12th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 65 |
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20150081276 | USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) TO CREATE SUBJECT MATTER SYNONYMS FROM DEFINITIONS - Methods, apparatus and systems, including computer program products, for creating subject matter synonyms from definitions extracted from a subject matter glossary. Confidence scores, each representing a likelihood that two terms defined in the subject matter glossary are synonyms, are determined by applying natural language processing (e.g., passage term matching, lexical matching, and syntactic matching) to the extracted definitions. A subject matter thesaurus is built based on the confidence scores. In one embodiment, a statement containing a first term is created based on an extracted definition of the first term, a modified statement is created by substituting a second term in the statement in lieu of the first term, a corpus is searched, and a confidence score is determined based on evidence in the corpus that the modified statement is accurate. The first and second terms are marked as synonyms if the confidence score is greater than a threshold. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081277 | System and Method for Automatically Classifying Text using Discourse Analysis - The present invention is a textual discourse analysis with the purpose of analyzing and visualizing of complex text. The invention operates and functions based on conceptual relations, both logical and axiological, among grammatical components of a sentence and across sentences of a given text. Thus, three basic grammatical units, namely Agent/s, Topic/s and Object/s, have been utilized, in order to build a tripartite structure. Discursive analysis of text based on this invention provides a novel approach for automatically classifying positions of Agent/s within particular textual databases vis-a-vis to Topic/s and Object/s, and vice versa. Therefore, as illustrated above, a computer program method of the present invention starts by creating a conceptual map of a given text, classifying semantic macro-areas, positions of Agents, Topics and objects and then correlates such positions with other components in the database. In the next step of the invention, the computer assigns a reference system, provided for analyzing denotative content of discourse. The system is based upon a database of terms of words and phrases and their associated denotative as well as connotative meanings followed by generation of a database, axiologically categorizing subject-matters. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081278 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CHARACTER CONVERSION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An electronic device includes a processor configured to execute: accepting a character input; causing a display module to display a character or a character string, which has been input by the character input; causing the display module to display a plurality of words which are conversion candidates corresponding to the input character or character string; causing the display module to display, responding to designation by a user of a word of the plurality of words which are conversion candidates, at least one synonym corresponding to the designated word; and causing the display module to display, responding to selection by the user of a synonym of the displayed at least one synonym, the selected synonym in place of the input character or character string. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081279 | HYBRID NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSOR - Methods and a natural language processor for processing a natural language query are provided. The processor includes a classifier, a rule-based pre-processor, a rule-based post-processor, a named entity recognizer, and an output module. The method involves receiving a text representation of the natural language query, pre-processing the text representation, applying a classification statistical model to the text representation when pre-processing fails, applying a post-processing rule, and performing name entity recognition. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081280 | Processing Text with Domain-Specific Spreading Activation Methods - A method for performing natural language processing of free text using domain-specific spreading activation. Embodiments of the present invention ontologize free text using an algorithm based on neurocognitive theory by simulating human recognition, semantic, and episodic memory approaches. Embodiments of the invention may be used to process clinical text for assignment of billing codes, analyze suicide notes or legal discovery materials, and for processing other collections of text. Further, embodiments of the invention may be used to more effectively search large databases, such as a database containing a large number of medical publications. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081281 | Using Renaming Directives to Bootstrap Industry-Specific Knowledge and Lexical Resources - Mechanisms are provided for generating a lexical resource for linguistic analysis. A document data structure is received that comprises a renaming directive and filter logic is applied to the document data structure to identify the renaming directive within the document data structure. The renaming directive is analyzed to identify a relationship between semantic concepts represented by the renaming directive that are to be used to update a lexical resource based on the renaming directive. The lexical resource is updated based on results of analyzing the renaming directive. The updated lexical resource is output to a linguistic analysis system which performs linguistic analysis of a portion of textual content based on the updated lexical resource. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081282 | TRANSFERRING AUDIO FILES - Embodiments of the present invention use one or more audible tones to communicate metadata during a transfer of an audio file. Embodiments of the present invention communicate an audio file from a speaker in a recording device (e.g., a recordable book, toy, computing device) to a microphone in a receiving device. The audio file is transferred by audibly broadcasting the audio file content. The audio file may be a recording made by the user (e.g., the user singing a song, a child responding to a storybook prompt intended to elicit a response). The file transfer process uses one or more audible tones, such as dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (“DTMF”) tones to communicate metadata associated with the audio file. Audible tones may also be used to communicate commands that delineate the beginning and/or end of a file broadcast. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081283 | HARMONICITY ESTIMATION, AUDIO CLASSIFICATION, PITCH DETERMINATION AND NOISE ESTIMATION - Embodiments are described for harmonicity estimation, audio classification, pitch determination and noise estimation. Measuring harmonicity of an audio signal includes calculation a log amplitude spectrum of audio signal. A first spectrum is derived by calculating each component of the first spectrum as a sum of components of the log amplitude spectrum on frequencies. In linear frequency scale, the frequencies are odd multiples of the component's frequency of the first spectrum. A second spectrum is derived by calculating each component of the second spectrum as a sum of components of the log amplitude spectrum on frequencies. In linear frequency scale, the frequencies are even multiples of the component's frequency of the second spectrum. A difference spectrum is derived subtracting the first spectrum from the second spectrum. A measure of harmonicity is generated as a monotonically increasing function of the maximum component of the difference spectrum within predetermined frequency range. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081284 | PULSE ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD AND PULSE CODEC - In a pulse encoding and decoding method and a pulse codec, more than two tracks are jointly encoded, so that free codebook space in the situation of single track encoding can be combined during joint encoding to become code bits that may be saved. Furthermore, a pulse that is on each track and required to be encoded is combined according to positions, and the number of positions having pulses, distribution of the positions that have pulses on the track, and the number of pulses on each position that has a pulse are encoded separately, so as to avoid separate encoding performed on multiple pulses of a same position, thereby further saving code bits. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081285 | SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY - A speech signal processing apparatus and a speech signal processing method for enhancing speech intelligibility are provided. The speech signal processing apparatus includes an input signal gain determiner to determine a gain of an input signal based on a harmonic characteristic of a voiced speech, a voiced speech output unit to output a voiced speech in which a harmonic component is preserved by applying the gain to the input signal, a linear predictive coefficient determiner to determine a linear predictive coefficient based on the voiced speech, and an unvoiced speech preserver to preserve an unvoiced speech of the input signal based on the linear predictive coefficient. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081286 | LPC RESIDUAL SIGNAL ENCODING/DECODING APPARATUS OF MODIFIED DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM (MDCT)-BASED UNIFIED VOICE/AUDIO ENCODING DEVICE - Disclosed is an LPC residual signal encoding/decoding apparatus of an MDCT based unified voice and audio encoding device. The LPC residual signal encoding apparatus analyzes a property of an input signal, selects an encoding method of an LPC filtered signal, and encode the LPC residual signal based on one of a real filterbank, a complex filterbank, and an algebraic code excited linear prediction (ACELP). | 2015-03-19 |
20150081287 | ADAPTIVE NOISE REDUCTION FOR HIGH NOISE ENVIRONMENTS - Systems, methods, and devices for providing noise reduction to an audio signal, such as a speech signal, to improve the accuracy of a speech recognition system. The various embodiments may be particularly useful for training and simulation systems. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081288 | SPEECH RECOGNITION DEVICE AND THE OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - Described herein is a speech recognition device comprising: a communication module receiving speech data corresponding to speech input from a speech recognition terminal and multi-sensor data corresponding to input environment of the speech; a model selection module selecting a language and acoustic model corresponding to the multi-sensor data among a plurality of language and acoustic models classified according to the speech input environment on the basis of previous multi-sensor data; and a speech recognition module controlling the communication module to apply a feature vector extracted from the speech data to the language and acoustic model and transmit speech recognition result for the speech data to the speech recognition terminal. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081289 | Computer, Internet and Telecommunications Based Network - A method and apparatus for a computer and telecommunication network which can receive, send and manage information from or to a subscriber of the network, based on the subscriber's configuration. The network is made up of at least one cluster containing voice servers which allow for telephony, speech recognition, text-to-speech and conferencing functions, and is accessible by the subscriber through standard telephone connections or through internet connections. The network also utilizes a database and file server allowing the subscriber to maintain and manage certain contact lists and administrative information. A web server is also connected to the cluster thereby allowing access to all functions through internet connections. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081290 | CALL STEERING DATA TAGGING INTERFACE WITH AUTOMATIC SEMANTIC CLUSTERING - A system and method for providing an easy-to-use interface for verifying semantic tags in a steering application in order to generate a natural language grammar. The method includes obtaining user responses to open-ended steering questions, automatically grouping the user responses into groups based on their semantic meaning, and automatically assigning preliminary semantic tags to each of the groups. The user interface enables the user to validate the content of the groups to ensure that all responses within a group have the same semantic meaning and to add or edit semantic tags associated with the groups. The system and method may be applied to interactive voice response (IVR) systems, as well as customer service systems that can communicate with a user via a text or written interface. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081291 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication; a microphone configured to receive an input voice; a touch screen; and a controller configured to receive a written touch input on the touch screen corresponding to the input voice, recognize the input voice while a voice recognition mode is activated, and display extracted information extracted from the recognized input voice on the touch screen based on a comparison of the recognized input voice and the written input. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081292 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY MANAGING AUDIO AIR CONTROL MESSAGES ON AN AIRCRAFT - Methods and devices for automatically managing audio air control messages on an aircraft are described. The device comprises a unit for automatically transcribing an audio message received on board an aircraft into a textual message, a unit for automatically processing the textual message in order to extract all the indications included in this message, and a unit for automatically displaying, for each extracted indication, on at least one screen of the aircraft cockpit, an information message relating to the indication and a validation request for the pilot. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081293 | SPEECH RECOGNITION USING PHONEME MATCHING - A system, method and computer program is provided for generating customized text representations of audio commands. A first speech recognition module may be used for generating a first text representation of an audio command based on a general language grammar. A second speech recognition module may be used for generating a second text representation of the audio command, the second module including a custom language grammar that may include contacts for a particular user. Entity extraction is applied to the second text representation and the entities are checked against a file containing personal language. If the entities are found in the user-specific language, the two text representations may be fused into a combined text representation and named entity recognition may be performed again to extract further entities. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081294 | SPEECH RECOGNITION FOR USER SPECIFIC LANGUAGE - A system, method and computer program is provided for generating customized text representations of audio commands. A first speech recognition module may be used for generating a first text representation of an audio command based on a general language grammar. A second speech recognition module may be used for generating a second text representation of the audio command, the second module including a custom language grammar that may include contacts for a particular user. Entity extraction is applied to the second text representation and the entities are checked against a file containing personal language. If the entities are found in the user-specific language, the two text representations may be fused into a combined text representation and named entity recognition may be performed again to extract further entities. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081295 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO APPLICATIONS - According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method for controlling access to a plurality of applications in an electronic device is disclosed. The method includes receiving a voice command from a speaker for accessing a target application among the plurality of applications, and verifying whether the voice command is indicative of a user authorized to access the applications based on a speaker model of the authorized user. In this method, each application is associated with a security level having a threshold value. The method further includes updating the speaker model with the voice command if the voice command is verified to be indicative of the user, and adjusting at least one of the threshold values based on the updated speaker model. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081296 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING DETECTION THRESHOLD FOR ACTIVATING VOICE ASSISTANT FUNCTION - A method for activating a voice assistant function in a mobile device is disclosed. The method includes receiving an input sound stream by a sound sensor and determining a context of the mobile device. The method may determine the context based on the input sound stream. For determining the context, the method may also obtain data indicative of the context of the mobile device from at least one of an acceleration sensor, a location sensor, an illumination sensor, a proximity sensor, a clock unit, and a calendar unit in the mobile device. In this method, a threshold for activating the voice assistant function is adjusted based on the context. The method detects a target keyword from the input sound stream based on the adjusted threshold. If the target keyword is detected, the method activates the voice assistant function. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081297 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNSUPERVISED AND ACTIVE LEARNING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION - A system and method is provided for combining active and unsupervised learning for automatic speech recognition. This process enables a reduction in the amount of human supervision required for training acoustic and language models and an increase in the performance given the transcribed and un-transcribed data. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081298 | SPEECH PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In a speech processing apparatus, an acquisition unit is configured to acquire a speech. A separation unit is configured to separate the speech into a plurality of sections in accordance with a prescribed rule. A calculation unit is configured to calculate a degree of similarity in each combination of the sections. An estimation unit is configured to estimate, with respect to the each section, a direction of arrival of the speech. A correction unit is configured to group the sections whose directions of arrival are mutually similar into a same group and correct the degree of similarity with respect to the combination of the sections in the same group. A clustering unit is configured to cluster the sections by using the corrected degree of similarity. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081299 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING PATIENTS - A system for use in assisting a user in a social interaction with another person is provided, the system being configured to determine whether the user recognizes the person and, if it is determined that the user does not recognize the person, to provide information to the user about the person. A corresponding method and computer program product for performing the method are also provided. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081300 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING INCREMENTAL DEVICE-BASED ACOUSTIC MODEL ADAPTATION - An embodiment of the present invention relates to a speech recognition system and method using incremental device-based acoustic model adaptation. The speech recognition system comprises a model selection module selecting an acoustic model of multi-model tree by verifying and categorizing a device key transmitted from a user device; a model management module generating and incrementally adapting multi-model tree by categorizing voice data based on a user device; and a speech recognition module performing speech recognition by receiving the acoustic model selected from the model selection module and transmitting data of which reliability exceeds a predetermined threshold value to the model management module | 2015-03-19 |
20150081301 | BIOMETRIC PASSWORD SECURITY - A system includes a user speech profile stored on a computer readable storage device, the speech profile containing a plurality of phonemes with user identifying characteristics for the phonemes, and a speech processor coupled to access the speech profile to generate a phrase containing user distinguishing phonemes based on a difference between the user identifying characteristics for such phonemes and average user identifying characteristics, such that the phrase has discriminability from other users. The speech processor may also or alternatively select the phrase as a function of ambient noise. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081302 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC FACIAL FEATURES FOR SPEAKER RECOGNITION - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for performing speaker verification. A system configured to practice the method receives a request to verify a speaker, generates a text challenge that is unique to the request, and, in response to the request, prompts the speaker to utter the text challenge. Then the system records a dynamic image feature of the speaker as the speaker utters the text challenge, and performs speaker verification based on the dynamic image feature and the text challenge. Recording the dynamic image feature of the speaker can include recording video of the speaker while speaking the text challenge. The dynamic feature can include a movement pattern of head, lips, mouth, eyes, and/or eyebrows of the speaker. The dynamic image feature can relate to phonetic content of the speaker speaking the challenge, speech prosody, and the speaker's facial expression responding to content of the challenge. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081303 | PERSONNEL TRANSPORT DEVICE WITH COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A transport device which includes computerized apparatus useful for obtaining and displaying information. In one embodiment, the computerized apparatus includes a display to device and speech recognition apparatus configured to receive user speech and/or other input and enable performance of various tasks, such as obtaining desired information. In one variant, the computerized apparatus is configured to establish a plurality of ad hoc data links with portable user devices present within the transport device, thereby enabling passengers to, among other things, wirelessly and simultaneously obtain data from a remote server or network such as the Internet. In another variant, the transport device includes a plurality of display devices within its passenger compartment so as to permit substantially simultaneous individual user viewing and interaction. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081304 | SYSTEM FOR SAY-FEEL GAP ANALYSIS IN VIDEO - Systems and techniques using observed emotional data are described herein. An audio stream of a subject corresponding in time to a sequence of visual observations of the subject can be received. A transcript of speech uttered in the audio stream can be produced. A meaning of a string in the transcript can be determined. The sequence of visual observations that correspond to speech that produced the string can be received. An emotional state of the subject can be determined based on the sequence of visual observations. A correlation value can be calculated for the string by comparing the meaning and the emotional state. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081305 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING SPEECH WITH DIALECT GRAMMARS - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for recognizing speech. The method includes receiving speech from a user, perceiving at least one speech dialect in the received speech, selecting at least one grammar from a plurality of optimized dialect grammars based on at least one score associated with the perceived speech dialect and the perceived at least one speech dialect, and recognizing the received speech with the selected at least one grammar. Selecting at least one grammar can be further based on a user profile. Multiple grammars can be blended. Predefined parameters can include pronunciation differences, vocabulary, and sentence structure. Optimized dialect grammars can be domain specific. The method can further include recognizing initial received speech with a generic grammar until an optimized dialect grammar is selected. Selecting at least one grammar from a plurality of optimized dialect grammars can be based on a certainty threshold. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081306 | PROSODY EDITING DEVICE AND METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a prosody editing device includes an approximate contour generator, a setter, a display controller, an operation receiver, and an updater. The approximate contour generator approximates a contour representing a time series of prosody information with a parametric curve including a control point to generate an approximate contour. The setter sets, on the approximate contour, an operation point corresponding to the control point. The display controller displays, on a display device, an operation screen including the approximate contour on which the operation point is shown. The operation receiver receives an operation to move the operation point optionally selected on the operation screen. The updater calculates a position of the control point from a moving amount of the operation point and updates the approximate contour. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081307 | ARRANGEMENT AND A METHOD FOR CREATING A SYNTHESIS FROM NUMERICAL DATA AND TEXTUAL INFORMATION - An arrangement and a method for creating a synthesis from numerical data and textual information, and more particularly, relating to wellbeing of an individual. The arrangement includes a first information in a numerical form provided by a wellbeing device, for example, a second information including free-form text in natural language format provided by care-giving personnel, for example, and a control entity for obtaining the first information and the second information, wherein the control entity is arranged to semantically analyze the free-form text in natural language format of the second information in order to create a synthesis from the first information and the second information. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081308 | VOICE ANALYSIS - Telecommunications services and systems utilising voice intonation analysis to provide additional information to users. Information on caller's moods may be obtained from the intonation analysis and stored for later retrieval with information on the calls, including audio data, to which the information relates. An interactive system may be provided to perform intonation analysis on a caller's reasons for calling and the results of that analysis may be provided to the recipient to assist them in deciding whether to accept the call. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081309 | COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - Computerized apparatus capable of providing a user, such as a passenger of a transportation device, with various types of information. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes speech processing and speech synthesis apparatus, as well as a wireless interface and a database, to enable the user to obtain information both locally and remotely (such as from a remote server and/or the Internet) while being transported. In one variant, the user can engage in a verbal interchange with the apparatus in order to obtain desired information. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081310 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING STEREO LOUDSPEAKER SIGNALS FROM A HIGHER-ORDER AMBISONICS AUDIO SIGNAL - Decoding of Ambisonics representations for a stereo loudspeaker setup is known for first-order Ambisonics audio signals. But such first-order Ambisonics approaches have either high negative side lobes or poor localisation in the frontal region. The invention deals with the processing for stereo decoders for higher-order Ambisonics HOA. The desired panning functions can be derived from a panning law for placement of virtual sources between the loudspeakers. For each loudspeaker a desired panning function for all possible input directions at sampling points is defined. The panning functions are approximated by circular harmonic functions, and with increasing Ambisonics order the desired panning functions are matched with decreasing error. For the frontal region between the loudspeakers, a panning law like the tangent law or vector base amplitude panning (VBAP) are used. For the rear directions panning functions with a slight attenuation of sounds from these directions are defined. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081311 | MEDIA SYNCHRONISATION SYSTEM - A communications system distributes code word pairs within the audio of a television or radio program or the like. Each pair of code words includes an ID code word that is the same for a given program and a synchronization code word that is unique within the program. A portable user device is able to synchronize itself to the program using the embedded synchronization code words. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081312 | AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AND AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A MODIFICATION OF A NUMBER REPRESENTATION OF A NUMERIC PREVIOUS CONTEXT VALUE - An audio decoder includes an arithmetic decoder for providing decoded spectral values on the basis of an arithmetically-encoded representation of the spectral values and a frequency-domain-to-time-domain converter for providing a time-domain audio representation using the decoded spectral values. The arithmetic decoder selects a mapping rule describing a mapping of a code value onto a symbol code in dependence on a context state described by a numeric current context value, and determines the numeric current context value in dependence on a plurality of previously-decoded spectral values. The arithmetic decoder modifies a number representation of a numeric previous context value, describing a context state associated with one or more previously decoded spectral values, in dependence on a context subregion value, to acquire a number representation of a numeric current context value describing a context state associated with one or more spectral values to be decoded. An audio encoder uses a similar concept. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081313 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SITE INSTALLATION, COMMISSIOINING, AND PROVISIONING - In one example, a method for installing a photovoltaic (PV) system including a plurality of PV components is described. The method includes receiving, by a computing device, a plurality of unique identifiers. Each unique identifier is associated with a different one of a plurality of PV components located at a site. The computing device compares the received unique identifiers to a list of the plurality of PV components in the PV system. The method includes associating each of the unique identifiers with a different component location on a representation of the PV system, and transmitting the associated unique identifiers and component locations to a gateway device of the PV system. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081314 | Generating and Processing Medical Alerts for Re-admission Reductions - A computer-implemented method includes accessing information indicative of a question to be answered by a medical patient, with the question being included in a medical assessment questionnaire of a medical service provider; receiving information indicative of a selection of one or more triggering events for answers to the question; and generating, for the question, a medical alert rule, with the medical alert rule comprising instructions to perform operations comprising: receiving an answer of the medical patient to the question; detecting, based on contents of the received answer, the triggering event for the question; and generating a medical questionnaire alert to notify the medical service provider that the medical patient has answered the question with the answer that is defined as being unacceptable. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081315 | METHOD FOR SELECTING MEDICAL IMAGING PROTOCOLS - A method for selecting medical imaging protocols. The method allows a physician to input client history to generate a series of available protocols associated with medical imaging modalities available to the patient. The method ranks the protocols in order of appropriateness. The method allows the physician to select a desired protocol, which protocol may be reviewed, approved, rejected, or modified by a radiologist. Once the radiologist approves of the protocol and orders and examination based upon the protocol, a technician uses a diagnostic imaging system to generate images of the patient associated with the protocol which may be reviewed by the radiologist to generate an exam whereafter both the images and exam may be used by the physician to diagnose or treat the patient. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081316 | SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME TRACKING OF MEDICATION USE BY A USER - A system for tracking the use of medication by a user in real-time generates data pertaining to the medication use including time of consumption and amount of medication available, and transmit the data to a network so the data is readily accessible to at least one party of interest. The system includes a base unit housing affixed to a cover for use with a medication container, the base unit housing having a micro-electro-mechanical system able to detect motion of the cover and determine when the user removes the cover from the medication container, a computing device to generate the medication use data based on information from the micro-electro-mechanical system, and a communication system to transmit the medication use data to a cloud computer via the network, thereby providing the at least one party of interest access to the cloud computer and the medication use data. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081317 | Instant Mobile Practice - Enabling communication for a health service provider through a mobile device that includes receiving a request for real-time communication with a health service provider through a mobile device, prompting the consumer to choose a network and thus, the system generating a choice of operations. The consumer then makes a choice such as private communication request and scheduling an appointment through the mobile device. The chosen operation is performed based on the choice by the consumer. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081318 | Claim-based Data Collection for Generating Insurance Reports - A computer-implemented method includes transmitting information indicative of an outcome questionnaire; receiving, from the first client device, answers to the series of questions; generating, based on the answers, an outcome score that is indicative of the severity of the functional limitation; determining a modifier that is indicative of a range of impairment, limitation or restriction of the portion of the user's anatomy; receiving a request to generate an insurance report, with the request comprising a selected type of functional limitation and a visit type; identifying a code that is indicative of the functional limitation that is being treated by the service provider and that is indicative of a point in time in a course of treatment of the user; generating, based on the identified code and the modifier, the insurance report; and submitting the insurance report to an insurance provider. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081319 | Method for Evaluating Medical Condition Insurability Risk - Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for evaluating medical condition insurability risk are provided. A digital communication including an indication of a medical condition associated with an individual is received. A presumptive medical condition risk score is generated for the individual based on the indication of the medical condition and presumptive medical condition risk criteria. One or more medical records associated with the individual are retrieved via a data storage device. A composite medical condition risk score for the individual is generated based on the one or more medical records, and a correlation between the presumptive medical condition risk score and the composite medical condition risk score is determined. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081320 | PLATFORM FOR CONNECTING MEDICAL INFORMATION TO SERVICES FOR MEDICAL CARE - A user device for connecting symptom, disease, procedure, and facility based information into actionable services for medical care and cost analysis is presented. The user device may include the functionality of linking medical information and providing user specific information. The user-specific information allows the user to make an informed decision about medical treatment. The user device may further be operative to tailor information in light of user characteristics such as location or healthcare network membership. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081321 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF PROVIDING PRESCRIPTION REMINDERS - Methods, apparatuses and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media are disclosed. In some examples, the methods include receiving a user's prescription information, then executing language processing logic stored at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium to generate structured prescription data from the user's prescription information, and then subsequently executing language generation logic stored on at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium to reconstitute the structured prescription data into a suggested natural language prescription instruction, and then transmitting a prescription reminder that includes the suggested natural language prescription instruction. In some examples, apparatuses and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media include components capable of performing similar steps and methods. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081322 | Consolidated Healthcare and Resource Management System - A technical procedure and information enhancement system comprising a multi-function colored display; a computing device having memory and processors; a touch-free gesture-responsive computer input device; computer-readable media containing computer instructions for displaying a plurality of electronic pages selected from the group consisting of a pre-procedural page, a procedure preparation page, an intra-procedural page and a post-procedural page; connection to the internet; a backup memory; a microphone; one or more video cameras situated to record the medical procedure, speakers, and an electronic signature pad. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081323 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISEASE KNOWLEDGE MODELING AND CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT - Systems and methods are described herein for disease knowledge modeling and clinical treatment decision support. Disease or indication information, including identification of biomolecular entities associated with the indication may be culled through data mining to create a knowledge model of the indication. In some embodiments, the knowledge model may comprise a network of associations between molecular entities, including drug targets and biomarkers, genes, pathways. The model is used for prioritizing treatment decisions, for treatments comprising one or more medications associated with one or more molecular entities in the model. The priority of a suggested treatment depends on at least one property of one or more medications of the suggested treatment. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081324 | HEALTHCARE FRAUD PREEMPTION - Real-time fraud prevention software-as-a-service (SaaS) products include computer instruction sets to enable a network server to receive medical histories, enrollments, diagnosis, prescription, treatment, follow up, billings, and other data as they occur. The SaaS includes software instruction sets to combine, correlate, categorize, track, normalize, and compare the data sorted by patient, healthcare provider, institution, seasonal, and regional norms. Fraud reveals itself in the ways data points deviate from norms in nonsensical or inexplicable conduct. The individual behaviors of each healthcare provider are independently monitored, characterized, and followed by self-spawning smart agents that can adapt and change their rules as the healthcare providers evolve. Such smart agents will issue flags when their particular surveillance target is acting out of character, outside normal parameters for them. Fraud controls can therefore be much tighter than those that have to accommodate those of a diverse group. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081325 | METHOD AND PROCESS FOR TRANSPORTING HEALTH INFORMATION - A method for transforming and transporting health information is disclosed herein. The method includes receiving the health information; transforming the received health information of based on a predetermined rule; validating whether the received health information is in a proper form based on a third-party standard; and parsing the de-identified received health information to determine an entity to receive the de-identified health information. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081326 | Healthcare Process Management Using Context - Rather than modify or create, by programmers, a new workflow specifically for each healthcare provider, a workflow provider creates an abstract workflow appropriate for any or many healthcare providers. Using context about a specific healthcare provider, a computer automatically adapts the abstract workflow to the healthcare provider. Using patient context, the computer may automatically schedule tasks of the adapted workflow appropriate for the specific patient and the specific healthcare provider. The patient and healthcare provider context may be monitored for any changes that alter the workflow, and the system may reschedule the tasks as appropriate. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081327 | System and Method for Managing Appointments - Systems and methods for managing appointments and, particularly, for managing appointments for patients in healthcare systems that include health care facilities and hospitals. Computer systems can detect geophysical positions of patient devices, such as their smart phones to update likelihood of patients being able to make appointment dates on time during the date of the appointments The computer systems can detect the patients travel locations before the appointment at one or more geo-fences associated with the location of the appointment for determining whether the geographical position is inside or outside the geo-fence to determine likelihood of patient making their appointment ontime, and if time permits registering the patient during their travels to the appointment, and/or sending reminders to the patient of the scheduled appointment time, or determining if the appointment needs to be rescheduled. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081328 | SYSTEM FOR HOSPITAL ADAPTIVE READMISSION PREDICTION AND MANAGEMENT - A method of determining a probability of readmission of a patient includes receiving patient data from a plurality of information sources; calculating the probability of readmission of the patient based on the patient data and an adaptive readmission risk model; and providing the probability of readmission of the patient to a medical provider. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081329 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HEALTH CARE CREDIT TRANSACTIONS - Systems, methods, and computer program media for exchanging freely transferrable health care credits are described. Health care credits are issued by a first entity to a second entity for satisfying metrics of good health over a predetermined time period. A value for satisfying the metrics of good health to the first entity is greater than a value of the health care credits provided to the second entity. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081330 | Medicant Dispensing System and Method - Embodiments describe a medicant prescribing system, where the prescribing of the medicant is carried out on to a smart card, and where the prescribing is a suggestion without complete specificity of the medicant or its quantities. The card is used to obtain the medicant, and to monitor types and quantities of the medicant both and the quantities of the medicant. An embodiment requires using the card to obtain the medicant, since the prescription has been placed on or otherwise associated with the card. Another aspect requires monitoring the medicant card to monitor the actions at multiple different medicant sources, while using information on the card to pay for the medicant. One aspect forces patients to use the card in order to purchase. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081331 | SOFTWARE FOR STREAMLINED ACCESS BETWEEN AN EMERGENCY ROOM AND WEB-BASED MEDICAL SOFTWARE - Applicant has disclosed a software tool which allows quick access by medical providers (e.g., in a hospital emergency room) to patient records stored on web-based medical software. In a preferred embodiment, the software tool allows integration with a third-party Electronic Medical Record (“EMR”) software, e.g., used by a medical provider, by capturing screen data from the third-party software, querying a database of the web-based medical software as to whether or not the database contains an active medical record number associated with the patient, and notifying the medical provider of the patient's medical record number status within the web-based medical software. If that record number is active, the provider can click upon a link and be passed directly to an electronic medical record for the specific patient in the web-based medical software. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081332 | Method for Indexing, Searching and Retrieving Health Information - A medical information delivery system and method for indexing, searching and retrieving health information, increasing patient treatment and satisfaction and improving efficiency and care provided by physicians. Medical information from varied platforms, medical institutions and sources is normalized and integrated into the system without the need for specially-designed software or user platforms. The system measures patient health, enabling doctors to quickly identify gaps in quality of health care. Various notifications are delivered to users indicating gaps in care, post-treatment care, and other treatment options for the patient. Once action is taken on prioritized notification, it is hidden. As users take actions and make notes, the electronic health record is automatically updated and the system immediately incorporates the most recent information. The system allows tracking of at-risk patients who have not received proper care and retrospectively monitors performance and treatment of patients to identify cost controlling measures for most expensive patients. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081333 | Medical Care Information Display Control Apparatus, Method, and Medium with Medical Care Information Display Control Program Recorded Thereon - Identifying, using information of disease duration of each disease of a first patient, a non-overlapping period of disease duration of a target disease that does no overlap with disease durations of the other diseases, and extracting medical care data whose registration date and time is included in the non-overlapping period of the target disease from the medical care data of the first patient and generates a display item set composed of the medical care item corresponding to the extracted medical care data. Then, displaying, using information of medical care data of a second patient, medical care data corresponding to the medical care item of the generated display item set. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081334 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AN ELECTRONIC ASTHMA ACTION PLAN - Methods and systems are provided according to example embodiments of the present invention to provide an electronic asthma action plan/decision support tool as part of an electronic medical record system and to provide a guide to best practices, narrow the complexity of choices, and assist in selecting the appropriate therapy. In some embodiments, such an electronic asthma action plan/decision support tool may provide rapid determination of peak flow expectations; assessment of asthma severity or control; the ability to satisfy asthma appropriate care expectations; provision of guideline-based decision support; electronic prescribing; and generation of an individualized asthma action plan patient handout to support self-management. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081335 | BED/ROOM/PATIENT ASSOCIATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods of associating beds and/or rooms and/or patients are provided. One system and method involves using a signature of emitted light to determine a location of a patient bed in a healthcare facility. Another system and method involves reading a bar code from an array of redundant bar codes. Still another system and method involves manually entering location information on a graphical user interface of a patient bed for subsequent transmission. A further system and method involves sending bed ID and location ID along parallel paths from two independent circuits on a patient bed for receipt by two different transceivers and ultimately by two different remote computers that cooperate to associate the bed ID with the location ID. Still a further system and method involves using circuitry on a bed to mutate a received location ID and a bed ID into a single unique mutated ID such as by adding the location ID and bed ID and then performing a hashing operation. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081336 | Electrical Computing Devices for Quantification of Differences in Medical Treatment Populations - One disclosed method includes receiving electronic health records (EHRs) associated with a first set of patients for a clinical trial of a health intervention; receiving electronic records representing profiles of patients likely to benefit from the health intervention; determining a first statistic for a first characteristic of the first set of patients and a second statistic for a second characteristic of the patients likely to benefit from the health intervention; and determining a gap in the first set of patients based on the first statistic and the second statistic. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081337 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING EXTENDED CARE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for facilitating extended care planning and management for patients. An interactive website is hosted on a server computer, where the interactive website provides a shared or common section being accessible to customers, hospitals, and extended care providers, a hospital-specific section being accessible to hospitals registered to the system, and an extended care provider (ECP)-specific section being accessible to registered ECP providers. A searchable database system is operatively connected to the server computer. The database system stores searchable listings of hospitals and ECPs which may be searched via the interactive website by users. The various sections of the website provide interactive capabilities, allowing various types of users of the website to become informed and to subsequently plan and manage the care they need or provide. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081338 | CLINICAL WORKFLOWS UTILIZING AUTONOMOUS AND SEMIAUTONOMOUS TELEMEDICINE DEVICES - The present disclosure describes various clinical workflows and other methods that utilize a telemedicine device in a healthcare network. According to various embodiments, a healthcare practitioner may utilize a remote presence interfaces (RPIs) on a remote access device (RAD), such as a portable electronic device (PED) to interface with a telemedicine device. The healthcare practitioner may directly interface with a display interface of a telemedicine device or utilize the RPI on a RAD. The present disclosure provides various clinical workflows involving a telemedicine device to view patient data during a telepresence session, perform rounds to visit multiple patients, monitor a patient, allow for remote visitations by companions, and various other clinical workflow methods. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081339 | ATTACHING PATIENT CONTEXT TO A CALL HISTORY ASSOCIATED WITH VOICE COMMUNICATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for declining, attaching, and editing patient context to mobile voice communication are provided. Patient demographic or alert information is attached to items within call histories associated with voice communication which are stored in the EMR and utilized for later analysis (e.g., analytics, patient progress, billing, reimbursement, staff scheduling, patient acuity, and the like). In embodiments, the context is declined, attached, or edited to items from the call history. In embodiments, the context is attached to items in the call history when the voice communication is initiated. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081340 | ITEMIZATION SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATED PHOTOGRAPHY - Systems and methods for implementing itemization systems with automated photography are disclosed. An itemization task may include an itemization process and a photography process that uses a first camera set to a first field of view and a second camera set to a second field of view to take a first and second photo of an item undergoing itemization. The first and second cameras automatically take photos of the item based on user input during an itemization process. The first and second cameras remain stationary and do not require repositioning or refocusing when a new item is itemized. The itemization process may be performed using 10-key input. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081341 | Computerized Method, Apparatus and System for Issuing Surety Bonds - A method, system and apparatus for obtaining a bond is disclosed. The invention, employs a computer system that has a work station in communication with a server to provide information on a contractor that is required by a surety over the computer system. The server is provided with owner/obligee information concerning a bond over the network A surety is selected to provide the bond and the identity of the surety is presented over said computer network. The type of bond sought is identified. Approval of the bond is requested over the computer network and a decision on the bond request is obtained over the network. The approval decision includes an authorization code that is presented at a bid letting along with the contractor's bid. The authorization code permits an owner/obligee to view an approved bond through the computer network. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081342 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO FACILITATE INSURANCE WORKFLOW IMPROVEMENTS - According to some embodiments, an indication of a suggested improvement to an insurance workflow may be received from a submitter's remote insurance processing terminal. A manager associated with the submitter may be automatically identified, and a message may be transmitted to the identified manager, the message including an identification of the submitter and information about the suggested improvement. Supplemental information associated with the suggested improvement may then be received from the manager and stored at a central workflow improvement platform along with the identification of the submitter and the indication of the suggested improvement. The indication of the suggested improvement and the supplemental information may then be automatically forwarded to one or more members comprising a suggestion review council. According to some embodiments, a potential sponsor for the suggested improvement may also be identified. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081343 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ENABLING EFFICIENT SHIPPING AND DELIVERY - A method for recipient-initiated shipping includes receiving, at an internet connected server, recipient data (including a first shipping address) from a shipping recipient; providing delivery options to the shipping recipient based on a set of delivery option criteria and the recipient data; receiving a delivery choice from the shipping recipient; and notifying at least one of a shipping sender and a shipping carrier of the delivery choice. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081344 | INSURANCE PRODUCTS FOR A CAMERA DEVICE COUPLED TO A VEHICLE - Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for providing an insurance product to a user with a camera device coupled to a vehicle. A system is configured to receive user data from at least one camera device coupled to a vehicle, wherein the user data comprises video data, determine whether a set of criteria is met based on the user data, and providing an insurance product to a user associated with the camera device when the set of criteria is met. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081345 | ASSET COLLECTIVE REDIRECTION LEVERAGE MULTIPLIER PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSYTEMS - The ASSET COLLECTIVE REDIRECTION LEVERAGE MULTIPLIER PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“ACRLMP”) provide a financial instrument management platform facilitating issuance, transaction, interest payment, and/or analytics of a municipality-based liquidity instrument from municipalities, investors, and sponsors. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081346 | EVENT TICKET SHARING VIA NETWORKED MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES - A method on a web server for facilitating sharing of tickets over a communications network is disclosed. The method includes storing ticket records for tickets purchased by a user for an event venue, generating electronic tickets corresponding to the ticket records, wherein each electronic ticket is configured for redemption at an event venue. The method further includes transmitting the electronic tickets to the user, and receiving a unique identifier for a friend of the user. The method further includes accessing a ticket record corresponding to one of the electronic tickets and replacing the unique identifier for the user with the unique identifier for the friend. The method further includes transmitting the electronic ticket corresponding to the ticket record to the mobile computing device of the friend via the communications network. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081347 | PERSONAL MEDIA DEVICES WITH WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Systems and methods are provided for personal media devices having the ability to communicate wirelessly, and in particular, communicate wirelessly using a short-range communications protocol (e.g., Wi-Fi and Bluetooth). Such communication provides users of personal media devices with access to several Wi-Fi oriented applications. For example, in one embodiment a personal media device may wirelessly download subscription assets (e.g., podcast) as they become available. In another embodiment, content specific or local to a merchant may be provided to personal media devices that are in wireless communication with a wireless router affiliated with the merchant. For example, if the merchant is a restaurant, the merchant may provide a menu to the personal media device and the user may place an order on his or her media device by selecting items on the menu. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081348 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING CROWD SOURCED WAIT TIME INFORMATION - A system and method of providing crowdsourced wait time information for a venue includes receiving wait time information for a venue from first user, receiving a query about the venue from a second user, determining wait time for the venue based at least in part on the wait time information from the first user, and sending the determined wait time for the venue to the second user. The system and method can also include providing a promotional offer to one or more of the first user, the second user, or the venue. The system and method can also include providing wait time for a second venue in response to the query about the first venue. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081349 | Systems and Methods to Provide Location Indication in Transaction Data - A computing apparatus configured to: receive an authorization request for a payment transaction initiated in a transaction terminal; determine whether a location of the transaction terminal is in a travel region of the user in accordance with travel information of the user; and provide an indicator in the authorization request transmitted to an issuer processor in accordance with a result of the determination of whether the location of the transaction terminal is in the travel region of the user. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081350 | MOBILE ONLINE VACATION RENTAL BOOKING SYSTEM - A mobile online vacation rental booking system, having a mobile application with a selectable user interface, coupled to a mobile device display, and configured to transmit vacation data to the mobile device and receive vacation data from the mobile device. An aggregator search engine is coupled to receive vacation data from the mobile device and to transmit vacation data to the mobile device. Remote partner databases are coupled with the engine to exchange the vacation data. The engine is configured to cause the vacation data to be shown on the display. A method of booking an online vacation rental uses a mobile device to: select a geospatial region; access partner databases with the mobile device to find a vacation rental properties; identify vacation rental properties; explore attractions close to the vacation rental properties; display a property detail of the vacation rental properties; and select one of the vacation rental properties. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081351 | NETWORKED BARCODE VERIFICATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods are described for barcode verification. Optionally, a barcode scanner/imager is coupled to a verification system over a network. The verification system receives over the network barcode data associated with an item, such as a ticket, and associated information. The verification system uses the barcode data and associated information to determine if the barcode is valid and corresponds to an identified event. The verification system transmits a verification result. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081352 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VALIDATING REAL TIME NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and systems for managing network communications are described. An example resource management system includes a communications manager configured to access information regarding communication protocols used by corresponding broker systems and to provide message translations based on an origin and/or destination of the message to be transmitted. A message processor is coupled to the communications manager and is configured to serialize incoming and/or outgoing broker messages and to facilitate queuing of incoming and outgoing message traffic with broker systems. A communications configurer is configured to track one or more communication attributes of broker systems and changes thereto to ensure communications between the resource management systems are broker systems are conducted in accordance with the communication attributes of the broker systems. A communications rules provider is configured to determine which broker system is to be communicated with in order to fulfill a resource request. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081353 | Systems and Methods for Interest-Driven Business Intelligence Systems Including Segment Data - Systems and methods for interest-driven business intelligence systems including segment data in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. In one embodiment, an interest-driven data visualization system includes a processor and a memory wherein an interest-driven data visualization application configures the processor to define reporting data requirements, including at least one piece of reporting data metadata, generate data retrieval job data, transmit the data retrieval job data to an interest-driven business intelligence server system, receive source data from the interest-driven business intelligence server system, create at least one piece of reporting data using the received source data, the data description metadata, and the reporting data metadata, and generate a set of segment data based on the reporting data, where a piece of segment data in the set of segment data includes a subset of the reporting data. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081354 | DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, DISTRIBUTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A distribution apparatus includes a reception part that receives first data and a request for execution of a process according to a process definition formed of one or more units of processing with respect to the first data, and one or more processing parts that execute the corresponding one or more units of processing. At least one processing part is a distribution part that distributes, to a distribution destination specified in the process definition, the first data or second data output as a result of execution of a unit of processing executed before a unit of processing corresponding to the at least one processing part. The distribution part distributes the first or second data based on information indicating a distribution method for the specified distribution destination defined in the process definition, when the specified distribution destination is included in multiple distribution destinations to which a communications protocol is common. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081355 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CLOUD-BASED BUSINESS VALUATION AND ASSOCIATED SERVICES - A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and/or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and/or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081356 | DYNAMIC MULTI-DIMENSIONAL BUSINESS REPORTS - Technologies are generally described for providing dynamic report views of multi-dimensional business data. An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system may facilitate data collection of user requested data for a dimension, such as a time interval, and presentation of the data in a data report. The data report may initially display an initial granularity of the data displaying the requested dimension. During data collection for the requested data, multiple dimensions of data related to the requested data may also be collected, and the data for the additional dimensions may be rendered in the background to enable the data to be dynamically presented in the report upon request by a user without having to retrieve new data. The user may select to view one or more additional intervals of data on the initial data report, and the data report may automatically refresh to display the selected data intervals. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081357 | MOBILE TERMINAL MANAGEMENT SERVER AND MOBILE TERMINAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - In a business system that provides information about a report to a mobile communication terminal, a processing load required for a data search is reduced, and valid information is rapidly output. A mobile terminal management server run by enterprise resource planning includes a process flow data table that stores process flow data including various kinds of data related to a process flow including a plurality of business processes, and provides a condition designation screen used to designate a search condition (manufacturing order number) according to a request from a mobile terminal, searches for process data including an item related to production management of a product represented by an accepted search condition with reference to the process flow data table, generates production management information matching the designated search condition based on the searched process data, and provides the production management information to the mobile terminal. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081358 | MOBILE TERMINAL MANAGEMENT SERVER AND MOBILE TERMINAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - In a business system that provides information about a report to a mobile communication terminal, a processing load required for a data search is reduced, and valid information is rapidly output. A mobile terminal management server run by enterprise resource planning receives and accepts a designated search condition from the mobile terminal, searches for process data including an item related to inventory management of a product represented by the accepted search condition with reference to process flow data stored in a process flow data table, generates quantity data representing a quantity related to an inventory of a product based on the searched process data, generates inventory-related data including the generated quantity data, generates inventory management information including inventory transition of the product represented by the designated search condition based on the inventory-related data, and provides the generated inventory management information to the mobile terminal. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081359 | OUTDOOR POWER EQUIPMENT FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH OPERATOR PERFORMANCE MONITORING - Embodiments of the invention are directed to a fleet management system that assists a fleet, such as a landscaping crew, forestry company, grounds care manager, or the like, with management and monitoring the fleet's collection of outdoor power equipment, like lawn mowers, trimmers, chainsaws, and/or the like, and the operators of the outdoor power equipment. In this regard, embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for automatically gathering data about one or more pieces of outdoor power equipment and one or more human operators of the equipment, processing the data into more useful data and data formats, and providing useful feedback, data, and tools to users of the system to assist with management of one or more fleets. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081360 | Order/Vehicle Assignment Based on Order Density - Example systems and methods of assigning shipping orders to delivery vehicles are presented. In one example, a delivery region may be segmented into delivery blocks. A shipping order density may be determined for each of the delivery blocks. Adjacent delivery blocks having corresponding shipping order densities may be merged to yield delivery areas. A cost of using each type of available delivery vehicle to transport a delivery job may be determined relative to a cargo capacity of the vehicle type, a delivery distance, and a shipping order density. Each of the delivery areas may be partitioned into delivery jobs based on the cost of using each of the vehicle types. Each of the delivery jobs may be assigned to one of the available delivery vehicles based on minimizing a total cost of using the vehicles to transport the delivery jobs. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081361 | COLLABORATIVE PERSONAL ASSISTANT SYSTEM FOR DELEGATING PROVISION OF SERVICES BY THIRD PARTY TASK PROVIDERS AND METHOD THEREFOR - Provided is a collaborative Personal Assistant (PA) system for delegating provision of services by third party task providers. The system includes a contextual reasoned for searching for a first third party task provider supporting a first task required by a user input by using natural language input patterns for tasks supported by services operated by the third party task providers; and a server comprised of a task delegate unit for providing to the user a service and an action required by the user input for the first task, and providing additional service and actions supporting the first task to the user regardless of the user input. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081362 | CONTEXT-AWARE DISTRIBUTIVE TAXI CAB DISPATCHING - Technologies are presented that provide a cloud-based context-aware distributive taxi cab dispatching service to registered users. A method of providing this service may include receiving, from a user device of a registered user, a request for taxi information, obtaining the requested information from one or more computing devices of one or more taxi cabs or taxi service companies and one or more data stores, and providing the obtained information to the user device. The provided taxi information may be based on a passenger profile of the user and may include a list of taxi cabs recommended based on the profile. The method may further include scheduling a selected taxi cab. The method may also include monitoring the user's location and updating the scheduling of the taxi based on the user's location. The method may also include monitoring the user's location while in a taxi for data collection and safety reasons. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081363 | Group-Oriented Software Development - A group-oriented software development technology is described. A software development project with a set of project parameters may be defined. The software development project may be divided into a set of work packages based in part on a desired skill level associated with the work packages. A bidding process may be initiated involving a plurality of software developers, to enable a software developer having the desired skill level for a work package to place a bid to work on the work package. Each of the work packages may be assigned to the software developers upon completion of the bidding process. Implemented packages and documentation may be received for each of the work packages from the software developers. The work packages may be integrated into the software development project upon automatically testing a functionality of the work packages. The software development project that is completed according to the set of project parameters may be provided to a customer. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081364 | Rating and Bidding Method for a Teleradiology Workflow System - A method for rating participants within a radiologic referral communication system incorporates a variety of data points entered by participants within the radiological referral communications system. Further, the related method of bidding on the services of participants incorporates data inputted by participants the radiological referral communications system. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081365 | MOBILE TERMINAL MANAGEMENT SERVER AND MOBILE TERMINAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - In a business system that provides information about a report to a mobile communication terminal, a processing load required for a data search is reduced, and valid information is rapidly output. A mobile terminal management server run by enterprise resource planning includes a process flow table that stores process flow data including various kinds of data related to a process flow including a plurality of business processes, and receives and accepts aggregate description subject information representing an aggregate description subject from a mobile terminal, searches for process data related to a plurality of business processes for the aggregate description subject represented by the accepted aggregate description subject information, generates aggregate description information (aggregate billing description information and aggregate payment description information) representing an aggregate description for the designated aggregate description subject based on the searched process data, and provides the generated aggregate description information to the mobile terminal. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081366 | Computer-Based System and Method for Flexible Project Management - Computer-implemented system and method for improved management of projects that result in deliverables, such as deliverables to a client or customer. Resources such as staff members and time needed to generate the deliverables are scheduled according to the environment in which they exist. The environment can include the particular asset list the deliverables are part of, the individual staff or teams of staff that are available for assignment or have been assigned to complete a particular list, and the like. Teams may specify a priority of any task. When a deliverable is entered into the system its component tasks behave as a workflow comprising data objects. The data objects are treated in accordance with team-specific attributes. Schedules are revised automatically as tasks are advanced or completed, or as new tasks are added taking into account task priorities and team attributes. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081367 | OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS - An operations management server associated with a site location having a plurality of distributed assets therein may store a database(s) including a hierarchy of places within the site location, respective places for the plurality of assets within the site location, and pending work orders for respective assets and respective priority indicators associated therewith, determine a respective place associated with a given asset based upon a work order associated therewith and the database, determine a parent place within the site location within which the place associated with the given asset resides based upon the database, and determine at least one sibling place within the parent place based upon the database. The server may also determine pending work orders for other assets, determine a relative priority of the determined work orders, and communicate the determined work orders to a mobile communications device for completion in order of relative priority. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081368 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A CLOUD BASED EMAIL DISTRIBUTION FAIRNESS ALGORITHM - Disclosed is an approach for implementing a system, method, and computer program product for a marketing automation tool that implements an advanced fairness scheme for resources. The order that work items are deployed is carefully managed to ensure that customers are treated fairly. This prevents and/or minimizes any customer from being adversely affected by other customers. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081369 | Systems and Methods for Providing Files in Relation to a Calendar Event - Systems and methods are provided for providing suggested files in relation to a calendar event. An electronic device receives an input related to the calendar event. Calendar event information, such as attendees, subject, and the date, are obtained. A search is performed for files related to the calendar event information. The related files can be ordered or ranked according to confidence values. The files are then displayed as suggestions. Links between suggested files and the calendar event are also formed. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081370 | Method and System of Scheduling, Optimizing and Dynamically Updating Appointment Slots in a Booking System - A computer-implemented method for a dynamic computer-based appointment slot booking comprises a plurality of steps wherein appointment slots (and their attributes) in a locked database are entangled via one or more virtual umbilical cords in a manner analogous to the formation of quantum systems, in such a way, the entangled appointment slots comprise a system carrying a character of “wholeness” and wherein the database so formed is unlocked (made available for new appointment selection and entry), said act of booking a new appointment i) creates consequences to the entangled appointment slots (and their attributes) ii) reflects the “wholeness” of the quantum system. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081371 | METHOD, A SYSTEM AND A SERVER FOR BUSINESS APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING USING TEXT MESSAGES - The present disclosure relates to a method, a system and a server using text messages for scheduling of business appointments. A server receives an initial text message having been transmitted over a wireless network by a mobile terminal. The initial text message includes a function keyword. Based on the function keyword, the server determines a type of requested service and creates a unique page identification for a scheduler page. The server transmits toward the mobile terminal over the wireless network, a reply text message including the unique page identification. The server detects an access of the scheduler page by the mobile terminal, the access including an entry of appointment data. An appointment is scheduled in the scheduler page, using the entered appointment data | 2015-03-19 |
20150081372 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PROFILE ENHANCEMENT USING SCHEDULING INFORMATION - A system and method of enhancing a profile of a portable device. The system and method includes defining an event type in a scheduling tool and scheduling a time to initiate the event type. The system and method further includes associating a notification profile of a device with the defined event type and changing a setting of the device to the notification profile in response to the scheduling time and the defined event type. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081373 | SCHEDULING APPARATUS, SCHEDULING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - Resources, product classes, processes, and product orders are registered in mutual association. From the information of product classes, processes, and resources, variables and constants used when formulating an objective function and a constraint expression are constructed. A constraint setting screen is displayed which includes contents of the constraint expression described by using the selection input field of identification information of the product classes, processes, and resources. Based on a result of selective input to this constraint setting screen, the contents of constraint are set. Further, an object setting screen is displayed which includes the contents of an object described using the product classes and processes and text information indicating the contents of the object, and a selection input field thereof. The contents of the object are registered based on a result of selective input to this object setting screen. Then, the constraint expression and the objective function are formulated based on the constructed variables and constants, the information of the product class, process, and resource, and the set contents of the constraint and the objective function. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081374 | CLIENT-SELECTABLE POWER SOURCE OPTIONS FOR NETWORK-ACCESSIBLE SERVICE UNITS - Methods and apparatus for client-selectable power source options for network-accessible service units are described. A programmatic interface is implemented to enable clients of a service to select, from among a plurality of power source categories including a renewable category and a non-renewable category, a power source category to be used for a service unit. Based on inputs received via the interface, the respective amounts of power to be obtained from renewable and non-renewable categories during a time period may be estimated. A verification operation comparing the estimated amounts to the amount of power that is actually obtained from the different sources may be performed. | 2015-03-19 |
20150081375 | VISUAL SCHEDULING TOOL FOR OPTIMIZING CAPACITY UTILIZATION - One or more regions in a first element that is fixed correspond to indications of a likelihood of satisfying customer demand while optimizing capacity utilization. Customer requirements are stored in a second element that is movable, wherein the one or more regions in the first element are interpreted to determine the likelihood of satisfying customer demand while optimizing capacity utilization, based on the stored customer requirements. | 2015-03-19 |