44th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 67 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140324433 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LEARNING LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A method and a device for learning a language and a computer readable recording medium are provided. The method includes following steps. An input voice from a voice receiver is transformed into an input sentence according to a grammar rule. Whether the input sentence is the same as a learning sentence displayed on a display is determined. If the input sentence is different from the learning sentence, an ancillary information containing at least one error word in the input sentence that is different from the learning sentence is generated. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324434 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING METADATA-DEPENDENT LANGUAGE MODELS - Techniques for generating language models. The techniques include: obtaining language data comprising training data and associated values for one or more metadata attributes, the language data comprising a plurality of instances of language data, an instance of language data comprising an instance of training data and one or more metadata attribute values associated with the instance of training data; identifying, by processing the language data using at least one processor, a set of one or more of the metadata attributes to use for clustering the instances of training data into a plurality of clusters; clustering the training data instances based on their respective values for the identified set of metadata attributes into the plurality of clusters; and generating a language model for each of the plurality of clusters. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324435 | COMBINED STATISTICAL AND RULE-BASED PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS - In response to a word of a text sequence, a first part-of-speech (POS) tag is generated using a statistical part-of-speech (POS) tagger based on a corpus of trained text sequences, each representing a likely POS of a word for a given text sequence. A second POS tag is generated using a rule-based POS tagger based on a set of one or more rules associated with a type of an application associated with the text sequence. A final POS tag is assigned to the word of the text sequence for TTS synthesis based on the first POS tag and the second POS tag. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324436 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO PLAYING - A method and apparatus for audio playing is provided. The method includes receiving an audio conversion request carrying a first text identifier, and obtaining a first electronic text corresponding to the first text identifier; obtaining the audio data corresponding to the characters in the first electronic text according to a correspondence between characters and audio data which is stored in advance; and playing the audio data in the order of corresponding characters in the first electronic text. By applying the present disclosure, it is possible to improve the efficiency of obtaining information from electronic text. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324437 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE TRANSFORMING TEXT MESSAGE INTO SPEECH - The application discloses a communication device and method of processing a text message in the communication device. An aspect of the present application is a method of receiving text messages from a counterpart; determining whether to transform the received text messages into voice data according to control information, wherein the control information corresponds to a condition for transforming the text messages into the voice data; selectively transforming a text message among the text messages into the voice data of the counterpart according to a result of the determining step; and transmitting the transformed voice data to a sound reproduction device. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324438 | SCREEN READER HAVING CONCURRENT COMMUNICATION OF NON-TEXTUAL INFORMATION - A screen reader software product for low-vision users, the software having a reader module collecting textual and non-textual display information generated by a web browser or word processor. Font styling, interface layout information and the like are communicated to the end user by sounds broadcast simultaneously rather than serially with the synthesized speech to improve the speed and efficiency in which information may be digested by the end user. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324439 | CONTENT SHARING METHOD, APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A content sharing method, apparatus and an electronic device, which belongs to a field of computer technology, are provided. The method includes: collecting a voice signal by the microphone after current content is displayed; detecting whether the voice signal is a blowing signal; displaying a sharing page corresponding to the current content in the case that the voice signal is the blowing signal, the sharing page containing content to be shared; sharing the content to be shared in the sharing page. According to the present method, a sharing page is displayed directly to guide a user to complete content sharing upon detecting that the voice signal collected by the microphone is the blowing signal, thus avoiding inconvenience caused by multiple times of clicks of the user during content sharing and greatly reducing the time for sharing. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324440 | Detection of an Audio Signal Transient Using First and Second Maximum Norms - Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for detecting whether a transient exists within an audio signal. According to one representative embodiment, a segment of a digital audio signal is divided into blocks, and a norm value is calculated for each of a number of the blocks, resulting in a set of norm values for such blocks, each such norm value representing a measure of signal strength within a corresponding block. A maximum norm value is then identified across such blocks, and a test criterion is applied to the norm values. If the test criterion is not satisfied, a first signal indicating that the segment does not include any transient is output, and if the test criterion is satisfied, a second signal indicating that the segment includes a transient is output. According to this embodiment, the test criterion involves a comparison of the maximum norm value to a different second maximum norm value, subject to a specified constraint, within the segment. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324441 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENCODING AUDIO DATA WITH ADAPTIVE LOW FREQUENCY COMPENSATION - A method for determining mantissa bit allocation of audio data values of frequency domain audio data to be encoded. The allocation method includes a step of determining masking values for the audio data values, including by performing adaptive low frequency compensation on the audio data of each frequency band of a set of low frequency bands of the audio data. The adaptive low frequency compensation includes steps of: performing tonality detection on the audio data to generate compensation control data indicative of whether each frequency band in the set of low frequency bands has prominent tonal content; and performing low frequency compensation on the audio data in each frequency band in the set of low frequency bands having prominent tonal content as indicated by the compensation control data, but not performing low frequency compensation on the audio data in any other frequency band in the set of low frequency bands. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324442 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALERTING GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES TO CITIZEN ISSUES - A system for alerting government representatives to citizen issues, including a user interface; a wireless communications module; a processor; and a tangible non-transitory computer-readable memory having instructions, that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform the steps of: receiving evidence; receiving, via the user interface, personal data of a user; generating a list of government representatives; receiving, via the user interface, a selection of government representatives; populating a petition with the evidence, personal data, and the selection of government representative; and transmitting, via the wireless communications module, the petition to the government representatives. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324443 | Health Scoring Systems and Methods - A method for scoring an individual's overall health and wellness is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving one or more health measurements of an individual. The one or more health measurements can include the individual's resting heart rate, the individual's blood pressure, and the individual's body fat percentage. Next, a health score of the individual is calculated based on the receive health measurements. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324444 | REMOTE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM WITH TREATMENT VERIFICATION - Disclosed are methods for remote health care treatment verification. The methods include determining a medical plan including at least a medical procedure that is self administered. The methods further include establishing a communications link, supporting the transmission of video information from the patient to a medical professional, between the medical professional and a patent remote to the medical professional. Furthermore, the methods include instructing the patient to initiate a self administered medical procedure in accordance with the medical plan and receiving video information from the patient indicative of compliance with the instruction. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324445 | DIABETES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MEDICAL DEVICE USAGE STATISTICS - A computer-implemented method for sharing information and managing diabetes diagnosis and treatment. The method comprises providing a web portal account accessible by both a patient and health care provider. The account may be associated with a portable medical device. The method includes receiving, at one or more servers, medical and usage data from the portable medical device. The medical data may be associated with the patient and the usage data may be associated with usage of the medical device by the patient. Statistics related to the medical or usage data are accumulated at one or more servers over a period of time, and may be accessible in the web portal account. The method includes evaluating the statistics in relation to a treatment criteria, and sending a treatment recommendation to the patient or the health care provider when at least one of the statistics meets or exceeds a predetermined treatment criteria. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324446 | METHOD FOR SELECTING A BARIATRIC SURGERY - This invention relates to the selection of an appropriate bariatric surgery for a patient based upon baseline patient parameters. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324447 | TARGETING ONLINE ADS BASED ON HEALTHCARE DEMOGRAPHICS - Systems and methods allow targeting messages to consumers using a plurality of records for a group of consumers, each record comprising healthcare demographic information (HDI) associated with individual consumers. HDI can include insured status information identifying whether a consumer likely has health insurance, which is received from at least one health services provider. A cookie can correlates a consumer's browser to healthcare demographic information. The cookie allows subsequent association of HDI with the browser, without exposing personally identifiable information of the first consumer to advertisers. Systems and methods can also associate an ID of a consumer's electronic device with the HDI, allowing mobile device and set top boxes to serve relate ads to the consumer. Consumers can be targeted based on selected HDI criteria. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324448 | BUSINESS ANALYTICS PACKAGE WITH KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS - A system for comparing parameters of the revenue cycle of a healthcare provider to benchmark values is provided. The system includes a revenue cycle management company which manages the revenue cycles of a plurality of healthcare providers, wherein each of said revenue cycles includes the submission of healthcare claims by one of said healthcare providers to a plurality of healthcare payers, and the receipt of healthcare claim payments and remittance advice from the plurality of healthcare payers in response to the submitted healthcare claims; a database associated with said revenue cycle management company, wherein said database contains data relating to a plurality of parameters of the revenue cycle of each of said plurality of healthcare providers; and a non-transitory, computer readable medium having recorded therein a software program that contains suitable programming instructions. When executed by a data processing apparatus, the programming instructions cause the data processing apparatus to perform a method for (a) deriving from the database a plurality of performance benchmarks, wherein each performance benchmark corresponds to one of said plurality of parameters, and (b) displaying on a display a graphical depiction of the comparison of the value of at least one of said plurality of parameters for the revenue cycle of one of said plurality of healthcare providers to the benchmark corresponding to said parameter. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324449 | MULTIPLE COMPUTER SERVER SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZING HEALTHCARE INFORMATION - A method of providing changes in healthcare policy information is provided, including: maintaining a first database, the first database containing records including copies of websites, the websites pertaining to policy information; a first server scanning current versions of the websites on the Internet and identifying which of the websites have been changed to a second server; and updating the records in the first database; a second server generating a report of the changes made to each of the identified websites; and the second server providing access to a user to generate reports relating to the websites. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324450 | INTERNET SYSTEM FOR CONNECTING HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS AND PATIENTS - An Internet-based system involves a database and search capabilities for connecting patients with healthcare providers, e.g., physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, treatment facilities, etc., and further enables such providers to reach patients with whom they may not otherwise come into contact. A patient may access the healthcare provider information through a search conducted using a search engine, such as Google, Yahoo, etc. Alternatively, a patient may access the company Web site's predetermined Web page that provides search capabilities on its database. A patient may research a healthcare provider based on criteria specified by the patient. Information provided to the patient may be in the form of a report, profile, ratings, etc., including patient-provided information, physician-verified information, and information verified by an independent third party. The verified information and ratings provided by the Web site enable patients to differentiate among healthcare providers and thereby select the provider that best meets their individual needs. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324451 | Nurse Call System with Additional Status Board - A healthcare information system for use in a healthcare facility having patient beds in a plurality of patient rooms is provided. The healthcare information system has a nurse call computer which is located at a nurse's station and which is configured to receive nurse calls and/or safety alerts originating from the patient rooms. The healthcare information system has a status board computer which is also located at the nurse's station and which is operable to display, for more than one patient, information regarding the patient, staff location, bed data, and room status. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324452 | OUTPATIENT MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for outpatient monitoring. In some examples, the outpatient monitoring technology includes a system for remote monitoring and consultations of patients' state associated with automated interpretation of vital signs signals. In other examples, the outpatient monitoring technology includes a system for remote monitoring of patients' state associated with analysis of full-disclosure vital signs digital signals with reduced bit data or channel data. In some examples, the outpatient monitoring technology includes a system for remote monitoring of patients' state associated with ongoing automated analysis and transmission of full-disclosure vital signs digital signals and automatically generated signals' interpretation results and manually marked patient symptoms. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324453 | Database for Pre-Screening Potentially Litigious Patients - A database system stores information about potential patients that allows medical professionals to gauge the legal risk presented by the potential patients, giving the medical professionals the opportunity to avoid medical involvement with those individuals most prone to engaging in unwarranted legal actions. The database may also be used by insurance companies, legal services and other professional service providers to screen for potentially litigious customers. Information in the database is processed to provide a risk assessment score for each patient that is used for screening purposes. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324454 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING HUMAN HEALTH USING TARGETED PROBIOTICS - Methods and systems enable healthcare providers to treat a medical condition of a patient using a processor that may receive assessment data of the patient, which may include a health history and results from at least one diagnostic test. Treatment of the medical condition may also include using the processor to evaluate the received assessment data for identifying a medical condition of the patient and a metabolite that affects the medical condition, to identify a probiotic that regulates the metabolite, to develop a formula for a personalized medication that includes the identified probiotic based on the identified probiotic and the patient's medical records, and to send the formula for the personalized medication to a manufacturing site server for use in manufacturing the personalized medication. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324455 | CENTRAL CONTROL OF DISTRIBUTED ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES - The invention relates to a control system for distributed organizational structures, comprising one or more organizations with one or more organizational units; users are assigned to at least one organization; and roles are assigned to the users, and the roles determine the available functionalities within the organization that is assigned to the user. The invention also relates to the use of the control system for identifying inventories from locally available database systems and remote database systems, preferably umbilical cord blood data. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324456 | USER-DEFINABLE EPISODES OF ACTIVITY AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR CREATING THE SAME - Methods and systems for generating episodes of activity, such as episodes of care. One method includes generating, by a processor, a graphical user interface for display to a user. The method also includes receiving, by a processor, (1) a first selection of a trigger event for an episode of care from the user through the graphical user interface, (2) a second selection of at least one time period for the episode of care from the user through the graphical user interface, and (3) a third selection of at least one claim category for the episode of care from the user through the graphical user interface. The method further includes creating, by the processor, parameters for the episode of care based on the first, second, and third selections, wherein the parameters are applied to a plurality of medical claims to group at least two of the plurality of medical claims. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324457 | INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE PREDICTING SYSTEM - An integrated computerized predicting system is disclosed. A patient computerized system is connected through a web interface to a matching server, where the smart health care matching server is configured to receive a selection criteria from a patient at the patient computerized system. The matching server is connected to an electronic health | 2014-10-30 |
20140324458 | Method and Apparatus for Predicting Outcome of Hearing Device Implantation - A computing system provides an interface through which to receive self-characterizations of hearing performance and the like from candidates for hearing device implantation and from hearing device recipients. Provided with a candidate's pre-implantation self-characterization, the computing system searches through data to identify recipients whose entered pre-implantation self-characterizations match those of the candidate, and the computing system outputs as a predicted outcome of hearing device implantation a representation of post-implantation self-characterizations entered by the identified recipients. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324459 | AUTOMATIC HEALTH MONITORING ALERTS - A device may receive information that identifies a first health metric value associated with a user and a first time, and may receive information that identifies a second health metric value associated with the user and a second time that is different from the first time. The device may receive medical record information associated with the user and a third time, where the medical record information is different from the first health metric value and the second health metric value. The device may infer a relationship between the first health metric value, the second health metric value, and the medical record information, based on the first time, the second time, and the third time. The device may provide an indication of the inferred relationship. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324460 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND MANAGING TOTAL CARDIODIABETES RISK - A method for generating a report presenting a patient-specific information relevant to assessing a patient's cardiodiabetes risk to guide and allow a physician or healthcare provider in the choice of therapy or therapies that will be maximally effective for a specific patient, to monitor the response to the chosen therapy and reduce the patient's risk of developing cardiodiabetes and/or its complications. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324461 | DIABETES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH CONTEXTUAL DRILL DOWN REPORTS - A method for displaying contextual information by a diabetes reporter of a diabetes management system is provided. The method may include: displaying a graphical representation of a plurality of data values over a period of time in a first area of an interface display; receiving a selection of a desired data value from among the plurality of data values displayed in the first area; displaying, in response to the selection, a first set of data entries and a second set of data entries in a second area of the interface display concurrently with the graphical representation of the plurality of data values in the first area of an interface display. The first set of data entries and the second set of data entries are displayed in chronological order within a preset time period. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324462 | MEDICAL DATA TRANSFER COMPONENT - Diabetes care management system and method for transferring medical data from a handheld medical recording device to a host computer via a data transfer component. The steps of the data transfer component comprising detecting a data upload request and detecting a medical device ready to communicate, verifying a unique ID, receiving patient medical data, including an authentication token with patient medical data, and sending patient medical data along with the authentication token for association with a user account. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324463 | WEB ACCOUNT CREATION AND MANAGEMENT, DATA SHARING, HOME PAGE SETTING, AND DATA REPORTING - A method includes: receiving, at a computing device, diabetes management data from a diabetes management device, wherein the diabetes management data does not include a blood glucose (bG) measurement; using the computing device, transmitting an indicator of an account and the diabetes management data to a diabetes management server. The method further includes, using the diabetes management server: creating a bG measurement entry for the account in a database, leaving empty a field of the bG measurement entry for a bG measurement in the bG measurement entry based on the diabetes management data not including a bG measurement; and storing the diabetes management data in one or more respective fields of the bG measurement entry. The method further includes, using the diabetes management server, generating a user interface for displaying data stored in the bG measurement entry and at least one other bG measurement entry associated with the account. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324464 | SYSTEM PORTAL CONTROL FOR A DIABETES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method for managing accounts in a diabetes management system. The method includes receiving, by an account manager, a request to deactivate a first account associated with a healthcare provider. The first account may be associated with a plurality of patient accounts. The account manager may be implemented as computer executable instructions executing on a computer processor of a server device. The method includes removing, by the account manager, access to data associated with the first account. Each of the patient accounts associated with the first account are identified and may be deactivated by the account manager. An electronic notification may be sent to a person associated with each of the identified patient accounts, advising the person that the corresponding patient account has been deactivated. An audit record may be created in a data store, the audit record indicating the deactivation of the first account. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324465 | METHOD FOR RECONCILING MEDICAL DATA CAPTURED ON ONE DEVICE WITH A STRUCTURED TEST ADMINISTERED ON ANOTHER DEVICE - A method for analyzing diabetes related information by a diabetes management application residing on a computing device. The method may include: receiving a data entry over a communication link from a blood glucose meter, where the data entry includes a glucose measurement and an indicator of a pre-established activity associated with the glucose measurement; evaluating the data entry in relation to a subject structured test based in part by comparing the indicator from the data entry with collection events associated with the subject structured test; identifying the data entry as compatible with the subject structured test when the data entry correlates with a given collection event specified by the subject structured test; identifying the data entry as non-compatible with the subject structured test when the data entry does not correlate with the given collection event specified by the subject structured test; and inputting the data entry into a logbook. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324466 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR REAL-TIME ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS LOSS EXPOSURE INCIDENT DATA ACQUISITION AND PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS INSURANCE LOSS CONTROL REPORTING - Real-time electronic medical loss exposure incident records data acquisition system and process for predictive analytics insurance loss control reporting direct to insured policy holder is disclosed. Electronic loss exposure information from a facility, in real-time, is input to insurance predictive analytics models that predict probability of increased loss exposure and deliver notifications to facility management immediately and independent of human interaction. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324467 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION WITH PATIENTS - An information management and communications system and method for communication with patients. The system includes a graphical user interface on which a healthcare provider interactively builds an entire monitoring call dialog tailored for an individual patient by selecting multiple call objects including multiple health assessment questions from a plurality of health assessment questions, editing one or more call objects to further tailor the monitoring call dialog for the patient, positioning and configuring the call objects and thereby create and configure a sequence of elements of the monitoring call dialog, and save the entire monitoring call dialog to a storage mechanism. The system further includes an automated interactive patient response system that audibly communicates the entire monitoring call dialog to the patient, enables the patient to provide responses to the multiple health assessment questions, and records the responses of the patient in the storage mechanism. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324468 | One-Stop Shopping System and Method - A system and method are disclosed for one-stop shopping for health-care services and related needs. The one-stop shopping system and method provide objective information for the system enrollee to assess and decide on health-care insurance and services. The system and method provide this objective information in a way that is easily accessible by system enrollees in an economical and rapid manner. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324469 | CUSTOMIZABLE CONTEXT AND USER-SPECIFIC PATIENT REFERENCEABLE MEDICAL DATABASE - The present invention is related to a patient-specific referenceable database which can record and track medical data throughout the healthcare and provider networks, be customized to the individual needs and preferences of healthcare providers, and adapted to the specific context being performed. The computer-implemented method and a system includes: saving data in a data hierarchy, including major data categories, in a database; wherein the data includes primary data representing various medical disciplines, and including all current and historical medical diagnoses and other data on a patient; retrieving and analyzing medical data from the database, in a data search in response to a search query, the medical data being specific to one of the medical disciplines related to one of the major data categories on the patient; and displaying the patient medical data on a display for user review in accordance with the user's electronic profile and preferences. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324470 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TEMPORARY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - An information processing device includes a database which mutually associates assessment contents of a plurality of assessment items of a subject of care or an object of care with case information, treatment information or effect information of the subject of care or the object of care as one data set and stores the one data set, a processing unit which derives assessment items of the subject of care or the object of care from the database, a processing unit which refers to the database and derives a subsequent assessment item in accordance with the assessment contents of the previously evaluated assessment item and the input or received assessment, and a processing unit which derives case information, treatment information or effect information of the subject of care or the object of care from the database based on the input or received assessment contents. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324471 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ONLINE RECORDS - A method for providing a user with the ability to access and collect records associated with the user in a secure and private manner includes associating access information with the user for the user to use to access a server storing files comprising records associated with the user in a computer readable storage medium, providing the user with a user interface on a computing device to remotely access the records stored on the server, receiving at the server the files comprising records associated with the user from a service provider associated with the user, receiving at the server a request from the user made through the user interface of the computing device for access to the files, wherein the access information is associated with the request, and sending the user a file containing the records associated with user from the server to the computing device in response to the request. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324472 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS OF INPATIENT AND OUTPATIENT ENCOUNTERS FROM ONE OR MORE HEALTHCARE RELATED INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Systems and methods that facilitate extraction and analysis of patient encounters from one or more healthcare related information systems are provided. In an aspect, a system includes a reception component configured to receive information from a plurality of sources regarding courses of care of a plurality of patients, including information identifying activities associated with the courses of care, timing of the activities, resources associated with the activities, and caregiver personal associated with the activities. The system further includes an indexing component configured to generate an index that relates aspects of the information, a filter component configured to employ the index to identify a subset of the information related to a subset of the courses of care for patients associated with a similar medical condition, and an analysis component configured to compare aspects of the subset of the information to identify variance in the subset of the courses of care. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324473 | System and Method for Providing Patient Record Synchronization in a Healthcare Setting - A system provides an information sharing architecture that allows physically separate healthcare information systems, called “deployments,” to share and exchange information. The collection of these participating deployments is referred to as the “Community,” and systems within the Community sometimes store records for patients in common. The system allows participants in the Community to share information on data changes to these patients, and to reconcile concurrent and conflicting updates to the patient's record. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324474 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT FOR USE IN HEALTH DELIVERY SETTINGS WITH MULTIPLE CAPITATED PAYMENT RULE SETS - A data collection and data management system and method enables an entity user, such as a corporation, that owns and operates more than one type of health delivery setting to coordinate and control to optimize care, and coordinate reimbursement outcomes for multiple health delivery settings with multiple capitated payors and rule sets operating. Base raw data is input by the multiple health delivery settings, translated and cleaned for use in a standardized format, and then processed for multiple uses in accordance with a pre-programmed scheme. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324475 | MEDICAL READING REPORT PREPARING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a schema storage unit stores a reference schema that schematically expresses the internal structure of a diagnosis target blood vessel concerning the reference section of the diagnosis target blood vessel. A schema processing unit automatically generates a schema concerning a section crossing the reference section of the diagnosis target blood vessel by image processing based on the reference schema. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324476 | Automated Patient Consent and Reduced Information Leakage Using Patient Consent Directives - A method and system for controlling the release of health information about an individual. The location of a patient consent repository is encoded into released electronic health information so that subsequent requests for the release of the individual's health released information can access the patient consent repository. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324477 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A MEDICAL REPORT AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREFOR - A method and a system for generating, with the assistance of a computer system ( | 2014-10-30 |
20140324478 | Networked Inbox - A computer-implemented electronic messaging method and system, the method comprising the steps of receiving an electronic message at a first system, the electronic message comprising a healthcare provider type, obtaining contextual information associated with the electronic message at the first system, using the healthcare provider type and the contextual information to identify an intended recipient address for an intended healthcare provider recipient for the electronic message and providing the intended recipient address to facilitate delivery of the electronic message to the intended healthcare provider recipient. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324479 | Consent Repository Providing Automated Patient Authorization Decisions Affecting the Release of Health Information - A method and system for controlling the release of health information about an individual. A patient consent repository provides authorization to release all or part of requested health information based, in part, on attributes and sensitivity labels passed in the request for consent. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324480 | Interface and Repository for Facilitating Patient Consent - A method and system for selecting sharing choices by an individual over the release of health information using portal. Sharing choices are stored in a consent repository as a composite patient consent directive. The composite patient consent directive is used to generate a consent response specific to request for consent to release health information for the individual based, in part, on attributes and sensitivity labels passed in the request for consent. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324481 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND DISTRIBUTING MATURED POLICY PROCEEDS - A computer-implemented method and system is disclosed for identifying beneficiaries of matured insurance policies. In a preferred embodiment, the invention will utilize one or more websites, such as social media websites, to allow customers, family members, and other beneficiaries to search for and receive information about unclaimed matured policy proceeds. Optionally, the users may also search for and receive information related to in force policies. In cases where the insured is living, the invention may be utilized to update address and social security number records, enabling more effective policy administration and customer service going forward. Also provided is an automated system for distributing the matured policy proceeds to the identified beneficiary. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324482 | Vehicle Status Monitoring Apparatuses, Methods and Systems - SYSTEMS (“VSM”) transform insurance renewal requests via VSM components into VSM sticker color display change. A VSM sticker is described, including a Near Field Communication (NFC) chip configured to communicate with a user mobile device for vehicle status information; an energy supply component providing energy supplies; a color layer having a solid color display wherein the displayed color is changeable upon electronic instructions; and a memory storing the vehicle status information and the electronic instructions to change the displayed color of the color layer. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324483 | Method of Estimating Damage to a Roof - A damage assessment module operating on a computer system automatically evaluates a roof, estimating damage to the roof by analyzing a point cloud of a roof. The damage assessment module identifies individual shingles from the point cloud and detects potentially damaged areas on each of the shingles. The damage assessment module then maps the potentially damaged areas of each shingle back to the point cloud to determine which areas of the roof are damaged. Based on the estimation, the damage assessment module generates a report on the roof damage. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324484 | Computer System for Data Processing for Determining Display Data Based on Component Selection Using Rules and Attributes - A system includes an insurance component selection platform that transmits data to and receives data from an insurance product component storage unit storing one or more self-descriptive components of an insurance coverage. Each of the stored components may have associated properties defining attributes of the component and one or more values associated with the properties. The components may be selected via a graphical interface generated by the component selection platform to be included in an insurance coverage product. The components may then be combined within constraints of the properties and values of the individual components. An insurance coverage policy may then be presented based on the combination of components. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324485 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING AND AUTHENTICATING AN INSURANCE ELIGIBILITY TRANSACTION - The disclosure presents a system, method, and computer readable medium for execution on a computer processor, for authenticating and enhancing an insurance eligibility transaction, such as a 270/271 healthcare system transaction. In a particular embodiment, an insurance eligibility transaction request, such as a 270 transaction, is received/intercepted by the system prior to being received by the payor and data from one or more sources, such as a credit bureau database containing credit file data, is used to enhance, verify and correct the accuracy of data fields particular to the insurance eligibility transaction. The payor's database(s) can also be enhanced accordingly. The system also has capability to, among other things, identify fraud-related issues, charity qualification, and patient payment estimation as part of the transaction. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324486 | TRAVEL OPTION PRESENTATION - A machine may be configured to provide a travel shopping service, not only to direct users of the machine, but also to users of other travel shopping services provided by partner websites whose operators have entered into partnership agreements with an operator of the machine. The machine may provide a common module to one or more partner websites or operators thereof. When a user views a partner website in a browser, the common module configures and causes the browser to obtain and implement a custom module generated or updated specifically for that partner website. The custom module configures and causes the browser to communicate with the machine, for example, in response to fulfillment conditions specified by the operator of the partner website and used as a basis for generating or updating the custom module. Information obtained from the machine may then be presented by the browser to the user. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324487 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR BUSINESS PROCESSING - Various embodiments provide methods, apparatus, and systems for business processing. An exemplary business processing method for a user terminal can be performed by establishing a connection between the user terminal and a first server for providing a third-party service via a second server for providing a public service. A business processing request can be obtained by the user terminal, which can then send the business processing request to the first server for providing the third party service via the second server for providing the public service. The first server for providing the third party service can include a business system server. Corresponding to the business processing request, the user terminal can receive a business processing response returned from the first server for providing the third-party service and forwarded by the second server for providing the public service. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324488 | NO LINE NO WAITING MOBILE SOFTWARE - A new system of managing lines at walk-in venues that allow patrons to enter a line remotely over a cellular network, without having to first travel to the walk-in venue and without having to remain in the walk-in venue. The system can provide confirmation to the walk-in venue that customers or patrons received the next in line notifications. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324489 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING TRAVEL ON A CHARTER TRANSPORT - A method is disclosed for scheduling travel on a charter transport. The method can include obtaining from a traveler a passenger accommodation request identifying an origin-destination-pair. The method can also include automatically identifying one or more charter transports having an available passenger accommodation. Moreover, the method can include notifying the traveler of the available passenger accommodation. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324490 | Distributed Farm Optimization System - The growing management system optimizes peak aggregate nutrients normalized against aggregate delivered cost for edible plants including vegetables, herbs and fruits. This growing management system enables each plant harvested for consumer maximized nutrient and/or flavor value, not for farmer or distribution profit maximization, with more specific objective of harvesting at time of immediate consumer consumption. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324491 | ASSIGNING PARTS TO STORAGE LOCATIONS IN A WAREHOUSE - Assigning parts to storage locations in a warehouse. Ratings of parts are determined based partially on pick frequencies of the parts. The parts with higher pick frequencies are determined to have higher ratings than parts with lower pick frequencies. Grades of storage locations in the warehouse are determined based partially on accessibilities of the storage locations to a loading dock. A programmed processor determines respective ranges of grades of the storage locations that will satisfy storage location criteria of the respective ratings of the parts such that the higher rated parts have narrower respective ranges of grades of satisfactory storage locations than the lower rated parts. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324492 | CONTEXT-BASED BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT - A method, and corresponding hardware and software implementations, including receiving a client login from a client user; loading contextual information including at least one contextual parameter; determining a business process according to the contextual information; and executing the business process. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324493 | DISPLAY AND MANAGEMENT OF A SERVICE COMPOSITION CANDIDATE INVENTORY - Facilitating the display and management of service candidates and composition candidates in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is disclosed. A described method includes identifying a plurality of service oriented candidates in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) service model. The plurality of service oriented candidates includes a service candidate and a composition candidate. The method also includes defining a relationship between the service candidate and the composition candidate and allowing for reuse of the service candidate and the composition candidate in view of the relationship. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324494 | RISK-LIMITED DISPATCH OF KNOWLEDGE WORK - A real-time monitoring sub-system may monitor resources, work requests, and work progress in an on-going manner in information technology global service delivery provisioning. An integrated management and planning subsystem may simultaneously operate on a plurality of timescales to optimize a service delivery objective under a constraint of schedule risk. The integrated management and planning subsystem may continuously update a work plan based on solving in the on-going manner, the optimized service delivery objective using the monitored resources, work requests and work progress. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324495 | WIND TURBINE MAINTENANCE OPTIMIZER - Determining when to perform preventative maintenance is an important consideration for maximizing the revenue of a wind turbine. For example, performing preventative maintenance may be cheaper than replacing turbine components when they fail. When determining to perform preventative maintenance, a maintenance scheduler may consider multiple factors. These factors may include the probability of failure, the predicted price of energy, predicted wind power production, resource constraints, and the like. Specifically, the maintenance scheduler may predict the future values of these factors which are then integrated into a net present value (NPV) for each of the components. Based on the respective NPVs, the maintenance scheduler may determine which maintenance actions to perform and in what order. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324496 | PROJECT MANAGEMENT APPLICATION INCLUDING COMPETENCY SEARCH CAPABILITY - A project management application includes tables associating tasks, human resources, and competencies and provides for searching by a competency to find human resources having the competency or the tasks utilizing the competency, searching by human resource to find the competencies had by the human resource or the tasks to which the human resource has been assigned; or searching by task name to determine which human resources or competencies were utilized on a task. A common interface is used with the project management application. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324497 | TRACKING BUSINESS PROCESSES AND INSTANCES - Various embodiments of systems and methods for tracking business processes and instances are described herein. In one aspect, the method includes identifying a log-in information of a user and based upon the log-in information, rendering at least one of one or more business processes associated with the user and a request tab for displaying one or more requests created by the user. A selection of one of a business process and the request tab is received. Based upon the selection, a GUI is rendered. The GUI comprises a database table associated with one of the selected business process and the request tab. The GUI also includes a graphical representation. The graphical representation comprises status indicators displaying respective statuses and a number of requests pending under respective statuses for the selected business process or the selected request tab. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324498 | RISK-LIMITED DISPATCH OF KNOWLEDGE WORK - A real-time monitoring sub-system may monitor resources, work requests, and work progress in an on-going manner in information technology global service delivery provisioning. An integrated management and planning subsystem may simultaneously operate on a plurality of timescales to optimize a service delivery objective under a constraint of schedule risk. The integrated management and planning subsystem may continuously update a work plan based on solving in the on-going manner, the optimized service delivery objective using the monitored resources, work requests and work progress. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC SHRINKAGE FORECASTING - A system and method for forecasting shrinkage of employees is provided. According to one embodiment, scheduled shrinkage values are identified from a work schedule and stored in a data file. A command is received by a processor to predict shrinkage of employees for a future forecast period. Selection of the data file is received, and in response, the processor is configured to automatically populate shrinkage fields for the forecast period with the scheduled shrinkage values retrieved from the data file. According to one embodiment, the scheduled shrinkage values are set as the shrinkage values that are forecast for the forecast period. A work schedule of employees is the generated for the forecast period taking into account the forecast shrinkage values. According to one embodiment, the processor may also engage of automatic shrinkage forecasting based on analysis of historic shrinkage data. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324500 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION BASED ON RETAIL INCIDENT INFORMATION - Security personnel time is assigned to a store property by generating an incident score based on a probability of an incident occurring on a store property. A set of ranges of incident scores, each range being associated with a number of hours of security personnel time, are retrieved from computer memory. A range of incident scores in the set of ranges of incident scores that the generated incident score falls within is identified and an associated number of hours of security personnel time is retrieved. Security personnel time is assigned to the store property using a processor based on the number of hours of security personnel time retrieved for the identified range of incident scores. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324501 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED TEMPLATE CREATION AND ROLLUP - A method and system is provided for customizing a template used to accumulate data from a plurality of responders. A template may be generated that is customized according a plurality of user-selected template parameters including: a layout of the template indicating a number of rows and/or columns of template fields and a data type for each field selected from a plurality of data types in the group consisting of: text, number, date, text list, number list, date list, constant value, link to another field and formula. Each template is associated with a question that may be assigned to one or more responders or a shared group of responders. Unstructured data may be received from responders in response to the question and may be converted to structured data having the data type selected for the template field(s) associated with the question. The template field may be populated with the converted structured data. The structured responses are collected into the customized template and “rolled-up” or aggregated into a system consolidated template. The data collected may be used to generate a report, for example, to be evaluated by executives or personnel overseeing a project. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324502 | COORDINATING A PLURALITY OF CELEBRATORY EVENTS FOR AN HONOREE - A central server for coordinating a plurality of celebratory event for an honoree comprising a processor, a data storage device communicatively coupled to the processor, a user selection module to provide a user accessing the central server with a selection among a plurality of services to support the celebratory event, a third party selection module to provide the user with a plurality of third party services to support the celebratory event the third party services being provided from a plurality of third party service providers, and a calendar coordination module to provide the user with a selection of when the services are to be provided to the honoree. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324503 | MULTI-SOURCE DATA SUBSCRIPTIONS - Techniques and/or systems are provided for performing an action based upon a subscription to multi-source data. That is, a subscription may specify one or more actions that are to be performed upon satisfaction of a set of conditions associated with one or more data sources. For example, a subscription for a user Joe may specify that a flower order is to be placed when a current date is Valentine's day, a social network profile for Joe indicates Joe has a significant other, and a local flower shop has roses in stock. In this way, a subscription may be based upon various data sources, such as a calendar, a social network, and a flower supply data source. Because a vast number of subscriptions may be maintained, conditions may be organized into a graph such that a condition, shared by multiple subscriptions, is represented by a single node within the graph. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324504 | DATABASE SYNCHRONIZATION VIA A MOBILE NETWORK - An apparatus adapted to operate as an A party in a database synchronization with a B party via a mobile communication network. The database contains data items to be synchronized. The apparatus includes mechanisms for maintaining a copy of the database and a client-server communication module with a client part and a server part. The client part is configured to communicate via the mobile communication network with the server part of the B party. The apparatus also includes change detection mechanisms responsive to a detection of a changed data item, for initiating a synchronization event via the client part of the client-server communication module. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324505 | Raising User Satisfaction in an Automated Ride Sharing System - Embodiments of the present invention may provide a various techniques for raising user satisfaction with an automated ride sharing system. In one embodiment, the system may disqualify potential passengers that will force the driver to return to a previously departed area. In another embodiment, the system may consolidate multiple stop locations to reduce the number and frequency of stops in a scheduled ride. In another embodiment, the system may select a best possible ride from a plurality of calculated rides based on user satisfaction factors. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324506 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING RELIABILITY RETURN ON UTILITY VEGETATION MANAGEMENT - A system includes a utility analytics system. The utility analytics system includes a memory configured to store a vegetation management efficiency derivation system related to investment in vegetation management and a trim cycle derivation system related to management of vegetation associated with a power grid. The utility analytics system includes a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to utilize the vegetation management efficiency derivation system and the trim cycle derivation system to derive a reliability return value on an investment to manage the vegetation associated with the power grid and to derive a trim cycle for the vegetation associated with the power grid based at least in part on the derived reliability return value. The trim cycle includes an output indicative of a frequency at which the vegetation associated with the power grid is managed. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324507 | DEMAND RESPONSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A demand response management system which may be implemented with demand response logic. The system may be used by utilities, independent system operators, intermediaries and others to manage operations of demand response programs relative to customers, clients, participants, and users of outputs from the utilities, independent system operators, and the like. Demand response logic of the demand response management system may provide demand signal propagation and generation from demand response events. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324508 | BUSINESS SERVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A Business Service Management system for controlling a layout of resources, in real time, the system comprises: a DBMS; at least one data item, stored in the DBMS, wherein each of the data items being associated with a resource of the layout; an infographic user interface for defining the layout on a control display, the user interface comprises a plurality of icons, each associated with a controlled resource of the layout, each icon presents information related to an operation of the controlled resource thereof! arrow(s) connecting at least two of the icons, for presenting data flow between resources associated with the icons, and operational dependency between resources connected by the at least one arrow! the system is adapted for automatic analyzing an operation of the resources of the layout according to the operational dependency, and changing automatically an indication thereof. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324509 | SCHEDULING AND BUDGETING FOR PROJECTS - Information for a project, including financials and scheduling is stored as the single dataset, with budgeting information automatically integrated to the cash flow information, and with scheduling information automatically integrated to the cash flow information, and vice versa, through the single dataset from a single database to associate scheduled project phases. The single database, allows users to view the cash flow via multiple user interfaces extracted from the same core data, and therefore updates in one user interface can reflect across all user interfaces comprising budget, schedule and cash flow. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324510 | OPTIMIZING VEHICLE RECHARGING TO LIMIT USE OF ELECTRICITY GENERATED FROM NON-RENEWABLE SOURCES - Methods and systems for maximizing the proportion of renewable energy relative to the total energy used during the charging of electrically powered vehicles are described. The methods and systems contemplate the acquisition, by a TSP, of data pertaining to the renewable energy mixture, i.e. the ratio of energy produced from renewable sources to energy produced from non-renewable sources, of the energy provided by one or more utility companies. Renewable energy mixture forecasts and information pertaining to charging and use of one or more vehicles are used to generate schedules for charging one or more electrically powered vehicles such that the use of renewable energy in vehicle charging is optimized. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324511 | BUSINESS PROCESS DISCOVERY USING DOCUMENT TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES - A document tracking module is associated with a physical document utilized within a business organization. Physical movement of the document is monitored through different departments of the business organization using information derived from the document tracking module. A business process flow within the business organization is discovered from the monitored physical movement of the document through the different departments of the business organization. A business process model, including details of the discovered business process flow within the business organization, is generated. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324512 | AUTOMATED BUSINESS FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATION ANALYSIS AND ADAPTIVE TRANSACTION INTEGRATION - A method, system, and computer program product for creating a business service flow using automated business function implementation analysis and adaptive transaction integration are provided. An implementation of a business service is analyzed to identify a set of transactions used. A set of relationships between transactions is identified, a relationship relates a subset of transactions according to a condition. A set of generic flows is created using a subset of transactions from the set of transactions. A set of adaptive flows is created using a subset of the set of generic flows and a subset of relationships from the set of relationships, an adaptive flow in the set of adaptive flows provides the business service as was provided by the implementation, and the adaptive flow includes program code for responding to the condition by invoking a related transaction based on a relationship used in the adaptive flow. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324513 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS RELATED TO BUSINESS PROCESSES AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREOF - System for automating a business process, the system comprising at least one processing unit, a data storage unit and a memory unit, the processing unit executing a set of computer-readable instructions implementing a method comprising: receiving data associated with the business process from an agent or by means of a data upload and storing the received data; determining whether a process instance corresponding to the input data has already been run, and, if not, initiating a business process instance; executing the business process instance according to a visual definition specified by the user; determining whether the business process requires a voice communication with a customer and, if so, initiating a voice communication connection between an agent and the customer; and determining whether the business process requires a message to be sent to the customer and, if so, automatically generating the message and sending the generated message to the customer. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324514 | System And Method For Workflow Management With Configurable States And Extensibility - A workflow management system provides a GUI configuration tool that allows end users to configure the states and state properties of workflows and workers without rewriting the program. The application also provides an interface that allows the use of extensible code to perform custom functions at particular states and at particular state transitions of a workflow. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324515 | BUSINESS PROCESS DISCOVERY USING DOCUMENT TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES - A document tracking module is associated with a physical document utilized within a business organization. Physical movement of the document is monitored through different departments of the business organization using information derived from the document tracking module. A business process flow within the business organization is discovered from the monitored physical movement of the document through the different departments of the business organization. A business process model, including details of the discovered business process flow within the business organization, is generated. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324516 | EXPEDITED PROCESS EXECUTION USING PROBABILITIES - Embodiments relate to determining a process outcome based on a computed probability and altering the path of a process instance based on an expediting rule. An aspect includes executing, by a processing device, a process instance in a process diagram, which includes a plurality of process steps. A condition associated with a first process step is identified. An outcome for the first process step is then determined based on a computed probability. Accordingly, the first process step is bypassed and the process instance is branched to a second process step based on an expediting rule. The expediting rule includes the condition and a branching action according to a selected outcome. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324517 | Communication Data Analysis and Processing System and Method - Systems and methods are provided for assessing risks and efficiencies based on enterprise communications information. A method for assessing risks and efficiencies based on enterprise communications information may include: collecting information from digital data tools over at least one computer network into a storage database in a computer memory; executing instructions on a computer processor to synthesize the employee communications data into structured data; mining the structured data to generate exploratory data; performing analytics on the structured data to generate confirmatory data; disambiguating the confirmatory data and exploratory data; determining a business impact based on the exploratory and confirmatory data; and implementing a business process based on a quantification of said business impact. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324518 | AUTOTAGGING BUSINESS PROCESSES - A method of autotagging business processes for monitoring analysis of an IT system within an organization is provided herein. The method includes the following stages: modeling an IT system associated with one or more business processes, into a model representing the business processes as process instances; tracking a flow of information entities throughout nodes located along the process instances; extracting, at each one of the nodes, tags associated with each one of the information entities flowing through the process instance; aggregating over time, the extracted tags being associated with its respective node and process instance; and visually representing the aggregated tags in association with its respective business processes, based on the model. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324519 | Operational Risk Decision-Making Framework - A system and method for calculating a quantitative operational risk score and assisting an organization in the risk decision-making process is disclosed. The method may include identifying a plurality of instances of operational risk relevant to the organization to scrutinize, and storing the list of instances of operational risk in computer memory. For each instance of operational risk, the system may provide a rating value for each risk rating input category, and storing the rating values in computer memory. A processor of the system may calculate an operational risk score for each instance of operational risk in the list, and generate/display a risk decision-making matrix/chart. In addition, the system may calculate a portfolio/aggregated operational risk score for each portfolio of related instances of operational risk, and generate/display a risk decision-making matrix/chart accordingly for the portfolio scores. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324520 | METHOD FOR DETERMINISTIC SAFETY ANALYSIS IN NON-STATIONARY HIGH RISK SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL SYSTEM USING THEREOF - This invention relates to a method and systems of safety analysis of engineering processes and may be used for safety analysis of nuclear power stations. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324521 | QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYTICAL MODELING OF SALES PERFORMANCE AND SALES GOALS - The present invention is applicable in the field of sales performance management coupled with corporate finance, corporate capital investments, economics, math, business risk analysis, simulation, decision analysis, qualitative risk analysis, risk management, quantitative risk analysis, and business statistics, and relates to the modeling and valuation of investment decisions and sales performance management and analysis under uncertainty and risk within all companies, allowing these firms to properly identify, assess, quantify, value, diversify, and hedge their corporate capital investment and sales management decisions and their associated risks. Specifically, the present invention looks at starting from comprehensive qualitative sales performance management and moving the analysis into the realms of quantitative risk-based sales performance modeling, simulation, and optimization. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324522 | Detecting Fraud In Internet-Based Lead Generation Utilizing Neural Networks - Artificial neural network models trained using historical lead data are used to identify leads that are likely to be fraudulent or inaccurate and to additionally identify lead sources that provide leads likely to be fraudulent or inaccurate. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324523 | Missing String Compensation In Capped Customer Linkage Model - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for determining customer linkages between a plurality of customer profiles and providing missing cost values in the attribute fields. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324524 | EVOLVING A CAPPED CUSTOMER LINKAGE MODEL USING GENETIC MODELS - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for determining customer linkages between a plurality of customer profiles having corresponding attribute pairs for comparison. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324525 | ANALYZING CAREER SITE VIEWER INFORMATION - Methods and systems for using social network information in analyzing career site viewership are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems access information associated with multiple viewing sessions of job listings presented at a career site, determine users associated with the multiple viewing sessions are members of a social network service, access profile information for users that are members of the social network service, and present information identifying characteristics of the users associated with the multiple user viewing sessions based on accessed profile information. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324526 | CAPTURING VIEWER INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE PAGES OF A CAREER SITE - Methods and systems for capturing viewership information from multiple pages of a career site are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems access first information captured by a first javascript beacon located at a job listing page of a career site, access second information captured by a second javascript beacon located at one or more job application pages of the career site, compare the first information to the second information, and present viewership information for the career site based on the comparison. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324527 | PROXIMITY DETECTION USING SENSORS BASED ON A PROGRAMMABLE MULTI-ARRAY STRUCTURES - Embodiments of the present disclosure is directed to the use of spatially diverse multiple antenna structures and associated radio transmitters and receivers in a sensor for accurate proximity detection. In a retail environment, a system based on a network of such (smart) sensors can accurately detect presence and location of a shopper's wireless mobile device as the shopper moves along the shopping aisles carrying the wireless mobile device (e.g. smartphone). Based on the location of the shopper and the duration of the shopper stopping in front of a product shelf in an aisle, embodiments can engage the shopper (through the wireless mobile device) in transaction-oriented interactions using the ‘sense, analyze, and connect’ capability of the various embodiments described herein. Such interactions result in increased revenue for the retailers as well as better understanding of the shopping behavior of the retail shoppers. Such understanding can be embodied in improved analytics. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324528 | Computerized System and Method for Determining an Action's Relevance to a Transaction - The present invention is a computerized method to compute a relevance factor representing a degree of relevance of a first content with respect to a second content using at least one processor to execute instructions to perform, for each action person's action entities. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324529 | Method and System for Business Lead Generation and Auctioning - A computer-implemented method of business lead auctioning includes receiving a request for a service from a potential customer. The received request is matched with a plurality of service providers. The request and the plurality of service providers are matched according to a category of the service requested and a geographic area corresponding to the service. The matched plurality of service providers are notified that a virtual auction will be conducted for a business lead including vital contact information for the potential customer. A virtual auction for the business lead is generated. The virtual auction is conducted and one or more of the matched plurality of service providers bid for access to the vital contact information for the potential customer. The auction is closed and a winning service provider of the matched plurality of service providers is given the vital contact information for the potential customer. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324530 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING PATTERS IN DATA STREAMS - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to detect patterns in at least one data stream. First, the at least one data stream is received and analyzed to detect an event in the least one data stream, wherein the detected event occurs in relation with an entity and includes at least one attribute indicative of at least one of an identity of the entity, an event type, and contact information for the entity. Once the event is detected and/or received from an external source, it is compared with a plurality of predefined patterns to determine if a match between the event and at least one of the predefined patterns is found. If a match is found successfully, a notification indicative of the entity and/or the event and the at least one predefined pattern that has been successfully matched with the event is generated and transmitted with instructions for actions by another application. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324531 | AUTOMOTIVE DATA MINING SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC LEAD GENERATION AND CONTACT MANAGEMENT - A data mining system can generate leads for, and facilitate outreach by, automotive dealerships. Such a system can include a view server, and access controls. A contact management subsystem can track automotive marketing interactions with a task list view. Contact stage controls can allow a user to specify a current stage for a particular contact in a multi-stage contact management process. A notification generating subsystem can be integrated with the contact management subsystem, providing individualized offers for selected prospects. It can use an assessment server configured to automatically identify contacts as prospects using historical transaction data and current automobile identifiers to perform a payment comparison. A deal sheet view can facilitate outreach to prospects by consolidating payment comparison information and contact information, as well as indicating a current stage for the prospect in the multi-stage contact management process. | 2014-10-30 |
20140324532 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODELING AND FORECASTING CYCLICAL DEMAND SYSTEMS WITH DYNAMIC CONTROLS AND DYNAMIC INCENTIVES - Systems and methods for modeling and forecasting cyclical demand systems in the presence of dynamic control or dynamic incentives. A method for modeling a cyclical demand system comprises obtaining historical data on one or more demand measurements over a plurality of demand cycles, obtaining historical data on incentive signals over the plurality of demand cycles, constructing a model using the obtained historical data on the one or more demand measurements and the incentive signals, wherein constructing the model comprises specifying a state-space model, specifying variance parameters in the model, and estimating unknown variance parameters. | 2014-10-30 |