40th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 74 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140297240 | EXTRACTING CLINICAL CARE PATHWAYS CORRELATED WITH OUTCOMES - Systems and methods for data analysis include constructing patient traces as a set of medical events for each patient of a patient population, the patient population being segmented based on patient outcomes. Medical events in one or more of the patient traces are reduced to provide processed patient traces. The processed patient traces are clustered to identify a cluster of patient traces. A process model is mined, using a processor, representing an aggregation of treatment pathways in the patient traces from the cluster. Patterns from patient traces are identified that are discriminative of patient outcomes. At least one of the patterns is represented with respect to the process model to identify treatment pathways correlated with the patient outcomes. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297241 | Reference Model for Disease Progression - A method wherein reference disease models predict progression of disease within given populations, utilizing publically available clinical data and risk equations, to give a birds-eye view of clinical trials by allowing multiple trials to be systematically compared simultaneously via parallel processing/High Performance Computing which allows competition among alternative equations/hypothesis combinations; cross validation; and, then ranks results according to fitness via a fitness engine. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297242 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PLACING AND ANALYZING TEST PLOTS - Systems and methods and apparatus for placing a plot in an agricultural field. Systems and methods are also provided for selecting a plot location based on primary and secondary parameters, for selecting a plot location based on user-defined parameters, and for allowing a user to accept or reject proposed plot placement. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297243 | TRAFFIC SIMULATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SYSTEM - Traffic simulation method, program, and system for automatically determining the value of an appropriate time step of a simulation in a traffic simulation technique. In order to calculate the filling rates of roads, top K intersections are selected from among intersections in a region that is an object of the simulation, for each synchronization timing in terms of the filling rate. For instance, the filling rate is calculated as a filing rate of vehicles on roads directly connected to the intersection. More specifically, the filling rate is calculated by dividing the number of vehicles traveling on each road directly connected to the intersection by the length of the road, and totalizing each quotient. The time step of the simulation is determined as a monotonically decreasing function with respect to the filling rate, preferably, as a value in inverse proportion to the square of the filing rate. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297244 | INDUSTRIAL SIMULATION USING REDIRECTED I/O MODULE CONFIGURATIONS - A simulation environment for running a process simulation used to validate an industrial control program. The simulation environment exposes the I/O module configurations defined in the control program and retrieves module configuration information therefrom. This I/O module configuration information is combined with generic, module-specific I/O module profiles to create a pool of available controller I/O points, which can be selectively associated with I/O points in the simulation to create an I/O point mapping. During control program validation, simulated I/O data is exchanged between the process simulation and the I/O module instances in the controller in accordance with the I/O point mapping. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297245 | Systems and Methods For Subsurface Oil Recovery Optimization - Systems and methods for subsurface secondary and/or tertiary oil recovery optimization based on either a short term, medium term or long term optimization analysis of selected zones, wells, patterns/clusters and/or fields. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297246 | Blood Glucose Meter And Computer-Implemented Method For Facilitating Accurate Glycemic Control By Modeling Blood Glucose Using Circadian Profiles - A blood glucose meter and computer-implemented method for facilitating accurate glycemic control by modeling blood glucose using circadian profiles is provided. Anti-hyperglycemic medications are categorized based on similar glucose lowering effects. A circadian profile is built by collecting at least two recent typical measurements of pre-meal and post-meal period data stored on a glucometer, identifying a dose of an anti-hyperglycemic medication, and identifying the class of the anti-hyperglycemic medication. A model of glucose management through the circadian profile is created by estimating expected blood glucose values and their predicted errors at each of the meal periods, visualizing the expected blood glucose values and their predicted errors over time for each meal period in a log-normal distribution, and selecting one of the meal periods and, for each anti-hyperglycemic medication in the identified class, modeling a change in the dose of the anti-hyperglycemic medication. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297247 | Quantum Annealing Simulator - A quantum annealer simulator approximates unitary quantum dynamics of a quantum annealer on a non-quantum computing device such as a conventional computing device. The quantum annealer simulator may utilize algorithms that may efficiently approximate unitary time evolution of a quantum system, where the quantum system corresponds to a problem for which an optimized solution is sought. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297248 | Method and Apparatus for Context Sensing Inference - The exemplary embodiments of the invention provide at least a method, apparatus and system to perform operations including receiving context data from an electronic device, causing, at least in part based on the received context data, an identification of at least one context model compatible with the electronic device, and causing, at least in part, provision of the electronic device with the at least one compatible context model. In addition, the exemplary embodiments of the invention further provide at least a method, apparatus and system to perform operations including causing, at least in part, a provision of context data associated with an electronic device to a context inference service, in response, receiving a context model from the context inference service, and causing adaptation of the received context model as a current context model of the electronic device. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297249 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING EMULATION RESOURCES - A method and system for managing an emulation of a computer product. The method and system involve receiving emulation parameters associated with the emulation of the computer product, the emulation parameters defining one or more resources required to provide the emulation; identifying one or more capable emulator servers from a plurality of emulator servers based at least on the one or more resources; retrieving emulator server data for each capable emulator server; determining one or more criteria usable for selecting an emulator server from the one or more capable emulator servers to provide the emulation; and selecting the emulator server from the one or more capable emulator servers to provide the emulation, the emulator server being a capable emulator server from the one or more capable emulators associated with emulator server data satisfying at least some of the one or more criteria. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297250 | Systems and Methods for Providing an Emulator - A method and system for providing an emulation of a computer product is described. The method and system involve receiving an emulation request for initiating the emulation; in response to receiving the emulation request, creating an emulation session based at least on the emulation data and creating an emulation session identifier; determining one or more resources required for providing the emulation based on the emulation data and linking resource identifiers for the one or more resources with the emulation session identifier; identifying one or more emulator servers capable of providing the emulation based at least on the one or more resources and linking emulator server identifiers for the one or more emulator servers with the emulation session identifier; defining session data for the emulation session based on the emulation session identifier; and initiating the emulation session based on the session data. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297251 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING REMOTE RESOURCES FOR EMULATION - A method and system for emulating a computer product at an emulator server. The method and system involve receiving an emulation request to emulate the computer product; determining emulation properties based on the emulation request; determining whether each resource in the one or more resources is available at the emulator server; in response to determining at least one unavailable resource from the one or more resources, accessing the at least one unavailable resource at a remote emulator server, the remote emulator server being in electronic communication with the emulator server via a virtual external bus interface and the virtual external bus interface being operable to facilitate data communication between two or more different device components, and otherwise, initializing the resource at the emulator server; and initializing the computer product at the emulator server. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297252 | ACTIVE ERROR DETECTION AND RESOLUTION FOR LINGUISTIC TRANSLATION - A two-way speech-to-speech (S2S) translation system actively detects a wide variety of common error types and resolves them through user-friendly dialog with the user(s). Examples include features including one or more of detecting out-of-vocabulary (OOV) named entities and terms, sensing ambiguities, homophones, idioms, ill-formed input, etc. and interactive strategies for recovering from such errors. In some examples, different error types are prioritized and systems implementing the approach can include an extensible architecture for implementing these decisions. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297253 | TRANSLATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, TRANSLATION SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND TRANSLATION SUPPORT PROGRAM - A translation support apparatus according to an embodiment applies a bottom-up syntax analysis rule to original information and translation information to generate subtrees corresponding to the combinations of all the character strings and makes the subtrees of the original and the translation correspond to each other. Then, for each pair of the subtrees of the original and the translation, the translation support apparatus evaluates a correspondence degree according to the presence or absence of the relevance between words based on a bilingual dictionary and the proximity of the number of the constituting words. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297254 | TEXT DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - A system processes text message data in an electronic device by, receiving first text data, determining a first language of the first text data, automatically translating the first text data into second text data in a predetermined second language in response to determining the first language and outputting the second text data. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297255 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPEECH TO SPEECH TRANSLATION USING CORES OF A NATURAL LIQUID ARCHITECTURE SYSTEM - A method and system for speech to speech translation using a plurality of computational cores of a natural liquid architecture are provided. The method includes receiving an audio signal; identifying a first concept related to the received audio signal; identifying a first language based on the first concept identified for the received audio signal; and determining a match between of the first concept and at least a second concept, wherein the at least second concept represents a target second language. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297256 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING AND DISPLAYING MULTI-LINE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS IN REAL TIME ON MOBILE DEVICES - The present invention is related to systems and methods for translating language text on a mobile camera device offline without access to the Internet. More specifically, the present invention relates to systems and methods for displaying text of a first language and a translation of the first language text into a second language text which is displayed in real time in augmented reality on the mobile device. The processing can use a single line or a multiline algorithm designed with a plurality of processing innovations to insure accurate real-time translations without motion jitter. The invention may be used to help travelers in a foreign country with difficulties in reading and understanding text written in the local language of that country. The present invention may be utilized with wearable computers or glasses, producing seamless augmented reality foreign language translations. Some embodiments are particularly useful in translations from Asian languages to English. Some embodiments are especially optimized to translate multiple lines of foreign language text. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297257 | MOTION SENSOR-BASED PORTABLE AUTOMATIC INTERPRETATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed herein is a motion sensor-based portable automatic interpretation apparatus and control method thereof, which can precisely detect the start time and the end time of utterance of a user in a portable automatic interpretation system, thus improving the quality of the automatic interpretation system. The motion sensor-based portable automatic interpretation apparatus includes a motion sensing unit for sensing a motion of the portable automatic interpretation apparatus. An utterance start time detection unit detects an utterance start time based on an output signal of the motion sensing unit. An utterance end time detection unit detects an utterance end time based on an output signal of the motion sensing unit after the utterance start time has been detected. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297258 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR COLLECTING, SENDING AND FOLLOWING LANGUAGE REQUESTS FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS - The solution of the current invention supports gathering information about language need of the user. For this an application runs on a Mobile Device, and as it is connected to a central server over a private network, a public network or over the internet, it can send the information about the language need. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297259 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR WIRELESSLY TRIGGERING THE SIMULTANEOUS PLAYING OF MULTIPLE LANGUAGE TOUR COMMENTARIES IN A GROUP TOUR ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for providing simultaneous multiple language tour commentary in a group tour environment. The system and method wirelessly triggers the simultaneous playing of multiple language tour commentaries in a group tour environment using a Master Controller Device to trigger the playing of location specific audio commentaries stored on Personal Wireless Receiver Devices worn by participants of a group tour who are moving through a geographic area. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297260 | Detect and Automatically Hide Spoiler Information in a Collaborative Environment - An approach is provided to detect and hide spoiler information. In the approach, potential spoiler content included user text entries submitted to a collaborative environment are automatically detected. The system inhibits display of the potential spoiler content from the collaborative environment in response to the detection. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297261 | SYNONYM DETERMINATION AMONG N-GRAMS - A technique includes obtaining a plurality of n-grams from a plurality of messages, determining a temporal histogram for each n-gram, and determining synonyms among the n-grams based on a combination of a correlation of the histograms and a distance measure between n-grams. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297262 | ACCELERATED REGULAR EXPRESSION EVALUATION USING POSITIONAL INFORMATION - Methods and arrangements for evaluating a regular expression. Text strings are received. A regular expression is also received, the regular expression comprising a pattern for specifying and recognizing at least one text string from among the received text strings. There is generated, with respect to the received text strings, a data structure containing grams with positional information. The data structure is employed to evaluate the regular expression via identifying a subset of the text strings comprising at least one match for the given regular expression. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297263 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VERIFYING TRANSLATION USING ANIMATION - A translation verification method using an animation may include the processes of analyzing an originally input sentence in a first language using a translation engine so that the sentence in the first language is converted into a second language, generating an animation capable of representing the meaning of the sentence in the first language based on information on the results of the analysis of the sentence in the first language, and providing the original and the generated animation to a user who uses the original in order for the user to check for errors in the translation. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297264 | OPEN LANGUAGE LEARNING FOR INFORMATION EXTRACTION - Open Information Extraction (IE) systems extract relational tuples from text, without requiring a pre-specified vocabulary, by identifying relation phrases and associated arguments in arbitrary sentences. However, state-of-the-art Open IE systems such as R | 2014-10-02 |
20140297265 | TERMINAL DEVICE, CONVERSION WORD CANDIDATE SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD, AND CONVERSION WORD CANDIDATE SYNCHRONIZATION PROGRAM - A terminal device includes: a memory that stores a candidate group including a plurality of conversion word candidates for an input character; and a processor that, if a display rank of any candidate in the candidate group is changed, determines whether the changed display rank is included in a predetermined range of display ranks and, if the changed display rank is included in the predetermined range of display ranks, lets a communication unit transmit the candidate group including the changed display rank to another terminal device. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297266 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING KEYWORDS IN LANGUAGE LEARNING - Disclosed are systems, methods, and products for language learning that may extract text from various resources having text, using various natural-language processing features, which can be combined with custom-designed learning activities to offer a needs-based, adaptive learning methodology. The system may receive a resource, extract keywords pedagogically valuable to non-native language learning and academic exercises. Metadata describing various aspects of resources from which keywords are extracted may be associated with keywords. Metadata describing various aspects of keywords may also be associated with keywords. Extracted keywords may be stored into a keyword store along with any metadata associated with keywords. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297267 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INPUTTING TEXT INTO ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Systems comprising a user interface configured to receive text input by a user and a text prediction engine configured to receive the input text and generate text predictions. The text prediction engine may comprise a general language model and a context-specific language model. The text prediction engine is configured to generate text predictions from the general language model and the context-specific language model and combine the text predictions. The text prediction engine may comprise first and second language models and a first context-specific weighting factor associated with the first language model. The text prediction engine is configured to generate text predictions using the first and second language models, generate weighted probabilities of the text predictions from the first language model using the first context-specific weighting factor; and generate final text predictions from the weighted predictions generated from the first language model and the predictions generated by the second language model. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297268 | Advanced System and Method for Automated-Context-Aware-Dialog with Human Users - Apparatus for conducting a dialog with a user of at least one computerized enterprise system, the apparatus comprising an ontological topic definer using at least one ontological entity to define user dialog topics, each topic including an item, a block identifying executable computer code operative to resolve the item; and at least one input parameter passed to the block; and a dialog server operative for conducting a dialog with a user of at least one computerized enterprise system about an individual topic from among said user dialog topics. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297269 | ASSOCIATING PARTS OF A DOCUMENT BASED ON SEMANTIC SIMILARITY - A system for processing at least one document ( | 2014-10-02 |
20140297270 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing apparatus feeding a frame of a signal in frequency domain of a reception voice signal into a sound echo canceler includes a first reception section for receiving frames of the reception voice signal in frequency domain before having a rate-of-speech change process applied; a second reception section for receiving frames of a signal in time domain having the rate-of-speech change process applied by units of frames; and a frequency-domain frame synthesis section for synthesizing a frame of the signal in frequency domain of the reception voice signal based on the signal in time domain having the rate-of-speech change process applied at a frame currently being processed by the signal processing apparatus, and a frame of the reception voice signal in frequency domain corresponding to the signal in time domain having the rate-of-speech change process applied. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297271 | SPEECH SIGNAL ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a speech signal encoding method for encoding an inputted first speech signal into a second speech signal having a narrower available bandwidth than the first speech signal. The method comprises generating a pitch-scaled version of higher frequencies of the first speech signal and including in the second speech signal lower frequencies of the first speech signal and the pitch-scaled version of the higher frequencies. At least a part of the higher frequencies are frequencies that are outside the available bandwidth of the second speech signal. The pitch-scaled version of the higher frequencies is preferably included in the second speech signal with a gain factor having a value of 1 or a value higher than 1. The present invention further relates to a corresponding speech signal decoding method for decoding an inputted first speech signal into a second speech signal having a wider available bandwidth than the first speech signal. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297272 | INTELLIGENT INTERACTIVE VOICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention generally relates to intelligent voice communication systems. Specifically, this invention relates to systems and methods for providing intelligent interactive voice communication services to users of a telephony means. Preferred embodiments of the invention are directed to providing interactive voice communication services in the form of intelligent and interactive automated prank calling services. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297273 | SPEECH ENHANCEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EMPHASIZING CONSONANT PORTION TO IMPROVE ARTICULATION OF AUDIO SIGNAL - In a speech enhancement apparatus, a generator part generates a value representing likelihood of a consonant from an input audio signal, and a calculator part generates a consonant/vowel discriminating signal for discriminating a consonant portion and a vowel portion based on the generated value, detects a first signal level of the vowel portion and a second signal level of the consonant portion based on the audio signal and the consonant/vowel discriminating signal, and outputs a level-related signal. A determining part determines a gain coefficient that exceeds one when the second signal level is smaller than the first signal level based on the level-related signal so that the gain coefficient increases as the second signal level becomes smaller than the first signal level. A multiplier part multiplies the audio signal by the gain coefficient to output an audio signal having an emphasized consonant portion. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297274 | NESTED SEGMENTATION METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION BASED ON SOUND PROCESSING OF BRAIN - A method of segmenting input speech signal into plurality of frames for speech recognition is disclosed. The method includes extracting a low frequency signal from the speech signal, and segmenting the speech signal into a plurality of time-intervals according to a plurality of instantaneous phase-sections of the low frequency signal. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297275 | SPEECH PROCESSING DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE, SPEECH PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SPEECH PROCESSING DEVICE - A speech processing device includes: a dialog execution control unit that controls speech output and timings of speech recognition in accordance with dialog information including speech output information, speech recognition information and control information; a speech output control unit that outputs an output speech signal designated by the speech output information; and a speech recognition unit that executes speech recognition processing for an input speech signal using the speech recognition information. The control information includes speech output timing information for the output speech signal and speech recognition start timing information for the input speech signal. The speech recognition start timing information is specified by a time period that elapses from a first timing specified by the speech output timing information. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297276 | EDITING APPARATUS, EDITING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an editing apparatus includes a receiver and a controller. The receiver is configured to receive input data. The controller is configured to produce one or more operable target objects from the input data, receive operation through a screen, and produce an editing result object by performing editing processing on the target object designated in the operation. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297277 | Systems and Methods for Automated Scoring of Spoken Language in Multiparty Conversations - Systems and methods are provided for scoring spoken language in multiparty conversations. A computer receives a conversation between an examinee and at least one interlocutor. The computer selects a portion of the conversation. The portion includes one or more examinee utterances and one or more interlocutor utterances. The computer assesses the portion using one or more metrics, such as: a pragmatic metric for measuring a pragmatic fit of the one or more examinee utterances; a speech act metric for measuring a speech act appropriateness of the one or more examinee utterances; a speech register metric for measuring a speech register appropriateness of the one or more examinee utterances; and an accommodation metric for measuring a level of accommodation of the one or more examinee utterances. The computer computes a final score for the portion of the conversation based on the one or more metrics applied. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297278 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LINKING EXTRACTED CLINICAL FACTS TO TEXT - A plurality of clinical facts may be extracted from a free-form narration of a patient encounter provided by a clinician. The plurality of clinical facts may include a first fact and a second fact. The first fact may be extracted from a first portion of the free-form narration, and the second fact may be extracted from a second portion of the free-form narration. A first indicator that indicates a first linkage between the first fact and the first portion of the free-form narration may be provided to a user. A second indicator, different from the first indicator, that indicates a second linkage between the second fact and the second portion of the free-form narration may also be provided to the user. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297279 | SYSTEM AND METHOD USING FEEDBACK SPEECH ANALYSIS FOR IMPROVING SPEAKING ABILITY - A speech analysis system and method for analyzing speech. The system includes: a voice recognition system for converting inputted speech to text; an analytics system for generating feedback information by analyzing the inputted speech and text; and a feedback system for outputting the feedback information. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297280 | SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION - In an aspect, in general, a system includes a first input for receiving a first data representing an interaction among a plurality of parties, the first data identifying a plurality of parts of the interaction and identifying a plurality of segments associated with each part of the plurality of parts, a second input for receiving a second data associating each of one or more labels with one or more corresponding query phrases, a searching module for searching the first data to identify putative instances of the query phrases, and a classifier for labeling the parts of the interaction associated with the identified putative instances of the query phrases with the labels corresponding to the identified query phrases. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297281 | SPEECH PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM - A speech processing method executed by a computer, the speech processing method includes: extracting, based on speech recognition for an input speech data, a plurality of word candidates including a first word candidate and a second word candidate from a memory, the plurality of word candidates being candidates for a word corresponding to the input speech data; determining at least one different part between the first word candidate and the second word candidate based on a comparison between the first word candidate and the second word candidate; and outputting the first word candidate with emphasis on the at least one different part. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297282 | Auto-Generation of Parsing Grammars from a Concept Ontology - An ontology stores information about a domain of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) application program. The ontology is augmented with information that enables subsequent automatic generation of a speech understanding grammar for use by the ASR application program. The information includes hints about how a human might talk about objects in the domain, such as preludes (phrases that introduce an identification of the object) and postludes (phrases that follow an identification of the object). | 2014-10-02 |
20140297283 | Concept Cloud in Smart Phone Applications - An automated arrangement is described for conducting natural language interactions with a human user. A user interface is provided for user communication in a given active natural language interaction with a natural language application during an automated dialog session. An automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine processes unknown user speech inputs from the user interface to produce corresponding speech recognition results. A natural language concept module processes the speech recognition results to develop corresponding natural language concept items. A concept item storage holds selected concept items for reuse in a subsequent natural language interaction with the user during the automated dialog session. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297284 | USING CONTEXT INFORMATION TO FACILITATE PROCESSING OF COMMANDS IN A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT - A virtual assistant uses context information to supplement natural language or gestural input from a user. Context helps to clarify the user's intent and to reduce the number of candidate interpretations of the user's input, and reduces the need for the user to provide excessive clarification input. Context can include any available information that is usable by the assistant to supplement explicit user input to constrain an information-processing problem and/or to personalize results. Context can be used to constrain solutions during various phases of processing, including, for example, speech recognition, natural language processing, task flow processing, and dialog generation. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297285 | AUTOMATIC PAGE CONTENT READING-ALOUD METHOD AND DEVICE THEREOF - The present disclosure discloses a page content reading method and device thereof. The method includes obtaining page content requested to browse, and determining whether a format of the page content meets a pre-determined requirement; it the format of the page content meets the pre-determined requirement, displaying the page content, and processing the page content into a form adapted for reading-aloud and automatically reading-aloud the processed page content, upon receiving a reading-aloud request; if the format of the page content does not meet the pre-determined requirement, displaying a page content, after the format of which having been converted into a format that meets the pre-determined requirement, and processing the page content into a form adapted for reading-aloud and automatically reading-aloud the processed page content, upon receiving a reading-aloud request from the user. The embodiment of the present invention can be widely applied and can bring down the cost of realization. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297286 | VOICE MESSAGING LUNCHBOX - A voice messaging system for a lunch container comprising: a top portion; a base attached to the top portion via a zipper; a audio speaker accessible in the base; and a recorder within the base, where the recorder records audio files. The audio files may be transmitted over the audio speaker and in one particular embodiment the audio files are automatically played upon removal of the top portion from the base. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297287 | Voice-Activated Precision Timing - A method is disclosed for generating a voice-activated responsive action, such as a pulse or a measurement, with improved speed and time resolution. First, an operator calls an arming command to prepare the application, and then calls a trigger command to initiate the responsive action. The responsive action is generated immediately upon detecting the leading edge of the trigger command, resulting in an extremely fast response with precise timing. The particular responsive action may be determined by the type of sound detected, or by other information contained in the trigger command, or by the arming command, or by another prior command. Other types of preparatory events are disclosed. Efficient methods for identifying commands are disclosed. For all applications requiring an extremely prompt, precisely timed, hands-free response to a voice command, this invention is enabling. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297288 | TELEPHONE VOICE PERSONAL ASSISTANT - A system and associated method are provided for using a voice activated voice personal assistant (VPA) for a first user equipment, comprising: detecting establishment of a voice communication with a second user equipment; monitoring the voice communications using the VPA for commands relevant to the VPA; identifying, by the VPA, the commands within the voice communication; and implementing an action related to the commands during the ongoing voice communication. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297289 | VOICE CONTROL DEVICE, VOICE CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a communication device to receive plural pieces of tag information corresponding to respective positions within a target area, the target area having a position defined by the position of the apparatus; and an output device to output a plurality of sounds such that for each sound at least a portion of the sound overlaps with at least a portion of another of the sounds, each of the sounds being indicative of a respective piece of tag information. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297290 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DECODING AUDIO DATA - An apparatus and method for decoding audio data. The apparatus for decoding the audio data may perform block data unpacking by preferring a channel order to a block order from a bitstream, and perform dithering through preferring a block order to a channel order. Complexity in decoding may be reduced through integrating bitstream searching and the bock data unpacking, and a dithering error may be prevented through processing the block data unpacking and the dithering separately. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297291 | METADATA DRIVEN DYNAMIC RANGE CONTROL - A system for encoding and applying Dynamic Range Control/Compression (DRC) gain values to a piece of sound program content is described. In particular, a set of DRC gain values representing a DRC gain curve for the piece of content may be divided into frames corresponding to frames of the piece of content. A set of fields may be included with an audio signal representing the piece of content. The additional fields may represent the DRC gain values using linear or spline interpolation. The additional fields may include 1) an initial gain value for each DRC frame, 2) a set of slope values at particular points in the DRC curve, 3) a set of time delta values for each consecutive pair of slope values, and/or 4) one or more gain delta values representing changes of DRC gain values in the DRC gain curve between points of the slope values. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297292 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING TRANSMISSION BANDWIDTH EFFICIENCY ("EBT2") - Systems and methods for increasing transmission bandwidth efficiency by the analysis and synthesis of the ultimate components of transmitted content are presented. To implement such a system, a dictionary or database of elemental codewords can be generated from a set of audio clips. Using such a database, a given arbitrary song or other audio file can be expressed as a series of such codewords, where each given codeword in the series is a compressed audio packet that can be used as is, or, for example, can be tagged to be modified to better match the corresponding portion of the original audio file. Each codeword in the database has an index number or unique identifier. For a relatively small number of bits used in a unique ID, e.g. 27-30, several hundreds of millions of codewords can be uniquely identified. By providing the database of codewords to receivers of a broadcast or content delivery system in advance, instead of broadcasting or streaming the actual compressed audio signal, all that need be transmitted is the series of identifiers along with any modification instructions to the identified codewords. After reception, intelligence on the receiver having access to a locally stored copy of the dictionary can reconstruct the original audio clip by accessing the codewords via the received IDs, modify them as instructed by the modification instructions, further modify the codewords either individually or in groups using the audio profile of the original audio file (also sent by the encoder) and play back a generated sequence of phase corrected codewords and modified codewords as instructed. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, such modification can extend into neighboring codewords, and can utilize either or both (i) cross correlation based time alignment and (ii) phase continuity between harmonics, to achieve higher fidelity to the original audio clip. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297293 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR AVOIDING CLIPPING ARTEFACTS - An audio encoding apparatus includes an encoder for encoding a time segment of an input audio signal to be encoded to obtain a corresponding encoded signal segment. The audio encoding apparatus further includes a decoder for decoding the encoded signal segment to obtain a re-decoded signal segment. A clipping detector is provided for analyzing the re-decoded signal segment with respect to at least one of an actual signal clipping or an perceptible signal clipping and for generating a corresponding clipping alert. The encoder is further configured to again encode the time segment of the audio signal with at least one modified encoding parameter resulting in a reduced clipping probability in response to the clipping alert. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297294 | Methods and Apparatuses for Encoding and Decoding Object-Based Audio Signals - An audio decoding method and apparatus and an audio encoding method and apparatus which can efficiently process object-based audio signals are provided. The audio decoding method includes receiving a downmix signal and object-based side information, the downmix signal comprising at least two downmix channel signals; extracting gain information from the object-based side information and generating modification information for modifying the downmix channel signals on a channel-by-channel basis based on the gain information; and modifying the downmix channel signals by applying the modification information to the downmix channel signals. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297295 | Cross Product Enhanced Harmonic Transposition - The present invention relates to audio coding systems which make use of a harmonic transposition method for high frequency reconstruction (HFR). A system and a method for generating a high frequency component of a signal from a low frequency component of the signal is described. The system comprises an analysis filter bank providing a plurality of analysis subband signals of the low frequency component of the signal. It also comprises a non-linear processing unit to generate a synthesis subband signal with a synthesis frequency by modifying the phase of a first and a second of the plurality of analysis subband signals and by combining the phase-modified analysis subband signals. Finally, it comprises a synthesis filter bank for generating the high frequency component of the signal from the synthesis subband signal. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297296 | AUDIO OBJECT ENCODING AND DECODING - An audio object encoder comprises a receiver ( | 2014-10-02 |
20140297297 | GENERATING MODELS REPRESENTATIVE OF CLINICAL GUIDELINES AND PROVIDING TREATMENT/DIAGNOSTIC RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON THE GENERATED MODELS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating healthcare models based on clinical treatment or diagnostic guidelines and utilizing such models to identify recommended healthcare treatments and/or recommended diagnostics tests or procedures are disclosed. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297298 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADJUSTING BENEFIT LEVELS FOR HEALTHCARE TRANSACTIONS PREVIOUSLY REJECTED FOR PRIOR AUTHORIZATION BY A PRIMARY PAYOR - Systems and methods are provided for adjusting secondary benefit levels for healthcare transactions for which primary benefits were previously rejected for lack of prior authorization by a primary payor. A healthcare transaction may be received from a primary payor computer. The transaction may include patient information, loyalty card information, a request for healthcare benefits, and a refill request for a prescribed medication or service. The administrator computer can determine the transaction is approved by the primary payor computer. The transaction can include a designation of a primary benefit from the primary payor. The administrator computer can determine that a prior authorization requirement for the primary payor has been satisfied based in part on the determination that the transaction is approved by the primary payor. The administrator computer can also change the healthcare benefits provided for the client from a second secondary benefits program to a first secondary benefits program. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297299 | MOBILE HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT - Devices, systems, techniques, and computer-program products are provided for mobile healthcare management. In one aspect, a mobile device can acquire physiological information and/or situational information associated with a subject associated with the mobile device. The information that is acquired can be transmitted to a network platform and, based at least on the information that is acquired, a health profile associated with the subject can be generated and evaluated with respect to a reference health profile. Based at least on an outcome of the evaluation, in one aspect, a response to the health profile can be supplied to a healthcare provider. In scenarios in which the health profile is indicative of a medical emergency, the response can include an emergency communication with one or more first responder or a predetermined emergency contact for the subject. The reference health profile can be specific to the subject. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297300 | DISEASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD USING A WIRED/WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A disease management system and method that use a wired and wireless communication network, in which motivation and consistent encouragement to change a behavior of a user or a patient may be given by close acquaintances or other people who have knowledge about a corresponding disease, instead of an expert. Thus, with regard to disease management that consistently needs normal and frequent communication, a role of an expert may be minimized to a necessary degree, and a more effective and efficient health care service, compared to a conventional health care service, may be provided. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297301 | HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method integrating healthcare delivery to patients using data bridges that connect healthcare providers, patients, patient medical education, and patient monitoring devices is disclosed. The system incorporates a mobile user interface device (MUD) allowing user inputs or detected events from a variety of medical instrumentation devices (MID) to be controlled by a healthcare web server computer (HWS) over a computer communication network (CCN). Information retrieved from the MID and transmitted by the MUD to the HWS is then used by a patient healthcare monitor (PHM) process to populate a medical records database (MRD). MRD contents are then matched to patient healthcare plan (PHP) event/time triggers (ETT) that drive information from a provider content database (PCD) to the MUD through the HWS over the CCN. Healthcare provider update/control of the PHP/ETT/PCD allow integration of patient educational materials with patient health status monitoring. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297302 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PATIENT FLOW - A system for integrating multiple databases, the system having at least one server, the at least one server maintaining a first database and a second database; a plurality of terminals, each of the plurality of terminals being configured to: request data from the at least one server; receive the requested data; correlate data from the first database with data from the second database; and display data from the first database with correlated data from the second database. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297303 | Method and Arrangement for the Optimized Setting of Medical Systems - A method and an associated arrangement for supporting a setting of a medical system are provided. The method includes entry of first requirement specification data relevant to a medical examination, transmission of the first requirement specification data to a central data analysis system, and acquisition of the first requirement specification data by the central data analysis system. The method also includes analysis of the first requirement specification data by a comparison with stored second requirement specification data. The method includes selection of best-fit first configuration data for setting the medical system based on the analysis, transmission of the first configuration data to the medical system, and display of the first configuration data on the medical system. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297304 | DETERMINATION OF HEALTHCARE COVERAGE USING A PAYMENT ACCOUNT - Healthcare insurance coverage is determined using an account within a payment processing system. A transmission addressed to the payment processing system is formed including an account number of an account associated with the payment processing system, a description of a healthcare related commodity rendered to a patient deriving healthcare insurance through an insured, and request for a specification of financial responsibility of the insured for the described said healthcare related commodity. A transmission is received from the payment processing system including the requested specification of financial responsibility. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297305 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXCHANGING HEALTH CARE CREDITS - Systems and methods for exchanging health care credits are described. In various embodiments, health care credits are freely transferable units of value representing good health, an improvement in health, or maintenance of health by an individual. The health care credits may be bought, sold, exchanged for goods and services, gifted or otherwise freely conveyed from one owner to another. Also disclosed are exchanges and markets for buying, selling, and trading health care credits, as well as derivative securities. The derivative securities or products are based on either the flow of health care credits through the system, or on health care information, which may have been generated to implement health care credit awards. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297307 | System and Method for Processing Qualified Healthcare Account Related Financial Transactions - This invention relates to a system and method for processing qualified healthcare account transactions (e.g., HFA, Health FSA, and HRA) and non-qualified credit card transactions within a transaction processing system. In particular, this invention relates to a multi-purse payment device associated with a transaction processing system for auto-substantiating qualified healthcare transactions. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297308 | REFERRAL AND RECORD SHARING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods described herein may utilize a server comprising a processor to receive a referral request associated with a patient. The server may identify a referred health care provider associated with the referral request. The server may send data included in the referral request to the referred health care provider, the data enabling the referred health care provider to contact the patient. The server may store data included in the referral request in a database. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297309 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPLYING MEDICAL IMAGE - The present invention relates to a system and method for providing medical images. The system for providing medical images according to an example of the present invention includes: one or more software viewer modules; a software user-specified worklist management module; and a software display controller module. The one or more software viewer modules display medical images. The user-specific worklist management module provides a user-specific worklist corresponding to a logged-in user, based on the role of the logged-in user, via a worklist interface which provides varying functions. The display controller module controls one or displaying monitors to display detailed information and medical images for a list, selected from among user-specific worklist, via the one or more software viewer modules based on status information on the one or more software viewer modules. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297310 | System and Method for Association of Patient Care Devices to a Patient - A system and method for collecting, communicating, displaying, and/or analyzing data from multiple medical devices is disclosed. The system includes a local data collection module and a number of medical device adapters. The medical device adapters are coupled to respective medical devices via hardwired connections to receive data from the respective medical devices. The medical device adapters wirelessly transmit the data to the local data collection module. The local data collection module communicates the data received from the medical device adapters to an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system for automatic entry of at least some of the data in the electronic medical record of a patient associated with the medical devices. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297311 | HEALTH CARE RESEARCH, MANAGEMENT AND DELIVERY SYSTEM - A health care management and delivery system includes a hosted environment that provides health care treatment, diagnosis, and/or management. Health care providers are linked to one another and to a central network, which is linked to patient via the hosted environment. The patient interfaces with the hosted environment, which includes hosted algorithms approved by the provider network. The patient may also have medical devices that facilitate collection of vital sign data (e.g., digital thermometer) and administration of treatment (e.g., medicine dispensary). The health care provider can license the hosted environment to deliver health care services remotely based on globally standardized protocols. The hosted environment includes all patient health records and information which can be accessed globally. The hosted environment conducts data analytics to continuously improve and add new standardized protocols. Additionally, a virtual clinical research organization (CRO) is provided, such that treating physicians and patients can participate in clinical trials and registries and have access to new medical treatments and improved safety and outcomes. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297312 | COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING MEDICATION EVENTS - Computer-based systems and computer-implemented methods are described for monitoring medication events for an individual. Computer-based systems include systems for monitoring medication events relating to an individual, including: circuitry for analyzing data for an identifier of a first medication event for an individual; circuitry for analyzing the data for at least one attribute of an individual; circuitry for analyzing the data for at least one attribute relating to a medication during the first medication event; circuitry for analyzing the data for at least one feature of visual information and at least one feature of non-visual information relating to the individual during the first medication event; circuitry for analyzing the received data for a time associated with the first medication event; circuitry for determining a compliance likelihood for the first medication event based on the analyses of the received data; and circuitry for indicating the determined compliance likelihood. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297313 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING PATIENT THERAPY - A system and method of managing therapy provided to patients in an institution. The system monitors all aspects of the medication delivery to a patient, as well as other information related to the patient, such as values of vital signs, laboratory results and patient factors such as history, diagnosis, allergies and the like. The system includes one or more databases of information, including institutionally developed rules, guidelines and protocol representing the best medical practices of the institution. The system provides alerts and/or recommendations based on the application of the rules to the information being monitored, and alerts care givers accordingly, providing for dynamic adjustment of the patient's therapy. The system also monitors the status of the alerts, and if no action is taken in a selected period of time, may escalate the priority of the alert and/or halt the delivery of medication to the patient until the alert is resolved. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297314 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALCULATING PATIENT DOSAGE - Systems and methods for providing a dosage on a device comprising an electronic circuit, an input device, and a display screen. The method includes receiving an input signal of a user indicating an input directed to a patient sex and patient status selected from the group comprising new patient, returning patient and booster patient. If the patient sex is female, an effective estradiol dosage and an effective testosterone dosage are determined using dosage calculation methods selected based on the patient status and additional female input parameters. If the patient sex is male an effective testosterone dosage is determined using dosage calculation methods selected based on the patient status and additional male input parameters. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297315 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED DOSAGE CALCULATION AND PATIENT TREATMENT LIFE CYCLE - A system and method for automatically calculating an accurate recommended dosage for hormone replacement therapy and automating the life cycle of a patient's treatment over time. The system and method can automatically acquire relevant patient parameters and apply a consistent formulaic approach to help reduce incorrect dosage determinations. A pellet insertion size may be determined and documented based on a calculated dosage, and an insertion side and lot numbers may be tracked and managed. In addition, corresponding revenues may be tracked and profitability may be reported for hormone replacement therapy practices. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297316 | Method And Apparatus For Adaptive Prefetching Of Medical Data - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are described herein for providing clinically adaptive prefetch of datasets relating to prior medical studies. Upon indication of a new study, a fit function may depend on an exemplar set of new study to prior study relationships. The fit function may calculate an affinity value for a prior study, indicating the probability of relevancy to the new study. The fit function may consider structured data, and unstructured data, such as by natural language processing. Based on the affinity value, a dataset relating to the prior study may be flagged for prefetch, indicating a dataset should be prefetched from a lower tier memory to a higher tier memory, allowing for faster access to the dataset, from a clinical system. The fit function may be trained based on usage of the prior study datasets, including accounting for false positives and false negatives. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297317 | EXTRACTING KEY ACTION PATTERNS FROM PATIENT EVENT DATA - Systems and methods for data analysis include determining a patient trace as a set of medical events for a patient. Medical events of the patient trace are grouped into subsets of medical events using a processor according to a temporal relationship between the medical events. Co-occurring events are identified from the subsets of medical events as event clusters. A plurality of medical events in one or more of the subsets of the patient trace is represented using the event clusters to condense the patient trace. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297318 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY SCHEDULING PATIENT VISITS BASED ON INFORMATION IN CLINICAL NOTES OF ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS - Systems and methods are provided for automatically scheduling patient visits based on information in electronic medical records (EMRs). In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method for scheduling patient visits based on information in EMRs may be provided and performed by one or more computers associated with a service provider. An EMR for a patient can be evaluated to determine if it contains information indicating a need to schedule a future vising for the patient. Multiple scheduling parameters can be identified in the EMR. A schedule for a healthcare provider can be received, for example by the service provider computer. The schedule of the healthcare provider can be evaluated based on one or more of the identified scheduling parameters. In addition, a suggested appointment time for the future visit for the patient can be identified based at least in part on the evaluation of the schedule. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297319 | Method And Apparatus For Clinically Dynamic Call Center Management - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are described herein for providing a clinically dynamic call center management tool. As such, representatives of various clinics may provide and/or modify practice information, physician information and call scripts specific to their respective clinics. Users with publishing permissions, who may be affiliated with the call center, may publish the clinical content. Call center agents may therefore access clinically dynamic content that may be referenced during a call with a patient regarding a specific clinic. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297320 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING A PERSONAL HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT PORTAL - Systems and methods are provided for the operation of a personal healthcare management portal operable to provide multiple users secure access to a patient's healthcare information. A selection of a patient healthcare management portal associated with a patient may be received by an application tier. The application tier may receive authentication information associated with the selection of the patient healthcare management portal associated with the patient. The application tier may determine if the authentication information is associated with a users valid login credentials. The application tier may receive a request to access patient information, wherein the patient information includes at least one of records, forms, or services associated with the patient. The application tier may also retrieve the requested patient information. The application tier may communicate the requested information to a client device from which the selection originated. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297321 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAPPING MESSAGE DATA - A method, apparatus and computer program product are therefore provided to determine a mapping between healthcare messaging protocols. This mapping may be generated by receiving a message containing a known set of data in an unknown format. The message may be analyzed to identify one or more data fields corresponding to the known data, and the data fields may be mapped to a known structure based on identification of the known data within the message. The process may be repeated until a mapping is generated for each field of the message. In some embodiments, the process may dynamically determine sets of known data to assist with identification of mapping between particular fields of the unknown format with fields of a known message format. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297322 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELAYING PROPAGATION OF PATIENT HEALTHCARE DATA - A method, apparatus and computer program product are therefore in order to provide delayed propagation of patient healthcare data. In this regard, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products may operate to control propagation of healthcare data for a delay period to ensure the accuracy of received medical data. This delay period may function to allow a record keeper to identify and correct any errors associated with the patient healthcare data. The delay period may be dynamic and configurable based on characteristics of the patient healthcare data. The delay period may be adjusted such that a threshold percentage of modifications are captured during the delay period. In some embodiments, the delay period may be associated with particular record characteristics, such as the record keeper that provided the record, a medical specialty associated with the record, patient demographic information, or the like. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297323 | EXTRACTING KEY ACTION PATTERNS FROM PATIENT EVENT DATA - Systems and methods for data analysis include determining a patient trace as a set of medical events for a patient. Medical events of the patient trace are grouped into subsets of medical events using a processor according to a temporal relationship between the medical events. Co-occurring events are identified from the subsets of medical events as event clusters. A plurality of medical events in one or more of the subsets of the patient trace is represented using the event clusters to condense the patient trace. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297324 | EXTRACTING CLINICAL CARE PATHWAYS CORRELATED WITH OUTCOMES - Systems and methods for data analysis include constructing patient traces as a set of medical events for each patient of a patient population, the patient population being segmented based on patient outcomes. Medical events in one or more of the patient traces are reduced to provide processed patient traces. The processed patient traces are clustered to identify a cluster of patient traces. A process model is mined, using a processor, representing an aggregation of treatment pathways in the patient traces from the cluster. Patterns from patient traces are identified that are discriminative of patient outcomes. At least one of the patterns is represented with respect to the process model to identify treatment pathways correlated with the patient outcomes. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297325 | TISSUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The present invention provides a comprehensive tissue management system for transplantable materials like tissues and organs. The tracking portion of the system prompts and verifies that staff members of a medical establishment like a hospital have handled, stored, transported, reconstituted, and used the tissue or organ materials in a safe and regulatory-compliant manner from the point of receipt to the point of issuance or surgical use throughout the hospital's organization. The tracing portion of the system creates an integral record that documents which hospital staff members have provided which processing steps to the tissue or organ, any associated materials used in conjunction with such tissue or organ, and an identification of the tissue or organ that was transplanted or implanted inside a patient. Such a system will enable adverse reaction investigations for transplant patients, and recalls of transplantable materials. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297326 | ELECTRONIC MEDICAL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for providing personalized healthcare information and records specific to healthcare delivery includes obtaining by a processor, (i) a first subscription fee from a patient for a physician to access (a) enhanced communication link for communication between the patient for the physician, and (b) healthcare information and records that are specific to a healthcare delivery of the patient, and (ii) a second subscription fee from the physician for utilizing a service provided by a system, enabling the patient to access a consultation room that provides on-demand peer-to-peer consultations and on-demand communication between the patient and at least one of the physician and an entity, enabling the patient to access an educational facility stored in the database, and generating (i) suggestions comprising health awareness activities for the patient, health reports, and recommended prescriptions based on at least one of the health awareness activities and health reports. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297327 | Universal Caregiver Interface - A care system includes a mobile communication device, a remote server, and a patient support system in communication with either or both of the mobile communication device and the remote server. The mobile communication device operates as a user interface for the patient support system. The remote server provides computing power for the patient support system for resource intensive computing tasks. A system for use in a healthcare facility includes patient care devices located in a patient room. The system also includes an application server located remotely from the patient room. The application server stores application software associated with each patient care device. The system further includes a universal caregiver interface situated in the patient room and in communication with the application server. The universal caregiver interface receives application software from the application server. The universal caregiver interface is then usable to control the operation of each of the plurality of patient care devices in accordance with the application software. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297328 | VIDEO DATA EXTENSION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method extending mobile video data across multiple display hardware platforms is disclosed. The system incorporates a mobile user interface device (MUD) interacting with a video control unit (VCU) to present display video content (DVC) on a video display unit (VDU). The MUD and VCU coordinate to control their respective display content in real-time based on a specific integrated user interaction context (UIC) provided by the MUD to the VCU. The VCU executes the UIC to control the merging in real-time of primary video content (PVC) and secondary video content (SVC) that are combined to form the DVC. Video content processed by the VCU as PVC/SVC input may be sourced from external video sources (EVS) directly connected to the VCU and/or data sourced from a computer communications network (CCN) via routing through the MUD and/or VCU. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297329 | MEDICATION RECONCILIATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method to determine and reconcile medication provided to a patient is disclosed. The system and method collect a medication image file (MIF) of a patient medication collection (PMC) using a mobile user device (MUD) and pill source imager (PSI). The MUD transmits the MIF to a host computer system (HSC) via a computer communication network (CCN). The HSC isolates individual MIF medication image elements (MIE) and compares each MIE against a pill image database (PID) to generate a potential pill match (PPM) list. The PPM is filtered and prioritized to produce a prioritized medication list (PML) using data from a pill correlation database (PCD), patient history database (PHD), and medical reading database (MRD). The PML describes probable PPM associations with specific known medications. A HCS graphical user interface (GUI) permits validation of each MIE/PML pair to produce a patient reconciled validated medication list (VML). | 2014-10-02 |
20140297330 | DISTRIBUTED HEALTHCARE DATABASE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method distributing healthcare database access is disclosed. The system and method interpose a data mapping server (DMS) between a data request user server (DRS) and data service user server (DSS) to manage data transfers between the DSS and the DRS such that disparate database characteristics of the DRS/DSS are accommodated in real-time and permit asynchronous healthcare activity to be triggered. The DMS operates with a data access matrix (DAM) having each referenced DRS/DSS intersection pair associated with read/write control processes (RWP) that include read data (RDD) and write data (WRD) processes to permit data access across the disparate DRS/DSS database boundaries. The DAM may have multiple dimensions to accommodate asynchronously activated process threads within an overall patient healthcare plan (PHP) that operate to trigger healthcare provider alarms and other activity associated with the transfer/update of data between the DSS and the DRS. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297331 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORGANIZING, STORING, COMMUNICATING, AND VERIFYING INFORMATION THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS OF PROVIDING HEALTHCARE SERVICES - The systems and methods of the present disclosure acquire patient information and execute a time-out checklist for verifying information for a procedure to be performed by a healthcare provider. The patient information is acquired by entering patient information in fields of a checklist screen. The acquired patient information is displayed to the patient in a read-only patient data verification screen that includes a verification button that the patient can select to verify whether the displayed patient information is correct. After the patient information is verified by the patient, the patient information is displayed in the checklist screen having verification buttons corresponding to the patient data and items to be verified for the procedure. The verification buttons are enabled after an image of the site marking is captured. The checklist application also acquires audio and/or video during execution of the time-out checklist. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297332 | METHOD AND SYSTEM USING COMBINED HEALTHCARE PAYMENT DEVICE AND WEB PORTAL FOR RECEIVING PATIENT MEDICAL INFORMATION - Embodiments of systems and methods in accordance with the present invention relate to a centralized portal for making healthcare information of a patient accessible to a plurality of entities, including but not limited to the patient himself/herself, healthcare providers authorized by the patient, and healthcare payers (insurance carriers) authorized by the patient. In one embodiment, the portal comprises a website associated with a portable consumer device (such as a HSA magnetic stripe credit/debit card) of the patient, and hosted on a server accessible over the world wide web or another computer network. The patient sets a privacy level associated with his or her medical record on the host site, the privacy level granting certain entities (for example healthcare providers or insurance carriers) access to particular medical records of the patient. Upon presenting the portable consumer device to an authorized healthcare provider, medical information previously transmitted through a payment processing network may be received at the authorized healthcare provider. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297333 | USER-MEDIATOR MEDIATING TRANSFER OF ELECTRONIC CONTENT - Methods, systems and apparatuses for a user-mediator mediating transfer of electronic content, are disclosed. One method includes receiving, by a mediator computing device of the user-mediator, a second share SK | 2014-10-02 |
20140297334 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MACRO LEVEL STRATEGIC PLANNING - According to some embodiments, an indication of a selected metric to be predicted, such as an insurance related metric, may be received. A system may analyze historical information to automatically determine a set of relevant underlying factors for that selected metric and a predictive model may be created. One or more future scenarios associated with an impact on relevant underlying factors may be defined, and a series of predicted impacted future values may be identified for those impacted relevant underlying factors. A series of impacted future values may then be predicted for the selected metric based on the predicted impacted future values and the predictive model. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297335 | REUSABLE PRODUCT SYSTEM - A system is configured to allow a business user to define insurance products based upon reusable product/offering definitions. The reusable product/offerings definitions may include reusable insurance based components and templates, which permit a business user of the software to develop and configure insurance products based upon a hierarchical set of insurance product components and insurance product templates. In addition, the system combines componentization, flexible granularity and reusable product structures to permit a user to more rapidly and predictably generate insurance product configurations and flexibly tailor the insurance products or offerings to meet a specific client or market need. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297336 | System and Method For Using a First Electronic Representation of Contract Terms For Generating a Second Electronic Representation of the Contract Terms - Systems and methods are provided in which contract terms from a first electronic representation of a contract are used to form at least a part of a second electronic representation of the contract. For instance, the first electronic representation of a contract may be formed for use with a first software application, such as an adjudication application, and such first electronic representation of the contract is used by a system to form at least part of a second electronic representation of the contract, wherein such second electronic representation is used by a second software application, such as a contract management application. Disparate applications often utilize different representations of contract terms, and certain embodiments enable a second electronic representation to be formed by the system at least in part from a first electronic representation so that the different electronic representations are consistent as to the overlapping contract terms included therein. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297337 | COMMUNITY TRAVEL BOOKING - A community travel booking operation includes a collaborative or common portion or phase during which multiple travelers in a community are permitted to collaboratively search for travel recommendations and select a travel recommendation for the community, as well as an individual portion or phase during which travelers in the community individually purchase, book or otherwise complete individual reservations for the community's selected travel recommendation. By separating the booking operation into collaborative and individual portions or phases, travelers are permitted to collaborate on the selection of a travel recommendation, yet each traveler is then able to complete the booking of their own respective reservation without necessarily having to share personal or payment information with the other travelers in the community. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297338 | System and Method for Optimizing Ticket Cost over a Travel Itinerary - A system and method that optimize ticket cost given a travel itinerary. With the information of tourist attractions the user wants to visit, group of people the user is traveling with, and the schedule of the trip, such as the start and end date and time of the trip, the system builds a travel itinerary that optimizes user's budget. The system considers various conditions of the traveler and co-travelers, such as age, status, and trip schedule of the traveler, to find the cheapest ticket combination over multiple tourist attractions the traveler plans to visit. By properly parsing open hours of each tourist attraction and ticket, the system automatically considers availability of each tourist attraction and ticket given the traveler's tour schedule. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297339 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management system includes a memory storing first information including a user identification and a first reservation time period of an information processing device, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to activate the first information at a start of the first reservation time period, deactivate the first information at an end of the first reservation time period, receive the first information from the information processing device, and permit an operation of the information processing device based on the first information stored in the memory and the first information sent by the information processing device. | 2014-10-02 |
20140297340 | PRUNING OF VALUE DRIVER TREES - An apparatus for pruning a value driver tree includes memory configured to store a value driver tree including one or more parent metrics determined to be of value to a party and one or more child metrics associated with the one or more parent metrics, and configured to store historical metrics data. The apparatus includes a processor configured to perform a statistical analysis on the value driver tree based on the historical metrics data, and configured to prune the value driver tree based on the statistical analysis by altering a relationship on the value driver tree of the one or more child metrics to the one or more parent metrics to generate a refined value drive tree. | 2014-10-02 |