01st week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 67 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130006611 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTING SHADOW ENTITIES FROM EMAILS - One embodiment provides a system for extracting shadow entities from emails. During operation, the system receives a number of document corpora. The system then calculates word-collocation statistics associated with different n-gram sizes for the document corpora. Next, the system receives an email and identifies shadow entities in the email based on the calculated word-collocation statistics for the document corpora. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006612 | TRAINING ACOUSTIC MODELS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training acoustic models. Speech data and data identifying a transcription for the speech data are received. A phonetic representation for the transcription is accessed. Training sequences are identified for a particular phone in the phonetic representation. Each of the training sequences includes a different set of contextual phones surrounding the particular phone. A partitioning key is identified based on a sequence of phones that occurs in each of the training sequences. A processing module to which the identified partitioning key is assigned is selected. Data identifying the training sequences and a portion of the speech data are transmitted to the selected processing module. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006613 | AUTOMATIC CONTEXT SENSITIVE LANGUAGE CORRECTION USING AN INTERNET CORPUS PARTICULARLY FOR SMALL KEYBOARD DEVICES - A computer-assisted language correction system particularly suitable for use with small keyboard devices including spelling correction functionality, misused word correction functionality and grammar correction functionality utilizing contextual feature-sequence functionality employing an interne corpus. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006614 | AUTOMATION OF AUDITING CLAIMS - Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for automation of auditing claims. A data file is received comprising one or more auditable items, each auditable item comprising a word string having one or more words. Each word string for each auditable item is translated using one or more translation steps into a translated item description. Each translated item description is compared to a plurality of terms to generate matching information. Each translated item description is associated with an item identifier based on the matching information. Each auditable item is accepted or rejected based on the item identifier and one or more rules associated with the data file. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006615 | MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE PROVIDING ENHANCED PREDICTIVE WORD ENTRY AND RELATED METHODS - A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable, handheld housing, and a display and keyboard carried by the portable, handheld housing. The keyboard may include a plurality of multi-symbol keys each having indicia of a plurality of respective symbols thereon, and a predetermined multi-symbol key may have a comma/apostrophe symbol and at least one other symbol thereon. A controller may be used for generating, in response to an ambiguous input including an ambiguous punctuations input, a menu of possible desired words including at least one word with a comma and at least one word with an apostrophe and at least one other character additional to the ambiguous input. The device further includes a multiple-axis input device that is operable to provide movement inputs to move to, for example, a variant output and is further operable to provide a selection input as to, for example, the variant output. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006616 | INFORMATION RETRIEVING APPARATUS, INFORMATION RETRIEVING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, an information retrieving apparatus includes a housing; an input-output unit to perform dialogue processing with a user; a first detecting unit to detect means of transfer which indicates present means of transfer for the user; a second detecting unit to detect a holding status which indicates whether the user is holding the housing; a third detecting unit to detect a talking posture which indicates whether the housing is held near the face of the user; a selecting unit to select, from among a plurality of interaction modes that establish the dialogue processing, an interaction mode according to a combination of the means of transfer, the holding status, and the talking posture; an dialogue manager to control the dialogue processing according to the selected interaction mode; and a information retrieval unit to retrieve information using a keyword that is input during the dialogue processing. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006617 | Methods and Apparatus for Efficient Vocoder Implementations - Techniques for implementing vocoders in parallel digital signal processors are described. A preferred approach is implemented in conjunction with the BOPS® Manifold Array (ManArray™) processing architecture so that in an array of N parallel processing elements, N channels of voice communication are processed in parallel. Techniques for forcing vocoder processing of one data-frame to take the same number of cycles are described. Improved throughput and lower clock rates can be achieved. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006618 | SPEECH PROCESSING APPARATUS, SPEECH PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a speech processing apparatus, a speech processing method and a program which, when multichannel audio signals are downmixed and coded, prevent delay and an increase in the computation amount upon decoding of the audio signals. An inverse multiplexing unit ( | 2013-01-03 |
20130006619 | Method And System For Scaling Ducking Of Speech-Relevant Channels In Multi-Channel Audio - A method and system for filtering a multi-channel audio signal having a speech channel and at least one non-speech channel, to improve intelligibility of speech determined by the signal. In typical embodiments, the method includes steps of determining at least one attenuation control value indicative of a measure of similarity between speech-related content determined by the speech channel and speech-related content determined by the non-speech channel, and attenuating the non-speech channel in response to the at least one attenuation control value. Typically, the attenuating step includes scaling of a raw attenuation control signal (e.g., a ducking gain control signal) for the non-speech channel in response to the at least one attenuation control value. Some embodiments are a general or special purpose processor programmed with software or firmware and/or otherwise configured to perform filtering in accordance the invention. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006620 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NETWORK COORDINATED CONVERSATIONAL SERVICES - A system and method for providing automatic and coordinated sharing of conversational resources, e.g., functions and arguments, between network-connected servers and devices and their corresponding applications. In one aspect, a system for providing automatic and coordinated sharing of conversational resources includes a network having a first and second network device, the first and second network device each comprising a set of conversational resources, a dialog manager for managing a conversation and executing calls requesting a conversational service, and a communication stack for communicating messages over the network using conversational protocols, wherein the conversational protocols establish coordinated network communication between the dialog managers of the first and second network device to automatically share the set of conversational resources of the first and second network device, when necessary, to perform their respective requested conversational service. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006621 | CONTEXT-BASED GRAMMARS FOR AUTOMATED SPEECH RECOGNITION - Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for providing a context-based grammar for automatic speech recognition, including creating by a multimodal application a context, the context comprising words associated with user activity in the multimodal application, and supplementing by the multimodal application a grammar for automatic speech recognition in dependence upon the context. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006622 | ADAPTIVE CONFERENCE COMFORT NOISE - A continuous comfort noise is provided that is overlaid for the entire duration of a conference call scenario. The comfort noise may be adapted to match the levels of the actual background noise detected on one or more of the conference call participant's devices on the transmitting end(s) of a conference call as well as the participants' speech levels. The comfort noise may also be adapted to the type of listening device employed on the receiving end of a conference call. The comfort noise level may be customized to an appropriate and comfortable level for the type of listening device being used, and the system may continuously mix the comfort noise with incoming audio signals for the entire duration of a conference call, lowering the comfort noise level gradually during speaking periods for additional user experience improvement. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006623 | SPEECH RECOGNITION USING VARIABLE-LENGTH CONTEXT - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for recognizing speech using a variable length of context. Speech data and data identifying a candidate transcription for the speech data are received. A phonetic representation for the candidate transcription is accessed. Multiple test sequences are extracted for a particular phone in the phonetic representation. Each of the multiple test sequences includes a different set of contextual phones surrounding the particular phone. Data indicating that an acoustic model includes data corresponding to one or more of the multiple test sequences is received. From among the one or more test sequences, the test sequence that includes the highest number of contextual phones is selected. A score for the candidate transcription is generated based on the data from the acoustic model that corresponds to the selected test sequence. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006624 | SOUND SOURCES SEPARATION AND MONITORING USING DIRECTIONAL COHERENT ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES - An apparatus and a method that achieve physical separation of sound sources by pointing directly a beam of coherent electromagnetic waves (i.e. laser). Analyzing the physical properties of a beam reflected from the vibrations generating sound source enable the reconstruction of the sound signal generated by the sound source, eliminating the noise component added to the original sound signal. In addition, the use of multiple electromagnetic waves beams or a beam that rapidly skips from one sound source to another allows the physical separation of these sound sources. Aiming each beam to a different sound source ensures the independence of the sound signals sources and therefore provides full sources separation. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006625 | EXTENDED VIDEOLENS MEDIA ENGINE FOR AUDIO RECOGNITION - A system, method, and computer program product for automatically analyzing multimedia data audio content are disclosed. Embodiments receive multimedia data, detect portions having specified audio features, and output a corresponding subset of the multimedia data and generated metadata. Audio content features including voices, non-voice sounds, and closed captioning, from downloaded or streaming movies or video clips are identified as a human probably would do, but in essentially real time. Particular speakers and the most meaningful content sounds and words and corresponding time-stamps are recognized via database comparison, and may be presented in order of match probability. Embodiments responsively pre-fetch related data, recognize locations, and provide related advertisements. The content features may be also sent to search engines so that further related content may be identified. User feedback and verification may improve the embodiments over time. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006626 | VOICE-BASED TELECOMMUNICATION LOGIN - A voice-based telecommunications login system which includes a login process controller; a speech recognition module; a speaker verification module; a speech synthesis module; and a user database. Responsive to a user-provided first verbal answer to a first verbal question, the first verbal answer is converted to text and compared with data previously stored in the user database. The speech synthesis module provides a second question to the user, and responsive to a user-provided second verbal answer to the second question, the speaker verification module compares the second verbal answer with a voice print of the user previously stored in the user database and validates that the second verbal answer matches a voice print of the user previously stored in the user database. Also disclosed is a method of logging in to the telecommunications system and a computer program product for logging in to the telecommunications system. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006627 | Method and System for Communicating Between a Sender and a Recipient Via a Personalized Message Including an Audio Clip Extracted from a Pre-Existing Recording - A method of communicating between a sender and a recipient via a personalized message is disclosed comprising: (a) identifying text, via the user interface of a communication device, of a desired lyric phrase from within a pre-existing audio recording; (b) extracting audio substantially associated with the desired lyric phrase from the pre-existing recording into a desired audio clip; (c) inputting personalized text via the user interface; (d) creating the personalized message with the sender identification, the personalized text and access to the desired audio clip; (e) sending an electronic message to the electronic address of the recipient, wherein the electronic message may be an SMS/EMS/MMS message, instant message or email message including a link to the personalized message or an EMS/MMS or email message including the personalized message. An associated method of earning money from the communication along with associated systems are also disclosed. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006628 | GENERATING REPRESENTATIONS OF GROUP INTERACTIONS - A transcript of a group interaction is generated from audio source data representing the group interaction. The transcript includes a sequence of lines of text, each line corresponding to an audible utterance in the audio source data. A conversation path is generated from the transcript by labeling each transcript line with an identifier identifying the speaker of the corresponding utterance in the audio source data. A representation of the group interaction is generated by associating the conversation path with a set of voice profiles, each voice profile corresponding to an identified speaker in the conversation path. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006629 | SEARCHING DEVICE, SEARCHING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a searching device, searching method, and program whereby searching for a word string corresponding to input voice can be performed in a robust manner. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006630 | STATE DETECTING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING STATE DETECTING PROGRAM - A state detecting apparatus includes: a processor to execute acquiring utterance data related to uttered speech, computing a plurality of statistical quantities for feature parameters regarding features of the utterance data, creating, on the basis of the plurality of statistical quantities regarding the utterance data and another plurality of statistical quantities regarding reference utterance data based on other uttered speech, pseudo-utterance data having at least one statistical quantity equal to a statistical quantity in the other plurality of statistical quantities, computing a plurality of statistical quantities for synthetic utterance data synthesized on the basis of the pseudo-utterance data and the utterance data, and determining, on the basis of a comparison between statistical quantities of the synthetic utterance data and statistical quantities of the reference utterance data, whether the speaker who produced the uttered speech is in a first state or a second state; and a memory. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006631 | Turbo Processing of Speech Recognition - Environmental recognition systems may improve recognition accuracy by leveraging local and nonlocal features in a recognition target. A local decoder may be used to analyze local features, and a nonlocal decoder may be used to analyze nonlocal features. Local and nonlocal estimates may then be exchanged to improve the accuracy of the local and nonlocal decoders. Additional iterations of analysis and exchange may be performed until a predetermined threshold is reached. In some embodiments, the system may comprise extrinsic information extractors to prevent positive feedback loops from causing the system to adhere to erroneous previous decisions. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006632 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLYING DYNAMIC CONTEXTUAL GRAMMARS AND LANGUAGE MODELS TO IMPROVE AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION ACCURACY - The invention involves the loading and unloading of dynamic section grammars and language models in a speech recognition system. The values of the sections of the structured document are either determined in advance from a collection of documents of the same domain, document type, and speaker; or collected incrementally from documents of the same domain, document type, and speaker; or added incrementally to an already existing set of values. Speech recognition in the context of the given field is constrained to the contents of these dynamic values. If speech recognition fails or produces a poor match within this grammar or section language model, speech recognition against a larger, more general vocabulary that is not constrained to the given section is performed. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006633 | LEARNING SPEECH MODELS FOR MOBILE DEVICE USERS - Techniques are provided to recognize a speaker's voice. In one embodiment, received audio data may be separated into a plurality of signals. For each signal, the signal may be associated with value/s for one or more features (e.g., Mel-Frequency Cepstral coefficients). The received data may be clustered (e.g., by clustering features associated with the signals). A predominate voice cluster may be identified and associated with a user. A speech model (e.g., a Gaussian Mixture Model or Hidden Markov Model) may be trained based on data associated with the predominate cluster. A received audio signal may then be processed using the speech model to, e.g.: determine who was speaking; determine whether the user was speaking; determining whether anyone was speaking; and/or determine what words were said. A context of the device or the user may then be inferred based at least partly on the processed signal. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006634 | IDENTIFYING PEOPLE THAT ARE PROXIMATE TO A MOBILE DEVICE USER VIA SOCIAL GRAPHS, SPEECH MODELS, AND USER CONTEXT - Techniques are provided to improve identification of a person using speaker recognition. In one embodiment, a unique social graph may be associated with each of a plurality of defined contexts. The social graph may indicate speakers likely to be present in a particular context. Thus, an audio signal including a speech signal may be collected and processed. A context may be inferred, and a corresponding social graph may be identified. A set of potential speakers may be determined based on the social graph. The processed signal may then be compared to a restricted set of speech models, each speech model being associated with a potential speaker. By limiting the set of potential speakers, speakers may be more accurately identified. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006635 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPEAKER DIARIZATION - A method and system for speaker diarization are provided. Pre-trained acoustic models of individual speaker and/or groups of speakers are obtained. Speech data with multiple speakers is received and divided into frames. For a frame, an acoustic feature vector is determined extended to include log-likelihood ratios of the pre-trained models in relation to a background population model. The extended acoustic feature vector is used in segmentation and clustering algorithms. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006636 | MEANING EXTRACTION SYSTEM, MEANING EXTRACTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A meaning extraction device includes a clustering unit, an extraction rule generation unit and an extraction rule application unit. The clustering unit acquires feature vectors that transform numerical features representing the features of words having specific meanings and the surrounding words into elements, and clusters the acquired feature vectors into a plurality of clusters on the basis of the degree of similarity between feature vectors. The extraction rule generation unit performs machine learning based on the feature vectors within a cluster for each cluster, and generates extraction rules to extract words having specific meanings. The extraction rule application unit receives feature vectors generated from the words in documents which are subject to meaning extraction, specifies the optimum extraction rules for the feature vectors, and extracts the meanings of the words on the basis of which the feature vectors were generated by applying the specified extraction rules to the feature vectors. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006637 | HIERARCHICAL METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING USER INTENT FROM SPOKEN UTTERANCES - Improved techniques are disclosed for permitting a user to employ more human-based grammar (i.e., free form or conversational input) while addressing a target system via a voice system. For example, a technique for determining intent associated with a spoken utterance of a user comprises the following steps/operations. Decoded speech uttered by the user is obtained. An intent is then extracted from the decoded speech uttered by the user. The intent is extracted in an iterative manner such that a first class is determined after a first iteration and a sub-class of the first class is determined after a second iteration. The first class and the sub-class of the first class are hierarchically indicative of the intent of the user, e.g., a target and data that may be associated with the target. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006638 | Electronic Devices with Voice Command and Contextual Data Processing Capabilities - An electronic device may capture a voice command from a user. The electronic device may store contextual information about the state of the electronic device when the voice command is received. The electronic device may transmit the voice command and the contextual information to computing equipment such as a desktop computer or a remote server. The computing equipment may perform a speech recognition operation on the voice command and may process the contextual information. The computing equipment may respond to the voice command. The computing equipment may also transmit information to the electronic device that allows the electronic device to respond to the voice command. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006639 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING TEXT INPUT IN A SHORTHAND-ON-KEYBOARD INTERFACE - A word pattern recognition system improves text input entered via a shorthand-on-keyboard interface. A core lexicon comprises commonly used words in a language; an extended lexicon comprises words not included in the core lexicon. The system only directly outputs words from the core lexicon. Candidate words from the extended lexicon can be outputted and simultaneously admitted to the core lexicon upon user selection. A concatenation module enables a user to input parts of a long word separately. A compound word module combines two common shorter words whose concatenation forms a long word. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006640 | Automatic Language Model Update - A method for generating a speech recognition model includes accessing a baseline speech recognition model, obtaining information related to recent language usage from search queries, and modifying the speech recognition model to revise probabilities of a portion of a sound occurrence based on the information. The portion of a sound may include a word. Also, a method for generating a speech recognition model, includes receiving at a search engine from a remote device an audio recording and a transcript that substantially represents at least a portion of the audio recording, synchronizing the transcript with the audio recording, extracting one or more letters from the transcript and extracting the associated pronunciation of the one or more letters from the audio recording, and generating a dictionary entry in a pronunciation dictionary. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006641 | PROVIDING ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS USING LOGICAL SYNTHESIS OF CANDIDATE ANSWERS - A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query, decomposing the input query into a plurality of different subqueries, and conducting a search in one or more data sources to identify at least one candidate answer to each of the subqueries. A ranking function is applied to each of the candidate answers to determine a ranking for each of these candidate answers; and for each of the subqueries, one of the candidate answers to the subquery is selected based on this ranking. A logical synthesis component is applied to synthesize a candidate answer for the input query from the selected the candidate answers to the subqueries. In one embodiment, the procedure applied by the logical synthesis component to synthesize the candidate answer for the input query is determined from the input query. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006642 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOICE BASED DIGITAL SIGNATURE SERVICE - Methods and systems for providing a voice-based digital signature service are disclosed. The method includes a first user sending a document to a second user for signature, and the first user also sending a PIN to the second user and to a voice verification authority. The second user sending, to the voice verification authority, a voice recording comprising the PIN along with consent of the second user to the PIN. The voice verification authority comparing the voice recording with a predefined voice sample of the second user, and the PIN received from the first user with the PIN received from the second user. The voice verification authority then sending a notification to a signing entity based on the comparison. The signing entity signing the PIN of the document with a private key associated with the second user and sends an acknowledgement to the first user and the second user. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006643 | Devices and Methods for Identifying a Prompt Corresponding to a Voice Input in a Sequence of Prompts - This is directed to processing voice inputs received by an electronic device while prompts are provided. In particular, this is directed to providing a sequence of prompts to a user (e.g., voice over prompts) while monitoring for a voice input. When the voice input is received, a characteristic time stamp can be identified for the voice input, and can be compared to periods or windows associated with each of the provided prompts. The electronic device can then determine that the prompt corresponding to a window that includes the characteristic time stamp was the prompt to which the user wished to apply the voice input. The device can process the voice input to extract a user instruction, and apply the instruction to the identified prompt (e.g., and perform an operation associated with the prompt). | 2013-01-03 |
20130006644 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SPECTRAL BAND REPLICATION, AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUDIO DECODING - The present invention relates to a method and device for spectral band replication, and a method and system for audio decoding, and the method for spectral band replication comprises: A. searching for the position of a certain tone of an audio signal in MDCT frequency domain coefficients; B. according to the tone position, determining a spectral band replication period which is a bandwidth from a 0 frequency point to a frequency point of tone position, and a source frequency segment which is a frequency segment from a frequency point of the 0 frequency point shifting copyband_offset frequency points backwards to a frequency point of the frequency point of the tone position shifting the copyband_offset frequency points backwards, wherein said offset copyband_offset is greater than or equal to 0; and C. according to the spectral band replication period, carrying out spectral band replication on zero bit encoding subbands. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006645 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUDIO ENCODING AND DECODING AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING NOISE LEVEL - The present invention relates to a method and system for audio encoding and decoding and a method for estimating a noise level, and the method for estimating a noise level in the present invention comprises: estimating a power spectrum of an audio signal to be encoded according to a frequency domain coefficient of the audio signal to be encoded; and estimating a noise level of a zero bit encoding subband audio signal according to the power spectrum obtained by calculating, and this noise level for controlling an energy proportion of noise filling to spectral band replication during decoding; wherein a zero bit encoding subband refers to an encoding subband of which allocated bit number is zero. The present invention can well reconstruct the uncoded frequency domain coefficients. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006646 | Transform Audio Codec and Methods for Encoding and Decoding a Time Segment of an Audio Signal - Methods and devices for efficient encoding/decoding of a time segment of an audio signal. Methods comprise deriving an indicator, z, of the position in a frequency scale of a residual vector associated with the time segment of the audio signal, and deriving a measure, Φ, related to the amount of structure of the residual vector. The methods further comprise determining whether a predefined criterion involving the measure Φ, the indicator z and a predefined threshold Θ, is fulfilled, which corresponds to estimating whether a change of sign of at least some of the non-zero coefficients of the residual vector would be audible after reconstruction of the audio signal time segment. The amplitude of the coefficients of the residual vector is encoded, and the signs of the coefficients of the residual vector are encoded only when it is determined that the criterion is fulfilled, and thus that a change of sign would be audible. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006647 | ENCODING DEVICE AND ENCODING METHOD, DECODING DEVICE AND DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an encoding device and an encoding method, a decoding device and a decoding method, and a program that reduce deterioration of sound quality due to encoding of audio signals. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006648 | Migrating Computing Environment Entitlement Contracts Between a Seller and a Buyer - Mechanisms are provided for migrating a computing environment entitlement contract (CEEC) from one computing resource to another. These mechanisms generate one or more CEEC data structures, each CEEC data structure defining terms of a business level agreement between a contracting party and a provider of the data processing system. A CEEC cohort is generated comprising a collection of CEECs having similar terms. The one or more CEEC data structures are associated with a computing resource cohort and a seller of a CEEC data structure, in the one or more CEEC data structures and a buyer of the CEEC data structure, in the one or more CEEC data structures, is identified. The CEEC data structure is migrated from the seller to the buyer and workloads are executed in accordance with terms specified in the CEEC data structure at the buyer after migrating the CEEC data structure. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006649 | System and Method Healthcare Diagnostics and Treatment - A computerized decision support system for designing, managing and executing clinical disease pathways for financially balanced evidence based care. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006650 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MIGRATING BETWEEN DEVICES WHILE INTERACTING WITH A HEALTHCARE APPLICATION - Methods and apparatuses are provided for facilitating migration from a first device to a second device while interacting with a healthcare application. In this regard, a method may cooperate with the first device to establish a connection therewith based upon a proximity-based identification technique. Such cooperation may occur while the user is interacting with the healthcare application on the first device. The method may also authenticate the user of the first device based upon information, such as authentication credentials, provided by the first device regarding prior synchronization of the user by the first device. The method may also environmentally synchronize with the first device. In this regard, the method may environmentally synchronize with the first device by providing for interaction with the healthcare application via a processor and by providing a common context with that of the first device including display of a common image. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006651 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREEMPTIVE DETERMINATION OF THE POTENTIAL FOR AN ATYPICAL CLINICAL EVENT RELATED TO THE ADMINISTERING OF MEDICATION - Systems and methods provide for the preemptive determination of the potential of atypical clinical event occurrence related to administering of medications to a person. One method involves receiving a list of possible medications that may be administered to the person during a medical procedure. Subsequently, the medication list is compared to information in the person's medical record. Based on this comparison, a determination is made as to whether one or more matches exist between any of the medications included in the list and the medical record information, the match relating to the potential of an atypical clinical event occurring if the associated medication were to be administered to the person. If a match in fact exists, a response is outputted relating to each match. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006652 | FACILITY-WIDE MEDICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - A system for managing medications facilitates documentation of medication returned from remote dispensing units to a central storage location such as a pharmacy vault. The system may be especially useful in facilitating the tracking of controlled substances. The system receives an indication that a medication previously removed from the remote dispensing units has been designated for return to the medication management system. The system computes an estimated return amount of the medication, and causes a queued return list to be displayed at the central storage location. The system can accommodate multiple remote dispensing devices and multiple medications. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006653 | METHODS USING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF MEDICAL CODES - Medical coding systems receive as input medical terms which coders classify into medical codes, used in the remuneration of medical procedures. A set of applicable medical codes can be determined by intersecting multidimensional data structures associated with the input terms and counting medical codes occupying regions of intersection. If the resulting set contains a single code, it is presented to the coder for verification. If the resulting set contains more than a single code, the coder can be questioned in a variety of ways to access, and select from, terminology options not implied by the originally provided input terms. The interactive process may also use the multidimensional data structures to regulate the order of questions, present decision aids, and select related procedure codes. The interaction concludes when the coder has fully specified the proper code or codes that describe the required procedure or procedures. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006654 | MEDICAL EXPERT SYSTEM - A system and method for collecting and translating patient information has a data collection interface, the data collection interface including one or more fields of grouped information, presented in a first language understood by a patient and including locations for identifying selected information relating to particular symptoms or conditions of the patient, a data translation interface for translating the selected information from the first language to data in at least a second language, understood by a medical practitioner and a data presentation interface including a presentation of information in the second language including the translated data. The data is arranged in a manner to assist a medical practitioner in the diagnosis of a possible complaint. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006655 | NEAR REAL-TIME HEALTHCARE FRAUD DETECTION - A healthcare fraud management system is configured to store multiple rules for detecting healthcare fraud, receive a healthcare claim involving a provider and a beneficiary, and obtain other healthcare fraud information associated with the provider or the beneficiary. The healthcare fraud management system is further configured to select rules, from the multiple rules, based on information associated with the claim, information associated with the provider or the beneficiary, and the other healthcare fraud information. The healthcare fraud management system is also configured to process the healthcare claim using the selected rules to generate a fraud score, and output, prior to payment of the healthcare claim, information regarding the fraud score to a clearinghouse or a claims processor to assist the clearinghouse or the claims processor in determining whether to accept, deny, or review the healthcare claim. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006656 | CASE MANAGEMENT OF HEALTHCARE FRAUD DETECTION INFORMATION - A healthcare fraud management system receives healthcare claims associated with a particular entity, selects rules, from a plurality of rules for detecting healthcare fraud, based on information associated with the healthcare claims, and processes the healthcare claims using the selected rules to generate alarms. The healthcare fraud management system prioritizes, based on the generated alarms, healthcare information associated with the particular entity in relation to healthcare information associated with other entities. The healthcare fraud management system provides for display, prior to payment of the healthcare claims, the prioritized healthcare information associated with the particular entity and the other entities. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006657 | REPORTING AND ANALYTICS FOR HEALTHCARE FRAUD DETECTION INFORMATION - A healthcare fraud management system receives healthcare claims information associated with a particular entity, and receives historical healthcare information associated with the particular entity. The healthcare fraud management system also performs data mining techniques on the historical healthcare information to produce data mining information associated with the particular entity. The healthcare fraud management system generates reports, associated with the particular entity, based on the healthcare claims information, the historical healthcare information, and the data mining information, and outputs the generated reports to a clearinghouse or a claims processor. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006658 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE MONITORING SERVICES - Users can use a portal for remote monitoring of clinical trials and the sites, personnel, and patients involved. A scheduling function allows users to schedule access. Site sponsors can run productivity reports. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006659 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE PHYSICAL THERAPY - The present invention generally relates to remote physical therapy applications. In particular, the system and methods herein described relate to the provision of remote physical therapy services over one or more networks whereby a patient can receive physical therapy services from one or more physical therapy service providers without requiring the patient to visit a particular physical location. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006660 | PERSONALIZED HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Personalized healthcare management system. The personalized integrated healthcare anti-counterfeit management system provides pack authentication, user ( | 2013-01-03 |
20130006661 | CUSTOMIZED PATIENT SURGICAL PLAN - Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed which generate surgical plans that have been customized for a particular patient. A client generates a surgical plan request that includes data relevant to a patient and an orthopaedic surgical procedure to be performed upon the patient. The surgical plan system receives the surgical plan request, generates a surgical plan that has been customized based upon the data of the surgical plan request, and transmits the customized surgical plan to the client. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006662 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR UTILIZING PREDICTION MODELS IN HEALTHCARE - A method for providing decision support includes using a programmed computer to input a regression model specification, and to repeat the input a plurality of times to obtain and store a plurality of regression model specifications. The method further includes using the programmed computer to analyze selected regression model specifications to determine at least one of common variables and functions of common variables, to thereby determine a reduced-redundancy request for input of variables, when a plurality of the stored regression model specifications are selected for use. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006663 | LOCATION-BASED SERVICES FOR PATIENTS - Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for providing at least one message to a patient. In one embodiment, healthcare data may indicate (and/or be used to identify) a patient that has had a prescription filled by a care provider. Messaging to the patient's mobile device can then be provided based on the mobile device's location with regard to the care provider's location. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006664 | Data Change Tracking and Event Notification - The described implementations relate to updating views in a database system. One implementation can identify an active view that retrieves records from a database and determine one or more physical tables in the database that are referenced by the active view. The implementation can track one or more columns in the physical tables that are used by the active view and identify a change to the physical tables in a transaction log of the database. If the change does not affect the one or more columns, the change can be treated as an ignorable change for the active view. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006665 | REMOTE DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IN REAL-TIME - The present disclosure provides a dynamic data management system and a method of using said system to locate, obtain, analyze, and report desired patient information in real-time. The data management system generally comprises an order in the form of a query that requests information regarding a specific patient or group of patients that resides on an electronics records server; a data collection and conversion system (DCCS), and a business intelligence engine in communication with the DCCS. The DCCS is capable of transporting the information from the electronic records server and creating a document that includes XML data, while the business intelligence engine is capable of breaking down the XML data to form at least one de-normalized fact table that can be used to report the desired information in real-time. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006666 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT PATIENT INTERFACE DEVICE - A system for use with one or more sources of patient-affiliated data corresponding with a group of patients. The system may contain a plurality of patient interface devices for interfacing with the group of patients. Each patient interface device may store a database that includes information related to each patient of the group of patients. Each patient interface device may be operable to generate a patient-specific guidance data set that may be used by the patient interface device to interface with a patient of the group of patients. The plurality of patient interface devices may be communicatively coupled to patient-affiliated data and a therapy database via a patient interface device gateway. The patient-specific guidance data sets may be automatically updated. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006667 | MOBILE INTERFACE FOR INTEGRATED MEDICAL SOFTWARE SYSTEM - The present invention allows a physician to interact with an integrated medical software system, using a handheld device such as an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. A physician can log on using the handheld device and access the system to view and edit data. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006668 | PREDICTIVE MODELING PROCESSES FOR HEALTHCARE FRAUD DETECTION - A healthcare fraud management system receives healthcare claims, performs data reduction on information associated with the healthcare claims, and processes the reduced information associated with the healthcare claims by using a plurality of rules. The system also generates alarms, for the healthcare claims, based on the processing of the reduced information associated with the healthcare claims, generates scores for the alarms based on one or more predictive modeling rules, and prioritizes the healthcare claims, to create a list of prioritized healthcare claims, based on the generated scores for the alarms corresponding to the healthcare claims. The system further outputs, prior to payment of the healthcare claims, the list of the prioritized healthcare claims to a clearinghouse or a claims processor to assist the clearinghouse or the claims processor in determining whether to accept, deny, or review the healthcare claims. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006669 | Diagnosis Support System, Method and Program - A constitution information obtainment unit obtains constitution information about a patient to be diagnosed including at least one of genetic information and allergy information about the patient. A comparison constitution information obtainment unit obtains, as comparison constitution information, constitution information about plural patients to be compared. A similar constitution information extraction unit calculates, with respect to the comparison constitution information about the plural patients to be compared, degrees of similarity to the constitution information about the patient to be diagnosed, respectively, and extracts, as similar constitution information, the comparison constitution information the calculated degree of similarity of which satisfies a predetermined threshold condition. A reference information extraction unit extracts, with respect to each extracted similar constitution information, a drug administered to the patient corresponding to the comparison constitution information and drug administration information when the drug was administered to the patient corresponding to the comparison condition information, as reference information. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006670 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LONGITUDINAL CONTINUITY OF CARE - Health-care organizations are given access to clinical details about a patient captured from one or more encounters at one or more sites. The details are searched in a data warehouse, using a master person identifier identifying the patient. The details are then aggregated into a dynamic and interactive record. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006671 | Clinical Monitoring Device With Time Shifting Capability - The present invention is designed to develop research protocols for clinical trials. The invention can track and enhance subject compliance with a research protocol. The invention further provides evaluability data related to subject performance in the clinical trial. According to an alternative embodiment of the invention, a portable electronic device is used to query and collect data from the subject. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006672 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR GROUPING MEDICAL CLAIMS INTO EPISODE TREATMENT GROUPS - A computer-implemented method for profiling medical claims to assist health care managers in determining the cost-efficiency and service quality of health care providers. The method allows an objective means for measuring and quantifying health care services. An episode treatment group (ETG) is a patient classification unit, which defines groups that are clinically homogenous (similar cause of illness and treatment) and statistically stable. The ETG grouper methodology uses service or segment-level claim data as input data and assigns each service to the appropriate episode. The program identifies concurrent and recurrent episodes, flags records, creates new groupings, shills groupings for changed conditions, selects the most recent claims, resets windows, makes a determination if the provider is an independent lab and continues to collect information until an absence of treatment is detected. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006673 | Consolidating Billing Statements in an Agency Business Model - A customer-focused, web-based computer system and methods may put the agency and the agency/broker code's perspective into billing, collections, and cash application processes. The system and methods may also allow a carrier to manage relationships with agents while including linkage to policy documents, a consolidated agency/broker code bill and commission presentment, online account reconciliation, and automated payment application. Furthermore, the methods may provide an agent user with access to data and functions that allow the system to consolidate an agency's multiple agency/broker code invoices into a single invoice for the entire agency or multiple groupings that align with the agency's accounting needs. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006674 | Systems and Methods Using a Mobile Device to Collect Data for Insurance Premiums - A system and method for determining a vehicle insurance premium for a period of time based at least in part on collected vehicle operation data, the system comprising: a mobile device, comprising: one or more sensors associated with the mobile device and configured to automatically collect vehicle operation data during a data collection session; a processor; a non-transitory storage medium; a display; a transmitter; and a set of computer readable instructions stored in the non-transitory storage medium and when executed by the processor configured to allow the mobile device to collect vehicle operation data and transmit the collected vehicle operation data; and a remote processing computer, comprising: a server that receives collected vehicle operation data; a database that stores collected vehicle operation data; and a rating engine that determines a vehicle insurance premium based at least in part on collected vehicle operation data. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006675 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING A MOBILE DEVICE TO COLLECT DATA FOR INSURANCE PREMIUMS - A system and method for determining a vehicle insurance premium for a period of time based at least in part on collected vehicle operation data, the system comprising: a mobile device, comprising: one or more sensors associated with the mobile device and configured to automatically collect vehicle operation data during a data collection session; a processor; a non-transitory storage medium; a display; a transmitter; and a set of computer readable instructions stored in the non-transitory storage medium and when executed by the processor configured to allow the mobile device to collect vehicle operation data and transmit the collected vehicle operation data; and a remote processing computer, comprising: a server that receives collected vehicle operation data; a database that stores collected vehicle operation data; and a rating engine that determines a vehicle insurance premium based at least in part on collected vehicle operation data. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006676 | SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING INSURANCE FOR A BUILDING STRUCTURE THROUGH THE INCORPORATION OF SELECTED TECHNOLOGIES - A method and computerized system is disclosed for managing the underwriting, quoting and binding an insurance policy with regard to the technology used to militate against the financial consequences of property losses. The invention utilizes a classifier for categorizing and weighing risk, composed of data representing in an identified building, a first unmitigated insurance risk and a second insurance risk, based upon the use of certain technology. A plurality of such weights are summed such that the weights generate a minimized risk for a building structure under consideration. Combinations of technologies employed in building structures are mapped to classifications, which then permits an underwriter to establish a premium. In another aspect of the invention, data structures representing the quantification of risk reduction attendant a given technology or product are chained into a plurality of decision trees that process a construction phase and a pruning phase. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006677 | RECHARGING OF BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLES ON A SMART ELECTRICAL GRID SYSTEM - Some example embodiments include a method for recharging a number of battery electric vehicles. The method include receiving (by a control module configured to control an electrical grid system that include a number of recharging stations that are configured to recharge the number of battery electric vehicles and from the number of battery electric vehicles) usage data that comprises a current charge level, a current location, and a planned itinerary that includes a destination. The method includes determining anticipated electrical loads in the number of sectors of the electrical grid system based on the usage data of the number of battery electric vehicles. The method also includes redistributing the electrical supply on the electrical grid system to at least one recharging station of the number of recharging stations based on the anticipated electrical loads, prior to actual usage defined by the usage data by the number of battery electrical vehicles. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006678 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING HUMAN-SPECIFIED ACTIVITIES - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for identifying user activities. The system collects activity descriptions from a plurality of users, wherein a respective user is allowed to add, remove, or vote for at least one feature associated with the activity from a predetermined viewpoint. The system then identifies a user activity as a typed, stateful, and instantiated entity by detecting one or more features associated with at least one of: a type, state, and instance, of the entity. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006679 | MANAGING AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM - According to one example, there is provided a method of managing an information technology (IT) system that comprising items of IT equipment. The method comprises obtaining a set of characteristics from items of IT equipment in the IT system, generating, using the obtained sets of characteristics, a consolidated set of characteristics representing at least part of the IT system, identifying, based on the generated consolidated set of characteristics, an item of IT equipment to be replaced, determining a set of minimum characteristics for a replacement item to replace the identified item; and selecting, from an IT equipment database, based on the determined characteristics, a replacement item of IT equipment. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006680 | Evaluating Computing Resources Utilization in Accordance with Computing Environment Entitlement Contracts - Mechanisms are provided for managing computing resources relative to a computing environment entitlement contract. These mechanisms generate one or more computing environment entitlement contract (CEEC) data structures, each CEEC data structure defining terms of a business level agreement between a contracting party and a provider of the data processing system. A CEEC cohort is generated comprising a collection of CEECs having similar terms. Utilization of a collection of computing resources in accordance with the similar terms of the collection of CEECs is monitored to identify a usage trend within the CEEC cohort. A relative measure of resource utilization under each CEEC in the CEEC cohort based on the collected resource utilization metrics is calculated and reported. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006681 | HUMAN RESOURCE ANALYTICS WITH PROFILE DATA - A method, computer program product, and system for human resource analytics using profile data is described. The method includes receiving historical project data, wherein the historical project data includes at least one profile of at least one historical project team member. Psychometric data associated with the at least one historical project team member is received. Updated historical project data is generated, in which, at least in part, psychometric data associated with the at least one historical project team member is added to the at least one profile included in the historical project data. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006682 | REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE MEASUREMENT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE - Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable media for facilitating measurement of organizational culture in real time. In embodiments, an organization culture measurement system may facilitate culture measurement through receipt and comparison of various actions performed by persons associated with the organization. The organization culture measurement system may provide a networking and interaction interface for users within an organization to interact with each other. User actions in the networking and interaction interface may be received by the organization culture measurement system and used to associate one or more cultural classifications and/or signifiers with users. Cultural classifications and/or signifiers associated with users may be used to measure organizational culture on a wider level and incentivize desired cultural traits. Aggregation of classification of users of the networking and interaction interface may allow the organization, as well as external stakeholders, to see high-level measurement of the culture of those using the interface. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006683 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING TESTING FOR A HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS TRANSITION - Systems and a methods for managing a health care systems transition are described. Transitions can include a migration from Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) 4010 standards set to the HIPAA EDI 5010 standards set. An example implementation describes selecting at least two test-case scenarios for inclusion in a test-case that models a healthcare systems transition, linking said scenarios, identifying test data associated with the test-case and, finally, generating an EDI file based on these scenarios and data. Additional embodiments disclosed include inferring one or more scenarios from an EDI file and importing the scenarios thereby. Some embodiments additionally disclose the creation of a correlation database and identifying data instances for inclusion in the test-case thereby. Finally, in some embodiments, scenarios and data associated with a test-case can be predefined. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006684 | ENGINE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING BUSINESS VALUATION AND DATABASE SERVICES USING ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT ARRANGEMENTS - A computer-implemented engine, system and method for generating business valuations, scoring, and/or flagging over a network, responsively to information input by a user remote from the engine, system and method. The invention may include a graphical user interface capable of locally querying a user to input the company information, at least one network port capable of remotely receiving the company information from the graphical user interface, and at least one engine communicatively connected to the at least one network port, which engine preferably includes a plurality of rules to generate, responsively to the input company information, at least one of a business valuation, a business score, and/or one or more business flags to be used as indicators in a network marketplace, for the company associated with the inputted company information. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006685 | HUMAN RESOURCE ANALYTICS WITH PROFILE DATA - A method, computer program product, and system for human resource analytics using profile data is described. The method includes receiving historical project data, wherein the historical project data includes at least one profile of at least one historical project team member. Psychometric data associated with the at least one historical project team member is received. Updated historical project data is generated, in which, at least in part, psychometric data associated with the at least one historical project team member is added to the at least one profile included in the historical project data. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006686 | Managing Organizational Computing Resources in Accordance with Computing Environment Entitlement Contracts - Mechanisms are provided for managing a use of the computing resources. A computing environment entitlement contract (CEEC) manager is provided that generates CEECs, where each CEEC comprises a plurality of terms specifying a set of computing resources having a specified configuration that are to be used by a contracting party for a specified purpose at a specified level and pattern of intensity for a specified period of time. A cohort and profile manager is provided that generates one or more cohort profiles that specify common characteristics of members of the cohort. Cohort management services are provided that define a computing resource cohort representing a group of computing resources based on one or more profiles generated by the cohort and profile manager. A database system is provided for storing data corresponding to the plurality of computing resources, the one or more CEECs, and associations of computing resources with CEECs. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006687 | CREATING A SUB-STORY FOR A PROJECT STORY BOARD - Systems and methods provide for hosting one or more server computers comprising a project management software. The project management software may comprise a first story board comprising one or more stories for a first team. The first story board may be controlled by one or more first story board control panels. The project management software may also comprise a second story board comprising one or more stories for a second team. A sub-story may be created using the one or more first story board control panels. In one embodiment, this sub-story may be inserted into a backlog list for the second story board and an alert may be displayed on the second story board requesting the second team to implement the sub-story from the backlog list into the second story board. In another embodiment, the stories on the second story board may be about, but not used by, a second team. The first team may be responsible for updating the one or more stories to move the one or more stories, including the sub-story, through the second story board. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006688 | CREATING A 3RD PARTY TEAM PROJECT STORY BOARD - Systems and methods provide for hosting one or more server computers comprising a project management software. The project management software may comprise a first story board comprising one or more stories for a first team. The first story board may be controlled by one or more first story board control panels. The project management software may also comprise a second story board comprising one or more stories for a second team. A sub-story may be created using the one or more first story board control panels. In one embodiment, this sub-story may be inserted into a backlog list for the second story board and an alert may be displayed on the second story board requesting the second team to implement the sub-story from the backlog list into the second story board. In another embodiment, the stories on the second story board may be about, but not used by, a second team. The first team may be responsible for updating the one or more stories to move the one or more stories, including the sub-story, through the second story board. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006689 | METHODS, SOFTWARE, AND SYSTEMS FOR MAINTAINING A SINGLE HIERARCHY OF TASKS ACROSS MULTIPLE PROJECTS AND/OR MULTIPLE TASK MANAGEMENT TOOLS - Schemes providing master list functionality that allows a user to reorder to-do items from across multiple projects and/or multiple project management tools. Such schemes can ensure that whatever project management tools the user and others associated with the various projects are using at any time, changes in their task planning will be reflected both in the master list and across all other projects and project management tools, as needed. The necessary hierarchy is maintained by creating an absolute order between different projects and reflecting changes in task order in both directions. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006690 | Keeping Working Hours and Calendar Entries Up-to-Date - Techniques are disclosed for keeping calendars up-to-date, whereby a person's working hours, events, and actual availability are accurately reflected. In response to user-generated input and/or application-generated input, working hours can be updated and calendar events can be added to, deleted from, or changed on the user's calendar. This makes it easy for users to keep calendars (including working hours) up-to-date and helps both people and applications that use calendar data. Profiles are preferably used to specify working hours, and a particular user may have one or more profiles available (including a default profile); the user can then easily select from among these profiles to update the working hours for a date/day, or a range of dates/days. Preferences may be associated with the profiles, providing a convenient way of isolating information that applies only to a particular set of working hours. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006691 | Scheduling and payment systems and methods - The present systems and/or methods generally facilitate scheduling and/or payment of a service provider. In one embodiment, the scheduling system is integrated with a payment system and configured for use with childcare providers and childcare requestors (i.e., parents). In this embodiment the providers upload their schedules onto an online database via a website. The parents may then browse the available providers for a specific time and date at which the parents desire childcare services. The parents may select a specific time and date to create a booking request, which the website may then forward to the childcare provider. The childcare provider may accept the booking request, and the parent is notified of same. The parent may be billed for the services through the website and the childcare providers may be paid through the website so that no funds are exchanged directly between parents and childcare providers. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006692 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL TIME TRANSFORMATION OF RETAIL BANK BRANCH OPERATIONS - Methods and arrangements for generating process recommendations. Customer information is assimilated, the customer information including a number of present customers. An efficiency matrix is assimilated, which indicates efficiency for each of a plurality of actual resources with respect to each of a plurality of services. At least one hypothetical resource is created, which incorporates a best efficiency from among the actual resources with respect to each of the plurality of services, and a scheduling policy is assimilated. A customer queue is generated with respect to each hypothetical resource and in accordance with the at least one scheduling policy. Each hypothetical resource is mapped to each actual resource and a minimum parameter increase from among pairs comprising a hypothetical resource and an actual resource is determined. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006693 | Planning a Meeting or Event - A technique for assisting one or more individuals in planning a meeting or event using metrics. It has been determined that a core job of planning a meeting or event can entail 15 different steps (with possibly 5 additional sub-steps) and have 141 different outcomes. The outcomes enable the job executors (which, in this paper, are the persons executing the job of planning the meeting or event, also referred to herein as the “planners”) to judge if the meeting or event has been adequately planned and executed. The techniques described in this paper enable a system and method to satisfy the outcomes (customer needs) for the job of planning a meeting or event. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006694 | DETERMINATION OF EARNED VALUES OF PROGRESS OF A PROJECT - A system and method for determining earned values (EVs) of progress of a project. At least one EV calculation rule is defined for calculating EVs in terms of components to be combined into the EVs, locations in which the components are located, and formulae required to combine the components. The defined at least one EV calculation rule is used to calculate the Evs. The at least one EV calculation rule, which includes the components, the locations, and the formulae, is stored. Defining the at least one EV calculation rule includes:
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20130006695 | AUTOMATED SETUP OF PRESENTATION EVENT AGENDA AND LOGISTICS - An artifact repository can be queried for a set of different pre-existing presentation artifacts based on requirements and constraints of a presentation event to produce a query result. The query result can comprise a set of presentation artifacts suitable for satisfying at least a portion of the requirements and constraints. The querying can match the artifact specific metadata against the requirements and constraints to produce the query result. An agenda comprising a set of different agenda items can be automatically constructed utilizing the query result. Each of the different agenda items can occupy a time slot of the presentation event. Creation of agenda items can be a non-manual effort automatically determined by a computing device in a data driven manner given the requirements, the constraints, and the pre-existing presentation artifacts of the artifact repository. Resources for the different agenda items can be automatically booked. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006696 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN EXTENSIBLE WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT - A workflow management system provides a GUI Configurability tool that allows an end user to configure the system's workflow screens, workflow logic and data fields without the need to rewrite any programs. The system allows each workflow screen to represent and assist each individual task within a business process that may be defined and illustrated by a flowchart. The workflow screens work in conjunction with workflow logic to create an accurate one-to-one mapping of the individual tasks and decision logic within a business process flowchart. The system provides published interfaces that allow the use of third party hardware and software within workflows. The system also provides published interfaces to integrate extensible code that perform custom functions within the system. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006697 | USING PRIME NUMBERS AND PRIME NUMBER FACTORIZATION TO TRACK ARTICLES THROUGH TRANSIT POINTS IN A SUPPLY CHAIN - Provided are a computer program product, system and method for using prime numbers and prime number factorization to track articles through transit points in a supply chain. A list associates prime numbers with transit points through which the article passes. A determination is made from the list of prime numbers associated with the transit points through which the article has passed. A function is performed on the determined prime numbers to determine a composite value. An association is generated of the composite value with the article. The composite value associated with the article is used to determine at least one of the transit points through which the article has passed. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006698 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING PROCESS FLOW - An apparatus and method for producing a workflow specification of a business process. The method includes receiving a process flow model of the business process at a computing device, receiving documents corresponding to the business process at a computing device, generating a set of logical formulae representing the control of the process flow model using a computing device, and applying a set of rules representing execution dependencies of activities in the business process to generate a workflow specification of the business process using a computing device. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006699 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING END-TO-END RESPONSE TIMES DISTRIBUTION ACROSS COMPONENTS IN A PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING PROCESS - The disclosed embodiment relates to a method for optimizing end-to-end response times distribution across a plurality of components in a performance engineering process. The method preferably comprises determining first, second, and third end-to-end response times for a plurality of components in the process, and determining an optimal end-to-end response time for the components in the process, wherein the optimal end-to-end response time distribution is based on an average of the first end-to-end response time, the second end-to-end response time, and the third end-to-end response time for each component. The disclosed embodiment also relates to a system and computer-readable code that can be used to implement the exemplary methods. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006700 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATING CUSTOMER-VALIDATED STATEMENT OF WORK FOR A DATA STORAGE ENVIRONMENT - Computer systems and methods are disclosed for improving professional services delivery, such as services in a data management environment. In certain examples, computer systems comprise portals for transmitting and receiving information from parties involved in the performance and receipt of professional services. For instance, a first portal can receive data (e.g., from sales personnel) descriptive of a customer's product environment. A manager module populates a record with the data, and a second portal provides the customer with access to the record for review, correction and/or validation prior to the generation of a Statement of Work or other like project description. The second portal can also request additional information from the customer regarding the product environment. The manager module compares the data received through the first portal with the customer-entered information to identify and/or address discrepancies between the sets of data and customize the generation of the Statement of Work. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006701 | ASSESSING AND MANAGING RISKS OF SERVICE RELATED CHANGES BASED ON DYNAMIC CONTEXT INFORMATION - A method of assessing and mitigating a risk of a proposed change includes entering a category of the change, filtering risk assessment questions based on the entered category of the proposed change, determining an initial risk based on a dynamic change context, determining at least one high risk factor that is associated with the initial risk, filtering mitigation risk questions based on the at least one high risk factors, and re-determining the risk from mitigation answers to the filtered mitigation risk questions. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006702 | SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING AND MANAGING RISK MANAGEMENT FILE AND SAFETY ASSURANCE CASE DATA - An electronic intermediary electronically connects with a medical device manufacturer and regulatory agencies, collects and processes electronically product life cycle safely related events and information from a medical device manufacturer. The electronic intermediary processes the information collected electronically, integrates, generates, maintains, presents and distributes the risk management file and safely assurance case through the product life cycle using, linking, and connecting the collected and processed data. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006703 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MARKETABILITY ASSESSMENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a processor operable to determine whether a correlation exists between first products or services consumed by a subscriber leader and second products or services consumed by a plurality of subscriber followers. The first and second products or services can be distributed by a media service provider over a communication system and can be consumed by way of one or more media processors. The processor can be further operable to identify a plurality of market sector classifications for each of the second products or services consumed, to assess a plurality of values of consumption for the plurality of market sector classifications, and to determine a plurality of marketable values for the subscriber leader. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006704 | Method and System For Creating Customer Profiles - A system for creating a customer profile includes at t one computer system configured to retrieve first business information regarding a customer from at least one first database including data regarding machine transactions. The at least one computer system is further configured to retrieve second business information regarding the customer from at least one second database including data regarding construction projects, retrieve third business information regarding the customer from at least one third database including data regarding fleet composition, and create a profile of the customer based on the retrieved first, second, and third business information. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006705 | Small business intelligence tool - Aspects of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for electronically displaying an indication of customer spending associated with a pre-determined business location. The method includes using a receiver to receive an electronic request. The request authorizes retrieval of customer spend information associated with the location. The customer spend information may be based on customer credit, debit and/or check transactions. The customer spend information includes a plurality of customer spend data points. The method further includes using the receiver to receive an electronic selection of a limitation of the distance from the pre-determined business location. The limitation may limit the retrieval of customer spend information to a radius corresponding to the limitation. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006706 | USING CONSUMER PURCHASE BEHAVIOR FOR TELEVISION TARGETING - In various embodiments, strategies, tools and techniques are provided for using consumer purchaser behavior for targeting delivery of content to consumers through television and other media. An advertising measurement system, which may be accessible through a software-as-a-service model or a client-downloaded computer program, may be used to process and analyze data. The system may be configured to receive and process household media exposure data, product purchase data, advertising data, program data, and demographic data, wherein the data may be obtained from various sources, including from a program delivery source (e.g., a television set-top box) located in a household of a consumer. Data may be collected from a variety of people identification tools for analyzing the identities of one or more people viewing content delivered on a program delivery source. Data may also be collected from various types of metering devices. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006707 | CRM APPLICATION FOR ANALYSING AND GENERATING ACTIONABLE REPORTS BASED ON ACTIVITY OF USERS ON A PRODUCT PORTAL - A computer implemented method of analyzing and generating actionable reports based on activity of users on a product portal using a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application is provided. The product portal includes multimedia files demonstrating features of a product that are stored in a database ( | 2013-01-03 |
20130006708 | METHOD, MANAGEMENT SERVER AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR MANAGING A CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP - Disclosed herein is a method for managing customer relationship through multiplex-assigning password of access point. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method for managing a customer relationship by a customer management server includes: receiving customer terminal information including customer terminal identification information and customer group identification information within a shop being transmitted by accessing the access points of a plurality of customer terminals; and setting the plurality of accessed customer terminals as the same group in customer groups within the same shop based on the received customer group identification information within a shop and storing the set group in customer information corresponding to the customer terminals included in the group as customer social information. | 2013-01-03 |
20130006709 | TECHNIQUES FOR LEVERAGING PLAYER'S SOCIAL INFLUENCE AND MARKETING POTENTIAL IN GAMING ENVIRONMENTS - Various aspects described or referenced herein are directed to different methods, systems, and computer program products for leveraging player's social marketing potential in gaming environments. In one embodiment, a gaming system may be configured or designed to provide functionality for automatically and/or dynamically determining Player Social Marketing Potential (PSMP) Score(s) for one or more identified user(s)/player(s) based upon selected information, criteria, considerations and/or objectives. The gaming system may also be configured or designed to facilitate and/or enable the influencing of outcomes of selected game-related activities, events, and/or situations using the respective PSMP Score(s) of one or more user(s)/player(s). | 2013-01-03 |
20130006710 | TARGETED CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system, method, and computer-readable medium, is described that provides a probability of deletion (or renewal rate) prediction for a domain name based on a historical model of expired and renewed domain names. Domain name attribute sets are defined using domain attribute/value combinations. These sets are used to classify past expired and renewed domain names into each of the applicable sets where the domain attribute and values match the expired or renewed domain names. The percentage of renewed domain names in a set is used to predict the likelihood that a user will renew a domain name set to expire in a defined window and that matches the attribute/value combinations that make up the domain attribute set. This predicted percentage is used to target domains and deliver marketing offers to the domain contacts. | 2013-01-03 |