend data in historical cases. The system includes an historical initial data interface; an historical outcome interface; an historical response interface; an historical database; a trend analyzer; and a trend analysis interface. The method includes obtaining historical initial data for more than one historical case; associating an historical response and an historical outcome with each of the historical cases; storing the historical initial data and the associated historical responses and outcomes for each of the historical cases; identifying trends between the historical initial data and the associated historical responses and outcomes in the historical cases; obtaining initial data for the real-time case; and determining a course of action in the real-time case based on the identified trends from historical cases having similar historical initial data to the initial data in the real-time case. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070294 | CREATING AND COMMUNICATING STAFFING ASSIGNMENTS - An automated apparatus, method and system are provided for creating and communicating staffing assignments associated with a plurality of patients receiving treatment in multiple different areas within a healthcare facility and in association with multiple different phases of treatment. In particular, a centralized staff assignment application or module is provided, wherein a staff assignor may access the staff assignment application in order to identify, among other things: (1) staff members capable of facilitating treatment to patients within each area of the healthcare facility; (2) the roles each of those staff members is capable of performing; (3) the peri-operative phase associated with each phase; and (4) the patients scheduled to receive treatment in each of the areas in association with each of the phases. This information may thereafter be used to make staffing assignments, which may be communicated to individuals and applications throughout the healthcare facility. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070295 | CENTRALIZED MARKETPLACE FOR HEALTHCARE APPOINTMENTS ACROSS PRACTICE GROUPS - Systems and methods for aggregating available healthcare appointment times across multiple unaffiliated practitioner groups, including search and display algorithms. A centralized marketplace is provided for real time booking of healthcare appointments which does not require the patient to have a preexisting relationship with the practitioner. The aggregated booking system enhances the number of available near term and conveniently located appointment options while the search and display algorithms reduce the complexity of the patient and practitioner information required to maintain accurate and synchronized database booking records. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070296 | PATIENT VERIFICATION FOR BOOKING OF HEALTHCARE APPOINTMENTS ACROSS PRACTICE GROUPS - Systems and methods for aggregating available healthcare appointment times across multiple unaffiliated practitioner groups, including search and display algorithms. A centralized marketplace is provided for real time booking of healthcare appointments which does not require the patient to have a preexisting relationship with the practitioner. The aggregated booking system enhances the number of available near term and conveniently located appointment options while the search and display algorithms reduce the complexity of the patient and practitioner information required to maintain accurate and synchronized database booking records. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070297 | DATA SYNCHRONIZATION FOR BOOKING OF HEALTHCARE APPOINTMENTS ACROSS PRACTICE GROUPS - Systems and methods for aggregating available healthcare appointment times across multiple unaffiliated practitioner groups, including search and display algorithms. A centralized marketplace is provided for real time booking of healthcare appointments which does not require the patient to have a preexisting relationship with the practitioner. The aggregated booking system enhances the number of available near term and conveniently located appointment options while the search and display algorithms reduce the complexity of the patient and practitioner information required to maintain accurate and synchronized database booking records. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070298 | Method for Competitive Prescription Drug and/or Bidding Service Provider Selection - Unfilled prescriptions are submitted to a registry comprising pre-qualified pharmacies for a “reverse auction” in which the pharmacies bid for the opportunity to fill the prescription. The pharmacies are allowed to bid based on price and/or offering ancillary services. The auction may also be used to bid on supplying specified pharmaceutical cognitive services. The method may also include obtaining cost comparisons with generic substitutes or similar alternative pharmaceutical products. The system may further comprise automatically requesting a review by the prescriber for a list of similar substitutes or prior-authorization for third party payers. The winner of the reverse auction is selected by the customer. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070299 | TIME MANAGEMENT IN A HEALTHCARE FACILITY - A time management system for monitoring a patient in a healthcare facility is disclosed herein. The time management system comprises a monitoring device to monitor the progress of a procedure being undergone by the patient in the healthcare facility and output a monitored signal indicative of the progress of the procedure, as well as an indicator to indicate the progress of the procedure based on at least the monitored signal. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070300 | Apparatus, System and Method for Natural History of Disease - An apparatus, system, and method for presentation of a natural history and the progression pathway of a disease is presented. In one embodiment, the apparatus an input/output adapter configured to receive information to generate a health profile for an individual. The apparatus may also include a processor configured to retrieve a disease progression map comprising one or more disease progression states from a data storage device, and determine a disease progression state associated with the individual in response to the health profile. In a further embodiment, the apparatus may include a display adapter coupled to the state determination module, the display module configured to display a graphical representation of the disease progression state with reference to the disease progression map. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070301 | BEST POSSIBLE PAYMENT EXPECTED FOR HEALTHCARE SERVICES - A system is disclosed that is useful by hospitals and other healthcare providers for automatically determining the best possible or maximum amount of payments a healthcare provider can lawfully expect to receive for healthcare resources which takes into account various discounts agreed upon by the healthcare provider with various private insurance companies as well as public (i.e., government) insurance providers, which administer managed healthcare plans including Medicare and Medicaid, all payments received against expected payments and a yield measurement approach for determining the providers performance at a given point in time and across various segments of its operations. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, contracts between a healthcare provider and all private insurance companies and public insurance providers may be modeled. Various data including healthcare resources provided to patients up to a given point in time, applicable insurance company, and healthcare resource code are entered into the system. The system is able to calculate the best possible revenue that the healthcare provider can lawfully expect to receive taking into account the various discounts negotiated with the various insurance companies. Indeed, once the data is loaded, the system can provide an accurate snapshot of a healthcare provider's best possible expected revenues at any given time based upon services rendered instead of waiting until the healthcare resources have been billed out to insurance companies, patients, and third party payers. It can also provide an accurate snapshot of all payments received against those expected payments to determine yield across various segments of its operations. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070302 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING A DIETARY PLAN BASED ON A CLINICAL ELEMENT MODEL - Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for dietary planning and monitoring according to a clinical element model. A method includes creating a dietary plan for a patient. The dietary plan includes dietary items and relationships between dietary items implemented according to a clinical element model, for example. The method also includes receiving input regarding a dietary item. The input includes an identifier for the dietary item and contents of the dietary item, for example. The method further includes mapping the dietary item to a clinical element model based on the input. The method additionally includes providing the clinical element model for the dietary item in conjunction with the dietary plan. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070303 | CONSUMER PORTAL FOR HEALTHCARE APPOINTMENTS ACROSS PRACTICE GROUPS - Systems and methods for aggregating available healthcare appointment times across multiple unaffiliated practitioner groups, including search and display algorithms. A centralized marketplace is provided for real time booking of healthcare appointments which does not require the patient to have a preexisting relationship with the practitioner. The aggregated booking system enhances the number of available near term and conveniently located appointment options while the search and display algorithms reduce the complexity of the patient and practitioner information required to maintain accurate and synchronized database booking records. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070304 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING MEDICATION SIDE EFFECTS IN PATIENTS - A system for automatically correlating a patient's symptom with medication side effects includes: a computing device for use by medical personnel to input and display data; a first database including an electronic health record (EHR) for the patient; a second database including Physician's Desk Reference (PDR) data regarding side effects of medications; and a server configured to receive information from the computing device regarding the symptom; retrieve a list of the patient's medications from the first database; obtain a record of recognized side effects of those medications from the second database; and transmit a message to the computing device regarding medications and side effects correlated with the symptom. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070305 | SPECIMEN TRACKING AND MANAGEMENT - Techniques are described for using radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to track patient specimens throughout the collection and analysis of patient specimens. A series of RFID tags may be used to track the specimens starting with the collection of a patient's tissue specimen at a surgery or examination room, through the process of preparing the specimens at a laboratory, to a specialist's office where the specimens are analyzed, and eventually into storage where the left-over specimen materials may be archived. A database may be used to capture unique identifiers for the RFID tags and other information throughout the process. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070306 | Patient Community System With Anonymized Electronic Medical Data - A computerized system allows intercommunication of patients with respect to the treatment of their diseases. This system includes an electronic medical record database providing electronic medical records of a given set of patients as developed by healthcare professionals and linked to an anonymous identifier for each patient and a set of terminal devices accessible to the patients allowing for the electronic exchange of information through a display and data input device. A server system connects the anonymous medical record database and the terminal devices and executes a stored program to: (1) allow an authenticated connection by a given patient to the server system through a terminal device and associate the connection with an anonymous identifier; (2) permit authoring by the given patient of a patient site viewable on a terminal device incorporating medical records from the anonymous medical record database associated with the anonymous identifier; and (3) identify to the given patient other patient sites for other patients having shared medical conditions according to a predetermined clustering of data of the anonymous medical record database. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070307 | Insurance Verification, Eligibility, Referral and Precertification System and Method - A system and method for providing insurance-related services includes receiving identification data associated with a proposed insured party; storing the identification data in a database; connecting via an internet connection to a source capable of verifying at least a status of the proposed insured party; retrieving information related to the proposed insured party over the internet connection; storing the retrieved information in the database; and converting the information related to the proposed insured party to enable integration of the retrieved information for benefit and billing of services provided to the proposed insured party. The verifying can be via a verification module and benefit module coupled to a processor configured to receive data elements for insurance-related transactions. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070308 | CONSUMER DIRECTED CHECKING ACCOUNT COVERAGE SYSTEM - A system and method that includes the use of a bank checking account that can be connected to insurance coverage. In particular, a banking consumer can purchase insurance coverage for unexpected events that may affect the historical deposits and withdrawals relating to the checking accounts. Additionally, insurance coverage other than that of the checking account itself can be included, such as life insurance, so long as the account remains active. Accordingly, the present invention can integrate the negative insurance sell into a positive banking experience. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070309 | Method and System for Assessing Insurance Risk - The disclosed technology provides systems and methods for estimating the risk of loss for a location. A computer implemented method in accordance with the disclosed technology accesses one or more geographical characteristics associated with a geographical address, considers a plurality of perils and for each peril, computes a corresponding measure of peril that indicates a risk of loss at the geographical address from that peril. The corresponding measure of peril is computed based on the geographical characteristic(s) associated with the geographical address. The individual measures of peril are combined to form a combined measure that indicates a combined risk of loss at the geographical address from the plurality of perils. In one embodiment, the combined measure is used to compute an insurance premium for property at the geographical address. The disclosed technology also includes a computer executing software, wherein the executed software causes the computer to perform the steps above. | 2010-03-18 |
20100070310 | Computer Based Method of Pricing Equity Indexed Annuity Product with Guaranteed Lifetime Income Benefits - A computer-based method for determining a set of equity-indexed crediting parameters E for a lifetime-income equity-indexed deposit product provided to a set of owners having a set of dates of birth B, a rider charge C, a lifetime income percentage scale L, a set of profitability requirements R, a principal amount P, and an account value A. The method can include the steps of: establishing the values of C, L, R, P, A and E at a time when said deposit product is purchased; generating a set of yield curve and equity index scenarios consistent with valuation parameters; setting a trial value E | 2010-03-18 |
20100070311 | Insurance Policy Revisioning Method - An insurance policy is stored ( | 2010-03-18 |
20100070312 | Universal Ticketing and Payment System - A remotely-accessible computer system allows a purchase to establish an account and then purchase admission to live events or venues. The system provides the purchaser with a pass containing data identifying the account established for the purchaser which account contains information about purchased admissions. The pass can be used to gain access multiple events. The purchaser presents the pass at the entrance to the event and a reader reads the identification data and forwards it to the system. The system checks that the purchaser has purchased entry to the particular event and provides a signal to the event indicating whether admission to the event should be allowed or refused. | 2010-03-18 |