09th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 55 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140058716 | Electrical Optimization and Component Selection in an Electrical Grid - Techniques for optimizing a distribution circuit (e.g., electric power grid) are described. Primary wiring of a distribution circuit may comprise a plurality of unique primary paths, from a source to an end (a transformer). Each primary path may include a plurality of primary segments, and each primary segment may be in one or more primary paths. A maximum voltage drop on any primary segment may be selected as a smallest of maximum allowed voltage drops across that segment in each of the primary paths. Because the voltage drop across each primary path must be less than a prescribed maximum, the sum of the voltage drops across each primary segment in that primary path is less than the prescribed maximum. The prescribed maximum may be adhered to if each primary segment is constructed of a conductor gauge chosen not to exceed the maximum voltage drop for that segment. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058717 | SIMULATION SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING I/O PERFORMANCE OF VOLUME AND SIMULATION METHOD - An example is a simulation method for I/O performance of a volume of a first storage apparatus in a simulation target storage apparatus, including: obtaining an I/O history of a period regarding a first migration source volume in the first storage apparatus; obtaining first information indicating at least intra-volume addresses of cache data of the first migration source volume at start of the period; referring to the first information to determine cache data having addresses in a migration destination volume corresponding to at least some of the intra-volume addresses of the cache data of the first migration source volume and determining the determined cache data as cache data of a first simulation target volume of the simulation target storage apparatus; and issuing simulation-use I/O requests to the first simulation target volume according to the I/O history of the period to measure I/O performance of the first simulation target volume. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058718 | CROWDSOURCING TRANSLATION SERVICES - A method, system, and computer program product for translating a text file are disclosed. A text file in a source language is received and text snippets from the text file are extracted. The text snippets are distributed to a first set of remote workers for translation. The translated text snippets are validated by a second set of remote workers and the validated text snippets are used to generate a translated text file. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058719 | Analyzing Web Site for Translation - 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. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058720 | DISPLAYING ORIGINAL TEXT IN A USER INTERFACE WITH TRANSLATED TEXT - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for user interaction with machine translation. A user interface for receiving requests to translate text and/or documents from a first language text to a second language text. The translated text and/or document is displayed such that the first language text corresponding to a selected portion of the second language text can be accessed and displayed in the same user interface. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058721 | REAL TIME STATISTICS FOR CONTACT CENTER MOOD ANALYSIS METHOD AND APPARATUS - Methods and systems for providing a graphical depiction of a determined sentiment for a contact received at a contact center are provided. Moreover, the determined sentiment can be displayed for a grouping of contacts as an aggregated sentiment. The sentiment or aggregated sentiment can be displayed in real time or near real time. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058722 | Word Detection and Domain Dictionary Recommendation - New word detection and domain dictionary recommendation are provided. When text content is received according to a given language, for example, Chinese language, words are extracted from the content by analyzing the content according to a variety of rules. The words then are ranked for inclusion into one or more lexicons or domain dictionaries for future use for such functionalities as text input methods, spellchecking, grammar checking, auto entry completion, definition, and the like. In addition, when a user is entering or editing text according to one or more prescribed domain dictionaries, a determination may be made as to whether more helpful domain dictionaries may be available. When entered words have a high degree of association with a given domain dictionary, that domain dictionary may be recommended to the user to increase the accuracy of the user's input of additional text and editing of existing text. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058723 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISCOVERING SUSPICIOUS ACCOUNT GROUPS - In one exemplary embodiment, a system for discovering suspicious account groups establishes a language model according to the post contents from each account of a first group of accounts during a first time interval, to describe the speech of the account, and compares the similarity among a plurality of language models of the first group of accounts to cluster the first group of accounts; and for a plurality of newly added data during a second time interval, discovers near-synonyms of at least a monitored vocabulary set, and updates the near-synonyms to a plurality of language models of a second group of accounts. The system further integrates the first and the second groups of accounts, and re-clusters an integrated group of accounts. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058724 | Method of and System for Using Conversation State Information in a Conversational Interaction System - A method of using conversation state information in a conversational interaction system is disclosed. A method of inferring a change of a conversation session during continuous user interaction with an interactive content providing system includes receiving input from the user including linguistic elements intended by the user to identify an item, associating a linguistic element of the input with a first conversation session, and providing a response based on the input. The method also includes receiving additional input from the user and inferring whether or not the additional input from the user is related to the linguistic element associated with the conversation session. If related, the method provides a response based on the additional input and the linguistic element associated with the first conversation session. Otherwise, the method provides a response based on the second input without regard for the linguistic element associated with the first conversation session. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058725 | KEYBOARD SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC CORRECTION - Alternative textual interpretations of each sequence of inputs detected within an auto-correcting keyboard region are determined. Actual keystroke contract locations may occur outside the boundaries of specific keyboard key regions associated with the actual characters of word interpretations proposed for selection. The distance from each contact location to each corresponding intended character may increase with the expected frequency of the intended word. An intended word is selected from among generated interpretations and is automatically accepted for output. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058726 | Automated difference recognition between speaking sounds and music - The present invention relates to means and methods of automated difference recognition between speech and music signals in voice communication systems, devices, telephones, and methods, and more specifically, to systems, devices, and methods that automate control when either speech or music is detected over communication links. The present invention provides a novel system and method for monitoring the audio signal, analyze selected audio signal components, compare the results of analysis with a pre-determined threshold value, and classify the audio signal either as speech or music. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058727 | MULTIMEDIA RECORDING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A multimedia recording system is provided. The multimedia recording system includes a storage module, a recognition module, and a tagging module. The storage module stores a multimedia file corresponding to multimedia data with audio content, wherein the multimedia data is received through a computer network. The recognition module converts the audio content of the multimedia data into text. The tagging module produces tag information according to the text, wherein the tag information corresponds to portion(s) of the multimedia file. The disclosure further provides a multimedia recording method. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058728 | Speech Recognition with Parallel Recognition Tasks - The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving an audio signal and initiating speech recognition tasks by a plurality of speech recognition systems (SRS's). Each SRS is configured to generate a recognition result specifying possible speech included in the audio signal and a confidence value indicating a confidence in a correctness of the speech result. The method also includes completing a portion of the speech recognition tasks including generating one or more recognition results and one or more confidence values for the one or more recognition results, determining whether the one or more confidence values meets a confidence threshold, aborting a remaining portion of the speech recognition tasks for SRS's that have not generated a recognition result, and outputting a final recognition result based on at least one of the generated one or more speech results. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058729 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM, SPEECH RECOGNITION REQUEST DEVICE, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD, SPEECH RECOGNITION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is a speech recognition system, including: a first information processing device including a speech recognition processing unit for receiving data to be used for speech recognition transmitted via a network, carrying out speech recognition processing, and returning resultant data; and a second information processing device connected to the first information processing device via the network. The second information processing device performs conversion of the data into data having a format that disables a content thereof from being perceived and also enables the speech recognition processing unit to perform the speech recognition processing. Thereafter, the second information processing device transmits the data to be used for the speech recognition by the speech recognition processing unit and constructs resultant data returned from the first information processing device into a content of a valid and perceivable recognition result. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058730 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVENT AND INCIDENT REPORTING AND MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for information and action management including managing and communicating critical and non-critical information relating to certain emergency services events or incidents as well as other applications. More specifically, systems and methods for information and action management including a plurality of mobile interface units that include one or more of a language translation sub-system, an action receipt sub-system, a voice-to-text conversion sub-system, a media management sub-system, a revision management sub-system that restricts the abilities of some users, and a report generation sub-system that creates reports operatively coupled to the language translation sub-system, the action receipt sub-system, the voice-to-text conversion sub-system, the media management sub-system, and the revision management sub-system to auto-populate report fields. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058731 | Method and System for Selectively Biased Linear Discriminant Analysis in Automatic Speech Recognition Systems - A system and method are presented for selectively biased linear discriminant analysis in automatic speech recognition systems. Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) may be used to improve the discrimination between the hidden Markov model (HMM) tied-states in the acoustic feature space. The between-class and within-class covariance matrices may be biased based on the observed recognition errors of the tied-states, such as shared HMM states of the context dependent tri-phone acoustic model. The recognition errors may be obtained from a trained maximum-likelihood acoustic model utilizing the tied-states which may then be used as classes in the analysis. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058732 | METHOD TO PROVIDE INCREMENTAL UI RESPONSE BASED ON MULTIPLE ASYNCHRONOUS EVIDENCE ABOUT USER INPUT - Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods for managing user interface responses to user input including spoken queries and commands. This includes providing incremental user interface (UI) response based on multiple recognition results about user input that are received with different delays. Such techniques include providing an initial response to a user at an early time, before remote recognition results are available. Systems herein can respond incrementally by initiating an initial UI response based on first recognition results, and then modify the initial UI response after receiving secondary recognition results. Since an initial response begins immediately, instead of waiting for results from all recognizers, it reduces the perceived delay by the user before complete results get rendered to the user. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058733 | SCREEN READER WITH FOCUS-BASED SPEECH VERBOSITY - The amount of speech output to a blind or low-vision user using a screen reader application is automatically adjusted based on how the user navigates to a control in a graphic user interface. Navigation by mouse presumes the user has greater knowledge of the identity of the control than navigation by tab keystroke which is more indicative of a user searching for a control. In addition, accelerator keystrokes indicate a higher level of specificity to set focus on a control and thus less verbosity is required to sufficiently inform the screen reader user. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058734 | SYSTEM FOR TUNING SYNTHESIZED SPEECH - An embodiment of the invention is a software tool used to convert text, speech synthesis markup language (SSML), and/or extended SSML to synthesized audio. Provisions are provided to create, view, play, and edit the synthesized speech, including editing pitch and duration targets, speaking type, paralinguistic events, and prosody. Prosody can be provided by way of a sample recording. Users can interact with the software tool by way of a graphical user interface (GUI). The software tool can produce synthesized audio file output in many file formats. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058735 | Artificial Neural Network Based System for Classification of the Emotional Content of Digital Music - A system for classification of the emotional content of music is provided. An encoder receives a digital audio recording of a piece of music, and encodes it using musical notes and associated amplitudes. The artificial neural network is configured to take a plurality of encoded time slices and provide output indicative of the emotional content of the music. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058736 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a signal processing apparatus includes an estimation unit and an updating unit. The estimation unit is configured to estimate an auxiliary variable of a target section including first and second sections of input signals by using an approximating auxiliary function for approximating an auxiliary function having an auxiliary variable as an argument. The auxiliary function is determined according to an objective function that outputs a function value that is smaller as a statistical independence of separated signals into which input signals in time-series are separated by a demixing matrix is higher. The estimation unit is configured to estimate a value of the auxiliary variable of the target section based on the estimated auxiliary variable. The updating unit is configured to update the demixing matrix such that a function value of the approximating auxiliary function is minimized. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058737 | HYBRID SOUND SIGNAL DECODER, HYBRID SOUND SIGNAL ENCODER, SOUND SIGNAL DECODING METHOD, AND SOUND SIGNAL ENCODING METHOD - A hybrid sound signal decoder decodes a bitstream including audio frames encoded by an audio encoding process using a low delay filter bank and speech frames encoded by a speech encoding process using linear prediction coefficients. When a current frame to be decoded is an ith frame which is an initial speech frame after switching from an audio frame to a speech frame, the hybrid sound signal decoder generates sub-frames which are a signal corresponding to an i−1th frame before being encoded, using a sub-frame which is a signal generated using a signal of the i−1th frame before being encoded, the signal of the i−1th frame being obtained by decoding the ith frame. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058738 | PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS FOR A MEDICAL TREATMENT PATHWAY - Embodiments disclosed herein provide predictive analysis of medical treatment pathways to assist healthcare providers and/or patients determine the statistical probability of a treatment outcome, among the experience of a large patient and provider population, of a particular treatment step along a defined treatment pathway for a specific patient of interest. Specifically, a plurality of predictive models, based on data from a large and demographically similar patient population, are created for a plurality of treatment paths stemming from a selected treatment node within a medical treatment pathway of a clinical guideline. Medical data for the patient of interest is input to the plurality of predictive models, and model generated treatment outcome probabilities for the patient of interest are generated and compared for each of the plurality of treatment paths stemming from the selected treatment node. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058739 | METHOD FOR MANAGING HEALTHCARE APPOINTMENTS - Method and apparatus for the management of healthcare patient and practitioner profile information prior to visit a practitioner's office. The method provides online booking of available appointment times for registered physicians. The online booking process can simultaneously be used to manage and schedule appointments for family members. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058740 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRE-OPERATIVE DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT - An electronic method and system for managing scheduling of surgical procedures and corresponding pre-operative documentation. A rescheduling request is sent from a first client computer to a server to reschedule a medical procedure. The server forwards the rescheduling request to a second client computer, where the request is approved or rejected. If approved, a list of documents required for the procedure is generated and posted on the server. The required documents are then uploaded to the server. The required documents are reviewed and approved or rejected based on criteria associated with each document. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058741 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL CARE SELECTION - Provided herein is a computerized method of managing medical care through communication between a Digital Board of Medical Experts (DBME), a physician, a health insurance carrier, one or more medical facilities, and a patient and providing a diagnostic and/or therapeutic recommendation, the method comprising the following steps: i) providing a DBME core comprised of modules and algorithms for processing medical data and providing diagnostic and/or therapeutic recommendations; ii) providing a Physician Action Module (PAM) whereby a physician provides a clinical index of suspicion (CIS) through a clinical index of suspicion selection algorithm (CISSA) of the PAM to the DBME—for obtaining a recommendation for hi tech diagnostic studies and/or treatment; and iii) processing through the DBME information from the CISSA and providing a diagnostic recommendation from the diagnostic recommendation algorithm (DRA) of the Diagnostic Module (DM) of the DBME for hi tech diagnostic studies and/or a therapeutic recommendation from the therapeutic recommendation algorithm (TRA) of the Therapeutic Module (TM) of the DBME for treatment. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058742 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTERACTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF MEDICAL GUIDELINES - Methods and systems for interactive implementation of medical guidelines. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058743 | Multimarker Risk Stratification - Measurement of circulating ST2 and natriuretic peptide (e.g., NT-proBNP) concentrations is useful for the prognostic evaluation of subjects, in particular for the prediction of adverse clinical outcomes, e.g., mortality, transplantation, and heart failure. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058744 | System and Method for Detecting Drug Adverse Effects in Social Media and Mobile Applications Data - Some implementations provide a computer-implemented method for identifying, from on-line postings, reports of potential adverse effects resulting from consuming a healthcare product, the method including: receiving a log of on-line postings regarding consuming the healthcare product; receiving a database comprising a healthcare taxonomy and a set of linguistic rules; analyzing, based on the healthcare taxonomy, the log of on-line postings to identify a report of at least one adverse effect resulting from consuming the healthcare product; generating a score for the identified report according to the healthcare taxonomy and the set of linguistic rules; comparing the generated score with a threshold; and in response to determining that the generated score is above the threshold, flagging the identified report as a report of a potential adverse effect. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058745 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Measuring Health - Methods, systems, and products measure health data related to a user. Often times a weight scale, blood pressure monitor, or other medical measurement device is shared among a group of users. A time-stamped physiological measurement is compared to a time-stamped message from a mobile device. If the timestamps are contemporaneous, then the physiological measurement is bound to the mobile device. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058746 | MEDICAL BILL ANALYSIS AND REVIEW - A method and business technique for reviewing medical service provider bills, recalculating and providing payment recommendation to a paying party for the bills. The method includes analyzing medical bills and determining erroneous and inappropriate charges on bills. The method provides a payment recommendation using multiple databases and sophisticated mathematical modeling that includes one or more of the following: a medical service provider's actual cost of delivering the medical services provided; the average profit-margin of that provider, an average profit margin of comparable medical providers in an area, other industry-specific profit-margin benchmarks; an average acceptable payment by medical service providers in the area for comparable services; payment rates negotiated by large health insurers and managed care organizations; and other industry benchmarks for reasonable payment for comparable services. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058747 | METHOD FOR OPTIMISING LOCAL DRUG DELIVERY - The present invention relates to a data processing method for determining an infusion location in an anatomical region of interest of a patient's body for infusing a medical substance, the method being executed by a computer and comprising steps of: a) acquiring permeability data comprising information about the permeability of anatomical vessels in the body; b) acquiring body vessels set data comprising information about a body vessel set, wherein the body vessel set represents a set of at least one anatomical body vessel in the patient's body and wherein the body vessel set data comprises information about the spatial structure of the at least one body vessel; c) acquiring coverage condition data comprising information about a predetermined coverage of a target region with the medical substance; d) determining, for a plurality of candidate infusion locations, candidate coverage data comprising information about a candidate coverage of a target region with the medical substance based on the permeability data, the body vessel set data and the coverage condition data; e) determining infusion location data comprising information about the infusion location based on the permeability data, the body vessel set data and the coverage condition data. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058748 | POPULATING CUSTOM PATIENT WORKLISTS USING DEMOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL CRITERIA - Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for creating custom patients worklists are provided. In embodiments, demographic and clinical criteria are used to create custom patient worklists. Patient lists and units associated with healthcare facilities are selected. Names of views associated with the custom patient worklists are received. Criteria are selected and sequences for displaying selected criteria are received. Custom patient worklists are built based on the selections. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058749 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR A HANDHELD DIABETES MANAGEMENT DEVICE WITH BOLUS CALCULATOR - According to some aspects of the present disclosure a method for presenting a GUI for modifying medical data on a handheld medical device is disclosed. The method includes determining a correction bolus amount and a meal bolus amount for the patient. The method also includes presenting the GUI on a display of the medical device and presenting the correction bolus amount, the meal bolus amount and a total bolus amount in the GUI. The method also includes presenting a correction bolus amount modification field and a meal bolus amount field in the GUI. The correction bolus amount modification field and the meal bolus amount modification field allow the patient to provide input to modify the correction bolus amount and meal bolus amount, respectively. The method further includes receiving the input and generating an advice history record based on the input. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058750 | SYSTEM, PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD TO PROVIDE A SUMMARY OF PATIENT HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TO AN ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD FROM A HEALTH PLAN PROVIDER - A system to provide a summary of patient healthcare information to a EHR during a patient visit is provided. Electronic information indicating that a healthcare provider entered a diagnosis into the EHR of the patient is received by a processing device. Electronic information indicating a health plan associated with the patient is also received by the processing device. A request for information is provided to request a summary of patient healthcare information in response to the diagnosis and the health plan. In an alternate embodiment, a request for information is provided when a patient's EHR is accessed by a healthcare provider and the patient has certain characteristics. The request for information to request the summary of patient healthcare information is transmitted to another processing device having healthcare information of the patient. The summary of patient healthcare information is then received and transmitted to the EHR. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058751 | DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL INFORMATION BROKER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A medical information broker system and method is disclosed, that advantageously allows for brokering medical information directly between a diagnostic imaging modality and a EMR system. The system can include, for example, a communications module configured to receive at least one file containing patient data from a diagnostic imaging modality in a first format, and send the at least one file to a destination modality in a second format; a diagnostic information converter module in electronic communication with the communications module and configured to convert the at least one file from the first format to the second format; and a work list engine in electronic communication with the communications module and configured to create a task list accessible via a user. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058752 | COMPUTER NETWORK FOR QUALITY TESTING CLINICAL TRIAL DATA - A computer network system and a method for quality testing input clinical trial data are disclosed. The trial data is recorded by way of a form provided on a patient device or a physician device and is passed on in an encrypted, anonymized form to a central server. A quality testing device is installed on the server in order to test the recorded medical data sets with regard to the quality thereof. The scope of the quality test is configurable. In the event of successful testing, an incentive attribute is read out from a database in order to generate an incentive signal and to transmit the signal to the respective terminal device. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058753 | PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING PLATFORM WITH RANKED PATIENT INFORMATION DELIVERY - Provided are a method, system, means for, and processor-readable non-transitory medium incorporating instructions that provide a social network platform, particularly for members in a professional field. Patient data is received from an electronic patient data source. Target patient information associated with a first patient is identified, when the first target patient information corresponds to the at least one evaluation criterion, and the first patient is assigned a first priority ranking, according to the at least one evaluation criterion. According to the assigned first priority ranking, information regarding the first patient is displayed to the members of the social network more prominently than information regarding other patients of the plurality of patients. Weighting of the target information according to the evaluation criterion may be performed. The first priority ranking may correspond to acuity of a health condition of the first patient. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058754 | PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING PLATFORM WITH RANKED PATIENT INFORMATION DELIVERY - Provided are a method, system, means for, and processor-readable non-transitory medium incorporating instructions that provide a social network platform, particularly for members in a professional field. Patient data is received from an electronic patient data source. Target patient information associated with a first patient is identified, when the first target patient information corresponds to the at least one evaluation criterion, and the first patient is assigned a first priority ranking, according to the at least one evaluation criterion. According to the assigned first priority ranking, information regarding the first patient is displayed to the members of the social network more prominently than information regarding other patients of the plurality of patients. Weighting of the target information according to the evaluation criterion may be performed. The first priority ranking may correspond to acuity of a health condition of the first patient. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058755 | REMOTELY-EXECUTED MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY INCLUDING EMERGENCY AUTOMATION - Devices, systems, methods, and software for providing remote medical diagnosis and therapy to a subject comprising: a module for conducting telecommunications with a telemedicalist; a module for applying a diagnostic or a therapeutic analysis; an apparatus for dispensing one or more medical items from an inventory of medical items, the inventory of medical items risk profiled to a subject, a population, a venue, or a situation; and optionally, a biosensor apparatus. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058756 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RESPONDING TO REQUEST FOR CLINICAL INFORMATION - A hub-spoke patient information service in which a patient's data can be obtained from a network of independent data sources through a centralized service. The hub of the service stores patient identification information and the spokes store the patient's clinical data. In a preferred embodiment, the spokes are independent sources (e.g. each spoke is generally unrelated to other spokes) and include hospitals, doctor offices, clinics, insurance companies, or other entities that store or track clinical data. Preferably, the data sources use a first authentication to properly identify or authentic the service. Once access is granted, the spoke sources are queried for the patient's data. In response, each data source provides the type of patient data available from the source. The user is shown the types of data available without generally showing the actual data. The user can then select the specific patient data to retrieve from the spoke sources. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058757 | ADJUDICATING INTEGRATED TRANSACTIONS - A method for adjudicating and reimbursing a care provider for services provided for a clinical event is provided. The method includes referencing an integrated transaction including a number of clinical data elements, wherein the clinical data elements include clinical event details and electronic medical record data elements associated with a patient. Clinical data elements are used to select medical appropriateness criteria from an appropriateness knowledge base. Thereafter, it is determined that an electronic medical record data element affects the selected medical appropriateness criteria. As a result, the medical appropriateness criteria is adjusted in accordance with the electronic medical record data elements determined to affect the medical appropriateness criteria. The adjusted medical appropriateness criteria is used to determine whether the clinical data element(s) satisfy the adjusted medical appropriateness criteria. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058758 | Interaction With Parties For Workers Compensation - Technology is described for interacting with employers in a worker's compensation process. The method can include receiving a worker's compensation claim at a server. The worker's compensation claim can be stored in a database and submitted to a worker's compensation carrier. An employee update request can be sent to an insured employer in a short range time frame. An employer claim update request can be sent to the insured employer in a medium range time frame, and a decision time update request can be sent to the insured employer in a medium range time frame. In addition, a weekly follow-up reminder request may be sent to the insured employer until the employee is back to work with no restrictions. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058759 | TRANSFERRING INSURANCE POLICIES - A server may receive from a trading system information on an insurance policy, in which the information may include privacy related information. The server may compare the privacy related information to at least one predefined characteristic and determine that there is a match between the privacy related information and the characteristic. Based at least in part on there being a match, the server may filter-out the insurance policy such that the information on the insurance policy is not provided to a workstation in use by a participant. Alternatively, the server may determine that there is not a match between the privacy related information and the characteristic and provide the information, minus the privacy related information, to the workstation. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058760 | LOCATION-BASED RECOVERY DEVICE AND RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICES AND DATA - A device and software utilizing Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) technologies for monitoring and recovering portable computing devices and, a method and system for acquiring such devices, protecting data on such devices, and for compensating owners of devices. A GPS mechanism of the invention provides real time tracking of missing devices that may be coordinated with security agencies to intercept and recover missing computing devices. When a stolen device is unrecoverable, the invention may receive a signal to initiate data recovery where a wireless network is available to recover data for the owner. Alternatively, the GPS mechanism instructs the device to encrypt or destroy stored data files to prevent commercial espionage or privacy violations. The invention discloses a software system and method for computing a purchase price of the GPS mechanism, computing compensation for loss of the device and lost data. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058761 | Apparatus and Method for Analyzing Driving Performance Data - A system for analyzing driving performance data is provided. The system and method include one or more devices in electronic communication with a network, the one or more devices including one or more sensors for obtaining raw data associated with operation of a vehicle by a driver. A driving performance engine in electronic communication with the device, the driving performance engine generates one or more granular driving events by defining values of one or more driving parameters by associating the one or more driving parameters to the raw data, compares the one or more granular driving events with one or more similar previous driving events of the driver or other drivers having similar driving parameters and values thereof, normalizes the one or more granular driving events of the driver based on the comparison, and processes the one or more granular driving events using the driving performance engine and one or more statistical models to calculate a performance or risk value for the driver. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058762 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONSUMER CONTROLLED INSURANCE DATA MANAGEMENT - One embodiment is directed to a method for data management for insurance purposes. The method includes receiving, at a server, time-variant data from a retail module configured to obtain the time-variant data, wherein the time-variant data pertains to an item or intangible to be insured. Identification information is also received at the server from the retail module. The method includes determining a user account with which the retail module is associated based on the identification information, and receiving a selection from a user indicative of which one or more insurance providers to send the time-variant data to, wherein the user is associated with the user account. The time-variant data is provided, from the server, to the one or more insurance providers selected by the user. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058763 | Fraud detection methods and systems - An unsupervised statistical analytics approach to detecting fraud utilizes cluster analysis to identify specific clusters of claims or transactions for additional investigation, or utilizes association rules as tripwires to identify outliers. The clusters or sets of rules define a “normal” profile for the claims or transactions used to filter out normal claims, leaving “not normal” claims for potential investigation. To generate clusters or association rules, data relating to a sample set of claims or transactions may be obtained, and a set of variables used to discover patterns in the data that indicate a normal profile. New claims may be filtered, and not normal claims analyzed further. Alternatively, patterns for both a normal profile and an anomalous profile may be discovered, and a new claim filtered by the normal filter. If the claim is “not normal” it may be further filtered to detect potential fraud. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058764 | WEB BASED REPAIR COST ESTIMATING SYSTEM - A web based insurance estimating system. The system includes a client computer that can launch client-side integrated processing software through a web-based application. The system also includes a server that generates information for a repair cost estimate web page. The repair cost estimate web page is displayed at the client computer. The repair cost estimate web page has properties that can be configured by a user at the client computer. The server can automatically populate fields of one or more web pages in response to a vehicle identification number entered by the user. The system can provide validation control of data entered into a data field. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058765 | Processing and Optimizing Travel Insurance Transactions - A method and system are provided for processing communications between travel service providers and travel insurers where travel service providers use different messaging formats. A travel service provider transmits itinerary data to a travel insurer in one messaging format. The travel insurer may then convert the itinerary data into a format compatible with the travel insurer's system and determine an optimal policy choice based on the itinerary data. The travel insurer may then transmit this choice to the travel service provider in the travel service provider's preferred messaging format, and the travel service provider offers the product to the consumer through the travel service provider's interface. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058766 | EVENT CALENDAR INTEGRATION - A method and system to automatically add events to a user's electronic calendar are described. The system may detect that a user has an interest in a particular event by examining user activity outside of an electronic calendar. The system may then automatically, or upon request by the user, add the event to the user's calendar. Additional embodiments are described having various levels of automation in the detection of the user's interest and adding of the event to the user's electronic calendar. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058767 | RESERVATION REALIZATION SCORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - With the subject invention, a method is provided in which real-time information beyond point-of-sale is evaluated to determine a propensity score of a person realizing a reservation, in particular, whether the person shall be a no show or cancellation with respect to a reservation. The subject invention utilizes information obtained through a payment card network, which in the prior art has not been considered in evaluating no show or cancellation rates. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058768 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIP PLANNING SUGGESTIONS - A trip destination for an individual may be determined. A set of contacts associated with the individual and the trip destination may be identified. A meeting location associated with the trip destination and one or more of the individual and a member of the set of contacts may be identified. A free time slot associated with the individual or a member of the set of contacts may be identified. A suggested calendar appointment associated with the individual, the free time slot, the location, and one or more members of the set of contacts may be provided. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058769 | SOCIAL NETWORK FOR TOUR PLANNING - A social networking system server which includes a processor, wherein the processor utilizes computer readable program code to initiate, implement, and conclude, a travel plan. The computer readable program code comprising a series of computer readable program steps to effect coordinating a global, on-line social networking system (“SNS”). The computer readable program code further includes a series of computer readable program steps to effect initiating a travel plan for a first SNS member, purchasing goods on-line, implementing a tour plan, and concluding the tour plan. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058770 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ISSUING RESERVATION NUMBER THROUGH SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Provided is a service information providing method of a user terminal. The method includes: transmitting a service information request including user information of the user terminal to a service providing terminal through short-range wireless communication; receiving service information corresponding to the service information request and additional information according to the user information in the service information request from the service providing terminal; and displaying the received service information and additional information. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058771 | PASSENGER CHECK-IN FINALIZATION - This document describes a computer-implemented method for facilitating a check-in finalization process for a travel passenger. The method includes receiving one or more check-in parameters related to a check-in procedure for a passenger checking in for a travel segment, and determining from the received check-in parameters a check-in workflow status corresponding to which of a plurality of steps of the check-in procedure have been completed. The method also includes identifying one or more finalization actions that are available for finalizing the check-in procedure based on the check-in workflow status. The method further includes determining a primary finalization action from the one or more finalization actions, the primary finalization action being the finalization action most likely to be taken to finalize the check-in procedure. The method also includes providing for display on a user interface the available finalization actions, where the primary finalization action is pre-selected on the user interface. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058772 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING AN ELECTRONIC AUCTION FOR AVAILABLE CARGO CAPACITY ON A CARGO CARRIER - The embodiments relate to systems and methods for conducting an electronic auction for available cargo capacity on a cargo carrier. In one aspect, the embodiments may monitor the cargo carrier to determine its geographic location as the cargo carrier travels towards a starting point of a route; determine a route starting distance between the geographic location of the cargo carrier and the starting point of the route; begin the electronic auction to sell the available cargo capacity prior to the cargo carrier arriving at the starting point of the route, the electronic auction selling the available cargo capacity at a current route price that corresponds to the route starting distance; and receive input indicating a purchase of the available cargo capacity at the current route price. In some embodiments, a route may be partitioned into potentially overlapping segments, and electronic auctions may be conducted for each route segment. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058773 | DETERMINING CORPORATE ACTIONS USING TRANSACTIONAL DATA - Aspects of the invention provide for the use of transactional data in determining a corporate action alert. Further aspects of the invention provide for determining a merger and acquisition utilizing employee base information generated from analyzing trends in historical transactional data. The method and processes may include the following: receiving transactional data corresponding to transactions associated with a set of customer accounts, wherein the transactional data includes business name patterns; generating employee base information using the transactional data, wherein the employee base information includes a total number of employees and a total amount of salary paid; identifying a trend for a merger and acquisition utilizing the employee base information; determining a list of the mergers and acquisitions from the trends for the mergers and acquisitions; and comparing the merger and acquisition list to a corporate database to identify data discrepancies. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058774 | BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT USING A REAL TIME STRATEGY GAME - Aspects of the invention provide for business process management using a real time strategy game. In one embodiment, a system including a platform for business process management is provided. The system includes: a core operational real time strategy game for process improvement; a business process management system for receiving a business process model; and a real time data access and analytics system for tracking and analyzing real data of the core operational game and modifying, in response to the tracking, the business process model. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058775 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING SUPPLY CHAIN PROCESSES AND INTELLIGENCE - A Global Supply Chain Intelligence system (“GSCI”) adapted to predict, discover and verify commodity trade flows. Creating and maintaining a dataset that tracks real and near real-time commodity flows as they happen as an input to the GSCI. The dataset used in a business intelligence process within the GSCI to arrive at an output, such as a predicted price behavior, a price alert, a risk alert, etc. A Commodity Flow Intelligence (CFI) component that collects and analyzes information with the timeliness, detail and accuracy required to track, forecast and predict supply and demand imbalances at the discrete flow level to aid market participants in making operational trading and investment decisions, for example, in connection with a financial services system or offering providing enhanced data and tools to promote market transparency. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058776 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTION CHAIN MANAGEMENT - A system for supply chain management is provided. The system includes two or more manufacturer systems receiving order data, such as data identifying goods that have been ordered for each of two or more warehouses, and generating first and second shipment data, such as data identifying the actual amount of goods that were shipped. A warehouse system receives the order data, such as to allow a warehouse operator to make plans for accommodating the order, and the shipment data, such as to notify the warehouse operator of actual amounts of goods that have been shipped. An order controller system generates the order data and receives the shipment data, such as data identifying goods that are being shipped to the order controller system. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058777 | ORGANIZATION OF REVERSE FLEXIBLE MEETING SCHEDULES - A method and system for scheduling a meeting between a schedule entity and a plurality of booking entities over a communications network. The method comprises presenting a meeting schedule of the schedule entity for access by the plurality of booking entities, such that the meeting schedule defines a meeting period including a start time and an end time and the meeting period is divided into a first meeting interval and a second meeting interval such that the intervals are located in the meeting period between the start and end times. The method also confirms booking of a first meeting for a first booking entity of the plurality of booking entities in the first meeting interval and maintains the availability of the first meeting interval to accept another meeting booking by another booking entity of the plurality of booking entities based on a booking number threshold defining the maximum number of allowed meeting bookings for the first meeting interval. The method also confirms a second meeting for a second booking entity of the plurality of booking entities in the same first meeting interval. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058778 | LOCATION-AWARE CALENDARING - A location-aware calendaring system schedules a meeting after receiving a request from a meeting initiator interacting with a device, wherein the request identifies at least a meeting attendee. The system determines a location of the meeting initiator based on wireless signal strength information and a location of the meeting attendee, and then determines a meeting location based on the meeting request and at least the determined location of the meeting initiator and the determined location of the meeting attendee. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058779 | FAMILY ORGANIZATION AND COMMUNICATION TOOL - A family organization and communication tool is preferably provided via a web site that enables interne access by both parents and their children. The tool provides features for the managing, scheduling and sharing of information among the parents and children of blended families. Specifically, the tool provides for an access schedule calendar to which can be posted specific events requiring the pick up and drop off responsibilities of a parent. Additionally, the tool provides a means for electronically requesting a swap or trade in days of responsibility for a child and the tool provides for an “ask and approve” expense log for the sharing of children's expenses among parents. The tool further provides for date and time stamping of access by the parents or children to each web page within the tool and for protected entries, entries that can only be edited or deleted by the original creator. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058780 | NOTIFICATION TO USERS OF EVENTS - A method and system for notifying users of events. User activity of a user is monitored, based on user notification information in a storage location. The user notification information pertains to a scheduled event. In response to a detection, from the monitoring, of a change in the user activity, it is ascertained that the change necessitates notifying the user of the scheduled event due to the change impacting whether the user can participate in the scheduled event. Then the user is notified of the scheduled event. The user notification information in the storage location is modified, based on the detected change in the user activity, in response to receipt of an instruction from the user to change the user notification information in the storage location. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058781 | ASSORTMENT PLANNING AND OPTIMIZATION - The present subject matter relates to systems and methods for assortment planning and optimization in a retail environment. In one implementation, a method for assortment planning and optimization is described. The method includes receiving assortment parameter data, and input information. The input information includes performance data, product data, fixture data and store data. Further, the method includes ranking product items based at least on the assortment parameter data and the input information. Furthermore, the method includes creating a listing of the product items based at least on the ranking. Such listing of the product items is processed based at least on predefined business rules, to generate one or more assortment solutions for providing optimal gross margins. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058782 | INTEGRATED COLLABORATIVE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT - An integrated scientific research environment includes a method and system of conducting a standardized, collaborative scientific research project. Researchers utilize the integrated scientific research environment to conduct experiments in which information is generated, analyzed, verified, and published in a distributed computing infrastructure that allows for multiple users to work together on experiments and scientific research projects. Multiple modules create a literature review and a research protocol, enable verification and analysis of experiment results, and prepare results for publication to add to existing knowledge in the field of the experiments conducted. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058783 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING CATASTROPHE BASED RESOURCES - Provided are systems and methods for determining the number of persons necessary to process a projected number of insurance claims for a forecasted catastrophic event, based at least on the projected number of insurance claims, an insurance claim-reporting pattern corresponding to the type of forecasted catastrophic event, a series of work phases for processing the projected insurance claims, work distribution patterns for the work phases, estimated times for completing the work phases, and claim resolution rates for the work phases. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058784 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING CROWDSOURCABILITY OF A BUSINESS PROCESS - A method and system for recommending suitability of crowdsourcing a business process is provided. The method includes generating a plurality of business requirements pertaining to the business processes, and receiving one or more attributes pertaining to one or more sets of crowdsourced workforce. The method further includes generating at least one of a comparison matrix or an optimization function based on the plurality of business requirements and the one or more attributes pertaining to one or more sets of crowdsourced workforce. Lastly, the method provides a recommendation on the suitability of crowdsourcing the business process based on at least one of the comparison matrix or the optimization function. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058785 | Method for Efficiently Allocating an Advertising Budget Between Web Advertising Entities - There are provided a computing system capable of allocating an advertisement budget of an advertisement campaign between a plurality of advertisement entities and a method of operating thereof. The method comprises: obtaining, for each of the plurality of advertisement entities, a respective optimal target frontier function representing for each given advertising cost an optimal value of return and configured to follow the law of diminishing return; receiving a budget constraint for the advertisement budget; generating a global target frontier function by summing each of the received optimal target frontier functions; processing the generated global target frontier function to determine for each of the plurality of advertisement entities an optimal, with respect of at least the received budget constrain, advertising cost value such that a sum of the optimal advertising cost values meets the budget constraint; and reporting the determined values. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058786 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO ENHANCE OPERATIONAL PLANNING - Operational planning may be beneficial in a wide variety of areas. For example, naval commanders, hospital administrators, educators, and cargo transporters may benefit from enhanced operational planning. A method can include presenting a list of events in a chronological order. The method can also include linking each of the events to at least one chronological neighbor event, said linking done with respect to a non-chronological parameter of said at least one chronological neighbor event. The method can further include, responsive to a user selection, changing the chronological order of the list of events. The method can additionally include relinking events having at least one changed neighbor event upon changing the chronological order. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058787 | Plan Choosing in Digital Commercial Print Workflows - A method for online planning of a workflow for a job of processing an article in a plant in which other articles are currently being processed, may include, for each stage of the processing, assigning a machine cost value to each machine of the plant that is capable of executing that stage, the machine cost value being an exponential function of a current congestion of that machine. The method may also include constructing a plurality of workflow routes, each workflow route including a series of selected machines such that each selected machine of the series is capable of executing a different stage of the processing,. The method of may further include calculating for each workflow route of the plurality of workflow routes a route cost function that is based on the machine cost functions of the selected machines of that workflow route. The method may also include selecting a workflow route from the plurality of workflow routes based on the calculated route cost functions and processing the article along the selected workflow route. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058788 | EXECUTING A BUSINESS PROCESS BY A STANDARD BUSINESS PROCESS ENGINE - Executing a business process can include providing a context data object including a payload data structure for storing a payload data and automatically splitting an annotated context data object into one or more utility data objects. Responsive to creating a second utility data object, a pre-processing task can be injected into the business process, the pre-processing task using a copy of a first mapping to read data from the predefined data structure instance and to store the read data as payload data in the payload data structure of the first utility data object. Responsive to creating a third utility object, a post-processing task can be injected into the business process. The post-processing task can use a copy of the second mapping to write the payload data of the first utility data object to elements of a predefined data structure instance. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058789 | PROCESS MODEL GENERATION AND WEAK-SPOT ANALYSIS FROM PLAIN EVENT LOGS - Various embodiments of systems and methods for process model extraction and weak-spot analysis from plain event logs are described herein. In an aspect, the method involves obtaining an event log that includes events grouped by process instances. Based on analyzing the event log a process graph is generated. In another aspect, one or more visual representations of the generated process graph, indicating the weak-spots, are generated. At least one of the one or more visual representations of the process model is rendered in response to receiving a selection of the at least one visual representation. In yet another aspect, the weak-spots are transformed into a data structure and provided as input to a rule mining algorithm for generating a set of rules defining the weak-spots. The set of rules received from the rule mining algorithm are rendered on a graphical user interface (GUI). | 2014-02-27 |
20140058790 | DEUTERATED PEPTIDES - Methods and compositions described herein relate to processes for the production of deuterated peptides, and the deuterated peptides produced accordingly. Deuterated peptides produced according to methods and compositions described herein may be produced more efficiently than such peptides produced according to prior art processes. The production process of according to methods and compositions described herein may lead to advantages in yield, purity, and/or price for deuterated peptides. Methods of marketing deuterated peptides are also disclosed. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058791 | Apparatus, System and Method for a Brand Affinity Engine Using Positive and Negative Mentions and Indexing - An apparatus, system and method of implementing a computerized brand affinity engine. The apparatus, system and method include at least a plurality of computerized access points having accessible thereto a plurality of sites mentioning at least one sponsor, a categorized, hierarchical database of keywords, wherein at least the keywords falling in at least one category of the hierarchy correspond to a sponsor category of the at least one sponsor, and a tracker, wherein the tracker tracks positive ones of the mentions of the at least one sponsor on ones of the plurality of sites and negative ones of the mentions of the at least one sponsor on ones of the plurality of sites, in accordance with positive and negative keywords of the categorized, hierarchical database in the sponsor category, and wherein the tracker issues an rating with regard to the at least one sponsor in accordance with the positive ones and the negative ones of the mentions. An assessment of optimal sponsors for particular markets and/or in particular geographies that additionally increases sponsorship opportunities in particular markets and/or in particular geographies is thereby provided. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058792 | Management of E-Commerce Data by Consumers - A system and a method for electronic commerce allowing consumers to centrally receive and send electronic data from multiple merchants. The system includes a central server having software which gathers the electronic data including emails and event notifications from member merchants directed to consumers accounts who maintain and register accounts on a centralized server. The system provides a web-based browser interface through which the consumer is able to view and edit the information in the database, to exert control over what information is made available to each merchant, and to view emails and event notifications directed to the consumer's account on the server. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058793 | FORECASTING A NUMBER OF IMPRESSIONS OF A PROSPECTIVE ADVERTISEMENT LISTING - Technologies pertaining to advertisement impression forecasting are described herein. An advertiser sets forth a proposed bid value for a prospective advertisement listing with respect to a keyword for a defined range of time. A number of auctions for the keyword in which the prospective advertisement listing will participate is estimated. A generative model that models auctions for the keyword is sampled to simulate auctions for the keyword, wherein the number of simulated auctions is equivalent to the number of auctions for the keyword in which the prospective advertisement listing is estimated to participate. For each simulated auction, a determination is made regarding whether the prospective advertisement listing wins the auction based upon the proposed bid value set forth by the advertiser. A number of simulated auctions won by the prospective advertiser is output as a forecasted number of impressions for the advertisement over the defined range of time. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058794 | Method And System For Orders Planning And Optimization With Applications To Food Consumer Products Industry - A system, a computer program product, and a method for order planning and optimization are disclosed. A first data is received, where the first data represents historical shipment data of an item from a distributor to a location. The received first data is processed and a model for at least one shipping pattern of the item from the distributor to the location is determined based on the processed received first data. A forecast for a future shipping demand of the item by the location is generated based on the determined model. At least one shipping pattern of the item from the distributor to the location is optimized based on the generated forecast. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058795 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR FORECASTING RESIDUAL VALUES OF A DURABLE GOOD OVER TIME - Systems, methods and computer program products for forecasting future values of an item, where an initial value for the item is determined, and then a baseline forecast for a future reference period is computed based on factors that include microeconomic data which is specific to an industry of the item and macroeconomic data which is non-specific to the industry of the item. The forecast may also be adjusted based on data for a set of competitive items. The forecast for the item is stored and is then made available to clients that can access the forecast to determine the expected future value of the item at some point in the future. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058796 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PROXIMITY-BASED CROSS MARKETING AND PAYMENT ACTIVITY DATA - An approach for providing proximity-based cross marketing and payment activity data is described. A purchase-related action of a user performed at a first store is tracked. A second store within proximity of the first store is determined based on the tracked purchase-related action. An offer relating to the second store is generated for the user in real-time with respect to the purchase-related action performed at the first store. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058797 | DYNAMIC AND SECURE TESTING AND DATA TRANSMISSION INFRASTRUCTURE IN A MULTI LEVEL SUPPLY CHAIN HIERARCHY - The present relates to a method and system for dynamic and secure testing and data transmission in a multi level supply chain hierarchy. The method and system generates, at an emitting equipment, data related to a component of a product portfolio. The method and system identifies, at the emitting equipment, a receiving equipment for the data. The identification comprises analyzing the data, with respect to the product portfolio and a federated enterprise infrastructure. And the method and system transmits the data, from the emitting equipment to the receiving equipment. Additionally, the generation of the data, the transmission of the data between the emitting equipment and the receiving equipment, and an usage of the data at the receiving equipment, are protected by a security mechanism. The security mechanism prevents an unauthorized actor of the supply chain hierarchy from at least one of: creating, reading, using, and modifying the data. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058798 | DISTRIBUTED AND SYNCHRONIZED NETWORK OF PLAN MODELS - A focus plan model is identified in a network of plan models including two or more plan models, each plan model in the network of plan models representing outcomes for a respective domain, the outcomes for each domain influenced by a respective set of input drivers of the corresponding plan model. One or more linked plan models are identified in the network of plan models that are linked to the focus plan model, link expressions defining links between the plan models. One or more values of the focus plan model are identified, the one or more values including a value of at least one of a set including the input drivers of the focus plan model and outcome measures of the focus plan model. A scenario is generated based on the identified value using both the focus plan model and the one or more linked plan models. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058799 | SCENARIO PLANNING GUIDANCE - One or more plan models are identified, each of the plan models representing a business outcome of a corresponding domain and including a respective set of input drivers and a respective set of outcome measures, where values of the outcome measures are influenced by values of the input drivers. One or more particular values are received in connection with a scenario based on the plan models and one or more guidance rules, defined through the plan models, are applied to values of the scenario. In some instances, each plan model includes a respective input drivers model defining input drivers of the plan model, a respective outcome measures model defining outcome measures of the plan model, and one or more guidance rules defining constraints on values of input drivers and/or outcome measures of the plan model. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058800 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING OPERATION CONTINUITY - The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for determining an entity's readiness to operate under adverse conditions. An exemplary method includes receiving selection of at least one adverse scenario; determining at least one location associated with the entity; determining at least one resource associated with the at least one location; determining whether at least one continuity operation is available to be triggered, wherein the at least one continuity operation is associated with the at least one resource; and determining whether the at least one resource is affected by occurrence of the at least one adverse scenario. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058801 | System And Method To Measure, Aggregate And Analyze Exact Effort And Time Productivity - A system and method for automatically measuring, analyzing and improving exact work effort of white collar employees, without requiring manual intervention or configuration, is described. The system captures all the work effort put on by the users. Systems and methods have been described to track the daily time spent by employees, irrespective of whether the time is spent on one or more computing devices, or away from any computing system while in meetings, discussions, calls, lab work, outside travel, and remote visits. This is mapped to activities and objectives that are automatically inferred based on the applications and artifacts being used, the source of offline time usage, and the employee's position in the organization and role therein. The captured individual work effort is mapped to the organization's hierarchy and business attributes. As a result, work patterns and trends within each sub-unit/operational dimension of the business are identified. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058802 | FLEET VEHICLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Some embodiments of a system for communicating vehicle information can provide equipment for use inside a fleet vehicle to facilitate prompt and efficient transfer of vehicle and driver information. In particular embodiments, the system may include an electronic onboard recorder mountable in a vehicle and a mobile communication device that is configured to wireless communication with the electronic onboard recorder. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058803 | System and Method for Evaluating Providers of Human Resources - A system and method for measuring the quality of candidates submitted for temporary positions by providers of contingent staffing solutions. More particularly, the invention relates to a method and system for recording various quality metrics for each step performed in the candidate selection process and indexes the recorded quality metrics to provide an evaluation of candidate quality over a given time period. A set of candidate quality factors and a set of candidate submission activities are defined and assigned various point values. Iterations of the sets over a predetermined time period are recorded and multiplied by the assigned point values to obtain a quality point total and activity point total. The quality and activity point totals are then correlated to obtain a quality index value which may be expressed in graph form to provide a measure of candidate quality over the predetermined time period. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058804 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELLING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES VIA CROWDSOURCING - Provided are computer implemented methods and systems for selling products and services using crowdsourcing. An exemplary method comprises receiving information associated with a crowdsourcing item. The crowdsourcing item is associated with an owner of the crowdsourcing item. The information includes a target amount for crowdsourcing. One or more contributions associated with the crowdsourcing item are received from one or more users. The total amount of the contributions is periodically calculated. When determined that the total amount has reached the target amount, the total amount is transferred to the owner. Additionally, the crowdsourcing item may be produced by the owner using the contributions and delivered to the users who made contributions either by one item to each of the users or by a share of the crowdsourcing item proportional to the contribution made. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058805 | REMOTELY AUTHORIZING A PURCHASE FROM A HEAD UNIT OF A VEHICLE - Example systems and methods for authorizing a financial charge from the head unit of a vehicle are shown, in m example, vehicle position information is received from the head unit at a cloud server. The cloud server can also receive purchase information from the head unit of the vehicle. The cloud server can then verify that the purchase is appropriate given a location of the vehicle, based on the purchase information and the vehicle position information, and pass the purchase information to a credit or debit card processor when the purchase has been verified. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058806 | METHODS FOR ENCOURAGING ENERGY-EFFICIENT BEHAVIORS BASED ON A NETWORK CONNECTED THERMOSTAT-CENTRIC ENERGY EFFICIENCY PLATFORM - A home energy efficiency platform is described having as its fundamental component a network-connected, multi-sensing learning thermostat that leverages a visually pleasing interactive display associated therewith to encourage energy-saving behavior by a competitive gamesmanship modality, either in terms of self-competition in which a users energy-saving performance is measured against themselves over time, or in terms of community competition in which a users energy-saving behavior is measured against a relevant community. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058807 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO FACILITATE REAL TIME COMMUNICATIONS IN VIRTUAL REALITY - Methods and systems for connecting people for real time communications via a virtual reality environment. One embodiment includes: receiving a call for a real time communication session at a virtual object presented in a virtual reality world; indicating to a plurality of residents of the virtual reality world that the virtual object is being called; and responsive to an input from one resident of the plurality of residents, connecting the call to the resident for a real time communication session. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058808 | MOBILE DEVICE USING POSITION AND EXTERNAL CONDITION TO SELECT RELATED ADVERTISING AND SELECTION METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses a mobile device using position and external condition to select related advertising and a selection method thereof The mobile device comprises a storage module, a positioning module, a processing module and a display module. The storage module is provided for storing a plurality pieces of advertising information. The positioning module is provided for receiving a current position of the mobile device. The processing module is provided for reading a situational parameter of the mobile device or a characteristic parameter of a target user, and reading a plurality pieces of advertising information of the corresponding current position and situational parameter or characteristic parameter according to the current position, and the situational parameter or the characteristic parameter, and updating the advertising information according to the current position. The display module is provided for displaying plurality pieces of corresponding advertising information. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058809 | AD PARTNER REVENUE SHARE AND FINANCIAL TERMS ASSOCIATION OVERRIDES - Systems and methods for the creation and management of rules for the governance of revenue sharing are disclosed herein. Generally, the system and methods generate, based on a publisher's input, at least one financial term override object. The financial term override object comprises a set of rules that override a default set of rules to govern how revenue is divided between a partner and a publisher when a supplemental content object is displayed by a partner. The financial term override object is stored in a database. After storing the financial term override object, the financial term override object is associated with the publisher and the partner. A revenue shared owed to the partner is then calculated based on the override set of rules. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058810 | PREMIUM ADVERTISING COST-SHARING MATCHING METHOD, SYSTEM, AND ADVERTISING GIFT - The present invention relates to a premium advertising cost-sharing matching method, system, and advertising gift, which provides an advertising gift supplier and the advertisers to choose to share an advertising gift with other advertisers for advertising their own advertisement on said advertising gift and sharing an advertising cost. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058811 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND REWARDING AN INCENTIVIZED ACTIVITY - A system and method for monitoring and rewarding a user's participation in an incentivized activity is constructed and arranged to verify that the user is engaging in the incentivized activity as a condition for awarding an incentive. The system may be configured to verify whether the user is engaging in the incentivized activity at all, or to monitor the quality of the user's participation in the incentivized activity. The incentivized activity could be any online activity, activity that occurs on an interactive television system or activity that occurs on a mobile device such as a smart phone or tablet computer. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058812 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTIVE MOBILE ADS - Methods and systems are provided herein for an interactive mobile advertisement, which incentivizes the user to interact with the advertisement. The interactive mobile advertisement may have a game-like format suitable for mobile platforms. The interactive mobile advertisement has a game-like format wherein a user is prompted to find a specified object within the advertisement/game environment. The specified object may be a special coupon or promotion offered by the advertiser. The object is hidden within the game and the user is prompted to find it. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058813 | System and Method for Advertising Distribution Through Mobile Social Gaming - A system and method is disclosed for advertising through a social network by immersion of participants in a sponsored mobile game. A game application for the sponsored game is developed on a server and deployed on consumer devices connected to the server. The game application, operating on a smart phone, utilizes onboard GPS and camera subsystems to carry out and facilitate the game functions. A dashboard is provided for designing the game around an advertising campaign. The game application is syndicated and shared through a consumer's social media community. The game is tracked by the server. Game information and rewards are delivered to participants during and after the game. In one aspect, the game involves a participant gathering digital permits prior to and during the game which are used to complete a tagging event with other participants. Rewards such as redeemable coupons are based on actions at sponsor locations. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058814 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF DIGITAL CONTENT - A system and method for distribution of digital content and goods includes means for rewarding multiple levels of participants involved in the recommendation/sales process. Distribution may be direct through platform-generated commerce and/or indirect through recommendations on external social media sites, communications platforms, blogs and other social and commerce sites. Multiple levels of users of the system may be compensated for participating in sales of content based on their activity and hierarchy within user networks related to the sale. | 2014-02-27 |
20140058815 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATION BASED MOBILE APPLICATION OFFERS - The systems and methods of the disclosure allow a user to take advantage of offers via a mobile application. In response to a purchase associated with the offer is made, the transaction information may be processed by the system, such that, the credit and debit associated with the purchase are transmitted to the transaction account and the merchant. The transaction information may be further processed to determine whether the particular transaction is eligible for a reward. Where the transaction is eligible for a reward, the credit and debit associated with reward are transmitted to the transaction account and the sponsoring entity. The offers may be based on the location of the mobile device and/or location of the user. | 2014-02-27 |