27th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 65 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090171597 | Evaluation method - The invention is directed to an evaluation method for determining a power reduction due to ageing of at least one photovoltaic module at constant radiation intensity with a measurement of an electric variable that may change after a period of time such as cell current, cell voltage and/or cell power, without additional sensors for measuring the radiation intensity, with the following steps
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20090171598 | Battery Pack, Electronic Appliance, And Method of Detecting Remaining Amount of Battery - A battery pack has a charge and discharge count measuring part ( | 2009-07-02 |
20090171599 | Battery Discharge Indicator For Golf Car - A system is disclosed for determining battery state-of-charge (SoC) in an electric vehicle. The system includes an inverter that converts battery power to an alternating current, a current sensor that generates a signal indicative of a magnitude and direction of the alternating current, a first analog-to-digital converter (A2D) that converts the signal to current data, and a central processing unit (CPU) that periodically stores a present value of the current data to an associated memory and determines the SoC based on the stored current data. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171600 | Battery State Judging Method, And Battery State Judging Device - A battery state judging method is provided capable of properly judging a state of a lead-acid battery by measuring voltages without measuring currents. A state of the battery is judged by obtaining, in advance, a DC internal resistance r | 2009-07-02 |
20090171601 | BATTERY DETECTION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - A battery detection device for detection battery voltage of a device is provided. The device includes a voltage dividing circuit configured to provide an output voltage in proportion to the battery voltage, and a detection unit which includes a voltage detection module, a comparison module, a control module and a state detection module configured to obtain the device's state. The voltage detection module produces a digital detection voltage according to the output voltage every normal time interval initially, the comparison module detects whether the digital detection voltage is lower than a reference voltage corresponding to the state. If yes, the voltage detection module obtains digital detection voltage for predetermined times of abnormal time interval. The comparison module compares the digital detection voltage with the reference voltage to produce comparison results. The control module determines whether to maintain the device's state according to the comparison results. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171602 | DEVICE FOR ACCURATELY MEASURING AMPLIFIER'S OPEN-LOOP GAIN WITH DIGITAL STIMULI - A device capable of receiving one or more digital stimulus signals and accurately measuring an open-loop gain of an amplifier comprises: a digital charge converter (DCC), a charge integrator, an A/D converter, a control logic circuit and an arithmetic logic unit (ALU). The DCC and the charge integrator are composed of a plurality of switches, one or more sampling capacitor, at least one integrating capacitor and an operational amplifier under test (OPAUT) with a single-ended output or differential-ended outputs. The DCC, the charge integrator, and the A/D converter are controlled by control signals generated by the logic control circuit and can be reconfigured as a first-order Sigma-Delta modulator capable of receiving at least one of the digital input stimulus signals. The ALU calculates the open-loop gain of the OPAUT with single-ended output or differential-ended outputs according to the digital stimulus signals and the digital output of the first-order Sigma-Delta modulator. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171603 | METHODS OF DETECTING SERIES ARCS IN ELECTRICAL SIGNALS - A method of detecting a series arc fault in an alternating current electrical signal is provided. A method for detecting a series arc fault in an alternating current electrical signal, comprising: a) calculating discrete wavelet coefficients using a current signal as an input for the discrete wavelet coefficient calculations, and outputting discrete wavelet coefficient filtered output; b) subsampling the discrete wavelet coefficient filtered output and outputting a subsampled output; c) calculating critical variables from the subsampled output; d) determining from the critical variables whether a series arc fault is present in the current signal; and e) outputting an signal indicating that a series arc fault is present in the current signal, if substantially all of the critical variables meet a predetermined criteria. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171604 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPENSATING S-PARAMETERS OF PASSIVE CIRCUITS - The invention related to a method and circuit that is used to compensate for S-parameters of a passive circuit which do not satisfy passivity. The method includes the following steps: (1) getting S-parameters which do not satisfy passivity, these S-parameters being composed of an S-parameter matrix S; (2) computing matrix [S×S′], wherein matrix S′ is a complex conjugate transposed matrix of the S-parameter matrix S; (3) computing the eigenvalues of the matrix [S×S′], and choosing an eigenvalue Ψ whose real part real(Ψ) is the biggest; (4) computing a compensating value ξ, the compensating value ξ being equal to real(Ψ) | 2009-07-02 |
20090171605 | Method and System for Defect Inspection - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving inspection data from an optical inspection tool. The inspection data represents a plurality of surface features of a substrate. The inspection data is compared to a first pattern. The first pattern corresponds to a second pattern formed by dispensing a flowing substance on a surface of the substrate. The method further includes determining, based at least in part on the comparison, if the inspection data indicates one or more defects. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171606 | SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS - A software architecture, design and implementation that enables efficient transistor performance analysis across multiple levels of parameter granularity with interactive drill-down, drill-across capability, for use during semiconductor technology development. The software may include several features, such as highly modular, robust architecture to enable analysis across the multiple granularity of transistor performance data, i.e., per die, material group, and aggregate, GUI-based template configuration to specify the analysis across the multiple levels in a uniform set of operations, subsystems to execute the template specified with the GUI, integration of pass-fail analysis analytics, interactive drill-down on particular data points of user interest in automatically generated charts, and drill-across capability allowing linking of data points highlighted on a single chart to those that are correlated in all other charts. Other embodiments are described. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171607 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE CAPABLE OF RE-CALIBRATING AZIMUTH AND METHOD THEREOF - One or more sensors in a portable electronic device have individual status parameter in response to different using configurations. When the portable electronic device operates in a first using configuration, an electronic compass in the portable electronic device loads a corresponding first default setting, according to the status parameter of the sensors operated in the first using configuration, and detects the geomagnetic field for outputting azimuth data. When the portable electronic device changes its configuration from the first using configuration to a second using configuration, the electronic compass stops detecting the geomagnetic field and loads a corresponding second default setting, according to the status parameter of the sensors operated in the second using configuration, and detects the geomagnetic field for outputting azimuth data. The electronic compass is capable of properly detecting the geomagnetic field by loading different default settings when facing interference of different magnetic fields. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171608 | MAGNETIC DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, MAGNETIC DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND MAGNETIC DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM - In a magnetic data processing device, a magnetic data input part sequentially receives magnetic data output from a three-dimensional (3D) magnetic sensor. A storage part stores a plurality of the magnetic data as a data set of statistical population. An acceleration data input part receives acceleration data output from a 3D acceleration sensor. A reliability determination part derives a reliability index that is a function of an angular difference between a direction of a line perpendicular to an approximate plane representing a distribution of the data set of the statistical population and a direction of acceleration represented by the acceleration data. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171609 | Image Forming Apparatus and Method for Correcting Position Displacement - A disclosed image forming apparatus for detecting position displacement patterns and correcting position displacement of an image forming position in a main scanning direction according to the detection result, includes a position displacement amount calculating part configured to calculate the amount of the position displacement according to the detection result, a position displacement correcting part configured to correct the position displacement by performing at least one of multiplication correction or multiplication error deviation correction, a correction amount calculating part configured to calculate a multiplication error deviation correction amount for correcting multiplication error deviation generated by the multiplication correction, a first determining part configured to determine whether to plot a first position displacement correction pattern included in the position displacement patterns for performing the multiplication error deviation correction according to the multiplication error deviation correction amount, and a plotting part configured to plot the position displacement correction patterns. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171610 | Surveying instrument and surveying compensation method - The present invention provides a surveying instrument, which comprises rotating units ( | 2009-07-02 |
20090171611 | Reducing Mission Signal Output Delay in IC Having Mission and Test Modes - An integrated circuit apparatus includes a switching circuit that provides respective signal paths to permit a mission signal, a test signal, and a boundary scan test signal to share an output terminal. The signal path associated with the mission signal imposes a smaller switching delay than do the signal paths associated with the test and boundary scan test signals. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171612 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING WHETHER COMPONENTS ARE NOT PRESENT IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM - A system that determines whether components are not present in a computer system is presented. During operation the system receives telemetry signals from sensors within the computer system. Next, the system dynamically generates a temperature map for the computer system based on the telemetry signals. The system then analyzes the temperature map to determine whether components are not present in the computer system. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171613 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - An information processing apparatus including: a main unit; a cooling fan that suctions open air into the main unit to cool inside the main unit with an air flow; and a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device that is provided within the main unit to be used as an external storage device, the device including: a printed circuit board; a nonvolatile semiconductor memory that is mounted on the printed circuit board; a memory controller that is mounted on the printed circuit board and controls the nonvolatile semiconductor memory; and a temperature sensor that is mounted on the printed circuit board and detects temperature within the nonvolatile semiconductor storage device, wherein the memory controller is disposed at an upstream side of the air flow and the temperature sensor is disposed at a downstream side of the air flow. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171614 | System and Method for Processing Raw Activity Energy Expenditure Data - According to one embodiment, a method is provided for calculating, by an activity monitor comprising one accelerometer, a raw activity energy expenditure data based on movement by a user. The method includes determining if the raw activity energy expenditure data is associated with a high intensity physical activity, wherein the high intensity physical activity causes the raw activity energy expenditure data to differ from an expected activity energy expenditure data. The method includes calculating a corrected activity energy expenditure data, if the raw activity energy expenditure data is associated with the high intensity physical activity, based on the raw activity energy expenditure data, wherein the corrected activity energy expenditure data is substantially identical to the expected activity energy expenditure data. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171615 | Apparatus and method for classification of physical orientation - A state classifier uses learning obtained from a plurality of training algorithms each adapted to differentiate between states of physical orientation of an object in response to input data from an tri-axial accelerometer. At least two of the training algorithms are trained using data from an accelerometer mounted at a non-ideal angle. The classifier is trained to distinguish between the desired states from data collected from an tri-axial accelerometer device mounted at a plurality of respective angles with respect to a optimal axis on the object, wherein the angles are in the range of −180 degrees to +180 degrees. The classifier may include a plurality of classifiers and a decision fusion module used to combine the decisions from the respective classifiers to ascertain a state. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171616 | Motion detector module - In a data acquisition system a sensor module includes a motion sensor and a communication controller. The motion sensor and communication controller are prepared in a form factor adapted to be received within, or otherwise readily used with, the user appliance. A data signal produced by the motion sensor is adaptable for compliance validation. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171617 | METHOD OF DETECTING FREE FALL AND APPARATUS TO DETECT FREE FALL USING THE METHOD - A method of detecting a free fall of a device includes measuring an acceleration of the device, calculating an integral of the acceleration, and determining whether the acceleration is periodic. If the acceleration is not periodic, the integral of the acceleration is compared with a first critical value to determine whether the device falls freely. If the acceleration is periodic, the integral of the acceleration is compared with a second critical value to determine whether the device falls freely. The first and second critical values are different. Since whether the device is periodically accelerated is considered, free fall of the device can be correctly detected, and thus malfunction of the device can be prevented. For example, an unnecessary protection operation for a hard disk drive of the device can be prevented, and thus a user can conveniently use the device. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171618 | Surveying system - The present invention provides a surveying system, which comprises a surveying instrument | 2009-07-02 |
20090171619 | SURVEYING PROCEDURE AND SYSTEM FOR A HIGH-RISE STRUCTURE - The invention concerns a surveying procedure for a structure ( | 2009-07-02 |
20090171620 | AUTOFOCUS CONTROL VOLTAGE FOR INDICATING PACKAGE DIMENSIONS - A system and method for determining dimensions of a package during imaging for supply chain management is provided. The system and method utilize a value of an auto focus control voltage when an image of a package is in focus to calculate a magnification ratio. The calculated magnification ratio is used to multiply the dimensions of the package image to obtain the dimensions of the package. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171621 | MEASURING THE DISTANCE BETWEEN DEVICES - This invention provides compositions and methods for producing low cholesterol poultry eggs using hypocholesterolemic compounds, cholesterol lowering supplements, and feeds therefrom. Preferably, this invention provides microbial statins without methyl group in C6, as shown in formula V, in order to produce low cholesterol poultry eggs. The invention allows producing low cholesterol poultry eggs without concomitant reduction of egg production by providing microbial statins, compactin and pravastatin as well as their derivatives, as cholesterol lowering components. This invention also provides methods for producing low cholesterol poultry eggs without huge increase of production cost since the effective amount of cholesterol lowering composition containing microbial statin costs 1/120-¼ of that of synthetic statin. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171622 | DISTORTION EVALUATING APPARATUS AND DISTORTION EVALUATING METHOD - A distortion evaluating apparatus which can quantitatively evaluate distortion in a measurement object surface is provided. A distortion evaluating apparatus evaluates distortion based on three-dimensional measurement data obtained from a measurement object surface. The apparatus includes a secondary differential component adapted for effecting a secondary differential operation on two-dimensional measurement data of a cross section of the measurement object surface indicative of unevenness therein, thus obtaining curvature data of the cross section, a permissible range setting component adapted for setting a permissible range for the curvature data, based on range of an upper limit value and a lower limit value from a reference value, and a distortion data extracting component adapted for extracting a portion of the curvature data exceeding the set permissible range as distortion data indicative of the distortion in the cross section. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171623 | Multimodal Fusion Decision Logic System For Determining Whether To Accept A Specimen - The present invention includes a method of deciding whether a data set is acceptable for making a decision. A first probability partition array and a second probability partition array may be provided. One or both of the probability partition arrays may be a Copula model. A no-match zone may be established and used to calculate a false-acceptance-rate (“FAR”) and/or a false-rejection-rate (“FRR”) for the data set. The FAR and/or the FAR may be compared to desired rates. Based on the comparison, the data set may be either accepted or rejected. The invention may also be embodied as a computer readable memory device for executing the methods. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171624 | Method and Apparatus to Provide a Data Interface Between Equipment to be Temporarily Monitored and Diagnostic Data Gathering Apparatus - A channel ( | 2009-07-02 |
20090171625 | Statement-Based Computing System - A computer-implemented system and method creates and stores measurement statement objects representing complete statements of measurement. Each measurement statement object represents a measurement, such as “the left wing of the F-16 aircraft has a span of 36 m,” and contains a value object, an aspect object, and an entity object. The value object represents a value of the measurement (such as 36 meters) and the aspect object represents an aspect of the measurement (such as span). The value is a value of the aspect of the measurement. The entity object represents an entity (such as the left wing of an F-16 aircraft) measured by the measurement. The aspect of the measurement is an aspect of the entity measured by the measurement M | 2009-07-02 |
20090171626 | Integrated Engineering Analysis System - An integrated engineering analysis system comprises: a) a first integrated computational process, the first process being comprised of a plurality of computational solvers adapted to compute characteristics of a first component; b) a second integrated computational process, the second process being comprised of a plurality of computational solvers adapted to compute characteristics of a second component; and c) communication paths between corresponding computational solvers of the first and second computational processes. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171627 | System and Method for Surface Reconstruction from an Unstructured Point Set - A method of modeling a surface from a plurality of geometry points representing an object generally includes binning the plurality of geometry points into an n-dimensional array of cells and associating a binary value with each cell; applying a dilation algorithm to the binned plurality of geometry points to output a dilated binary representation of the plurality of geometry points; applying an erosion algorithm to the dilated binary representation of the plurality of geometry points to output a segmented volume; and applying a surface construction algorithm to the segmented volume to form a surface model of the object. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171628 | PLANNING A SENSOR ARRAY IN ACCORDANCE WITH TEMPO-SPATIAL PATH ESTIMATION OF POTENTIAL INTRUDERS - A computerized method and system for providing a user with at least one scenario in a modeled theater. The computerized method may include the following steps: a) selecting a plurality of threat-sites in the modeled theater, wherein the threat-site comprises at least one of the following: at least one threat-area, and at least one threat object; b) selecting at least one secured-site in the modeled theater, wherein the secured-site is at least one of the following: at least one secured-area, and at least one secured-object; c) providing at least one constraint parameter; and d) determining the at least one penetrating scenario. The penetrating scenario may pertain to at least one of the following: the position and shape of at least one penetrating route. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171629 | NETWORK DIAGRAM DISPLAY DEVICE, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Problem to be Solved: A subject matter is to understandably make one drawing for a logical structure diagram and a physical structure diagram. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171630 | MULTIPLE INTEREST MATCHMAKING IN PERSONAL BUSINESS NETWORKS - The present invention can increase the odds of choosing the right people for a team by considering their “rate of interest/knowledge” in multiple topics. Given a known contacts network, represented by nodes interconnected by links, several different sub-networks are identified within it, corresponding to different topics or areas of expertise required to a specific project. For each sub-network, there will be nodes with an associated grade, based on that person's knowledge/interest for the topic related to that sub-network. As such, each node/person receives a grade for each topic. Using these grades, a weight of each link between the nodes is calculated. This process is performed for every node for each topic and associated grade. After that, a superposition of all sub-networks is made and a multiple interest network is yielded. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171631 | Integrated Engineering Analysis Process - A method for performing analytical engineering analyses on a plurality of components comprises the steps of: a) performing a first integrated computational process, the first process being comprised of a plurality of computational solvers adapted to compute characteristics of a first component; b) performing a second integrated computational process, the second process being comprised of a plurality of computational solvers adapted to compute characteristics of a second component; and c) communicating results back and forth between corresponding computational solvers of the first and second computational processes; and d) repeating the first and second computational processes. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171632 | AUTOMATIC BNE SEED CALCULATOR - An automatic background noise estimator (BNE) seed calculator for determining a starting point for a BNE circuit which tracks the noise floor received by a receiver. The BNE seed calculator may sample a plurality of data points from the receiver and calculate the magnitude of each point. The seed calculator may then determine the peak magnitude value, a plurality of mean values, and the variance of the sampled points. A plurality of lookup tables are used to compare the peak, mean, and variance values with simulated peak, mean, and variance values to estimate the noise floor level of the actual signal and use that to determine the optimum BNE seed value. Simulation software such as MATLAB is used to develop the lookup tables by simulating peak, mean, and variance values based on a plurality of signal-to-noise ratios (SNR). | 2009-07-02 |
20090171633 | Computer-aided method for predicting particle uptake by a surface of a moving object - The invention relates to a computer-aided method for predicting particle uptake by a surface of an object moving in a flow current, comprising the following steps: preparing a discrete model of said object and the surrounding flow, including a projection area ( | 2009-07-02 |
20090171634 | Method for Reconstructing Gusts and Structural Loads at Aircraft, in Particular Passenger Aircraft - A method for reconstructing gusts and/or structural loads at aircraft, in particular passenger aircraft. The method includes generating an observer on the basis of a nonlinear model of the aircraft which describes the movement of the aircraft in all six degrees of freedom (DoF) and the elastic motion of the aircraft structure; continuously supplying all the data and measurements substantial for the description of the state of the aircraft to the observer; and calculating the gust velocities and structural loads (manoeuvre and gust loads) by the observer from the supplied data and measurements. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171635 | Electrostatic Discharge Voltage Resistive Current Modeling Method of Electrostatic Discharge Protection Device - Provided is a method for modeling an ESD breakdown current. According to one variation, a first proportional constant is based on a circumference of the ESD protection device and a second proportional constant based on an area of the ESD protection device. A dual first order equation is derived by sampling circumferences and areas of two ESD protection devices. According to another variation, an equation is defined in which a third value (an ESD breakdown current) is a sum of a first value and a second value, the first value being obtained by multiplying a circumference of an ESD protection device by a first proportional constant, the second value being obtained by multiplying an area of the ESD protection device by a second proportional constant. Then, circumferences and areas of first and second ESD protection samples are calculated. Next, first and second equations are derived by reflecting the first and second circumferences and areas to the equation. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171636 | HIGH-SPEED OPERATION METHOD FOR COUPLED EQUATIONS BASED ON FINITE ELEMENT METHOD AND BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD - According to an aspect of an embodiment, a high-speed operation method for directing a computer to process a coefficient matrix constituting simultaneous equations generated by modeling an analysis target into a mesh by using the finite element method and the boundary element method, said method includes obtaining two edges that are not on a same plane and that are the closest to each other from among edges defined in a mesh of a boundary modeled by the boundary element method, and ordering, in a vicinity of on-diagonal elements of the coefficient matrix, matrix elements in the coefficient matrix of simultaneous equations obtained for the two edges that are the closest to each other. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171637 | Analyzing model creating apparatus and method, and computer-readable storage medium - An analyzing model creating apparatus obtains a three-dimensional analyzing model (3D mode) of an analyzing target and regions of the 3D model, obtains a reference point on an impact surface from a normal vector of the impact surface represented by a unit vector and minimum and maximum values of each coordinate obtained from the regions of the 3D model to generate the impact surface having an impact attitude of the 3D model with respect to the impact surface defined by an arbitrary rotary position of the impact surface. The apparatus further generates an analysis input file which includes information related to the 3D model, the impact surface and an impact velocity with which the 3D model and the impact surface collide, and analyzes a strength of the 3D model based on the analysis input file. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171638 | Advanced-process-control system utilizing a lambda tuner - An advanced process control (APC) system. The APC system comprises a database for receiving process data from a measurement tool for a plurality of process runs and for storing the process data. A lambda tuner determines a tuned-lambda value corresponding to a process-capability-index value based on upper and lower process control limits and statistics derived from the process data. A process-run controller updates a recipe value based on the received process data and the tuned-lambda value. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171639 | Method to identify modulators for human 3alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase - 3 α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3α-HSD) plays a central role in the metabolism and action of steroid hormones and neurosteroids (steroids synthesized in the central nervous system). The high resolution structure of human type III 3α-HSD crystallized in complex with cofactor NADP is determined by X-ray diffraction. Furthermore the active site is determined. The structure coordinates of the enzyme may be used to design and select novel classes of modulators to human type III 3α-HSD. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171640 | POPULATION SEQUENCING USING SHORT READ TECHNOLOGIES - The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate generating population sequences of strain variants included in a sample. Sequencing can be based on high throughput of short reads. Further, site variants exhibited in the short reads can be linked to reconstruct multiple full strains of a targeted gene, including low concentration variants in the sample. Cues in the short read data can be utilized to perform multi-strain assembly. For example, the cues can include different strain concentrations that lead to more frequently seen strains being responsible for more frequent reads and quilting of overlapping reads to infer mutation linkage over long stretches of DNA. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171641 | NOVEL HOMOLOGY MODEL OF THE GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3 ALPHA AND ITS USES THEREOF - The present invention provides a novel homology three-dimensional structure of Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3-Alpha (GSK3-Alpha) or a variant thereof for screening, designing and/or synthesizing a modulator that modulates the activity of GSK3-Alpha and method of generating said three dimensional structure thereof. The three-dimensional structure of GSK3-Alpha is defined by at least a portion of structural co-ordinates of Table 1. Further, the present invention provides a computer assisted system for generating said three-dimensional structure of GSK3-Alpha or a variant thereof. Further, the present invention relates to a method of screening, designing and/or synthesizing a modulator for modulating the activity of GSK3-? or a variant thereof. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171642 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING FREE ENERGY ESTIMATION OF FRAGMENTS - Methods and systems for estimating the free energy of molecules from a plurality of fragments are disclosed. A number of poses for each fragment in an unbound state and a sum of the free energy values for each fragment may be determined. A number of acceptable poses for each of a plurality of fragments when bound may also be determined. An entropy loss may be estimated based on at least the number of acceptable poses for each of the plurality of fragments when bound and the number of poses for each fragment in an unbound state. A free energy value may be determined for the plurality of fragments when bound based on the entropy loss. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171643 | Method to aid the design of a system architecture - The present invention relates to a method for aiding the design of a system architecture. The method for design of an architecture of a system according to an embodiment of the invention includes at least the following steps: functional and non-functional analysis of a technical requirement with which the system complies; formalization of points of view for analysis of the architecture of the system based on the functional and non-functional analysis; definition of one rule for analysis of the architecture of the system for each analysis point of view; construction of the architecture of the system; and analysis of the architecture according to the rules of analysis. The design of system architectures notably relates to the field of system engineering. The systems to which the present invention is applicable can be hardware systems, software systems, or systems combining both hardware and software. An embodiment of the present invention may be implemented in the framework of the development of an aircraft navigation system. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171644 | CA RESISTANCE VARIABILITY PREDICTION METHODOLOGY - A methodology for obtaining improved prediction of CA resistance in electronic circuits and, particularly, an improved CA resistance model adapted to capture larger than anticipated “out of spec” regime. In one embodiment, a novel bucketization scheme is implemented that is codified to provide a circuit designer with considerably better design options for handling large CA variability as seen through the design manual. The tools developed for modeling the impact of CA variable resistance phenomena provide developers with a resistance model, such as conventionally known, modified with a new CA model Basis including a novel CA intrinsic resistance model, and, a novel CA layout bucketization model. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171645 | LOGIC SIMULATOR AND LOGIC SIMULATION METHOD - According to one embodiment, a logical circuit to be simulated includes a timing network and a specific logical device. The timing network transmits a logical value change of an input signal in correspondence with an elapse of time or clock number increments. The specific logical device receives a timing network output signal that appears at an exit node of the timing network, and a logical value change or a logical value after change of the clock. When predetermined constraint information represents a constraint that a time period or the demanded number of clock cycles needed for a transition of a signal level change to pass through a signal path in the timing network is equal to or smaller than a predetermined numerical value (or equal to or larger than a predetermined numerical value), it is checked if the signal input to the specific logical device violates the predetermined constraint information. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171646 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING POWER CONSUMPTION - A method for determining system and software configuration that includes: calculating a power consumption estimate of a modeled system associated with an execution of a certain software code; and altering, in response to the power consumption estimate, the certain software code or the modeled system. A method of determining a power consumption of a system that executed a software code, the method includes the stages of: providing a reduced instruction set representation of the software code; and calculating a power consumption estimate of a modeled system associated with an execution of the reduced instruction set representation of the software code. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171647 | INTERCONNECT ARCHITECTURAL STATE COVERAGE MEASUREMENT METHODOLOGY - A method and apparatus for ensuring efficient validation coverage of an architecture, such as protocol or interconnect architecture, is herein described. A coverage space of states for an architecture is generated and stored in a database. During simulation, states of the coverage space encountered are marked. From this, the states encountered and not encountered may be determined. Based on the states not encountered, a targeted test suite is developed to target at least some of the states not encountered during previous simulation. This feedback loop from simulation to refining of a test suite based on states of a coverage space not encountered during simulation may be recursively repeated until adequate validation, i.e. an adequate confidence level of validation, of the coverage space is achieved. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171648 | INSTRUCTION CHECK PROGRAM, INSTRUCTION CHECK APPARATUS, AND I/O SIMULATOR - A computer-readable medium encoded with an instruction check program for making a computer to check a status of execution of an instruction by an I/O simulator that performs an operation simulation according to a structure of an I/O area of a microcomputer, the instruction check program when executed by a computer causes the computer to perform a method including obtaining specification information of the microcomputer describing an input and an output condition of a hardware resource in the I/O area, detecting a simulation of a reference instruction to the hardware resource executed by the I/O simulator, determining correctness of the reference instruction by comparing a content of the simulation of the reference instruction detected by the detecting with the input and output condition of the hardware resource included in the obtained specification information, and outputting an error signal when it is determined that the reference instruction is incorrect. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171649 | USER-DEFINED APPLICATION MODELS - A system (and corresponding method) that employs wiki-type models to consider authoring rather than composition in an application environment is provided. The innovation enables collaborative information and templates to be used to enhance quality, productivity, etc. within a software application environment. These wiki-type models can provide features, functions and benefits related to, but not limited to, general information, auto-fills, formats, schema, conversions, preferences, etc. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171650 | Non-Volatile memories in interactive entertainment systems - In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, an interactive entertainment system includes a processor configured to operate interactive entertainment programs, a non-volatile memory connected with the processor including a first portion for random access memory (RAM) emulation, an input/output (I/O) interface connected with the processor and the non-volatile memory to connect a user controller with the processor and the non-volatile memory, and a display interface connected to the processor and the non-volatile memory to output a display signal. The non-volatile memory may include additional portions for emulating read only memory (ROM) and Flash memory. The RAM may be emulated without a refresh operation and Flash memory may be emulated without an erase operation or an operating system. The non-volatile memory may include a plurality of two-terminal memory elements and may be vertically configured. The two-terminal memory elements may be resistivity-sensitive and store data in the absence of power. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171651 | SDRAM-BASED TCAM EMULATOR FOR IMPLEMENTING MULTIWAY BRANCH CAPABILITIES IN AN XML PROCESSOR - The system and method of the present invention “emulates” the TCAM function using a data structure which is stored in an SDRAM device in such way that the size of emulated TCAM is substantially larger than the original TCAM device, thereby allowing the increase of the number of PPE programs which can be resident in memory. The present invention provides a new “emulCAM” algorithm which builds partially on BaRT, but is extended by providing multiple results per hash table entry with flexible assignment to “match-condition-combinations”, by utilizing MUX control vectors for extracting hash index instead of “index-mask-based extraction”, by moving part of CAM function to invoking emulCAM instruction and by providing “Pathological case handling” using multiple emulCAM instructions. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171652 | VIRTUALIZATION PROGRAM, SIMULATION APPARATUS AND VIRTUALIZATION METHOD - A virtualization program for being able to execute a simulation at high speed, allows a native code simulator to have a stack specific to each task that is managed by a multitask OS. Processes of creation, save, restoration and erasure of a context that a target CPU executes by means of a special control register operation is executed by an API provided by the native code simulator. When porting the multitask OS, the source code is altered so as to call the API. A stack specific to a task is assigned at the API and the stack is switched for switching the task to make context switching possible. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171653 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING MULTILINGUAL DOCUMENTS - A method and apparatus is disclosed for generating and distributing multilingual documents. The multilingual documents are comprised of primary information consisting of human-readable text and secondary information consisting of machine-readable data such that a translation of the text is accomplished by converting the human-readable text into a second language through the use of the decoded machine-readable data. The machine-readable data is comprised of a code that describes a set of editing operations that can be applied to the human-readable text to convert it into at least a second language. In a preferred embodiment, the machine-readable data is embedded in the image using an unobtrusive code on the document such as Xerox DATAGLYPH codes. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171654 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RENDERING MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION ON AN OUTPUT DEVICE - The present invention is directed to systems and methods for rendering multilingual information encoded in human-readable and machine-readable format on an output device. A typical system according to the present invention can include a system data store (SDS) and a system processor in communication with the SDS. A search term is entered, typically by a user. A database of multilingual information in the SDS is accessed based upon the entered search term to retrieve context specific translation information. In some instance, a selection is made among multiple potential translations within the translation information. At least a portion of the translation information is provided in a format compatible with a selected output device. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171655 | RUNTIME DATA LANGUAGE SELECTION IN OBJECT INSTANCE - A method of handling different languages in an object, such as a business object includes receiving a language selection indication within a business object instance interface. Data within the business object is displayed for at least one data field in the selected language. Edited data for at least one data field within the business object is received, and other language versions of the edited data in the at least one data field may be modified. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171656 | Method and apparatus for performing packet loss or frame erasure concealment - The invention concerns a method and apparatus for performing packet loss or Frame Erasure Concealment (FEC) for a speech coder that does not have a built-in or standard FEC process. A receiver with a decoder receives encoded frames of compressed speech information transmitted from an encoder. A lost frame detector at the receiver determines if an encoded frame has been lost or corrupted in transmission, or erased. If the encoded frame is not erased, the encoded frame is decoded by a decoder and a temporary memory is updated with the decoder's output. A predetermined delay period is applied and the audio frame is then output. If the lost frame detector determines that the encoded frame is erased, a FEC module applies a frame concealment process to the signal. The FEC processing produces natural sounding synthetic speech for the erased frames. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171657 | Hybrid Approach in Voice Conversion - A hybrid approach is described for combining frequency warping and Gaussian Mixture Modeling (GMM) to achieve better speaker identity and speech quality. To train the voice conversion GMM model, line spectral frequency and other features are extracted from a set of source sounds to generate a source feature vector and from a set of target sounds to generate a target feature vector. The GMM model is estimated based on the aligned source feature vector and the target feature vector. A mixture specific warping function is generated each set of mixture mean pairs of the GMM model, and a warping function is generated based on a weighting of each of the mixture specific warping functions. The warping function can be used to convert sounds received from a source speaker to approximate speech of a target speaker. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171658 | SELECTION OF SPEECH ENCODING SCHEME IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINALS - A method for communication includes receiving modulated signals, which convey encoded speech. A measure of information entropy associated with the received signals is estimated. A speech encoding scheme is selected responsively to the estimated measure of the information entropy. A request to encode subsequent speech using the selected speech encoding scheme is sent to a transmitter. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171659 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING DISTRIBUTED MULTI-MODAL APPLICATIONS - Embodiments include methods and apparatus for synchronizing data and focus between visual and voice views associated with distributed multi-modal applications. An embodiment includes a client device adapted to render a visual display that includes at least one multi-modal display element for which input data is receivable though a visual modality and a voice modality. When the client detects a user utterance via the voice modality, the client sends uplink audio data representing the utterance to a speech recognizer. An application server receives a speech recognition result generated by the speech recognizer, and sends a voice event response to the client. The voice event response is sent as a response to an asynchronous HTTP voice event request previously sent to the application server by the client. The client may then send another voice event request to the application server in response to receiving the voice event response. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171660 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VERIFICATION OF SPEAKER AUTHENTIFICATION AND SYSTEM FOR SPEAKER AUTHENTICATION - A method for verification of speaker authentication comprises inputting a test utterance containing a password that is spoken by a speaker, extracting an acoustic feature vector sequence from the inputted test utterance, obtaining a matching path between the extracted acoustic feature vector sequence and a speaker template enrolled by an enrolled speaker, calculating a matching score of the obtained matching path upon considering spectral change of the test utterance and/or spectral change of the speaker template, and comparing the matching score with a predefined discriminating threshold to determine whether the inputted test utterance is an utterance containing a password spoken by the enrolled speaker. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171661 | METHOD FOR ASSESSING PRONUNCIATION ABILITIES - Techniques for assessing pronunciation abilities of a user are provided. The techniques include recording a sentence spoken by a user, performing a classification of the spoken sentence, wherein the classification is performed with respect to at least one N-ordered class, and wherein the spoken sentence is represented by a set of at least one acoustic feature extracted from the spoken sentence, and determining a score based on the classification, wherein the score is used to determine an optimal set of at least one question to assess pronunciation ability of the user without human intervention. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171662 | Robust Information Extraction from Utterances - The performance of traditional speech recognition systems (as applied to information extraction or translation) decreases significantly with, larger domain size, scarce training data as well as under noisy environmental conditions. This invention mitigates these problems through the introduction of a novel predictive feature extraction method which combines linguistic and statistical information for representation of information embedded in a noisy source language. The predictive features are combined with text classifiers to map the noisy text to one of the semantically or functionally similar groups. The features used by the classifier can be syntactic, semantic, and statistical. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171663 | REDUCING A SIZE OF A COMPILED SPEECH RECOGNITION GRAMMAR - The present invention discloses creating and using speech recognition grammars of reduced size. The reduced speech recognition grammars can include a set of entries, each entry having a unique identifier and a phonetic representation that is used when matching speech input against the entries. Each entry can lack a textual spelling corresponding to the phonetic representation. The reduced speech recognition grammar can be digitally encoded and stored in a computer readable media, such as a hard drive or flash memory of a portable speech enabled device. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171664 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPONDING TO NATURAL LANGUAGE SPEECH UTTERANCE - Systems and methods for receiving natural language queries and/or commands and execute the queries and/or commands. The systems and methods overcomes the deficiencies of prior art speech query and response systems through the application of a complete speech-based information query, retrieval, presentation and command environment. This environment makes significant use of context, prior information, domain knowledge, and user specific profile data to achieve a natural environment for one or more users making queries or commands in multiple domains. Through this integrated approach, a complete speech-based natural language query and response environment can be created. The systems and methods creates, stores and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171665 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING AND MODIFYING NAVIGATION VOICE SYNTAX - Techniques are described for enabling flexible and dynamic creation and/or modification of voice data for a position-determining device. In some embodiments, a voice package is provided that includes a language database and a plurality of audio files. The language database specifies appropriate syntax and vocabulary for information that is intended for audio output by a position-determining device. The audio files include words and/or phrases that may be accessed by the position-determining device to communicate the information via audible output. Some embodiments utilize a voice package toolkit to construct and/or customize one or more parts of a voice package. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171666 | Interpolation Device, Audio Reproduction Device, Interpolation Method, and Interpolation Program - An interpolation device ( | 2009-07-02 |
20090171667 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LANGUAGE ASSISTED PATIENT INTAKE - A method for assisting in the communication of a medical care provider and a patient is disclosed. The method may include displaying a first display section, the first display section including a plurality of anatomical features, each anatomical feature associated with an indicia indicating the location of the anatomical feature, the anatomical feature also associated with a first name provided in a first language and a second name provided in a second language name. The method may also include displaying a second display section, the second display section including a plurality of questions relating to patient intake, where each question provided in the first language and the second language. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171668 | Recursive Adaptive Interaction Management System - A management system for guiding an agent in a media-specific dialogue has a conversion engine for instantiating ongoing dialogue as machine-readable text, if the dialogue is in voice media, a context analysis engine for determining facts from the text, a rules engine for asserting rules based on fact input, and a presentation engine for presenting information to the agent to guide the agent in the dialogue. The context analysis engine passes determined facts to the rules engine, which selects and asserts to the presentation engine rules based on the facts, and the presentation engine provides periodically updated guidance to the agent based on the rules asserted. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171669 | Methods and Apparatus for Implementing Distributed Multi-Modal Applications - Embodiments of a system include a client device ( | 2009-07-02 |
20090171670 | Systems and methods for altering speech during cellular phone use - The present invention includes systems and methods for altering a cellular phone user's speech so that the speech can be less bothersome to third parties in the surrounding area and so that the user has more privacy. Sound cancellation can be used to cancel, reduce, or modify the user's voice so third parties cannot hear the voice as easily or so that the user's voice cannot be understood. Furthermore, the user device can encourage the user to speak in a lower voice. The user device can accomplish this encouragement by indicating to the user their level of speech. In this manner, the user knows when he may lower his voice and yet still provide an adequate volume of speech for the cellular phone. Additionally, the user device can encourage the user to speak in a lower voice by audibly playing back the user's voice in real time. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171671 | APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING SOUND QUALITY OF AUDIO CODEC IN MULTI-CHANNEL AND METHOD THEREFOR - There is an apparatus for evaluating the audio quality of a multi-channel audio codec, including: a preprocessing unit for synthesizing binaural signals based on multi-channel audio signals transmitted through a multi-channel of a multi-channel audio reproduction system; an output variable calculator for calculating an interaural cross-correlation coefficient distortion (IACCDist) and other output variables of the binaural signals; and an artificial neural network circuit for outputting a grade of the perceived quality based on the interaural cross-correlation coefficient distortion (IACCDist) and other output variables calculated in the output variable calculator. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171672 | Method and Device for the Hierarchical Coding of a Source Audio Signal and Corresponding Decoding Method and Device, Programs and Signals - A method of hierarchically coding a source audio signal in the form of a data stream ( | 2009-07-02 |
20090171673 | ENCODING APPARATUS AND ENCODING METHOD - It is possible to provide an encoding device and an encoding method capable of realizing encoding with a very small information amount and a very small calculation amount when encoding higher-band spectrum data according to lower-band spectrum data in a wide-band signal. The device and the method can obtain a high-quality decoded signal even if a large quantization distortion is caused in the lower-band spectrum data. In this device, when encoding higher-band spectrum data in a signal to be encoded, according to lower-band spectrum data in the signal, only for apart (a head portion) of the higher-band spectrum data, the lower-band spectrum data after being quantized is subjected to approximate partial search and higher-band spectrum data is generated according to the search result. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171674 | PLAYBACK DEVICE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A playback device configured to play back audio in response to an instruction. Prior to the instruction, decoded audio data corresponding to a header (e.g., frame number | 2009-07-02 |
20090171675 | DECODING REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND METHOD AND RECEIVER - A decoding reproduction apparatus has an input memory buffer to which audio data asynchronously transmitted is input, a decoding circuit which is configured to read out and decode encoded data stored in the input memory buffer, an output memory buffer which is configured to store an output from the decoding circuit, and an output control circuit which is configured to monitor an amount of use of the input memory buffer, to output the data stored in the output memory buffer by decimation the data when the amount of use becomes larger than a predetermined upper-limit threshold value, and to output the data stored in the output memory buffer by interpolating the data when the amount of use becomes smaller than a predetermined lower-limit threshold value. Occurrence of an overflow or an underflow in the buffer as a result of D/A conversion of the audio data synchronously transmitted is prevented. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171676 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL - A method of decoding for an audio signal comprises the step of receiving a downmix of an audio signal, an object information, and a mix information, the object information including an object level information, an object correlation information, and an object gain information, generating a downmix processing information using the object information and the mix information, and processing the downmix of the audio signal using the downmix processing information. Various embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for decoding multi-object audio signals fast and efficiently by reducing process time, computer resource, thereby relieving the resource requirement like the wide bandwidth. The object parameters according to the embodiments of the present invention can provide backward compatibility in the view of the channel-oriented decoding process. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171677 | AUDIO SUBSYSTEM SHARING IN A VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT - A device, method, and system are disclosed. In one embodiment the device includes a first virtual machine to directly access a physical audio codec. The device also includes a virtual audio codec that is managed by the first virtual machine. The virtual audio codec can provide a custom interface to the physical audio codec for one or more additional virtual machines apart from the first virtual machine. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171678 | PROTECTING DOMAIN NAMES FROM UNDESIRED TRANSFER - Systems and methods are disclosed for protecting a domain name during a sale of shares of equity in the domain name. Prior to and during the sale of shares of equity in the domain name, the domain name is moved into a holding account as collateral for the sale of shares of equity. This protection may include registrar protection, such as expiration protection or hijack protection, or legal protection and rights such as trademark protection (including specialized ICANN protections) and copyright protection. The domain owner may also make use of an Internet-related business setup, including e-commerce and web content design, development, coding and configuration. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171679 | BUSINESS DATA ACCESS CLIENT FOR ONLINE/OFFLINE CLIENT USE - Architecture for uninterrupted access to business data by enabling work on rich client machines to be stored in a local business data cache that is always available. A dispatching mechanism executes read/write requests against the local cache transparently to a client application, an automatic synchronization mechanism propagates changes bi-directionally when the client goes online and a live connection with the corresponding backend data source is available. A declarative data access model is employed based on operation stereotyping and grouping that enables client applications to transparently execute create, read, update, delete, query (CRUDQ) and association operations against the local cache as if executed against the actual business data source. The architecture supports the offline creation of entities and sets of related entities when the entity identifiers are generated by the business data source and offline navigation of entity associations when foreign keys are not present in the related entities. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171680 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF LISTING ITEMS - Described herein are a method and a system to suggest information for one or more items offered for sale by sellers in a network-based market place. One or more keywords associated with an item to be listed may be received from a seller. The one or more keywords may be used to search for matching information stored in a database. The matching information may be presented to the seller to be selected. When the seller modifies the suggested matching information, the modified version of the matching information may be stored in the database. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171681 | ENTERTAINER CARD SYSTEM AND METHOD - An entertainer fan service method comprises providing electronic access to a fan to a network service, and providing features associated with one or more entertainers on the network service, the entertainer being associated with a club. Providing electronic access may include providing an access code to the fan, the access code corresponding to one or more entertainers associated with the club. Providing electronic access may include providing an access card to the fan, the access card including a computer-readable medium having computer code to allow the fan to access the network service. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171682 | Contactless prepaid Product For Transit Fare Collection - Transaction processing in an offline environment for a prepaid product comprising a portable consumer device includes responding to presentation of the prepaid product at a reader for offline processing by initiating operation of the prepaid product, receiving data from the prepaid product at the reader that indicates the prepaid product is associated with a prepaid account balance, determining that the prepaid product is in a negative balance condition, and taking preventive action in response to the negative balance condition such that future acceptance of the prepaid product at a reader is prevented. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171683 | Use of Constraints to Enforce Complex Payment Policies - A method of using constrained payments to enforce complex payment policies in electronic commerce (e-commerce) systems. An order capture component generates at least a first relationship object that corresponds to a first payment constraint rule. If an order item is placed in a shopping cart, and if the order item is associated with one or more payment constraint rules, and if one or more pre-conditions corresponding to the one or more payment constraint rules are satisfied, then the order capture component implements the one or more payment constraint rules. If one or more post-conditions corresponding to the one or more payment constraint rules are satisfied, then the order capture component submits a purchasing order from the shopping cart that includes the order item, such that the order item is constrained by the one or more payment constraint rules. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171684 | ENHANCED ON-DEMAND DIAGNOSTIC AND MAINTENANCE REPORTING - A system and method for providing enhanced diagnostic and maintenance reporting for a vehicle over a wireless communication system. When receiving a telephone call from a subscriber requesting diagnostic assistance, a data connection is established between a call center and the subscriber's vehicle, and the needed diagnostic data is obtained by the call center so that an advisor at the call center can provide the requested assistance. The established data connection is also used to obtain additional data from the vehicle related to vehicle maintenance and this additional data is used by the advisor to provide an enhanced response to the subscriber. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171685 | Approval Repository - A method and system are used to seek required approvals at various steps of a reconciliation process. A framework is created by which an end user can request for some of the key administrative maintenances done on a reconciliation application, along with an approval hierarchy being followed. A complete audit trail is maintained for what entity requested, approved and executed the request. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171686 | USING SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATION AND TRANSACTION INFORMATION - Among other things, a user can determine, from aggregated transaction data, private information about a transaction of another party. The other party is associated, in a shared social network database, as a contact with the user. The activity of the other party is related to an activity or contemplated activity of the user. The private information is from a source that is controlled independently of the shared social network database and the aggregated transaction data. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171687 | Identifying Industry Passionate Consumers - Transaction-level data and size of wallet data may be used to identify industry passionate consumers. In an embodiment, industry passionate consumers are identified based on a ratio of spend within an industry to total spend of the consumer. In another embodiment, industry passionate consumers are identified based on a modeling of the consumer's wallet and determining the ratio of spend within an industry to total spend of the consumer. The consumers may be ranked according to their ratios, with the consumers having the highest ratios being identified as industry passionate consumers. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171688 | Information Communication System, Facility Apparatus, User Device, Management Apparatus, Vehicle Apparatus, Facility Program, User Program, Management Program, And Vehicle Program - A user device notifies a facility apparatus of the user driving status in the vehicle. The facility apparatus receives that notification and exchanges status information with a management apparatus to specify a service corresponding to the driving status indicated by the status information. The facility apparatus notifies the user carrying the user device of candidate services for the specified service. By notifying the facility apparatus via the user device with information such as the driving status (status information) in the vehicle, information on candidate services to provide to the user can be reported for efficient usage of information. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171689 | Process and software for distribution of communications in a relational context utilizing the Internet - A process and software for the distribution of communications in a relational context utilizing the Internet with the steps of: Each person sends an electronic newsletter to their list of personal/business contacts, each person's profile is carried on the newsletter of the first level (Parent 1) person he is in relation to, each person's profile is carried on the newsletter of the second level (Parent 2) person he is in relation to, each person's profile is carried on the newsletter of the third level (Parent 3) person he is in relation to, each person's profile is carried on the newsletter of the fourth level (Parent 4) person he is in relation to, and each person's profile is carried on the newsletter of the fifth level (Parent 5) person he is in relation to. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171690 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A WEB-BASED PEOPLE DIRECTORY - An online system and a method for a web-based people directory provides for collaborative updating of the directory information. The method includes creating profile templates for each person on earth and storing these profile templates in a central database ( | 2009-07-02 |
20090171691 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A WEB-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING DATABASE - An online system and a method for a web-based social networking database that allows collaborative updating of the social network information. The method includes creating profile templates for each person within a group and storing these profile templates in a central database. Next, populating the profile templates with publicly available basic information and then publishing the public profile information in the web-based social network application. Users login into the social network application, update their profile information and upload their personal social network information. The system then cross-correlates and matches the social network information from the users' personal profiles to the social network information listed in other persons' profiles. The personal social network information includes names, contact information, pictures and stories of the users' personal contacts. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171692 | Online Health Care Consumer Portal - An online health care consumer portal for accessing one or more health-related services by a health care consumer. The consumer portal includes an authentication module for identifying the health care consumer upon receiving an online identification token, and a database for maintaining health care information comprising a plurality of health records. The consumer portal also includes a rules engine module for applying a set of rules to the one or more health records corresponding to the consumer to determine an impairment profile of the health care consumer based on the health records corresponding to the health care consumer and an online user interface for providing access to the health-related services. The online user interface is configurable from a default configuration to a second configuration upon identification by the authentication module, the second configuration adapted to facilitate use of the online user interface according to the impairment profile. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171693 | DATA LOGGER - A data logging module and a method of monitoring a medical warming cabinet is disclosed. A temperature of the heating chamber and a state of a door of the heating chamber are sampled at predetermined intervals and recorded as data packets on a memory device. A display may provide a message when the memory device is reaching capacity. Moreover, a selected of the data packets may be analyzed (such as the data packets excluding the data packets when the door is open) for the generation of a report. The data packets from the memory device may be transferred from the memory device to an external memory device as necessary. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171694 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING LABORATORY TEST RESULTS FOR PATIENTS TAKING AN ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST - The invention provides a system and method of collecting, storing and managing laboratory test results of patients. In one embodiment the invention is directed towards collecting, storing and managing laboratory test results of patients taking an endothelin receptor antagonist (ERA). The system provides a way of securely collecting and tracking information from a plurality of patients, a plurality of laboratories, and a plurality of health care providers by use of a database. The method comprises receiving patient information from health care providers, receiving a laboratory test schedule for each patient, and laboratory tests needed for each patient. This data is entered into a central processing computer. The patients then go to any laboratory to have the monthly testing done due to the ERA prescription. The laboratory test data collected is sent to the central processing computer. The central processing computer can generate an automated report on the laboratory results and supply the results to the health care provider. Additionally, if no laboratory test data for the patient is entered into the central processing computer in accordance with the laboratory test schedule for the patient, the central processing computer will notify a call center which will call the patient, laboratory or health care provider informing them of the overdue laboratory test data. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171695 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTIVE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENT CARE - A system for interactive patient care management that includes a database of patient records and a second database of skilled personnel tasks that can be related so as enable a display of relevant patient care tasks and relevant patient record data. The result is the enablement of patient care delivery that takes advantage of the presentation of approved patient protocols and facility resource information in a hierarchical display form to reduce caregiver errors. | 2009-07-02 |
20090171696 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PATIENT PORTAL WITH CLINICAL DECISION INTELLIGENCE - A computer-implemented method for transmitting a scheduled appointment to a patient. Input is received, wherein the input comprises at least one of current data provided by the patient, prior data provided by the patient prior to the current data, and known medical history of the patient. A possible condition of the patient is diagnosed based on the input. The appointment is scheduled for the patient based on the diagnosis. The scheduled appointment is transmitted to the patient. | 2009-07-02 |