| 10th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 75 |
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| 20150066457 | Modeling Fluid Displacement in a Well System Environment - In some aspects, a one-dimensional flow model is generated. The one-dimensional flow model can represent flow of a first fluid and a second fluid in a flow path in a well system environment. The one-dimensional flow model comprises an effective diffusion coefficient model for a composite fluid volume comprising the first and second fluids. The effective diffusion coefficient model calculates an effective diffusion coefficient for the composite fluid volume based on a difference between the respective densities and viscosities of the first fluid and the second fluid. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066458 | PROVIDING AN OBJECTIVE FUNCTION BASED ON VARIATION IN PREDICTED DATA - An objective function is based on covariance of differences in predicted data over multiple sets of candidate model parameterizations that characterize a target structure. A computation is performed with respect to the objective function to produce an output. An action selected from the following can be performed based on the output of the computation: selecting at least one design parameter relating to performing a survey acquisition that is one of an active source survey acquisition and a non-seismic passive acquisition, and selecting a data processing strategy. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066459 | RESERVOIR PRESSURE PREDICTION AND METHODS OF EXECUTION - Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer readable media useful in determining pore pressure in a reservoir. Specifically disclosed are methods, systems, and computer readable media for determining mudstone permeability in mudstone bounding a reservoir. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066460 | STRATIGRAPHIC FUNCTION - A method can include receiving implicit function values at nodes of a coarse mesh of a region of interest in a geologic environment; receiving data: formulating constraints based at least in part on the data; solving a system of equations for a finer mesh subject to the constraints; and outputting implicit function values at nodes of the finer mesh based at least in part on solving the system of equations. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066461 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HISTORICAL, GEOLOGICAL MODELING TO PRODUCE AN ESTIMATED DISTRIBUTION OF HYDROCARBONS TRAPPED IN SUBSURFACE CLATHRATES - Methods and systems for historical, geological modeling for producing an estimated distribution of hydrocarbons trapped in subsurface clathrates are disclosed. One method includes instantiating a basin model of a geological area of interest, and, for each of a plurality of predetermined geological times up to a geologic present day: determining one or more changes to the basin model, calculating, at each of a plurality of locations within the basin model, a temperature and a pressure, determining an existence and a location of a clathrate stability zone based on the calculated temperatures and pressures, and estimating one or more clathrate concentrations and hydrocarbon volumes in the clathrate stability zone. The method further includes calibrating a present day clathrate concentration and hydrocarbon volume derived from the basin model against calibration data obtained from one or more locations within the geological area of interest, thereby providing a model of the present day clathrate concentration and hydrocarbon volume at each of the plurality of locations. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066462 | Modeling Fluid Flow Interactions Among Regions of a Well System - In some aspects, techniques and systems for simulating well system fluid flow are described. Multiple subsystem models each include fluid flow variables and represent well system fluid dynamics associated with a sub-region in a subterranean region. The subsystem models are connected by one or more junction models. The junction models represent interactions among the subsystem models. For each of the subsystem models, an elimination of internal variables of the subsystem model is performed to express the internal variables in terms of junction variables of the junction models. The junction variables are solved based on the junction models. The internal variables of the subsystem model are solved based on the solved junction variables. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066463 | Block Matrix Solver for Well System Fluid Flow Modeling - In some aspects, techniques and systems for operating a subterranean region model are described. A block matrix is identified. The block matrix includes a banded portion and an augmented portion. The banded portion includes flow variable coefficients based on governing flow equations of a model representing well system fluid flow in a subterranean region. In a row of the block matrix, decomposition of a pivot element in the row is performed. Elements along the row are modified based on an inverse of the decomposition of the pivot element. A flow variable of the model is solved based on the block matrix that contains the modified elements. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066464 | Determining Phase Behavior of a Reservoir Fluid - Various implementations directed to determining a phase behavior of a reservoir fluid are provided. In one implementation, a method may include receiving a plurality of predetermined pore size data, a plurality of predetermined bulk fluid data, and a plurality of predetermined kerogen data that are based on historical data for a plurality of hydrocarbon reservoirs. The method may also include creating a library of a plurality of simulated phase behavior data for the predetermined pore size data, the predetermined bulk fluid data, and the predetermined kerogen data. The method may further include determining a phase behavior of a reservoir fluid disposed in an actual hydrocarbon reservoir using the library. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066465 | METHOD FOR EXPLOITING A SUBSURFACE DEPOSIT COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE GEOLOGICAL OUTCROP BY MEANS OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY - The invention relates to a method for exploiting (EXP) a subsurface deposit comprising at least one outcrop, the exploitation (EXP) of the deposit is based on a geological model (MOD) formed from a photogrammetry. The method reconstructs the geological outcrops in three dimensions (R3D) from photographs (PHO), and interprets the geological elements thereof, such as the sedimentary surfaces, the geological facies, the fault lines and the fractures, the inclination of the beds, etc. to construct a geological model of the deposit (MOD). | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066466 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATMENT DECONVOLUTION USING DUAL SCALE KERNELS - Deconvolution systems and methods based on cornea smoothing can be used to obtain an ablation target or treatment shape that does not induce significant high order aberrations such as spherical aberration. Exemplary ablation targets or treatment shapes can provide a post-operative spherical aberration that is equal to or below a naturally occurring amount of spherical aberration. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066467 | POWER AND PERFORMANCE SORTING OF MICROPROCESSORS FROM FIRST INTERCONNECT LAYER TO WAFER FINAL TEST - A system, method and computer program product for sorting Integrated Circuits (chips), particularly microprocessor chips, and particularly that predicts chip performance or power for sorting purposes. The system and method described herein uses a combination of performance-predicting parameters that are measured early in the process, and applies a unique method to project where the part, e.g., microprocessor IC, will eventually be sorted. Sorting includes classifying the IC product to a subset of a family of products with the product satisfying certain performance characteristics or specifications, in the early stages of manufacturing, e.g., before the end product is fully fabricated. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066468 | DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF ACQUIRING DATA FROM A WIND TURBINE - The invention relates to a data acquisition system configured for acquiring operational data from one or more wind turbine components of a wind turbine, the data acquisition system comprising: a setup arrangement configured for establishing one or more data acquisition tasks, a user interface configured for allowing a user to access said setup arrangement, a wind turbine interface configured so that the setup arrangement can communicate with the wind turbine, wherein said user interface is configured for enabling the user to establish the one or more data acquisition tasks wherein the setup arrangement is configured for communicating one or more of the one or more data acquisition tasks to the wind turbine, and wherein said data set to be acquired is configured for being acquired from said data storage arrangement. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066469 | DYNAMICALLY SELECTING MASTER CLOCK TO MANAGE NON-LINEAR SIMULATION CLOCKS - Systems and methods that efficiently simulate controlled systems are presented. A simulation management component (SMC) controls simulation of a controlled system by controlling a desired number of nodes, each comprising a controller (e.g., soft controller) and a simulated component or process, which are part of the controlled system. The simulation can be performed in a step-wise manner, wherein the simulation can comprise a desired number of steps of respectively desired lengths of time. For each step, the SMC dynamically selects a desired clock (e.g., currently identified slowest clock) as a master clock for the next step. The SMC predicts a length of time of the next step to facilitate setting a desired length of time for the next step based in part on the predicted length of time. As part of each step, components can synchronously exchange data via intra-node or inter-node connections to facilitate simulation. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066470 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR SIMULATING A WORKLOAD OF A STORAGE SYSTEM - A computer system that simulates a workload of a storage system including a non-transitory storage medium including instruction code for the computer system, wherein the instruction code, when executed on the computer system, performs steps as follows: obtaining configuration data regarding first components of the first storage system including at least one RAID group; obtaining performance data including workload information of the first storage system; configuring second components of a second storage system including at least one corresponding RAID group corresponding to the at least one RAID group of the first storage system, based on the obtained configuration data; and operating the second storage system using a simulated workload based on the obtained performance data, resulting in a front loading of the second storage system equivalent to a front loading of the first storage system. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066471 | MODELING STORAGE ENVIRONMENTS - Example embodiments provide various techniques for modeling network storage environments. To model a particular storage environment, component models that are associated with the components of the storage environment are loaded. Each component model is programmed to mathematically simulate one or more components of the storage environment. A system model is then composed from the component models and this system model is configured to simulate the storage environment. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066472 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MULTIPLE PHONEME STRINGS FOR FOREIGN NOUN - A method for generating multiple phoneme for foreign proper nouns according to the present invention comprises: converting a second language proper noun uttered in a first language to a second language word using an automatic translator; generating second language phoneme strings corresponding to the second language word using a second language G2P; converting the second language phoneme strings to first language phoneme strings; generating first language phoneme strings corresponding to the second language proper noun uttered in the first language using a first language G2P; and generating a plurality of phoneme strings by using the first language phoneme strings obtained through the step of converting to the first language phoneme strings and the first language phoneme strings obtained through the step of generating the first language phoneme strings. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066473 | MOBILE TERMINAL - Provided is a mobile terminal including: a display unit to which visual information is output; an input unit into which a text or a voice is input in a first language; and a controller that outputs to the display unit information relating to contents that are input in the first language and executes at least one among first control and second control in association with output of the information, wherein the first control includes control that outputs the information in the first language to the display unit, in which the second control includes control that converts the information into a second language different from the first language and outputs the information in the second language to the display unit. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066474 | Method and Apparatus for Matching Misspellings Caused by Phonetic Variations - A method and apparatus for matching equivalent words across languages takes advantage of a set of rules that are built from a user-defined language specification (UDLS), which may be open source and customizable by a language expert. The UDLS is used to build a customer language library (CLL) that includes a list of consonants, a list of vowels, and rules defining phoneme equivalencies across two languages. The CLL is used to match equivalent words by both two-set and three-set matching to not only increase the number of true matches (i.e., overall accuracy), but also improve recognition of variations in a manner that is not language specific. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066475 | Method For Detecting Plagiarism In Arabic - The present invention provides a method for detecting plagiarism in Arabic texts including any rewording, reordering of words and phrases, and any pronoun changes. Such detection is achieved by returning all the Arabic words in the text to its original root using a stemmer, then comparing all the sentences in the submitted document with every sentence in all original documents. In the method of the present invention, the user has the ability to choose the source of plagiarism, wherein such source comprises a database, a web, or a direct matching. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066476 | Methods and Systems of Four Valued Analogical Transformation Operators Used in Natural Language Processing and Other Applications - A system for the dynamic encoding in a semantic network of both syntactic and semantic information into a common four valued logical notation. The encoding of new information being benign to prior syntactic constructions, tests for N conditionals in time O(C) and allows for the proper quantification of variables at each recursive step. The query/inference engine constructed from such an implementation is able to optimize short term memory for maximizing long term storage in the automaton. In a parallel context this can be viewed as optimizing communication and memory allocation between processes. The self-referencing system is capable of analogically extending knowledge from one knowledge source to another linearly. Disclosed embodiments include machine translation, text summarization, natural language speech recognition natural language. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066477 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING NATURAL LANGUAGE - A method for processing natural language includes generating a first layer of a multi-layer knowledge network including a plurality of word nodes arranged to represent a word or an entity name, generating a second layer of the multi-layer knowledge network with a natural language dataset, the second layer including one or more instance nodes arranged to represent a word or an entity of the natural language dataset, each of the instance nodes being linked by one or more semantic or syntactic relations to form one or more sub-graphs, and, referencing the first layer of the multi-layer knowledge network with the second layer of the multi-layer knowledge network by establishing a reference between each of the word nodes and each of the instance nodes when the word or the entity name represented by each word node is associated with the word or the entity represented by the instance node. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066478 | SYNONYM RELATION DETERMINATION DEVICE, SYNONYM RELATION DETERMINATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A synonym relation determination device comprises: a synonym expression candidate storage unit which associates and stores a synonym candidate (EW) with the synonym source (OW); a text gathering unit which associates and gathers text with an issuing time; a synonym candidate search unit which calculates from the issuing time of the text a time interval (PD) in which the synonym candidate is searched in a text set (TX); a synonym source search unit which searches for a synonym source from the text set of a period which overlaps with the time interval in which the synonym candidate is searched for and calculates an occurrence of the synonym source; and synonym relation extraction unit which, when the occurrence of the synonym source is present in the time interval in which the synonym candidate is searched for, extracts a synonym relation between the synonym candidate and the synonym source. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066479 | CONVERSATIONAL AGENT - A method, system, and computer program product provide a conversation agent to process natural language queries expressed by a user and perform commands according to the derived intention of the user. A natural language processing (NLP) engine derives intent using conditional random fields to identify a domain and at least one task embodied in the query. The NLP may further identify one or more subdomains, and one or more entities related to the identified command. A template system creates a data structure for information relevant to the derived intent and passes a template to a services manager for interfacing with one or more services capable of accomplishing the task. A dialogue manager may elicit more entities from the user if required by the services manager and otherwise engage in conversation with the user. In one embodiment, the conversational agent allows a user to engage in multiple conversations simultaneously. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066480 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING ACRONYM-MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, ACRONYM-MANAGEMENT DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING EXPANDED-DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND EXPANDED-DISPLAY DEVICE - An acronym-management program causes a computer to extracts an acronym from a list-updating reference for updating an acronym list; extracts, from the list-updating reference, a candidate for an expanded form corresponding to the extracted acronym; and, when the likelihood of the extracted acronym being used in the list-updating reference to refer to the extracted expanded-form candidate reaches or exceeds a specific level, increase, in the acronym list, the frequency corresponding to the acronym and the expanded form. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066481 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING AUTOMATIC AUDIO PRODUCTION USING SEMANTIC DATA - There is described a computer implemented method for performing automatic audio production, comprising: receiving an audio signal to be processed; receiving semantic information; determining at least one semantic-based rule using the received semantic information, the semantic-based rule comprising production data that defines how the audio signal to be processed should be produced; processing the audio signal to be processed using the production data, thereby obtaining a produced audio signal; outputting the produced audio signal. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066482 | SYTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF SEMANTIC UNDERSTANDING IN STORAGE, SEARCHING, AND PROVIDING OF DATA OR OTHER CONTENT INFORMATION - A system and method for using semantic understanding in storing and searching data and other information. A linearized tuple-based version of a conceptual graph can be created from a user input. A plurality of conceptual graphs, or portions thereof, can be compared to determine matches. An associative database can be created and/or searched using a hierarchy of conceptual graphs in tuple format, so that the data storage and searching of such database is optimized. The associative database can be used to integrate data from multiple different sources; form part of an Internet or other search engine; or used in other implementations. Also disclosed herein is a system and method for use of semantic understanding in searching and providing of content is described herein. In accordance with an embodiment, the system comprises a Syntactic Parser (SP) or statistical word tokenizer for data retrieval and parsing; a Syntax To Semantics (STS) transformational algebra-based semantic rule set, and an Associative Database (ADB) of linearized tuple conceptual graphs (TCG), utilizing a conceptual graph formalism. Data can be represented within the ADB, enabling both fast data retrieval in the form of semantic objects and a broad ranging taxonomy of content. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066483 | AUTOMATED EXTRACTION OF BIO-ENTITY RELATIONSHIPS FROM LITERATURE - Automated, standardized and accurate extraction of relationships within text. Automatic extraction of such relationships/information allows the information to be stored in structured form so that it can be easily and accurately retrieved when needed. Such information can be used to build online search engines for highly specific and accurate information retrieval. The current invention discloses a novel approach to extract such information from raw text based on natural language processing (NLP) and graph theoretic algorithm. The novel method can be applied, for example, to extract protein-protein relationships in biomedical literature. The method can be easily extended to extract other biological relationships between biological terms such as proteins, genes, pathways, diseases and drugs. The method can also be applied to other information domains to extract other relationships. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066484 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN AUTONOMOUS AVATAR DRIVER - The autonomous avatar driver is useful in association with language sources. A sourcer may receive dialog from the language source. It may also, in some embodiments, receive external data from data sources. A segmentor may convert characters, represent particles and split dialog. A parser may then apply a link grammar, analyze grammatical mood, tag the dialog and prune dialog variants. A semantic engine may lookup token frames, generate semantic lexicons and semantic networks, and resolve ambiguous co-references. An analytics engine may filter common words from dialog, analyze N-grams, count lemmatized words, and analyze nodes. A pragmatics analyzer may resolve slang, generate knowledge templates, group proper nouns and estimate affect of dialog. A recommender may generate tag clouds, cluster the language sources into neighborhoods, recommend social networking to individuals and businesses, and generate contextual advertising. Lastly, a response generator may generate responses for the autonomous avatar using the analyzed dialog. The response generator may also incorporate the generated recommendations. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066485 | Method and System for Dictionary Noise Removal - A method and system of removing noise from a dictionary using a weighted graph is presented. The method can include mapping, by a noise reducing agent executing on a processor, a plurality of dictionaries to a plurality of vertices of a graphical representation, wherein the plurality of vertices is connected by weighted edges representing noise. The plurality of dictionaries may further comprise a plurality of entries, wherein each entry further comprises a plurality of tokens. The method can include selecting a subset of the weighted edges, constructing an acyclic graphical representation flom the selected subset of weighted edges, and determining an ordering based on the acyclic graphical representation. The selected subset of weighted edges may approximate a solution to the Maximum Acyclic Subgraph problem. The method can include removing noise from the plurality of dictionaries according to the determined ordering. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066486 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED SIGNAL DECOMPOSITION - A method for improving decomposition of digital signals using training sequences is presented. A method for improving decomposition of digital signals using initialization is also provided. A method for sorting digital signals using frames based upon energy content in the frame is further presented. A method for utilizing user input for combining parts of a decomposed signal is also presented. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066487 | VOICE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VOICE PROCESSING METHOD - A voice processing apparatus includes: a dividing unit which divides a voice signal into frames in such a manner that any two successive frames overlap each other by a predetermined amount; a first windowing unit which multiplies each frame by a first windowing function that attenuates a signal at both ends of the frame; an orthogonal transform unit which computes a frequency spectrum for each frame multiplied by the first windowing function; a frequency signal processing unit which computes a corrected frequency spectrum; an inverse orthogonal transform unit which computes a corrected frame by applying an inverse orthogonal transform to the corrected frequency spectrum; a second windowing unit which multiplies each corrected frame by a second windowing function that attenuates a signal at both ends of the corrected frame; and an addition unit which adds up the each corrected frame multiplied by the second windowing function, sequentially in time order. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066488 | TIME WARP ACTIVATION SIGNAL PROVIDER, AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER, METHOD FOR PROVIDING A TIME WARP ACTIVATION SIGNAL, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS - An audio encoder has a window function controller, a windower, a time warper with a final quality check functionality, a time/frequency converter, a TNS stage or a quantizer encoder, the window function controller, the time warper, the TNS stage or an additional noise filling analyzer are controlled by signal analysis results obtained by a time warp analyzer or a signal classifier. Furthermore, a decoder applies a noise filling operation using a manipulated noise filling estimate depending on a harmonic or speech characteristic of the audio signal. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066489 | TIME WARP ACTIVATION SIGNAL PROVIDER, AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER, METHOD FOR PROVIDING A TIME WARP ACTIVATION SIGNAL, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS - An audio encoder has a window function controller, a windower, a time warper with a final quality check functionality, a time/frequency converter, a TNS stage or a quantizer encoder, the window function controller, the time warper, the TNS stage or an additional noise filling analyzer are controlled by signal analysis results obtained by a time warp analyzer or a signal classifier. Furthermore, a decoder applies a noise filling operation using a manipulated noise filling estimate depending on a harmonic or speech characteristic of the audio signal. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066490 | TIME WARP ACTIVATION SIGNAL PROVIDER, AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER, METHOD FOR PROVIDING A TIME WARP ACTIVATION SIGNAL, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS - An audio encoder has a window function controller, a windower, a time warper with a final quality check functionality, a time/frequency converter, a TNS stage or a quantizer encoder, the window function controller, the time warper, the TNS stage or an additional noise filling analyzer are controlled by signal analysis results obtained by a time warp analyzer or a signal classifier. Furthermore, a decoder applies a noise filling operation using a manipulated noise filling estimate depending on a harmonic or speech characteristic of the audio signal. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066491 | TIME WARP ACTIVATION SIGNAL PROVIDER, AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER, METHOD FOR PROVIDING A TIME WARP ACTIVATION SIGNAL, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS - An audio encoder has a window function controller, a windower, a time warper with a final quality check functionality, a time/frequency converter, a TNS stage or a quantizer encoder, the window function controller, the time warper, the TNS stage or an additional noise filling analyzer are controlled by signal analysis results obtained by a time warp analyzer or a signal classifier. Furthermore, a decoder applies a noise filling operation using a manipulated noise filling estimate depending on a harmonic or speech characteristic of the audio signal. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066492 | TIME WARP ACTIVATION SIGNAL PROVIDER, AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER, METHOD FOR PROVIDING A TIME WARP ACTIVATION SIGNAL, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS - An audio encoder has a window function controller, a windower, a time warper with a final quality check functionality, a time/frequency converter, a TNS stage or a quantizer encoder, the window function controller, the time warper, the TNS stage or an additional noise filling analyzer are controlled by signal analysis results obtained by a time warp analyzer or a signal classifier. Furthermore, a decoder applies a noise filling operation using a manipulated noise filling estimate depending on a harmonic or speech characteristic of the audio signal. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066493 | TIME WARP ACTIVATION SIGNAL PROVIDER, AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER, METHOD FOR PROVIDING A TIME WARP ACTIVATION SIGNAL, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS - An audio encoder has a window function controller, a windower, a time warper with a final quality check functionality, a time/frequency converter, a TNS stage or a quantizer encoder, the window function controller, the time warper, the TNS stage or an additional noise filling analyzer are controlled by signal analysis results obtained by a time warp analyzer or a signal classifier. Furthermore, a decoder applies a noise filling operation using a manipulated noise filling estimate depending on a harmonic or speech characteristic of the audio signal. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066494 | SMART CIRCULAR AUDIO BUFFER - An audio buffer is used to capture audio in anticipation of a user command to do so. Sensors and processor activity may be monitored, looking for indicia suggesting that the user command may be forthcoming. Upon detecting such indicia, a circular buffer is activated. Audio correction may be applied to the audio stored in the circular buffer. After receiving the user command instructing the device to process or record audio, at least a portion of the audio that was stored in the buffer before the command is combined with audio received after the command. The combined audio may then be processed, transmitted or stored. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066495 | Robust Feature Extraction Using Differential Zero-Crossing Countes - A low power sound recognition sensor is configured to receive an analog signal that may contain a signature sound. Sparse sound parameter information is extracted from the analog signal and compared to a sound parameter reference stored locally with the sound recognition sensor to detect when the signature sound is received in the analog signal. A portion of the sparse sound parameter information is differential zero crossing (ZC) counts. Differential ZC rate may be determined by measuring a number of times the analog signal crosses a threshold value during each of a sequence of time frames to form a sequence of ZC counts and taking a difference between selected pairs of ZC counts to form a sequence of differential ZC counts. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066496 | ASSIGNMENT OF SEMANTIC LABELS TO A SEQUENCE OF WORDS USING NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURES - Technologies pertaining to slot filling are described herein. A deep neural network, a recurrent neural network, and/or a spatio-temporally deep neural network are configured to assign labels to words in a word sequence set forth in natural language. At least one label is a semantic label that is assigned to at least one word in the word sequence. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066497 | Cloud Based Adaptive Learning for Distributed Sensors - A low power sound recognition sensor is configured to receive an analog signal that may contain a signature sound. Sound parameter information is extracted from the analog signal and compared to a sound parameter reference stored locally with the sound recognition sensor to detect when the signature sound is received in the analog signal. A trigger signal is generated when a signature sound is detected. A portion of the extracted sound parameter information is sent to a remote training location for adaptive training when a signature sound detection error occurs. An updated sound parameter reference from the remote training location is received in response to the adaptive training. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066498 | Analog to Information Sound Signature Detection - A low power sound recognition sensor is configured to receive an analog signal that may contain a signature sound. The received analog signal is evaluated using a detection portion of the analog section to determine when background noise on the analog signal is exceeded. A feature extraction portion of the analog section is triggered to extract sparse sound parameter information from the analog signal when the background noise is exceeded. An initial truncated portion of the sound parameter information is compared to a truncated sound parameter database stored locally with the sound recognition sensor to detect when there is a likelihood that the expected sound is being received in the analog signal. A trigger signal is generated to trigger classification logic when the likelihood that the expected sound is being received exceeds a threshold value. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066499 | MONAURAL SPEECH FILTER - A system receives monaural sound which includes speech and background noises. The received sound is divided by frequency and time into time-frequency units (TFUs). Each TFU is classified as speech or non-speech by a processing unit. The processing unit for each frequency range includes at least one of a deep neural network (DNN) or a linear support vector machine (LSVM). The DNN extracts and classifies the features of the TFU and includes a pre-trained stack of Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM), and each RBM includes a visible and a hidden layer. The LSVM classifies each TFU based on extracted features from the DNN, including those from the visible layer of the first RBM, and those from the hidden layer of the last RBM in the stack. The LSVM and DNN include training with a plurality of training noises. Each TFU classified as speech is output. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066500 | SPEECH PROCESSING DEVICE, SPEECH PROCESSING METHOD, AND SPEECH PROCESSING PROGRAM - A speech processing device includes a speech recognition unit configured to sequentially recognize recognition segments from an input speech, a reverberation influence storage unit configured to store a degree of reverberation influence indicating an influence of a reverberation based on a preceding speech to a subsequent speech subsequent to the preceding speech and a recognition segment group including a plurality of recognition segments in correlation with each other, a reverberation influence selection unit configured to select the degree of reverberation influence corresponding to the recognition segment group which includes the plurality of recognition segments recognized by the speech recognition unit from the reverberation influence storage unit, and a reverberation reduction unit configured to remove a reverberation component weighted with the degree of reverberation influence from the speech from which at least a part of recognition segments of the recognition segment group is recognized. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066501 | PROVIDING AN ELECTRONIC SUMMARY OF SOURCE CONTENT - A technique provides an electronic summary of source content. The technique involves performing, on the source content, a content recognition operation to electronically generate text output from the source content. The technique further involves electronically evaluating text portions of the text output based on predefined usability criteria to produce a respective set of usability properties for each text portion of the text output. The technique further involves providing, as the electronic summary of the source content, summarization output which summarizes the source content. The summarization output includes a particular text portion of the text output which is selected from the text portions of the text output based on the respective set of usability properties for each text portion of the text output. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066502 | System and Method of Automated Model Adaptation - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for automated transcription model adaptation includes obtaining audio data from a plurality of audio files. The audio data is transcribed to produce at least one audio file transcription which represents a plurality of transcription alternatives for each audio file. Speech analytics are applied to each audio file transcription. A best transcription is selected from the plurality of transcription alternatives for each audio file. Statistics from the selected best transcription are calculated. An adapted model is created from the calculated statistics. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066503 | System and Method of Automated Language Model Adaptation - Systems and methods of automated adaptation of a language model for transcription of audio data include obtaining audio data. The audio data is transcribed with a language model to produce a plurality of audio file transcriptions. A quality of the plurality of audio file transcriptions is evaluated. At least one best transcription from a plurality of audio file transcriptions is selected based upon the evaluated quality. Statistics are calculated from the selected at least one best transcription from the plurality of audio file transcriptions. The language model is modified from the calculated statistics. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066504 | System and Method for Determining the Compliance of Agent Scripts - Systems and methods of script identification in audio data obtained from audio data. The audio data is segmented into a plurality of utterances. A script model representative of a script text is obtained. The plurality of utterances are decoded with the script model. A determination is made if the script text occurred in the audio data. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066505 | Transcription of Speech - A speech media transcription system comprises a playback device arranged to play back speech delimited in segments. The system is programmed to provide, for a segment being transcribed, an adaptive estimate of the proportion of the segment that has not been transcribed by a transcriber. The device is arranged to play back that proportion of the segment, optionally after having already played back the entire segment. Additionally, a segmentation engine is arranged to divide speech media into a plurality of segments by identifying speech as such and using timing information but without using a machine conversion of the speech media into text or a representation of text. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066506 | System and Method of Text Zoning - A method of zoning a transcription of audio data includes separating the transcription of audio data into a plurality of utterances. A that each word in an utterances is a meaning unit boundary is calculated. The utterance is split into two new utterances at a work with a maximum calculated probability. At least one of the two new utterances that is shorter than a maximum utterance threshold is identified as a meaning unit. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066507 | SOUND RECOGNITION APPARATUS, SOUND RECOGNITION METHOD, AND SOUND RECOGNITION PROGRAM - A sound recognition apparatus can include a sound feature value calculating unit configured to calculate a sound feature value based on a sound signal, and a label converting unit configured to convert the sound feature value into a corresponding label with reference to label data in which sound feature values and labels indicating sound units are correlated. A sound identifying unit is configured to calculate a probability of each sound unit group sequence that a label sequence is segmented for each sound unit group with reference to segmentation data. The segmentated data indicates a probability that a sound unit sequence will be segmented into at least one sound unit group. The sound identity unit can also identify a sound event corresponding to the sound unit group sequence selected based on the calculated probability. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066508 | DATA PRE-PROCESSING AND PROCESSING FOR VOICE RECOGNITION - An apparatus, system, and computer readable media for data pre-processing and processing for voice recognition are described herein. The apparatus includes logic to pre-process multi-channel audio data and logic to resolve a source location. The apparatus also includes logic to perform wide range adaptive beam forming, and logic to perform full voice recognition. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066509 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ENCRYPTING AND DECRYPTING DOCUMENT BASED ON VOICEPRINT TECHOLOGY - In a method for encrypting and decrypting a document based on a voiceprint recognition technology on an electronic device, an encryption key is generated and stored in a storage device of the electronic device. And a voiceprint is verified to determined whether the voiceprint is identical to a predefined voiceprint. if the voiceprint is identical to a predefined voiceprint, the encryption key is obtained from the storage device to encrypt a document. When the encrypted document is decrypted, a decryption key is generated to decrypt the encrypted document. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066510 | VARIABLE-DEPTH AUDIO PRESENTATION OF TEXTUAL INFORMATION - A respective sequence of tracks of Internet content of common subject matter is queued to each of a plurality of stations, where each of the tracks of Internet content resides on a respective Internet resource in textual form. In response to receiving a sample input, snippets of each of multiple tracks queued to a selected station among the plurality of stations is transmitted for audible presentation as synthesized human speech, where each of the snippets includes only a subset of a corresponding track. Thereafter, one or more complete tracks among the multiple tracks for which snippets were previously transmitted are transmitted for audio presentation as synthesized human speech. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066511 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - A method and an electronic device for processing an image in an electronic device are provided. The method includes determining whether the electronic device is mounted in a cradle comprising at least one guide region, scanning an image in the guide region using a camera, and outputting the scanned image or image information based on the scanned image. The method can easily process the image and provide the user with the output information. Therefore, the output information is favorable to the blind people or the illiterate, and the usability and the reliability of the electronic device can be enhanced. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066512 | Method and Apparatus for Detecting Synthesized Speech - Computer systems employing speaker verification as a security approach to prevent un-authorized access by intruders may be tricked by a synthetic speech with voice characteristics similar to those of an authorized user of the computer system. According to at least one example embodiment, a method and corresponding apparatus for detecting a synthetic speech signal include extracting a plurality of speech features from multiple segments of the speech signal; analyzing the plurality of speech features to determine whether the plurality of speech features exhibit periodic variation behavior; and determining whether the speech signal is a synthetic speech signal or a natural speech signal based on whether or not a periodic variation behavior of the plurality of speech features is detected. The embodiments of synthetic speech detection result in security enhancement of the computer system employing speaker verification. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066513 | MECHANISM FOR PERFORMING SPEECH-BASED COMMANDS IN A SYSTEM FOR REMOTE CONTENT DELIVERY - A method for performing speech-based commands in a system for remote content delivery, includes receiving speech, recognizing the speech, transmitting the speech to a speech server, receiving a device-based signal corresponding to the speech from the speech server when the speech is a speech-based command, forwarding the device-based signal to a streaming server; and receiving content from the streaming server corresponding to the device-based signal. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066514 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The disclosure discloses an information processing method and an electronic device, which relate to the field of electronic technologies, to improve a match degree between a recognition result of a voice recognition engine and a result required by the user and thus to improve the user experience. The electronic device includes N objects, each object corresponds to a weight value, and the weight value of each object is used to indicate a weight of the object in a search space of the voice recognition engine. The method provided by the disclosure includes: acquiring a first input operation; acquiring an execution object according to the first input operation; responding to the first input operation with the execution object; after the first input operation is responded to, determining L objects that have been displayed by the display unit in a first time period. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066515 | EQUIPMENT CONTROL METHOD AND SPEECH-BASED EQUIPMENT CONTROL SYSTEM - A method is disclosed for controlling a supply device according to a user's speech in a speech-based equipment control system. The s system periodically updates a current quantity of a material that has already been supplied, and ascertains an already-supplied quantity. A first specific quantity is stored in the system, which is a quantity of the prescribed material to be supplied as designated by a user using speech. The instruction is received to change the first specific quantity to a second specific quantity, and if the second specific quantity is greater than the already-supplied quantity at the current time, the prescribed material is supplied until the already-supplied quantity reaches the second specific quantity. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066516 | APPLIANCE CONTROL METHOD, SPEECH-BASED APPLIANCE CONTROL SYSTEM, AND COOKING APPLIANCE - In a case of receiving, from an audio input device, instruction information including first audio information indicating operation instructions for a cooking appliance when first and second cooking units are executing first and second cooking programs, respectively, operation instructions are recognized from the first audio information. In a case where it is determined that the instruction information includes second audio information related to the first cooking menu information or the second cooking menu information, a control command is transmitted to the cooking appliance to cause the cooking appliance to execute a process corresponding to the operation instructions, without executing a process according to the first cooking program or the second cooking program corresponding to one of the first cooking menu information or the second cooking menu information to which the second audio information is related. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066517 | RESOLUTION-INDEPENDENT DITHER SAMPLE INSERTION FOR AUDIO TRANSMISSIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for resolution-independent dither sample insertion for audio transmissions. Audio transmitters transmit audio data streams to audio receivers. Data inactivity in the data stream triggers the audio receivers to enter power-saving/sleep modes in which synchronization with the audio transmitters is lost thus requiring time consuming resynchronization. Inactivity such as silence or zero-value data is detected in a data stream. Upon detection, a dither sample is inserted into the data stream and transmitted to the audio receiver to prevent the loss of synchronization. The dither sample may have a negative value and be formatted for resolution-independence with respect to the audio receiver. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066518 | AUDIO ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AUDIO DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND AUDIO REPRODUCING APPARATUS - An audio encoding apparatus and method that encodes hybrid contents including an object sound, a background sound, and metadata, and an audio decoding apparatus and method that decodes the encoded hybrid contents are provided. The audio encoding apparatus may include a mixing unit to generate an intermediate channel signal by mixing a background sound and an object sound, a matrix information encoding unit to encode matrix information used for the mixing, an audio encoding unit to encode the intermediate channel signal, and a metadata encoding unit to encode metadata including control information of the object sound. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066519 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND MANAGING CLIENT INTERFACE FOR AREA-SPECIFIC PROCESS - A bank customer management communication system comprises a networked communication server for communicating with a bank customer through a customer's wireless communication device by sending an estimated bank-teller available time to the customer in a bank branch office depending on an arrival time of the customer to the bank branch office for managing and reducing customer's wait time in the bank branch office. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066520 | Standardized Pet Health Decision Support System and Method - A method for standardizing pet health care decision support may include the steps of: displaying a portal to a user for input of a pet health care query; receiving the query; analyzing the query to determine which one of a plurality of decision trees to present to the user; presenting queries contained within the determined decision tree to the user; receiving responses for each query; storing the responses in the database; and analyzing the responses and presenting the user with a predetermined course of action. Each decision tree preferably is standardized for a plurality of users, i.e., each user that provides the same information at each node should be taken along the same branch and reach the same ultimate result. In addition to determining the next query to pose to a user, data provided by the user may be saved and used to generate a standardized, customized health record summary. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066521 | EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT STATUS DISPLAY - Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage medium are provided for providing an emergency department centralized interactive display. A segmentable summary of patients within an ED allows a clinician to view a specific area within the ED or a summary of patients assigned to the clinician including unassigned patients sorted by acuity and length of stay. A throughput summary for a patient indicates throughput and whether actions are pending for the patient. A patient summary for the patient that includes information collected at triage, links to documentation from previous visits, care plans, a do not resuscitate order, home medications, and/or history. A provider summary provides information regarding providers for the patient and allows the clinician to designate an attending physician to the patient. In various embodiments, additional summary information is provided giving the ED clinician an efficient one-stop shop for performing ED duties. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066522 | Systems and Methods of Generating Patient Notes with Inherited Preferences - In part, the invention relates to a computerized system and method of allowing a user to take medical notes for a second person. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of: logging on to the computer medical records system using a user interface, as a user; accessing a user database by the computer medical records system to determine whether the user has sufficient permissions to inherit the preferences of the second person; if the user has sufficient permission to inherit the preferences of the second person, allowing, by the computer medical records system, the user to inherit the preferences of the second person; and if the user does not have sufficient permission, allowing, by the computer medical records system, the user to inherit the user's own preferences. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066523 | TELEMEDICINE INFORMATION SYSTEM - Disclosure herein is related to a telemedicine information system. The telemedicine information system includes a monitoring end which receives the physiological signals generated by one or more physiological sensors disposed at the client end over a network. The medical staff uses monitoring terminal device at the monitoring end. The monitoring terminal device is connected with a monitoring server for acquiring the physiological signals since the server periodically retrieves and records the signals generated by the client end's sensors. The signals will be converted to the meaningful information allowing the medical staff to monitor the remote client's physiological condition. The claimed system achieves an efficient remote medical process since the person at the monitoring end may anytime acknowledge the client's condition. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066524 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF WEB BASED COLLABORATIVE CLINICAL PATHWAYS - Methods and systems to facilitate the collaborative development, discovery and implementation of evidence-based, clinical pathways are disclosed. Clinicians, medical professionals or researchers, may use the Platform | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066525 | SYSTEM FOR EXCHANGING MEDICAL INFORMATION - A server-based system enables exchange of medical messages between users, monitors for a probability of communications breakdown likely to result in medical error, and instigates corrective actions to prevent communications breakdown from occurring. Monitoring may include whether a user has read or acted upon a message received within a specified timeframe and whether a user has specified routing preferences for delivering a message to a user better suited to read or act on the message. Corrective actions include the determination of and routing of messages to an optimal recipient and the generation of alerts to subsequent users where a message has not been read or acted upon within a specified timeframe. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066526 | Exercise Management Service Method and System Thereof - A method of providing exercise management service for a sports center, wherein the sports center includes an exercise management service system, an exercise recording device and at least one exercise equipment. The method includes establishing a personal database by the exercise management service system, establishing an exercise record by the exercise recording device, transmitting the exercise record to the exercise management service system by the exercise recording device, and generating an exercise prescription according to the personal database and the exercise record by the exercise management service system. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066527 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ARBITRAGED BASED MEDICAL SERVICES - A request for quote system and method are described. The system may allow a user to request a quote for healthcare in a geographic region from a practitioner that has a specialty and/or has the expertise to treat a particular disease or condition. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066528 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A REPORT - A report generating method and system with different modes to complete a report template such as insertion of a transcribed audio file originating from digital dictation, data base retrieval, text input, input of measurement results. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066529 | DYNAMIC HEALTH DATA TASK-BASED TRANSITION OF CARE - A workflow management system includes a processor and memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to identify an event received from an external system. The instructions further cause the processor to generate a work item corresponding to the event. The work item has a plurality of attributes. The instructions further cause the processor to assign the work item for distribution based on the attributes, and adjust at least one of a priority or a routing strategy for the work item according to a status of the work item. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066530 | MEDICAL CARE DATA DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A medical care data display control device for displaying medical care data of a plurality of items obtained in chronological order is disclosed. The device includes: a hidden time period determining length setting unit in which a hidden time period determining length used to determine whether or not to hide a part of a displayed time period of the medical care data is set; a determination unit that determines whether or not there is a time period which contains no medical care data and is equal to or longer than the hidden time period determining length; and a display control unit that hides, if it is determined by the determination on unit that there is a time period which contains no medical care data and is equal to or longer than the hidden time period determining length, all or a part of the time period which contains no medical care data. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066531 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MONITORING AND MANAGING A REMOTE INFUSION REGIMEN - A method and system for monitoring and managing a remote infusion regimen where a prescribed infusion regimen is provided and compared to subsequent infusion event data to determine if the data falls within predetermined parameters. If the data does not fall within predetermined parameters a monitoring technician, supportive caregiver, patient or some combination thereof are immediately notified so that corrective action may be taken. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066532 | MOBILE INFORMATION AND CONTROL DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR USE THEREOF - A mobile information and control device provides information about a patient and examinations to be conducted on this patient, as well as the ability to control medical apparatuses, for use by medical personnel. The mobile device at least has a data storage device to store and provide information, a coupling device to place the information and control device in communication with additional medical apparatuses, a display for need-specific display of information, and an attachment device to attach the information and control device to a wrist of the personnel. A method to provide information about a patient and examinations to be conducted on this patient, as well as for control of medical apparatuses by medical personnel, makes use of such a mobile information and control device. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066533 | Method for automatically detecting sepsis and displaying dynamic sepsis images in a hospital system - A system for automatically detecting and displaying sepsis images in a hospital system is described herein. In some examples, the system can include receiving data related to a plurality of physiological parameters from a patient over time, and identifying and organizing patterns of perturbations of the data. The system can also include analyzing the perturbations to identify known relational physiologic patterns and detecting a pattern of sepsis, the pattern being comprised of a plurality of perturbations and/or relational physiologic patterns. Furthermore, the system can include organizing and synthesizing the plurality of relational physiologic patterns into a set of sepsis images, which as an aggregate whole make up an image representation of the complex and dynamic state of sepsis, and displaying the sepsis images. The images can be color motion images of cascades which display the severities of individual perturbations and relational physiologic patterns along the cascade pattern. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066534 | Biometrics System, Biologic Information Storage, and Portable Device - In a biometrics system for a building entrance unlocking or a bank account authentication, reference information registered under administration by the system is transmitted to a room or mobile-phone for private storage, with the original reference information deleted from the system. Biologic information gotten upon authentication is transmitted through wireless system to the room or mobile-phone for comparison with the reference, the result being returned to the system. Or, the reference is tentatively sent back to the system for comparison with the gotten biologic information. The biologic information sent to mobile-phone also includes health control information for storage and display. Mobile-phone also can receive blood pressure information at a waiting lounge of medical institution though wireless local communication even if the main power shut down. The communication between the biometrics system and the mobile-phone is encrypted. The system includes sensor unit and protection unit, the abnormality thereof being separately checked. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066535 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPORTING MULTIPLE MEDICAL PROCEDURES - A system and method is provided for reporting a plurality of medical procedures. A first medical procedure and second medical procedure are defined as to-be-reported. A plurality of report sections for the first medical procedure and the second medical procedure are created. A first subset of the created report sections is associated with the first medical procedure. A second subset of the created report sections is associated with the second medical procedure, at least one report section of the second subset also being associated with the first subset. A request for undefining the first medical procedure as to-be-reported is received and in response to the request for undefining the first medical procedure, the first medical procedure is disassociated from each of the at least one report section that is associated with the first medical procedure and the second medical procedure. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066536 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING HEALTH QUALITY METRICS - A method, apparatus and computer program product are therefore provided for generating health quality measurements. In this regard, the method, apparatus, and computer program product may implement a health quality measurement by receiving one or more health quality measurement definitions. Each health quality measurement may include markup language definitions defining one or more calculation parameters for a health quality metric. The method may also include parsing, using a processor, the one or more health quality measurement definitions to derive a semantic representation of the one or more calculation parameters, parsing the semantic representation of the one or more calculation parameters in conjunction with a health quality measurement ontology derived from at least the one or more health quality measurement definitions to generate a health quality measurement calculator application, and executing the health quality measurement calculator application against a set of healthcare data to determine the health quality metric for the healthcare data. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066537 | AUTOMATED CLINICAL INDICATOR RECOGNITION WITH NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING - Computer-based, natural language processing systems and methods are provided for review of clinical documentation and other medical records, and for clinical documentation improvement. The systems and methods are configured to review documents in the record using a natural language processor and to identify clinical indicators with associated contextual information. The clinical indicators are compared to scenarios to generate markers based on an information model. The markers used to generate physician queries and other informational requests with supporting evidence for each query based on indicators identified in the record. In additional examples, pragmatic guidelines including business-based rules can also be utilized, either in combination with, or as part of, the scenarios in the information model. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066538 | Communication Device Resource Allocation Based On Medical Data Criticality and Resource Status - Methods and devices are disclosed for managing a resource of a communication device configured to process and communicate medical data in addition to other data. The systems and devices may implement the method, including determining whether to switch to a medical mode based on at least one signal. In response to determining to switch to the medical mode, the communication device may be switched to the medical mode. A resource status associated with a plurality of resources used by the communication device may be weighed against a medical data criticality associated with the medical data managed by the communication device. The method may include allocating a resource of the plurality of resources on a sliding priority scale. The allocating may include allocating a resource of the plurality of resources preferentially to the medical data over the other data. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066539 | AUTOMATED CLINICAL INDICATOR RECOGNITION WITH NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING - Computer-based, natural language processing systems and methods are provided for review of clinical documentation and other medical records, and for clinical documentation improvement. The systems and methods are configured to analyze received diagnoses and/or procedures in view of documents in the record using a natural language processor and a tiered information model to identify clinical indicators, and optionally markers. The identified information is compared with the received data for use in generating queries requesting evidence in support of the received diagnosis or procedure, or for use in validating the received information. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066540 | METHOD AND COMPUTING DEVICE FOR PROVIDING MEDICATION INFORMATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH AN ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD - A method, computing device and computer program product are disclosed to provide medication information in conjunction with an electronic health record of a patient. In the context of a method a user is permitted to access the electronic health record of the patient and a medication catalog is displayed within the electronic health record of the patient. The medication catalog includes a current medication listing of one or more current medications for the patient, a historical medication listing of one or more historical medications for the patient and a favorites listing of one or more favorite medications of the user. The method also includes receiving user input via a selection of a respective medication included in the current medication list, the historical medication listing or the favorites listing in order to alter a prescription of the patient. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066541 | CREATION AND MANAGEMENT OF ASSET GUARANTEE BONDS - Systems, methods, and computer program products which facilitate the creation and/or management of bonds with self-extinguishing elements are disclosed. In an aspect, a bond may be issued by a surety company on behalf of a principal and backed by the issuance of life insurance policies on the members of the principal. The principal may pay a bond premium comprising life insurance premiums and a management premium to the surety in lieu of paying a traditional coupon to the holders of the bond. Death benefit proceeds are payable to the surety or other managing entity who is responsible for paying the bond holders according to the terms of the bond. Upon the maturing of the bond, the asset may be sold and a predetermined amount may be given to the bond holders as principal. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066542 | METHODS FOR FACILITATING PREDICTIVE MODELING FOR MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVER RISK AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and a performance data management device that collates driver performance data for generating a predictive model of risk associated with insuring a motor vehicle driver. The driver performance data comprises at least historical risk event data and telematic data for a plurality of motor vehicle drivers. A request for driver performance data is received from a modeling computing device, the request comprising one or more predictive modeling parameters including at least demographic information for the motor vehicle driver. A portion of the identified driver performance data is retrieved based at least in part on a match of the demographic information. Personally identifiable information included in the portion of the identified driver performance data is removed. The portion of the driver performance data is provided to the modeling computing device in response to the request. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066543 | METHODS FOR FACILITATING A MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE EXCHANGE AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and an insurance exchange device that obtains at least historical risk event data and telematic data for at least one motor vehicle driver in response to a received request for an insurance underwriting offer for the motor vehicle driver(s). The at least one motor vehicle driver can be an individual driver, in which case the request can be received from a consumer customer, or a plurality of motor vehicle drivers, in which case the request can be received from a commercial customer representing a fleet of vehicles and associated drivers, for example. A performance profile is generated for the motor vehicle driver(s) based on the historical risk event data and telematic data. The performance profile is provided to motor vehicle insurance providers. An insurance underwriting offer is received from at least one of the insurance providers and sent in response to the request. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066544 | COMPUTER BASED METHOD FOR PREVENTING FINANCIAL LOSS DUE TO DISABILITY FOR PARTICIPANTS - A system and method for preventing financial loss due to disability of participants in a retirement plan according to an insurance contract. One or more computers are programmed within a network to collate data from one or more databases according to the terms of an insurance contract. The insurance contract pays benefits into the retirement plan trust upon the disability of a plan participant. The benefits are treated as income or gain under the plan and are allocated to the participant's account. Benefits are distributable only upon attainment of the participant's normal retirement age. The administration of a retirement plan is carried out according to a computer based method and within a computer based system. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066545 | MOBILE PARKING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME PARKING GUIDANCE - Parking guidance is provided to a user of a mobile device requesting information on parking spots at a requested location for a requested time. In response to receiving a parking information request, parking spots having locations proximate to the requested location and having availability at the requested time are identified in a database of parking spot information of a parking management server. A notification of the identified parking spots is transmitted to the user device from which the information request was received. In response to receiving a reservation request identifying a parking spot to be reserved from the user device, the database is updated to identify the identified parking spot as being unavailable at the requested time. Additionally, a notification of the reservation request is transmitted to a parking manager associated with the identified parking spot, the notification identifying the particular parking spot and the requested time. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066546 | BIASED TICKET OFFERS FOR ACTORS IDENTIFIED USING DYNAMIC ASSESSMENTS OF ACTORS' ATTRIBUTES - Techniques herein attempt to provide actors with more flexible and satisfactory experiences regarding obtaining tickets for an event. A learning model may identify attributes indicative of whether a particular actor (e.g., attempting to purchase tickets to an event) possesses a desirable characteristic (e.g., is likely to attend the event). Each actor can then be evaluated to estimate whether she is a good actor (possesses the characteristic). If so, favored opportunities may be made available, such as the opportunity to buy high-demand tickets. An actor may further have the opportunity to hold or reserve tickets for a period time, during which other actors cannot purchase them. A fee for holding or reserving tickets (and/or maintaining the hold or reserve) can be dynamically set based on market factors. Opportunities to modify seat assignments to allow a group of friends to sit together may also be provided. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066547 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY PROCESSING EVENTS BASED ON AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF TIME CONFLICTS - A scheduling apparatus, system, and article including a machine-accessible medium, along with a method of dynamically processing events, are disclosed. The apparatus may include a receiving module capable of receiving information associated with an event. The information may include an event name and event time. The apparatus may also include a memory capable of storing the information associated with the event, and being communicatively coupled with the receiving module. The memory may be used to store a plurality of schedule items, at least one of which may be associated with an item time. The method may include selecting an event associated with a transaction and event time, determining whether a conflict exists, and adjusting the set of events stored in the memory to include the information associated with the event if no conflict is found. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066548 | Algorithmically Optimized Project Portfolio Management Utilizing Purpose Directed Hard and Soft Data Feeds - In the algorithmically optimized project portfolio management, a uniquely comprehensive and holistic approach to data gathering with purpose directed hard and soft data feeds along with a complex and extensible algorithm is used to create and manage a portfolio of projects on an ongoing basis. The method includes broader data gathering capabilities from both people and other systems of record that contain hard data than other approaches. It also uses the functions of an integrated automated project office and a resource utilization planner to provide input to manage the portfolio on an ongoing basis. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066549 | System, Method and Apparatus for Voice Analytics of Recorded Audio - Disclosed is a method for analyzing recorded telephone calls in order to predict business outcomes. The method involves recording a series of initial telephone calls and analyzing those calls for particular audio features. The audio features are tabulated and annotated to specify whether the telephone call resulted in a pre-determined business outcome. A model is then built whereby the pre-determined business outcome can be predicted based upon the presence of certain audio features. The model can subsequently be used to predict whether future calls are likely to result in the pre-determined business outcome. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066550 | FLOW LINE DATA ANALYSIS DEVICE, SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND METHOD - A flow line analysis device according to the present invention includes: a log storage unit which stores work log including key information which encompasses at least one of worker information, slip information and work item, and work information associated with key information; a flow line storage unit which stores a plurality of partial flow line data associated with the worker; and a control unit, wherein the control unit extracts work information associated with a specific key information from the work log, determines whether each of the plurality of partial flow line data which includes flow line work information which satisfies a predetermined condition defined by work information, and associates the key information with the flow line data when it is determined that the flow line data includes the flow line work information. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066551 | FLOW LINE DATA ANALYSIS DEVICE, SYSTEM, PROGRAM AND METHOD - A flow line analysis device includes a log storage unit that stores work log including key information which encompasses at least one of worker information, slip information and work item, and work information associated with the key information, a flow line storage unit that stores flow line data of the worker, and a control unit, wherein the control unit extracts work information associated with a specific key information from the work log, and determines whether the flow line data which includes flow line work information which satisfies predetermined condition defined by work information, and associates the key information with the flow line data when it is determined that the flow line data includes the flow line work information. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066552 | CREATION OF EVENT TYPES FOR NEWS MINING FOR ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING - An event type generator may provide a training set for classifying documents with respect to an event type. The event type generator may include a request handler to receive the event type and at least one example document, a text analyzer to extract first entities from the at least one example document, and a result manager to execute a first search against an indexed corpus of documents, to obtain first search results, and further to receive at least one selected document from the first search results. The request handler may extract second entities from the at least one selected document, and execute a second search against the indexed corpus of documents, to obtain second search results. The event type generator may thus provide the at least one example document, the first search results, and the second search results as the training set. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066553 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-TENANT SERVICE CATALOG FOR A SOFTWARE DEFINED CLOUD - Method and Apparatus for rapid scalable unified infrastructure system management platform are disclosed by discovery of compute nodes, network components across data centers, both public and private for a user; assessment of type, capability, VLAN, security, virtualization configuration of the discovered unified infrastructure nodes and components; configuration of nodes and components covering add, delete, modify, scale; and rapid roll out of nodes and components across data centers both public and private. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066554 | OPTIMIZING ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF TEAMS - An apparatus, method, and computer program product are disclosed for optimizing organization and management of teams. A data module collects activity data for a user, which is associated with the user's operation of a computer application. A profile module updates a profile for the user in response to the activity data, and a team module selects the user to be a member of a team based on the user's profile. A team includes a plurality of users combined to perform a task. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066555 | MEASURING USER PRODUCTIVITY IN PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT - The embodiments provide a system for measuring user productivity in developing a business process using one or more development tools. The system may include a productivity tacking unit configured to provide a user productivity model for measuring user productivity. The user productivity model may identify at least one business function associated with a process to be implemented by one or more development tools, at least one composition pattern, and a plurality of effort drivers associated with the at least one composition pattern. The productivity tracking unit is configured to receive development tracking information based on the user productivity model. The system may also include a report generator unit configured to generate at least one report characterizing the user productivity in developing at least a portion of the process based on the user productivity model and the development tracking information. | 2015-03-05 |
| 20150066556 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT AND REVIEW TOOL FOR LITIGATION MATTERS - A system and method for an online, file-sharing system designed to serve as a communication portal between attorneys and their clients, insurance industry contacts, expert witnesses, and any other audience that needs secure connection to the case materials. The system allows for the uploading and review of litigation materials, customizable access controls for record-sharing and data access, total case management, intra-user communications mechanisms, and case-specific alerts. | 2015-03-05 |
