40th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 72 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090248352 | MOTION SENSING PROGRAM AND ELECTRONIC COMPASS WITH MOTION SENSING PROGRAM - A motion sensing program for executing a motion sensing based on at least a biaxial output of a magnetic sensor, which includes the steps of determining with respect to execution of the motion sensing based on the output of the specific biaxial output of the magnetic sensor upon its rotation in a predetermined direction, and identifying the rotating direction when execution of the motion sensing is determined. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248353 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING MOVEMENT OF AN IMAGE MEASURING MACHINE - A method for simulating movement of an image measuring machine is provided. The method includes obtaining vertex coordinates of the image measuring machine and features that need to be generated, creating an initial model of the image measuring machine. The features comprise parts of a top cover, a lens, a workplace, and a holder of the image measuring machine. The method further includes obtaining a displacement of each part of the image measuring machine, calculating new vertex coordinates of each part, generating the features of the top cover, the lens, the workplace, and the holder according to the new vertex coordinates, so as to create a new model of the image measuring machine, and displaying the new model of the image measuring machine on a display device. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248354 | DEVICE FOR DETERMINING DIMENSION OF A WORKPIECE - A device for determining dimensions of a workpiece includes a locating apparatus, a determining apparatus and a main processor. The locating apparatus includes a locating board supporting workpieces and defining at least one detecting aperture therethrough. The determining apparatus includes a detecting module, the detecting module includes at least one laser detector, each laser detector includes a laser emitter and a laser receiver respectively mounted on two opposite sides of the locating board. The main processor is connected to the locating apparatus and the determining apparatus, the laser emitter emits laser beams traveling through the detecting aperture and received by the laser receiver, and the main processor determines the dimension of the workpiece according to the dimension of parts on the laser receiver shielded by the workpiece. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248355 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MEASURING AT LEAST ONE HOLE IN AT LEAST ONE SURFACE OF A COMPONENT - A method for measuring at least one hole in at least one first surface of a component, in particular for turbomachines, in which at least the following steps are executed: a) provision, using a data processing system, of a target geometry of the component at least for the area of the hole, the target geometry characterizing at least one first target surface of the component in the area of the hole, b) determination, using a measurement system, of an actual geometry of the component at least for the area of the hole, the actual geometry characterizing at least one first actual surface of the component in the area of the hole, and c) determination, using the data processing system, of an actual geometry of the hole on the basis of a deviation between the target geometry and the actual geometry of the component. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248356 | METHOD AND MEASURING SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZING A DEVIATION OF AN ACTUAL DIMENSION OF A COMPONENT FROM A NOMINAL DIMENSION OF THE COMPONENT - A method and a measuring system for characterizing a deviation of an actual dimension of a component from a nominal dimension of the component, is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes a) determining at least one measured value characterizing the actual dimension at a position of the component by a measuring device; b) making a nominal value available with which the nominal dimension is characterized as a function of the position of the measured value; c) determining a spatial distance between the measured value and the nominal value; d) making a limiting criterion available with which a permissible deviation from the nominal value is characterized as a function of the position of the measured value; and e) determining a tolerance utilization value characterizing the deviation for the measured value as a function of the spatial distance and of the limiting criterion. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248357 | TIME ACQUISITION APPARATUS AND RADIO WAVE CLOCK - A received waveform memory | 2009-10-01 |
20090248358 | Real Time Operation Specification Calculation System That Provides Specifications To A User Interface - A system comprises a functional apparatus having a plurality of performance capabilities as per a specification, a user output interface, a processor for calculating the specification for achieving a desired performance of the functional apparatus; and an output controller for providing the calculated specification on the user output interface. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248359 | REAL-TIME DOSER EFFICIENCY MONITORING - A real time doser efficiency monitoring method is described that measures the average instant pressure difference within one duty cycle of the doser injector. The disclosed method results in improved doser efficiency monitoring. The disclosed method can be implemented in a number of areas. For example, in a diesel truck application, the doser efficiency can be monitored accurately, for example within 5% error, all the time, no matter whether the truck is in a transient or steady state. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248360 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MACHINE CONDITION MONITORING AND REPORTING - A method for reporting machine condition, includes monitoring at least one machine function from a plurality of points on the machine and obtaining performance data; transmitting the data to a report generator; operating the report generator to compile the data into at least one report indicative of at least one machine condition and performance factor from the plurality of points; and displaying the at least one report indicative of the at least one function from the plurality of points. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248361 | REAL TIME DOSER EFFICIENCY MONITORING - A real time, average pressure difference method for monitoring doser efficiency is described that determines the difference between the average pressure when the doser is not injecting and the average pressure when the doser is injecting at a predetermined commanded injection rate. The average pressure difference method results in improved doser efficiency monitoring. The method can be implemented in a number of areas. For example, in a diesel truck application, the doser efficiency can be monitored accurately in real time. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248362 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS TO ENSURE PERFORMANCE OF MANDATED SAFETY AND MAINTENANCE INSPECTIONS - A handheld, portable device is used to store data that indicates an operator was sufficiently close to each of a plurality of components during a safety inspection to actually inspect the components. The portable device includes a sensor that detects tokens, such as radio frequency identification tags, which are affixed adjacent to the components. Messages appearing on a display of the portable device prompt the operator to proceed to each checkpoint, determine a state of the component disposed there, and if the component is not operating properly, indicate a plurality of predefined conditions from which the operator can choose to identify the observed condition of the component. The state and condition of each component entered during the safety inspection are stored as data that are subsequently transferred to a remote data storage site over a wire or wireless link. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248363 | METHOD OF MULTI-LEVEL FAULT ISOLATION DESIGN - A fault isolation method and system includes tailored fault isolators for each grouping of similar data to differentiate between one or several potential faults within any group. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248364 | Ultrasound system - An ultrasound system for providing megasonics and ultrasonics to a liquid at different frequencies and/or sweeping frequencies with associated generators, transducers, operations between resonance and anti-resonance, non-resistive output with phase shift, multiple/sweep/single frequency modes, individually controlled sections, gate drive power control, variable inductive compensation for temperature changes, parallel inductor matching, stacked ceramics and non-volatile memory storage of fault, error and failure history. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248365 | REAL TIME SYSTEM FOR MONITORING CONTAINERS FROM A QUAYSIDE CRANE - In a real time container monitoring system, a data collection computer is in communication with the control computer of a container crane. The electrical signal from each of the radiation detection units carried by the spreader of the container crane is applied to the data collection computer to store as digital data information commensurate with the electrical signal from each of the radiation detection units in response to the control signal being indicative that the container has been engaged by the twist locks. A data analysis computer is in network communication with the data collection computer to download the digital data from the data collection computer and analyze the digital data to determine whether the threat material is present in the container. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248366 | WIRELESS SENSOR ASSEMBLY FOR AN AIRCRAFT COMPONENT - An aircraft component assembly has an aircraft component for an aircraft. A sensor is configured to monitor the aircraft component. A local wireless transmitter is provided for communication with a remote receiver. In addition, a local wireless receiver is provided for communication with the remote transmitter. A processor is in communication with the sensor. The processor is configured to control the sensor, the local wireless transmitter and the local wireless receiver. A power source is configured to generate energy proximate the installed aircraft component. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248367 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING RAMAN SIGNALS - A method of measuring Raman signals comprises: an analyte placing step of placing an analyte on a detection surface of a microstructure plate which generates an enhanced electric field when irradiated with excitation light; an irradiating step of irradiating the detection surface with the excitation light so that the enhanced electric field is generated around the detection surface and light is emitted from the analyte and the detection surface to be enhanced by the generated enhanced electric field; a Raman signal obtaining step of detecting the enhanced light to obtain a Raman signal emitted from the analyte and a background signal for use as a reference, the Raman signal and the background signal having respective intensities; and a normalizing step of normalizing the Raman signal from the analyte by dividing the intensity of the Raman signal from the analyte by the intensity of the background signal obtained as the reference. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248368 | Systems and methods of constructing Radial Basis Function (RBF) based meta-models used in engineering design optimization - Systems and methods of consuming radial basis function (RBF) based meta-models are described. In one aspect, a product is to be designed and optimized with a set of design variables, objectives and constraints. A number of design of experimentals (DOE) points are identified. Each of the DOE points represents a particular or unique combination of design variables. Computer-aided engineering (CAE) analysis/analyses is/are then performed for each of the DOE points. A RBF based meta-model is created to approximate the CAE analysis results at all of the DOE points. A crowding distance is calculated for each DOE point. The DOE points are sorted accordingly in a predetermined criterion such as descending order, from which a predefined number of the DOE points are chosen as RBF neuron centers. RBF parameters such as function type, width and weight factor are adjusted so that the meta-model can substantially match the CAE analysis results. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248369 | Automatic Coloring Of Rigid Groups Of Parts - One embodiment of the invention sets forth a CAD application configured to receive an instruction to process a first rigid body in a CAD model and to create a graphic style table that includes a listing of available graphic styles to apply to the rigid bodies in the CAD model. The CAD application is further configured to analyze assembly data associated with the first rigid body to determine if the first rigid body includes any user-defined characteristics. The CAD application is configured to select a first graphic style and apply the first graphic style to each of the geometric bodies included in the first rigid body. Advantageously, embodiments of the invention provide users with a better visual understanding of each rigid body in an assembly and the dynamic relationships between those rigid bodies. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248370 | Method and Apparatus for Applying "Quasi-Monte Carlo" Methods to Complex Electronic Devices Circuits and Systems - The invention discloses a “Quasi-Monte Carlo” method originally intended for computational finance applications and applies said method to statistical circuit analysis. In doing so, it provides a means to efficiently and effectively detect and/or predict relatively rare failures or events to a wide range of industrial circuits and systems. The approach to the invention involves the representation of circuit metrics as a large multi-dimensional integral. This invention estimates such statistical circuit metric integrals by sampling the statistical variable space using a so-called “low-discrepancy sequence.” This is similar to the Monte Carlo method, the main difference being the method of sampling the variable space. Compared with standard Monte Carlo simulation, this technique, “Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods,” gives similarly reliable estimates of the result, but requiring many fewer samples of the circuit or system being evaluated. In practice, speedups of 2× to 50× across a range of practical examples are observed. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248371 | FAST CONTROL LAW OPTIMIZATION - A method to optimize control laws includes: computing at least one matrice from an extended linear model and optimizing a control law using linear models computed with the at least one matrice | 2009-10-01 |
20090248372 | METHOD OF MODELING COMPOSITE EMOTION IN MULTIDIMENSIONAL VECTOR SPACE - A method of modeling a composite emotion in a multidimensional vector space, is provided with creating an emotion vector space by defining dimensions of a vector space in consideration of stimuli affecting emotions, and dividing a defined multidimensional vector space into emotion regions. Further, the method of modeling a composite emotion in a multidimensional vector space includes creating a composite emotion by calculating a fuzzy partitioned matrix between a current state vector and respective representative vectors in the created emotion vector space. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248373 | CONSTRUCTING A REDUCED ORDER MODEL OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC RESPONSE IN A SUBTERRANEAN STRUCTURE - To construct a reduced order model of a subterranean structure, a model reduction algorithm is applied to produce the reduced order model that is an approximation of a true model of the subterranean structure. The model reduction algorithm uses interpolating frequencies that are purely imaginary to enhance computational efficiency of the algorithm. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248374 | Modeling of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs Containing Subsurface Features - A method for modeling a reservoir response in a subsurface system is provided. The subsurface system has at least one subsurface feature. Preferably, the subsurface system comprises a hydrocarbon reservoir. The method includes defining physical boundaries for the subsurface system, and locating the at least one subsurface feature within the physical boundaries. The method also includes creating a finite element mesh within the physical boundaries. The finite element mesh may have elements that cross the at least one subsurface feature such that the subsurface feature intersects elements in the mesh. A computer-based numerical simulation is then performed wherein the effects of the subsurface feature are recognized in the response. The reservoir response may be, for example, pore pressure or displacement at a given location within the physical boundaries. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248375 | Centralised stochastic simulation process - A method of simulating a local system which is in interaction with other local systems within a global environment. The method includes generating, at a central location, a collection of global sets of values, each representing a possible future global state of the global environment at a future time, and the collection representing a variety of possible future global states. The method also includes transmitting the collection of global sets of values to the local systems. The local systems receive some of the collection, select a local set of parameters, and perform calculations on that data. The collection of values is used as a predictive simulation of the local system. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248376 | Complex Network Mapping - Techniques, system designs, computer program products for analyzing activities of networked systems and providing a functional mapping of a complex network. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248377 | Simulation Apparatus, Simulation Program, and Recording Medium Recorded with Simulation Program - A simulation apparatus includes: a design data acquiring unit that acquires lens design data; a lens design unit that designs a lens on the basis of the lens design data; an image data acquiring unit that acquires image data corresponding to a lens user's visual sense; a visual motion characteristic data acquiring unit that acquires visual motion characteristic data regarding the motion of head and eyes when the lens user moves the eyes to various observation objects; an image processing unit that creates processing image data which is the image data seen through the design lens designed by the lens design unit; an image moving unit that moves the processing image data created by the image processing unit; an image data control unit that controls a movement amount of the processing image data, which is moved by the image moving unit, on the basis of the visual motion characteristic data; and a display unit that displays the processing image data. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248378 | Method For Geologic Modeling Through Hydrodynamics-Based Gridding (Hydro-Grids) - A method of hydrodynamics-based gridding (Hydro-Grids) for creating geologic models of subsurface volumes, such as reservoirs, is disclosed. Geologic data is obtained. Vertical grid surfaces are created. Lateral grid surfaces are created to correspond to surfaces of constant geologic time during the deposition of sediments in the subsurface volume. Geologic properties within each cell are represented as values within each cell created by the vertical and lateral surfaces. Reservoir performance is simulated using the represented geologic properties of the subsurface volume. A hydrocarbon reservoir is developed based on the simulated reservoir performance. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248379 | Computationally designed inhibitors of amyloidosis - Embodiments of the present invention include methods and systems for designing inhibitors of amyloidosis in humans, domesticated animals, and wild animals as well as inhibitors of amyloidosis designed by the methods and systems. Methods and systems for designing inhibitors of amyloidosis are largely computational, in nature, and are directed to designing various types of polymers, small-molecule organic compounds, organometallic compounds, or non-chemical physical processes that can target the extended-α-strand and α-sheet regions of amyloidogenic protein and polypeptide intermediates in order to prevent aggregation of those intermediates into protofibrils and fibrils that, in turn, recruit additional native-conformation proteins and polypeptides into amyloidogenic intermediates and that additionally aggregate to form higher-order structures, such as plaques observed in the brains of patients suffering from the various spongiform encephalopathies. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248380 | DISEASE SIMULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for predicting the effect of patient self-care actions on a disease control parameter. A future disease control parameter value X(t | 2009-10-01 |
20090248381 | Predicate Checking for Distributed Systems - Predicate checking in conjunction with distributed systems can enable an investigating user to check predicates in the context of instance states and/or distributed states of a distributed system. In an example embodiment, a method entails accepting distributed system simulation data and performing a simulation of a distributed system using the distributed system simulation data to create distributed system simulated states. At least a portion of the distributed system simulated states are exposed. The exposed portion of the distributed system simulated states is retrieved and stored as exposed states for the distributed system. The exposed states for the distributed system are compared to predicate states for the distributed system. If an inconsistency is detected between the exposed states and the predicate states based on the comparing at least one alarm is issued. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248382 | Design support system and design support method - A design support system for supporting a design of an electronic device having an input device through which an input is made by utilizing elasticity is provided. The system includes a simulation unit for executing structural simulation of an input device based on structural data of the electronic device including the input device. The support system can include a re-design determining unit for notifying a need for re-design to a designer based on reactive characteristic data of the input device output from the simulation unit. The support system can include an examining unit for examining the reactive characteristic data, and a selecting unit for selecting another input device to replace the current input device. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248383 | BITCELL SIMULATION DEVICE AND METHODS - A method of simulating operation of a bitcell includes determining sensitivities of a bitcell model to different component characteristics and device parameters, such as device temperature, operating voltage, and process characteristics. The determined sensitivities are normalized, so that each normalized value represents the relative sensitivity of the bitcell, under the simulated device parameters, to the component characteristic associated with the value. The normalized sensitivity values can be scaled based on a tolerance factor, and the adjusted sensitivities used to model the behavior of each component of the bitcell in subsequent simulations. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248384 | PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEM IN AN AUTOMATION INSTALLATION - A process control system is disclosed in an automation installation having field devices which are networked by means of a system bus and which can be operated using associated system control units which are connected by means of a terminal bus to at least one central engineering computer for configuring the system and to a central control station for monitoring and operating the system. For the purpose of linking at least one extraneous control unit to the terminal bus an interposed control computer is proposed which, under software control, simulates a system-compliant I/O unit on the terminal bus, which I/O unit is bi-directionally connected to an OPC client residing on the extraneous control unit. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248385 | SIMPLIFIED DATA SIGNAL SUPPORT FOR DIAGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT LANGUAGES - In a graphical modeling environment, bus signals, which group a plurality of signals together for simplifying a model, include a partial or complete physical definition. Models are simplified by passing bus signals through graphical objects representing functional entities, without degrouping the bus signal. During simulation of the model, code can be generated for the bus signal having a complete definition independent of other components of the graphical model. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248386 | DESCRIPTION PROCESSING DEVICE, DESCRIPTION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A description processing device has: a receiving unit which receives a behavior level description; a label-name generating unit which generates a label name; a label disposing unit which disposes a top label statement; an extracting unit which extracts an extracted label statement, a variable-name generating unit which generates a variable name; a replacing unit which replaces a statement immediately below the top label statement to the extracted label statement by a column of a conditional executable statement and an operation/assignment statement and replaces a jump statement for jumping the extracted label statement by a column of an operation/assignment statement and a jump statement for jumping to the top label; a control unit which repeats the extraction, the generation of a new variable name, and the replacement; an inserting unit which inserts an operation/assignment statement; and an output unit which outputs the behavior level description. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248387 | Method and apparatus for sampling and predicting rare events in complex electronic devices, circuits and systems - The invention provides methods for enhancing circuit reliability under statistical process variation. For highly replicated circuits such as SRAMs and flip flops, a rare statistical event for one circuit may induce a not-so-rare system failure. To combat this, the invention discloses the method called “Statistical Blockade,” a Monte Carlo-type technique that allows the efficient filtering—blocking—of unwanted samples insufficiently rare in the tail distributions of interest, with speedups of 10-100×. Additionally, the core Statistical Blockade technique is further extended in a “recursive” or “bootstrap” formulation to create even greater efficiencies under a much wider variety of circuit performance metrics, in particular two-sided metrics such a Data Retention Voltage (DRV) which prior Monte Carlo techniques could not handle. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248388 | SELECTIVELY REDUCING THE NUMBER OF CELL EVALUATIONS IN A HARDWARE SIMULATION - An electrical circuit comprising a plurality of cells can be simulated to produce simulation results by sorting cells between active status cells and inactive status cells and reducing the processing of simulation results from inactive cells to thereby save simulation time. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248389 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR EMULATING OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present invention relates to an electronic device for emulating other electronic devices comprising an interface ( | 2009-10-01 |
20090248390 | TRACE DEBUGGING IN A HARDWARE EMULATION ENVIRONMENT - A system and method in an emulation environment is disclosed that can trace the emulation environment during emulation. In one embodiment, when emulation procedures are called during emulation, a trace procedure can also be called in order to log information associated with the emulation procedure. In another embodiment, the information to be logged can include an identification of the emulation procedure and a time stamp of when the emulation procedure was called. In yet another embodiment, a trace script can be executed in order to collect user-specified variables and/or other system data that can be used to trace and debug the emulation environment. In still another embodiment, memory can be available on an emulator, such as on emulator boards within the emulation environment. The memory can store trace information associated with the emulator boards that can be downloaded to a server, such as, during emulation or after a power failure to obtain the state of the emulator boards. During emulation, an emulator board can continuously update state information in the memory of its respective board. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248391 | Automated Many-Sorted Theorem prover - The present invention is a method for automatic proving using many-sorted first-order logic. Embodiments of the invention apply a modified method of resolution of first-ordered logic. The method of resolution further comprises: processing at least one first sentence (P | 2009-10-01 |
20090248392 | FACILITATING LANGUAGE LEARNING DURING INSTANT MESSAGING SESSIONS THROUGH SIMULTANEOUS PRESENTATION OF AN ORIGINAL INSTANT MESSAGE AND A TRANSLATED VERSION - An instant messaging (IM) interface, system, and method, where the interface includes a dialog region and a communication entry region. The interface can optionally be an interface of a social networking Web site or application. The dialog region is configured to present a running IM dialog that includes content exchanged in real-time between a set of IM communicators. The dialog region is configured such that at least a portion of the content from IM communicators presented in the dialog region is presented in an original language in which it was entered and is also presented in a translated form in a different language specified by settings specific to the user of the IM interface. The communication entry region is configured to permit content to be input that is to be conveyed to each of the IM communicators participating in an IM communication session involving the user of the IM interface. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248393 | USER TRANSLATED SITES AFTER PROVISIONING - The display language of a site may be changed to another alternate language by users of a site at any time. For example, a first user may access the same site in its default language (i.e. English) and a second user may access the site using their preferred language (i.e. French) even though the default language of the site is different from their preferred language. The language of the site may be changed from one language to another language at any time a user is accessing the site. Application content changes are identified by the site helping to ensure consistency between the default language and the alternate languages. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248394 | MACHINE TRANSLATION IN CONTINUOUS SPACE - A system and method for training a statistical machine translation model and decoding or translating using the same is disclosed. A source word versus target word co-occurrence matrix is created to define word pairs. Dimensionality of the matrix may be reduced. Word pairs are mapped as vectors into continuous space where the word pairs are vectors of continuous real numbers and not discrete entities in the continuous space. A machine translation parametric model is trained using an acoustic model training method based on word pair vectors in the continuous space. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248395 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BUILDING A NATIVE LANGUAGE PHONEME LEXICON HAVING NATIVE PRONUNCIATIONS OF NON-NATIE WORDS DERIVED FROM NON-NATIVE PRONUNCIATONS - Systems and methods are provided for automatically building a native phonetic lexicon for a speech-based application trained to process a native (base) language, wherein the native phonetic lexicon includes native phonetic transcriptions (base forms) for non-native (foreign) words which are automatically derived from non-native phonetic transcriptions of the non-native words. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248396 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATING AN INTERNATIONALIZATION TEST IN A MULTILINGUAL WEB APPLICATION - A method and system for automatically executing an internationalization test of web applications by recording and utilizing HTTP transmitted and received data in the internationalization test in a multilingual web application. By processing and storing recorded HTTP transmitted and received data in a base language to prepare an HTTP request corresponding to a user specified test object language to a web server, a test is automatically executed while emulating user operations on the web browser in the test object language. This generates corresponding HTTP transmitted and received data in the test object language. By comparing and analyzing the HTTP transmitted and received data in the base language and test object language, a required verification for an internationalization test is automatically conducted and the verification results are stored or recorded for later use in subsequent operations. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248397 | Service Initiation Techniques - Service initiation techniques are described. In at least one implementation, a computing device receives a selection of text that is displayed in a user interface by an application. Selection is detected of one of a plurality of services that are displayed in the user interface. Responsive to the detection, the selection of text is provided to the selected service without further user intervention. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248398 | Vocal Alert Unit Having Automatic Situation Awareness - A system and method for instructing dynamic nodes in a dynamically changing mobile network how to maneuver. A receiver receives situation data indicative of a respective situation of each dynamic node in space and a situation unit coupled to the receiver determines the respective situation of each dynamic node. An analysis unit coupled to the situation unit analyzes the respective situation of each dynamic node in combination with specified criteria to generate respective situation awareness date for each dynamic node. A dynamic selector unit coupled to the analysis unit determines from the respective situation awareness data appropriate action to be performed by each node; and a communication unit coupled to the dynamic selector unit conveys to the respective dynamic node command data to permit rendering of a personalized command for informing the respective node of appropriate action to be carried out thereby. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248399 | System and method for analyzing text using emotional intelligence factors - A system, method and computer program products for facilitating the automated reading, disambiguation, analysis, indexing, retrieval and scoring of text by utilizing emotional intelligence-based factors. Text quality is scored based upon character development, rhythm, per-page quality, gaps, and climaxes, among other factors. The scores may be standardized by subtracting the population mean from an individual raw score and then dividing the difference by the population standard deviation. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248400 | Rule Based Apparatus for Modifying Word Annotations - A rule based apparatus and method for modifying word annotations in an annotated text base is described. The apparatus includes an index creator component for creating an index of word annotations. An annotations modifying component for modifying word annotations, and a retriggering component, responsive to said annotations modifying component, for retriggering a rules engine to modify all occurrences of a matching word annotation in said annotated text base and updating the index of word annotations with the modified occurrences of a matching word annotation in said annotated text base. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248401 | System and Methods For Using Short-Hand Interpretation Dictionaries In Collaboration Environments - A method for creating and using a short-hand interpretation dictionary in a collaboration environment includes creating or editing a document in a collaboration environment, said document comprising at least one short-hand notation; and replacing the at least one short-hand notation with an interpretation from at least one short-hand dictionary. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248402 | VOICE MIXING METHOD AND MULTIPOINT CONFERENCE SERVER AND PROGRAM USING THE SAME METHOD - The voice mixing method includes a first step for selecting voice information from a plurality of voice information, a second step for adding up all the selected voice information, a third step for obtaining a voice signal totaling the voice signals other than one voice signal, of the selected voice signals, a fourth step for encoding the voice information obtained in the second step, a fifth step for encoding the voice signal obtained in the third step, and a sixth step for copying the encoded information obtained in the fourth step into the encoded information in the fifth step. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248403 | DEREVERBERATION APPARATUS, DEREVERBERATION METHOD, DEREVERBERATION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A model application unit calculates linear prediction coefficients of a multi-step linear prediction model by using discrete acoustic signals. Then, a late reverberation predictor calculates linear prediction values obtained by substituting the linear prediction coefficients and the discrete acoustic signals into linear prediction term of the multi-step linear prediction model, as predicted late reverberations. Next, a frequency domain converter converts the discrete acoustic signals to discrete acoustic signals in the frequency domain and also converts the predicted late reverberations to predicted late reverberations in the frequency domain. A late reverberation eliminator calculates relative values between the amplitude spectra of the discrete acoustic signals expressed in the frequency domain and the amplitude spectra of the predicted late reverberations expressed in the frequency domain, and provides the relative values as predicted amplitude spectra of a dereverberation signal. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248404 | LOST FRAME COMPENSATING METHOD, AUDIO ENCODING APPARATUS AND AUDIO DECODING APPARATUS - A frame loss compensating method wherein even when audio codec, which utilizes past sound source information of adaptive codebook or the like, is used as a main layer, the degradation in quality of the decoded audio of a lost frame and following frames is small. In this method, it is assumed that a pitch period ‘T’ and a pitch gain ‘g’ have been obtained as encoded information of a current frame. The sound source information of a preceding frame is expressed by use of a single pulse, and a pulse position ‘b’ and a pulse amplitude ‘a’ are used as encoded information for compensation. Then, an encoded sound source signal is a vector that builds up a pulse having an amplitude ‘a’ at a position that precedes by ‘b’ from the front position of the current frame. This vector is used as the content of the adaptive codebook, so that a vector, which builds up a pulse having an amplitude (g×a) at the position of the current frame (T−b), can be used as an adaptive codebook vector at the current frame. This vector is used to synthesize a decoded signal. The pulse position ‘b’ and pulse amplitude ‘a’ are then decided such that a difference between the synthesized signal and an input signal becomes minimum. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248405 | PACKET LOSS CONCEALMENT FOR A SUB-BAND PREDICTIVE CODER BASED ON EXTRAPOLATION OF EXCITATION WAVEFORM - Systems and methods are described for performing packet loss concealment using an extrapolation of an excitation waveform in a sub-band predictive speech coder, such as an ITU-T Recommendation G.722 wideband speech coder. The systems and methods are useful for concealing the quality-degrading effects of packet loss in a sub-band predictive coder and address some sub-band architectural issues when applying excitation extrapolation techniques to such sub-band predictive coders. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248406 | CODING METHOD, ENCODER, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A coding method is adapted to select different codebook search algorithms according to varied types of input signals. An encoder using the coding method is also provided. As appropriate search algorithms may be selected according to all possible structural features of the input signals, certain types of signals for which satisfactory results may be obtained through simple computations may match with search algorithms suitable for these signal types and having low computation complexities, so as to achieve better performance with fewer system resources. Meanwhile, other types of signals that need complicated computations may be processed by more sophisticated search algorithms, thereby ensuring the coding quality. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248407 | SOUND ENCODER, SOUND DECODER, AND THEIR METHODS - A sound encoder enabling prevention of deterioration of the sound quality of a reproduced signal even if the harmonic structure is broken in a part of the sound signal. The filter state position determining section ( | 2009-10-01 |
20090248408 | VOICE EMITTING AND COLLECTING DEVICE - A voice emitting and collecting device that is capable of picking up/outputting a voice emitted from a talker at a high S/N ratio by eliminating the influence of a diffracting voice despite a simple configuration is provided. A signal differencing circuit | 2009-10-01 |
20090248409 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A communication apparatus for adjusting a received voice signal in accordance with an ambient noise, the communication apparatus includes: a microphone for receiving an ambient noise and input voice and outputting a voice input signal corresponding to a level of the input voice and the ambient noise; a receiver for receiving the voice signal; a processer for extracting a voice component originated by a sender and an ambient noise component originated by the ambient noise, determining the ratio between the voice component and the ambient noise component, and adjusting the amplitude of the received voice signal in accordance with the ratio; and a speaker for outputting a reception voice corresponding to the adjusted reception voice signal. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248410 | LIGHTED TEXT DISPLAY FOR MOTOR VEHICLES - A system and method are disclosed enabling drivers of a vehicle to enter, edit and post messages on a graphical display attached to the interior or exterior of a vehicle. Voice recognition software allows the driver of the vehicle to input, and the system to display, a message without the need for diverting his or her attention from the road or otherwise manually interacting with the system. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248411 | Front-End Noise Reduction for Speech Recognition Engine - VoIP phones according to the present invention include a microphone, which may be internal or external, and allow the user to communicate unobtrusively, check voice mail and conduct other activities in an environment which can be noisy in general and extremely noisy sometimes. Speech recognition functionally may also be used to generate and send touch tone or DTMF tones such as in response to call trees or voice recognition functionality used by airlines, credit card companies, voice mail systems, and other applications. A system and method of audio processing which provides enhanced speech recognition is provided. Audio input is received at the microphone which is processed by adaptive noise cancellation to generate an enhanced audio signal. The operation of the speech recognition engine and the adaptive noise canceller may be advantageously controlled based on Voice Activity Detection (VAD). | 2009-10-01 |
20090248412 | Association apparatus, association method, and recording medium - There is provided an association apparatus for associating a plurality of voice data converted from voices produced by speakers, comprising: a word/phrase similarity deriving section which derives an appearance ratio of a common word/phrase that is common among the voice data based on a result of speech recognition processing on the voice data, as a word/phrase similarity; a speaker similarity deriving section which derives a result of comparing characteristics of voices extracted from the voice data, as a speaker similarity; an association degree deriving section which derives a possibility of the plurality of the voice data, which are associated with one another, based on the derived word/phrase similarity and the speaker similarity, as an association degree; and an association section which associates the plurality of the voice data with one another, the derived association degree of which is equal to or more than a preset threshold. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248413 | DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR REMOTE CONTROL - Remote controllers and systems thereof are disclosed. The remote controller remotely operates a receiving host, in which the receiving host provides voice input and voice recognition functions. The remote controller comprises a first input unit and a second input unit for generating a voice input request and a voice recognition request. The generated voice input and voice recognition requests are then sent to the receiving host, thereby forcing the receiving host to perform the voice input and voice recognition functions. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248414 | Personal name assignment apparatus and method - An apparatus includes unit acquiring speaker information including a first duration of a speaker and a name specified by name specifying information used to indicate a name, and acquiring the first duration as a first period, unit acquiring a second period including an utterance, unit extracting, if the second period is included in the first period, a first amount that characterizes a speaker, and associating the first amount with a name corresponding to the first period, unit creating speaker models from amounts, unit acquiring, from the content information, a third duration as an duration to be recognized, unit extracting, if the second period is included in the third period, a second amount that characterizes a speaker, unit calculating degrees of similarity between amounts of speaker models and the second amount, and unit recognizing a name of a speaker model which satisfies a set condition of the degrees as a performer. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248415 | USE OF METADATA TO POST PROCESS SPEECH RECOGNITION OUTPUT - A method of utilizing metadata stored in a computer-readable medium to assist in the conversion of an audio stream to a text stream. The method compares personally identifiable data, such as a user's electronic address book and/or Caller/Recipient ID information (in the case of processing voice mail to text), to the n-best results generated by a speech recognition engine for each word that is output by the engine. A goal of this comparison is to correct a possible misrecognition of a spoken proper noun such as a name or company with its proper textual form or a spoken phone number to correctly formatted phone number with Arabic numerals to improve the overall accuracy of the output of the voice recognition system. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248416 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING USING WORD CONFUSION NETWORKS - Word lattices that are generated by an automatic speech recognition system are used to generate a modified word lattice that is usable by a spoken language understanding module. In one embodiment, the spoken language understanding module determines a set of salient phrases by calculating an intersection of the modified word lattice, which is optionally preprocessed, and a finite state machine that includes a plurality of salient grammar fragments. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248417 | SPEECH PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A method to generate a pitch contour for speech synthesis is proposed. The method is based on finding the pitch contour that maximizes a total likelihood function created by the combination of all the statistical models of the pitch contour segments of an utterance, at one or multiple linguistic levels. These statistical models are trained from a database of spoken speech, by means of a decision tree that for each linguistic level clusters the parametric representation of the pitch segments extracted from the spoken speech data with some features obtained from the text associated with that speech data. The parameterization of the pitch segments is performed in such a way, the likelihood function of any linguistic level can be expressed in terms of the parameters of one of the levels, thus allowing the maximization to be calculated with respect to the parameters of that level. Moreover, the parameterization of that main level has to be invertible so that the final pitch contour is obtained from the parameters of that level by means of an inverse transformation. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248418 | Speech Recognition and Statistics-Based Call Route Determination - A method of call route determination based upon a statistics-based business intelligence engine (BEI) queried by an IVR subsystem with caller parameters descriptive of the caller to determine a next best route for a received call, when the default or best route for the call exceeds a threshold time. A call is received at a contact center from a caller. Content and identity information of the caller is extracted from the received call. IVR determines a first estimated wait time associated with a default route of the received call. If the first estimated wait time is greater than a threshold time, and thus unacceptable, then the IVR queries a business intelligence engine (BIE) with caller parameters descriptive of the caller to determine a next best route of the received call, with the next best route having a second estimated wait time less than the first estimated wait time of the default route. The caller is then routed to the next best route. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248419 | SPEECH RECOGNITION ADJUSTMENT BASED ON MANUAL INTERACTION - A method of operating a speech recognition system on a vehicle having a visual display and manually-operated input device that includes initiating a speech recognition system, controlling menu selections on a visual display using a manually-operated input device, receiving a notification from the manually-operated input device indicating that the user is manipulating the device in conjunction with the menu selections on the visual display, and adjusting operation of the speech recognition system based on input received by the manually-operated input device. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248420 | MULTI-PARTICIPANT, MIXED-INITIATIVE VOICE INTERACTION SYSTEM - A voice interaction system includes one or more independent, concurrent state charts, which are used to model the behavior of each of a plurality of participants. The model simplifies the notation and provide a clear description of the interactions between multiple participants. These state charts capture the flow of voice prompts, the impact of externally initiated events and voice commands, and capture the progress of audio through each prompt. This system enables a method to prioritize conflicting and concurrent events leveraging historical patterns and the progress of in-progress prompts. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248421 | Arrangement for Creating and Using a Phonetic-Alphabet Representation of a Name of a Party to a Call - A first party creates and edits a phonetic-alphabet representation of its name. The phonetic representation is conveyed to a second party as “caller-identification” information by messages that set up a call between the parties. The phonetic representation of the name is displayed to the second party, converted to speech, and/or converted to an alphabet of a language of the second party and then displayed to the second party. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248422 | INTRA-LANGUAGE STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION - Training data may be provided, the training data including pairs of source phrases and target phrases. The pairs may be used to train an intra-language statistical machine translation model, where the intra-language statistical machine translation model, when given an input phrase of text in the human language, can compute probabilities of semantic equivalence of the input phrase to possible translations of the input phrase in the human language. The statistical machine translation model may be used to translate between queries and listings. The queries may be text strings in the human language submitted to a search engine. The listing strings may be text strings of formal names of real world entities that are to be searched by the search engine to find matches for the query strings. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248423 | Apparatus and Method for Encoding/Decoding Signal - An encoding method and apparatus and a decoding method and apparatus are provided. The decoding method includes extracting a three-dimensional (3D) down-mix signal from an input bitstream, generating a down-mix signal with 3D effects removed therefrom by performing a 3D rendering operation on the extracted 3D down-mix signal, and generating a 3D down-mix signal with 3D effects by performing a 3D rendering operation on the generated down-mix signal. Accordingly, it is possible to efficiently encode multi-channel signals with 3D effects and to adaptively restore and reproduce audio signals with optimum sound quality according to the characteristics of an audio reproduction environment. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248424 | LOSSLESS AND NEAR LOSSLESS SCALABLE AUDIO CODEC - A scalable audio codec encodes an input audio signal as a base layer at a high compression ratio and one or more residual signals as an enhancement layer of a compressed bitstream, which permits a lossless or near lossless reconstruction of the input audio signal at decoding. The scalable audio codec uses perceptual transform coding to encode the base layer. The residual is calculated in a transform domain, which includes a frequency and possibly also multi-channel transform of the input audio. For lossless reconstruction, the frequency and multi-channel transforms are reversible. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248425 | AUDIO WAVE FIELD ENCODING - An encoder/decoder for multi-channel audio data, and in particular for audio reproduction through wave field synthesis. The encoder comprises a two-dimensional filter-bank to the multi-channel signal, in which the channel index is treated as an independent variable as well as time, and and the resulting spectral coefficient are quantized according to a two-dimensional psychoacoustic model, including masking effect in the spatial frequency as well as in the temporal frequency. The coded spectral data are organized in a bitstream together with side information containing scale factors and Huffman codebook identifiers. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248426 | MEETING MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE THAT DISTINGUISHES STAFF FROM OTHER MEETING INVITEES AND PERMITS STAFF BASED PROGRAMMATIC ACTIONS - A staff's element of a user interface for editing or adding meeting software objects can be identified. The staff's element can be one of a many different interface elements. Other ones of the interface elements can accept input that define participants of a meeting who are not considered staff. Input entered into the staff's element can be received. A set of at least one user considered staff can be parsed from the received input entered into the staff's element. A unique identifier can be determined for each staff user in the parsed set. At least one record can be stored in a meeting data store that indexes each of the determined unique identifiers against a meeting identifier such that these determined unique identifiers signify that associated users are to be considered staff for a meeting object associated with the meeting identifier. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248427 | INITIATIVE DESIGNER - A method, system and a computer program product for an interactive smart game plan for one or more growth initiatives having an initiative designer for designing, creating, launching and tracking growth initiatives are provided. The initiative designer of the method, system and computer program can have an electronic component configured to interact with one or more users by accepting and displaying growth initiative information specified by the user and obtained from multiple data sources, pertaining to the growth initiative, wherein the growth initiative information has at least one of, basic growth initiative information, a target segment, a target participant, an incentive, a business rule, a marketing tool, sales execution instructions, detailed prospect information, prospect background information, and a recommended game plan to a user to execute the growth initiative. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248428 | Method and System for Determining Software License Compliance - According to one embodiment, a method for determining license compliance includes receiving data regarding a plurality of licenses, including at least first and second licenses. The first license has a corresponding first license count that applies to a first software product. The second license has a corresponding second license count that applies to the first software product. An instance count of the first software product is determined. A determination is made regarding whether the instance count can be apportioned to the first and second licenses, such that neither the first or second license counts are exceeded. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248429 | Managing Consistent Interfaces for Sales Price Business Objects Across Heterogeneous Systems - A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a sales price information and/or a sales price specification business object. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248430 | Managing Consistent Interfaces for Supply Network Business Objects Across Heterogeneous Systems - A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a supply network plan, a supply network plan configuration and/or a supply network planning aggregate hierarchy business object. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248431 | MANAGING CONSISTENT INTERFACES FOR AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION LABEL BUSINESS OBJECTS ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS - A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to an automatic identification label, an automatic identification label device, and/or an automatic identification label device observation business object. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248432 | HEURISTIC MATCHING METHOD FOR USE IN FINANCIAL SYSTEMS - A heuristic method is described for use with a financial system, wherein the method receives a newly added research item, extracts a text-based index from the newly added research item, applying a plurality of heuristics to said extracted text-based index, matches results of heuristics application with each of the following entity types: companies contacts, industries, themes, and ideas, and, upon detecting a match, creating a bidirectional link between the newly added research item and the matching entity type. The results of the detected match is then stored in a database. The heuristics comprises any of, or a combination of, the following: heuristics to match the text-based index to a subset of existing research items that have been pre-selected, heuristics to match the text-based index to a company's ticker symbol, (3) heuristics to maintain a problem ticker list that is used to negate matches for tickers in said text-based index that can also represent common abbreviations, (4) heuristics to convert said extracted text-based index to a base or root form, and (5) heuristics to remove short, high frequency, common, and low relevance words from said extracted text-based index; | 2009-10-01 |
20090248433 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY LINKING A DATA ELEMENT TO EXISTING RESEARCH - Business research items are maintained for a subscriber, wherein the business items are any of the following: company information, contact information, ideas, themes, or notes. When the user creates a new item for business research, the input is parsed to match the parsed user input to indexed research to identify a matching entry (or entries), wherein a link is automatically suggested between the matching entry (or entries) and the new item to be created. Upon receiving an acknowledgement from the user accepting the suggestion, the suggested link is stored in permanent memory. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248434 | Analyzing transactional data - A system and method for measuring or at least detecting the effect of at least implicit communication on transactions within a social group, optionally such as consumer purchases for example. The group may optionally comprise a social network, a pair, 3 or more individuals and so forth. By “implicit communication” it is meant communication for which there is no record, for example in a database. The aftereffects of such communication may optionally be determined, detected and/or measured through detection and/or measurement of influence, as described in greater detail below. For example, if a first consumer performs purchase of an item and a second consumer later purchases the same or similar item within a given time period, the two purchases may optionally be linked through influence which may in turn have optionally occurred through implicit communication. Optionally, the system and method may also measure or at least detect the effect of explicit communication, for which there is a record, for example in a database that describes the communication itself. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248435 | Method for locating just in time mobile services - The current invention is based, at least in part, on the recognition that there is a problem of missed commercial opportunities when a commercial vendor is a mobile provider of goods or services. A need exists for facilitating communication between a mobile provider of goods or services and a potential recipient of those goods or services. Ideally, a solution to this need would not require a human dispatcher as an intermediary, due to various inefficiencies associated with such a method. In accordance with an aspect of the current invention, the limitation of missed business opportunities is avoided by (1) activating, by a mobile provider of commercial goods or services, a notification regarding availability to provide said commercial goods or services within a given distance of said mobile provider; and, (2) receiving, in response to said notification, and at a mobile location of said mobile provider of commercial goods or services, a request from a requester who is within the given distance of said mobile provider to provide said commercial goods or services to said requester. This method maximizes commercial opportunities between two parties without the need for a human dispatcher as an intermediary. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248436 | Virtual social group management system, virtual social group management method, and computer program - An SNS system is provided with: a user information storage unit that stores the type of relationship for each second user who has a relationship with a first user; and a screen display control unit that causes information on each second user to be displayed in a terminal apparatus of the first user based on the type of the relationship between each second user and the first user. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248437 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS UTILIZING NFC TECHNOLOGY TO IMPLEMENT AN ON-DEMAND PORTABLE MEDICAL RECORD - In certain embodiments, an on-demand portable medical record system using near field communication includes a near field communication (NFC) storage device adapted to retrieve patient medical data for storage on the NFC storage device and a NFC retrieval device adapted to engage in near field communication with the NFC storage device to retrieve the patient medical data from the NFC storage device. An emergency on-demand portable medical record system using near field communication includes a NFC-enabled medical alert device storing a patient identifier, and a NFC retrieval device adapted to engage in near field communication with the NFC-enabled medical alert device to retrieve the patient identifier from the NFC storage device. The NFC-enabled medical alert device transfers the patient identifier to the NFC retrieval device via near field communication, and patient medical data is transferred to a medical facility upon verification of the patient identifier. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248438 | Characterizing relationships among procedures using similarity metrics - Data is received that characterizes a plurality of procedures for a single event. Thereafter, one or more dynamically determined groups are associated with the plurality of procedures, the dynamically determined groups being generated from similarity metrics derived from a plurality of historical procedures for a plurality of historical events. A likelihood of the plurality of procedures being associated with the single event can then be determined based on the associated one or more dynamically determined groups. This determined likelihood can be used to determine whether the data is indicative of fraud. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248439 | CONTROLLING AND OPTIMIZING PATIENT PATHWAYS WITHIN AND ACROSS HEALTH CARE FACILITIES - The present invention relates to a system to control and optimize clinical pathways of a plurality of patients within a medical facility as well as across several medical facilities. The method of controlling and optimizing pathways uses real-time localization devices for patients, resources, such as clinical images and employees of the medical facility (e.g. a service technician, a senior consultant or the like). Based on the local position of patients, staff members and/or resources, the system proposes a medical system that generates clinical pathways for patients, is adapted to change clinical pathways and to provide schedules for patients as well as the use of resources. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248440 | Ensuring referential integrity of medical image data - A method, a system and a computer program product are disclosed for providing information concerning scheduled procedure steps and/or information concerning performed procedure steps within a taskflow which includes a plurality of tasks for processing medical image data. Each taskflow is associated with a taskflow specific context folder. In at least one embodiment, a publisher task is adapted to select selected data out of the medical image data. For these selected data, meta-information is updated by incorporating additional information concerning scheduled procedure steps and performed procedure steps. This is done by maintaining referential integrity between image data, scheduled procedure steps and performed procedure steps. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248441 | MEDICAL REPORT SYSTEM, MEDICAL REPORT VIEWER, MEDICAL REPORT PROGRAM, AND METHOD OF EDITING AND DISPLAYING MEDICAL REPORT - A report editor screen of a medical report system is provided with a plurality of entry areas for entering a plurality of findings. Every entry area is provided with check boxes for inputting a command to link the entered finding with an inspection purpose. When the inspection purpose is selected by checking one of the check boxes in one entry area, the finding entered in this entry area is linked with the selected inspection purpose. Data of the medical report is recorded in such a manner that each finding may be handled individually as a unit. On a report display screen of the medical report system, the medical report is displayed in such a manner that shows linkage between the findings and respective inspection purposes. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248442 | PROCESSING OF CLINICAL DATA FOR VALIDATION OF SELECTED CLINICAL PROCEDURES - A processing system and/or method for determining a validation status of an examination request for a patient, the examination request having content including a plurality of examination data defining a clinical condition of the patient. The system and/or method can include a receipt module or similar functionality for receiving the examination request via a communication network; a storage or similar functionality adapted for storing a plurality of predefined clinical definitions, each of the plurality of predefined clinical definitions associated with at least one examination type, the at least one examination type having a match threshold including a subset definition set from the plurality of predefined clinical definitions. The system and/or method can include a matching module or similar functionality adapted for conducting a first stage analysis of the content by comparing the content with the plurality of predefined clinical definitions in order to determine one or more matching definitions. The system and/or method can include a validation module or similar functionality adapted for comparing the matching definitions against the match threshold of each of the at least one examination type for determining a validation indicator of the examination request. The system and/or method can include a response module or similar functionality adapted for transmitting the validation status of the exam request as an exam response via the communications network, the exam response including the validation indicator. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248443 | USER INTERFACE FOR GENERATING AND MANAGING MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION SETS - Methods, computer storage media, systems and user interfaces for generating and/or managing medical documentation sets are provided. Medical documentation sets are generated by replicating a predetermined medical template. After the predetermined medical template is replicated, the medical label associated with the medical documentation set may be modified so that the medication documentation set includes a unique medical label. Upon the completion of a medication documentation set, it may be retrieved and managed as desired. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248444 | PATIENT INTAKE SYSTEM - The system provides a system for a patient to enter historical and/or current information into a data entry device. The system includes intelligent routing so that the patient is guided to meaningful question paths based on answers to prior questions. The system includes graphical and audio capabilities to help the patient provide accurate information. The system contemplates the user entering data prior to meeting with the doctor. When the doctor sees the patient, the doctor already has the patient responses available in full and summary format. The format is consistent from patient to patient and is uniform for all doctors using the system. This allows data to be easily compiled and shared by health professionals. This shared data can aid in indicating epidemics and geographic progressions of ailments and diseases. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248445 | PATIENT DATABASE - The system provides a patient-oriented healthcare website, where patients can a) securely post-visit review their medical record, (using a password and not any name information whatsoever), including their symptoms and the doctor-prescribed treatment plan; b) an easy on-line feedback system (were you satisfied with your treatment? Did you get better or worse? How long did it take to get better? Did you have any adverse reactions to medication? Etc.); c) high-value pharma and other industry clicks specific to the patient's conditions, e.g. high blood pressure, arthritis. Patients can then go to subsequent physicians offices, where the doctor can review prior medical records on our website. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248446 | Medical information card - A device for storing, transporting and maintaining a user's medical history and condition. The device comprises a flash drive which is preprogrammed with a form ready to be filled out, edited or appended with all of the user's medical information. The form is in OMNIFORM® mailable filler format commonly used in the medical industry. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248447 | REPORT GENERATION SUPPORT SYSTEM - A report generation support system has a storage that previously stores body-area information identifying various areas of a human body, and a display that displays a report generation screen, a medical image, and the body-area information. This report generation support system records a string into a radiology report in response to an operation of inputting the string and, in response to an operation of designating at least one medical image and the body-area information that are displayed, links the designated medical image and body-area information to the radiology report. Consequently, search of previous radiology reports connected to various areas of a human body is facilitated. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248448 | CLINICAL NETWORK FOR DERMAL TREATMENTS - A method and a system for sharing analysis of dermal treatment result, the method comprising: defining treatment data comprising at least two of: a dermal characteristic of a patient, a dermal treatment parameter, and a dermal treatment result; collecting the treatment data at the treatment device and communicating the treatment data to a central network server; analyzing the treatment data at the server, forming analysis result; and providing the analysis result to operators of the dermal treatment devices. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248449 | Care Plan Oversight Billing System - A system for billing Care Plan Oversight services including storing patient data in a databases; accumulating time for Care Plan Oversight services provided to individual patients in the patient databases; and periodically calculating a total accumulated time for Care Plan Oversight services provided to each patient in a predetermined time period window and if greater than a predetermined threshold, generating a billing statement for that particular patient. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248450 | Integrated Biosensor and Simulation System for Diagnosis and Therapy - BioMEMS/NEMS appliance biologically monitors an individual, using biosensors to detect cellular components. Data is simulated or analyzed using systems-biology software, which provides diagnostic or therapeutic guidance. | 2009-10-01 |
20090248451 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND MEDIA FOR SPECIFIED EXPENSE COVERAGE LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES - A method and system provides a life insurance policy for an insured party to a policy owner for the benefit of a beneficiary, where the life insurance policy covers recurring expenses. The method and system includes generating a recurring expense life insurance policy for the policy owner for the benefit of the beneficiary, where the life insurance policy has a defined policy term. The method and system further includes that upon the death of the insured party within the policy term, paying a recurring expense for a benefit period for the beneficiary under the terms of the recurring expense life insurance policy. | 2009-10-01 |