49th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 66 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140358532 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACOUSTIC CHANNEL INFORMATION DETECTION - A method or a system for acoustic channel information detection includes at least one speaker and at least one microphone within an environment. The microphone receives a CDMA modulated audio training signal from the speaker via a plurality of acoustic channels within the environment, wherein the CDMA modulated audio training signal is a pre-known CDMA modulated audio training signal, and comprises a data signal, a spreading code and/or a continuous frequency code. Thus, the microphone is able to estimate the acoustic channel information including frequency dependence according to the received CDMA modulated audio training signal and the pre-known CDMA modulated audio training signal. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358533 | PRONUNCIATION ACCURACY IN SPEECH RECOGNITION - A reading accuracy-improving system includes: a reading conversion unit for retrieving a plurality of candidate word strings from speech recognition results to determine the reading of each candidate word string; a reading score calculating unit for determining the speech recognition score for each of one or more candidate word strings with the same reading to determine a reading score; and a candidate word string selection unit for selecting a candidate to output from the plurality of candidate word strings on the basis of the reading score and speech recognition score corresponding to each candidate word string. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358534 | General Sound Decomposition Models - Sound decomposition models are described. In one or more implementations, a plurality of individual models is generated for respective ones of a plurality of sound sources. The plurality of models is collected to form a universal audio model that is configured to support sound decomposition of sound data through use of one or more of the models. The plurality of models is not generated using a sound source that originated at least a portion of the sound data. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358535 | METHOD OF EXECUTING VOICE RECOGNITION OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - A method of performing a voice command function in an electronic device includes detecting voice of a user, acquiring one or more pieces of attribute information from the voice, and authenticating the user by comparing the attribute information with pre-stored authentic attribe information, using a recognition model. An electronic device includes a voice input module configured to detect a voice of a user, a first processor configured to acquire one or more pieces of attribute information from the voice and authenticate the user by comparing the attribute information with a recognition model, and a second processor configured to when the attribute information matches the recognition mode, activate the voice command function, receive a voice command of the user, and execute an application corresponding to the voice command. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358536 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - A method for operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes converting voice data into text data; displaying the text data, selecting a first section in the text data, and outputting voice data of a second section corresponding to the first section in the text data. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358537 | System and Method for Combining Speech Recognition Outputs From a Plurality of Domain-Specific Speech Recognizers Via Machine Learning - Disclosed herein are systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable media for performing speech recognition across different applications or environments without model customization or prior knowledge of the domain of the received speech. The disclosure includes recognizing received speech with a collection of domain-specific speech recognizers, determining a speech recognition confidence for each of the speech recognition outputs, selecting speech recognition candidates based on a respective speech recognition confidence for each speech recognition output, and combining selected speech recognition candidates to generate text based on the combination. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358538 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SHAPING DIALOG OF SPEECH SYSTEMS - Methods and systems are provided for shaping speech dialog of a speech system. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving data related to a first utterance from a user of the speech system; processing the data based on at least one attribute processing technique that determines at least one attribute of the first utterance; determining a shaping pattern based on the at least one attribute; and generating a speech prompt based on the shaping pattern. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358539 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BUILDING A LANGUAGE MODEL - A method includes: acquiring data samples; performing categorized sentence mining in the acquired data samples to obtain categorized training samples for multiple categories; building a text classifier based on the categorized training samples; classifying the data samples using the text classifier to obtain a class vocabulary and a corpus for each category; mining the corpus for each category according to the class vocabulary for the category to obtain a respective set of high-frequency language templates; training on the templates for each category to obtain a template-based language model for the category; training on the corpus for each category to obtain a class-based language model for the category; training on the class vocabulary for each category to obtain a lexicon-based language model for the category; building a speech decoder according to an acoustic model, the class-based language model and the lexicon-based language model for any given field, and the data samples. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358540 | System and Method for Adapting Automatic Speech Recognition Pronunciation by Acoustic Model Restructuring - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable storage media for recognizing speech by adapting automatic speech recognition pronunciation by acoustic model restructuring. The method identifies an acoustic model and a matching pronouncing dictionary trained on typical native speech in a target dialect. The method collects speech from a new speaker resulting in collected speech and transcribes the collected speech to generate a lattice of plausible phonemes. Then the method creates a custom speech model for representing each phoneme used in the pronouncing dictionary by a weighted sum of acoustic models for all the plausible phonemes, wherein the pronouncing dictionary does not change, but the model of the acoustic space for each phoneme in the dictionary becomes a weighted sum of the acoustic models of phonemes of the typical native speech. Finally the method includes recognizing via a processor additional speech from the target speaker using the custom speech model. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358541 | Method and Apparatus for Automatic Speaker-Based Speech Clustering - Reliable speaker-based clustering of speech utterances allows improved speaker recognition and speaker-based speech segmentation. According to at least one example embodiment, an iterative bottom-up speaker-based clustering approach employs voiceprints of speech utterances, such as i-vectors. At each iteration, a clustering confidence score in terms of Silhouette Width Criterion (SWC) values is evaluated, and a pair of nearest clusters is merged into a single cluster. The pair of nearest clusters merged is determined based on a similarity score indicative of similarity between voiceprints associated with different clusters. A final clustering pattern is then determined as a set of clusters associated with an iteration corresponding to the highest clustering confidence score evaluated. The SWC used may further be a modified SWC enabling detection of an early stop of the iterative approach. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358542 | CANDIDATE SELECTION APPARATUS AND CANDIDATE SELECTION METHOD UTILIZING VOICE RECOGNITION - A candidate selection apparatus utilizing voice recognition includes an association unit that associates target candidates with candidate numbers so that numerals of the target candidates coincide with numerals of the candidate numbers when the target candidates to be displayed in list form are character strings representing the numerals of the candidate numbers, and a display control unit that displays the target candidates and the candidate numbers in list form in accordance with the associations made between the target candidates and the candidate numbers. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358543 | LINKED-WORK ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - According to one embodiment, a linked-work assistance apparatus includes an analysis unit, an identification unit and a control unit. The analysis unit analyzes a speech of each of users by using a keyword list, to acquire a speech analysis result indicating a relation between a first keyword and a classification of the first keyword, the keyword list indicating a list of keywords classified based on concepts of the keywords and intentions of the keywords. The identification unit identifies a role of each of the users according to the classification of the first keyword, to acquire a correspondence relation between each of the users and the role. The control unit, if the speech includes a name of the role, transmits the speech to other users which relate to the role corresponding to the name, by referring to the correspondence relation. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358544 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE PROPER NAME ENTITY RECOGNITION AND UNDERSTANDING - Various embodiments contemplate systems and methods for performing automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU) that enable high accuracy recognition and understanding of freely spoken utterances which may contain proper names and similar entities. The proper name entities may contain or be comprised wholly of words that are not present in the vocabularies of these systems as normally constituted. Recognition of the other words in the utterances in question—e.g., words that are not part of the proper name entities—may occur at regular, high recognition accuracy. Various embodiments provide as output not only accurately transcribed running text of the complete utterance, but also a symbolic representation of the meaning of the input, including appropriate symbolic representations of proper name entities, adequate to allow a computer system to respond appropriately to the spoken request without further analysis of the user's input. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358545 | Multiple Parallel Dialogs in Smart Phone Applications - An arrangement is described for conducting natural language dialogs with a user on a mobile device using automatic speech recognition (ASR) and multiple different dialog applications. A user interface provides for user interaction with the dialogue applications in natural language dialogs. An ASR engine processes unknown speech inputs from the user to produce corresponding speech recognition results. A dialog concept module develops dialog concept items from the speech recognition results and stores the dialog concept items and additional dialog information in a dialog concept database. A dialog processor accesses dialog concept database information and coordinates operation of the ASR engine and the dialog applications to conduct with the user a plurality of separate parallel natural language dialogs in the dialog applications. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358546 | HYBRID PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR ENHANCING PROSODIC EXPRESSIVENESS - Systems and methods for prosody prediction include extracting features from runtime data using a parametric model. The features from runtime data are compared with features from training data using an exemplar-based model to predict prosody of the runtime data. The features from the training data are paired with exemplars from the training data and stored on a computer readable storage medium. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358547 | HYBRID PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR ENHANCING PROSODIC EXPRESSIVENESS - Systems and methods for prosody prediction include extracting features from runtime data using a parametric model. The features from runtime data are compared with features from training data using an exemplar-based model to predict prosody of the runtime data. The features from the training data are paired with exemplars from the training data and stored on a computer readable storage medium. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358548 | VOICE PROCESSOR, VOICE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a voice processor includes a presenting unit to present text to an operator; a voice acquisition unit to acquire a voice of the operator reading aloud the text; an identifying unit to identify output intervals of phonemes included in the voice; a determination unit to determine whether each of time lengths of the output intervals is normal; a frequency acquisition unit to acquire frequency values respectively representing occurrence frequencies of contexts, respectively corresponding to the phonemes, the context including the phoneme and another phoneme adjacent to at least one side of the phoneme; and a score calculator to calculate a score representing correctness of the voice on the basis of the determination results of the time lengths of the output intervals and the frequency values of the contexts acquired respectively corresponding to the phonemes. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358549 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERSATIONAL CONFIGURATION OF APPLICATIONS - A configuration-file generation system for generating a configuration-file to configure an application for an enterprise is provided. The configuration-file generation system includes an IVR module for enabling a user to verbally interact with the configuration-file generation system. The configuration-file generation system further includes an analyzing module for analyzing and querying any information missed by the user. The configuration-file generation system further includes a suggestion module for searching and suggesting possible options corresponding to the missing information with the help of semantic web technology and with an experience database. The configuration-file generation system further includes a configuration-file generation module for generating a configuration-file based on available information received from the user. The configuration-file may then be passed to an application configuration module for configuring the application as required. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358550 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY SERVICE USING SOUND - A method and an apparatus are provided for providing additional information service in a mobile communication terminal. A microphone receives a sound signal including an audible frequency band and an inaudible frequency band. Additional information related to the service is detected in the inaudible frequency band included in the sound signal. The detected additional information is extracted from the sound signal. Data for providing the service is acquired based on the extracted additional information. A service screen is displayed based on the acquired data. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358551 | Speech Aid System - A speech aid system includes a tube for mounting at a tracheostomy of a user, a voice parameter acquiring device mounted to the tube and generating a voice parameter signal according to airflow applied within the tube resulting from attempt by the user to speak, a processor generating an audio signal corresponding to the voice parameter signal, and a sound generator for mounting in an oral cavity of the user. The sound generator produces a substitute glottal sound corresponding to the audio signal. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358552 | LOW-POWER VOICE GATE FOR DEVICE WAKE-UP - A staged processing system may be configured to reduce power consumption during voice detection in an audio signal. A first stage may include detecting a minimal threshold of sound in an audio signal. A second stage may then be activated to apply a Teager operator to determine a signal-to-noise ratio of speech energy in an audio signal. When a minimum SNR is detected, a third stage may be activated to detect periodicity in the audio signal and identify a voice signal in the audio signal. When a voice signal is detected, a fourth stage may be activated to process the voice command. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358553 | VOICE COMMAND FOR CONTROL OF AUTOMATION SYSTEMS - A software for controlling automation systems by using voice command. A user may speak a command into a microphone that is operatively connected to a computer. The software loaded on the computer may translate the voice command to computer readable commands. The computer may then schedule a specified day and time to implement the commands. During the specified time and day, the computer may control the automation system based on the specified command. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358554 | AUDIO ENCODING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A UNIFIED BITSTREAM DECODABLE BY DECODERS IMPLEMENTING DIFFERENT DECODING PROTOCOLS - In a class of embodiments, an audio encoding system (typically, a perceptual encoding system that is configured to generate a single (“unified”) bitstream that is compatible with (i.e., decodable by) a first decoder configured to decode audio data encoded in accordance with a first encoding protocol (e.g., the multichannel Dolby Digital Plus, or DD+, protocol) and a second decoder configured to decode audio data encoded in accordance with a second encoding protocol (e.g., the stereo AAC, HE AAC v1, or HE AAC v2 protocol). The unified bitstream can include both encoded data (e.g., bursts of data) decodable by the first decoder (and ignored by the second decoder) and encoded data (e.g., other bursts of data) decodable by the second decoder (and ignored by the first decoder). In effect, the second encoding format is hidden within the unified bitstream when the bitstream is decoded by the first decoder, and the first encoding format is hidden within the unified bitstream when the bitstream is decoded by the second decoder. The format of the unified bitstream generated in accordance with the invention may eliminate the need for transcoding elements throughout an entire media chain and/or ecosystem. Other aspects of the invention are an encoding method performed by any embodiment of the inventive encoder, a decoding method performed by any embodiment of the inventive decoder, and a computer readable medium (e.g., disc) which stores code for implementing any embodiment of the inventive method. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358555 | Periodic Ambient Waveform Analysis for Enhanced Social Functions - In particular embodiments, one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embody software that is operable when executed to receive an audio waveform fingerprint and a client-determined location from a client device. The received audio waveform fingerprint may be compared to a database of stored audio waveform fingerprints, each stored audio waveform fingerprint associated with an object in an object database. One or more matching audio waveform fingerprints may be found from a comparison set of audio waveform fingerprints obtained from the audio waveform fingerprint database. Location information associated with a location of the client device may be determined, and the location information may be sent to the client device. The client device may be operable to update the client-determined location based at least in part on the location information. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358556 | AUDIO DECOMPRESS PROGRAM - A method of decompressing audio comprises normalizing the over compressed audio at a percentage of 48. Next the audio is converted from 16 to 32 bit to allow the filter a better resolution source to process. The next step is processing the converted ausion with a Chebyshev filter, preferably with a range of 4 Hz to 22050 Hz (bandpass mode) at the order of 18 (@36 dB estimated. After the filter, the audio is converted back to 16 bit with the dither setting shown in the block. Now, the end result is a newly repaired piece of audio with the dynamic and harmonic content restored. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358557 | PERFORMING POSITIONAL ANALYSIS TO CODE SPHERICAL HARMONIC COEFFICIENTS - In general, techniques are described for performing a positional analysis to code audio data. Typically, this audio data comprises a hierarchical representation of a soundfield and may include, as one example, spherical harmonic coefficients (which may also be referred to as higher-order ambisonic coefficients). An audio compression device that includes one or more processors may perform the techniques. The processors may be configured to allocate bits to one or more portions of the audio data, at least in part by performing positional analysis on the audio data. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358558 | IDENTIFYING SOURCES FROM WHICH HIGHER ORDER AMBISONIC AUDIO DATA IS GENERATED - In general, techniques are described for obtaining an indication of whether spherical harmonic coefficients are representative of a synthetic audio object. In accordance with the techniques, a device comprising one or more processors may be configured to obtain an indication of whether spherical harmonic coefficients representative of a sound field are generated from a synthetic audio object. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358559 | COMPENSATING FOR ERROR IN DECOMPOSED REPRESENTATIONS OF SOUND FIELDS - In general, techniques are described for compensating for error in decomposed representations of sound fields. In accordance with the techniques, a device comprising one or more processors may be configured to quantize one or more first vectors representative of one or more components of a sound field, and compensate for error introduced due to the quantization of the one or more first vectors in one or more second vectors that are also representative of the same one or more components of the sound field. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358560 | PERFORMING ORDER REDUCTION WITH RESPECT TO HIGHER ORDER AMBISONIC COEFFICIENTS - In general, techniques are described for performing order reduction with respect to a plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients. In accordance with the techniques, a device comprising one or more processors may be configured to perform, based on a target bitrate, order reduction with respect to a plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients or decompositions thereof to generate reduced spherical harmonic coefficients or the reduced decompositions thereof, wherein the plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients represent a sound field. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358561 | IDENTIFYING CODEBOOKS TO USE WHEN CODING SPATIAL COMPONENTS OF A SOUND FIELD - In general, techniques are described for identifying a codebook to be used when compressing spatial components of a sound field. A device comprising one or more processors may be configured to perform the techniques. The one or more processors may be configured to identify a Huffman codebook to use when compressing a spatial component of a plurality of spatial components based on an order of the spatial component relative to remaining ones of the plurality of spatial components, the spatial component generated by performing a vector based synthesis with respect to a plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358562 | QUANTIZATION STEP SIZES FOR COMPRESSION OF SPATIAL COMPONENTS OF A SOUND FIELD - In general, techniques are described for determining quantization step sizes for compression of spatial components of a sound field. A device comprising one or more processors may be configured to perform the techniques. In other words, the one or more processors may be configured to determine a quantization step size to be used when compressing a spatial component of a sound field, where the spatial component generated by performing a vector based synthesis with respect to a plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358563 | COMPRESSION OF DECOMPOSED REPRESENTATIONS OF A SOUND FIELD - In general, techniques are described for compressing decomposed representations of a sound field. A device comprising one or more processors may be configured to perform the techniques. The one or more processors may be configured to obtain a bitstream comprising a compressed version of a spatial component of a sound field, the spatial component generated by performing a vector based synthesis with respect to a plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358564 | INTERPOLATION FOR DECOMPOSED REPRESENTATIONS OF A SOUND FIELD - In general, techniques are described for performing an interpolation with respect to decomposed versions of a sound field. A device comprising one or more processors may be configured to perform the techniques. The processors may be configured to obtain decomposed interpolated spherical harmonic coefficients for a time segment by, at least in part, performing an interpolation with respect to a first decomposition of a first plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients and a second decomposition of a second plurality of spherical harmonic coefficients. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358565 | COMPRESSION OF DECOMPOSED REPRESENTATIONS OF A SOUND FIELD - In general, techniques are described for obtaining decomposed versions of spherical harmonic coefficients. A device comprising one or more processors may be configured to perform the techniques, whereby the processors may be configured to obtain, from a bitstream, at least one of one or more vectors decomposed from spherical harmonic coefficients that were recombined with background spherical harmonic coefficients, wherein the spherical harmonic coefficients describe a sound field, and wherein the background spherical harmonic coefficients described one or more background components of the same sound field. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358566 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR AUDIO PROCESSING - An audio processing method for use in a server, includes: receiving an audio file uploaded from a terminal that has downloaded a first accompaniment music file of a song from the server, the audio file being generated by the terminal by encoding collected audio information relating to singing a portion of the song and the first accompaniment music file; and marking an unmarked, audio mixing portion in the received audio file as a portion that has been sung, to generate a second accompaniment music file of the song. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358567 | SPATIAL AUDIO RENDERING AND ENCODING - An encoder ( | 2014-12-04 |
20140358568 | Healthcare Management - A computer system obtains data from at least one sensor monitoring for health risk conditions, wherein a list of health risk conditions are pre-defined and stored in a server. The computer system determines that a health risk condition exists within an area based on the obtained data. The computer system determines a sanitization procedure for the health risk condition. The computer system initiates sanitization operations for the area according to the determined sanitization procedure. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358569 | DISCOVERY OF CONTAMINATED PRODUCTS - Systems and methods, including computer program products, for facilitating and expediting discovery of contaminated products. Second personal identifiers associated with a first personal identifier are looked up. A list of merchant identifiers and transaction identifiers associated with the second personal identifiers are retrieved. From the merchant transaction database, a list of product identifiers associated with the second consumer identifiers is extracted. The list of product identifiers is compared to a potentially contaminated product list and the potentially contaminated product list is updated with product identifiers common to both the list of product identifiers and the potential contaminated product list. The number of product identifiers in the updated potentially contaminated product list is compared with a threshold and a product testing recommended message is issued for product identifiers in the updated potentially contaminated product list in response to determining the number is below the threshold. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358570 | HEALTHCARE SUPPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A healthcare support system for determining care for a patient and a corresponding healthcare support method are presented. The healthcare support system comprises a processor and a computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable storage medium contains instructions for execution by the processor, wherein the instructions cause the processor to perform the steps of obtaining patient data, assessing a clinical need of the patient, proposing a clinical outcome, and determining a service to be provided to the patient for said clinical need and said proposed clinical outcome based on a service-outcome-need model. Further, the present invention relates to a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium and a computer program. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358571 | HEALTHCARE SUPPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING A CLINICAL VISIT - A healthcare support system and healthcare support method for scheduling a clinical visit of a patient are presented. The healthcare support system comprises a processor and a computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable storage medium contains instructions for execution by the processor, wherein the instructions cause the processor to perform the steps of obtaining clinical patient data descriptive of a clinical condition of the patient, obtaining psycho-social-assessment data of the patient, and scheduling a clinical visit for the patient based on said clinical patient data and said psycho-social-assessment data. Further, the present invention relates to a computer-readable non-transitory storage medium and a computer program. The proposed system assists in determining the need of a clinical visit, the urgency of a clinical visit and the nature of this visit in terms of required procedures and tests, topics to be discussed and professionals to be seen. Instead of purely relying on data descriptive of a clinical condition of the patient, a psycho-social-assessment is also considered. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358572 | METHOD FOR ENSURING CORRECT DISPENSING OF PRESCRIPTION ORDERS - A method of distributing a filled prescription order from a worker of a to a customer includes providing a computer-readable memory device having saved thereon a first identifier of the customer and a second identifier of the customer. The method also includes requesting the first identifier from the customer and requesting the second identifier from the customer. Also, the method includes inputting the first and second identifiers into an input device by at least one of the worker and the customer. Moreover, the method includes confirming an identity of the customer by confirming that the first and second identifiers input correspond satisfactorily with the first and second identifiers saved on the memory device. Still further, the method includes limiting transfer of the filled prescription order from the worker to the customer until confirming the identity of the customer. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358573 | HEALTHCARE MANAGMENT - A computer system obtains data from at least one sensor monitoring for health risk conditions, wherein a list of health risk conditions are pre-defined and stored in a server. The computer system determines that a health risk condition exists within an area based on the obtained data. The computer system determines a sanitization procedure for the health risk condition. The computer system initiates sanitization operations for the area according to the determined sanitization procedure. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358574 | Method and Apparatus for Secure Messaging of Medical Information - A medical personal communication system provides efficient and secure communication between medical personal and other medical personal, and between medical personal and patients. In one method of operation a secure message system accepting a message having message text and associates a recipient identifier with the message to identify the message recipient and message. The system determines if the message recipient is a registered user and if so then the message text is sent to the registered user within the system. If the message recipient is not a registered user, then the system generates a code and a message notification, which is sent to the message recipient using the recipient identifier. Using the code, the message recipient can view access the secure message system, such as on the Internet or network, securely view the message. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358575 | VITALITY PROGRAM FOR PARTICIPANT WELLNESS - There is provided a method for maintaining, improving or reducing the decline of vitality among participants, having the steps of establishing a normal state for each participant using non-clinical baseline capacity measures, recommending non-clinical body, mind and spirit activities for the participant, practicing the activities by the participant, monitoring progress and providing regular feedback. This will result in vitality in at least one area being maintained, improved or reduced in decline. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358576 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SURVEILLANCE AND EVALUATION OF SAFETY RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS - Certain embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods used to estimate safety-related risks associated with the use of medical products, treatments, and interventions (e.g., drugs, vaccines, medications, dietary supplements, and medical devices). More particularly, the present description relates to a method and system for estimating the risk (e.g., using a safety risk score, ranking, designation, estimate, or the like) associated with the use of an individual medical intervention. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358577 | SOFTWARE FOR MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS - Applicant has disclosed a method to provide (via software) medical practitioners, medical directors, medical administrators and insurers continuously updated and digitally-generated statistical information, displayed as screen displays, related to the frequency of use and completeness of implementation of medical software. This auditing, in-turn, allows medical practitioners and other interested parties to ensure health care is provided in a complete, systematic, and effective manner that both maximizes provider revenue and minimizes insurance costs while resulting in healthier patients. In a preferred embodiment, this method comprises: continuously and automatically auditing the extent to which a medical practitioner utilizes or enters data in a digital Superbill, in the course of treating patients, by displaying digitally-generated, color-coded, audit results as screen displays to medical directors and medical practitioners, wherein different colors indicate different extents of Superbill usage. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358578 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPARING PHARMACEUTICAL PRICES AND MEDICATION UTILIZATION - A system and method for comparing pharmaceutical prices and mediation utilization that provides separate databases containing (i) client pharmaceutical wholesaler and non-wholesaler purchase data, (ii) pharmaceutical compendia information, (iii) client pharmaceutical contract information, (iv) client organizational profile information, and (v) client patient volume and acuity data; and a processor in communication with the databases that (i) uploads the data and information from the databases into an input module that standardizes, validates and merges the data and information, (ii) processes the data and information from the input module by performing pricing and utilization analyses on the information and generating savings opportunities information, and (iii) formats the savings opportunities information and generates and pricing and utilization reports. A database interface for customized reporting and research analytics is also provided. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358579 | CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR QUALITY EVALUATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF DISCHARGE PLANNING - A system and method for evaluating a discharge planning process. The system and method perform the steps of determining whether a current set of discharge criteria matches current clinical practices, generating a matched set of discharge criteria by adapting the current set of discharge criteria to reflect the current clinical practices, generating a matching quality indicator value indicating a level of matching between the current set of discharge criteria and the current clinical practices, determining whether a user adheres to the matched set of discharge criteria, generating an adherence quality indicator value indicating a level to which the user adheres to the matched set of discharge criteria, determining whether the matched set of discharge criteria satisfies a target outcome and generating a satisfaction quality indicator value indicating a level to which the matched set of discharge criteria satisfies the target outcome. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358580 | METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY PROCESSING TEST STRIP PURCHASE NOTICE INFORMATION - The present invention relates to a method of automatically processing test strip purchase notice information. When a test strip is inserted into a bio-data measuring device, the bio-data measuring device recognizes insertion of the test strip. The bio-data measuring device measures bio-data from a material absorbed by the test strip, and counts the test strip used to measure the bio-data as a validly used test strip. The bio-data measuring device stores a count value obtained by counting the test strip as a validly used test strip. If a resulting count value, obtained by repeating above operations and increasing the count value, reaches a predetermined number, the bio-data measuring device automatically transmits information about the resulting count value to a server. The server receives the information about the resulting count value, and automatically transmits test strip purchase notice information to the bio-data measuring device. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358581 | ADAPTIVE ANALYTICAL BEHAVIORAL AND HEALTH ASSISTANT SYSTEM AND RELATED METHOD OF USE - This present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing an Adaptive Analytical Behavioral and Health Assistant. These systems and methods may include collecting one or more of patient behavior information, clinical information, or personal information; learning one or more patterns that cause an event based on the collected information and one or more pattern recognition algorithms; identifying one or more interventions to prevent the event from occurring or to facilitate the event based on the learned patterns; preparing a plan based on the collected information and the identified interventions; and/or presenting the plan to a user or executing the plan. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358582 | Method for Generating a Selected Pool of Underwritten Insurance Policies - Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for generating a selected pool of underwritten insurance policies are provided. A normative risk element associated with data in a plurality of normalized medical reports is identified. A magnitude of the normative risk element is determined for each of the plurality of normalized medical reports. A plurality of risk performance standards are generated that correlate with the magnitude of the normative risk element for each of the plurality of medical reports, and a plurality of underwritten insurance policies are selected based on the plurality of risk performance standards or metrics, wherein the plurality of underwritten insurance policies comprise one of a synthetic or engineered pool of underwritten insurance policies. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358583 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIRMING THE IDENTITY OF A PATIENT - A computer-implemented method for confirming the identification of patient prior to a healthcare procedure includes the step of accessing a record for the patient in a database in response to scanning a characteristic or trait of a patient prior to a healthcare procedure, wherein the record includes a saved scan of the characteristic or trait of the patient. The method further includes the step of comparing the scan of the characteristic or traits of the patient with the saved scan of the characteristic or trait of the patient in the database. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358584 | Electronic Health Record System - A system and method provides central storage of patient health records and allows for temporal access to be provided by the patient to other individual and healthcare providers. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358585 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA RECORDING, TRACKING, AND ANALYSIS IN CRITICAL RESULTS MEDICAL COMMUNICATION - The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for implementing a medical critical results communication, including: receiving an identification and a classification of a finding of criticality on a patient; creating and transmitting a critical results communication to a recipient by electronic methods; receiving and storing an acknowledgement from the recipient that the critical results communication was received; receiving and storing feedback and/or the initiation of clinical intervention and a follow-up action from the recipient, and transmitting same to the health care provider sender; receiving and storing diagnostic confirmation from the recipient and/or the healthcare provider sender; performing an analysis of critical results data, and performing a compliance analysis with stored established medical standards; and providing the critical results data analysis and the compliance analysis to at least the health care provider sender. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358586 | Method of Presenting Health Care Information - A method of presenting health care information comprises creating patient health data for a patient, storing the patient health data on a server, accessing the patient health data by one of the patient and a health care provider on a corresponding computer, wherein the corresponding computer is connected to the server over the internet, and presenting the patient health data accessed in sections searchable by icons presented on the corresponding computer. The patient health data has transcribable portions, and graphical data may be incorporated into the presentation in graphical form. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358587 | EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROTOCOL RECOMMENDER - A method for recommending customized emergency response for a subject includes receiving an indication that the subject requests emergency response, determining a customized emergency response protocol for the subject, based at least on a current physiological state of the subject, wherein the protocol is different from subject to subject, equipping an emergency response vehicle based on the customized emergency response protocol, and dispatching the emergency response vehicle to the subject. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358588 | INTELLIGENT TOKENS FOR AUTOMATED HEALTH CARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Methods and systems for accessing information stored in an electronic patient record are disclosed. A memory stores a set of medical logic instructions which code for retrieval of multiple items of information stored in the electronic patient record for a given patient. Optionally, the instructions code for a rules-based interpretation of information stored in the electronic patient record, such as instructions that apply criteria in a quality scoring system and generate a score. The medical logic instructions are associated with an “intelligent token”, i.e., a character string such as |DIABETES|, |ASTHMA| or |PROGRESS|. The invoking of the intelligent token triggers execution of the medical logic instructions and retrieval of the information from the database. The intelligent tokens can be embedded into document templates, or selected or entered by the user as part of a document creation process. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358589 | SYSTEM, METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING LOSS DRAFT INSURANCE - Systems, methods, apparatuses and computer program products are provided for providing loss draft insurance. In this regard, certain example embodiments may provide a loss draft insurance product having terms which provide for a reimbursement payment to be made to a lender in the event that the lender is required to repurchase a secured loan due to a release of loss draft funds, or in the event that the borrower becomes delinquent on the secured loan. Certain other example embodiments may provide risk analysis capabilities for determining eligibility for the aforementioned loss draft insurance product. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358590 | TRACKING EROSION OF AGGREGATE LIMITS - Systems, methods and apparatuses for tracking erosion of insurance funds available in an aggregate environment are provided. In some examples, insurance policy information may be received and aggregated by coverage type into subject-oriented insurance segments. Within the subject-oriented insurance segments the various policies for that coverage type may be represented as policy segments. When a claim is made, the claim may be paid out of a policy segment that spans multiple coverage types and thus multiple subject-oriented insurance segments. The system may track these claims and reduce the amount of insurance available for each subject-oriented insurance segment associated with the policy segment from which the claim is being made. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358591 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A DISABILITY INSURANCE CLAIM TRIAGE PLATFORM - According to some embodiments, a triage platform may receive data indicative of a disability insurance claim submitted in connection with a disability insurance policy, including at least one claim characteristic. The triage platform may determine, based on the claim characteristic, a claim segment to be associated with the disability insurance claim. A claim handler may be assigned to the disability insurance claim in accordance with the determined claim segment. Information about the disability insurance claim may then be automatically routed to the assigned claim handler. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358592 | SENSORS FOR USAGE-BASED PROPERTY INSURANCE - A method includes receiving, at an insurance provider server and from at least one sensor located at an insured property, sensor data indicative of an insurance risk associated with the insured property. The method also includes determining, based at least in part on the received sensor data, a risk-adjusted insurance premium for an insurance account associated with the insured property. The risk-adjusted insurance premium compensates for the insurance risk associated with the insured property. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358593 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING WORK PRODUCTS FOR VEHICLES VIA THE WORLD WIDE WEB - A method and system for receiving data relating to an insurance claim for a damaged vehicle and transmitting a valuation report for the damaged vehicle over the world wide web. The system includes a client computer and a web server that are coupled through an electronic communication network such as the internet. The web server contains a web site that contains a plurality of web pages. Each web page allows an operator to enter the insurance claim data. The data can be processed into a valuation report by a separate valuation server. The valuation report can be transmitted to the client computer through the web server. A claims adjuster can access the web server by merely entering a uniform resource locator (“URL”) into a web browser. The adjuster does not have to dial directly into the valuation server. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358594 | TECHNIQUES FOR AIRPORT CHECK-IN - Techniques for airline check-in are provided. A passenger checks in for a flight using a government issued form of identification. A visual check-in confirmation is performed by security personnel. No electronic or printed boarding pass is issued to the passenger. The passenger proceeds to the gate for his/her flight and swipes at a kiosk the government issued form of identification to complete the boarding process. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358595 | PARKING RESERVATION THAT ENCOURAGES CAR-POOLING - A method, system, and computer program product for parking reservation that encourages car-pooling are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A processor, at a first mobile data processing system representing an automobile, receives an input to create a reservation for a parking location. A second mobile data processing system is detected, wherein the second mobile data processing system is within a threshold distance of the first mobile data processing system. A determination is made whether a movement of the second mobile data processing system relative to the first mobile data processing system is less than a threshold measure of the movement. Responsive to the determining being affirmative, a qualifier is applied to the reservation to obtain a benefit in the reservation, wherein the qualifier accrues a benefit to the reservation. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358596 | ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY PARKING RESERVATION SYSTEM - A method, system, and computer program product for an environmentally-friendly parking reservation system are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A computer receives a request to make a reservation for parking a vehicle in a parking area. A parking location in the parking area is selected in an application, forming a selection. The computer modifies the selection based on a qualifier in the request, the qualifier indicating an environmentally-friendly aspect of the vehicle. The computer generates a response, the response identifying the parking location. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358597 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC PRICING OF RESERVATION INVENTORY - A method and system for dynamic reservation pricing in a computer-based reservation system. A projected booking curve is defined for an event. Several time-dependent deviations may be defined to indicate a time shift relative to the projected booking curve. Price increases are associated with actual booking performance exceeding defined positive deviations, i.e., the time shift is ahead of the projected booking curve, and price decreases are associated with actual booking performance exceeding defined negative deviations, i.e., the time shift is behind the projected booking curve. When actual booking performance exceeds one of the defined deviations, the price is automatically increased or decreased in accord with the programmed settings for time shifts corresponding to the deviations. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358598 | PRESENTING RATES FOR TRAVEL SERVICES - A method and system are provided for presenting rates for travel services using dynamic pricing bands. The dynamic pricing bands represent approximate rates for travel services relative to available rates during or close to the proposed dates of travel, or at or near the proposed travel destination. Each dynamic pricing band is keyed to a particular color, intensity, pattern, sound, or other graphical and/or audio characteristic, thereby providing the consumer a sense of the seasonal, regional, day of week, or other variability of rates for travel services without having to compare actual numbers. The dynamic pricing bands are applied to an interactive presentation of rates for travel services to allow the consumer to explore possible rate variations for particular travel services in a manner that provides a birds-eye view, is intuitive and user-friendly. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358599 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED ACCESS TO AN ATTRACTION - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for improved access to an attraction via a computing device of a user. A first computing device of a user records an identification code associated with an attraction. The first computing device transmits, to a second computing device, a request for access to the attraction, the request comprising the identification code. The first computing device receives, from the second computing device, an access authorization comprising an access code. The first computing device presents the access code to an attraction operator for access to the attraction. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358600 | ITEM PLACEMENT OPTIMIZER - A system is provided that that generates an optimal item placement for one or more items. The system receives one or more items, where each item includes an item height and an item width. The system further receives a container, where the container comprises a container height and a container width. The system further generates a number of copies for each item and a position within the container for each copy of each item, where each copy of each item is placed at the corresponding position within the container. The system further outputs the number of copies for each item and the position within the container for each copy of each item. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358601 | INDUSTRIAL ASSET HEALTH PROFILE - Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for developing a health profile of an industrial asset based upon data pertaining to such an industrial asset. At least some of the data is transformed into primary state indicators, respectively representative of the status or condition of an aspect of the industrial asset. Using the primary state indicators, one or more events that are likely to occur to the industrial asset are identified and a health profile is developed based upon such events. The health profile may describe maintenance actions that will reduce a likelihood of an event(s) occurring, may describe a business impact on an entity associated with the industrial asset if an event(s) occurs, and/or may describe a performance impact on the industrial asset if an event(s) occurs, for example. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358602 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR HUMAN CAPITAL ANALYSIS INCLUDING GENDER GAP - Disclosed herein are computer-based systems, media encoded with computer applications, and computer-implemented methods for identification and analysis of gender gap in human capital data comprising: a software module configured to receive data input, the data comprising human capital data pertaining to individuals of an organization; a software module configured to tag the data pertaining to individuals with a gender; a software module configured to generate a display of the data, the display comprising comparison of the data based on gender, the comparison in numeric and graphic form; and a software module configured to add comparator data to the display. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358603 | ITERATIVE PUBLIC TRANSIT SCORING - Computer-implemented methods for scoring and ranking transit stops and transit lines are provided. In one aspect, a method includes determining data and factors associated with a first transit stop or line and calculating a score for the first transit stop or line. The data and factors used in the scoring calculation may be a combination of the number of vehicle departures from the transit stop, the number of transit lines connected to the transit stop, a point of interest proximity factor, a population center factor, the number of trips on the transit line, the number of transit stops on the transit line, the number of interconnected transit lines and the travel distance of the transit line. The transit stop and transit lines scores may be iterated over each other. Systems and machine-readable media for scoring and ranking transit stops and transit lines are also provided. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358604 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION OF SOFTWARE USAGE - In some example implementations, there is provided a method. The method may include receiving metadata representative of usage of a component of a system; generating, based on the received metadata and a model, a three-dimensional representation of the usage of the system including at least one of the component and a structure of the component, the model based on a geographic entity; and providing the generated three-dimensional representation as a page for presentation. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also provided. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358605 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CROWDSOURCING A TASK - The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for crowdsourcing a task. The method comprises presenting the task to one or more crowdworkers based on their reputation scores and a redundancy degree associated with the task. The task comprises one or more sub-tasks. A plurality of responses to the task are received from the one or more crowdworkers. Each response further comprises one or more sub-responses each of which in turn corresponds to a response for a sub-task of the one or more sub-tasks. A first set of sub-tasks is identified from the one or more sub-tasks based on a first set of similar sub-responses received for the first set of sub-tasks from the plurality of responses. A first set of crowdworkers from the one or more crowdworkers who provided the first set of similar sub-responses for the first set of sub-tasks are remunerated. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358606 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING AN EMPLOYEE FOR A ROLE - A system and method are provided for promoting internal mobility within an organization and, in particular, for recommending employees and/or teams of employees of the organization for a new project or for another role within the organization. Data reflecting employees' professional skills, reputation, productivity, experience, work histories and other attributes are collected and analyzed to produce relevance ratings for each of associated criteria. When criteria for a new team or role are provided, the system uses employees' relevance ratings for those criteria, and/or other factors, to recommend them for each role. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358607 | TEAM MEMBER RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM - Techniques for discovering and recruiting team members for a team are described. According to various embodiments, a user request to identify one or more potential team members of a team is received, the user request including a user specification of a specific job title Skill mapping information identifying various sample skills associated with various sample job titles is accessed, and one or more specific skills associated with the specific job title is determined based on the skill mapping information. Thereafter, candidate team members of the team are identified from among members of a social network service having one or more of the specific skills. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358608 | AUTOMATIC PRIORITIZATION OF INCIDENT RESPONSE AS A HISTORICAL FUNCTION OF CUSTOMER STATE - A method (and structure) for prioritization of incident reports includes receiving an incident report from one of a plurality of clients. For each client incident report, information is retrieved from a database concerning a business relevance of a client relationship with the client at a time period for resolving the received incident report. A prioritization of the received incident report is calculated, as executed by a processor on a computer, the prioritization including a parameter that quantifies a customer state. An incident report ticket is generated that includes aggregated key information of the received incident report and that includes an indication of the calculated prioritization. The incident report ticket is provided as an output intended for a problem resolver to address the received incident report. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358609 | DISCOVERING TASK DEPENDENCIES FOR INCIDENT MANAGEMENT - A method for resolving incidents occurring in managed infrastructure includes generating a first ticket indicating an occurrence of a first incident in the managed infrastructure, wherein the first ticket has been assigned to an analyst for resolution, generating a second ticket indicating an occurrence of a second incident in the managed infrastructure, wherein the second ticket has been assigned to an analyst for resolution, obtaining a component dependency graph that infers dependencies between a plurality of components of the managed infrastructure, and inferring a dependency graph from the component dependency graph, wherein the ticket dependency graph indicates a dependency between the first ticket and the second ticket. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358610 | DISCOVERING TASK DEPENDENCIES FOR INCIDENT MANAGEMENT - Resolving incidents occurring in managed infrastructure includes generating a first ticket indicating an occurrence of a first incident in the managed infrastructure, wherein the first ticket has been assigned to an analyst for resolution, generating a second ticket indicating an occurrence of a second incident in the managed infrastructure, wherein the second ticket has been assigned to an analyst for resolution, obtaining a component dependency graph that infers dependencies between a plurality of components of the managed infrastructure, and inferring a dependency graph from the component dependency graph, wherein the ticket dependency graph indicates a dependency between the first ticket and the second ticket. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358611 | ORGANIZATIONAL TASK MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE SYSTEM - Web-based business process management software systems built on client-server architecture are described. The application and database may reside on central servers and may be accessed via dedicated links or the Internet across multiple locations simultaneously. Each person may have a predefined role and, based on that, the system may authenticate and authorize a person to access only the screens and data to which the user has been provided access. The user may only record the completion status and not modify the task in any way. This control may be restricted to only authorized personnel. When users log in, they may be presented with easy to use menus of routines and tasks organized by customer, people, processes and financial categories. In each of these categories, the user may be presented with their tasks for the day/week/month in a visually appealing way to record the completion status of the task. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358612 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING VISITOR INTERACTIONS - In accordance with an example embodiment a method and apparatus for managing visitor interactions is provided. The method comprises detecting a website access event corresponding to a visitor. The method further comprises determining, upon detecting the website access event, if an interaction invitation is available from among a maximum number of interaction invitations computed to be offered to visitors for facilitating the visitor interactions with agents. The maximum number of interaction invitations computed based on a number of active agents. The interaction invitation is provided to the visitor if the interaction invitation is determined to be available. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358613 | CONTENT ASSOCIATIONS AND SHARING FOR SCHEDULED EVENTS - Sharing content includes verifying occurrence of an event, determining participants of the event, gathering related content generated by the participants, where the related content corresponds to the event, and disseminating the related content to the participants. The event may be a business meeting. Verifying occurrence of an event may include determining scheduled participants, scheduled location, and scheduled time of the event using an electronic calendar of one of the scheduled participants. Participants may include the scheduled participants and other participants that are not listed in the electronic calendar where the other participants attend the event. Verifying occurrence of an event may also include confirming that at least an event organizer is at the scheduled location at the scheduled time and there is at least one other one of the participants. The content may include documents, photos, scanned images, audio clips, video clips, types notes, and/or handwritten notes. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358614 | CALENDAR-AGNOSTIC MEETING SCHEDULING - Disclosed are various embodiments for a calendar-agnostic scheduling application. The scheduling application may communicate a request for availability to other instances of the scheduling application. The scheduling application may determine availability according to a query in the request for availability by applying the query to a calendar accessible via a calendar provider. Meetings may be scheduled according to the availability of users determined by the queries while maintaining agnosticism to the calendar providers of the users. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358615 | NOTIFICATION TO USERS OF EVENTS - A method and system for notifying users of events. Scheduled user activity of a user is monitored, based on user notification information in a storage location. The user notification information pertains to a scheduled event. In response to a detection, from the monitoring, of a change in the user activity, it is ascertained that the change necessitates notifying the user of the scheduled event due to the change impacting whether the user can participate in the scheduled event. The change in the scheduled user activity is independent of the scheduled event. Then the user is notified of the scheduled event. The user notification information in the storage location is modified, based on the detected change in the user activity, in response to receipt of an instruction from the user to change the user notification information in the storage location. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358616 | ASSET MANAGEMENT FOR A COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEM USING AGGREGATED WEIGHTS OF CHANGED ASSETS - Asset management for a computer-based system includes detecting, using a processor, a change to at least one of a plurality of assets of the computer-based system, wherein the plurality of assets are managed using version control, and determining a weight for each changed asset. Using the processor, an aggregate weight is calculated according to the weight of each changed asset and the aggregate weight is compared with a threshold weight. Responsive to determining that the aggregate weight exceeds the threshold weight, a state of the plurality of assets of the computer-based system is recorded. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358617 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROJECT PLANNING AND ESTIMATION - The present document describes a method for producing a construction plan, a corresponding list of materials and a corresponding cost estimate. The method comprises, at a computing device, receiving a selection of a type of construction project characterized by a predefined set of variables, an initial construction plan, a corresponding initial list of materials and a corresponding initial cost estimate. The method further comprises receiving a modification of at least one of the variables; and producing: an updated construction plan based on the variables; a corresponding updated list of materials based on the variables and on a list of unit materials; and a corresponding updated cost estimate based on the updated list of materials and on a list of unit prices for the list of unit materials | 2014-12-04 |
20140358618 | Method and System for Addition of New Fiscal Year Through Single Click - A method for creating a budget is disclosed. The method comprises defining a multi-dimensional data structure comprising a plurality of data containers, each to hold items of budgeting data corresponding to a first fiscal year. Each data container is assigned a unique identifier indicative of the data it is intended to hold, which data is generated by a data module. For a second fiscal year, updating the data structure to include new data containers to hold items of budgeting data corresponding to the second fiscal year; and generating budgeting data to be stored in the new cells by the data module, responsive to a single click. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358619 | TIME-DEPENDENT REORDER POINTS IN SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORKS - According to an exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method for attempting to optimize a supply chain network (SCN) includes forecasting demand in the SCN based on a set of demand data. One or more time-dependent reorder points (ROPs) deemed to optimize the SCN are generated by a computer processor, based on the demand forecast, where each time-dependent ROP represents an ROP that changes over time. A simulation of operations of the SCN is performed, using the time-dependent ROPs. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358620 | Tenant Selection in Quota Enforcing Request Admission Mechanisms for Shared Applications - Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for selecting requests from a plurality of tenant queues in a multi-tenant system including actions of determining a plurality of weights, each weight being associated with a respective tenant in a set of tenants, each weight being dynamically adjusted based on a quota associated with the respective tenant for each iteration of a plurality of iterations within a period, selecting a tenant from the set of tenants based on the plurality of weights to provide a selected tenant, and transmitting a request from a request queue associated with the selected tenant for processing by a shared resource. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358621 | TIME-DEPENDENT REORDER POINTS IN SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORKS - According to an exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method for attempting to optimize a supply chain network (SCN) includes forecasting demand in the SCN based on a set of demand data. One or more time-dependent reorder points (ROPs) deemed to optimize the SCN are generated by a computer processor, based on the demand forecast, where each time-dependent ROP represents an ROP that changes over time. A simulation of operations of the SCN is performed, using the time-dependent ROPs. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358622 | WORK STATION ARRANGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for arranging work stations arranges a number of work stations of different types in a predetermined area, and calculates a number of each type of work station to ensure that a total production efficiency of each type of work station can reach a predetermined production efficiency. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358623 | BUSINESS PROCESS MINING USING CROWDSOURCING - A method and system for systematically creating or improving business processes utilizing crowdsourcing. Business process steps and step connection requirements received from a plurality of experts are optimized, ordered and verified. Business process step optimization consists of eliminating invalid or obsolete business process steps received, identifying and eliminating duplicate business process steps received, and selecting most efficient business process steps. Business process steps are ordered based on the connection requirements received. Created or improved business processes are verified by a plurality of experts utilizing crowdsourcing. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358624 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SLA PROFILING IN PROCESS MODEL IMPLEMENTATION - A method and system memory to store a logical process model defining a logically structured series of process activities in a process, and Service Level Agreement (SLA) profile information defining a pre-defined plurality of SLA profiles which are potentially applicable to respective process instances. Each SLA profile comprises at least one performance metric with respect to the process and/or at least one of the process activities. A rules engine queries case data with respect to a particular process instance, and automatically determines an applicable SLA profile based on the case data. The applicable SLA profile is then applied to the particular process instance, and may be altered during performance of the process instance in response to case data changes. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358625 | Operating Support System, Operating Support Method and Operating Support Program - An operating support system includes a control unit having: accepting the specifications required for a new case; searching a second database based on the accepted specifications; obtaining past cases similar to the extent that the specifications meet predetermined standards; extracting a record of the obtained case from a first database; determining the coefficient by which the presence/absence value is multiplied as the side effect degree for the extracted record; calculating the optimized side effect degree for each task of the obtained record, by calculating the sum of values obtained by multiplying the presence/absence value by the side effect degree for the tasks, and by calculating the difference between the calculated sum and the evaluation value; and comparing the magnitude relationship between the calculated side effect degree and a predetermined threshold to output the task corresponding to the side effect degree, as the task that is omittable in the new case. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358626 | ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF AN INCIDENT IN A SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT - Assessing the impact of an incident in a Service Level Agreement (SLA) by a system including a plurality of nodes organized in a hierarchical structure is disclosed. An incident record for an incident related to a service at a first node is received and an actual impact of the incident at the first node is calculated. The calculated actual impact is transferred to a parent node until a root node is reached. The actual impact of the incident is calculated at the parent node and a final actual impact and a total financial impact for the SLA are calculated at the root node. The actual impact at each node, the final actual impact, and the total financial impact are calculated dynamically while the incident is in progress. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358627 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RISK DETECTION REPORTING AND INFRASTRUCTURE - A method, a system, and a device for monitoring risks associated with at least one business process, including: evaluating at least one of a plurality of document instances, wherein each of the document instances includes, in association therewith, a plurality of document values, against a plurality of risk categories; implementing the plurality of risk categories pursuant to at least one acceptable risk policy approved for the at least one business process; and qualifying at least one of the at least one of the plurality of documents pursuant to an approval rating of the at least one document in at least one risk category. The system, method, and device efficiently monitor risk, and allow for flexibility in modifying or updating risk policy. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358628 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EVALUATING INTERRELATIONSHIPS AMONG BUSINESS DRIVERS - An apparatus configured to evaluate influence interrelationships among a plurality of business drivers generates an interrelationship matrix that quantifies the influence interrelationships among the plurality of business drivers, ranks the quantified influence interrelationships included in the interrelationship matrix to yield influence rankings, sums the influence rankings, ranks the plurality of business drivers based on the summed influence rankings to yield business driver rankings, and outputs the business driver rankings. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358629 | COMPETITIVE PRICING PLATFORM AND MANAGED INVENTORY REPOSITORY - Techniques for competitive pricing analysis and inventory management are described. According to various exemplary embodiments, a competitive pricing system is configured to crawl competitor websites for comparative pricing information at various time intervals. Moreover, the competitive pricing system is configured to determine if a price for an item on a home retailer website represents a “deal”, based on information crawled from competitor websites. According to various exemplary embodiments, a managed inventory repository system may enable improved identification of deals and specials within an inventory of a retailer website. For example, the managed inventory repository system may perform data mining operations to identify deals or specials offered for inventory items on a home retailer website. In some embodiments, a “special” can be defined in a variety of ways to suit different business units, campaigns, metrics, etc. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358630 | APPARATUS AND PROCESS FOR CONDUCTING SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS - A system, apparatus and method for performing social media analytics for a movie are provided. The present disclosure provides for a social media analytics platform that builds a rich landscape of interests of movie audiences by mining data from social networking or microblogging services, such as Twitter™. The present disclosure provides for associating at least one user with a movie; collecting, for the at least one associated user, at least one of user location data, user interest data, user-cited website data, and user television viewing habits data from a social networking or microblogging service; processing the collected data to generate movie campaign data, the movie campaign data including at least one of movie marketing data, movie advertising data, and movie distribution data; and providing the at least one movie marketing data, movie advertising data, and movie distribution data for display in a user interface. | 2014-12-04 |
20140358631 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS - In accordance with an example embodiment a computer-implemented method and an apparatus for generating FAQs is provided. The method comprises receiving interaction data corresponding to interactions between a plurality of users and customer support representatives by a processor. A plurality of user parameters associated with the plurality of users is also received by the processor. A plurality of clusters is generated from the interaction data based on the plurality of user parameters. The method further comprises determining one or more visitor parameters corresponding to a visitor on an interaction medium. At least one cluster related to the visitor from among the plurality of clusters is identified based on the one or more visitor parameters. Further, at least one FAQ is generated based on the identified at least one cluster. The method further comprises providing the generated at least one FAQ to the visitor on the interaction medium by the processor. | 2014-12-04 |