| 05th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 65 |
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| 20100030502 | STRAY FLUX PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method of and system for processing stray flux data associated with a synchronous electrical machine; the method comprising capturing stray flux data from the synchronous electrical machine; generating a stray flux waveform using at least the captured stray flux data; analysing the generated stray flux waveform and the captured stray flux data; and storing the generated stray flux waveform and the captured stray flux data in a database. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030503 | SYSTEM AND CIRCUIT FOR DETERMINING DATA SIGNAL JITTER VIA ASYNCHRONOUS SAMPLING - A system and circuit for determining data signal jitter via asynchronous sampling provides a low cost and production-integrable mechanism for measuring data signal jitter. The data signal is edge-detected and sampled by a sampling clock of unrelated frequency the sampled values are collected in a histogram according to a folding of the samples around a timebase. The timebase is determined by sweeping to detect a minimum jitter for the folded data. The histogram for the correct estimated timebase period is representative of the probability density function of the location of data signal edges and the jitter characteristics are determined by the width and shape of the density function peaks. Frequency drift can be corrected by adjusting the timebase used to fold the data across the sample set. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030504 | DATA MEASUREMENT METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Methods are described for measuring data in a test setup including an impedance tuner. In an exemplary embodiment, the data is data for measuring noise parameters. The data is measured versus a sweep parameter for one tuner state at a time. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030505 | Remote Diagnostics for Electronic Whiteboard - A method and apparatus for diagnosing causes of a malfunction of an electronic whiteboard that includes a white-board surface, a position sensor for sensing surface activity and generating at least one of X and Y coordinates associated with the surface activity and a local computer that runs board software to convert the at least one of X and Y coordinates into operational commands, the method comprising the steps of linking a remote computer that includes a remote display to the electronic whiteboard from a remote location, interacting with the whiteboard surface to generate X and Y coordinates associated with surface activity, transmitting at least one of the X and Y coordinates associated with the surface activity to the remote computer, displaying at least a subset of the at least one of X and Y coordinates via the remote display and examining the at least a subset of the at least one of X and Y coordinates via the remote display to ascertain the cause of a board malfunction. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030506 | CORRECTION OF NON-UNIFORMITY OF RESPONSE IN SENSOR ARRAYS - A microbolometer comprises an array of sensor elements or ‘pixels’ each individually responsive to generate an output indicative of the intensity of infrared radiation incident thereupon. In practice there are significant non-uniformities in the response of each pixel and further processing of the outputs must take place to generate an accurate image. These non-uniformities are dealt with by means of individual correction factors to be applied to the outputs of each pixel in the image. Commonly, the correction used provides a constant offset (1pt) and a linear gain correction (2pt). As the optimal values of these corrections drifts over time it is still necessary to provide further correction. In the present invention this is achieved by calculating one or more common scalar correction parameters that when applied to all of the individual correction factors before they are used to correct the output of the sensor elements will minimise the differences between the corrected outputs of adjacent sensor elements in the array when summed over a particular selection of sensor elements in the array. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030507 | DYNAMIC DETERMINATION OF A MINIMAL CONFIGURED PRODUCT TO ACHIEVE DESIRED TEST COVERAGE - The present disclosure is directed to a method for determining dynamic test coverage for a product. The method may comprise: receiving a customer order, the customer order comprising at least one product configuration; receiving a rule set associated with the at least one product configuration; analyzing the rule set to determine a proxy part to add to the at least one product configuration; providing the proxy part an indicator; adding the proxy part to the at least one product configuration; iteratively comparing the product configuration to the rule set until the product configuration meets the rule set; providing a test associated with the at least one product configuration; receiving at least one signal from at least one indicator; and removing at least one proxy part from the at least one product configuration. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030508 | PIN ELECTRONICS CIRCUIT, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE TEST EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEM - A main driver and a sub-driver control circuit are provided respectively to receive a test pattern signal for testing a device. The main driver drives the test pattern signal to output a first driven signal. The sub-driver control circuit modifies the test pattern signal to output a modified pattern signal. The modified pattern signal is provided to a sub-driver. The first sub-driver drives the modified pattern signal to output a second driven signal. The first and the second driven signals are combined. The combined signal is provided to a terminal of the device as a test signal. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030509 | Synchronizing a Loop Performed by a Measurement Device with a Measurement and Control Loop Performed by a Processor of a Host Computer - Various embodiments of a system and method for performing a measurement application are described herein. The system may include a host computer having a processor, and a measurement device having a programmable hardware element. The programmable hardware element may be configured to perform a loop to acquire measurement data from a physical system. The host computer may be configured to perform another loop to read the measurement data from the programmable hardware element and use the measurement data in a measurement and control algorithm. The host computer may be further configured to perform a synchronization algorithm to keep the measurement data acquisition loop performed by the programmable hardware element synchronized with the measurement and control loop performed by the host computer. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030510 | Method for determining the temperature of an electrical component with the aid of a temperature model - A method for determining the temperature or the ohmic resistance of an electrical component, especially of a coil of a magnetic valve. The component temperature is estimated with the aid of a temperature model, which is able to determine the curve of the component temperature even during a control of the valve. The temperature model is corrected regularly based on the measured value, in this context. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030511 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A SPEED OF AN OBJECT - A device for determining a speed of an object, having a receiver for receiving a pulse, having a characteristic signal sequence, which is emitted or reflected from an object; a signal processing device for providing transformed signal sequences for various speeds, the signal sequences being determined from the characteristic signal sequence by transforming the time axis of the signal sequence according to a Doppler shift for the speed; and a data processing device for determining the speed of the object based on a correlation of the received pulse with the transformed signal sequences. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030512 | DETERMINATION AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OF SENSED VEHICLE DATA FOR COMPUTING VEHICLE SPEED - The present invention is a system for determining vehicle speed. The system has a sensor mounted on a wheel rotatably mounted on the vehicle for sensing centripetal acceleration of said wheel. The sensor generates a signal indicative of the sensed centripetal acceleration, and is arranged to wirelessly transmit the signal. The system additionally has an electronic control unit mounted on the vehicle. The electronic control unit is arranged to receive the signal and determine the speed of the vehicle based on the sensed centripetal acceleration. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030513 | Method for Disposing Power/Ground Plane of PCB - A method for disposing power planes and ground planes of a printed circuit board (PCB), said method comprising the steps of: providing a PCB on which is disposed with a geometric layout and a via hole; providing a line on said PCB for intersecting said geometric layout to form a plurality of points of intersection; defining line segments by segmenting said line at each of said points of intersection to form a plurality of line segments; deleting some of said line segments having one end not being point of intersection for said geometric layout to form a plurality of segmented regions; searching a closed region by repeatedly searching region from any one of the points in said plurality of segmented regions; determining whether a closed region is a smallest closed region; determining whether a via hole is located within said smallest closed region. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030514 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE OUTLET CROSS-SECTION OF A COMPONENT OF A GAS TURBINE - A method for determining the outlet cross-section of a component including one or more turbine blades, in particular of a turbine blade twin, of a gas turbine, in which at least one closed outlet cross-section is measured between the turbine blades, and/or respective open outlet cross-sections are measured on the side of the at least one turbine blade, using a measurement device, wherein in order to determine the corresponding outlet cross-section its respective bounding walls are traversed by the measurement device along a measurement line. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030515 | OPTICAL INSTRUMENT AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING DISTANCE AND IMAGE INFORMATION - An optical instrument and a method for obtaining distance and image information of an object is disclosed to improve the speed and accuracy of data acquisition. The instrument comprises a camera, positioning unit, distance measuring unit, lens arrangement and control unit. The camera acquires images of an object and the control unit defines an area to be scanned as well as an object feature of the object, wherein measurement pixels corresponding to positions on the object may be defined in the area with an increased density of measurement pixels at the object feature. Subsequently, the distances to the object at the selected positions of interest are measured. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030516 | Delay variation analysis apparatus and delay variation calculation method - A method for analyzing a delay time distribution of an N-stage circuit. The method includes a delay time calculation step of calculating maximum deviation delay time of a signal propagating through the circuit and basic delay time of the circuit, a delay variation calculation step of calculating a delay variation value of the N-stage circuit by using the mean square of differences between the maximum deviation delay time of the circuit and the basic delay time of the circuit taken over the N stages, and a step of generating the delay time distribution of the N-stage circuit as a normal distribution by using the calculated delay variation value. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030517 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF A STATISTICAL MEASUREMENT VALUE - A method and a device for determining a statistical parameter for all frequencies of a frequency distribution of signal levels of a test signal registered respectively in several observation intervals counts the frequency of the signal level of the test signal measured in each case within the respective signal-level range and at the respective value of the time or frequency raster of the frequency distribution from new within every observation interval, and buffers it for display on a display device. After every observation interval, for every signal-level range and every value of the time or frequency raster of the frequency distribution, the respective statistical parameter from the respective, newly-buffered frequency and all respective frequencies measured and buffered at earlier observation intervals is determined and buffered. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030518 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING HISTOGRAM DENSITY ESTIMATORS - A method and system for determining histogram density estimators for data samples. A supremum and/or infimum of a likelihood function of histogram densities for each histogram shape in a generated set of all possible histogram shapes is determined. The supremum and/or infimum is a statistical estimate that maximizes and/or minimizes a likelihood function among a set of histogram density functions having a same histogram shape | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030519 | System for Real-Time Object Damage Detection and Evaluation - A method for determining a probability of damage by an object to be evaluated, including propagating a kinematic state of the object to be evaluated; determining a plurality of probabilities of damage; determining whether each probability of damage is feasible and creating a set of probabilities of feasible damage for each probability of damage; and determining the mean and variance of probability of feasible damage based on the set of probabilities of feasible damage. A system and apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030520 | System for Real-Time Object Detection and Interception - A system for determining a probability of interception by an interceptor of an object to be intercepted is disclosed herein. The system includes means for propagating a kinematic state of the object to be intercepted; means for determining a plurality of probabilities of intercept; means for determining whether an intercept is feasible and creating a set of probabilities of successful intercept for each probability of intercept; and means for determining the mean and variance of probability of successful intercept based on the set of probabilities of successful intercept. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030521 | Method for analyzing and classifying process data - Process data mining system and method. The system analyzes data from complex process plants or systems and operates in open-book and closed-book modes. In closed-book mode, the system monitors incoming data sets against pre-defined clusters of data values and generates reports, indicating whether incoming data is a match or a no-match with the pre-defined clusters. In open-book mode, the system generates initial clusters, without having a-priori knowledge of the component or process, and also creates clusters “on the fly”, thereby fine-tuning the analysis. A knowledge base encompasses a combination of parameters for a particular component. Clusters are defined within the knowledge base, each cluster representing a particular operating condition. The system expands clusters, within pre-defined limits, or creates new clusters, as needed, in order to accommodate incoming data values. Newly created clusters are then named, so as to indicate the particular operating conditions. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030522 | CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM WRITING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING DAC AMPLIFIER UNIT IN CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM WRITING APPARATUS - The charged particle beam writing apparatus includes a position deflection control circuit. First digital data that is to be used for circuit diagnosis is transmitted from the position deflection control circuit to the DAC amplifier unit at the same rate as a rate of writing on a product reticle and stored in a first maintenance memory. Second digital data is output from a digital section included in the DAC amplifier unit in response to the first digital data and stored in a second maintenance memory. A maintenance clock generator generates a clock signal and reads the first digital data stored in the first maintenance memory and the second digital data stored in the second maintenance memory. The first digital data thus read is compared with the second digital data thus read for each bit to diagnose the digital section. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030523 | PASSENGER CONVEYER ABNORMALITY DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM - In a passenger conveyer abnormality diagnosis system, sound data of escalator operating sound of a plurality of revolutions is collected by a moving sound collector provided for an inspection step and then processed into a data set for diagnosis with an accidental external noise component removed. The data set for diagnosis sent from a data transceiver through a communication network to a remote monitoring apparatus installed at a remote-located monitoring center. The remote monitoring apparatus diagnose the presence of abnormalities of the escalator based on the data set for diagnosis. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030524 | Automated benchmarking of software - Methods for automated benchmarking of views of one or more windows of an application. The methods analyzes content of a window to benchmark views in the window automatically once a target application and/or target window have been specified for benchmarking by a user. Benchmarking is performed without requiring the addition or modification of any code in the target application. Views of a window may be analyzed directly through the window or through a view list or view hierarchy associated with the window. In some embodiments, views of a window are benchmarked through the application that creates the window. In some embodiments, a window is benchmarked directly through a resource file that defines the window without use of an application. In some embodiments, the method benchmarks one or more commands of a data file. In some embodiments, one or more introspectable objects in a collection is automatically benchmarked. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030525 | GUI-FACILITATED CHANGE MANAGEMENT FOR VEHICLE ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONIC ARCHITECTURE DESIGN - Disclosed herein are computer aided design (CAD) techniques to implement a unified data schema and graphical user interface (GUI) to link ECU/devices, in-vehicle communications, and vehicle harness information together with respect to architectural relation, performance relation, and cost relation, and to facilitate a designer's understanding and manipulation of this information. The domain-specific information from each domain is converted to objects in this unified data schema and stored in a unified database that is accessible to every domain, so that the impact of the current state in the device domain can be accessed and analyzed by a designer from any domain. This approach enables design data sharing and real-time collaboration between different electrical/electronic (E/E) design domains, thereby facilitating the realization of design data collaboration, design change management, and product lifetime management (PLM) and product data management (PDM) implementation. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030526 | AXIAL BOLTED FLANGE DESIGN METHODS AND SYSTEMS - A method of designing an axial bolted flange joint includes the use of a common, controlled spreadsheet that includes part and assembly drawings, dimensions, equations, materials properties, and design limits and design criteria that generates alerts to the user during the design process. Drawings are updated by the spreadsheet as parameters are changed and are available as final drawings at any stage of the method. After the user achieves an acceptable preliminary design in the spreadsheet, the data from the spreadsheet and/or updated drawings are imported into a solids modeling program. A finite elements program imports data from the solids modeling program to perform a stress analysis. The data in the spreadsheet may be modified, if necessary, based upon the stress analysis results. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030527 | SYSTEM, PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND RELATED METHODS FOR BIT DESIGN OPTIMIZATION AND SELECTION - Systems, program product, and methods are provided which include analyzing the drillability of a subterranean formation and a database of performance characteristics for drilling bits to facilitate bit design optimization and selection for that formation. Using component subterranean formation data, computer models can be generated for the drillability of a target section in terms of physical, mechanical, and micro-structural properties, and for postulated suitable drilling bit performance characteristics based on physical, mechanical, and micro-structural properties of the target section. The drilling bit performance characteristics are then updated by quantifying effects of the drilling system to be employed. Each performance characteristic can be normalized and plotted on its own axis for easy comparison. Next, a candidate drilling bit design is selected from a library of computer models of drilling bit characteristics for a suite of drilling bit designs. An optimization of the drilling bit design may be also performed. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030528 | Method, Apparatus, and System for Determining Accurate Location Data Related to Underground Installations - A system for determining location data related to at least one underground installation includes a non-invasive underground structure detection system, at least one analyzer mechanism, and at least one computer. The non-invasive underground structure detection system is configured to scan a survey area and transmit a first data set at least partially representative of the survey area. The survey area includes at least one underground installation. The at least one analyzer mechanism is configured to measure at least one physical characteristic associated with the at least one underground installation and transmit a second data set at least partially representative of the at least one measured physical characteristic. The at least one computer receives the first transmitted data and the second transmitted data, and determines location data related to the at least one underground installation based at least in part on the first and second transmitted data sets. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030529 | SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND PROGRAM, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION DEVICE - A large-scale sound system or communication system is numerically and stably identified. When an input signal is represented by the M(≦N)-th order AR model, high-speed H | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030530 | METHOD OF SEARCHING FOR LIGAND - Disclosed is a method of searching for a ligand capable of binding to a target biomacromolecule, comprising the step of:
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| 20100030531 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING COLLISION BETWEEN TWO NUMERICALLY SIMULATED OBJECTS - In the system for detecting collision between rigid or deformable polyhedral objects simulated numerically and represented by simplicial complexes (K | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030532 | System and methods for digital human model prediction and simulation - Optimization algorithms and techniques to predict and simulate motion and various performance of a digital human model. The human body is modeled as a kinematics system represented by a series of segments connected by joints that represent musculoskeletal joints such as the wrist, elbow, shoulder, clavicle and pelvis. Optimization tools are used to determine the rotation at each degree of freedom of each joint that minimizes a performance measure. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030533 | METHOD OF SIMULATING ROLLING TIRE - A method of simulating a tire rolling on a road at a certain speed by using a computer apparatus | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030534 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SIMULATING BEHAVIOUR OF THERMODYNAMIC SYSTEMS - A method and system thereof for simulating behaviour of a thermodynamic system over time, including a momentum refreshment process and a conservative dynamics process, where the momentum refreshment process includes partially refreshing a momentum to define refreshed momentum by considering solutions for a starting momentum determined by a numerical implementation for integrating a generating linear differential equation. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030535 | BASIN MODEL FOR PREDICTING CHANGES IN THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF A RESERVOIR OIL AS A RESULT OF BIODEGRADATION - Computer-implemented method of determining a composition of hydrocarbons present in a sedimentary basin as a result of biodegradation. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030536 | FLIGHT IN FACTORY - A method is provided to measure an aircraft under simulated flight-loads while the aircraft is not in flight. Simulated flight-loads may be applied to the aircraft, while the aircraft is not in flight, in order to substantially simulate flight pressure distribution loads the aircraft would experience during flight. A position of one or more portions of the aircraft may be measured, while the aircraft is under the simulated flight-loads, to determine an effect of the simulated flight-loads on the aircraft. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030537 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING VERY HIGH CYCLE FATIGUE PROPERTIES IN METAL ALLOYS - A system and method for predicting fatigue life in metal alloys for very high cycle fatigue applications. The system and method are especially useful for cast metal alloys, such as cast aluminum alloys, where a fatigue endurance limit is either non-existent or hard to discern. Fatigue properties, such as fatigue strength in the very high cycle fatigue region, are based on a modified random fatigue limit model, where the very high cycle fatigue strength and infinite life fatigue strength are refined to take into consideration the sizes of the discontinuities and microstructure constituents since the fatigue life scatter depends upon the presence of discontinuities and microstructure constituents. The sizes of the discontinuities and microstructure constituents that can initiate fatigue cracks can be determined with extreme value statistics, then input to the modified random fatigue limit model. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030538 | METHOD AND AIDS FOR MODELLING 3D OBJECTS - A method for aiding modelling 3D objects permits production of a parameterizable instantiate model of a 3D object from a generic model of the object and a specific model of a second object including at least a part of first object. Certain characteristic data are extracted from the specific model of the second 3D object according to the parameters of the generic model of the first 3D object. A parameterizable instantiate model is produced fro the generic model of the first 3D model by matching this model to the extracted data. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030539 | Simulation of a Motion System Including a Mechanical Modeler with Interpolation - Simulating a mechanical system controlled by a motion controller. First position data may be received. The first position data may be provided by a motion controller at a first rate. The first position data received at the first rate may be interpolated to provide second position data at a second rate. Operation of the mechanical system may be simulated or modeled using the second position data at the second rate. Interpolating the first position data and modeling the operation of the mechanical system may be performed without simulating drives and motors necessary to drive the mechanical system. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030540 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING TRAFFIC ACCIDENT - Provided is a system and method for automatically reconstructing a traffic accident. The accident reconstructing system includes a data collecting unit, a geographical data providing unit, and an accident analyzing unit. The data collecting unit collects/transmits accident-related data according to the occurrence of a traffic accident. The geographical data providing unit transmits the geographical data of the neighborhood of the accident site. The accident analyzing unit reconstructs the traffic accident virtually on the basis of the data outputted from the data collecting unit and the geographical data providing unit. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030541 | TRAFFIC SIMULATOR - The present invention provides a traffic simulator which can simulate traffic conditions with high accuracy. Cautionary object searching portion searches for cautionary objects which a driver should heed when driving a vehicle model; recognized cautionary object selection portion and driver-recognized cautionary object selection portion, based on driver ability information set by data creation portion, select cautionary objects recognized by a driver from the found cautionary objects; and movement determination portion determines the movement of a vehicle model based on the selected cautionary objects. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030542 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY FITTING INSOLES TO A PATIENT - In one aspect, the present invention is directed to an apparatus for dynamically fitting an insole to a patient, the apparatus comprising: a first fitting panel, comprising: a virtual model of desired strains on the plantar surface of a foot; a plurality of fitting units deployed on the first panel, each fitting unit comprising: (a) a strain sensor, for measuring the strain of the foot on the fitting unit; and (b) an elevating unit, for elevating the top point of the fitting unit to a desired point; a processing unit, for instructing the elevating unit to adjust the elevation of the top point of the fitting unit towards a position wherein the strain of the foot, as measured by the strain sensor, corresponds to the strain of the virtual model. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030543 | Products and processes for modulating peptide-peptide binding domain interactions - The present invention relates to therapeutic compounds and methods of use of these therapeutic compounds for treating cellular proliferative disorders. The invention also provides three-dimensional structures of a Polo-like kinase and methods for designing or selecting small molecule inhibitors using these structures, and the therapeutic use of such compounds. The invention also includes a method for identifying novel phosphopeptide-binding domains. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030544 | Detecting Outliers in Network Traffic Time Series - According to an aspect of the invention, a system and method is configured to detect time series outliers in network traffic. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030545 | PATTERN SHAPE PREDICTING METHOD AND PATTERN SHAPE PREDICTING APPARATUS - A pattern shape predicting method comprising: predicting, with simulation, an intensity distribution of a pattern image concerning a pattern shape of a pattern on substrate formed on a substrate based on pattern data; calculating a first pattern edge position from the intensity distribution of the pattern image; calculating a feature value of the intensity distribution of the pattern image in a predetermined range including the first pattern edge position; calculating a fluctuation amount of the first pattern edge position from the feature value using a correlation; and predicting a second pattern edge position taking into account the fluctuation amount with respect to the first pattern edge position. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030546 | GUI-FACILITATED SIMULATION AND VERIFICATION FOR VEHICLE ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONIC ARCHITECTURE DESIGN - Disclosed herein are computer aided design (CAD) techniques to implement a unified data schema and graphical user interface (GUI) to link ECU/devices, in-vehicle communications, and vehicle harness information together with respect to architectural relation, performance relation, and cost relation, and to facilitate a designer's understanding and manipulation of this information. The domain-specific information from each domain is converted to objects in this unified data schema and stored in a unified database that is accessible to every domain, so that the impact of the current state in the device domain can be accessed and analyzed by a designer from any domain. This approach enables design data sharing and real-time collaboration between different electrical/electronic (E/E) design domains, thereby facilitating the realization of design data collaboration, design change management, and product lifetime management (PLM) and product data management (PDM) implementation. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030547 | SYSTEM, PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND RELATED METHODS FOR GLOBAL TARGETING OF PROCESS UTILITIES UNDER VARYING CONDITIONS - Systems, program product, and methods to optimize energy management for a site including a combined steam heat and electrical power system, is provided. A system, for example, can include a computer including memory, and energy utility modeling program product stored in the memory. The system can rigorously target, without manual iteration, for multiple utility commodity targets to include their global minimum and maximum requirements or capabilities, individually, or subject to other target objectives, due to varying process conditions. The system can also obtain the supply and demand best and worst case scenarios due to varying process conditions for a given process or cluster of processes. The system can also provide such data subject to other supply and demand objectives, and can further provide a range of commodity requirements or capabilities subject to user selected values for other commodity requirements or capabilities. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030548 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS IN A SECONDARY LANGUAGE WHILE INTERACTING AND VIEWING THE DEFAULT LANGUAGE VERSION - A method in one embodiment includes selecting an application under test; selecting one or more secondary human languages; starting a single instance of the application under test; receiving input via a first window displaying data from the application in a primary human language, the input invoking steps in a testing sequence; and evaluating a response of the application to the input received via the first window. A response of the application is output to each step in the testing sequence in one or more secondary windows to the one or more selected secondary human languages by: looking up text used in the step from the first window using the default language resource bundle for the application under test; finding the resource bundle “keys” associated with the default language text used in the step; using the keys to look up translated text used in the step within the secondary language resource bundles for the application under test; and running the automated step in the one or more secondary windows by substituting the secondary language texts to identify objects on the secondary screens using the test automation software. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030549 | MOBILE DEVICE HAVING HUMAN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION CAPABILITY WITH POSITIONAL FEEDBACK - A mobile electronic device has a touch sensitive screen and an accelerometer. A translator is to translate a word or phrase that is in a first human language and that is entered via a first virtual keyboard displayed on the touch sensitive screen, into a second human language. A translator is to cause the touch sensitive screen to display the translated word or phrase and a second virtual keyboard having characters in the second human language, in response to the accelerometer detecting a change in the physical orientation of the device or movement of the device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030550 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF WEB SITE CONTENT BETWEEN LANGUAGES - A system, method and computer readable medium for synchronizing web content is disclosed. The method includes retrieving a first web content in a first language from a web site, the first web content corresponding to a second web content wherein the second web content is a translation in a second language of the first web content. The method further includes dividing the first web content into a plurality of translatable components and generating a unique identifier for each of the plurality of translatable components. The method further includes matching each of the plurality of translatable components to a plurality of translated components of the second web content using the unique identifier of each of the plurality of translatable components. If a translatable component is not matched to a translated component, the method further includes designating the translatable component for translation into the second language. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030551 | JARGON TRANSLATION IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - A translation system, method and program product for an instant messaging (IM) infrastructure. The system includes a profile look-up system for determining a profile for both a first and a second user engaged in an IM session; a jargon translation profile system for building a translation profile for the first and second users, wherein the translation profile is utilized to identify jargon and associated translations for the first and second users from a jargon database; and display logic for displaying a translation for jargon being shown in an IM display window during the IM session. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030552 | DERIVING ONTOLOGY BASED ON LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNITY TAG CLOUDS - In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving a tag cloud including tags that hyperlink to web content. The method can also comprise separating the tags into different linguistic categories, assigning a weight to each tag, and grouping the tags into clusters, wherein tags in a cluster are associated with a context. The method can also include determining one or more domains for the tag clusters, wherein a domain is a broadest class that defines one or more of the tags in a linguistic category, determining a hierarchy for the tags based on the weights of the tags, and identifying linguistic relationships between the tags. The method can also comprise determining properties associated with one or more of the tags and one or more of the domains, wherein the tag's properties are determined using linguistic analysis and storing the tags, the hierarchies, the linguistic relationships, and the properties. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030553 | Linguistic Analysis - A method of operating a computer to perform linguistic analysis includes the steps of splitting an input text into words and sentences; for each sentence, comparing phrases in the sentence with known phrases stored in a database, as follows: for each word in the sentence, comparing its value and values of words following it with values of words of stored phrases, starting with the longest stored phrase that starts with that word, and working from longest to shortest; in the event a match is found for two or more consecutive words, and considering the words around the phrase, labelling the matched phrase with an overphrase that describes the grammar use of the matched phrase; after the penultimate word has been compared, recasting the sentence by replacing the matched phrases by their respective overphrases; and then repeating the comparison process with the recast sentence until there is no further recasting. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030554 | SIGNAL SEPARATION REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND SIGNAL SEPARATION REPRODUCTION METHOD - A first matrix (W(k)) indicating frequency characteristics of a separation filter is calculated from input signals of a plurality of channels. A second matrix (Ws(k)) is calculated by using the restriction coefficients (C | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030555 | CLIPPING DETECTION DEVICE AND METHOD - A clipping detection device calculates an amplitude distribution of an input signal for each predetermined period, calculates a deflection degree of the distribution on the basis of the calculated amplitude distribution, and then detects clipping of a communication signal on the basis of the calculated deflection degree of the distribution. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030556 | NOISE DETECTING DEVICE AND NOISE DETECTING METHOD - A difference signal calculating unit of a noise detecting device calculates a difference between the amplitudes of a residual signal at each sample timing and a residual signal at the preceding sample timing. A difference signal comparing unit determines whether or not an impulsive noise is present on the basis of the difference signal at the current sample timing, and the difference signal at each sample timing within a predetermined duration from the current sample timing. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030557 | Voice and text communication system, method and apparatus - The disclosure relates to systems, methods and apparatus to convert speech to text and vice versa. One apparatus comprises a vocoder, a speech to text conversion engine, a text to speech conversion engine, and a user interface. The vocoder is operable to convert speech signals into packets and convert packets into speech signals. The speech to text conversion engine is operable to convert speech to text. The text to speech conversion engine is operable to convert text to speech. The user interface is operable to receive a user selection of a mode from among a plurality of modes, wherein a first mode enables the speech to text conversion engine, a second mode enables the text to speech conversion engine, and a third mode enables the speech to text conversion engine and the text to speech conversion engine. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030558 | Method for Determining the Presence of a Wanted Signal Component - This invention provides a method for determining, in a speech dialogue system issuing speech prompts, a score value as an indicator for the presence of a wanted signal component in an input signal stemming from a microphone, comprising the steps of: using a first likelihood function to determine a first likelihood value for the presence of the wanted signal component in the input signal, using a second likelihood function to determine a second likelihood value for the presence of a noise signal component in the input signal, and determining a score value based on the first and the second likelihood values, wherein the first likelihood function is based on a predetermined reference wanted signal, and the second likelihood function is based on a predetermined reference noise signal. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030559 | System and method for an endpoint detection of speech for improved speech recognition in noisy environments - According to a disclosed embodiment, an endpointer determines the background energy of a first portion of a speech signal, and a cepstral computing module extracts one or more features of the first portion. The endpointer calculates an average distance of the first portion based on the features. Subsequently, an energy computing module measures the energy of a second portion of the speech signal, and the cepstral computing module extracts one or more features of the second portion. Based on the features of the second portion, the endpointer calculates a distance of the second portion. Thereafter, the endpointer contrasts the energy of the second portion with the background energy of the first portion, and compares the distance of the second portion with the distance of the first portion. The second portion of the speech signal is classified by the endpointer as speech or non-speech based on the contrast and the comparison. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030560 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION PROGRAM - Disclosed is a speech recognition system in which a common data processing means performs speech recognition of a speech captured by a speech input means to generate recognition result hypotheses which is not biased to one of applications and an adaptation data processing means regenerates recognition result hypotheses, using adaptation data and adaptation processing for each application. The adaptation data processing means provides to each application the recognition result recalculated for each application. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030561 | ANNOTATING PHONEMES AND ACCENTS FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEM - A system that outputs phonemes and accents of texts. The system has a storage section storing a first corpus in which spellings, phonemes, and accents of a text input beforehand are recorded separately for individual segmentations of the words that are contained in the text. A text for which phonemes and accents are to be output is acquired and the first corpus is searched to retrieve at least one set of spellings that match the spellings in the text from among sets of contiguous spellings. Then, the combination of a phoneme and an accent that has a higher probability of occurrence in the first corpus than a predetermined reference probability is selected as the phonemes and accent of the text. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030562 | SOUND DETERMINATION DEVICE, SOUND DETECTION DEVICE, AND SOUND DETERMINATION METHOD - A sound determination device ( | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030563 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN AMBIENT SIGNAL FROM AN AUDIO SIGNAL, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DERIVING A MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL FROM AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An apparatus for generating an ambient signal from an audio signal includes a compressor for lossy compression of a representation of the audio signal so as to obtain a compressed representation of the audio signal describing a compressed audio signal. The apparatus for generating the ambient signal further includes a calculator for calculating a difference between the compressed representation of the audio signal and the representation of the audio signal so as to obtain a discrimination representation. The apparatus further includes a provider for providing the ambient signal using the discrimination representation. An apparatus for deriving a multi-channel audio signal from an audio signal includes an apparatus for generating an ambient signal from an audio signal, an apparatus for providing the audio signal as a front-loudspeaker signal and an apparatus for providing the ambient signal as a back-loudspeaker signal. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030564 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING A FUNDRAISING RAFFLE - Funds are raised by raffle by forming a raffle venture between a sponsor and a fundraiser. The fundraiser offers raffle tickets to others, collects raffle revenue, arranges a drawing to select a winner. The revenue is distributed as a jackpot to the winner and as gain to the sponsor. The sponsor may identify contacts and the fundraiser may send to the contacts promotional messages for the raffle. The promotional messages may be composed by, or merely previewed and edited by, the sponsor. The raffle venture may specify initial proportions for distribution of revenue to the sponsor and the fundraiser. The proportions may be adjusted before the drawing. The method may be practiced via a website and may include establishing a sponsor web page that optionally contains content uploaded by the sponsor. There may be a blog site, an online social networking site and a webcast of the drawing. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030565 | GROUP BASED TASK ANALYSIS - A system, method and program product for analyzing tasks being performed by a group in an online environment. Included is a task definition system for associating subsets of documents available via a content delivery system with a plurality of tasks; a group identification system for identifying a group to which a user participating in the e-commerce environment belongs; a tracking system for tracking which documents have been viewed by users within the group; a task determination system for determining which of the plurality of tasks the group is engaged in performing; and a progress analysis system for analyzing a progress the group has achieved towards completing the task. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030566 | Magazine Collectable With Content Link - A copy of a magazine issue can be packaged with a collectible object. The collectible object preferably comprises a link pointing to on-line content that corresponds to the issue's printed content. Contemplated collectibles include collectible cards having a rendering of a cover of the issue on surface of the card. Links can include URLs, unique codes associated with a subscriber, or computer readable codes. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030567 | DETERMINING WHETHER A COMMERCIAL TRANSACTION HAS TAKEN PLACE - Determining whether a commercial transaction has taken place may include a) collecting percipient behavior information from a mobile communication device associated with a percipient, wherein the percipient behavior information is related to behavior of the percipient; b) determining a correlation between the percipient behavior information and transaction behavior information associated with a predetermined commercial transaction; and c) determining from the correlation a confidence level for whether the predetermined commercial transaction has taken place. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030568 | Unused allocated mileage counter - A system for tracking mileage for a vehicle may include a controller, an input device and a mileage sensor. The input device may be adapted to receive a first predetermined allocated mileage rate and communicate the first predetermined allocated mileage rate to the controller. The mileage sensor may be adapted to sense a mileage value and communicate the mileage value to the controller. The controller may be adapted to determine an actual mileage rate based at least partially upon the mileage value and a predetermined time period. The controller may be adapted to determine a deviation between the actual mileage rate and at least one of the first predetermined allocated mileage rate and a second predetermined allocated mileage rate. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030569 | Party place recommendation apparatus and program - In a party place recommendation apparatus, an acquisition unit acquires party information on a party to be held. A selector selects party places to be recommended from among the potential party places indicated by party place information, based on attendee information stored in an attendee information storage unit, the party place information stored in a party place information storage unit, and the party information acquired by the acquisition unit. An output unit outputs recommendation information indicative of the party places selected by the selector. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030570 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORDERING LENSES - Methods for dispensing eyeglasses are disclosed. The methods involve making a subjective refraction and an objective refraction and sending the information to a calculation computer to combine both refractions to calculate the person's prescription. The person's prescription is subsequently sent to a manufacturing location separate from the calculation computer for manufacture of the lenses. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030571 | Physician's practice aesthetic care program - Disclosed is a method of generating a revenue stream by providing cosmetic medical aesthetic treatments to patients within their personal medical doctor's or other physician's (PMD's) office such that a second party business entity can provide sourcing of resources required, equipment, software, personnel hiring, operational and clinical training and consulting, development, placement and management of advertising and marketing, and a lead management system for the PMD or group of PMDs. The combining of similarly contracted physicians into an advertising and marketing group is also part of the present disclosure. Another important aspect of the disclosure is that the methods include providing a revenue sharing program between PMDs. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030572 | TEMPORAL REGISTRATION OF MEDICAL DATA - A data structure for use by a computer system for comparing temporally varying medical data ( | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030573 | Medical Instrument Management Support Apparatus for Supporting Scope Management - The examination schedule memory unit stores an examination schedule including the starting time and the ending time of each examination. A cleaning capacity memory unit stores cleaning-capacity information that specifies the cleaning capacity of cleaning apparatuses that clean a scope used for the examination. A cleaning schedule generation unit generates a cleaning schedule for cleaning a used scope produced at the end of each examination with cleaning apparatuses having a cleaning capacity required by the cleaning-capacity information stored in the cleaning capacity memory unit. The scope shortage determination unit determines whether or not there will be a shortage of scopes to be used for each examination in accordance with both the examination starting time specified by the above examination schedule and the cleaning ending time specified by the cleaning schedule. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030574 | Clinical Laboratory-Based Disease Management Program, With Automated Patient-Specific Treatment Advice - A method is provided, the method including receiving a test result data, wherein said test result data represents a result of a test on a physical specimen, associating said test result data with a standard-of-care data, wherein said standard-of-care data represents a recommended course of action for the condition represented by the test result data, and transforming said specimen data and said standard-of-care data into a human-readable form. A system is provided, the system including a processor, a software adapted to be executed on said processor, said software comprising instructions for receiving a test result data, wherein said test result data represents a result of a test on a physical specimen, associating said test result data with a standard-of-care data, wherein said standard-of-care data represents a recommended course of action for the condition represented by the test result data, and transforming said specimen data and said standard-of-care data into a human-readable form. A method for providing a Disease-Specific Patient Report is provided, the method including receiving a test result data, wherein said test result data represents a result of a test on a physical specimen, performing a quality control step on the test result data, processing the test result data in order to identify whether the data fits into an acceptable range, or if the data is above or below the acceptable range, associating said test result data with a standard-of-care data, wherein said standard-of-care data represents a recommended course of action for the condition represented by the test result data, and transforming said specimen data and said standard-of-care data into a human-readable form, and providing said test result data and said standard-of-care data. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030575 | PATIENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system in which a medical device selects less than all of its stored information and provides the selected subset of information to a data mart for storage, processing, and/or communication to one or more interested parties. In many embodiments, customers, patients, or even components of the medical device or of the remote patient management system can access selected medical device information (e.g., customers can access medical device information tailored to the care they are providing to one or more patients). In many embodiments, customers can receive such medical device information according to a schedule that best suits their care (or whenever they desire such information, irrespective of a schedule). In many embodiments, providing less than full transmissions to the data mart reduces the strain on medical device batteries. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030576 | System and Method for Pain Management - A pain management system is provided. The pain management system comprises a database and a pain management server. The database contains a plurality of pain scores associated with a first patient. The pain management server is in communication with the database and comprises a processor and a pain management application. The pain management application, when executed by the processor, receives a first pain score associated with the first patient, analyzes the first pain score based at least in part on the plurality of pain scores associated with the first patient in the database, and when the first pain score drops below a first threshold determined by the analysis, raises an alert. The pain management system promotes control of administration of pain medication to the first patient. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030577 | System and Business Method for Electrocardiogram Review - A system and method for review and analysis of electrocardiograms includes an application server computer system in communication with a plurality of client computers. In a preferred embodiment, the server computer provides notification and access of a patient cardiac study report to an electrocardiograph technician for review and comment. The technician assigns an academic fellow electrophysiologist to review the study report. The server computer provides notification and access of the study report and the technician's annotation to the assigned fellow for review and comment. The fellow then assigns an attending physician to review the study report. The server computer provides notification and access of the study report and the previous annotations to the attending physician for review and comment. The physician completes the study. The computer system automatically generates and forwards a referral letter to the requesting physician and attends to billing for the cardiac monitoring services. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030578 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVE SHOPPING, BUSINESS AND ENTERTAINMENT - The methods and systems described herein relate to online methods of collaboration in community environments. The methods and systems are related to an online apparel modeling system that allows users to have three-dimensional models of their physical profile created. Users may purchase various goods and/or services and collaborate with other users in the online environment. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030579 | Health Care Package - Various embodiments include methods and systems for providing packaged health care solutions. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030580 | Physician to patient network system fo real-time electronic communication & transfer of patient health information - The Physician To Patient (P2P) network system, a private & secure infrastructure for independently practicing physicians and patients for real-time electronic communication & transfer of patient health information is disclosed by the invention. The invention also discloses an efficient and natural method for creation of Electronic Medical Records by physicians in their own handwriting. The P2P network system utilizes a plurality of devices and components defined by the invention, and custom programming to integrate all equipment, devices and components of the network system. The invention also discloses a highly targeted method of advertising, the One2One Advertising, for healthcare product manufacturers to reach physicians and patients. A number of healthcare related business processes, currently executed manually are performed automatically by P2P network system software. The invention will improve the quality of services to patients, and reduce the overhead cost of the medical offices, and the healthcare industry. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030581 | METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING AND SHIPPING AN ITEM IN A SECURE ENVIRONMENT - A method for assembling and shipping an item using a security cleared space connected to a port authority, comprising the steps of: leasing the security cleared space to a user; obtaining at least one component for assembly of the at least one item; assembling the at least one component in the security cleared space; screening at least one person for entry to the security cleared space; readying the assembled item for shipment to a destination by entering data related to the assembled item into a processor with computer instructions that direct the processor to move the assembled item to a designated storage area or to an aircraft for shipment. A method for receiving an assembled item and disassembling the item into components for storage or shipment is also contemplated. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030582 | CENTRALLY MAINTAINED PORTABLE DRIVING SCORE - A method for underwriting an insurance policy includes sending an electronic query from an insurance company to a central vehicle operator rating agency. The method further includes receiving at the insurance company an electronic response to the query from the central vehicle operator rating agency. The response includes data maintained by the central vehicle operator rating agency with respect to a vehicle operator. The data reflects a vehicle operating record of the vehicle operator. The vehicle operating record is a collation of data concerning vehicle operation activities of the vehicle operator over a period of at least two years. The method further includes routing the received data to an underwriter in the insurance company. The underwriter determines whether to issue or renew or adjust an insurance policy that covers the vehicle operator or an employer of the vehicle operator. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030583 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE ENHANCED LIFE INSURANCE PRODUCTS - A system for providing an insurance product for at least one insured customer, including a communication device for receiving at least one application, each application associated with an applicant and including information about the applicant, a processor configured to determine for each application if the applicant qualifies as an insured customer, and a memory configured for storing an account record associated with each insured customer having at least one insured event associated with that insured customer, a benefit amount payable in association with the at least one insured event, an insurance cost, and a cash value based on predetermined account record factors, wherein the processor may define a reserve fund, determine an investment performance associated with the reserve fund during at least one period of time, and calculate a performance credit amount based on the investment performance of the reserve fund and the cash value. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030584 | APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING GUARANTEED MINIMUM ACCUMULATED BENEFIT CONTRACT FUNDED WITH MATCHING BOND INVESTMENTS - A guaranteed minimum accumulated benefit (GMAB) variable annuity contract management apparatus stores contract data on GMAB variable annuity contracts having a predetermined contract duration. The apparatus also stores fund data on amounts paid to purchase the contracts. The apparatus computes a portion of the amounts paid that is to be allocated to a bond fund. The apparatus stores data on the portion of the amounts paid to be allocated to the bond fund. A substantial portion, or all, of the bond fund is invested in bonds that have a maturity date that matches the contract duration of the GMAB variable annuity contracts. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030585 | Insurance fulfillment system with open vendor interface - An insurance fulfillment system is disclosed that includes, in one general aspect, an interactive vendor interface and storage for item listings. It also includes fulfillment management logic that is responsive to the interactive vendor interface, operative to access the storage, and responsive to a claim settlement system. A shopping access interface is operative to display aggregated item listings from different vendors and is responsive to selection commands to select items based on a claim settlement amount received from the claim settlement system. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030586 | SYSTEMS & METHODS OF CALCULATING AND PRESENTING AUTOMOBILE DRIVING RISKS - Systems and methods of calculating and presenting automobile driving risks are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, a method of obtaining driving performance data to provide one or more driving performance risk scores derived from received data is provided. The method can generally comprise receiving an initial data set into a memory, the initial data set comprising telematic data that includes driving performance data; transforming at least a part of the initial data set into a production data set such that the transformation augments certain data elements in the initial data set into predetermined states; storing the production data set into a centralized data repository; and receiving one or more data inquiries from one or more interested parties and in response to the one or more data inquiries providing a driving performance risk score based on data stored in the centralized data repository, wherein the driving performance risk score indicates a level of insurance risk. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are claimed and described. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030587 | System and Method for Protection of Assets - A novel life insurance policy provides for an increase in the paid up value of the policy upon the policy holder suffering a financial loss. The loss may result from professional liability of the policy holder, including acts of omission or commission, or may results from any type of casualty loss. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030588 | NATIONWIDE AUTO REPAIRS AND TRAFFIC VIOLATION INSURANCE - A method for providing insurance for repairs and resolving traffic violations covers approved repairs for the vehicle and handles requirements to resolve traffic violations for covered operators of the vehicle at little or no added expense to the owner or operator of the vehicle. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030589 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING RATING DATA TAGGED TO EXPENSE REPORT ITEMS - A system and method of processing rating data tagged to expense report items that generates an expense report form including at least one line item expense record to be filled out by a user, the at least one line item expense record including at least one tagged expense information field. Input is received from the user and is entering into corresponding expense fields of the at least one line item expense record. The entered input is stored with the at least one line item expense record, and is later processed with a plurality of line item expense records to generate and output one of report data and at least a portion of a travel itinerary based on a plurality of stored tagged expense information. The tagged expense information fields includes one of a transportation information field and a specific business information field, a rating field, a free form comment field, and a rater identification field. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030590 | CENTRALIZED MULTI-PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A multi-location management system for hospitality locations includes a multi-unit building connected to a remote control center as an outsourced operation geographically relatively removed from the multi-unit buildings. The center controls several multi-unit buildings for security, occupancy data, vacancy data, and reservation data. There is control of the status of individual units concerning whether access doors to respective units and common areas are open or closed. A centralized guest registration function, guest registration process for any one of a plurality of hotels, and a centralized guest check-in/check-out function are processed at the remote control center. A personal identification number (PIN) is usable for multiple lodging establishments. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030591 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING SIMPLIFIED FARES WITH CONSISTENT BUYACROSS - A system and method of retrieving and displaying travel data receives at a computing apparatus data representing a set of recommended travel itineraries. At least one recommended itinerary has a recommended booking class belonging to a predefined group of booking classes. A computing apparatus identifies a reference booking classes that is associated with the recommended booking class. The apparatus computes a fare value for the recommended itinerary based on a fare value of the associated booking class in the reference group plus a buy-across value. The predefined group may have fewer booking classes than the reference group, and most preferably has a single booking class. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030592 | TRANSMITTING INFORMATION FROM A MOBILE DEVICE TO A POINT OF SALE OR POINT OF USE - A mobile device includes a light source and a light source controller. Data to be transmitted to a point of sale or point of use is obtained by the mobile device, and the light source controller controls the light emitted by the light source to emit light in a blinking pattern that simulates light that would be reflected to a laser scanner when a laser scanner is reading a barcode corresponding to the data to be transmitted. The light, emitted in the blinking pattern, is detected by a laser scanner which then decodes the data represented by the blinking pattern to obtain the data transmitted from the mobile device. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030593 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ONLINE TRAVEL-RELATED SERVICES COUPLED WITH TARGETED ADVERTISING - A system and method for providing online services for air travelers coupled with providing targeted advertising for online advertisers. More particularly, the invention allows air travelers to select online their seats, seatmates, or both, while at the same time allowing advertisers to target these travelers based on any combination of user attributes made available from their flight information and personal profiles. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030594 | Method for User Driven Multi-objective Optimization of Travel Plans - The invention is a travel planning system that treats travel planning as a multi-objective optimization problem and allows the one or more users to optimize itineraries through an iterative process of selecting new destinations by a greedy process that encourages the adding of destinations that taken one at a time add minimally to the cost and maximally to the benefit of the itinerary and a competitive process of comparing potential itinerary changes on multiple benefit axes. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030595 | Transactional Engine Linking Businesses to Multiple Recruitment Companies for Engagement & Management of Labour - The invention provides methods and business methods for processing and publishing business information, and for networked procurement and tracking of data such as cost, charge, and budget analysis, from a secure hub, based on the use of time sheets as the single source, for collection to a single location, for processing to produce reports which are then distributable to, buyers and suppliers of casual and permanent labour in a secure environment. The invention allows multiple buyers (e.g. companies), suppliers (e.g. agents) and workers to transact with multiple discrete levels or customised secure access levels, from only one database and requires no proprietary software at the user end apart from a web browser. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030596 | Business Process Intelligence - Systems, methods, and apparatus, including software tangibly stored on a computer readable medium, involve managing business information in an enterprise. Multiple business operations are identified for achieving a business objective in the enterprise, and one or more data operations are identified for managing information related to a subset of the business operations. An automated business process is defined for implementing the business operations and the data operation. The automated business process initiates the data operation based on execution of the subset of business operations. The automated business process is stored for repeated use in the enterprise. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030597 | Internet Content Delivery Management System - A delivery management engine that monitors and controls system Internet content delivery, primarily advertisement, is presented. The system uses automated scripts to track delivery of content and includes a discrepancy reconciliation engine that reconciles delivery counts between multiple server systems. The system includes user encoded business rules that enable automatic adjustments to advertisement campaigns to ensure that a contracted number of deliveries is met. The system avoids both over-delivery and under-delivery of content against a target and therefore optimizes the use of valuable advertising space. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030598 | PLATFORM PROVISIONING SYSTEM AND METHOD - There is provided a platform provisioning system and method. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is a computerized method of provisioning a new environment to an application platform, the method including analyzing a current state of the application platform, defining business requirements for the new environment, defining technical requirements for the new environment, generating a logical architecture for the new environment based on the business requirements and the technical requirements, performing a gap analysis on the application platform based on the current state of the application platform and the generated logical architecture, generating a technical architecture for the new environment based at least partially on the gap analysis, generating a physical architecture for the new environment based at least partially on the technical architecture, and provisioning the new environment based at least partially on the physical architecture. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030599 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATING HEALTH CARE PAYERS AND PROVIDER SYSTEMS WITH HEALTH CARE TRANSACTION SYSTEMS USING A SINGLE HIPAA EDI RESPONSE GENERATION COMPONENT - A method, system, and computer program product for integrating Health Care Payers and Providers with a health care transaction system. The health care transaction (HCT) utility solves the problem of integration between these two parties by providing the developer with an application that is capable of automatically generating an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) response message to a request. The HCT utility mainly consists of a servlet (associated with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or other data communication protocol) that forwards an EDI request from a sending party to applications that may act as either a payer or provider. These applications may automatically process and respond to request EDI messages sent from other applications using an EDI processor application. The HCT utility provides the advantage of providing an infrastructure for testing healthcare transactions. Furthermore, the infrastructure enables testing of a variety of transactions from multiple sources. Additionally, clearinghouse testing may now be automated. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030600 | Valuing model option contracts - A method for determining the theoretical value of a Model Option contract. | 2010-02-04 |
| 20100030601 | PRODUCT SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT - There is described herein a method for evaluating the relative sustainability of a product, addressing the complete physical life cycle, the method comprising: defining a product within a product family wherein products perform equivalent functions; defining a set of environmental, social, and economic criteria; selecting a product from said product family as a baseline for comparison; and scoring said product compared to said baseline for each of said criteria. | 2010-02-04 |
