40th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 69 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110246160 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND CERTIFICATION OF TRAINING SIMULATORS FOR AIRCRAFT PILOTING AND RESULTING SIMULATION DEVICE - The invention in particular has as an object a method and a device for developing and qualifying a part of the software component of a training simulator for operating a vehicle. Software modules developed for an engineering simulator, modeling the performance of a part of the vehicle, are integrated ( | 2011-10-06 |
20110246161 | METHOD FOR INTEGRATED INVERSION DETERMINATION OF ROCK AND FLUID PROPERTIES OF EARTH FORMATIONS - A method for determining rock and fluid properties of a fluid-containing subsurface geological formation is provided. First, a low resolution model of the geological formation is initially created from a lumped average parameter estimation derived from at least fluid pressure transient data obtained along a linear wellbore that traverses the formation. Next, the model parameters are updated using grid-based parameter estimation in which the low resolution pressure transient data are combined with data from at least one of seismic data, formation logs, and basic geological structural information surrounding the linear wellbore. Depending on the data available, this process may be carried out in a sequential manner by obtaining and combining additional dynamic data at selected areas. Through this process, multiple realizations of the properties of the geological formation (within the geological structural model) may be created based from the pressure-data conditioned geostatistics i.e. geostatistics that have been informed by data from both static and dynamic sources. Finally, the dynamic simulation of models should be compared to the results of the lumped average parameter estimation to provide a final calibration of the created models. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246162 | TANK WASH SYSTEM - A tank wash visualization method for planning a tank wash cycle with respect to a tank includes creating a CFD model of the tank system, applying a plurality of parameters to the model, validating the CFD model, including alternate geometries in the model, and based on the model, determining the minimum time needed to successfully clean all parts of the tank. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246163 | Optimizing Well Operating Plans - Methods and systems for making decisions related to the operation of a hydrocarbon well include 1) characterizing effective production capacity of a reservoir over space and time based at least in part on a reservoir potential and a near-well capacity; 2) determining an optimized well potential over space and time relative to the characterized effective production capacity using a well model of a simulated well accessing the reservoir; and 3) determining at least one well operating plan component that can be incorporated into a well operating plan to provide the optimized well potential in a well accessing the reservoir. The optimized well potential may be determined based at least in part on an objective function that considers at least one of a plurality of decision-making factors, such as one or more of operations costs, operational risks, and modeled production rates over the life of the well. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246164 | Methods For Performing Simulation of Surfactant Flooding of a Hydrocarbon Reservoir - The present invention performs numerical simulation of surfactant flooding during enhanced oil recovery of a given hydrocarbon reservoir. The present invention utilizes an improved method for determining relative permeability while maintaining physical consistency when the phase behavior varies between different phase Types. This new relative permeability model maintains the physical consistency in the transition from Type II(−) to Type III to Type II(+) systems and vice versa. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246165 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING TREATMENT TABLES FOR REFRACTIVE SURGERY - Treatment table verification techniques involve comparing intended refraction information with expected optical refraction information, and validating or qualifying the treatment table based on such comparisons. Systems and methods for verifying treatment tables provide enhanced safety for laser vision correction treatments. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246166 | METHOD OF PREDICTING PROTEIN-LIGAND DOCKING STRUCTURE BASED ON QUANTUM MECHANICAL SCORING - Provided is a protein-ligand docking prediction method based on quantum mechanical scoring. The method includes evaluating a protein-ligand docking structure by using a molecular mechanical energy-based scoring function and reevaluating the protein-ligand docking structure by using a rescoring function obtained by combining a quantum mechanical factor with the molecular mechanical energy-based scoring function. In accordance with the method using the quantum mechanical scoring, it is possible to more accurately carry out modeling than conventional force field-based methods. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246167 | SIMULATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - (a) Regarding a particle system S in which the number of particles is N, the mass of each particle is m, and inter-particle interaction potential energy can be expressed by εf, α greater than 1, γ equal to or greater than 0 and equal to or smaller than d, and δ equal to or greater than 0 are determined using a dimension number d of a space where the particle system S is arranged to obtain the number N′ of renormalized particles by N′=N/α | 2011-10-06 |
20110246168 | METHOD FOR SIMULATING A COMPLEX SYSTEM WITH EXPANSION OF INSTANCE VECTORS, CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND STORAGE MEANS - A method for simulating a complex system including a plurality of constituents is provided. The method includes constructing at least one complex system model, each system model including a hierarchised set of modelled constituents. The construction step includes, for each model, obtaining a multiple instance hierarchical model including at least one instance vector corresponding to a plurality of instances of one and the same modelled constituent, each instance vector being able to be located at any level of a hierarchical decomposition tree of the multiple instance hierarchical model. The construction step additionally includes, for each model, expanding the multiple instance hierarchical model into an expanded model by expansion of at least one instance vector included in the multiple instance hierarchical model. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246169 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING DESIGNING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor circuit designing supporting system, includes: a storage unit in which two models of a first model and a second model are stored as device models a semiconductor device; and an operation unit. The operating unit includes: a characteristic variation calculating section configured to calculate a variation of a device characteristic when process parameters are varied by using the first model; and an analyzing section configured to normalize based on the variation, an error between a device characteristic calculated by using the second model and actual measurement data and to analyze the second model by using the normalized error. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246170 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING A RECONFIGURABLE PROCESSOR - A processor simulation technique to evaluate the performance of a processor that executes application programs is provided. The processor simulation technique may be used to optimize the execution of an application program. A simulator of a reconfigurable processor including a plurality of functional units models a processor by representing routing paths between functional units that generate operands and functional units that consume the operands. The size of each queue may be decided based on information regarding routing delays between functional units and stage information of iteration loops according to modulo scheduling received from a scheduler. A modeling code DB that stores host-oriented binary codes for operations of routing queues is also provided. The simulation may be performed by executing a host-directed binary code corresponding to a binary file instead of the binary file. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246171 | Virtual Machine Fast Emulation Assist - Techniques for reducing virtual machine input/output emulation overhead and decreasing the attack surface of a virtual machine architecture are disclosed. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246172 | Method and System for Adding Translation in a Videoconference - A multilingual multipoint videoconferencing system provides real-time translation of speech by conferees. Audio streams containing speech may be converted into text and inserted as subtitles into video streams. Speech may also be translated from one language to another, with the translated speech inserted into video streams as and choose the subtitles or replacing the original audio stream with speech in the other language generated by a text to speech engine. Different conferees may receive different translations of the same speech based on information provided by the conferees on desired languages. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246173 | Interactive Multilingual Word-Alignment Techniques - Techniques for interactively presenting word-alignments of multilingual translations and automatically improving those translations based upon user feedback are described herein. With one or more implementations of the techniques described herein, a word-alignment user-interface (UI) concurrently displays a pair of bilingual sentences, where one is a translation of the other, and interactively highlights linked (i.e., “word-aligned”) words and phrases of the pair. Other implementations of the techniques described herein offer an option for a user to provide feedback about the existing word-alignments or realign the words or phrases. In still other described implementations, word-alignment is automatically improved based upon that user feedback. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246174 | Method and system for situational language interpretation - In a particular embodiment, a method and apparatus are disclosed for facilitating an interview where the interviewer and interviewee speak different languages. In an embodiment, a system is disclosed that includes a speaker to output audio information, at least one interface to communicate with a display device, a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory includes instructions executable by the processor to determine an interviewee language from a plurality of languages, store collected data and data related to the determined interviewee language, receive a first interviewee information item and a second interviewee information item associated with a topic selection from an interviewer system. The instructions further include instructions to provide the first interviewee information item to the speaker for acoustic output in the interviewee language and to provide the second interviewee information item to the at least one interface to communicate with the display device. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246175 | E-BOOK READER LANGUAGE MAPPING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method operable for providing contextually triggered vocabulary information on at least one display screen of an E-book reader are disclosed. A character group comprising a target language character group is displayed on the at least one display screen. A local or a remote electronic pre-translated primary language resource is provided in response to a user selecting a word or sentence in the target language character group. The electronic pre-translated primary language electronic resource is searched to obtain a pre-translated primary language character group corresponding to the target language character group. A synchronized pre-translated primary language character group is obtained by synchronizing the pre-translated primary language words or sentences to words or sentences in the target language. The synchronized pre-translated primary language character group is displayed on the at least one display screen. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246176 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PRE-FLIGHT BRIEFING INFORMATION TO A USER DEVICE - An automated method and related system of providing pre-flight briefing information to a remote user device are presented here. The system receives, from the remote user device via a data communication network, a customized pre-flight briefing request that includes a user-specified presentation format, a user-specified language, and a user-specified geographic region. In response to receiving the customized pre-flight briefing request, at least one data source is interrogated to obtain pre-flight briefing data. The pre-flight briefing data is processed in accordance with the user-specified presentation format, the user-specified language, and the user-specified geographic region, resulting in processed pre-flight briefing data. The system generates at least one presentation file from the processed pre-flight briefing data, and provides the at least one presentation file to the remote user device. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246177 | SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS AND HIERARCHICAL PHRASE MODEL BASED MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A syntactic analysis and hierarchical phrase model based machine translation system and method are provided. The machine translation system includes a word alignment module, a phrase extraction module, a gender syntactic annotation module, a syntactic based noncontiguous phrase abstract module, a noncontiguous phrase based translation module and an evaluation module. The machine translation system and method performs syntactic analysis based on a common contiguous phrase based machine translation model, and extracts a syntactic based noncontiguous phrase rule set from a bilingual aligned text, so as to address and issue of noncontiguous fixed custom in context of a whole sentence, and to comply with syntactic features of a language, translation is performed based on the noncontiguous phrase rule set and the phrase aligned table, and the translation results are evaluated based on the evaluation model, thereby improving the translation result. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246178 | Solving Character Display Ambiguities - A method for decoding an ambiguous character code. The method includes a user equipment (UE) receiving a character code that refers to a first character in a first language and to a second character in a second language. The method further includes the UE using language discrimination information available to the UE for other purposes to determine whether to display the first character or the second character. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246179 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPROACH TO SENTIMENT ANALYSIS FOR ENTITIES IN DOCUMENTS - A document can be processed to provide sentiment values for phrases in the document. The sequence of sentiment values associated with the sequence of phrases in a document can be handled as if they were a sampled discrete time signal. For phrases which have been identified as entities, a filtering operation can be applied to the sequence of sentiment values around each entity to determine a sentiment value for the entity. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246180 | ENHANCING LANGUAGE DETECTION IN SHORT COMMUNICATIONS - A method, system, and computer usable program product for enhancing language detection in short communications are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A short communication is stored in an element of a line cache. The line cache is accessible to an application executing in a data processing system. The element is an element in a set of elements in the line cache. A compound text is assembled from contents of a subset of the elements of the line cache. A language identifier (language ID) is received for the compound text from a language detection algorithm. The language ID is stored in a language cache element of a language ID cache. The language ID cache is accessible to the application and includes a set of language cache elements. A language of the short communication is determined using the contents of a subset of language cache elements. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246181 | NLP-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING QUOTATIONS - Techniques for providing quotations obtained from text documents using natural language processing techniques are described. Some embodiments provide a content recommendation system (“CRS”) configured to provide quotations by extracting quotations from a corpus text documents, and providing access to the extracted quotations in response to search requests received from users. The CRS may extract quotations by using natural language processing-based techniques to identify one or more entities, such as people, places, objects, concepts, or the like, that are referenced by the extracted quotations. The CRS may then store the extracted quotations along with identified entities, such as quotation speakers and subjects, for later access via search requests. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246182 | SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING AND PRESENTING NARRATIVE CONTENT - In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions that when executed cause a processor to select a narrative content template based at least in part on a predetermined content type associated with a real-world and/or virtual event. The code further represents instructions that when executed cause the processor to select a narrative tone type. The code further represents instructions that when executed cause the processor to, for each phrase included in an ordered set of phrases associated with the narrative content template, select, based at least in part on the narrative tone type, a phrase variation from a set of phrase variations associated with that phrase, and define, based on the selected phrase variation and at least one datum from a set of data, a narrative content portion associated with the real-world event. The code further represents instructions that when executed cause the processor to output, at a display, the narrative content portion. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246183 | TOPIC TRANSITION ANALYSIS SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides a topic transition analysis system that determines a position on a primary media stream leading to a certain statement made in a language communication carried out in a secondary channel associated with the primary media stream. The topic transition analysis system includes a statement trigger string determination unit receiving a primary media stream and one or a plurality of language communication streams (hereinafter, language streams) executed in parallel with the media stream and determining whether or not a certain statement on the one or plurality of language streams has been made newly in response to contents of the media stream. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246184 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCREASING ACCURACY OF SEARCHES BASED ON COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Disclosed are systems, methods and computer-readable media for using a local communication network to generate a speech model. The method includes retrieving for an individual a list of numbers in a calling history, identifying a local neighborhood associated with each number in the calling history, truncating the local neighborhood associated with each number based on the at least one parameter, retrieving a local communication network associated with each number in the calling history and each phone number in the local neighborhood, and creating a language model for the individual based on the retrieved local communication network. The generated language model may be used for improved automatic speech recognition for audible searches as well as other modules in a spoken dialog system. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246185 | VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTOR, VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION PROGRAM, AND PARAMETER ADJUSTING METHOD - A frame extracting means | 2011-10-06 |
20110246186 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including a storage unit that stores music data for playing music and lyrics data indicating lyrics of the music, a display control unit that displays the lyrics of the music on a screen, a playback unit that plays the music and a user interface unit that detects a user input. The lyrics data includes a plurality of blocks each having lyrics of at least one character. The display control unit displays the lyrics of the music on the screen in such a way that each block included in the lyrics data is identifiable to a user while the music is played by the playback unit. The user interface unit detects timing corresponding to a boundary of each section of the music corresponding to each displayed block in response to a first user input. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246187 | SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING - A speech signal processing system comprises an audio processor ( | 2011-10-06 |
20110246188 | NONVOLATILE STORAGE SYSTEM AND MUSIC SOUND GENERATION SYSTEM - A music sound generation system is formed with a high sound quality and with a small size using a large-capacity NAND flash memory for storing music sound data. Music sound data is divided into N pitch groups and stored into N different storage modules as being divided in these storage modules. A sound generation command classification unit ( | 2011-10-06 |
20110246189 | DICTATION CLIENT FEEDBACK TO FACILITATE AUDIO QUALITY - An audio quality feedback system and method is provided. The system receives audio from a client via a communication device such as a microphone, The audio quality feedback system compares the received audio to one or more parameters regarding the quality of the feedback. The parameters include, for example, clipping, periods of silence, signal to noise ratios. Based on the comparison, feedback is generated to allow adjustment of the communication device or use of the communication device to improve the quality of the audio. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246190 | SPEECH DIALOG APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a speech dialog apparatus includes a speech detection unit that detects a start and an end of echo removed speech obtained by removing an echo of response speech contained in input speech; a response interruption control unit that outputs a response interruption command if the end is not yet detected when a predetermined period from the detection of the start passes; and a dialog control unit that causes a response speech output unit to interrupt output of the response speech upon receipt of the response interruption command from the response interruption control unit. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246191 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND PEER APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING MULTI-CHANNEL VOICE MIXING - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and peer apparatus for implementing multi-channel voice mixing, which belongs to a network communication field. The method includes: obtaining, by each peer, voice mixing quality parameters of super peers which are determined from peers according to information processing abilities of the peers; obtaining, by peers with voice input in the peers, priorities of the super peers according to the voice mixing quality parameters, and selecting at least one super peer for voice mixing from all the super peers according to the priorities of the super peers; mixing, by the at least one super peer for voice mixing, audio data of each peer with voice input; and publishing mixed data. The present invention selects a super peer to replace the existing server for implementing multi-channel voice mixing and publishing mixed data. Thus, server costs and bandwidth resources can be saved. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246192 | Speech Quality Evaluation System and Storage Medium Readable by Computer Therefor - In prediction of a speech quality evaluation score such as a phone speech, even when a background noise exists, a subjective opinion score is predicted with high precision. A speech quality evaluation system that outputs a predicted value of the subjective opinion score for an evaluation speech such as a far-end speech of a phone, includes a speech distortion calculation unit conducts, after calculating frequency characteristics of the evaluation speech, a process of subtracting given frequency characteristics from frequency characteristics of the evaluation speech, and calculates the speech distortion on the basis of the frequency characteristics after the subtracting process has been conducted, and a subjective evaluation prediction unit that calculates the predicted value of the subjective opinion score on the basis of the speech distortion. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246193 | SIGNAL SEPARATION METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM USING THE SIGNAL SEPARATION METHOD - A method for signal separation, communication system, and voice recognition system using the method are disclosed. The method which is performed by an apparatus for signal separation includes receiving a mixed signal, wherein a first signal based on a first sound source signal and a second signal based on a second sound source signal are mixed, via a single voice input sensor, applying the modified BSS algorithm for separating the first sound source signal and the second sound source signal based on the received mixed signal, and separating the first sound source signal according to the result of applying the modified BSS algorithm. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246194 | Indicia to indicate a dictation application is capable of receiving audio - A client station having access to an application is provided. The application has at least one indicia having a first configuration and a second configuration different from the first configuration. The second configuration indicating the application is able to accept input. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246195 | HIERARCHICAL QUICK NOTE TO ALLOW DICTATED CODE PHRASES TO BE TRANSCRIBED TO STANDARD CLAUSES - A dictation system that allows using trainable code phrases is provided. The dictation system operates by receiving audio and recognizing the audio as text. The text/audio may contain code phrases that are identified by a comparator that matches the text/audio and replaces the code phrase with a standard clause that is associated with the code phrase. The database or memory containing the code phrases is loaded with matched standard clauses that may be identified to provide a hierarchal system such that certain code phrases may have multiple meanings depending on the user. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246196 | INTEGRATED VOICE BIOMETRICS CLOUD SECURITY GATEWAY - A triple factor authentication in one step method and system is disclosed. According to one embodiment, an Integrated Voice Biometrics Cloud Security Gateway (IVCS Gateway) intercepts an access request to a resource server from a user using a user device. IVCS Gateway then authenticates the user by placing a call to the user device and sending a challenge message prompting the user to respond by voice. After receiving the voice sample of the user, the voice sample is compared against a stored voice biometrics record for the user. The voice sample is also converted into a text phrase and compared against a stored secret text phrase. In an alternative embodiment, an IVCS Gateway that is capable of making non-binary access decisions and associating multiple levels of access with a single user or group is described. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246197 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR CERTIFYING A VOICE PROFILE WHEN TRANSMITTING TEXT MESSAGES FOR SYNTHESIZED SPEECH - A mechanism is provided for authenticating and using a personal voice profile. The voice profile may be issued by a trusted third party, such as a certification authority. The personal voice profile may include information for generating a digest or digital signature for text messages. A speech synthesis system may speak the text message using the voice characteristics, such as prosodic characteristics, only if the voice profile is authenticated and the text message is valid and free of tampering. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246198 | METHOD FOR VERYFYING THE IDENTITY OF A SPEAKER AND RELATED COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND COMPUTER - The present invention refers to a method for verifying the identity of a speaker based on the speakers voice comprising the steps of: a) receiving a voice utterance; b) using biometric voice data to verify ( | 2011-10-06 |
20110246199 | SPEECH SYNTHESIZER - According to one embodiment, a speech synthesizer generates a speech segment sequence and synthesizes speech by connecting speech segments of the generated speech segment sequence. If a speech segment of a synthesized first speech segment sequence is different from the speech segment of a synthesized second speech segment sequence having the same synthesis unit as the first speech segment sequence, the speech synthesizer disables the speech segment of the first speech segment sequence that is different from the speech segment of the second speech segment sequence. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246200 | PRE-SAVED DATA COMPRESSION FOR TTS CONCATENATION COST - Pre-saved concatenation cost data is compressed through speech segment grouping. Speech segments are assigned to a predefined number of groups based on their concatenation cost values with other speech segments. A representative segment is selected for each group. The concatenation cost between two segments in different groups may then be approximated by that between the representative segments of their respective groups, thereby reducing an amount of concatenation cost data to be pre-saved. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246201 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AUDIO MESSAGES ON A MOBILE DEVICE - While performing a function, a mobile device identifies that it is idle while it is downloading content or performing another task. During that idle time, it gathers one or more parameters (e.g., location, time, gender of user, age of user, etc.) and sends a request for an audio message (e.g., audio advertisement). One or more servers at a remote facility receive the request with the one or more parameters, and use the parameters to identify a targeted message. In some cases, the targeted message will include one or more dynamic variables (e.g., distance to store, time to event, etc.) that will be replaced based on the parameters received from the mobile device, so that the audio message is dynamically updated and customized for the mobile device. In one embodiment, the targeted message is transmitted to the mobile device as text. After being received at the mobile device, the text is optionally displayed and converted to an audio format and played for the user. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246202 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO WATERMARKING A SUBSTANTIALLY SILENT MEDIA CONTENT PRESENTATION - Methods and apparatus for audio watermarking a substantially silent media content presentation are disclosed. An example method to audio watermark a media content presentation disclosed herein comprises obtaining a watermarked noise signal comprising a watermark and a noise signal having energy substantially concentrated in an audible frequency band, the watermarked noise signal attenuated to be substantially inaudible without combining with a separate audio signal, associating the watermarked noise signal with a substantially silent content component of the media content presentation, the media content presentation comprising one or more media content components, and outputting the watermarked noise signal during presentation of the substantially silent content component. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246203 | Dynamic Interactive Voice Interface - A dynamic voice user interface system is provided. The dynamic voice user interface system interacts with a user at a first level of formality. The voice user interface system then monitors history of user interaction and adjusts the voice user interface to interact with the user with a second level of formality based on the history of user interaction. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246204 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - An image display device includes a display unit, a storage unit, a voice receiving unit and a processing unit. The storage unit stores a plurality of image data, a plurality of voice data and a plurality of image files, wherein each of the image data is corresponding to one of the voice data respectively. The voice receiving unit receives a current voice. The processing unit judges whether the current voice is similar to one of the voice data, so as to determine one image data corresponding to the current voice. When the current voice is similar to one of the voice data, the processing unit determines whether each of the image files contains the image data corresponding to the current voice and then displays the image file(s), which contain the image data corresponding to the current voice, on the display unit. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246205 | METHOD FOR DETECTING AUDIO SIGNAL TRANSIENT AND TIME-SCALE MODIFICATION BASED ON SAME - A method for detecting a transient in an audio signal that has been broken up into frames includes obtaining a time domain feature of the frames and comparing the domain feature with a predetermined value. If the time domain feature is greater than the predetermined value, the frames are taken as transient and if the time domain feature is less than the predetermined value, the frames are taken as non-transient. The method has a low computational intensity and is thus very suitable for devices with limited processing resources. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246206 | AUDIO DECODING SYSTEM AND AN AUDIO DECODING METHOD THEREOF - An audio decoding system including a decoder decoding a first part of audio data, and an audio buffer compressor compressing and storing the decoded first part of audio data in a first time interval and decompressing the stored first part of audio data in a second time interval. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246207 | APPARATUS FOR PLAYING AND PRODUCING REALISTIC OBJECT AUDIO - Disclosed is an apparatus for playing and producing realistic object audio. The apparatus for playing realistic object audio includes: a deformatter unit individually separating scene description (SD) compression data and object audio compression data from inputted audio files; an SD decoding unit decoding the SD compression data to restore SD information; an object audio decoding unit decoding the object audio compression data to restore object audio signals which are respective audio signals of a plurality of objects; and an object audio effect unit adding an audio effect for each object to the object audio signals according to SD information for each object corresponding to the object audio signals among the SD information to produce a realistic object audio signal corresponding to each of the object audio signals. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246208 | Method and Apparatus for Decoding an Audio Signal - An apparatus for decoding an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving the audio signal and spatial information, identifying a type of modified spatial information, generating the modified spatial information using the spatial information, and decoding the audio signal using the modified spatial information, wherein the type of the modified spatial information includes at least one of partial spatial information, combined spatial information and expanded spatial information. Accordingly, an audio signal can be decoded into a configuration different from a configuration decided by an encoding apparatus. Even if the number of speakers is smaller or greater than that of multi-channels before execution of downmixing, it is able to generate output channels having the number equal to that of the speakers from a downmix audio signal. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246209 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING CUSTOMER FLOW AND ARRIVAL TIMES USING POSITIONAL TRACKING OF MOBILE DEVICES - A method and system for predicting customer flow and arrival times using positional tracking of mobile devices whereby data associated with one or more participating businesses is obtained including, but not limited to, the business name and the business location. The positions of one or more mobile devices associated with one or more consumers are tracked and an estimated direction/path and speed of the one or more consumers is thereby determined. A probability that the one or more consumers will utilize a particular participating business and/or products/services associated with a participating business, is then determined and the estimated arrival times at the particular participating business of consumers deemed probable to utilize the particular participating business is calculated. Data representing the number of consumers deemed probable to utilize the particular participating business and/or the estimated arrival times at the particular participating business of consumers deemed probable to utilize the particular participating business is then provided to the particular participating business. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246210 | TRAFFIC MONITORING SYSTEM - The invention relates to traffic flow monitoring devices. The system includes stationary traffic monitoring points that includes reading devices to receive data from electronic tag located on a vehicle, and is connected to a remote server that includes a database of vehicles and associated electronic tags, and their owners. The stationary traffic monitoring points are in the form of autonomous small-sized computer devices with a cellular communication module, and includes automatic devices for photo-video-radar recording and for processing information about vehicles and traffic situation, and with automatic software tools for determining the parameters of the vehicles, traffic laws and for comparing them with the permissible parameters for the particular road section. Software tools can automatically qualify the violations of the traffic safety rules and contingency events and make decisions with respect thereto, and can automatically transmit information via a mobile communication network from stationary traffic monitors to transmitter/receiver of a nearest mobile communication operator and from there to the remote server via the Internet. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246211 | JOB HISTORY COMPLEMENTING METHOD FOR EDI CUSTOMERS - To provide a method of complementing history information on a job, which has been performed by a company incapable of acquiring information on a level on which individual products can be discriminated from one another (hereinafter called an individual level), by utilizing business deal information, which is transferred through EDI (hereinafter called an EDI message) as long as one of two companies that make a business deal with each other through EDI can acquire job history information while discriminating the individual products from one another. In a turnaround deal to which an ID that uniquely specifies the deal is assigned (hereinafter called a deal number) in relation to a series of jobs that starts with ordering succeeded by shipment and receipt, testing, acceptance inspection, and payment, a job history is complemented by performing calculation on an individual level using a deal number as a key on the basis of EDI messages containing the deal number and job history information of the individual level acquired during any of the series of jobs. At this time, the number of records in the acquired job history information of the individual level is inconsistent with a value of a quantity acquired from the EDI message, a probability value or a virtual ID is used to complement the job history. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246212 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HIGH VALUE ASSET REGISTRATION, AUTHENTICATION, CLEAR TITLE UNDERWRITING, VALUATION, WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT, TRADING AND LIEN RECORDING - A method and system for high value asset registration, authentication, clear title underwriting, valuation, work flow management, trading and lien recording are described. According to one embodiment, a computer-implement method comprises receiving from one or more client computers, a high value asset registration request. High value asset data is received. The high value asset data includes one or more of high value asset description data, high value asset image data, clear title underwriting data, trading platform data, lien data, work flow management data, artist and designer data, assessment protocol and valuation data, insurance provider data, administrative data, business development data, historical sales transaction data, auction and private sales data, and dealer demand data. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246213 | TECHNIQUES FOR OFFERING CONTEXT TO SERVICE PROVIDERS UTILIZING AN APPROVAL SERVICE AND INCENTIVES UTLIZING ONLINE SECURE PROFILE STORAGE - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method of offering incentive based context to service providers, comprising capturing context information of a user and distributing the context information to the service provider, the user capable of using a plurality of context capturing devices that all coordinate with an online secure profile storage service to provide a highly-available entity with which all the plurality of context capturing devices share profile information, wherein the profile storage service enables access to a user's profile by online services when any or all of the user's devices are offline, and wherein the service provider provides an incentive to the user for the context information. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246214 | TECHNIQUES TO IDENTIFY IN-MARKET PURCHASING INTERESTS - An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising identifying in-market purchasing interests and representing them as a user goal to determine when a user is in-market for a specific product and to determine general shopping preferences and habits of the user, and wherein the goal has a timeline, and goal satisfaction can be identified via a variety of contextual inputs selected from the group consisting of: location; traces from online shopping activity; credit card bills; or a pay-by-phone transactions. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246215 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTO-REPLENISHMENT AND MONITORING OF A MEDICAL INSTRUMENT - A replenishment center connected to a plurality of analyzer systems each comprising at least one analyzer module which performs analysis using a replenishable item is disclosed. The replenishment center includes a receiver configured to receive operation information from at least one of the plurality of analyzer systems that relates to utilization of the replenishable item, a database configured to record the operation information in relation to the at least one of the plurality of analyzer systems, an inventory calculator configured to calculate and store in the database a remaining quantity of inventory of the replenishable item kept for the at least one of the plurality of analyzer systems, based on the operation information recorded in the database, and a suggested order generator configured to generate, when the calculated remaining quantity becomes less than a predetermined threshold, a suggested order programmed to give a user of the at least one of the plurality of analyzer systems an option of accepting or rejecting the suggested order. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246216 | Online Pre-Registration for Patient Intake - Described herein are techniques for enabling a patient to pre-register for a medical visit to a healthcare facility (e.g., a hospital) online. Also described herein are techniques that enable a hospital staff to pre-process a patient's pre-registration intake forms before the patient arrives for the medical visit at the healthcare facility. With some of the described techniques, the patient's pre-registration intake forms may have been customized to match the needs and desires of the healthcare facility, its departments, and/or the healthcare providers (e.g., nurses, physicians, etc.) taking care of the patient during the visit. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246217 | Sampling Patient Data - In an embodiment, a computer includes one or more processors; a computer readable storage medium comprising a sequence of instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause: transmitting, to a second computer over a network, a first subset of patient data; receiving, from the second computer, a command for additional data, wherein the command is based on the first subset of the patient data; identifying a second subset of the patient data based on the command; transmitting, to the second computer, the second subset of the patient data; wherein the first subset of the patient data and the second subset of the patient data were collected by one or more biometric sensors within a same medical examination session. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246218 | PRESCRIPTION FULFILLMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A system for fulfillment by a medical products supplier of medical prescriptions issued by a prescriptionist for patients with reimbursement by a third party provider, in which a patient has a prescription authorization card having an electronically addressable memory encoded with patient medical information including medical history, images, and a medical prescription selectively recorded into the memory by a data station and communicating the prescription to the medical products supplier and a distributor that provides the medical product from the medical products supplier to the patient upon presentation of the prescription authorization card to the distributor, a second data station configured for authenticating the fulfillment and delivery of the medical product to the patient, with the prescription authorization card including a connector for selecting connection and communication of medical information from the memory to an authorized accessor. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246219 | System and Method of Integrated Logistics Management for Inventory - A system and method of managing the logistics of trays and lots of medical inventory, such as surgical implants, from the manufacturer's initial release until final discharge by the end user healthcare provider. The system is driven by one or more software applications running on a central, secure server accessible by remote handheld telecommunication devices. The software platform comprises several assemblies integrated into the system, the assemblies including: a database access layer assembly, a business rules assembly, an entity or business object assembly, a web service assembly, a database connection assembly, a presentation assembly for a handheld device and a presentation assembly for a website and windows program. Additional features of the system could include a geographic map, an inventory list of trays and corresponding lots, an imaging assembly to read barcodes or other optic identifiers, an Food and Drug Administration news assembly incorporating a live RSS news feed for releases about product defects or recalls, a web browser, and a notebook assembly to enter customized notes in free form text. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246220 | Web Based Care Team Portal - Implementations of the present disclosure provide a method for managing the care of a patient that includes receiving patient data including a patient condition at a computing device, where a portion of the patient data is transmitted to the computing device from a clinical information system over a network, determining a patient risk level based on the patient data, and generating a patient care plan based on the patient data that includes tasks based on the patient risk level. The method further includes receiving user input at the computing device, assigning members to a care team responsible for execution of tasks based on the user input, generating a required action corresponding to each task, transmitting the action to a computing device associated with a member responsible for execution of an action related task, and monitoring execution of the tasks based on task data received at the computing device. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246221 | Medication Administration And Patient Health Management Strategies, And Systems For Same - A patient health management system includes a personal computing system having a computer readable memory storing computer executable code. The system further includes a microprocessor configured to execute the computer executable code and compare stored medication library data with image data associated with a digital image of a medication captured by a digital imaging device of the personal computing system. The microprocessor is further configured to link profile data for a patient-user of the personal computing system with identification data for the medication and output an administration confirmation request based on the linked data. The administration confirmation request may include a wireless signal transmitted to a remote computing system to enable a remote computer or a health services provider to confirm that planned self-administration of medication by a patient is correct. Pharmacy errors, potential medication interaction, and other conflicts may be proactively addressed, and the patient may be alerted via signals sent to a personal communication device. Action conditions other than potential conflicts may also be detected and addressed, such as suitability for patient participation in clinical research studies. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246222 | REVIEWING TESTS ON CLIENT DEVICES - A client device facilitates review of electrocardiogram (ECG) tests. The client device performs the ECG tests on one or more patients and sends results of the ECG tests to an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system for storage. In addition, the client device displays a test history interface on a display screen. A user of the client device can select one of the ECG tests. In response, the client device communicates with one or more devices to retrieve results of the selected ECG test. The client device displays information about the selected ECG test on the display screen. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246223 | ACTIVE COMPLEX EVENT PROCESSING OR INFECTION CONTROL AND HYGIENE MONITORING - An apparatus, system and method for processing a stream of events in accordance with a set of queries that apply complex event pattern matching, and for performance of actions in accordance with active rules associated with those queries. The execution of actions can take the form of system state changes that in turn can affect the outcome of other queries. Scheduling policies assure both correct and high-performance execution of concurrent event pattern queries and active rules. The stream of events can be associated with a variety of applications including monitoring of hygiene and infection control activities associated with health care. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246224 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING, COLLECTING, AND TRACKING QUALITY DATA ACROSS A VAST HEALTHCARE PROVIDER NETWORK - A system and method for gathering quality data for a plurality of healthcare providers over an extended computer network is disclosed. The system and method comprise an enhanced services server in electronic data communication with a plurality of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems via a network connection, the plurality of EHR systems being configured to capture patient data for a plurality of patients at the plurality of healthcare providers' sites during a plurality of encounters with each of the plurality of patients, and the enhanced services server being built on the same architecture as the plurality of EHR systems. Electronic quality of care forms are retrieved from one or more form managers via the network connection and a plurality of fields in each of the electronic quality of care forms are automatically populated using the patient data captured by the plurality of EHR systems. The completed electronic quality of care forms are then automatically transmitted to one or more form receivers via the network connection, the one or more form receivers being one or more organizations that process quality of care data to qualify healthcare providers for at least one of certifications, accreditations, and monetary incentives. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246225 | INTEGRATED MEDICAL SOFTWARE SYSTEM WITH PATIENT PRE-APPROVALS - An integrated medical software system with a patient registration software component executed by a processor of the system to capture patient information is disclosed. The system and method comprise a section where demographic data is input for the patient, said demographic data including at least one of a digital photograph, a name, an address, a date of birth, a social security number, and a sex of the patient; a section where financial data is input for the patient, said financial data including at least one of financial responsibility, outstanding balances, insurance coverage, insurance claims currently being processed, and account information of the patient; and a section where administrative data is input for the patient, said administrative data including at least one of scheduling information, reminders and alerts, visit check-in and check-out, and system preferences for the patient, wherein the patient is pre-approved for at least one of a referral, a hospital admission, a clinician's order, a medical procedure, or a medication that would otherwise require prior approval based on at least one of the demographic data, the financial data, and the administrative data. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246226 | INTEGRATED MEDICAL SOFTWARE SYSTEM WITH ADVANCED PATIENT SCHEDULING - An integrated medical software system with a patient scheduling module for scheduling patient visits is disclosed. The module comprises a section where a user adds and removes clinical and administrative flags that are associated with patients and that are displayed as reminders when the patients schedule visits, said clinical flags alerting the user to a patient's medical issue that requires special attention and said administrative flags alerting the user to a patient's clerical issue that requires special attention, and a section where the user schedules equipment and a clinician for an appointment with a patient by performing the steps of selecting the patient at a first display point and the equipment at a second display point, said first and second display points being defined by different images that are viewable on a user interface display, and dragging the patient and the equipment to a third display point, said third display point being defined by an available time in the clinician's schedule that is viewable on the user interface display. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246227 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING AN OPTIMIZED-PERSONALIZED HEALTH MAINTENANCE PLAN - Systems and methods for providing an optimized-personalized health maintenance plan are presented. The teachings include a method for creating an iteratively-optimized, personalized health maintenance plan for a user. The method includes producing a recognized health profile for a subject, developing a first personalized health maintenance plan from the recognized health profile, and converting compiled information into a presentation format for the first personalized health maintenance plan, or an optimized-personalized health maintenance plan based on at least a first iterated questionnaire. The personalized health maintenance plan is optimized to increase the level of specificity of the personalized health maintenance plan for the user. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246228 | System and Method for Early Identification of Safety Concerns of New Drugs - A computer-implemented system and method for administering a drug registry database generates a display of a plurality of new drug/comparator drug pairings, wherein each new drug is added to the database when a threshold number of healthcare claims for the new drug have been received. Upon receiving a selection of a new drug/comparator drug pairing, and filter parameters input by a user, an analysis engine searches the healthcare claims stored in the database to identify a first and second group of patients satisfying the filter parameters input by the user; wherein the first group includes patients with claim data indicating use of the new drug and the second group includes patients with claim data indicating use of the comparator drug. The analysis engine further identifies a comparative occurrence of one or more existing medical conditions or new medical conditions in the first and second groups of patients and calculates a probability value indicating a relative likelihood that a patient taking the new drug will have each of the one or more new or existing medical conditions in comparison to a likelihood that a patient taking the comparator drug will have each of the one or more new or existing medical conditions. A user interface displays each new or existing medical condition and the probability value for the new drug and the comparator drug in accordance with one or more report parameters entered by the user. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246229 | System and Method for Detecting Healthcare Insurance Fraud - A system and method for detecting healthcare insurance fraud is disclosed. The method includes creating a database containing source data related to at least one healthcare claim submitted for reimbursement, selecting data from the database to compare to a set of rules using an audit module, and comparing the selected data to the set of rules using the audit module. The method also includes using the audit module to automatically identify suspected fraudulent data when the selected data violates at least one rule of the set of rules and using the audit module to flag the fraudulent data. In addition, the method includes using the audit module to generate a report illustrating patterns of irregularities within the source data to visually identify the fraudulent data displayed within the source data by user-friendly graphs and charts, and generating at least one automated statement for display to identify the at least one rule of the set of rules that was violated by the selected data using a documentation module. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246230 | Identity Matching And Information Linking - A connection component establishes an identity of a person for permitting access to information in a database. Responsive to establishing the identity of the person, the connection component may link an external account to the information in the database for providing a flow of information between the database and the external account. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246231 | ACCESSING PATIENT INFORMATION - A connection component generates a user interface for display to a patient computing device. The user interface provides the patient computing device with access to hospital visit records of the patient maintained in a hospital database. The user interface may further receive selection of a care provider by the patient for granting the care provider electronic access to the patient's hospital visit records. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246232 | PRESCRIPTION FULFILLMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A system for fulfillment by a medical products supplier of medical prescriptions issued by a prescriptionist for patients with reimbursement by a third party provider, in which a patient has a prescription authorization card having an electronically addressable memory encoded with patient medical information including medical history, images, and a medical prescription selectively recorded into the memory by a data station and communicating the prescription to the medical products supplier and a distributor that provides the medical product from the medical products supplier to the patient upon presentation of the prescription authorization card to the distributor, a second data station configured for authenticating the delivery of the medical product to the patient, and a payment transferor for payment for the medical product upon delivery. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246233 | PERSONALIZED BODY IMAGE - Delivery of health information to a patient suffering from a chronic condition is personalized by displaying the health information directly on a customized image of a body. The patient's medical record, standards of care for the condition, prescribed treatments, and patient input are applied to a generalized health model of a disease to generate a personalized health model of the patient. The personalized health model comprises an HTML file encoding an image map of a body. The body image illustrates the health condition of the individual patient. Preferably, data is collected from health provider sources and stored in a database on a server at a service provider site. The data is processed at the server, and is displayed in the patient's home using a TV connected to a multimedia processor. The multimedia processor connects the television set to a communications network such as the Internet. Applications include preventive care of chronic diseases such as diabetes and asthma. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246234 | PATIENT MATCHING - A method for matching patients in a list of patients includes uses a computing device to compare a first medical record to a second medical record using fuzzy logic. When the first medical record matches the second medical record based on the comparison using fuzzy logic, the first medical record is merged with the second medical record. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246235 | MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION FOR REMOTE ACCESS OF PATIENT DATA - The present disclosure is directed to authenticating a mobile device and a user of the mobile device to receive patient data from a clinical information system of a medical facility. In some implementations, methods include receiving a logon request, the logon request comprising credentials and at least one technical factor, accessing a validation database based on the at least one technical factor, determining that the mobile device is an authorized mobile device based on information provided by the validation database and the at least one technical factor, validating the credentials to ensure that the user is authorized to access patient data provided by the clinical information system, and then, upon determining that the user is authorized to access patient data: establishing a session to communicate patient data between the mobile device and the clinical information system, the data managements system processing the patient data communicated during the session. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246236 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING AND REPORTING CLINICAL EVENTS ACROSS A VAST PATIENT POPULATION - A system and method for gathering quality data for a plurality of healthcare providers over an extended computer network is disclosed. The system and method comprise an enhanced services server in electronic data communication with a plurality of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems via a network connection, the plurality of EHR systems being configured to capture patient data for a plurality of patients at the plurality of healthcare providers' sites during a plurality of encounters with each of the plurality of patients, and the enhanced services server being built on the same architecture as the plurality of EHR systems. Electronic quality of care forms are retrieved from one or more form managers via the network connection and a plurality of fields in each of the electronic quality of care forms are automatically populated using the patient data captured by the plurality of EHR systems. The completed electronic quality of care forms are then automatically transmitted to one or more form receivers via the network connection, the one or more form receivers being one or more organizations that process quality of care data to qualify healthcare providers for at least one of certifications, accreditations, and monetary incentives. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246237 | AUTOMATED ASSERTION REUSE FOR IMPROVED RECORD LINKAGE IN DISTRIBUTED & AUTONOMOUS HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS WITH HETEROGENEOUS TRUST MODELS - An assertion acceptance value matrix ( | 2011-10-06 |
20110246238 | ASSERTION-BASED RECORD LINKAGE IN DISTRIBUTED AND AUTONOMOUS HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS - A method is provided for using assertions to reconcile records in a healthcare environment. Records are input, compared to a collection of previously input records and likelihood ratios indicating a probability of each input record match each of the collected records are calculated. The ratio is compared against two separate accept and reject criteria. Based on the comparison result it is decided whether a pair of records should be accepted as matching, rejected, or placed on a global exception list for manual review. The global exception list is split among the sites that are part of the federation, so that each site receives a local exception list referring to patients records at that site. Each site evaluates each pair of records in its local exception list and makes an assertion stating for each pair of records whether they are a match or a mis-match. This assertions derived during the manual review is placed in a global exception list and are accessible by other members in a federation of users. An assertion becomes the truth for the site making that assertion. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246239 | DISTRIBUTED PATIENT REGISTRIES FOR FEDERATED PACS - A system having a local image storage element storing patient studies indexed by a local patient identifier, a local identity storage element storing a local identity list including a global patient identifier corresponding to each of a plurality of patients having studies stored on the local image storage element and one or more of the local patient identifiers corresponding to each of the patients, the local identity list being a subset of a global identity list stored remotely from the local identity storage element and a local location storage element storing a local index of the patient studies stored on the local image storage element and further patient studies stored on further local image storage elements for each of the plurality of patients, the index including a storage location of each study and the corresponding global patient identifier, the local index being a subset of a global index stored remotely. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246240 | SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION OF HEALTH CARE DATA - An apparatus for communicating health care data from a sender to a receiver is provided. The apparatus has a first computer system, a second computer system, and a rules engine. The first computer system has health care data stored therein. The second computer system is in operable communication with, and is configured to extract the health care data from, the first computer system. The rules engine normalizes the extracted health care data to a predefined format. The rules engine defines a plurality of health care data fields in the predefined format, as well as a plurality of relationships between fields of normalized data. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246241 | SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION OF HEALTH CARE DATA - A computer system that extracts health care data from one or more health care payors to identify meaningful relationships or patterns in treatments to compare the effectiveness of various treatment of specific diseases is provided. This computer system includes a computer and a staging database. The computer is configured to communicate with one or more payor computer systems of a type that includes one or more databases storing records of the health care data from one or more payors over the Internet. The staging database is in communication with the computer and is configured to receive the health care data from each of the payor computer systems. The health care data from each of the payor computer systems is configured to be converted into a normalized format. The normalized data is the made available to determine comparative effectiveness of various treatments of specific diseases. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246242 | PATIENT-CENTRIC HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MAINTENANCE - A system for facilitating patient centric healthcare information maintenance. For example, a health management software system may be operated to receive, organize, and use patient medical information. The health management software may comprise a database for storing, retrieving, organizing, displaying, and, generally, for managing a patient's health. In one exemplary embodiment, the health management software system is used in conjunction with a healthcare maintenance device, such as a blood glucose monitoring system. The blood glucose monitoring system may contain several database objects in the form of data records. Typically in a portable blood glucose monitor, each data record contains a time and a concentration data element, or a time-amount point. Similarly, an insulin pump, which is another exemplary embodiment of a healthcare maintenance device, may maintain data records with time and dosage information, or a time-dosage point. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246243 | Computer Control Of Non-Debt Funding System For Home Finance - Machine for controlling a system changing electrical signals to separately value components temporally decomposed from residential property, the computer apparatus including: a computer system, arranged for receiving information into a memory, the data representing the residential property, the computer system further comprising: logic means controlling the computer system to change the data to produce modified signals representing a separate valuation of each of a plurality of components temporally decomposed from the residential property, the components including a residential estate for years interest and a residential remainder interest; and an output device connected to convert the modified signals into documentation including the respective valuation of each of the components. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246244 | COMPUTER NETWORK FOR GENERATING PROPOSED INSURANCE CLAIM SETTLEMENTS AND SUBMITTING THEM TO INSURANCE CARRIERS - A computer network for generating a proposed insurance claim settlement and submitting it to an insurance carrier, including: (a) a computer system that receives insurance injury information from an operator; (b) a computer system that receives accident information from the operator; (c) a computerized injury evaluation system that then computes: (i) a proposed claim settlement based upon the injury information and the accident information, and (ii) a likelihood of claim settlement based upon the identity of a selected insurance carrier; (d) a computer system that presents the proposed claim settlement and the likelihood of claim settlement to the operator; and (e) a computer system that sends the proposed claim settlement from the computerized injury evaluation system to the selected insurance carrier after receiving an approval from the operator. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246245 | Return of Excess Contribution System ("RECS") dividend distribution software application - In accordance with the present invention, there is a standalone application that provides a low cost dividends modeling and administration tool for entities who pool premiums and return a portion of the excess back to the members in the form of dividends or premium credits. This application is designed to meet the clients' dividends distribution needs at a low cost with minimal ramp-up efforts, regardless of the insurance administration system they already have in place. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246246 | Method and System for Managing Vehicle Travel - Methods and systems for facilitating efficient travel management are disclosed. Exemplary embodiments comprise a processor configured to make selections from among a plurality of vehicle travel modes based on a vehicle travel mode selection rule using, at least in part, received travel plan information. In a preferred embodiment, this selection can be based on any of a number of factors, including monetary costs and carbon emissions associated with different vehicle travel mode options. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246247 | Restaurant inventory management - A system for inventory management comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to receive restaurant reservation information. The processor is further configured to determine a first list of combinations and permutations of possible reservations available for one or more time periods based at least in part on the restaurant table configuration information. The processor is further configured to determine a second list of combinations and permutations of possible reservations available for the one or more time periods, wherein the second list removes combinations and permutations that are not available due to a selection of a reservation from the list. The memory is coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246248 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TRIP REQUESTS - A system and method for planning trips and for processing trip requests that utilizes a centralized network for facilitating travel reservations and/or services. The system includes multi-purpose point of service terminals that provide a plurality of modules for various travel related applications such as an integrated e-mail booking module, a computer telephony integration module, a super passenger name record database, a customer database, a trip planning module, a customer relationship management module, a workflow module, and a low fare search module. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246249 | SIMULATION OF SUPPLY CHAIN PLANS USING WEB SERVICE - A new computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and system is provided which can allow a user to make changes to the planning data, generate a new plan, generate a new solution based on the generated plan, or perform an alternative scenario analysis on the generated plan. In one embodiment, a new model for representing planning data, identified as a “base-plus-delta” model is provided. In another embodiment, a new web service implementation for a planning engine is provided. In another embodiment, a new technique for copying plans to perform an alternative scenario analysis on the copied plan is provided. In another embodiment, an automatic propagation of user changes from a database directly to an in-memory object is provided. In certain embodiments of the invention, two or more of the described features can be combined to provide an interactive supply chain planning system. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246250 | SIMULATION OF SUPPLY CHAIN PLANS USING DATA MODEL - A new computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and system is provided which can allow a user to make changes to the planning data, generate a new plan, generate a new solution based on the generated plan, or perform an alternative scenario analysis on the generated plan. In one embodiment, a new model for representing planning data, identified as a “base-plus-delta” model is provided. In another embodiment, a new web service implementation for a planning engine is provided. In another embodiment, a new technique for copying plans to perform an alternative scenario analysis on the copied plan is provided. In another embodiment, an automatic propagation of user changes from a database directly to an in-memory object is provided. In certain embodiments of the invention, two or more of the described features can be combined to provide an interactive supply chain planning system. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246251 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENT-BASED INVESTIGATION SERVICES - An approach is provided for content-based investigation services. Event data corresponding to content satisfying a predetermined criterion is received. A plurality of prioritization parameters relating to the content are retrieved. One or more of the prioritization parameters are selected based on the received event data. A prioritization score for the event data is generated using the selected parameters. Inspection of the event data is scheduled according to the prioritization score. A determination is selectively made whether the content is in violation according to the inspection. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246252 | VEHICLE CHARGING ALLOCATION MANAGING SERVER AND VEHICLE CHARGING ALLOCATION MANAGING SYSTEM - A vehicle charging allocation managing system containing plural charging stations each having a battery charger to charge a vehicle, a charging station managing server for managing the charging stations, and a vehicle charging allocation managing server that is connected to the charging station managing server through a communication network, and instructs vehicle allocation to allocate each of the vehicles to an appropriate one of the charging stations for charging. The vehicle charging allocation managing server has a controller for setting a vehicle charging allocation schedule for specifying a charging station and a charting time zone to charge each of the vehicles on the basis of a battery residual capacity and a battery capacity consumption plan, thereby performing vehicle allocation for charging. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246253 | PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES AS A SERVICE - A method of providing support services as a service is presented. For example, the method includes providing to a service provider one or more service modules operative to provide the support services to the service provider. The one or more service modules are provided by one or more suppliers of the support services and include instruction code operative to be performed on a processor device and one or more application programming interfaces operative for programmatic access to the one or more service module. The service modules may further include one or more user interfaces operative for interactive access to a respective service module. The one or more service modules may include, for example, one or more of a profile service module, an offering service module, a customer service module, a process service module, a user interface service module and a revenue service module. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246254 | ENTERPRISE PROPOSAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system and method for managing an enterprise is provided. The system and method may be based on a layered architecture including a data center that may store all documents and data abstractions for an enterprise. One or more services may interact with an enterprise resource planning system and/or a customer relationship manager to facilitate interaction with the documents and data abstractions. A client access point of the system may include a graphical user interface that includes one or more enterprise management functions for managing the enterprise documents and/or data abstractions. The enterprise management functions may include a user proposal manager, an enterprise proposal manager, a proposal library, a content health manager, an archive library, a bid center, a contracts manager, a resume manager, a debriefing center, and/or a projects manager. The enterprise management functions may re-engineer business processes and enable users to manage all aspects of an enterprise using a single unified interface. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246255 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVANCING MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES TO SALES - A system and method for advancing marketing opportunities to sales is described. One embodiment identifies a plurality of consumer states corresponding to particular situations in a sales lifecycle, one of which corresponds to a completed sale; ascertains one or more correlations among historical sales-lead attributes, product attributes, sales-agent attributes, sales activities, and consumer state transitions; identifies a particular product having a particular set of product attributes; identifies a particular sales lead having a particular set of lead attributes; identifies a particular sales agent having a particular set of agent attributes; identifies one or more particular sales activities; and derives, based on application of the one or more correlations, an estimated probability that a consumer associated with the particular sales lead will transition from one of the plurality of consumer states to another of the plurality of consumer states in relation to the product. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246256 | PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES - The present invention is directed to data management techniques that feature storing, on a computer system, storing on a computer system a data set arranged in a plurality of tables that correspond to multiple sections of a project, with each of the multiple sections defining properties of the project. A BOM resolution is produced by querying the data set in response to parameters of a BOM query that generates a resolved BOM. The resolved BOM includes a subgroup of the data in the data set, with the data outside of the subgroup corresponding to a revision associated with an item object that is included in the subgroup. Determined from the subgroup are the properties of the sections. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246257 | Multi-Period Financial Simulator of a Process - A system configured for predicting a financial impact of a process is provided that includes a financial forecasting system (FFS) having at least one operational parameter and at least one financial data. The system further includes a discrete event simulator (DES) in communication with the FFS, wherein the DES is configured simulate a process based upon the at least one operational parameter and the at least one financial data for a first period of time, communicate resultant data from the simulation to the FFS, such that the FFS is configured to update the at least one operational parameter and the at least one financial data, which are based upon the communicated resultant data, and the DES is further configured to simulate the process based upon the updated at least one operational parameter and the at least one financial data for a sequential second period of time. The FFS and the DES are further configured to replicate the simulations of the sequential first and second periods of time with the operational parameter and the financial data having different statistical variations, and determine a confidence interval associated with the communicated resultant data. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246258 | SALES MANAGEMENT TOOL - A sales management tool utilizes a mobile device configured to request data from a database regarding a neighborhood within proximity of that sale. The mobile device sends results back to the database, wherein the results are flagged as verified. A simplified prequalification system is shown where a salesperson may select a house on a map to run a prequalification on the residents. | 2011-10-06 |
20110246259 | METHOD OF EFFICIENTLY MANAGING ENERGY - A method is provided for managing energy. The method comprises collecting information relating to amounts of energy stored by a plurality of members of a group, and relating to energy requirements of the members. The method further comprises determining a price for distributing energy to a non-member of the group, determining whether to supply energy stored by the members to the non-member at the determined price, and issuing instructions to distribute energy upon determining that energy stored by the plurality of members should be supplied to the non-member. | 2011-10-06 |