44th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 54 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090271142 | PHYSICAL QUANTITY MEASURING INSTRUMENT AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention relates to a physical quantity measuring instrument and signal processing method thereof capable of reducing noise components and improving reliability without increasing size or cost of the circuit. A physical quantity detecting unit ( | 2009-10-29 |
20090271143 | RADIATION MEASURING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A radiation measuring device capable of identifying the incident direction of a radiation ray and energy (segmentation) The directivity characteristics of a plurality of detectors are different from each other. A plurality of energy segmentations are set respectively for a plurality of spectra corresponding to a plurality of detectors, and actual measurement ratio information (a plurality of actual measurement counting ratios) expressing the mutual ratio between integrated counting values for each energy segmentation is computed. The actual measurement ratio information is checked against a plurality of response functions, and, when the compatibility relation between specific actual measurement ratio information and specific theoretical ratio information is found, the incident direction of a radiation ray and an energy segmentation are identified based on that relation. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271144 | DETECTION UNIT PROTECTED AGAINST DETACHMENT AND/OR FORCED ENTRY AND SYSTEM THAT COMPRISES AT LEAST ONE SUCH UNIT - A detection unit integrates at least one motion detector, a presence detector, a camera, or a combination of at least two such devices, in particular as a component of a security, alarm and/or surveillance system, whereby the functional elements of the unit are housed in a housing that is attached to a wall, a pole, a roof or the like, via an attachment accessory, in particular of the articulated arm type or the like. The unit also includes an element ( | 2009-10-29 |
20090271145 | DETERMINING A CENTER OF ROTATION FOR A COMPONENT IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM - Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that determines a center of rotation for a component in a computer system. During operation, the system measures a first acceleration of a first location on the component and a second acceleration of a second location on the component, wherein the first location and the second location are separated by a predetermined distance. Then, the system determines the center of rotation using the first acceleration, the second acceleration, and the predetermined distance. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271146 | MULTISTATIC CONCEALED OBJECT DETECTION - Concealed object detection using electromagnetic and acoustic multistatic imaging systems and methods. A method of simultaneously screening plural subjects for concealed objects includes transmitting a signal into a screening area where there is at least one subject to be screened having an associated object, receiving a reflected signal from the object when the object is located within the screening area, processing the reflected signal using multistatic Fourier space sampling and tomographic reconstruction to generate a three-dimensional image of the object and displaying the three-dimensional image. The transmitting and receiving are performed using a multi-directional array including at least three sensors. An object detection system includes a screening area, a multi-directional array including at least three sensors, a processor configured to execute multistatic Fourier space sampling and tomographic reconstruction and a display. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271147 | Pedometer - Power savings are aimed by controlling display of a step count with no additional hardware. An acceleration sensor detects that a user is taking a step through an amplifier circuit, and outputs a walking signal corresponding to the step to a CPU. The CPU counts walking signals, and displays the accumulated number of steps on a display unit. When the CPU determines that the user is taking steps based on the walking signals, the CPU stops drive power from a battery to the display unit, and controls the display unit to stop displaying a step count. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271148 | COLD-START IN SITUATION-AWARE SYSTEMS - A definition of a set of context variables to be considered is received, wherein the context variables represent categories of situations in which the computer system can be. A definition of a set of activities to be considered is also received, wherein the activities represent activities that can be performed using the computer system. For each context variable to be considered, a definition of a set of states to be considered is received, wherein the states represent situations in which the computer system can be. For each context variable to be considered, a specification of first probability distributions for each corresponding state is received. For each context variable to be considered, for each activity to be considered, a specification of second probability distributions to represent the likelihood of the activity being performed in the corresponding context is received. Usage data is generated using the first second probability distributions. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271149 | Analysis Method - A method of analysing measured data, in relation to expected data, from a system which has a plurality of associated system variables, is provided, the method including the steps of: a) optimising an error function which relates said measured data to a predetermined number of the system variables adjusting the system variables; b) selecting a subset of the adjusted variables; and c) re-optimising the error function by adjusting only the variables in said subset. A method of identifying likely contributors to an error cause in measured data from a system which has a plurality of associated system variables, is also provided which uses the above method. A further method of analysing measured engine service or test data, in relation to expected data, from an engine has a plurality of associated system variables, is provided which includes the step of optimising an error function which relates said measured data to a predetermined number of the system variables by adjusting the system variables, wherein the error function is a sum of absolute variations and the step of optimising includes a least-absolutes optimisation. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271150 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND ALGORITHM FOR DATA-DRIVEN EQUIPMENT PERFORMANCE MONITORING - A method for automatically monitoring the performance of equipment ( | 2009-10-29 |
20090271151 | Machine data acquisition system with data compression - A machine data acquisition system is disclosed. The data acquisition system may include a sensor disposed on a machine and configured to produce a signal indicative of an operational parameter of the machine. The system may also include a data processor and controller configured to convert the signal into a plurality of parameter data points. The system may further include a primary data circular buffer disposed on the machine and configured to store the plurality of parameter data points. Additionally, a variable resolution circular buffer may be disposed on the machine and configured to store a compressed parameter data point calculated from the plurality of parameter data points. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271152 | Load testing mechanism for server-based applications - In various exemplary embodiments, a method of monitoring performance of a server and a related computer-readable medium include one or more of the following: placing a load agent on at least one server; maintaining a load on the server using the load agent, wherein the load corresponds to at least one predetermined performance parameter of the server; monitoring the at least one predetermined performance parameter on the server; and gathering performance information while the load agent is monitoring the server. In various exemplary embodiments, the performance parameters include CPU usage, memory usage, network load, and disk performance. Thus, various exemplary embodiments enable a precise determination of the effect on application requests received by the server when the server is under a specific load. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271153 | Device for detecting signals - A device for detecting signals is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the device includes at least four detector elements for receiving the signals and converting them into useful signals, each being connected via at least two lines to at least one signal processing unit. Each detector element includes a polarity reversal unit by which polarity reversal of the useful signal of the respective detector element can be performed. The signal polarity reversal logic is unambiguously spatially direction-dependent within the detector array. An advantage of the device of at least one embodiment is that for signals to be received simultaneously by way of two detector elements, the detector elements involved become unambiguously identifiable by the polarity reversal of the useful signal. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271154 | Method and Apparatus for Facilitating HVAC Design for a Building - A system which facilitates HVAC design for buildings or portions thereof is disclosed. The system comprises a server and one or more remotely situated terminals. The server, which can be a secure server, comprises software that facilitates calculation of HVAC design. A user can access one or more calculation modules in a session of use of a project. The user can provide alphanumeric information items in one or more data input fields. A calculation module can determine a variety of HVAC design output information items using the data added by the user. Both input and output information items can be securely recorded by the server in a record of a session for a project. Furthermore, multiple users can collaborate by accessing the system and contributing to the record of a project in separate sessions. A record of a session or project can be provided in a printable text file. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271155 | METHOD FOR MODELING BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF AN EYE - Systems and methods are provided for predicting the results of a therapeutic intervention to an eye. An imaging system is configured to provide image data representing at least a portion of the eye of the patient. An input device is configured to permit a user to design a proposed therapeutic intervention for the eye of the patient. A finite element modeling component is configured to generate a finite element model representing the condition of the eye of the patient after the proposed therapeutic intervention according to the image data, the proposed therapeutic intervention, and at least one biomechanical property of tissue comprising the eye. The generated model is constructed as to have no a priori restraints on the motion of the corneal limbus. A display is configured to display the generated model to the user. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271156 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ANALYSIS MODEL - A shape of an analysis target is partitioned into partitioned shapes using CAD information data for the analysis target, and adjacent-relationship information indicating an adjacent relationship between the partitioned shapes is generated. Then, a modeling type to be performed on each of the partitioned shapes is set. Then, a mid-surface for a partitioned shape in which a shell is set as the modeling type is extracted. Then, the adjacent-relationship information is referred to, and two or more mid-surfaces extracted from adjacent partitioned shapes are integrated into a combined mid-surface. Then, a shell mesh for the combined mid-surface and a solid mesh for a partitioned shape in which a solid is set as the modeling type are created. The adjacent-relationship information is referred to, and constraint elements that link a shell mesh and a solid mesh that are adjacent to each other are inserted. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271157 | SURVIVABILITY MISSION MODELER - A method of determining survivability is disclosed. The method can include selecting a mission scenario and providing data associated with the scenario as input to a plurality of low-level modeling tools each associated with a corresponding spectrum, and performing a spectral analysis of the selected scenario using each of the low-level modeling tools for the corresponding spectrum. The method can also include generating an event probability matrix for each analyzed spectrum based on the output of the low-level model, the event probability matrix including a probability of detection, a probability of tracking, and a probability of engagement for each of a plurality of mission scenario reference points. Using the event probability matrix as input, a constructive analysis can be performed using a high-level simulation system configured to simulate actual event occurrence for a specific run of the mission scenario and a probability of survival based on a result of the constructive analysis can be determined. A report of the probability of survival, as well as other statistics relevant to operational performance and/or survivability can be provided as output. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271158 | ARCHITECTURE FOR AUTOMATING ANALYTICAL VIEW OF BUSINESS APPLICATIONS - The present invention provides an architecture for obtaining an analytical view of data. The invention includes a model service component for receiving an indication of a first object model and generating a dimensional model and a second object model from the first object model. The second object model is analytical in that it preserves relationships identified in the dimensional model, but allows the user to obtain information in terms of objects instead of specifying the data in terms of the dimensional model. The architecture also includes a navigational component that allows a user to navigate from the second object model to underlying data represented by the first object model. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271159 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING A PHYSICAL MOLECULAR MODEL WITH A COMPUTER-BASED VISUALIZATION AND SIMULATION MODEL - Modeling systems are enhanced by combining physical and virtual modeling techniques to create a hybrid modeling system. Manipulation of physical models results in updated real-time physical characteristics being provided to a virtual model. User manipulation of virtual model characteristics can also be provided and implemented on the physical model using actuators and control devices. The invention also enables multiple users to simultaneously construct and manipulate different portions of a physical model, e.g., of an atom or a molecule, and to have the results of these manipulations provided to a computer system for computational analysis. The results of such analyses can be electronically returned to the physical model, e.g., wirelessly. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271160 | Composite assets for use in multiple simulation environments - One of a plurality of description elements for a scenario is attached to a composite asset. The composite asset comprises one or more data sets. Each data set is associated with a simulation. And, a simulation asset is generated for a scenario based at least in part on the composite asset. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271161 | ARRANGEMENT OF CUTTING ELEMENTS ON ROLLER CONES FOR EARTH BORING BITS - A method for determining an optimized arrangement of cutting elements about a roller cone bit is provided. Also provided is a roller cone drill bit having cutting elements that are arranged according to a computerized optimization routine. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271162 | Crystal structure beta2 adrenoreceptor - A computer readable medium comprising atomic coordinates for the human β | 2009-10-29 |
20090271163 | Crystal structure of human factor VIII and uses thereof - The present invention provides crystals of human Factor VIII, in particular, a B-domain deleted human Factor VIII, and its three-dimensional structure. The present invention also provides the structural information of Factor VIII, and methods for identifying compounds that modulate Factor VIII activity, for determining structures of Factor VIII homologs or analogs, and for designing drug candidates for the treatment of hemophilia based on the structural information. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271164 | PREDICTING LONG-TERM EFFICACY OF A COMPOUND IN THE TREATMENT OF PSORIASIS - The invention provides a method for predicting the efficacy of a compound for treating psoriasis based on a pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271165 | Simultaneous Parameter-Driven and Deterministic Simulation With or Without Synchronization - A method for allowing simultaneous parameter-driven and deterministic simulation during verification of a hardware design, comprising: enabling a plurality of random parameter-driven commands from a random command generator to execute in a simulation environment during verification of the hardware design through a command managing device; and enabling a plurality of deterministic commands from a manually-driven testcase port to execute in the simulation environment simultaneously with the plurality of random parameter-driven commands during verification of the hardware design through the command managing device, the plurality of deterministic commands and the plurality of random parameter-driven commands each verify the functionality of the hardware design. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271166 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CURRENT ANALYSIS OF CIRCUITS INCLUDING RELATIVELY LARGE RC NETWORKS - Improved performance of simulation analysis of a circuit with some non-linear elements and a relatively large network of linear elements may be achieved by systems and methods that partition the circuit so that simulation may be performed on a non-linear part of the circuit in pseudo-isolation of a linear part of the circuit. The non-linear part may include one or more transistors of the circuit and the linear part may comprise an RC network of the circuit. By separating the linear part from the simulation on the non-linear part, the size of a matrix for simulation on the non-linear part may be reduced. Also, a number of factorizations of a matrix for simulation on the linear part may be reduced. Thus, such systems and methods may be used, for example, to determine current in circuits including relatively large RC networks, which may otherwise be computationally prohibitive using standard simulation techniques. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271167 | PEAK POWER DETECTION IN DIGITAL DESIGNS USING EMULATION SYSTEMS - A method of analyzing power consumption for a DUT (device under test) that includes an integrated circuit or an electronic system includes: providing emulation data for states of the DUT in one or more time windows; determining operational mode values from the emulation data and a selection of operational modes that characterize circuit behavior in the one or more time windows; dividing each time window into one or more segments based on at least one power criterion; determining power-activity values for the one or more segments; determining power-consumption values for the one or more segments from the power-activity values; using the power-activity values and the power-consumption values to determine relative power activity across the one or more segments and adjusting the one or more segments to target high power activity over operational modes in the one or more time windows; and saving one or more values for power activity of the DUT in a computer-readable medium. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271168 | Systems and Methods for Stimulating Engineering Projects - Methods and systems for simulating engineering projects are disclosed. A plurality of networked processing devices operable to execute respective software components are provided, wherein the respective software components facilitate the simulation of respective components of the engineering project. A respective memory is associated with each of the plurality of networked processing devices. Each of the respective memories is operable to store simulation data associated with the engineering project that is shared among a plurality of the respective memories. A simulation of the engineering project is initiated by initiating the execution of the respective software components by the plurality of networked processing devices. The simulation is managed based at least in part on synchronizing the execution of the respective software components and updating at least a portion of the shared simulation data stored in the respective memories. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271169 | Training Simulators for Engineering Projects - Methods and systems for providing a training simulator for an engineering project are disclosed. A simulator operable to simulate the engineering project is provided. The simulator includes at least one component operable to simulate a control system that controls one or more operations associated with the engineering project. A training simulator component is incorporated into the simulator. The training simulator component is operable to facilitate the training of personnel on suitable operation of the engineering project. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271170 | FAILURE SIMULATION AND AVAILABILITY REPORT ON SAME - A simulation may be performed to assess availability of a service in the event of various types of failures. A specification may describe a behavior to be induced on a machine, and a formula under which availability is to be measured. A controller processes the specification and dispatches a request to induce the behavior to a machine on which the behavior is to be induced. An agent on that machine may look up a routine in a simulation library and may use the routine to induce the behavior. Data, such as performance counter values, are collected before, during, and/or after occurrence of the behavior, and are transmitted back to the controller. A report generator applies the formula contained in the specification to the data received to calculate the availability metric, and produces a report containing that metric. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271171 | EMULATOR DEVICE, AND A METHOD FOR TESTING A TEST TARGET DEVICE - An emulator device is connected to a test target device provided with a communication protocol stack to be tested through a network. The emulator device operates a method including determining an operation to be executed with reference to a scenario that describes a series of operations to be executed in a sequence to be tested upon input of the scenario, sending a start notification, and executing the operation specified by the start notification by reading the operation from the scenario, so as to generate a packet to be sent to the test target device. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271172 | Emulating A Computer Run Time Environment - Emulating a computer run time environment as a component of a dynamic binary translation loop that translates target executable code compiled for execution on a target computer to code executable on a host computer of a kind other than the target computer, the target executable code including function calls to functions to be translated. Embodiments of the present invention include: determining, upon encountering in the binary translation loop a function call to a function to be translated, that the function call is a call to a host library function in a host native library; hashing a target executable image of the function to be translated from the target executable code, thereby producing a hash value; and using the hash value as an index to retrieve from a thunk table a host native address of the host library function in the host native library. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271173 | Simulating method for loading different operation systems by means of externally connected simulation and a simulation device thereof - A simulating method for loading different operation systems by means of externally connected simulation and a simulation device thereof. The simulating method and the simulation device are achieved by means of hardware. The simulation device can be externally inserted to a personal computer, enabling the personal computer to simulate different operation systems without being incautiously damaged by a user. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271174 | EMULATION SYSTEM AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An emulation system includes a first circuit for emulating a first logical part of a device, a second circuit for emulating a second logical part of the device that is different from the first logical part, wherein the first circuit is separate from the second circuit, and a third circuit connecting the first circuit and the second circuit to communicate signals between the first circuit and the second circuit. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271175 | Multilingual Administration Of Enterprise Data With User Selected Target Language Translation - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided multilingual administration of enterprise data. Embodiments include retrieving enterprise data; extracting text from the enterprise data for rendering from a digital media file, the extracted text being in a source language; prompting a user to select a target language; receiving from the user a selection of a target language; translating the extracted text in the source language to translated text in the target language; converting the translated text to synthesized speech in the target language; and recording the synthesized speech in the target language in a digital media file. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271176 | Multilingual Administration Of Enterprise Data With Default Target Languages - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for multilingual administration of enterprise data. Embodiments include retrieving enterprise data; extracting text from the enterprise data for rendering from digital media file, the extracted text being in a source language; identifying that the source language is not a predetermined default target language for rendering the enterprise data; translating the extracted text in the source language to translated text in the default target language; converting the translated text to synthesized speech in the default target language; and storing the synthesized speech in the default target language in a digital media file. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271177 | EXTRACTING TREELET TRANSLATION PAIRS - In one embodiment of the present invention, a decoder receives a dependency tree as a source language input and accesses a set of statistical models that produce outputs combined in a log linear framework. The decoder also accesses a table of treelet translation pairs and returns a target dependency tree based on the source dependency tree, based on access to the table of treelet translation pairs, and based on the application of the statistical models. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271178 | Multilingual Asynchronous Communications Of Speech Messages Recorded In Digital Media Files - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided multilingual for asynchronous communications. Embodiments include recording a speech message in a digital media file; transmitting, from a sender multilingual communications application to a recipient multilingual communications application, the speech message in the digital media file; receiving, in the recipient multilingual communications application, the recorded speech message in the digital media file; converting, by the recipient multilingual communications application, the recorded speech message to text; identifying, by the recipient multilingual communications application, that the text of the recorded speech message is in a source language that is not a predetermined target language; translating, by the recipient multilingual communications application, the text in the source language to translated text in the target language; converting, by the recipient multilingual communications application, the translated text to synthesized speech in the target language; recording, by the recipient multilingual communications application, the synthesized speech in the target language in a digital media file; and playing the media file thereby rendering the synthesized speech. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271179 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTENDING KEYWORD SEARCHING TO SYNTACTICALLY AND SEMANTICALLY ANNOTATED DATA - Methods and systems for extending keyword searching techniques to syntactically and semantically annotated data are provided. Example embodiments provide a Syntactic Query Engine (“SQE”) that parses, indexes, and stores a data set as an enhanced document index with document terms as well as information pertaining to the grammatical roles of the terms and ontological and other semantic information. In one embodiment, the enhanced document index is a form of term-clause index, that indexes terms and syntactic and semantic annotations at the clause level. The enhanced document index permits the use of a traditional keyword search engine to process relationship queries as well as to process standard document level keyword searches. In one embodiment, the SQE comprises a Query Processor, a Data Set Preprocessor, a Keyword Search Engine, a Data Set Indexer, an Enhanced Natural Language Parser (“ENLP”), a data set repository, and, in some embodiments, a user interface or an application programming interface. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271180 | DICTIONARY FOR TEXTUAL DATA COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION - A dictionary for compressing and decompressing textual data has a number of keys. Each key is associated with an identifier. The keys include static word or phrase keys, where each static word or phrase key lists one or more unchanging words in a particular order. The keys further include dynamic phrase keys, where each dynamic phrase key lists a number of words and one or more placeholders in a particular order, and each placeholder denotes a place where a word or phrase other than the words of the dynamic phrase key is to be inserted. At least one of the dynamic phrase keys may identify one or more of the words by identifiers for corresponding static words or phrase keys. At least one of the static word or phrase keys may identify one or more of the words by identifiers for corresponding other static words or phrase keys. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271181 | DICTIONARY FOR TEXTUAL DATA COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION - A dictionary for compressing and decompressing textual data has a number of keys. Each key is associated with an identifier. The keys include static word or phrase keys, where each static word or phrase key lists one or more unchanging words in a particular order. The keys further include dynamic phrase keys, where each dynamic phrase key lists a number of words and one or more placeholders in a particular order, and each placeholder denotes a place where a word or phrase other than the words of the dynamic phrase key is to be inserted. At least one of the dynamic phrase keys may identify one or more of the words by identifiers for corresponding static words or phrase keys. At least one of the static word or phrase keys may identify one or more of the words by identifiers for corresponding other static words or phrase keys. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271182 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MODELING AND RECOGNITION OF SPEECH - In accordance with the present invention, computer implemented methods and systems are provided for representing and modeling the temporal structure of audio signals. In response to receiving a signal, a time-to-frequency domain transformation on at least a portion of the received signal to generate a frequency domain representation is performed. The time-to-frequency domain transformation converts the signal from a time domain representation to the frequency domain representation. A frequency domain linear prediction (FDLP) is performed on the frequency domain representation to estimate a temporal envelope of the frequency domain representation. Based on the temporal envelope, one or more speech features are generated. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271183 | PRODUCING TIME UNIFORM FEATURE VECTORS - Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for processing a signal representing speech. According to one embodiment, processing a signal representing speech can comprise receiving a frame of the signal representing speech, the frame comprising a voiced frame. One or more cords can be extracted from the voiced frame based on occurrence of one or more events within the frame. For example, the one or more events comprise one or more glottal pulses. The one or more cords can collectively comprise less than all of the frame. The one or more cords can be normalized on a time basis. For example, each of the one or more cords can begin with onset of a glottal pulse and extend to a point prior to an onset of neighboring glottal pulse but may exclude a portion of the frame prior to the onset of the neighboring glottal pulse. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271184 | SCALABLE ENCODING DEVICE, AND SCALABLE ENCODING METHOD - Disclosed is a scalable encoding device capable of reducing an encoding rate thereby to reduce a circuit scale while preventing sound quality deterioration of a decoded signal. In this device, an extension layer is coarsely divided into a system for processing a first channel and a system for processing a second channel. A sound source prediction unit ( | 2009-10-29 |
20090271185 | AUDIO-PEAK LIMITING IN SLOW AND FAST STAGES - A method and apparatus for limiting the absolute magnitude of an audio signal. The method may include firstly variable-gain reducing the gain of an audio signal, and then secondly variable-gain reducing the gain of the audio signal faster than the first variable-gain reduction, thereby limiting the absolute magnitude of the audio signal to a threshold. The first variable-gain reduction may include variable-gain reducing the gain of the audio signal in a first stage, and the second variable-gain reduction may include variable-gain reducing the gain of the audio signal in a second stage that reduces the gain faster than the first stage. The second variable-gain reduction may include delaying the audio signal, finding a peak among the delayed audio signal, calculating a fast gain from a found peak, and modifying the delayed audio signal with the calculated fast gain. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271186 | AUDIO SIGNAL SHAPING FOR PLAYBACK BY AUDIO DEVICES - A technique is provided for limiting distortion of an audio signal being processed for playback by an audio device. In accordance with the technique, the audio signal is compressed to generate a compressed audio signal having a level that does not exceed a compression limit. The compressed audio signal is then soft clipped signal to generate a soft-clipped audio signal having a level that does not exceed a soft clipping limit, wherein the compression limit exceeds the soft clipping limit. The technique may also include passing the audio signal through a shaping filter prior to compressing the audio signal, wherein passing the audio signal through a shaping filter comprises modifying the level of selected frequency components of the audio signal. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271187 | TWO MICROPHONE NOISE REDUCTION SYSTEM - A two microphone noise reduction system is described. In an embodiment, input signals from each of the microphones are divided into subbands and each subband is then filtered independently to separate noise and desired signals and to suppress non-stationary and stationary noise. Filtering methods used include adaptive decorrelation filtering. A post-processing module using adaptive noise cancellation like filtering algorithms may be used to further suppress stationary and non-stationary noise in the output signals from the adaptive decorrelation filtering and a single microphone noise reduction algorithm may be used to further provide optimal stationary noise reduction performance of the system. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271188 | Adjusting A Speech Engine For A Mobile Computing Device Based On Background Noise - Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for adjusting a speech engine for a mobile computing device based on background noise, the mobile computing device operatively coupled to a microphone, that include: sampling, through the microphone, background noise for a plurality of operating environments in which the mobile computing device operates; generating, for each operating environment, a noise model in dependence upon the sampled background noise for that operating environment; and configuring the speech engine for the mobile computing device with the noise model for the operating environment in which the mobile computing device currently operates. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271189 | Testing A Grammar Used In Speech Recognition For Reliability In A Plurality Of Operating Environments Having Different Background Noise - Methods, systems, and products for testing a grammar used in speech recognition for reliability in a plurality of operating environments having different background noise that include: receiving recorded background noise for each of the plurality of operating environments; generating a test speech utterance for recognition by a speech recognition engine using a grammar; mixing the test speech utterance with each recorded background noise, resulting in a plurality of mixed test speech utterances, each mixed test speech utterance having different background noise; performing, for each of the mixed test speech utterances, speech recognition using the grammar and the mixed test speech utterance, resulting in speech recognition results for each of the mixed test speech utterances; and evaluating, for each recorded background noise, speech recognition reliability of the grammar in dependence upon the speech recognition results for the mixed test speech utterance having that recorded background noise. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271190 | Method and Apparatus for Voice Activity Determination - In accordance with an example embodiment of the invention, there is provided an apparatus for detecting voice activity in an audio signal. The apparatus comprises a first voice activity detector for making a first voice activity detection decision based at least in part on the voice activity of a first audio signal received from a first microphone. The apparatus also comprises a second voice activity detector for making a second voice activity detection decision based at least in part on an estimate of a direction of the first audio signal and an estimate of a direction of a second audio signal received from a second microphone. The apparatus further comprises a classifier for making a third voice activity detection decision based at least in part on the first and second voice activity detection decisions. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271191 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR SIMPLIFYING COPYING AND PASTING TRANSCRIPTIONS GENERATED FROM A DICTATION BASED SPEECH-TO-TEXT SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method for simplifying the pasting of textual transcriptions from a transcription engine into an application is described. An audio file is sent to a transcription engine. A textual transcription file of the audio file is received from the transcription engine. The textual transcription file is automatically loaded into a copy buffer. The textual transcription file is pasted from the copy buffer into an application. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271192 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING USER PERFORMANCE WITH SPEECH-TO-TEXT CONVERSION FOR DICTATION SYSTEMS - A computer-implemented system and method for evaluating the performance of a user using a dictation system is provided. The system and method include receiving a text or transcription file generated from user audio. A performance metric, such as, for example, words/minute or errors is generated based on the transcription file. The performance metric is provided to an administrator so the administrator can evaluate the performance of the user using the dictation system. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271193 | SUPPORT DEVICE, PROGRAM AND SUPPORT METHOD - A support device, program and support method for supporting generation of text from speech data. The support device includes a confirmed rate calculator, a candidate obtaining unit and a selector. The confirmed rate calculator calculates a confirmed utterance rate which is an utterance rate of a confirmed part having already-confirmed text in the speech data. The candidate obtaining unit obtains multiple candidate character strings resulting from a speech recognition of an unconfirmed part having unconfirmed text in the speech data. The selector preferentially selects, from among the plurality of candidate character strings, a candidate character string whose utterance time consumed in uttering the candidate character string at the confirmed utterance rate is closest to an utterance time of the unconfirmed part of the speech data. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271194 | Speech recognition and transcription among users having heterogeneous protocols - A system is disclosed for facilitating speech recognition and transcription among users employing incompatible protocols for generating, transcribing, and exchanging speech. The system includes a system transaction manager that receives a speech information request from at least one of the users. The speech information request includes formatted spoken text generated using a first protocol. The system also includes a speech recognition and transcription engine, which communicates with the system transaction manager. The speech recognition and transcription engine receives the speech information request from the system transaction manager and generates a transcribed response, which includes a formatted transcription of the formatted speech. The system transmits the response to the system transaction manager, which routes the response to one or more of the users. The latter users employ a second protocol to handle the response, which may be the same as or different than the first protocol. The system transaction manager utilizes a uniform system protocol for handling the speech information request and the response. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271195 | SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION PROGRAM - A speech recognition apparatus capable of attaining high recognition accuracy within practical processing time using a computing machine having standard performance by appropriately adapting a language model to a speech about a certain topic, irrespectively of a degree of detail and diversity of the topic and irrespectively of a confidence score of an initial speech recognition result is provided. The speech recognition apparatus includes hierarchical language model storage means for storing a plurality of language models structured hierarchically, text-model similarity calculation means for calculating a similarity between a tentative recognition result for an input speech and each of the language models, recognition result confidence score calculation means for calculating a confidence score of the recognition result, topic estimation means for selecting at least one of the language models based on the similarity, the confidence score, and a depth of a hierarchy to which each of the language models belongs, and topic adaptation means for mixing up the language models selected by the topic estimation means, and for creating one language model. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271196 | CLASSIFYING PORTIONS OF A SIGNAL REPRESENTING SPEECH - Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for processing a signal representing speech. According to one embodiment, processing a signal representing speech can comprise receiving a frame of the signal representing speech. The frame can be classified as unvoiced or voiced based on occurrence of one or more events within the frame. For example, the one or more events can comprise one or more glottal pulses. In response to classifying the frame as voiced, the frame can be processed. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271197 | IDENTIFYING FEATURES IN A PORTION OF A SIGNAL REPRESENTING SPEECH - Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for processing a signal representing speech. According to one embodiment, processing a signal representing speech can comprise receiving a region of the signal representing speech. The region can comprise a portion of a frame of the signal representing speech classified as a voiced frame. The region can be marked based on one or more pitch estimates for the region. A cord can be identified within the region based on occurrence of one or more events within the region of the signal. For example, the one or more events can comprise one or more glottal pulses. In such cases, cord can begin with onset of a first glottal pulse and extend to a point prior to an onset of a second glottal pulse. The cord may exclude a portion of the region of the signal prior to the onset of the second glottal pulse. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271198 | PRODUCING PHONITOS BASED ON FEATURE VECTORS - Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for processing a signal representing speech. According to one embodiment, processing a signal representing speech can comprise receiving a first frame of the signal, the first frame comprising a voiced frame. One or more cords can be extracted from the voiced frame based on occurrence of one or more events within the frame. For example, the one or more events can comprise one or more glottal pulses. The one or more cords can collectively comprise less than all of the frame. For example, each of the cords can begin with onset of a glottal pulse and extend to a point prior to an onset of neighboring glottal pulse but may exclude a portion of the frame prior to the onset of the neighboring glottal pulse. A phoneme for the voiced frame can be determined based on at least one of the extracted cords. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271199 | Records Disambiguation In A Multimodal Application Operating On A Multimodal Device - Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for record disambiguation in a multimodal application operating on a multimodal device, the multimodal device supporting multiple modes of interaction including at least a voice mode and a visual mode, that include: prompting, by the multimodal application, a user to identify a particular record among a plurality of records; receiving, by the multimodal application in response to the prompt, a voice utterance from the user; determining, by the multimodal application, that the voice utterance ambiguously identifies more than one of the plurality of records; generating, by the multimodal application, a user interaction to disambiguate the records ambiguously identified by the voice utterance in dependence upon record attributes of the records ambiguously identified by the voice utterance; and selecting, by the multimodal application for further processing, one of the records ambiguously identified by the voice utterance in dependence upon the user interaction. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271200 | Speech recognition assembly for acoustically controlling a function of a motor vehicle - The invention relates to a speech recognition assembly for acoustically controlling a function of a motor vehicle, wherein the speech recognition assembly comprises a microphone disposed in the motor vehicle for inputting a voice command, a data base disposed in the motor vehicle in which respectively at least one meaning is allocated to phonetic representations of voice commands and an on-board-speech-recognition-system disposed in the motor vehicle for determining a meaning of the voice command by use of a meaning of a phonetic representation of a voice command stored in the data base, and wherein the speech recognition assembly further comprises an off-board-speech-recognition-system disposed spatially separated from the motor vehicle for determining a meaning of the voice command. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271201 | STANDARD-MODEL GENERATION FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION USING A REFERENCE MODEL - A standard model creating apparatus which provides a high-precision standard model used for pattern recognition such as speech recognition, character recognition, or image recognition using a probability model based on a hidden Markov model, Bayesian theory, or linear discrimination analysis; intention interpretation using a probability model such as a Bayesian net; data-mining performed using a probability model; and so forth. The standard model creating apparatus includes a reference model preparing unit that prepares at least one reference model; a reference model storing unit that stores the reference model prepared by the reference model preparing unit (; and a standard model creating unit that creates a standard model by calculating statistics of the standard model so as to maximize or locally maximize the probability or likelihood with respect to the reference model stored in the reference model storing unit. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271202 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS APPARATUS, SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD, SPEECH SYNTHESIS PROGRAM, PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL, AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM - A speech synthesis apparatus includes a content selection unit that selects a text content item to be converted into speech; a related information selection unit that selects related information which can be at least converted into text and which is related to the text content item selected by the content selection unit; a data addition unit that converts the related information selected by the related information selection unit into text and adds text data of the text to text data of the text content item selected by the content selection unit; a text-to-speech conversion unit that converts the text data supplied from the data addition unit into a speech signal; and a speech output unit that outputs the speech signal supplied from the text-to-speech conversion unit. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271203 | Voice-activated remote control service - A method of remotely controlling operation of a controlled device involves receiving a telephone call from an owner via a telephone network; authenticating the telephone call to establish that the owner is authorized to control the controlled device; interpreting a voice command from the owner that issues instructions to the controlled device; identifying the controlled device based upon the authentication and identification by the owner of the controlled device; converting the voice command to one or more data packets capable of interpretation by the controlled device to execute the command; and delivering the one or more data packets to the controlled device via the Internet. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271204 | Audio Compression - For audio encoding and decoding, in order to enhance coded audio signals, the audio signal is divided into at least a low frequency band and a high frequency band, the high frequency band is divided into at least two high frequency sub-band signals, and parameters are generated that refer at least to the low frequency band signal sections which match best with high-frequency sub-band signals. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271205 | PREFERRED CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE PRESENTATION TO VIRTUAL UNIVERSE CLIENTS - The present invention is directed to presenting customer service representatives to a virtual universe client. A method for presenting a customer service representative (CSR) to a virtual universe client includes obtaining a preference(s) of the virtual universe client, and then presenting a virtual universe customer service representative (CSR) to the virtual universe client, based on the preference that was obtained. The invention allows virtual universe clients (“clients”), or customers, to experience consistent interaction quality with virtual universe CSR's, based on the client's stated preferences and/or interaction history in immersive support centers. This provides for consistency in the CSR experience for the client in that a virtual universe CSR may be staffed by varying human presences “behind” the avatar. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271206 | VIRTUAL WORLD SUBGROUP DETERMINATION AND SEGMENTATION FOR PERFORMANCE SCALABILITY - A system and method of decreasing server loads and, more particularly, to decrease server load by automatically determining subgroups based on object interactions and computational expenditures. The system includes a plurality of servers; a subgroup optimization module configured to segment a plurality of objects into optimal subgroups; and a server transfer module configured to apportion one or more of the optimal subgroups between the plurality of servers based on a load of each of the plurality of servers. The method includes determining a relationship amongst a plurality of objects; segmenting the objects into optimized subgroups based on the relationships; and apportioning the optimized subgroups amongst a plurality of servers based on server load. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271207 | Facility access management system - An enhanced delivery system ( | 2009-10-29 |
20090271208 | AUTOMATIC DATA TRANSMISSION IN RESPONSE TO CONTENT OF ELECTRONIC FORMS SATISFYING CRITERIA - Automatic transmission of information is generated when the content of a posted electronic form matches a predefined criteria. An interface allows the user to create a criterion template to specify the match criterion without requiring the user to have the skills of a professional programmer. The person to be notified and the form and content of the notification can also be defined by the user and can be dependent on the content of the posted form. In one application, individuals associated with an institution of higher learning are automatically notified when a student submits an electronic profile form showing that the student meets a pre-specified criteria. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271209 | System and Method for Tailoring Privacy in Online Social Networks - In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided that includes maintaining a plurality of identification bits associated with a user and a minimum personal privacy level identifying if any of the plurality of identification bits are authorized for disclosure, and receiving a request for one or more identification bits of the plurality of identification bits. The method also includes determining whether the identification bits of the request exceed the minimum personal privacy level, and if the identification bits of the request exceed the minimum personal privacy level, identifying to the user the identification bits of the request that exceed the minimum personal privacy level. A computer-readable recording medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions is provided, and an exemplary system is provided. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271210 | EMPLOYEE BENEFITS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A Web-based, computer-driven health and welfare benefit system that groups employees into Eligibility Groups, limits available Business Rules to those available on a centrally authored pick list, allows disparate data files to be imported and offers flexible tools for employees to build customized internet interfaces for benefit management. End users, clients or implementers, such as service providers, benefit administrators or even a business' employees, may access the present system over the internet without needing to install the present invention's software on the end users' personal computers or computer systems. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271211 | DEVICE INCLUDING USER EXCLUSIVE DATA TAG - A consumer device is disclosed. The device comprises a body, and a memory comprising a computer readable medium disposed on or within the body. The computer readable medium comprises user exclusive data tag, which can be placed in a user exclusive data tag. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271212 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE DEVICE FOR USER MATCHING AND COMMUNICATION FACILITATION - A method, system, and storage device for user matching and communication facilitation capable of receiving responses to at least one profile from at least one user. The profile having at least two sections. The first section having answers about the user and the second section having answers about what the user is looking for in another user. The answers are stored in a database system and automatically compared to other user's answers. Points are awarded for matches between two users answers to the same profile and if the points exceed a preset threshold, the two users are given the opportunity to communicate. Weighting can be employed on a question by question basis in each profile to provide a more accurate match. Furthermore, users can create custom profiles. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271213 | Combination treatment selection methods and systems - Methods, computer program products, and systems are described that include accepting at least one attribute of at least one individual, querying at least one database at least partly based on the at least one attribute, selecting from the at least one database at least one prescription medication and at least one artificial sensory experience to address the at least one attribute of at least one individual, and/or presenting an indication of the at least one prescription medication and the at least one artificial sensory experience at least partly based on the selecting from the at least one database at least one prescription medication and at least one artificial sensory experience to address the at least one attribute of at least one individual | 2009-10-29 |
20090271214 | Rules engine framework - An apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a computer system and an integrated development environment application. When executed on the computer system, the integrated development environment application promotes defining a plurality of rules based on a plurality of generic templates and automatically incorporating input value validation based on a type of a left hand variable into the rules. The rules, when executed by a healthcare management information system rules engine, promote enrollment of health care providers and healthcare system members and processing of healthcare claims. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271215 | Methods and systems for detecting a bioactive agent effect - Methods, computer program products, and systems are described that include accepting at least one indication of bioactive agent use by an individual and/or presenting an indication of an artificial sensory experience programmed to detect at least one effect of the bioactive agent at least partly based on the at least one indication of the bioactive agent. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271216 | DIAGNOSTIC IMAGE SECURITY SYSTEM - A method for restricting unauthorised access to a patient's diagnostic images. Patient identification data is stored in a first database and diagnostic images associated with the patient are stored in a remote second database. The patient is issued with an access code which is provided to a user who is authorised by the patient to access the patient's diagnostic image. Use of the access code permits an authorised user to match the patient identification data retrieved from the first database with the associated diagnostic image stored in the second database. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271217 | Side effect ameliorating combination therapeutic products and systems - Combination therapeutics, computer program products, and systems are described that include at least one combined prescription psychiatric medication and at least one artificial sensory experience for ameliorating at least one side effect of the psychiatric medication. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271218 | PATIENT-DIRECTED HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT SYSTEM - Particular embodiments provide a quality adherence guide. In one embodiment, a plurality of medical records from a plurality of medical providers are received. A quality adherence guideline is used to determine if a standard of care is being adhered to by various medical providers. A quality adherence guideline is then generated using the selected standard of care. The quality adherence guideline includes a set of treatment steps that are defined by the selected standard of care. Information from the medical records associated with the patient is also used to populate the guide. During treatment of the patient, input may be received from a plurality of users from health care providers regarding the treatment steps. The patient-direct system automatically analyzes the information inserted in the guideline to determine the level of adherence that various users have achieved when compared with the industry standard for quality care. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271219 | Methods and systems for presenting a combination treatment - Methods, computer program products, and systems are described that include accepting an indication of an individual's compliance with an artificial sensory experience and presenting an indication of a bioactive agent at least partly based on the indication of the individual's compliance with the artificial sensory experience. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271220 | Electronic patient registration verification and payment system and method - A patient registration record and payment system creates, maintains and transfers all relevant data electronically. The system captures patient registration and payment data, such as personal, demographic and insurance coverage information, medical history, frequently accessed healthcare providers, and data specifying one or more funding sources to pay for the amount of a medical visit for which the patient is responsible at the time of entry using graphical user interfaces through the Internet or a local area network. Moreover, the system includes the capability to access reference databases regarding verification of data for accuracy, completeness and validity on a continuous, automated basis and, where such reference databases are not available, to initiate manual verification of data for accuracy, completeness and validity by system personnel prior to making patient registration data available to customers or transferring such data to customer databases. Additionally, the system provides for an automated process to transfer payment from one or more funding sources specified by the patient at the time of entry to a deposit account specified by the healthcare provider. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271221 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Medical Records Registration - A method and network for managing and transferring medical information are disclosed. A network, in one embodiment, includes a portable medical device and a medical records registration (“MRR”) system for handling and transferring medical information. The portable medical device includes patient or client verification information and it is capable of issuing a request for medical related information via a communications network. The MRR system is capable of authenticating the request in response to a set of predefined verifications and obtaining the medical related information after passage of the authentication. The medical related information is subsequently forwarded in accordance with the request. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271222 | Monthly Income Reversionary Annuity Insurance Policy - A life insurance product provided with one or more mediums and indicia recorded on the one or more mediums identifying an insured, an irrevocable beneficiary, a fixed term ending upon a predetermined age of the insured for the life insurance product, a payment schedule for premiums, a determined death benefit payable to the beneficiary upon death of the insured, with the death benefits defined as a guaranteed stream of payments to be paid for the life of the irrevocable beneficiary. The life insurance product also includes means for executing the one or mediums to form a life insurance contract. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271223 | INCENTIVE COMPATIBLE AND RESETTING FIRST MORTGAGE LOANS AND METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING SAME - A method for creating marginally priced reverse mortgage loans (MPRML) including the steps of identifying a borrower for a MPRML against a property owned by the borrower, determining an aggregate asset value of the property, determining a life expectancy, obtaining consent for a lender to own life insurance on the borrower, and determining whether the borrower can be issued life insurance. If the borrower can obtain life insurance, providing terms relatively better than if the borrower could not. If the borrower cannot obtain life insurance, providing the MPRML at terms relatively better than if the borrower did not apply. The method also determines a principal limit factor which defines a debt portion of a capital structure, determines the capital structure as between debt and equity, tranches the debt capital structure into debt tranches wherein a lowest loan to value tranche has seniority, and assigns each tranche an interest rate. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271224 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND PRODUCTS FOR EFFICIENT ANNUITIZATION - A method of creating a variable universal life anti-martingale immediate annuity (VULAMIA) including the steps of soliciting preferences from an annuitant for annuity income and timing of annuity income versus a risk of loss of an annuity purchase price from early death, determining an annuity cashflow start date and a rate of return to be paid on an annuity consideration premium upon death, structuring a variable universal life policy to act as a wrapper for a separate account used to purchase immediate annuities and a death benefit which provides the rate of return on the annuity consideration premium, receiving premium payments into a VULAMIA to purchase the variable universal life policy and the immediate annuities, reinvesting immediate annuity payments until a predetermined payout date; and at death of the annuitant, providing a death benefit and the predetermined rate of return on the annuity consideration premiums. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271225 | Systems, Methods, and Media for Managing Transfers of Existing Reservations - Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for managing transfers of existing reservations are disclosed. Embodiments may include enrolling business members with the reservation manager and receiving and storing indications of reservations to list for sale. Embodiments may also include receiving from a buying user a request to search reservation listings of reservations listed for sale and generating and transmitting search results, the search results including reservation listings offered for sale that satisfy the received request from the buying user and a price associated with each reservation listing. Embodiments may also include receiving a request from the buying user to purchase a particular reservation from its associated selling user. Embodiments may also include transmitting an indication of the purchase of the particular reservation to a business member associated with the particular reservation to facilitate transfer of the particular reservation by the business member from the selling user to the buying user. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271226 | CACHE POLLER FOR PROVIDING TRAVEL PLANNING INFORMATION - Systems and techniques for travel planning are described. A travel planning system is queried with travel queries specifying parameters of trips. Answers to the queries are received from the travel planning system, and seat availability of flights in the itinerary information in the answers is predicted. Only those answers for which seats are predicted to be available are stored in a cached database for later use in answering user-specified queries. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271227 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MONETIZING EMPTY SPACE INVENTORY AS EMPTY ADJACENT SPACE - Methods and systems for facilitating the sale, lease, rental, or other monetization of unsold space inventory (e.g., seats, berths, cabins, rooms, etc.) to customers or passengers as guaranteed, empty adjacent space, after the passenger has already purchased a reservation and check-in has commenced. The empty adjacent space (EAS) may be sold as an upgrade when a guest checks-in at an event (e.g., an airline flight, theater performance, train trip, bus trip, hotel stay, day at the beach, parking space lease, etc.) or some time thereafter. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271228 | CONSTRUCTION OF PREDICTIVE USER PROFILES FOR ADVERTISING - A system that facilitates targeted advertising is described in detail herein. The system includes a receiver component that receives user data that includes historical searching and browsing activity of a user. A profile generator component generates a user profile based at least in part upon a subset of the user data, wherein the user profile includes a plurality of keywords, wherein at least one keyword in the plurality of keywords is assigned a score that is indicative of a probability that an advertisement corresponding to the keyword will be monetized. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271229 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A FLEXIBLE MODEL FOR JOINT PROFIT AND ENVIRONMENTAL OPTIMIZATION - A method for generating a flexible model for joint profit and environmental optimization. The flexible model comprises an input-to-output activity conversion table being applied on projects, processes, markets, and products of the organization. The conversion table includes a five-step pattern that captures a wide range of conversion behaviors. The flexible model can be effectively utilized to model and optimize environmental initiatives determined by the organization in the context of the organization's profits. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271230 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOLVING STOCHASTIC LINEAR PROGRAMS WITH CONDITIONAL VALUE AT RISK CONSTRAINTS - An apparatus including a calculator to determine an optimal solution to a stochastic linear programming problem or a stochastic mixed-ineteger linear programming problem with conditional value at risk constraints (CVaRs). The optimal solution is determined by generating a sequence of solutions that converge to the optimal solution. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271231 | SOLUTION UTILIZING COMMODITY-ORIENTED CORRECTION GUIDELINES TO CORRECT DEFECTIVE ELECTRONIC BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS - The present invention can include a solution for correcting defective electronic business transactions using a commodity-oriented approach. In this method, a defective electronic business transaction can be received from an automated processing system. A correction value can be calculated for the defective transaction. The calculated correction value can be compared against a preset threshold value. When indicated by the result of the comparing step, the defective electronic business transaction can be corrected. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271232 | EVENT RESOLUTION - Apparatus, systems, and methods that operate to assist in resolving both expected and unexpected events that occur in the course of business operations are disclosed. Activities may include detecting the occurrence of an alert event, determining whether the alert event is an expected event or an unexpected event, presenting a resolution sequence for the expected event, and soliciting a new event resolution path for the unexpected event. Further activities may include determining an alert event is an unexpected event, displaying an alert message associated with the unexpected event, and soliciting recommendations to form a new event resolution path to be presented upon determining a new event has occurred that is similar to the alert event. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271233 | VALUING FUTURE INFORMATION UNDER UNCERTAINTY - The invention relates to a method of performing an oilfield operation of an oilfield having at least one well having a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation for extracting fluid from an underground reservoir therein. The method steps include analyzing the oilfield operation to generate a decision tree comprising a first decision and a second decision, wherein a first outcome of the first decision dictates acquiring information relevant to the second decision, formulating a figure of merit of the oilfield operation according to the decision tree based on the information and uncertainties associated with the oilfield, determining a value of the figure of merit by modeling the oilfield operation using statistical sampling, and performing the oilfield operation upon making the first decision based on the value of the figure of merit. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271234 | EXTRACTION AND MODELING OF IMPLEMENTED BUSINESS PROCESSES - A system and method in which an implemented business process to model is identified, and one or more markup language files are automatically generated specifying metadata and a structure of the business process. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271235 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SURVIVAL CURVE USED TO CALCULATE FAILURE PROBABILITY - A part fault table indicating the number of days used, a fault flag and a first weight is generated for each of plural parts. A survival curve and a hazard function for each of the plural parts are also generated. Then, convergence is determined by calculating a hazard value using the hazard function for each part in the same group, calculating a second weight by normalization using the hazard value of each part and comparing the first and second weight with each other. Finally, a control operation is performed in such a manner that the convergence determination is terminated by outputting the survival curve or updates the first weight with the second weight, while a new survival curve and a new hazard function are generated from the part fault table using the updated first weight, after which the convergence determination is determined again. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271236 | Dynamically Routing Salvage Shipments and Associated Method - A system and method is disclosed for managing salvage shipments in a transportation network. The system includes a transportation planner coupled with one or more entities in the transportation network. The transportation planner determines an optimized transportation plan for delivery and pick-up of shipments throughout the transportation network. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271237 | Optimizing Rail Shipments for Commodity Transactions - Embodiments for optimization of at least one previously established rail shipment of a commodity are described herein. More specifically, one embodiment of a method includes receiving data related to a first previously established rail shipment the first previously established rail shipment established via a first supplier and exchanging at least a portion of the first previously established rail shipment with a second previously established rail shipment. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271238 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING A WORKFLOW WITHIN AND BETWEEN A CRIMINAL CASE MANAGEMENT SIDE AND A CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE MANAGEMENT SIDE IN THE JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY DOMAIN - A method for managing a workflow within and between a criminal case management side and a criminal intelligence management side in a justice and public safety domain that includes tracking workbook sharing across organizations. Each workbook contains a unique reference number. The history files in each workbook displays where it was disseminated from, and when; or who it was imported from, and when. The legal and security level remains attached to the electronic workbook. Its history follows it through its life span. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271239 | TEST REQUIREMENT LIST FOR DIAGNOSTIC TESTS - A diagnostic system for a vehicle, including a memory receiving and storing vehicle specific information, and storing diagnostic test requirements of a plurality of diagnostic sequences, and a processor identifying the test requirements for a selected diagnostic sequence according to the vehicle specific information in advance of executing the diagnostic sequence. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271240 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STRATEGIC HEADCOUNT PLANNING WITH OPERATIONAL TRANSITION MANAGEMENT OF WORKFORCE - A method and system are disclosed for planning a workforce headcount for a given business process. The method comprises the steps of providing as inputs, i) productivity ramp-ups to model the level of experience and to measure the performance of both new hires and current employees, and ii) industry/market attrition rates for employees; and performing an evaluation, using said inputs, of at least one given management objective. On the basis of this evaluation, a future hiring and transition plan is provided for the given business process for a defined period of time. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, uncertainty is associated with one or more of the inputs, and the future hiring and transition plan is provided by using stochastic programming to model the uncertainty associated with at least one of said one or more of the inputs. | 2009-10-29 |
20090271241 | Computer-Implemented Systems And Methods For Pack Optimization - Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for optimizing the distribution of packs of an item across an entity's distribution network. Constraint values may be specified to limit the values that may be included in a planned distribution of packs. Also, heuristics may be used to reduce the computation time required to determine optimal values for a planned distribution of packs. Modeling of the planned distribution of packs and optimization of the number of packs to be distributed can be accomplished using a mixed-integer linear programming solver. | 2009-10-29 |