25th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 72 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140172363 | DUAL-RESOLUTION 3D SCANNER - Disclosed is an integrated 3D scanner for scanning a surface of an object, said integrated 3D scanner comprising:
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20140172364 | TIME-DETECTING DEVICE AND METHOD - A time-detecting device detects a time duration of a burn-in test performed by an electronic device. The electronic device generates a first signal and a second signal when the burn-in test is started and stopped, respectively. The time-detecting device comprises a timing unit, a processor, and an outputting unit. The timing unit counts the time duration of the burn-in test from a default starting value in response to receiving the first signal. The processor determines whether the burn-in test is stopped according to the second signal. The output unit outputs the time duration when the processor determines that the burn-in test is stopped. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172365 | Location Change Detection Based on Ambient Sensor Data - A method for determining a location change based on contextual data is disclosed. The method may include gathering contextual data from ambient sensors of a device. The method may include determining a probability value that the device has changed location. The method may include comparing the probability value with a predetermined value. The method may include determining whether the location has changed based on the comparison of the probability value with the predetermined value. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172366 | Techniques for Encapsulating Metadata in Contextual Data Streams - A method for encapsulating metadata in a contextual data stream is described. The method may include receiving sensor data from a sensor. The method may include receiving metadata associated with the sensor data, wherein the metadata is defined as a probability vector based on a context set associated with the sensor data. The method may also include combining the sensor data and the metadata into a contextual data stream. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172367 | INTERFERENCE CHECK APPARATUS AND METHOD - An interference check apparatus that includes: a memory configured to store a latest edit time stamp related to at least one of a profile or a position for each of the plurality of components, and to store an edit time stamp for each of the plurality of components at an interference check execution time and to store an interference check data representing an execution result of an interference check between components out of the plurality of components; and a processor configured to execute a procedure, the procedure comprising: determining a validity of the interference check data stored based on the latest edit time stamp of each of the plurality of components and the edit time stamp of components when the interference check is executed contained in the interference check data. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172368 | FLAME INSTABILITY DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION IN INDUSTRIAL FURNACES - Systems and methods for multi-channel detection of an instability in a furnace comprising a plurality of detectors are disclosed. Each of a plurality of detectors provides a first measurement related to the plurality of burners when the furnace is operating in a stable condition. A stable signal component representation is determined based on the first measurement from each of the plurality of detectors. Each of a plurality of detectors provides a second measurement related to the plurality of burners when the furnace is operating in an unknown state. An unstable signal component representation is determined based on the stable signal component representation and a second measurement from each of the plurality of detectors. An instability is detected based on the unstable signal component representation and an instability threshold. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172369 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, ABNORMALITY CAUSE ESTIMATING APPARATUS, AND ABNORMALITY CAUSE ESTIMATING METHOD - A computer-readable recording medium stores therein an abnormality cause estimating program causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes acquiring load information of a system; determining whether or not the system indicates abnormality based on the load information, and specifying a first function group which includes one or a plurality of functions executed by the system when the determination indicates that the system indicates the abnormality and specifying a second function group which includes one or a plurality of functions executed by the system when the determination indicates that the system does not indicate abnormality; and outputting information of a function which is not included in the second function group among the functions included in the first function group. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172370 | FLAME INSTABILITY DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF UNSTABLE BURNERS IN INDUSTRIAL FURNACES - Systems and method for identifying an unstable subset of burners from among a plurality of burners in a furnace are also disclosed. At least one measurement is obtained from each of the plurality of burners. An instability associated with the furnace is detected. An unstable signal matrix associated with the instability is computed based on the at least one measurement from each of the plurality of burners. An unstable subset of burners is identified based at least in part on the unstable signal matrix. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172371 | ADAPTIVE FAULT DIAGNOSIS - According to an example, an adaptive fault diagnosis system may include a memory storing machine readable instructions to receive metrics and events from an enterprise system, and use a substitution graph to determine if a received metric or a received event belongs to a cluster that includes one or more correlated metrics and/or events grouped based on similarity. If the received metric or the received event belongs to the cluster, the memory may further store machine readable instructions to use a detection graph to determine if the received metric or the received event is identifiable to form a fault pattern by traversing a fault path of the detection graph. Further, the memory may further store machine readable instructions to diagnose a fault based on the traversal of the fault path of the detection graph. The system may include a processor to implement the machine readable instructions. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172372 | OPERATION SPEED AS A DYNAMIC LEVEL LINE - In one embodiment, a performance metric tracker may show an operation performance metric in context with an operation performance history to a user. The performance metric tracker may track a current operation performance metric of the data resource operation. The performance metric tracker may maintain an operation performance history for a data resource operation. The performance metric tracker may present the current operation performance metric in relation to the operation performance history to a user. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172373 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERPRETING SENSOR INPUT - A method, apparatus and computer program product are therefore provided to interpret sensor input. In this regard, the method, apparatus and computer program may receive input from a plurality of sensors (e.g., different user input devices), and configure a sensor interpreter based on sensor criteria received from the plurality of sensors. The input received from the sensors may include a distance between a user location and one or more sensors, and a sensor interpreter may be configured based on the distance of the location from of the sensors. The sensor interpreter may be configured so that input operations are transparent to the user, without requiring the user to consciously change the way they interact with the sensors as the sensor interpreter is configured. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172374 | System and Method for Identifying Materials Using a THz Spectral Fingerprint in a Media with High Water Content - A material detector includes a pulse generator to generate pulses to excite molecules in the material and a detector to detect a signal generated from excited molecules in the terahertz region. Spectral features in the material are analyzed to identify the material. Detection can be performed using a nanoantenna array structure having antennas tuned to detect the expected spectral emission. The nanoantenna array can include antennas having MIM or MIIM diodes. Signal processing and statistical analysis is use to reduce false positives and false negative in identifying the material. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172375 | CREATING A DIGITAL DENTAL MODEL OF A PATIENT'S TEETH USING INTERPROXIMAL INFORMATION - Creating a digital tooth model of a patient's tooth using interproximal information is provided. Interproximal information is received that represents a space between adjacent physical teeth of the patient. A digital teeth model of a set of physical teeth of the patient that includes the adjacent physical teeth is received. One or more digital tooth models is created that more accurately depicts one or more of the physical teeth than the corresponding digital teeth included in the digital teeth model based on the interproximal information. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172376 | Data Center Designer (DCD) for a Virtual Data Center - A data center designer (DCD) includes a graphical user interface which allows a user to easily assemble a virtual data center having desired characteristics while at the same time allowing the user to retain a constant overview of their virtual data center. The DCD may also allow a user to implement the design in physical resources. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172377 | METHOD TO RECONSTRUCT A SURFACE FROM ORIENTED 3-D POINTS - A method for the problem of reconstructing a watertight surface defined by an implicit equation from a finite set of oriented points. As in other surface reconstruction approaches disctretizations of this continuous formulation reduce to the solution of sparse least-squares problems. Rather than forcing the implicit function to approximate the indicator function of the volume bounded by the surface, in the present formulation the implicit function is a smooth approximation of the signed distance function to the surface. Then solution thus introduced is a very simple hybrid FE/FD discretization, which together with an octree partitioning of space, and the Dual Marching Cubes algorithm produces accurate and adaptive meshes. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172378 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING FLOOR PLAN OF BUILDING - An apparatus and a method for creating a floor plan of a building using a program that supports an editing operation of an interior structural drawing are provided. The method includes receiving a request of a user from a User Interface (UI) unit, searching at least one of a DataBase (DB) and an external DB, which is accessible through a communication unit, based on the basic layout information to obtain at least one recommended interior structural drawing, providing the at least one recommended interior structural drawing through the UI unit, editing the interior structural drawing selected by the user based on extended layout information. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172379 | METHOD OF DESIGNING RANDOM PATTERN, APPARATUS FOR DESIGNING RANDOM PATTERN, AND OPTICAL SUBSTRATE INCLUDING RANDOM PATTERN ACCORDING TO THE SAME METHOD - Disclosed are a method of designing a random pattern, an apparatus for designing a random pattern and an optical substrate including a random pattern according to the same method. The method includes setting a plurality of unit valid pattern regions in a pattern design region; forming a random point coordinate in the unit valid pattern region; and connecting the random point coordinate in the unit valid pattern region to other random point coordinates adjacent to the random point coordinate in a first direction or a second direction. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172380 | TECHNIQUE FOR SIMULATING THE DYNAMICS OF HAIR - A simulation engine is configured to generate a physical simulation of a chain of particles by implementing a physics-based algorithm. The simulation engine is configured to generate a predicted position for each particle and to then adjust the predicted position of each particle based on a set of constraints associated with the physics-based algorithm. The simulation engine may then generate a predicted velocity for a given particle based on the adjusted, predicted position of that particle and based on the adjusted, predicted position of an adjacent particle. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172381 | METHOD FOR MODELING AN EXUDATE ON A SUBSTRATE - Methods of using computer based models for simulating the physical behavior of bodily exudates with absorbent articles. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172382 | Pipeline Network Optimization Using Risk Based Well Production - Systems and methods for pipeline network optimization are presented. The pipeline network can be represented through a flow model, which can include a plurality of modeled wells operatively coupled to production facilities through one or more flowlines. Risk profiles of the one or more flowlines can be determined based on flowline attributes of each flowline and based on a simulation of the flow model that uses production variation in wells connected to the respective flowline as a parameter to generate flow profile of the flowline. Understanding the risk profile of each flowline through a risk metric can help assess the production potential of each flowline and wells associated thereto and optimize the network cost of operation or maintenance. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172383 | DEVICE FOR PREDICTING NON-LINEAR, TIME-DEPENDENT RESPONSES OF A COMPONENT OF A SYSTEM TO AN INPUT INTO THE SYSTEM - Non-mechanistic, differential-equation-free approaches for predicting a particular non-linear, response of a system to a given input are provided in the form of systems, methods, and devices. These approaches are generally directed to a non-compartmental method of predicting a non-linear, time-dependent response of a component of a system to an input into the system. The systems, methods, and devices provide the ability to (i) reduce the cost of research and development by offering an accurate modeling of heterogeneous and complex physical systems; (ii) reduce the cost of creating such systems and methods by simplifying the modeling process; (iii) accurately capture and model inherent nonlinearities in cases where sufficient knowledge does not exist to a priori build a model and its parameters; and, (iv) provide one-to-one relationships between model parameters and model outputs, addressing the problem of the ambiguities inherent in the current, state-of-the-art systems and methods. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172384 | Genetic, Metabolic and Biochemical Pathway Analysis System and Methods - Identifying pathways that are significantly impacted in a given condition is a crucial step in the understanding of the underlying biological phenomena. All approaches currently available for this purpose calculate a p-value that aims to quantify the significance of the involvement of each pathway in the given phenotype. These p-values were previously thought to be independent. Here, we show that this is not the case, and that pathways can affect each other's p-values through a “crosstalk” phenomenon that affects all major categories of existing methods. We describe a novel technique able to detect, quantify, and correct crosstalk effects, as well as identify novel independent functional modules. We assessed this technique on data from four real experiments coming from three phenotypes involving two species. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172385 | Genetic, Metabolic and Biochemical Pathway Analysis System and Methods - Identifying pathways that are significantly impacted in a given condition is a crucial step in the understanding of the underlying biological phenomena. All approaches currently available for this purpose calculate a p-value that aims to quantify the significance of the involvement of each pathway in the given phenotype. These p-values were previously thought to be independent. Here, we show that this is not the case, and that pathways can affect each other's p-values through a “crosstalk” phenomenon that affects all major categories of existing methods. We describe a novel technique able to detect, quantify, and correct crosstalk effects, as well as identify novel independent functional modules. We assessed this technique on data from four real experiments coming from three phenotypes involving two species. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172386 | Simulation Of Shot-Noise Effects In A Particle-Beam Lithography Process And Especially An E-Beam Lithography Process - Method for simulating shot-noise effects in a particle-beam lithography process, and especially an e-beam lithography process, the process including depositing particles on the surface of a sample in a preset pattern by a beam of the particles, the pattern being subdivided into pixels and a nominal dose of particles being associated with each of the pixels, wherein the process includes the calculation of a map σ | 2014-06-19 |
20140172387 | PREDICTION OF MOLECULAR BIOACTIVATION - The present invention relates to methods for predicting molecular bioactivation, reactivity, and toxicity of compounds and their metabolites. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172388 | GENERATING A MESH OF GEOMETRIC ELEMENTS - A method performed by one or more processors, comprising: receiving information indicative of a geometric domain; generating, based on the information indicative of the geometric domain, a mesh of geometric elements; transforming a plurality of the geometric elements from a first type of geometric element to a second type of geometric element; and subdividing the plurality of the geometric elements transformed from the second type of geometric element into a third type of geometric element. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172389 | Method Of Estimating Equivalent Radar Cross Section On The Basis Of Near-Field Measurements - A method for estimating the equivalent radar cross section (RCS) of an object using near-field measurements. The method using a diffraction model of the object in far field and a diffraction model in near field. These models make it possible to determine respectively bases adapted to said object in far field and in near field. The measurement vector is first of all projected onto the base adapted in near field and the components obtained are transformed into components on the base in far field. The vector obtained is then returned into the analysis base of the RCS in order to provide a reconstructed vector. The components of the reconstructed vector are next used for calculating the RCS. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172390 | ESTABLISHING AVAILABILITY OF A TWO-ENGINE AIRCRAFT FOR AN ETOPS FLIGHT OR AN ETOPS FLIGHT PATH FOR A TWO-ENGINE AIRCRAFT - A method is provided for establishing availability of a two-engine aircraft for a predefined ETOPS flight. The method may include calculating a probability of a dual independent engine shutdown sequence for each of a climb phase, a plurality of cruise phases including an ETOPS phase, and a descent phase into which the predefined ETOPS flight is divisible. The shutdown sequence may be composed of events that for each phase may include events having respective, conditional probabilities specific to a model of the two-engine aircraft, a product of which is the probability of the shutdown sequence for the respective phase. The method may include calculating the risk of the shutdown sequence as a function of a sum of the probabilities for the phases, and establishing availability of the aircraft based on the risk and a preexisting baseline. A similar method is provided for establishing availability of an ETOPS flight path. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172391 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING EFFECT OF COUNTERMEASURE FOR REDUCING SPRINGBACK ON PRESS-FORMED PRODUCT - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for easily and clearly identifying the effect of a countermeasure for reducing springback in press-forming. According to the invention, the method for identifying the effect of a countermeasure for reducing springback includes calculating a pre-release residual stress distribution in a press-formed part under a preset press-forming condition, calculating an after-release residual stress distribution in the press-formed part released from the die on the basis of the result of calculation, calculating the difference between the residual stress distributions on the basis of these results of calculation, calculating the difference between residual stress distributions similarly obtained under a changed press-forming condition, calculating a variation in the residual stress distribution caused by changing the press-forming condition on the basis of these differences between the residual stress distributions, and displaying the variation in contour plots. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172392 | SIMULTANEOUS MAPPING AND REGISTERING THERMAL IMAGES - An apparatus ( | 2014-06-19 |
20140172393 | TRAFFIC COMMUNICATION-INTEGRATED SYSTEM - Provided is a user interface for implementing a traffic communication-integrated simulation based on a vehicle communication system. The traffic communication-integrated system comprises a traffic simulator which performs a traffic simulation and calculates a link passage time of a vehicle; a communication simulator which performs a communication simulation and simulates a communication between a communication between vehicles and a communication between a vehicle and an infrastructure; and a user interface, wherein the user interface includes an interface server which provides a simulation platform interfacing in real time in a synchronous way the traffic simulator and the communication simulator; and a graphic user interface unit which outputs a result of the simulations. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172394 | INTEGRATED USE OF MODEL-BASED METROLOGY AND A PROCESS MODEL - Methods and systems for performing measurements based on a measurement model integrating a metrology-based target model with a process-based target model. Systems employing integrated measurement models may be used to measure structural and material characteristics of one or more targets and may also be used to measure process parameter values. A process-based target model may be integrated with a metrology-based target model in a number of different ways. In some examples, constraints on ranges of values of metrology model parameters are determined based on the process-based target model. In some other examples, the integrated measurement model includes the metrology-based target model constrained by the process-based target model. In some other examples, one or more metrology model parameters are expressed in terms of other metrology model parameters based on the process model. In some other examples, process parameters are substituted into the metrology model. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172395 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A MULTIPHYSICS SIMULATION - A system for performing a multiphysics simulation. The system includes a computing device, a database and a plurality of service proxy modules. The computing device includes a processor. The database is communicably connected to the processor and is associated with a plurality of data models. The plurality of service proxy modules are communicably connected to the processor. Each service proxy module is configured to extract at least a portion of the database for use by a service communicably connected thereto. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172396 | AUTOMATED MODEL-BASED METHOD FOR GENERATING PHYSICAL SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURES AND OPTIMIZING SAME - A method for generating and optimizing physical system architecture by modeling a problem in the form of a model. The physical architectures (AP | 2014-06-19 |
20140172397 | VEHICLE SIMULATOR SYSTEM - A system includes a simulator device having a computing device having a computer processor and a computer readable medium. The simulator device further includes a communication port configured for communicating with an emissions inspection tool. The simulator device also has a database associated with the computing device and including multiple vehicle profiles, wherein individual ones of the multiple vehicle profiles include a plurality of Engine Control Units (ECUs), and wherein individual ones of the plurality of ECUs are configured to simulate a plurality of Parameter IDs (PIDs) and corresponding response codes. The individual ones of the multiple vehicle profiles are independently selectable for providing at least one PID response code to the vehicle inspection tool. The computing device is configured to perform a vehicle simulation for auditing a vehicle inspection tool. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172398 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK-BASED BIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT - Systems and methods are directed to computerized methods and one or more computer processors for quantifying the perturbation of a biological system in response to an agent. A set of treatment data corresponding to a response of a biological system to an agent and a set of control data are received. A computational causal network model represents the biological system and includes nodes representing biological entities, edges representing relationships between the biological entities, and direction values representing the expected direction of change between the control data and the treatment data. Activity measures are calculated and represent a difference between the treatment data and the control data, and weight values are calculated for the nodes. A score for the computational model is generated representative of the perturbation of the biological system to the agent and is based on the direction values, the weight values and the activity measures. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172399 | WELD ANALYSIS USING LASER GENERATED NARROWBAND LAMB WAVES - A system and method for measuring various weld characteristics is presented. The system and method can comprise a means to measure penetration depth of butt welds in thin plates, for example, using laser generated ultrasounds. Superimposed line sources (SLS) can be used to generate narrowband ultrasounds. A signal processing procedure that combines wavenumber-frequency (k-ω) domain filtering and synthetic phase tuning (SPT) is used to reduce the complexity of Lamb wave signals. The reflection coefficients for different wavelengths corresponding to each wave mode can be calculated. Regression analysis that can include stepwise regression and corrected Akaike's information criterion (AIC) can be performed to build prediction models that use the reflection coefficients as predictors. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172400 | EQUIPMENT FAULT DETECTION, DIAGNOSTICS AND DISAGGREGATION SYSTEM - A system for fault detection and diagnostics of equipment. The system may also be capable of disaggregation and/or virtual submetering of energy consumption by equipment, such as that of heating, ventilation and air conditioning, lighting, and so forth, in a building. Vibration and current sensors, along with one or more algorithms, may be utilized for fault detection and diagnostics of equipment. Models may be developed to aid in deducing energy consumption of individual components of equipment, and the like, for a building. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172401 | METHOD OF SIMULATING DISCRETE EVENT - Disclosed is a discrete event simulation method using Matlap object-oriented programming (OOP). The method of simulating a discrete event comprising a plurality of models and a root coordinator, comprises: the root coordinator's managing time schedules of the models; the root coordinator's calling a model function based on the time schedules; and the models' transmitting external input events to each other when the model function is called, based on a coupling structure of the models, wherein when the plurality of models transmit the external input events to each other, the external input events are transmitted as an input parameter of the model function. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172402 | SIMULATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT A SIMULATION, GUIDANCE SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A simulation system, in particular for a control system, which controls a process running in a technical system, is provided. The control system has at least one first process environment embodied as a container and which is also designed to simulate the automatic process to be run in the system and includes corresponding interfaces to the guidance system. The simulation system has, in addition to the first process environment, a second process environment embodied as a container for simulating the hardware of the periphery of the guidance system. In another embodiment variant of the simulation system, both of the process environments can also be combined to form one process environment. In both variants, the interfaces of the first process environment are practically identical to the interfaces of the second process environment. A method for carrying out a simulation and a corresponding control system and computer program product are also provided. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172403 | SIMULATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT A SIMULATION, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A simulation system in particular for a control system which controls a process running in a technical system is provided. The control system has at least one first process environment embodied as a container and which is also designed to simulate the automatic process to be run in the system and includes corresponding interfaces to the guidance system. The simulation system includes, in addition to the first process environment, a second process environment embodied as a container for simulating the hardware of the periphery of the guidance system and a third process environment embodied as a container for simulating the process to be run in the technical system. In another embodiment, all process environments can also be combined to form one process environment. In both variations, the interfaces of the first process environment and the interfaces of the second process environment are practically identical to the interfaces of the third process environment. A method for carrying out a simulation, a corresponding control system, and computer program product are also provided. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172404 | EVALUATION OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - Software applications receive input data, perform processing of the received data and generate output. In one aspect the output is modification of data structures. The software application is tested with instances of input data that lead to various data modifications in the data structures. In another aspect, patterns are found in the modifications of the data structures, which are evaluated and analyzed for software vulnerabilities. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172405 | EVALUATING DISTRIBUTED APPLICATION PERFORMANCE IN A NEW ENVIRONMENT - A method for evaluating the performance of an application when migrated from a first environment in which the application is currently executing to a different second environment includes generating a configuration file using data obtained from the application executing in the first environment, installing the configuration file in a virtual machine residing in the second environment, launching the application in the virtual machine after the installing, and obtaining a metric indicative of the performance from the virtual machine. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172406 | EVALUATING DISTRIBUTED APPLICATION PERFORMANCE IN A NEW ENVIRONMENT - Evaluating the performance of an application when migrated from a first environment in which the application is currently executing to a different second environment includes generating a configuration file using data obtained from the application executing in the first environment, installing the configuration file in a virtual machine residing in the second environment, launching the application in the virtual machine after the installing, and obtaining a metric indicative of the performance from the virtual machine. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172407 | LANGUAGE PROCESSING RESOURCES FOR AUTOMATED MOBILE LANGUAGE TRANSLATION - Automated language translation often involves language translation resources of significant size (e.g., 50-gigabyte phrase tables) and significant computational power exceeding the capabilities of many mobile devices. Remotely accessible servers capable of near-realtime, automated translation may be inaccessible or prohibitively costly while traveling abroad. Presented herein are adaptations of language translation techniques for offline mobile devices involving reducing the size and raising the efficiency of the language modeling resources. A word index may be provided that stores respective string representations of the words of a language, and maps respective words to a location (e.g., address or offset) of respective word representations within the word index. Language translation resources (e.g., phrase tables) may then specify logical relationships using the word index addresses of the involved words, rather than the string equivalents. This technique significantly condenses the language resources and provides faster, bidirectional access to the word representations of the language. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172408 | TEXT OVERLAY TECHNIQUES IN REALTIME TRANSLATION - Architecture that employs techniques for overlaying (superimposing) translated text on top of (over) scanned text in realtime translation to provide clear visual correlation between original text and translated text. Algorithms are provided that overlay text in cases of translated scanned text of language written in first direction to a language written in same direction, translate scanned text from a first language written in a first direction to a second language written in the opposite direction, and translated scanned text from a language written in a first direction to language written in a different direction. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172409 | COMMON MULTI-LANGUAGE TEXT MANAGEMENT IN A BUSINESS-ORIENTED SOFTWARE FRAMEWORK - A system, a method, and a computer-program product for providing multi-language support in applications are disclosed. A first textual expression contained within an application is obtained. The first textual expression is expressed in a first language. A unique key from a hash of the first textual expression is generated. A language code representative of a second language is determined. Based on the generated unique key and the determined language code, a second textual expression in the second language representative of a translation from the first language into the second language indicated by the language code is determined. The second textual expression is provided to the application to replace the first textual expression in a view presented to a user. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172410 | TRANSLATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer obtains a word from a word list and searches for position codes corresponding to the obtained word in a file. The computer saves remaining position codes corresponding to the obtained word into the word list. The computer converts the file according to the position codes of each word in the word list between simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese, in response to a determination that all of the words in the word list have been obtained. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172411 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING CONTEXT - Provided are an apparatus and a method for verifying a context that verify an ambiguous expression of an input text through a user's intention and utilize the verified expression as a context in interpretation and translation. The apparatus includes: an ambiguous expression verifying unit verifying an ambiguous expression in a first input text or a back translation text for the first input text in accordance with user's input; a context generating unit generating the verified ambiguous expression as a context; and a context controlling unit controlling the generated context to be applied to translate or interpret the first input text or second input texts input after the first input text. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172412 | ACTION BROKER - Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for building an action catalogue, generating an action frame for an action within the action catalogue, and/or executing an action. In an example, an action may be included within the action catalogue based upon descriptive text associated with an application indicating that the application is capable of performing the action (e.g., a movie app may be capable of performing an order movie tickets action). A parameter (e.g., a movie name) and/or an execution endpoint (e.g., a uniform resource identifier used to access movie ticket ordering functionality) may be used to generate an action frame for the action. In this way, user intent to perform an action may be identified from user input (e.g., a spoken command), and the action may be performed (e.g., on behalf of the user with minimal additional user input) by using the action frame. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172413 | SHORT PHRASE LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION - A computer receives a short phrase. The short phrase is transmitted in a query to a search engine. The computer receives one or more search results from the search engine in response to the query, and parses one or more longer phrases that include the short phrase from each of the one or more search results. The computer transmits the one or more longer phrases to a language identification engine for identification of the language of the one or more longer phrases, and receives from the language identification engine the language of each of the one or more the longer phrases. The computer then determines the most likely language of the short phrase, based at least in part on the language of each of the one or more the longer phrases. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172414 | SYSTEM SUPPORT FOR EVALUATION CONSISTENCY - A system and computer product for validating the consistency between quantitative and natural language textual evaluations. An example method involves computing a numeric score for a textual evaluation, comparing the numeric score to a quantitative evaluation, and producing a rating based on the similarity of the two evaluations. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172415 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING SENTIMENT ANALYSIS RESULT BASED ON TEXT - Disclosed are an apparatus, a system, and a method of providing a sentiment analysis result based on a text. An apparatus for providing a sentiment analysis result based on a text according to the present invention includes: an input unit configured to receive a keyword for a target for which a sentiment is desired to be analyzed from a user; a control unit configured to request a sentiment analysis for the received keyword to a service server and receive a sentiment analysis result as a result of the request; a display unit configured to display an attribute for the target according to the received sentiment analysis result, and display a text corresponding to an attribute value for each displayed attribute; and a storage unit configured to store the received sentiment analysis result. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172416 | SYSTEM SUPPORT FOR EVALUATION CONSISTENCY - A system and computer product for validating the consistency between quantitative and natural language textual evaluations. An example method involves computing a numeric score for a textual evaluation, comparing the numeric score to a quantitative evaluation, and producing a rating based on the similarity of the two evaluations. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172417 | VITAL TEXT ANALYTICS SYSTEM FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING DOCUMENTS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS - A Vital Text Analytics System (VTAS), incorporating a repository of enterprise terms or concepts, is one that improves the readability and fidelity of technical specifications, instructions, training manuals requirements engineering documents and other related engineering documents, typically from a single organization or workgroup. The system stresses ontological analysis of a corpus of related documents, and applies a suite of computational tools that supports the identification and assessment of risk in evaluating the content of the documents, as well as providing statistical measures reflecting the frequency and severity of document features that threaten comprehension. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172418 | CUSTOM DICTIONARIES FOR E-BOOKS - A custom dictionary is generated for an e-book. A dictionary management system receives a custom dictionary request from a user client operated by a user, the custom dictionary request identifying the e-book and including dictionary management information describing the user. The dictionary management system chooses a group reader profile that has an associated group reading score for the user based on the dictionary management information and candidate words are identified in the identified e-book for inclusion in the custom dictionary. The dictionary management system selects words for inclusion in the custom dictionary from among the candidate words responsive to the associated group reading score for the chosen group reading profile. The dictionary management system generates the custom dictionary using the selected words, and provides the generated custom dictionary to the user client | 2014-06-19 |
20140172419 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED TAG RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TAGGING AUDIO CONTENT - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for generating personalized tag recommendations using speech analytics. The system first analyzes an audio stream to identify topics in the audio stream. Next, the system identifies tags related to the topics to yield identified tags. Based on the identified tags, the system then generates a tag recommendation for tagging the audio stream. The system can also send the tag recommendation to a device associated with a user for presentation to the user. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172420 | AUDIO OR VOICE SIGNAL PROCESSOR - A voice or audio signal processor for processing received network packets received over a communication network to provide an output signal, the voice or audio signal processor comprising a jitter buffer being configured to buffer the received network packets, a voice or audio decoder being configured to decode the received network packets as buffered by the jitter buffer to obtain a decoded voice or audio signal, a controllable time scaler being configured to amend a length of the decoded voice or audio signal to obtain a time scaled voice or audio signal as the output voice or audio signal, and an adaptation control means being configured to control an operation of the time scaler in dependency on a processing complexity measure. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172421 | SPEECH ENHANCING METHOD, DEVICE FOR COMMUNICATION EARPHONE AND NOISE REDUCING COMMUNICATION EARPHONE - The present invention provides a speech enhancing method for communication earphone including two parts: sending end noise reduction processing and receiving end noise reduction processing, wherein the sending end noise reduction processing part includes: determining a wearing condition of the earphone by comparing energy difference of sound signals picked up by microphones of the communication earphone; if the earphone is normally worn, subjecting the sound signal first to multi-microphone noise reduction and then to single channel noise reduction to further suppress residuary stationary noise; otherwise suppressing stationary noise in the sound signal by single channel noise reduction directly. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172422 | SECURED AUDIO CHANNEL FOR VOICE COMMUNICATION - A security device for hindering data theft and data leaks via audio channel of a computer system is based on passing the audio signals through a coding vocoder that receives input audio signal from a computer and compressing the signal to a low bit-rate digital data indicative of human speech; and a decoding vocoder that decompress the digital data back to a secure audio signal. The data transfer of the protected audio channel is intentionally limited not to exceed the bit-rate needed to carry vocoder-compressed human speech which is well below the capabilities of unprotected audio channel. Both analog and digital audio ports may be protected. Hardware bit-rate limiter protect the system from software hacking. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172423 | SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A speech recognition method, device and electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving a speech input, recognizing the speech input as a wake-up instruction by a wake-up engine, waking up a search engine according to the wake-up instruction, and determining a recognition scope corresponding to the wake-up instruction. The recognition scope corresponding to the wake-up instruction, compared with the entire recognition scope of the recognition engine, is relatively small. Hence, the recognition scope of the recognition engine is narrowed. Compared with the search within a large recognition scope, the precision in searching the target is improved by searching within a relatively small scope. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172424 | PRESERVING AUDIO DATA COLLECTION PRIVACY IN MOBILE DEVICES - Techniques are disclosed for using the hardware and/or software of the mobile device to obscure speech in the audio data before a context determination is made by a context awareness application using the audio data. In particular, a subset of a continuous audio stream is captured such that speech (words, phrases and sentences) cannot be reliably reconstructed from the gathered audio. The subset is analyzed for audio characteristics, and a determination can be made regarding the ambient environment. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172425 | METHOD FOR SENDING MULTI-MEDIA MESSAGES WITH CUSTOMIZED AUDIO - A system and method of creating a customized multi-media message to a recipient is disclosed. The multi-media message is created by a sender and contains an animated entity that delivers an audible message. The sender chooses the animated entity from a plurality of animated entities. The system receives a text message from the sender and receives a sender audio message associated with the text message. The sender audio message is associated with the chosen animated entity to create the multi-media message. The multi-media message is delivered by the animated entity using as the voice the sender audio message wherein the mouth movements of the animated entity conform to the sender audio message. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172426 | Method for Processing Speech of Particular Speaker, Electronic System for the Same, and Program for Electronic System - An object of the present invention is to process the speech of a particular speaker. The present invention provides a technique for collecting speech, analyzing the collected speech to extract the features of the speech, grouping the speech, or text corresponding to the speech, on the basis of the extracted features, presenting the result of the grouping to a user, and when one or more of the groups is selected by the user, enhancing, or reducing or cancelling the speech of a speaker associated with the selected group. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172427 | System And Method For Event Summarization Using Observer Social Media Messages - A method for processing messages pertaining to an event includes receiving a plurality of messages pertaining to the event from electronic communication devices associated with a plurality of observers of the event, generating a first message stream that includes only a portion of the plurality of messages corresponding to a first participant in the event, identifying a first sub-event in the first message stream with reference to a time distribution of messages and content distribution of messages in the first message stream, generating a sub-event summary with reference to a portion of the plurality of messages in the first message stream that are associated with the first sub-event, and transmitting the sub-event summary to a plurality of electronic communication devices associated with a plurality of users who are not observers of the event. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172428 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTEXT INDEPENDENT GENDER RECOGNITION UTILIZING PHONEME TRANSITION PROBABILITY - Provided is a method for context independent gender recognition utilizing phoneme transition probability. The method for the context independent gender recognition includes detecting a voice section from a received voice signal, generating feature vectors within the detected voice section, performing a hidden Markov model on the feature vectors by using a search network that is set according to a phoneme rule to recognize a phoneme and obtain scores of first and second likelihoods, and comparing final scores of the first and second likelihoods obtained while the phoneme recognition is performed up to the last section of the voice section to finally decide gender with respect to the voice signal. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172429 | LOCAL RECOGNITION OF CONTENT - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for facilitating local recognition of audio content at a user device. In some embodiments, the method includes capturing, using a user device, audio data, at least some of which is processable to recognize the audio data. Thereafter, an audio fingerprint that uniquely represents perceptual information associated with the audio data is generated, and a local data store within the user device is referenced. Such a local data store can include reference audio fingerprints. Upon referencing the local data store, a determination can be made as to whether the generated audio fingerprint matches a reference audio fingerprint at least to an extent. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172430 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOICE AUTHENTICATION - Embodiments of the invention provide for secure voice authentication through a communication device or access device. Certain embodiments allow for providing a word string to a communication device or authentication device. The communication or authentication device plays a supplemental signal that is unique to a transaction. The communication device or authentication device concurrently records an audio segment originating from the user and the supplemental signal. The audio segment is an attempt by the user to vocally reproduce the word string. The communication device or authentication device sends the concurrently recorded audio segment and supplemental signal, to a computer, where the computer authenticates the user. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172431 | MUSIC PLAYING SYSTEM AND MUSIC PLAYING METHOD BASED ON SPEECH EMOTION RECOGNITION - A music playing system and a music playing method suitable for playing music based on speech emotion recognition are provided. The music playing method includes following steps. A plurality of songs and song emotion coordinates of the songs mapping on an emotion coordinate graph are stored in a first database. Emotion recognition parameters are stored in a second database. A voice data is received and analyzed, and a current emotion coordinate of the voice data mapping on the emotion coordinate graph is obtained according to the second database. The setting of a target emotion coordinate is received. At least one specific song emotion coordinate closest to a cheer-up line connecting the current emotion coordinate and the target emotion coordinate is found. Songs corresponding to aforementioned emotion coordinates are sequentially played. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172432 | DISPLAY DEVICE, HEAD-MOUNT TYPE DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING HEAD-MOUNT TYPE DISPLAY DEVICE - A transmissive display device includes an image display section adapted to generate image light representing an image, allow a user to visually recognize the image light, and transmit an external sight, a sound acquisition section adapted to obtain a sound, a conversion section adapted to convert the sound into a character image expressing the sound as an image using characters, a specific direction setting section adapted to set a specific direction, and a display position setting section adapted to set an image display position, which is a position where character image light representing the character image is made to be visually recognized in a visual field of the user, based on the specific direction. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172433 | ENCODING DEVICE, ENCODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - This technology relates to an encoding device, an encoding method, and a program capable of improving audio quality and more efficiently encoding audio. A first high-frequency encoding circuit encodes a high-frequency range based on a low-frequency subband signal and a high-frequency subband signal and obtains a high-frequency code amount. A low-frequency encoding circuit encodes a low-frequency signal with a code amount determined by the high-frequency code amount and a low-frequency decoding circuit decodes the encoded low-frequency signal. A subband dividing circuit divides a decoded low-frequency signal obtained by decoding into decoded low-frequency subband signals of a plurality of subbands and a second high-frequency encoding circuit generates a high-frequency code string such that a code amount of the high-frequency code string for obtaining a high-frequency component is not larger than the high-frequency code amount based on the decoded low-frequency subband signals and the high-frequency subband signals. The present invention is applicable to the encoding device. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172434 | COMPRESSED DOMAIN ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USE WITH MEDIA SIGNALS - Apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture for encoding a compressed media stream are disclosed. Example method of watermarking a digital media signal disclosed herein include copying compressed audio packets associated with an audio stream included in a transport stream of the digital media signal into respective frames of compressed audio data to be watermarked to include media identification information. Such example methods can also include determining whether a composition of the transport stream has changed during copying of the compressed audio packets into the respective frames of the compressed audio data. Such example methods can further include, if the composition of the transport stream has changed, writing the frames of the compressed audio data to an output stream corresponding to the digital media signal without applying a watermark to the frames of the compressed audio data. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172435 | Direction of Arrival Estimation Using Watermarked Audio Signals and Microphone Arrays - An apparatus for providing direction information based on a reproduced audio signal with an embedded watermark includes a signal processor, which is adapted to process at least two received watermarked audio signals recorded by at least two audio receivers at different spatial positions. The signal processor is adapted to process the received watermarked audio signals to obtain a receiver-specific information for each received watermarked audio signal. The receiver-specific information depends on the embedded watermarks embedded in the received watermarked audio signals. Moreover, the apparatus includes a direction information provider for providing direction information based on the receiver-specific information for each received watermarked audio signal. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172436 | User Interface for Processing Requests for Approval - A facility for presenting approval requests is described. The facility simultaneously displays information describing both a first approval request and a second approval request, where the first approval request is generated using a first application program, and the second approval request is generated using a second application program that is distinct from the first application program. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172437 | VISUALIZATION FOR HEALTH EDUCATION TO FACILITATE PLANNING FOR INTERVENTION, ADAPTATION AND ADHERENCE - A method for providing a health visualization model includes receiving user data comprising characteristics corresponding to a user, and adherence data comprising adherence history corresponding to the user, determining a relationship between an adherence level of the user and an expected health outcome based on the user data and the adherence data, generating the health vise alization model based on the determined relationship, and outputting the health visualization model. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172438 | MOBILE APPLICATION PLATFORM ALLOWING DOCTORS TO SIGN OUT TO EACH OTHER REGARDING THEIR PATIENTS - A mobile application platform allows physicians to access their patient census so that they can keep track of their patients during rounds, all on a mobile device via a mobile application. The application also allows physicians to keep track of their schedules, text one another, and allow cross coverage between multiple groups. The platform allows for seamless patient hand off between medical providers, enhancing safety of patient care. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172439 | ORGANIZED HEALTHCARE FRAUD DETECTION - A fraud detection system receives information that identifies healthcare claims associated with providers and beneficiaries, and determines, based on the healthcare claims, first fraud sets associated with postulated classes of fraud. The fraud detection system determines, based on the healthcare claims, second fraud sets using one or more data mining techniques, and calculates probabilities that the first fraud sets and the second fraud sets are similar to no fraud observations. The fraud detection system ranks the first fraud sets and the second fraud sets based on the calculated probabilities, and outputs a ranked list of suspected fraud cases, associated with the healthcare claims, based on the ranking of the first fraud sets and the second fraud sets. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172440 | HEALTH CARE FINANCING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and related computer program product for determining eligibility of a patient to receive health care financial assistance. An embodiment discloses receiving patient data comprising data suitable for applying for health care financial assistance; receiving credit information derived from a credit report of the patient; comparing at least a portion of the patient data and at least a portion of the credit information to respective portions of qualification criteria for each of a plurality of health care financial assistance plans stored in a database within a computer memory; determining if the comparison satisfies the qualification criteria for at least one of the plurality of health care financial assistance plans; and providing notification of eligibility for every one of the plurality of health care financial assistance plans in which the comparison satisfied the qualification criteria. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172441 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING GENERATION AND PERFORMANCE OF ON-LINE EVALUATIONS - A system and method for facilitating on-line generation and assignment of evaluations for entities of a particular organization. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172442 | Systems and Methods to Assess Clinical Status and Response to Drug Therapy and Exercise - New methods and machine implemented systems measure patient health symptoms and clinical endpoints, communicate prescribed exercise programs to patients, coach or encourage patients to exert themselves within a predetermined protocol or beyond accustomed levels (in treatment of Parkinson's disease), or below accustomed levels (in treatment of cardiac rehabilitation), track patient compliance to exercise instructions, record and commutate data for physician review and for system optimization wherein databases of exercise programs may be modified to comport with measured patient success. Measurements of patient exercises and health changes are also used to provide refined diagnosis and status of disease. Individual exercise programs may be modified in response to physician input and/or patient progress. The continues loop feedback between a patient and the system optimizes the use of exercise as a treatment for disease. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172443 | Method and Apparatus for Preventing Fraud in Medicare, Medicaid, and Other Industries - Methods and systems for preventing fraud in a remote workforce environment are disclosed, including an apparatus, comprising processor(s), system memory, non-transitory memory unit(s), and verification code; verifying if ECV is permitted to deliver a product and/or perform a service; if not, then notifying a supervisor; verifying if recipient of the product and/or service is correct; if not, then notifying the supervisor; and verifying if location and/or time of delivery of the product and/or performance of the service is correct; if not, then notifying the supervisor; and if determined that: the ECV is permitted to deliver the product and/or perform the service, the recipient of the product and/or service is correct, and the location and/or time of delivery of the product and/or performance of the service is correct, then notifying the ECV to proceed with the delivery of the product and/or performance of the service. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172444 | Methods and Systems for Personalized Action Plans - The present disclosure provides methods and systems for personal action plans based on an individual's genomic profile. Methods include assessing the association between an individual's genotype and at least one disease or condition and providing rating systems for an individual's action plan. Incentives to motivate and encourage people to improve their health and well-being are also disclosed herein. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172445 | Bill Payment Risk Level Determination - Transaction histories of payers responsible for paying past due bills of respective patients are centrally logged and reported among a plurality of healthcare providers. The healthcare providers use the transaction history and/or respective risk level of a particular payer to screen a corresponding patient prior to providing the patient healthcare service. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172446 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE TRACEABILITY OF A SURGICAL INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEM - A surgical instrumentation system has a single-use instrument kit for fitting implants and at least one sterile implant kit, each of the kits comprising an identifier, at least one of the kits contains a unique identifier, as well as a medium for recording additional identifiers, one of the additional identifiers being a patient code, collected when the kit is used, and at least one other additional identifier being the identifier of at least one complementary kit comprising an identifier transferable to the additional-identifier recording medium, when the complementary kit is used. A method for implementing such a system is also described. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172447 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL TIME CONTROL OF PHARMACEUTICALS - Disclosed herein is a system for providing a user with remote real time access to pharmaceuticals, the system comprising a plurality of carts which accept cassettes that contain pharmaceuticals. The carts preferably contain a CPU which can communicate with a database. A remote CPU is also in electrical communication with the database and may be placed at a pharmacy. When a specific pharmaceutical is required for a specific patient, a user can electronically request a one time access code (OTAC) from the remote CPU. If the request is valid, an OTAC can be sent both electronically to the database in addition to being sent to the user. If the user inputs an OTAC that matches the one stored on the database, the cart is unlocked to provide access to the requested pharmaceutical. Pharmaceuticals that are currently found in the cart can be checked remotely by communicating with the database. A new cassette can then be stocked and sealed by a pharmacist, while another person can transmit the sealed cassette and replace the old cassette within the cart. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172448 | METHOD FOR MEASURING THE INCIDENCE OF HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTIONS - Disclosed is a method and system for analyzing patient hospitalization data to determine a Nosocomial Infection Marker (NIM), the method comprising receiving from a database hospitalization data associated with at least one patient, calculating from the hospitalization data the number of specimens with non-duplicate hospital isolates (SNDHI) markers, calculating from the hospitalization data antibiotic utilization criteria (AUC) markers, and determining the nosocomial infection marker (NIM) for each patient, based upon the calculated. SNDHI and AUC markers. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172449 | METADATA TAGGING SYSTEM FOR A DIABETES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF DEVICES - A diabetes management system having a reliable data management scheme is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of devices, each device performing a different function relating to treatment of diabetes. Each device has a device identifier and each device generates data records relating to the function of the device. Each device includes a metadata generator configured to generate a metadata tag for a data record generated by the device. A metadata tag includes the device identifier of the corresponding device, a record identifier, and a source identifier indicating whether the record was originated by a human or the device. The system further includes a diabetes management device in communication with the plurality of devices and configured to manage records received from the plurality of devices. When a first device of the plurality of devices generates a new record to be communicated to the diabetes management device, the metadata generator of the first device generates a new unique record identifier and a new metadata tag based on the new unique record identifier and the device identifier of the first device, and the first device propagates the new record and the new metadata tag to the second device. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172450 | AUTO CONFIGURATION OF A PERSONAL HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to the field of personal health data tracking, and in particular to an automated system and method for configuring and managing a patient's account by a health care provider. One disclosed embodiment of the system includes a server and a remote interface for accessing the server through a network. The server may be a web server, and the remote interface may be a personal computer or smartphone device connected to the server via the Internet. The patient and the healthcare provider each connect to the server through their own remote interface. The healthcare provider completes an electronic form to identify the patient and select data elements for the patient to track. Upon completion of this form, a code is generated that the patient can use to automatically create a new patient account and configure its remote interface according to the healthcare provider's selections. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172451 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDICAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - Systems and method for communication of information to one or more medical care providers. The systems and methods may utilize a client with which a user may interact. As such, the user may utilize the client to research, display, and/or select a medical care provider. The user may input information to the client which is transmitted to a selected medical care provider prior to the user arriving at the medical care provider's facility. This may include an indication of the user's intent to visit the medical care provider. As such, the medical care provider may utilize the data received to generate a chart and make preparations (e.g., reserve resources) in anticipation of the user's visit. The user may also use the client to access and/or share a personal health record. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172452 | SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING MEDICAL DATA - A system for processing medical data including: a central unit in communication with a storage of medical data, such central unit being controllable by at least a user of the system and at least one client unit, remote from the central unit, for communicatively coupling to the central unit and/or storage through at least a network, such client unit having an interface for allowing a user to interact with the system. Where the central unit is configured for remotely processing data of the storage, or causing the data to be processed by a dedicated elaboration unit coupled to such central unit and/or the storage, according to requests generated by the client unit and sending data to the client unit, and where the client unit is configured to locally interact with the data sent by the central unit to provide further requests to the central unit to iteratively process data of the storage according to user needs. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172453 | SEPARATING STORAGE OF PERSONAL FROM NON-PERSONAL HEALTH INFORMATION - Separating storage of personal from non-personal health information. At a server device, receiving and responding to requests from an application that involve access to both personal and non-personal health information. Parsing those requests into first portions which do not involve access to personal health information, and second portions which do. Referring those portions which involve access to personal health information to an information agent, which uses configuration information to determine how to access that personal health information. Separately accessing the personal health information using a secure key and referring an answer to those portions which involve access to both personal health information to the server device. At the server device, composing a response to requests from the application, including responses to both those first portions and those second portions. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172454 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SCHEDULING, TRACKING, RECORDING AND MONITORING INFUSION ROOM ACTIVITY - A method and system for scheduling, tracking, recording, and monitoring of patients' usage of an infusion room, along with various tools to analyze the infusion room activity, to thereby improve usage of the infusion room, and improve patient satisfaction relating to their infusion room experience, is disclosed. The inventive methods and systems use real-time computer processors, software, and distributed sensors to monitor, record, analyze, and graphically display relevant infusion room chair status, patient status, and patient medical condition while in the infusion room. In preferred embodiments, the inventive methods and systems provide real-time input capability for medical personnel, and real-time automatic data output for use by or to prompt medical personnel. The inventive methods and systems are capable of recording activity of the infusion room to permit later analysis, modeling, and simulation to allow for improvements in infusion room efficiencies and patient satisfaction. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172455 | VISUALIZATION FOR HEALTH EDUCATION TO FACILITATE PLANNING FOR INTERVENTION, ADAPTATION AND ADHERENCE - A method for providing a health visualization model includes receiving user data comprising characteristics corresponding to a user, and adherence data comprising adherence history corresponding to the user, determining a relationship between an adherence level of the user and an expected health outcome based on the user data and the adherence data, generating the health visualization model based on the determined relationship, and outputting the health visualization model. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172456 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING SUMMARIZED INFORMATION OF MEDICAL REPORTS - A system and method for presenting summarized information of medical reports. The system and method receiving a plurality of medical reports, each medical report including a plurality of sections, each of the sections including text content, correlating corresponding sections of each of the medical reports into section types, extracting the text content of the sections of the medical reports for a selected section type and aggregating, into a single display, the text content of the sections of all the medical reports for the selected section type. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172457 | MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A medical information processing apparatus includes: a medical image processing member to make the display member display a viewer screen for displaying an medical image including collateral information and to perform processing to the medical image; and an electronic medical record processing member to make the display member display a medical record screen for receiving input of electronic medical record information and displaying the same, and to make the storage member store the electronic medical record information correlated with the patient information, wherein the medical image processing member extracts predetermined information from the collateral information to generate text information thereof, and correlates the text information with the patient identification information, and the electronic medical record processing member inputs and displays the received text information in the new medical record input region on the medical record screen of the patient corresponding to the patient identification information. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172458 | ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An electronic medical record apparatus is connected to an image generation apparatus which performs photographing to generate a medical image. The electronic medical record apparatus includes: a storage member; a patient specifying member to receive an input of specifying a patient to be examined; a display member to display a medical record screen for displaying electronic medical record information pertaining to the specified patient; a fetch instruction member, provided on the medical record screen, to receive an instruction to fetch the generated medical image; a control member to cause the storage member to store the medical image transmitted from the image generation apparatus so that the medical image is correlated with patient information of the patient whose medical record screen is currently displayed in the display member, when the fetch instruction member receives the instruction to fetch the medical image. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172459 | CLINICAL SUPPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a clinical support system and a corresponding clinical support method. The system comprises a processor and a computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable storage medium contains instructions for execution by the processor, wherein the instructions cause the processor to perform the steps of obtaining a health score curve over time of a patient, for whom a recommendation for a moment of discharge from a medical facility shall be provided, obtaining a reference curve to the health score curve, wherein said reference curve indicates a patient stabilization over time, computing a difference between the health score curve and said reference curve, and computing a recommended moment of discharge from the medical facility based on the difference between said health score curve and said reference curve. Further, the present invention relates to a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium and a computer program. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172460 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Digitally Recorded Musculoskeletal Diagnosis and Treatment - A system, method, and computer program product to assist a clinician in diagnosing or treating a musculoskeletal condition of a patient. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172461 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WELLNESS PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND EVALUATION - A computer-readable medium comprising computer-readable instructions for administering a wellness program, wherein execution of the computer-readable instructions causes one or more processors to carry out steps. Data corresponding to physical and psychological characteristics of at least one patient is received. One or more risk factors are determined corresponding to one or more conditions based, at least in part, on the physical and psychological characteristics of the at least one patient. One or more wellness prescriptions are determined based, at least in part, on the one or more risk factors and the physical and psychological characteristics of the at least one patient. | 2014-06-19 |
20140172462 | Method and System for Providing Information to Physicians - A group of medical specialists reviews an up-to-date body of medical knowledge and, based on its review, selects a subset of that knowledge as being important enough to merit prompt dissemination to the medical community. The selected subset of medical knowledge is then input into a computer system where it can then be accessed by physicians over a computer network. A physician may, for example, access the system before, during or after a patients visit so that he/she can have the most up-to-date information regarding how to best advise the patient. In effect, the group of medical specialists acts as a single voice of authority on which the medical community can rely. | 2014-06-19 |