20th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 60 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140136135 | CROWD-SOURCED HARDWARE CALIBRATION - Systems and methods for calibrating multiple electronic devices are described herein. Such methods may include obtaining, by a processor, data from a plurality of reference electronic devices, analyzing, by a processor, the data and calibrating, by the processor, the electronic device based on the analyzed data obtained from the plurality of reference electronic devices. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136136 | NOX DETECTION APPARATUS AND NOX SENSOR SYSTEM | 2014-05-15 |
20140136137 | METROLOGY TARGET CHARACTERIZATION - Methods and systems are provided, which identify specified metrology target abnormalities using selected metrics and classify the identified target abnormalities geometrically to link them to corresponding sources of error. Identification may be carried out by deriving target signals such as kernels from specified regions of interest (ROIs) from corresponding targets on a wafer, calculating the metrics from the target signals using respective functions and analyzing the metrics to characterize the targets. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136138 | ON-CHIP SPECTRAL ANALYSIS USING ENHANCED RECURSIVE DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS - A computing device uses a recursive discrete Fourier transform (RDFT) engine to reduce time required by a frequency transform module, memory required to hold intermediate products, and/or computing resources used for the testing. In an embodiment the windowing function is integrated and processed simultaneously with the recursive DFT funcions. A frequency-bin power module is configured to determine the frequency bin within the set of frequency bins that has a greatest signal power at various levels of recursion. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136139 | OPTICAL FIBER ANALYSIS DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD - An optical fiber analysis device, comprises at least one computer processor, computer memory and wireless network interface. The device also comprises a computer program stored in the computer memory and executable by the at least one processors to: receive and utilize optical fiber field test equipment results, associate the results with newly identified or already known test results, logical connection data, and/or geographical location data, and store the results and their associations in a central object database with similar historic data for the purpose of assessing the integrity of the individual optical fiber segments, the overall level of performance of the individual optical fiber segments, and any change in performance of the individual optical fiber segments over time. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136140 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING OVERHEAD LINE MOTION - A system for monitoring motion of an overhead line includes a monitoring device. The monitoring device includes an accelerometer and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to accept data from the accelerometer corresponding to line movement, analyze the data to determine displacement data corresponding to a displacement of the overhead line, accept data corresponding to a location of at least one external object proximate to the overhead line, and analyze the displacement data to determine a clearance from the at least one external object. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136141 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MOTION TRAJECTORY RECONSTRUCTION - A method of motion trajectory reconstruction is described as follows: obtaining angular velocity time-domain data and linear acceleration time-domain data from a traveling inertial sensor; performing a spectrum analysis to transform the angular velocity time-domain data into angular velocity frequency-domain data; choosing a main frequency wave of the spectrum from the angular velocity frequency-domain data; transforming the angular velocity frequency-domain data only having the main frequency wave into angular displacement time-domain data; obtaining linear displacement time-domain data by calculating the linear acceleration time-domain data and the angular displacement time-domain data; and reconstructing and displaying the motion trajectory of the inertial sensor according to the linear displacement time-domain data and the angular displacement time-domain data. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136142 | SPEED SENSOR - Embodiments relate to a speed sensor and a speed sensing method for measuring relative speeds of receivers with respect to particles in a fluid by detecting individual particles. A receiver generates a plurality of signals related to reflections from particles in a region being monitored. A sampling circuit samples the signals, and a processing device processes the signals according to a particle detection scheme to determine speed. Concomitant use of the same receivers allows depth measurement. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136143 | MUSCULAR-SKELETAL TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - At least one embodiment is directed to a tracking system for the muscular-skeletal system. The tracking system can identify position and orientation. The tracking system can be attached to a device or integrated into a device. In one embodiment, the tracking system couples to a handheld tool. The handheld tool with the tracking system and one or more sensors can be used to generate tracking data of the tool location and trajectory while measuring parameters of the muscular-skeletal system at an identified location. The tracking system can be used in conjunction with a second tool to guide the second tool to the identified location of the first tool. The tracking system can guide the second tool along the same trajectory as the first tool. For example, the second tool can be used to install a prosthetic component at a predetermined location and a predetermined orientation. The tracking system can track hand movements of a surgeon holding the handheld tool within 1 millimeter over a path less than 5 meters. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136144 | MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND ABSOLUTE ENCODER - A measurement apparatus includes: a detector which detects modulated light from the target object and outputs a periodic pattern signal; and a calculation unit which determines positions of two extreme values from the signal output from the detector, calculates a first total sum by multiplying the signal by first reference data in a region between the positions of the two extreme values, and adding the multiplication results, calculates a second total sum by multiplying the signal by second reference data with a phase difference of 90° with respect to the first reference data in the region, and adding the multiplication results, calculates a phase of the signal based on the first and second total sums, and calculates the position of the target object based on the calculated phase. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136145 | Method and System for Evaluating Analyte Sensor Response Characteristics - Apparatus, method, system and kit for receiving a plurality of continuous analyte sensor values for corresponding reference analyte values, calculating a rate of change value for the continuous analyte sensor values, defining a plurality of data range windows of the reference analyte values, evaluating the corresponding continuous analyte sensor values, the rate of change values, the reference analyte values, and/or a plurality of corresponding difference values for the plurality of data range windows, and determining a best fit based on the evaluation of the plurality of data range windows are provided. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136146 | MULTIVARIATE PREDICTION OF A BATCH MANUFACTURING PROCESS - A method and system for predicting prospective behavior of a manufacturing process are described. Measured values of multiple variables, including at least one dependent variable, are received. A partial least squares (PLS) regression approach is used to estimate an unknown future value of the at least one dependent variable at a future point in time in a current batch run. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136147 | Determining System Performance - A system comprises one or more components, such as a processing device and/or a storage device and a monitoring element that is connected to at least one of the components. A mechanism of determining performance in the system determines, for each component, a maximum achievable performance for a component for a specific metric, determines a maximum performance for the component for the specific metric, given the current system configuration, determines a current performance for the component for the specific metric, and provides the determined performance measurements to the monitoring element. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136148 | AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF DEVICE SPECIFIC INTEROPERABILITY - Device specific interoperability is provided automatically utilizing remote service and/or cloud computing. Functionality of devices like mobile phones is tested to ensure that the device is properly configured to work with infotainment systems by using the phone to connect with the cloud services. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136149 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, EXTRACTION DEVICE, AND EXTRACTION METHOD - When a second pattern is to be generated by adding an event to a first pattern including events, an extraction program causes a computer to execute the following process based on combinations of events. That is, the extraction program causes the computer to generate the second pattern when the number of occurrence, in the second pattern, of each of the events included in the combinations is not more than a threshold. The extraction program causes the computer to calculate, based on data including a plurality of events, a frequency at which one or more of the generated second patterns occur in the data. The extraction program causes the computer to extract the second pattern having the frequency satisfying a predetermined condition. The extraction program causes the computer to add a new event to the extracted second pattern. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136150 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPORTING DATA INTO PROGRAM CODE - The present invention relates to a method for designing a system. This method includes obtaining a visual representation of one or more components of the ventilation system. One or more property values are assigned to each of the components of the system, which may be achieved using first program code. Geometrical information representing the visual representation and the property values of each component are exported to a data file using the first program code. Standards information relating to the property values are stored. The data file is then imported into a second software application and the data file and the standards information is used to generate a final design using the second software application. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136151 | Methods and Systems for Generating Continuous Surfaces from Polygonal Data - Methods and systems for generating surface data from polygonal data are disclosed. The methods and systems receive polygonal data which describe geometries in a mesh. The methods and systems analyze and use the polygonal data to calculate and define a continuous BREP object which accurately represents the original polygonal object. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136152 | ANALYZING HARDWARE DESIGNS BASED ON COMPONENT RE-USE - Analyzing a design of a hardware device includes obtaining a computer-aided design assembly depicting the design and automatically creating a bill of materials based on the computer-aided design assembly, wherein the bill of materials lists in a hierarchical manner a plurality of components making up the design. In another embodiment, analyzing a design of a hardware device includes automatically creating a bill of materials based on a computer-aided design assembly depicting the design and automatically updating the bill of materials to include business and technical information retrieved from a database, wherein the automatically updating results in an updated bill of materials. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136153 | Compact Scalable Three Dimensional Model Generation - A user equipment (UE) comprising a processor configured to generate a three dimensional (3D) model by obtaining a 3D mesh comprising a plurality of reference markers, positioning at least one first order virtual object onto a surface of the mesh by associating the first order virtual object to at least one of the mesh reference markers, wherein the first order virtual object comprises a plurality of reference markers, and positioning at least one second order virtual object onto a surface of the mesh by associating the second order virtual object to at least one of the first order virtual object reference markers. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136154 | PATIENT-ADAPTED AND IMPROVED ARTICULAR IMPLANTS, DESIGNS AND RELATED GUIDE TOOLS - Methods and devices are disclosed relating improved articular models, implant components, and related guide tools and procedures. In addition, methods and devices are disclosed relating articular models, implant components, and/or related guide tools and procedures that include one or more features derived from patient-data, for example, images of the patient's joint. The data can be used to create a model for analyzing a patient's joint and to devise and evaluate a course of corrective action. The data also can be used to create patient-adapted implant components and related tools and procedures. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136155 | ANALYZING HARDWARE DESIGNS BASED ON COMPONENT RE-USE - A system for analyzing a design of a hardware device includes a database that stores business and technical information related to a plurality of components included in the design and a hardware design assistant coupled to the database and including a processor for automatically creating a bill of materials based on a computer-aided design assembly of the design and on the business and technical information. Another embodiment of a system for analyzing a design of a hardware device includes a processor and a computer readable storage medium that stores instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to perform operations including obtaining a computer-aided design assembly depicting the design and automatically creating a bill of materials based on the computer-aided design assembly, wherein the bill of materials lists in a hierarchical manner a plurality of components making up the design. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136156 | Circular Staggered Pattern Of Objects - The invention is directed to computer-implemented method for designing a staggered pattern of objects in a computer-aided design system. The method comprises providing a rotation axis that is the origin of two or more concentric circles, providing a reference object to be multi-instantiated, defining the number of objects to be instantiated from the reference object on each concentric circle, defining an angular shift, instantiating the number of objects from the reference object on each concentric circle, the instantiated objects being spaced according to an angular deviation between two consecutive instantiated objects on a given concentric circle, in one of every two concentric circle, shifting the instantiated objects in accordance with the angular shift. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136157 | PRODUCT QUALITY CONTROL METHOD - A real-time release testing capable of constantly ensuring quality, a method for quality testing of a product using real-time release testing, a method for quality testing of an in-process product and/or an end product by real-time release testing, comprising the step of assessing the quality from design space established with only material attributes as inputs, and a manufacturing parameter-independent method for quality testing of a product using real-time release testing. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136158 | METHOD TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF EXISTING FRACTURES AND FAULTS FOR RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT - Assessing the impact of existing fractures and faults for reservoir management, in one aspect, may comprise employing a numerical mesh to generate a geomechanical model, the numerical mesh representing a geological reservoir and its surrounding regions, the numerical mesh comprising delimitation associated with regions and layering of geology without constraining the numerical mesh to explicitly represent a fault or fracture, initializing the geomechanical model to define initial stress-strain compatible with measured stress in well locations associated with the geological reservoir, generating a fluid-flow model employing the numerical mesh, solving for a coupled solution of the fluid-flow model and the geomechanical model, and employing the solved fluid-flow model and the geomechanical model to assess the impact. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136159 | COMPUTER SIMULATION OF PHYSICAL PROCESSES INCLUDING MODELING OF LAMINAR-TO-TURBULENT TRANSITION - A computer-implemented method for simulating fluid flow using a lattice Boltzmann (LB) approach that includes assigning values for the wall shear stress on a per-facet (e.g., per-surfel) basis based on whether the fluid flow is laminar or turbulent is described herein. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136160 | QUANTITATIVE MODELS OF MULTI-ALLELIC MULTI-LOCI INTERACTIONS - Various embodiments generate a quantitative model of multi-allelic multi-loci interactions. In one embodiment, a plurality of distinct allelic forms of at least two loci of an entity is received. Each of the plurality of distinct allelic forms is associated with a set of genotypes. A contribution value of each genotype to a given physical trait is determined for each set of genotypes. An interaction contribution value for each interaction between each of the set of genotypes of a first of the least two loci and each of the set of genotypes of at least a second of the least two loci to the physical trait is determined from at least one interaction model. A model of a quantitative value of the entity is generated based on the contribution value of each genotype in each set of genotypes and each interaction contribution value that has been determined from the interaction model. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136161 | PRECISE SIMULATION OF PROGENY DERIVED FROM RECOMBINING PARENTS - Various embodiments simulate crossover events on a chromosome. In one embodiment, a number Y of positions to be selected on a simulated chromosome is determined. Y positions j | 2014-05-15 |
20140136162 | METHOD FOR SIMULATING FILMER COATING EFFICIENCY IN A PIPING NETWORK - Filmer coating efficiency may be simulated in a piping network with the aid of computational computer modeling. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136163 | METHOD TO COUPLE FLUID-FLOW AND GEOMECHANICAL MODELS FOR INTEGRATED PETROLEUM SYSTEMS USING KNOWN TRIGGERING EVENTS - Coupling fluid-flow model and geomechanical model for integrated petroleum systems, in one aspect, may comprise analyzing historical data associated with a reservoir to determine one or more triggering events that trigger abrupt changes in the state of stress of the reservoir solid framework and in the pore pressure. One or more time steps are defined based on the determined triggering events. The fluid-flow model and the geomechanical model are coupled at the one or more defined time steps, e.g., one-way or two-way. Number of iterations may be calculated automatically for the two-way coupling to converge. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136164 | ANALYTIC CONTINUATIONS TO THE CONTINUUM LIMIT IN NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF WAFER RESPONSE - Simulations of metrology measurements of a structure may be performed on a metrology model of the structure at two or more different truncation orders up to a maximum truncation order. The simulation results can be fitted to a function of a form that reflects the fact that a truncation order of infinity is an analytic point that admits Taylor series expansion. The function can be extrapolated to a truncation order approaching infinity limit to obtain a high fidelity result. Fitted parameters for the function can be obtained using simulation results for two or more truncation orders that are less than the maximum truncation by fitting the simulation results for the truncation orders to the function. A simulated metrology signal can be obtained by performing a simulation using an optimized truncation order that is less than the maximum truncation order, the function and the one or more fitted parameters. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136165 | MODEL SELECTION FROM A LARGE ENSEMBLE OF MODELS - A method, system and processor readable medium containing computer readable software instructions for selecting representative models from a large ensemble of models is disclosed. An ensemble of reservoir models that define an input uncertainty space is provided. A target number of representative models and one or more target percentiles of output variables that the representative models are to approximate are input. The representative models from the ensemble of reservoir models that match the one or more target percentiles of output variables are selected while maximizing the spread between the selected representative models in the input uncertainty space. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136166 | PRECISE SIMULATION OF PROGENY DERIVED FROM RECOMBINING PARENTS - Various embodiments simulate crossover events on a chromosome. In one embodiment, a number Y of positions to be selected on a simulated chromosome is determined. Y positions j | 2014-05-15 |
20140136167 | QUANTITATIVE MODELS OF MULTI-ALLELIC MULTI-LOCI INTERACTIONS - Various embodiments generate a quantitative model of multi-allelic multi-loci interactions. In one embodiment, a plurality of distinct allelic forms of at least two loci of an entity is received. Each of the plurality of distinct allelic forms is associated with a set of genotypes. A contribution value of each genotype to a given physical trait is determined for each set of genotypes. An interaction contribution value for each interaction between each of the set of genotypes of a first of the least two loci and each of the set of genotypes of at least a second of the least two loci to the physical trait is determined from at least one interaction model. A model of a quantitative value of the entity is generated based on the contribution value of each genotype in each set of genotypes and each interaction contribution value that has been determined from the interaction model. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136168 | DRILL BIT SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION - A method of predicting behavior of a drill bit includes: generating, by a processor, a representation of at least one component of the drill bit, the representation representing a three-dimensional object as a combination of at least two two-dimensional polygons; representing a borehole formed in an earth formation during a drilling operation by generating a mathematical representation of a borehole surface defined by a plurality of nodes; simulating operation of the drill bit within the borehole with the application of one or both of axial load and a side load; determining whether the three-dimensional object is in contact with the borehole surface by determining if one of the nodes is within both of the two-dimensional polygons during the simulation; and estimating an amount of lateral motion of the drill bit during the simulation. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136169 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING BATTERY PERFORMANCE - A computer-implemented method for modeling the amount of current discharged by a battery is provided. The method is implemented by a computing device communicatively coupled with a memory, and includes generating, by the computing device, a model of at least one battery cell comprising a positive electrode region, a negative electrode region, and a separator region. The method also includes transforming the positive electrode region, the negative electrode region, and the separator region of the battery into a single region in the model. In addition, the method includes generating, by the computing device, a plurality of trial functions associated with the single region, and determining, by the computing device, the amount of current discharged from the battery cell based on the trial functions. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136170 | Adaptive Weighting of Geophysical Data Types in Joint Inversion - Method for adaptive weighting of geophysical data types in iterative joint inversion to speed convergence and aid escape from local minima of the penalty (objective) function. Two or more geophysical data sets ( | 2014-05-15 |
20140136171 | Unstructured Grids For Modeling Reservoirs - An earth model of a subsurface reservoir having an unstructured tetrahedral grid defining a plurality of tetrahedral cells that conform to geological discontinuities is provided. The tetrahedral cells define vertices in a physical space that store information associated with a depositional space of the subsurface reservoir. A polyhedral grid is generated in the physical space from the unstructured tetrahedral grid. The polyhedral grid defines a plurality of polyhedral cells that are split based on the information associated with the depositional space. One or more of the plurality of polyhedral cells can be associated with one or more elements having split-property values that correspond to properties on opposite sides of the one or more geological discontinuities. The polyhedral grid is used to model the behavior of the subsurface reservoir. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136172 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF MODELING HYDROCARBON FLOW FROM LAYERED SHALE FORMATIONS - Modeling hydrocarbon flow, from layered shale formations. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods including: modeling movement of hydrocarbons through kerogen-related porosity, the movement through a first model volume; estimating a first permeability of a kerogen-rich layer of a layered shale formation based on the modeling; and modeling hydrocarbon production from the layered shale formation. The modeling hydrocarbon production may include: utilizing the first permeability for the kerogen-rich layer of the layered shale formation; and utilizing a second permeability for a kerogen-poor layer of the layered shale formation, the second permeability different than the first permeability. In various cases the modeling of hydrocarbon production is with respect to a second model volume greater than the first model volume. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136173 | METHODS OF HYDRAULICALLY FRACTURING A SUBTERRANEAN FORMATION - A hydraulic fracture design model that simulates the complex physical process of fracture propagation in the earth driven by the injected fluid through a wellbore. An objective in the model is to adhere with the laws of physics governing the surface deformation of the created fracture subjected to the fluid pressure, the fluid flow in the gap formed by the opposing fracture surfaces, the propagation of the fracture front, the transport of the proppant in the fracture carried by the fluid, and the leakoff of the fracturing fluid into the permeable rock. The models used in accordance with methods of the invention are typically based on the assumptions and the mathematical equations for the conventional 2D or P3D models, and further take into account the network of jointed fracture segments. For each fracture segment, the mathematical equations governing the fracture deformation and fluid flow apply. For each time step, the model predicts the incremental growth of the branch tips and the pressure and flow rate distribution in the system by solving the governing equations and satisfying the boundary conditions at the fracture tips, wellbore and connected branch joints. An iterative technique is used to obtain the solution of this highly nonlinear and complex problem. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136174 | System and Method for Patient Specific Modeling of Liver Tumor Ablation - A method and system for tumor ablation planning and guidance based on a patient-specific model of liver tumor ablation is disclosed. A patient-specific anatomical model of the liver and circulatory system of the liver is estimated from 3D medical image data of a patient. Blood flow in the liver and the circulatory system of the liver is simulated based on the patient-specific anatomical model. Heat diffusion due to ablation is simulated based on a virtual ablation probe position and the simulated blood flow in the liver and the venous system of the liver. Cellular necrosis in the liver is simulated based on the simulated heat diffusion. A visualization of a simulated necrosis region is generated and displayed to the user for decision making and optimal therapy planning and guidance. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136175 | IDENTIFYING AND ROUTING POISON TUPLES IN A STREAMING APPLICATION - A method for processing a stream of tuples may comprise receiving a stream of tuples to be processed by a plurality of processing elements operating on one or more computer processors. In addition, the method may include generating a model of performance for processing the stream of tuples at runtime, wherein one or more tuples from the stream of tuples potentially cause adverse performance. Further, the method may comprise predicting a parameter for a tuple from the stream of tuples, the parameter indicating a potential for adverse performance, the predicting including using the model. The method may also include modifying processing of the tuple if the parameter falls outside a threshold. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136176 | IDENTIFYING AND ROUTING POISON TUPLES IN A STREAMING APPLICATION - A method for processing a stream of tuples may comprise receiving a stream of tuples to be processed by a plurality of processing elements operating on one or more computer processors. In addition, the method may include generating a model of performance for processing the stream of tuples at runtime, wherein one or more tuples from the stream of tuples potentially cause adverse performance. Further, the method may comprise predicting a parameter for a tuple from the stream of tuples, the parameter indicating a potential for adverse performance, the predicting including using the model. The method may also include modifying processing of the tuple if the parameter falls outside a threshold. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136177 | CRITICAL PATH EMULATING APPARATUS USING HYBRID ARCHITECTURE - A critical path emulating apparatus includes a critical path emulator (CPE) and an interconnection circuit. The CPE is capable of emulating a critical path of a target device, and supporting a plurality of speed information detection modes. The interconnection circuit is capable of supporting a plurality of interconnection arrangements, wherein when the interconnection circuit is configured to have a first interconnection arrangement, the CPE is capable of being used in a first speed information detection mode, and when the interconnection circuit is configured to have a second interconnection arrangement, the CPE is capable of being used in a second speed information detection mode. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136178 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODEL-BASED SOLAR POWER MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for model-based real-time solar power management. In an embodiment, real-time data is received from sensor(s) of an electrical system comprising a photo-voltaic power generator. Predicted data is generated based on a virtual model of the electrical system that replicates operation of the sensor(s). The virtual model is continuously and automatically synchronized with the electrical system based on a difference between the real-time data and the predicted data. Solar irradiance forecast data may also be received and used in conjunction with the virtual model to forecast a power output of the photo-voltaic power generator. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136179 | Page Mapped Spatially Aware Emulation of Computer Instruction Set - Dynamic creation of a spatially aware emulation environment comprising Host cells of Host pages corresponding to Guest cells of Guest pages of Guest instructions. Each Host cell comprises a semantic routine for emulating a corresponding Guest instruction located at the corresponding Guest cell of the guest page. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136180 | AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION OF SYSTEM MESSAGES - A processing device receives a message identifier associated with an application. and identifies a first language that an operating system running on the processing device is configured to use. Responsive to determining that a first application resource bundle associated with the application and configured for the first language is not available, the processing device selects a second application resource bundle that is associated with the application and configured for a second language, identifies a first version of a message associated with the message identifier in the second application resource bundle, sends the first version of the message to an automated translator with a request to translate the first version of the message to the first language, and receives a first translated version of the message that is in the first language. The processing device may then present or store the first translated version of the message. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136181 | Translation Decomposition and Execution - Techniques, a system and an article of manufacture for translation decomposition and execution. A method includes decomposing a document associated with a document translation request into two or more document parts based on meta-data of the document and content of the document, estimating translation complexity between a source language and a target language for each of the two or more document parts, classifying the two or more document parts based on the estimated translation complexity of each part and meta-data corresponding to each part, assigning each of the two or more document parts to a particular individual amongst a set of translators for translation based on the classification of each part and one or more variables associated with the set of translators, assembling each translation output for the two or more document parts to form a final output, and formatting the final output. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136182 | TRANSLATING PARALINGUISTIC INDICATORS - Paralinguistic indicators are translated at a paralinguistic translation server by receiving from a source a first set of data related to a first paralinguistic indicator that is configured to enable non-verbal communications between a source and a destination. The source is one of an instant messaging system and a virtual world system and the destination is one of the textual instant messaging system and a virtual world system but differs from the source. The first set of data related to the first paralinguistic indicator is translated into a second set of data related to a second paralinguistic indicator, such that the second paralinguistic indicator that is at least partially synonymous to the non-verbal communications associated with the first paralinguistic indicator. The second set of data related to the second paralinguistic indicator is transmitted to the destination. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136183 | Distributed NLU/NLP - An arrangement and corresponding method are described for distributed natural language processing. A set of local data sources is stored on a mobile device. A local natural language understanding (NLU) match module on the mobile device performs natural language processing of a natural language input with respect to the local data sources to determine one or more local interpretation candidates. A local NLU ranking module on the mobile device processes the local interpretation candidates and one or more remote interpretation candidates from a remote NLU server to determine a final output interpretation corresponding to the natural language input. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136184 | TEXTUAL AMBIGUITY RESOLVER - A textual ambiguity resolver system for disambiguating textual elements in information transferred over a communications network comprising a database; and a disambiguation processor adapted to perform a parsing operation on the transferred information, including an ambiguous mapping extractor module to identify at least one ambiguous textual element in the transferred information and to map said ambiguous textual element to at least one interpretation candidate in an ontology, a lexical resolver module to determine a relationship between said ambiguous textual element and an idiom phrase, a named-entity resolver module to determine a relationship between said ambiguous textual element and a named-entity element, a syntactic resolver module to determine a relationship between said ambiguous textual element and a syntactic compound, and a classification resolver module to determine a relationship between said ambiguous textual element and a linguistic pattern. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136185 | SENTIMENT ANALYSIS BASED ON DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS - A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for analyzing product or service reviews is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of performing a demographic text analysis on a product or service review generated by a reviewer, wherein the demographic text analysis examines the product or service review to determine demographic information of the reviewer. A sentiment text analysis is performed on the product or service review, wherein the sentiment text analysis examines the product or service review to determine a sentiment of the product or service review. The sentiment of the product or service review is categorized based on the demographic information of the reviewer. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136186 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AN ALTERNATIVE AUDIBLE, VISUAL AND/OR TEXTUAL DATA BASED UPON AN ORIGINAL AUDIBLE, VISUAL AND/OR TEXTUAL DATA - A computer implemented method and system for generating an alternative audible, visual and/or textual data based upon an original audible, visual and/or textual data comprising the step of inputting to a processor original audible, visual and/or textual data having an original plot, extracting a plurality of basic segments from the original audible, visual and/or textual data, defining a vocabulary of intermediate-level semantic concepts based on the plurality of basic segments and/or the original plot, inputting to the processor at least an alternative plot based upon the original plot, modifying the alternative plot in terms of the vocabulary of intermediate-level semantic concepts for generating a modified alternative plot, and modifying the plurality of basic segments of the original audible, visual and/or textual data in terms of said vocabulary of intermediate-level semantic concepts for generating a modified plurality of basic segments. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136187 | VEHICLE PERSONAL ASSISTANT - A vehicle personal assistant to engage a user in a conversational dialog about vehicle-related topics, such as those commonly found in a vehicle owner's manual, includes modules to interpret spoken natural language input, search a vehicle knowledge base and/or other data sources for pertinent information, and respond to the user's input in a conversational fashion. The dialog may be initiated by the user or more proactively by the vehicle personal assistant based on events that may be currently happening in relation to the vehicle. The vehicle personal assistant may use real-time inputs obtained from the vehicle and/or non-verbal inputs from the user to enhance its understanding of the dialog and assist the user in a variety of ways. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136188 | NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A natural language processing system is disclosed herein. Embodiments of the NLP system perform hand-written rule-based operations that do not rely on a trained corpus. Rules can be added or modified at any time to improve accuracy of the system, and to allow the same system to operate on unstructured plain text from many disparate contexts (e.g. articles as well as twitter contexts as well as medical articles) without harming accuracy for any one context. Embodiments also include a language decoder (LD) that generates information which is stored in a three-level framework (word, clause, phrase). The LD output is easily leveraged by various software applications to analyze large quantities of text from any source in a more sophisticated and flexible manner than previously possible. A query language (LDQL) for information extraction from NLP parsers' output is disclosed, with emphasis on its embodiment implemented for LD. It is also presented, how to use LDQL for knowledge extraction on the example of application named Knowledge Browser. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136189 | Phrase-Based Dialogue Modeling With Particular Application to Creating a Recognition Grammar - The invention enables creation of grammar networks that can regulate, control, and define the content and scope of human-machine interaction in natural language voice user interfaces (NLVUI). The invention enables phrase-based modeling of generic structures of verbal interaction to be used for the purpose of automating part of the design of such grammar networks. Most particularly, the invention enables such grammar networks to be used in providing a voice-controlled user interface to human readable text data that is also machine-readable (such as a Web page, a word processing document, a PDF document, or a spreadsheet). | 2014-05-15 |
20140136190 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF BUILDING AND USING CUSTOM WORD LISTS - Standard word lists that are often used for such operations as predictive text, spell checking, and word completion are based on general linguistic data that might not accurately reflect actual text usage patterns of particular users. Systems and methods of building and using a custom word list for use in text operations on an electronic device are provided. A collection of text items associated with a user of the electronic device is scanned to identify words in the text items. A weighting is then assigned to each identified word, and the words and corresponding weightings are stored. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136191 | SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A speech signal processing apparatus includes an amplitude and phase signal generation section that, based on an analyzing signal expressed by a complex signal generated from a speech signal applied with pitch marks every 1 pitch cycle, generates an amplitude signal and a phase signal on the time axis of the speech signal, a phase signal conversion section that converts the phase signal into a phase signal of a target pitch cycle width for each section of the 1 pitch cycle width based on the pitch marks, and a pitch conversion speech signal generation section that generates a speech signal in which pitch cycle is converted to the target pitch cycle based on an amplitude signal of the target pitch cycle width of a section corresponding to the section of the amplitude signal and based on a phase signal of the target pitch cycle width. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136192 | WAVEFORM PROCESSING DEVICE, WAVEFORM PROCESSING METHOD, AND WAVEFORM PROCESSING PROGRAM - There is provided a waveform processing device for changing power of each pitch waveform of a segment in order to acquire a natural synthesis speech. A power calculation means | 2014-05-15 |
20140136193 | METHOD TO FILTER OUT SPEECH INTERFERENCE, SYSTEM USING THE SAME, AND COMUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A method to filter out speech interference is provided. The method includes defining a time threshold by using a probability distribution model. When a current instruction from a speech input is recognized, a reference instruction recognized from the speech input is obtained. The current instruction is recognized right after the recognition of the reference instruction, wherein the reference instruction and the current instruction correspond to a first time point and a second time point respectively. The method includes determining whether speech interference occurs according to a comparison result of the time threshold and an interval between the first time point and the second time point as well as a state corresponding to the first time point. The method includes filtering out the reference instruction and the current instruction if the speech interference occurs, and outputting the reference instruction or the current instruction if the speech interference does not occur. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136194 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING FRAUDULENT CALLERS - The methods, apparatus, and systems described herein are designed to identify fraudulent callers. A voice print of a call is created and compared to known voice prints to determine if it matches one or more of the known voice prints. The methods include a pre-processing step to separate speech from non-speech, selecting a number of elements that affect the voice print the most, and/or computing an adjustment factor based on the scores of each received voice print against known voice prints. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136195 | Voice-Operated Internet-Ready Ubiquitous Computing Device and Method Thereof - In one aspect of this disclosure, a voice-operated internet-ready ubiquitous computing device and a method implemented by the computing device are disclosed. A sound input associated with a user is received at the first computing device, and in response to receiving the sound input, the first computing device establishes a voice session associated with the user. The first computing device then determines a session quality associated with the voice input, and sends the session quality to a further computing device such as a second computing device or a server. The first computing device will receive a request to transfer the voice session to a second computing device; and in response to receiving the request, transfers the voice session to the second computing device. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136196 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POSTING MESSAGE BY AUDIO SIGNAL - A system for posting a message by an audio signal is provided. The system has: a communication unit used to connect the system to a communications network; an audio receiving unit used to receive a first audio signal; a display unit; and a processing unit, connected to the communication unit, the audio receiving unit and the display unit, used to recognize the first audio signal to generate a first string, determine a target object from a display screen displayed on the display unit according to the first string, and automatically generate a message corresponding to the target object, and post the message on a social network through the communication unit. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136197 | ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT OF SPOKEN QUERIES TRANSCRIPTION USING CO-OCCURRENCE INFORMATION - Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods for voice-enabled searching. Techniques include a co-occurrence based approach to improve accuracy of the 1-best hypothesis for non-phrase voice queries, as well as for phrased voice queries. A co-occurrence model is used in addition to a statistical natural language model and acoustic model to recognize spoken queries, such as spoken queries for searching a search engine. Given an utterance and an associated list of automated speech recognition n-best hypotheses, the system rescores the different hypotheses using co-occurrence information. For each hypothesis, the system estimates a frequency of co-occurrence within web documents. Combined scores from a speech recognizer and a co-occurrence engine can be combined to select a best hypothesis with a lower word error rate. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136198 | CORRECTING TEXT WITH VOICE PROCESSING - The present invention relates to voice processing and provides a method and system for correcting a text. The method comprising: determining a target text unit to be corrected in a text; receiving a reference voice segment input by the user for the target text unit; determining a reference text unit whose pronunciation is similar to a word in the target text unit based on the reference voice segment; and correcting the word in the target text unit in the text by the reference text unit. The present invention enables the user to easily correct errors in the text vocally. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136199 | CORRECTING TRANSCRIBED AUDIO FILES WITH AN EMAIL-CLIENT INTERFACE - Methods and systems for requesting a transcription of audio data. One method includes displaying a send-for-transcription button within an email-client interface on a computer-controlled display, and automatically sending a selected email message and associated audio data to a transcription server as a request for a transcription of the associated audio data when a user selects the send-for-transcription button. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136200 | ADAPTATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SPEECH SYSTEMS - Methods and systems are provided for adapting a speech system. In one example a method includes: processing a spoken command with one or more models of one or more model types to achieve model results; evaluating a frequency of the model results; and selectively updating the one or more models of the one or more model types based on the evaluating. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136201 | ADAPTATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SPEECH SYSTEMS - Methods and systems are provided for adapting a speech system. In one example a method includes: logging speech data from the speech system; detecting a user characteristic from the speech data; and selectively updating a language model based on the user characteristic. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136202 | ADAPTATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SPEECH SYSTEMS - Methods and systems are provided for adapting a speech system. In one example a method includes: logging speech data from the speech system; processing the speech data for a pattern of a user competence associated with at least one of task requests and interaction behavior; and selectively updating at least one of a system prompt and an interaction sequence based on the user competence. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136203 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM HAVING SMART DIRECTIONAL CONFERENCING - Some implementations provide a method for identifying a speaker. The method determines position and orientation of a second device based on data from a first device that is for capturing the position and orientation of the second device. The second device includes several microphones for capturing sound. The second device has movable position and movable orientation. The method assigns an object as a representation of a known user. The object has a moveable position. The method receives a position of the object. The position of the object corresponds to a position of the known user. The method processes the captured sound to identify a sound originating from the direction of the object. The direction of the object is relative to the position and the orientation of the second device. The method identifies the sound originating from the direction of the object as belonging to the known user. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136204 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SPEECH SYSTEMS - Methods and systems are provided for a speech system of a vehicle. In one embodiment, the method includes: generating an utterance signature from a speech utterance received from a user of the speech system without a specific need for a user identification interaction; developing a user signature for a user based on the utterance signature; and managing a dialog with the user based on the user signature. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136205 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, VOICE ACQUIRING APPARATUS AND VOICE RECOGNITION METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a display apparatus, a voice acquiring apparatus and a voice recognition method thereof, the display apparatus including: a display unit which displays an image; a communication unit which communicates with a plurality of external apparatuses; and a controller which includes a voice recognition engine to recognize a user's voice, receives a voice signal from a voice acquiring unit, and controls the communication unit to receive candidate instruction words from at least one of the plurality of external apparatuses to recognize the received voice signal. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136206 | MASH-UP SERVICE GENERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON VOICE COMMAND - Provided are a mash-up service generation apparatus and method based on a voice command. The mash-up service generation apparatus includes a voice recognizer configured to convert a voice command into a character string, a mash-up natural language processor configured to extract a word corresponding to a mash-up module based on the character string, and convert the word into at least one of metadata of the mash-up module and metadata of a mash-up sequence in which a plurality of mash-up modules are combined, and a mash-up sequence processor configured to search for and select a target mash-up sequence corresponding to the metadata of the mash-up sequence, and newly generate the target mash-up sequence. Accordingly, a customized mash-up service can be provided to a user. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136207 | VOICE SYNTHESIZING METHOD AND VOICE SYNTHESIZING APPARATUS - A voice synthesizing apparatus includes a first receiver configured to receive first utterance control information generated by detecting a start of a manipulation on a manipulating member by a user, a first synthesizer configured to synthesize, in response to a reception of the first utterance control information, a first voice corresponding to a first phoneme in a phoneme sequence of a voice to be synthesized to output the first voice, a second receiver configured to receive second utterance control information generated by detecting a completion of the manipulation on the manipulating member or a manipulation on a different manipulating member, and a second synthesizer configured to synthesize, in response to a reception of the second utterance control information, a second voice including at least the first phoneme and a succeeding phoneme being subsequent to the first phoneme of the voice to be synthesized to output the second voice. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136208 | SECURE MULTI-MODE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AGENTS - A system to assist in secure multi-mode communication is described. The system can receive communications from a source agent in a source communication mode, authenticate the source agent, and determine a recipient communication mode associated with the recipient agent. The system then transforms the communication from the first communication mode to the second communication mode based on the recipient agent and/or the content of the communication and provides the communication to the recipient agent in the recipient communication mode. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136209 | VOICE-ASSISTED BIOMEDICAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - A voice-assisted biomedical measurement apparatus is revealed. The voice-assisted biomedical measurement apparatus allows users to get measurement results of biological signals and other assistant information in aural form. The voice-assisted biomedical measurement apparatus consists of a sensing unit, a control unit, a voice module and a speaker. The voice-assisted biomedical measurement apparatus further includes a display unit, an operation unit, a memory unit and a data transmission unit. The voice-assisted biomedical measurement apparatus features on that the voice module combines at least one first voice data to form a sentence according to at least one first grammar data when a first control signal is sent from the control unit to the voice module. Moreover, the voice-assisted biomedical measurement apparatus gets at least one second voice data and at least one second grammar data from an external data system through a data transmission unit. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136210 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROBUST PERSONALIZATION OF SPEECH RECOGNITION - Personalization of speech recognition while maintaining privacy of user data is achieved by transmitting data associated with received speech to a speech recognition service and receiving a result from the speech recognition service. The speech recognition service result is generated from a general purpose speech language model. The system generates an input finite state machine from the speech recognition result and composes the input finite state machine with a phone edit finite state machine, to yield a resulting finite state machine. The system composes the resulting finite state machine with a user data finite state machine to yield a second resulting finite state machine, and uses a best path through the second resulting finite state machine to yield a user specific speech recognition result. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136211 | VOICE CONTROL ON MOBILE INFORMATION DEVICE - A method for controlling a mobile information device based on verbal input from a user is presented. The method comprises waiting for a predetermined verbal input from a user. The method further comprises controlling a functional module of the mobile information device to determine a value within a predetermined range for a functional parameter in response to a first portion of the verbal input. Finally, the method comprises executing a functional operation by the functional module based on a determined value, in response to a second portion of the verbal input, wherein the second portion follows the first portion. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136212 | SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM BASED ON DUAL DIALOG MANAGEMENT USING HIERARCHICAL DIALOG TASK LIBRARY - The present invention relates to a spoken dialog system and method based on dual dialog management using a hierarchical dialog task library that may increase reutilization of dialog knowledge by constructing and packaging the dialog knowledge based on a task unit having a hierarchical structure, and may construct and process the dialog knowledge using a dialog plan scheme about relationship therebetween by classifying the dialog knowledge based on a task unit to make design of a dialog service convenient, which is different from an existing spoken dialog system in which it is difficult to reuse dialog knowledge since a large amount of construction costs and time is required. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136213 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a microphone configured to receive a user's voice; a user input unit configured to sense a user's input; a controller configured to start a first operation in response to the user's input, and execute a voice recognition mode prior to completing the first operation, and recognize voice received through the microphone during the execution of the voice recognition mode to generate recognition result information, and execute a second operation based on the recognition result information; a display unit configured to display a loading screen image until at least one of the first and the second operation is completed, and display a second execution screen image based on the second operation more preferentially than a first execution screen image based on the execution result of the first operation when the second operation is completed. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136214 | ADAPTATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SPEECH SYSTEMS - Methods and systems are provided for adapting a speech system of a vehicle. In one example a method includes: logging data from the vehicle; logging speech data from the speech system; processing the data from the vehicle and the data from the speech system to determine a pattern of context and a relation to user interaction behavior; and selectively updating a user profile of the speech system based on the pattern of context. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136215 | Information Processing Method And Electronic Apparatus - The present invention provides information processing method and electronic apparatus. The method is applied in an electronic apparatus having voice recognition service, and the method includes: obtaining first voice information; recognizing the first voice information by a first recognition model to obtain a first recognition result; deciding whether the first recognition result conforms to a first preset condition; recognizing the first voice information by a second recognition model different from the first recognition model to obtain a second recognition result when the first recognition result conforms to the first preset condition; and controlling the electronic apparatus to execute a corresponding control instruction based on the second recognition result. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136216 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA RELATED TO CASE MANAGEMENT FOR INJURED INDIVIDUALS - A computer system for processing data relating to medical claim management includes data storage devices storing data relating to medical claims, system users having multiple levels of experience, and rules data; and a claim management hardware server in communication with the data storage devices and with devices accessible to the system users. The server is configured to: determine whether a claim is to be assigned from one system user to another one of the system users based on one or more of time-based and event-based triggers, responsive to determining that the claim is to be assigned to another one of the users for short-term review, assign the claim to another one of the system users at the determined level of experience; and notify the another one of the system users via one of the devices accessible to the system users of the assignment. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136217 | BIDDING PROCESS FOR HEALTH CARE SERVICES - An internet based bidding system for health care services may include an interactive website in communication with a database of health services offered by participating providers. A physician may provide a script bearing a code to a patient so that the patient may request a health care service. The patient may use the code to bid for one of the health care services on the interactive website. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136218 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods are directed to supply chain management. In particular, the tracking, tracing, authenticating, and reporting of supply chain events for products, is disclosed. Various embodiments can store, analyze, and track supply chain events and help to coordinate and maintain trading partner connections. Various embodiments also help to enhance patient safety, secure the supply chains for pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and other healthcare products, and help users to follow regulatory requirements. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136219 | PATIENT AND PHYSICIAN GATEWAY TO CLINICAL DATA - In a system for remote storage of clinical data, the system includes a server, a database in communication with the server, wherein clinical data is stored on the database. The system includes a communication link between the server and a network. The server executes software to securely generate, receive, store, update, provide access to and/or transmit the clinical data between and among patients, healthcare providers and other authorized parties including members and administrators of the system. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136220 | Interactive Patient and Physician Systems and Their Methods of Use - Methods of identifying a patient with an increased propensity for a medical condition and implementing a responsive treatment are disclosed herein and include: conducting at least one screening test, patient questionnaire or a combination thereof on a patient to detect at least one symptom, historical patient event or a combination thereof for the detection of the medical condition, determining whether the at least one symptom, historical patient event or a combination thereof is the cause or related to the medical condition, determining whether the patient has or is at higher risk for the medical condition, producing a medical condition wellness regimen or schedule for the patient as a responsive treatment, and implementing the wellness regimen or schedule. Systems of identifying a patient with an increased propensity for a medical condition are also disclosed herein. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136221 | ONLINE MATCHING SYSTEM BETWEEN PATIENT AND CURER - Disclosed is an online matching system between a patient and curer which provides an effective medical service by matching the patient and curer using an online social network with the advent of a personalized medical treatment age. The online matching system between a patient and curer includes a patient terminal and a curer terminal which are configured for a user to join as a member to a matching service server connected through a data communication network, and log in to perform registration and inquiry, and the matching service server which manages by matching a first group data in which the patient's disease-related information registered is grouped by type of disease and a second group data in which the curer's research-and-treatment-related information registered is grouped by area of research. The matching service server connects the patient and curer terminals through the data communication network. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136222 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INDEXING AND CATALOGUING OF ORTHODONTIC RELATED TREATMENT PROFILES AND OPTIONS - Method and system for providing an orthodontic profile indexing and treatment plan including comparing an initial patient condition in each of a plurality of dentition categories with one or more reference conditions in each of the plurality of dentition categories, wherein each of the one or more reference conditions has a corresponding representation, selecting at least one reference condition in one or more of the plurality of dentition categories, where each selected reference condition is similar to the initial patient condition in a same dentition category, and generating a patient identifier based on the corresponding representations of each selected reference condition is provided. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136223 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED REPATRIATION OF A PATIENT FROM AN OUT-OF-NETWORK ADMITTING HOSPITAL TO AN IN-NETWORK DESTINATION HOSPITAL - A system server stores and allows access to patient data, and can include a repatriation management system and/or a discharge management system. The repatriation management system provides for transfer of a patient from an admitting out-of-network hospital to a destination in-network hospital. The repatriation management system includes a computer program for analyzing the patient data, analyzing candidate destination hospital data, and calculating matches between the two. The discharge management system provides for transfer of a patient from an acute care hospital environment to a remote care facility. The discharge management system includes a computer program for analyzing the patient data, identifying and formulating resolutions to placement problems, and determining if the patient will be discharged. The system server is networked to allow remote access to the stored data and communication between the admitting hospital, destination hospitals, remote care facilities, and medical transport providers. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136224 | Educational Media Evidence Rating and Technology Analysis Solution - A computer-implemented method includes receiving a comment to a medical study; prior to enabling storage of the comment in a data repository, transmitting, to a device used by a user who submitted the comment, a graphical user interface that prompts the user to enter an identifier that uniquely references a data repository record to a medical resource; receiving information indicative of the identifier that uniquely references the data repository record to the medical resource; verifying that the identifier references a data repository record to a medical resource; in response to verification of the identifier, storing the comment in association with the medical study in the data repository; and storing the identifier in association with the comment that is stored in the data repository, wherein the identifier provides evidence to support the comment. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136225 | DISCHARGE READINESS INDEX | 2014-05-15 |
20140136226 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH STATUS | 2014-05-15 |
20140136227 | READMISSION RISK ASSESSMENT - A readmission risk prediction model is generated and used for identifying patients having elevated risk of readmission and determining inpatient treatment and outpatient activities based on readmission risk. Readmission risk prediction models may be generated for a variety of different clinical conditions using logistic regression techniques. When a patient is admitted to a hospital, the patient's condition is identified and a corresponding readmission risk prediction model is employed to identify the patient's risk of readmission. The readmission risk may be presented to a clinician and employed to recommend interventions intended to treat the patient and reduce the probability of readmission for the patient. The patient's readmission risk may also be calculated after the patient has been discharged and used for planning outpatient activities for the patient. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136228 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPOSING PROFILES OF CLINICAL TRIAL CAPACITY FOR GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS - The invention generally relates to systems and methods for composing location profiles for use in planning clinical trials. Location profiles may depict the aggregate clinical research capacity of geographic locations based on research centers within those locations among other factors. In certain aspects, the invention provides systems and methods for providing disease-specific information about clinical trial capacity by location. The information can be aggregated from several sources. A user can change a geographical scope and the system can alter the display to include data specific to the changed geographical scope. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136229 | Drug Labeling - Disclosed are systems and methods for enabling transfer of a drug from a first drug container to a second drug container including a drug identification component that recognizes a first drug container to retrieve drug identifying data for the drug, a storage medium that stores a site-specific database comprising attributes and associated values for a set of drugs including the drug in the first drug container, a processor that obtains the drug identifying data and the attributes and associated values for the drug and produces information about the drug using the drug identifying data and the attributes and associated values, a rules engine that applies one or more rules to the information about the drug to generate drug handling information, and an output unit that outputs markings comprising the drug handling information in human-readable or machine-readable form, or both, to be associated with the second container. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136230 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AN INTELLIGENT MEDICAL PRACTICE SYSTEM EMPLOYING A LEARNING KNOWLEDGE BASE - An intelligent care provider medical practice system which learns the care provider's preferences and historical diagnosis for predicting and treating patients based on provided information. The system makes use of one or more medical knowledge bases and utilizes artificial intelligence and reasoning to learn the provider's preferences and tendencies. The system also automatically generates the provider's notes, treatment plans, and other medical practice actions for treating, billing, and processing the patient after an exam or visit. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136231 | INTEGRATED PHARMACY ERROR TRACKING AND REPORTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - The disclosure presents a system and method for efficiently capturing, tracking, analyzing, and providing continuous quality improvement in an integrated manner in relation to errors which occur in the distribution of medication to patients through a multi-store pharmacy operation. The system and method include receiving error event data for a pharmacy error event through a first input device at a pharmacy through an input interface, transmitting the error event data to a pharmacy error event database associated with a pharmacy error event computer and storing the error event data in the pharmacy error event database. The system and method may also determine whether the first error event information requires escalation, and transmit an error event escalation message through a communication device to supervisory personnel, as well as tabulate the error event data with the pharmacy error event computer based on a criteria for communicating insight information to supervisory personnel through a communication device. The system and method provide further structural, functional and operational features for implementing these and other features in a multi-store and multi-district pharmacy operation. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136232 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BENCHMARKING HOSPITAL SUPPLY EXPENSES - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for determining a supply intensity metric (“SIM”) for benchmarking hospital supply expenses and for determining a supply expense target for opportunity identification based on the types and proportions of patients treated at a hospital. The SIM is a metric that may be used by hospitals to evaluate their supply chain or overall supply expenditures, and set goals for supply expense reduction. The SIM can be based on the number of patients in each DRG and an average supply expense for each DRG determined from a plurality of hospitals. A supply expense target may be based on, at least in part, a hospital's predicted inpatient supply expense, a non-chargeable expense, and a total outpatient supply expense. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136233 | Managing Personal Health Record Information about Doctor-Patient Communication, Care interactions, health metrics ,customer vendor relationship management platforms, and personal health history in a GLOBAL PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD TIMELINE integrated within an (ERP/EMRSE) ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT localized medical data ecosystem - The invention discloses a system, method and computer program for generating a Global Personal Health Record Timeline (GPHRT) is provided. A plurality of data items and information points associated with at least one relationship between users associated with a single patient, healthcare provider, a group of healthcare providers. Ordered data items are stored in a personal health record, transmitted and shared via a plurality of storage and transmittal technologies such as, (BLE), barcode scanner, and a plurality of other storage and transmittal technologies that will interface with the Global Personal Health Record Timeline platform. These aforementioned embodiments would further be integrated into an Enterprise Resource Planning Electronic Medical Records Software Environment (ERP/EMRSE) which would interface with a Database Repository with a web-based Global Patient Health Record Timeline interface portal, security interface, Customer Resource Management platform, Practice Management platform, e-commerce interface, “HIPPA” compliant security filter. | 2014-05-15 |
20140136234 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAPPING PATIENT CREATED DATA FROM EXTERNAL SYSTEMS TO ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS - In an embodiment of the invention, a patient's mobile phone number and a patient matching or ID creation algorithm that requires the patient's mobile phone number or any derivative or transformation thereof is used as a mapping method to map patient created data related to a patient's health into the correct patient records in EHRs accurately and cost effectively. | 2014-05-15 |