11th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150073752 | WAVEFRONT MEASURING APPARATUS, WAVEFRONT MEASURING METHOD, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL ELEMENT, AND ASSEMBLY ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS OF OPTICAL SYSTEM - A wavefront measuring apparatus configured to measure a transmitted wavefront or reflected wavefront of an optical element includes a measuring unit configured to measure a light intensity distribution based on a light beam transmitted through or reflected by the optical element, a region determining unit configured to determine a first region and a second region based on a plurality of spot positions in the light intensity distribution, a first signal processor configured to calculate a first wavefront by using a linear model based on information of the light intensity distribution of the first region, and a second signal processor configured to estimate a second wavefront by repeating a light propagation calculation with the first wavefront as an initial value based on information of the light intensity distributions of the first region and the second region. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073753 | Computer-Implemented Method For Designing An Industrial Product Modeled With A Binary Tree - A computer-implemented method for designing an industrial product modeled with a binary tree having leaf nodes representing basic volumes, non-leaf nodes representing binary commutative operation combining volumes, the method comprising the steps of:
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20150073754 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING INDICES FOR DIABETES CONTROL - The invention provides method and system for calculating indices for diabetes control. The method and system involves collecting a plurality of blood glucose (BG) data of a subject and calculating a Blood Glucose Control Index (BGCI) value and a Severe Hypoglycemia Risk Index (SHRI) value based on parameters calculated using the plurality of BG data. The BGCI and SHRI values reflects a current state of diabetes of the subject. Further, the BGCI and SHRI values provides an indication if the subject may face a secondary complication associated with diabetes, such as, severe hypoglycemia in the future. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073755 | Accelerating Full Wavefield Inversion with Nonstationary Point-Spread Functions - Method for reducing computational time in inversion of geophysical data to infer a physical property model ( | 2015-03-12 |
20150073756 | System And Method For Steady State Simulation Of Rolling Tire - An apparatus and method are disclosed for modeling at least a portion of a rolling tire ( | 2015-03-12 |
20150073757 | System And Method For Determining Statistical Distribution Of A Rolling Tire Boundary - A system and method for modeling a distribution of a tire footprint boundary ( | 2015-03-12 |
20150073758 | COMPUTERISED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODELLING AERAULIC FLOWS, IN PARTICULAR FOR THE QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE RISK OF AIRBORNE CONTAMINATION - Disclosed is a computerized process and system for modeling aeraulic flows in an environment in particular for the evaluation of the risks of airborne contamination. The principle of the process consists in considering that in a given individual unit or mesh, defined as fairly small, the final values of the primitive variables (V, P, T) are the result of their primary values calculated in an irrotational field composed of a “pressure-velocity” coupling with a turbulence model adapted to Newtonian and incompressible fluids belonging to the range of validity of the process. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073759 | PREDICTION ACCURACY IN A SPATIO-TEMPORAL PREDICTION SYSTEM - An apparatus, method, and computer program product are disclosed for improving prediction accuracy in a spatio-temporal prediction system. A data module receives spatio-temporal data comprising a one or more of a time and location. An estimation module generates one or more prediction probabilities for the spatio-temporal data. A sampling module generates one or more resamples of the prediction probabilities. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073760 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SELECTING A DRILL BIT AND MODIFYING A DRILL BIT DESIGN - A system for field selecting drill bit includes a server having a computing processor with functionality to perform: receiving a first simulation request, executing a first simulation to generate a first set of performance data, receiving a second simulation request, and executing a second simulation to generate a second set of performance data. A computing device coupled to the server having a graphical user interface with functionality to perform: selecting a baseline bit, inputting a plurality of drilling data, sending the first simulation request, receiving the first set of performance data, presenting the first set of performance data for review, modifying a parameter of a drill bit, sending the second simulation request with the modified parameter, receiving the second set of performance data from the second simulation, and presenting the first set of performance data and the second set of performance data for review. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073761 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION FROM A PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODEL OF BLOOD FLOW - Embodiments include a system for providing blood flow information for a patient. The system may include at least one computer system including a touchscreen. The at least one computer system may be configured to display, on the touchscreen, a three-dimensional model representing at least a portion of an anatomical structure of the patient based on patient-specific data. The at least one computer system may also be configured to receive a first input relating to a first location on the touchscreen indicated by at least one pointing object controlled by a user, and the first location on the touchscreen may indicate a first location on the displayed three-dimensional model. The at least one computer system may be further configured to display first information on the touchscreen, and the first information may indicate a blood flow characteristic at the first location. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073762 | METHOD FOR SIMULATING FLUID FLOWS, A COMPUTER PROGRAM AND A COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A method for simulating fluid flows in a petroleum reservoir, in which the fluid is split in physical phases comprising a gas phase, an oil phase, a water phase and a microemulsion phase. The fluid comprises water, hydrocarbon, and surfactant components. The method comprises a flash step for calculating compositions via two stages. A first stage comprises a first flash to determine first compositions of the water, oil and gas phases and is performed by omitting the surfactant component in the fluid. A second stage comprises a second flash to determine a microemulsion composition of the microemulsion phase. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073763 | OIL OR GAS PRODUCTION USING COMPUTER SIMULATION OF OIL OR GAS FIELDS AND PRODUCTION FACILITIES - Oil or gas fields and associated facilities are computer simulated by solving linear algebraic equations using a Schwarz method with at least one well node included in the overlap. According to another aspect, equations for the wellbore nodes are processed to eliminate some non-pressure variables, e.g. component compositions. Other features are also provided. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073764 | OBJECT-BASED WELL CORRELATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media geologic modeling are disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving an identification of a type of architectural element in association with a first well in a subterranean domain, based at least partially on data collected from the first well, and determining one or more characteristics of the type of architectural element. The method may also include defining, using a processor, an architectural element of the type of architectural element, in a representation of the subterranean domain and in association with the first well, based on the one or more characteristics, and displaying, using the processor and a display device in communication therewith, the architectural element intersecting the first well in a model. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073765 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF RESPIRATORY MOTION FROM 3D THORACIC IMAGES - A method and system for prediction of respiratory motion from 3D thoracic images is disclosed. A patient-specific anatomical model of the respiratory system is generated from 3D thoracic images of a patient. The patient-specific anatomical model of the respiratory system is deformed using a biomechanical model. The biomechanical model is personalized for the patient by estimating a patient-specific thoracic pressure force field to drive the biomechanical model. Respiratory motion of the patient is predicted using the personalized biomechanical model driven by the patient-specific thoracic pressure force field. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073766 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION FROM A PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODEL OF BLOOD FLOW - Embodiments include a system for providing blood flow information for a patient. The system may include at least one computer system including a touchscreen. The at least one computer system may be configured to display, on the touchscreen, a three-dimensional model representing at least a portion of an anatomical structure of the patient based on patient-specific data. The at least one computer system may also be configured to receive a first input relating to a first location on the touchscreen indicated by at least one pointing object controlled by a user, and the first location on the touchscreen may indicate a first location on the displayed three-dimensional model. The at least one computer system may be further configured to display first information on the touchscreen, and the first information may indicate a blood flow characteristic at the first location. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073767 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION FROM A PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODEL OF BLOOD FLOW - Embodiments include a system for providing blood flow information for a patient. The system may include at least one computer system including a touchscreen. The at least one computer system may be configured to display, on the touchscreen, a three-dimensional model representing at least a portion of an anatomical structure of the patient based on patient-specific data. The at least one computer system may also be configured to receive a first input relating to a first location on the touchscreen indicated by at least one pointing object controlled by a user, and the first location on the touchscreen may indicate a first location on the displayed three-dimensional model. The at least one computer system may be further configured to display first information on the touchscreen, and the first information may indicate a blood flow characteristic at the first location. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073768 | WIRELESS ENERGY TRANSFER MODELING TOOL - A method includes defining and storing one or more attributes of a source resonator and a device resonator forming a system, defining and storing the interaction between the source resonator and the device resonator, modeling the electromagnetic performance of the system to derive one or more modeled values and utilizing the derived one or more modeled values to design an impedance matching network. The method can further include providing a visual representation of the modeling through a computer implemented user interface. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073769 | Revising Translated Documents in a Document Storage System - A method includes creating a first document in a first language and translating the first document into a second language, thereby producing a second document. The translated document is revised directly in the second language, thereby producing a third document. A document storage system stores the three documents and stores data about the three documents. The data includes data representing that the second document is a translation of the first document and that the third document is a revision of the translation of the first document. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073770 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT LANGUAGE SWITCHING IN AUTOMATED TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEMS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing for intelligent switching of languages and/or pronunciations in a text-to-speech system. As the system receives text, the text is analyzed to identify portions which should have speech constructed using a pronunciation distinct from the remaining portions of the text. The text-to-speech system uses multiple pronunciation dictionaries to generate and produce speech corresponding to the text, where the identified portions of the text are in a different language or have a different accent from the remainder of the text. Having generated speech corresponding to the text in multiple languages, accents, or dialects, the system combines the portions, then communicates the speech to the text recipient. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073771 | Voice Recognition Language Apparatus - An electronic language aid device that is operable to provide the definition of an inputted keyword to a user in the programmed language of the device. The electronic language aid device is a portable device having a display screen and an input keypad. The device further includes voice recognition software that allows the desired keyword to be input onto the device via oral instructions in addition to using the input keypad. The electronic language aid device utilizes a keyword database and a language database wherein the words listed therein have an alphanumeric string assignment. Subsequent a desired keyword being entered into the device and being identified in the language database, the electronic language aid device provides the word and phonetic pronunciation via the display screen and further provides the definition to a user via an audio speaker. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073772 | MULTILINGUAL SPEECH SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CHARACTER - The present invention relates to multilingual speech system and method, wherein a two-dimensional or three-dimensional character speaks to express messages in multiple languages according to surroundings whereby messages such as consultations or guide services or the like can be precisely delivered through the character. To accomplish the objective, the multilingual speech system of the character according to the present invention includes a context-aware unit to recognize the surroundings; a conversation selection unit to select spoken words in accordance with the recognized surroundings; a Unicode multilingual database in which the spoken words are stored in Unicode-based multiple languages according to languages of respective nations; a behavior expression unit to express behaviors in accordance with the selected spoken words; and a work processing unit to synchronize and express the selected spoken words and the behaviors according to the spoken words. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073773 | DEFECT RECORD CLASSIFICATION - An approach to classify different defect records by mapping plain language phrases to a taxonomy. The approach includes a method that includes receiving, by at least one computing device, a defect record associated with a defect. The method further includes receiving, by the least one computing device, a plain language phrase or word. The method further includes mapping, by the least one computing device, the plain language phrase or word to a taxonomy. The method further includes classifying, by the least one computing device, how the defect was at least one of detected and resolved using the taxonomy. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073774 | Automatic Domain Sentiment Expansion - Methods and systems for automatically extending a sentiment dictionary are provided. Starting with an initial set of elements (e.g., words, emoticons, etc.) having a known sentiment, messages can be analyzed for words frequently appearing in association with such words. As a result the frequently appearing words may then be associated with a sentiment and used to help determine the sentiment of a message. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073775 | UNSPOKEN SENTIMENT - The sentiment of a message may not be obtainable from the message itself. However, many messages have an associated context that provides information useful in determining the sentiment of a message. Messages may include links to other resources, such as graphics or videos, which in turn include titles, comments, viewer ratings or other attributes that may provide a sentiment of the message. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073776 | CHECKING DOCUMENTS FOR SPELLING AND/OR GRAMMATICAL ERRORS AND/OR PROVIDING RECOMMENDED WORDS OR PHRASES BASED ON PATTERNS OF COLLOQUIALISMS USED AMONG USERS IN A SOCIAL NETWORK - A method, system and computer program product for checking documents using colloquialisms. Colloquialisms used in messages by users in a social network are tracked. The relationships (e.g., co-worker) between the senders and recipients of these messages are identified. A social graph is then generated to depict the relations between the users in the social network based on these identified relationships. Furthermore, usage patterns of colloquialisms (e.g., a particular colloquialism is used only with close friends as opposed to co-workers) are formulated. A rule set is generated using the social graph and formulated usage patterns. By using the rule set to check documents, documents may be more accurately checked for spelling and/or grammatical errors by taking into consideration the appropriate usage of colloquialisms based on the context (e.g., communicating with a friend). Furthermore, alternative words or phrases may be appropriately recommended based on the context using such a rule set. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073777 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING SEMANTICS AND THE PROBABLE MEANING OF WORDS - Provided are a system and method to determine semantics and the probable meaning and/or context of words. The method includes for at least one First Entity, gathering Metadata from at least one posting by a First User on a First Social Network to define at least one First Field associated with the First Entity, provided by the at least one First User and occurring in the at least one posting. Each First Field associated with the First Entity has an initial system generated value. The method continues by evaluating Responses to the posting by at least one Third Party, and in response to the Third Party using one or more of the First Fields associated with the First Entity in the Response, incrementing the value of each used First Field associated with the First Entity by the addition of a system generated value. The method provides an indication of relevance for each First Field in relation to at least one Second Field associated with each First Entity, the indication of relevance permitting a determination of semantics for each associated Field of the First Entity. An associated system is also provided. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073778 | TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING TEST DATA - Techniques for automatically generating test data solve various problems in test data generation. A technique of automatically generating test data includes receiving a signature to be embedded in at least one character string to be generated and determining a total sum of attribute values intrinsic to characters in the character string. The sum is associated with each element of the signature. At least one of the characters in the character string may be selected from a character table describing characters prepared to create the test data so as to achieve the determined total sum for each element of the signature. The generated test data contains the character string including the selected character. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073779 | METHOD OF CONVERTING USER HANDWRITING INTO TEXT INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - A method, computer-readable storage medium, and device for converting user handwriting into text information by reflecting a paragraph form of the user handwriting in an electronic device is provided. The method includes receiving a handwriting input from a user, recognizing the received handwriting input and converting the recognized handwriting input into text information, recognizing a paragraph form of the received handwriting input, and applying the recognized paragraph form to the converted text information. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073780 | METHOD FOR NON-INTRUSIVE ACOUSTIC PARAMETER ESTIMATION - A system and method for non-intrusive acoustic parameter estimation is included. The method may include receiving, at a computing device, a first speech signal associated with a particular user. The method may include extracting one or more short-term features from the first speech signal. The method may also include determining one or more statistics of each of the one or more short-term features from the first speech signal. The method may further include classifying the one or more statistics as belonging to one or more acoustic parameter classes. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073781 | Method and Apparatus for Detecting Correctness of Pitch Period - A method and an apparatus for detecting correctness of a pitch period. The method for detecting correctness of a pitch period includes determining, according to an initial pitch period of an input signal in a time domain, a pitch frequency bin of the input signal, where the initial pitch period is obtained by performing open-loop detection on the input signal; determining, based on an amplitude spectrum of the input signal in a frequency domain, a pitch period correctness decision parameter, associated with the pitch frequency bin, of the input signal; and determining correctness of the initial pitch period according to the pitch period correctness decision parameter. The method and apparatus for detecting correctness of a pitch period according to the embodiments of the present invention can improve, based on a relatively less complex algorithm, accuracy of detecting correctness of a pitch period. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073782 | VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION/SILENCE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM - A Voice Activity Detection/Silence Suppression (VAD/SS) system is connected to a channel of a transmission pipe. The channel provides a pathway for the transmission of energy. A method for operating a VAD/SS system includes detecting the energy on the channel, and activating or suppressing activation of the VAD/SS system depending upon the nature of the energy detected on the channel. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073783 | Unvoiced/Voiced Decision for Speech Processing - In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method for speech processing includes determining an unvoicing/voicing parameter reflecting a characteristic of unvoiced/voicing speech in a current frame of a speech signal comprising a plurality of frames. A smoothed unvoicing/voicing parameter is determined to include information of the unvoicing/voicing parameter in a frame prior to the current frame of the speech signal. A difference between the unvoicing/voicing parameter and the smoothed unvoicing/voicing parameter is computed. The method further includes generating an unvoiced/voiced decision point for determining whether the current frame comprises unvoiced speech or voiced speech using the computed difference as a decision parameter. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073784 | Adaptive Bandwidth Extension and Apparatus for the Same - In one embodiment of the present invention, a method of decoding an encoded audio bitstream and generating frequency bandwidth extension includes decoding the audio bitstream to produce a decoded low band audio signal and generate a low band excitation spectrum corresponding to a low frequency band. A sub-band area is selected from within the low frequency band using a parameter which indicates energy information of a spectral envelope of the decoded low band audio signal. A high band excitation spectrum is generated for a high frequency band by copying a sub-band excitation spectrum from the selected sub-band area to a high sub-band area corresponding to the high frequency band. Using the generated high band excitation spectrum, an extended high band audio signal is generated by applying a high band spectral envelope. The extended high band audio signal is added to the decoded low band audio signal to generate an audio output signal having an extended frequency bandwidth. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073785 | METHOD FOR VOICEMAIL QUALITY DETECTION - A system and method for speech quality detection is included. The method may include receiving, at a computing device, a first speech signal associated with a particular user. The method may include extracting one or more short-term features from the first speech signal wherein extracting short-term features includes extracting a time frame of between 10-50 ms. The method may also include determining one or more statistics of each of the one or more short-term features from the first speech signal. The method may further include classifying the one or more statistics as belonging to one of a set of quality classes. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073786 | GAMING HEADSET WITH PROGRAMMABLE AUDIO PATHS - A headset having game, chat and microphone audio signals is provided with a programmable signal processor for individually modifying the audio signals and a memory configured to store a plurality of user-selectable signal-processing parameter settings that determine the manner in which the audio signals will be altered by the signal processor. The parameter settings collectively form a preset, and one or more user-operable controls can select and activate a preset from the plurality of presets stored in memory. The parameters stored in the selected preset can be loaded into the signal processor such that the sound characteristics of the audio paths are modified in accordance with the parameter settings in the selected preset. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073787 | VOICE FILTERING METHOD, APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Embodiments of the present invention provide a voice filtering method and apparatus and electronic equipment. The voice filtering method includes: determining a reference spectral characteristic to which a voice characteristic of a subscriber to be analyzed corresponds; and filtering an input sound signal according to the reference spectral characteristic. With the embodiments of the present invention, transmission effects of voices for different subscribers to be analyzed can be enhanced by using voice characteristics of the subscribers to be analyzed, so as to more efficiently transmit voice information. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073788 | MIXTURE OF N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for creating a static language model from a mixture of n-gram language models. One of the methods includes receiving a set of development sentences W, receiving a set of language models G | 2015-03-12 |
20150073789 | CONVERTING DATA BETWEEN USERS - A method and system for converting voice data to text data between users is provided. The method includes receiving voice data from at least one user and determining phoneme data items corresponding to the voice data. Conversion candidate string representations of the phoneme data items are identified by referencing a conversion dictionary defining the conversion candidate string representations for each phoneme data item. The plurality of conversion candidate string representations are scored and a specified conversion candidate string representation is selected as text data based on the scores. The text data is transmitted to a terminal device accessed by the at least one user. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073790 | AUTO TRANSCRIPTION OF VOICE NETWORKS - The systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments enable a transcription of voice communications to be provided in parallel with an audio recording of the voice communications. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073791 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE MODEL CHANGES - An apparatus, a method, and a machine-readable medium are provided for characterizing differences between two language models. A group of utterances from each of a group of time domains are examined. One of a significant word change or a significant word class change within the plurality of utterances is determined. A first cluster of utterances including a word or a word class corresponding to the one of the significant word change or the significant word class change is generated from the utterances. A second cluster of utterances not including the word or the word class corresponding to the one of the significant word change or the significant word class change is generated from the utterances. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073792 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING MORPHEMES IN A TASK CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM USING LATTICES - The invention concerns a method and corresponding system for building a phonotactic model for domain independent speech recognition. The method may include recognizing phones from a user's input communication using a current phonotactic model, detecting morphemes (acoustic and/or non-acoustic) from the recognized phones, and outputting the detected morphemes for processing. The method also updates the phonotactic model with the detected morphemes and stores the new model in a database for use by the system during the next user interaction. The method may also include making task-type classification decisions based on the detected morphemes from the user's input communication. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073793 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMBINING GEOGRAPHIC METADATA IN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION LANGUAGE AND ACOUSTIC MODELS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for a speech recognition application for directory assistance that is based on a user's spoken search query. The spoken search query is received by a portable device and portable device then determines its present location. Upon determining the location of the portable device, that information is incorporated into a local language model that is used to process the search query. Finally, the portable device outputs the results of the search query based on the local language model. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073794 | SPEECH SYLLABLE/VOWEL/PHONE BOUNDARY DETECTION USING AUDITORY ATTENTION CUES - In syllable or vowel or phone boundary detection during speech, an auditory spectrum may be determined for an input window of sound and one or more multi-scale features may be extracted from the auditory spectrum. Each multi-scale feature can be extracted using a separate two-dimensional spectro-temporal receptive filter. One or more feature maps corresponding to the one or more multi-scale features can be generated and an auditory gist vector can be extracted from each of the one or more feature maps. A cumulative gist vector may be obtained through augmentation of each auditory gist vector extracted from the one or more feature maps. One or more syllable or vowel or phone boundaries in the input window of sound can be detected by mapping the cumulative gist vector to one or more syllable or vowel or phone boundary characteristics using a machine learning algorithm. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073795 | User Programmable Voice Command Recognition Based On Sparse Features - 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. The extracted sparse sound parameter information is processed using a speaker dependent sound signature database stored in the sound recognition sensor to identify sounds or speech contained in the analog signal. The sound signature database may include several user enrollments for a sound command each representing an entire word or multiword phrase. The extracted sparse sound parameter information may be compared to the multiple user enrolled signatures using cosine distance, Euclidean distance, correlation distance, etc., for example. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073796 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF GENERATING LANGUAGE MODEL FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and a method of generating a language model for speech recognition. The present invention is to provide an apparatus of generating a language model capable of improving speech recognition performance by predicting a position at which break is present and reflecting the predicted break information. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073797 | System and Method for Increasing Recognition Rates of In-Vocabulary Words By Improving Pronunciation Modeling - The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating a lexicon for use with speech recognition. The method includes overgenerating potential pronunciations based on symbolic input, identifying potential pronunciations in a speech recognition context, and storing the identified potential pronunciations in a lexicon. Overgenerating potential pronunciations can include establishing a set of conversion rules for short sequences of letters, converting portions of the symbolic input into a number of possible lexical pronunciation variants based on the set of conversion rules, modeling the possible lexical pronunciation variants in one of a weighted network and a list of phoneme lists, and iteratively retraining the set of conversion rules based on improved pronunciations. Symbolic input can include multiple examples of a same spoken word. Speech data can be labeled explicitly or implicitly and can include words as text and recorded audio. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073798 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF DOMAIN MODELS FOR VIRTUAL PERSONAL ASSISTANTS - Technologies for automatic domain model generation include a computing device that accesses an n-gram index of a web corpus. The computing device generates a semantic graph of the web corpus for a relevant domain using the n-gram index. The semantic graph includes one or more related entities that are related to a seed entity. The computing device performs similarity discovery to identify and rank contextual synonyms within the domain. The computing device maintains a domain model including intents representing actions in the domain and slots representing parameters of actions or entities in the domain. The computing device performs intent discovery to discover intents and intent patterns by analyzing the web corpus using the semantic graph. The computing device performs slot discovery to discover slots, slot patterns, and slot values by analyzing the web corpus using the semantic graph. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073799 | VOICE VERIFYING SYSTEM AND VOICE VERIFYING METHOD - A voice verifying system, which comprises: a microphone, which is always turned on to output at least one voice signal; a speech determining device, for determining if the voice signal is valid or not according to a reference value, wherein the speech determining device passes the voice signal if the voice signal is valid; and a verifying module, for verifying a speech signal generated from the voice signal and for outputting a device activating signal to activate a target device if the speech signal matches a predetermined rule; and a reference value generating device, for generating the reference value according to speech signal information from the verifying module. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073800 | DIGITAL SIGNATURES FOR COMMUNICATIONS USING TEXT-INDEPENDENT SPEAKER VERIFICATION - A speaker-verification digital signature system is disclosed that provides greater confidence in communications having digital signatures because a signing party may be prompted to speak a text-phrase that may be different for each digital signature, thus making it difficult for anyone other than the legitimate signing party to provide a valid signature. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073801 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING A CONTROL OBJECT BY VOICE RECOGNITION - There are provided an apparatus and a method for selecting a control object through voice recognition. The apparatus for selecting a control object through voice recognition according to the present invention includes one or more processing devices, in which the one or more processing devices are configured to obtain input information on the basis of a voice of a user, to match the input information to at least one first identification information obtained based on a control object and second identification information corresponding to the first identification information, to obtain matched identification information matched to the input information within the first identification information and the second identification information, and to select a control object corresponding to the matched identification information. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073802 | DEALING WITH SWITCH LATENCY IN SPEECH RECOGNITION - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for interacting with a mobile communication facility comprising receiving a switch activation from a user to initiate a speech recognition recording session, wherein the speech recognition recording session comprises a voice command from the user followed by the speech to be recognized from the user; recording the speech recognition recording session using a mobile communication facility resident capture facility; recognizing at least a portion of the voice command as an indication that user speech for recognition will begin following the end of the at least a portion of the voice command; recognizing the recorded speech using a speech recognition facility to produce an external output; and using the selected output to perform a function on the mobile communication facility. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073803 | SMOOTHENING THE INFORMATION DENSITY OF SPOKEN WORDS IN AN AUDIO SIGNAL - A portion of an audio signal is identified corresponding to a spoken word and its phonemes. A set of alternate spoken words satisfying phonetic similarity criteria to the spoken word is generated. A subset of the set of alternate spoken words is also identified; each member of the subset shares the same phoneme in a similar temporal position as the spoken word. A significance factor is then calculated for the phoneme based on the number of alternates in the subset and on the total number of alternates. The calculated significance factor may then be used to lengthen or shorten the temporal duration of the phoneme in the audio signal according to its significance in the spoken word. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073804 | DEEP NETWORKS FOR UNIT SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing a representation based on structured data in resources. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of receiving target acoustic features output from a neural network that has been trained to predict acoustic features given linguistic features. Additional actions include determining a distance between the target acoustic features and acoustic features of a stored acoustic sample. Further actions include selecting the acoustic sample to be used in speech synthesis based at least on the determined distance and synthesizing speech based on the selected acoustic sample. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073805 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED VOICE MODELS ACROSS CLOUD AND DEVICE FOR EMBEDDED TEXT-TO-SPEECH - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for intelligent caching of concatenative speech units for use in speech synthesis. A system configured to practice the method can identify a speech synthesis context, and determine, based on a local cache of text-to-speech units for a text-to-speech voice and based on the speech synthesis context, additional text-to-speech units which are not in the local cache. The system can request from a server the additional text-to-speech units, and store the additional text-to-speech units in the local cache. The system can then synthesize speech using the text-to-speech units and the additional text-to-speech units in the local cache. The system can prune the cache as the context changes, based on availability of local storage, or after synthesizing the speech. The local cache can store a core set of text-to-speech units associated with the text-to-speech voice that cannot be pruned from the local cache. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073806 | Heirloom Article with Sound Recording and Playback Feature - An heirloom article including voice recording and playback features includes a data storage device with an optical data interface for transferring sound data to and from the flash memory module, and an inductive power receiver. The heirloom article is provided with a receiving space for receiving the data storage device. Within the heirloom article are provided an optical data interface configured to receive sound data from the data storage device, a sound playback device disposed within the heirloom article and connected to the optical data interface, and an inductive power supply element arranged to inductively provide power to the inductive power receiver of the data storage device. A vocal recording stored on the data storage device may be played back upon placement of the data storage device within the receiving space. The data storage device may be formed as a wearable object such as a pendant. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073807 | SYSTEM AND METOD FOR VOICE AUTHENTICATION OVER A COMPUTER NETWORK - Systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media are provided for voice authentication. The method includes receiving a speech sample from a user through an Internet browser for authentication as part of a request for a restricted-access resource, transmitting an authentication request to an authentication server, which compares the speech sample to a previously established speech profile associated with the user, receiving a response from the authentication server, and providing access to the restricted access resource based on the response. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073808 | REMOTE CONTROL AND PAYMENT TRANSACTIONING SYSTEM USING NATURAL LANGUAGE, VEHICLE INFORMATION, AND SPATIO-TEMPORAL CUES - A system enables a mobile platform to issue commands using natural language dialog in order to control and/or monitor the functionality of remote systems according to a desired set of criteria and/or meta-criteria. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073809 | TRANSPORT APPARATUS WITH COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - Transport apparatus which includes computerized apparatus useful for obtaining and displaying information. In one embodiment, the computerized apparatus includes a display device and speech recognition apparatus configured to receive user speech input and enable performance of various tasks, such as obtaining desired information relating to a location of an entity, maps or directions, or any number of other topics. The obtained data may also, in one variant, be displayed with contextually related content. In another variant, retrieved data can be downloaded to a portable user device. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073810 | MUSIC PLAYING METHOD AND MUSIC PLAYING SYSTEM - The music playing method comprises acquiring an inputted voice, detecting that any one registered character string from among a plurality of registered character strings stored in a recording medium is contained in the voice, and outputting music corresponding to the registered character string after a delay time stored in the recording medium has passed from the time when the voice containing the registered character string is detected in the character string detecting. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073811 | Systems and Methods for Generating Markup-Language Based Expressions from Multi-Modal and Unimodal Inputs - When using finite-state devices to perform various functions, it is beneficial to use finite state devices representing regular grammars with terminals having markup-language-based semantics. By using markup-language-based symbols in the finite state devices, it is possible to generate valid markup-language expressions by concatenating the symbols representing the result of the performed function. The markup-language expression can be used by other applications and/or devices. Finite-state devices are used to convert strings of words and gestures into valid markup-language, for example, XML, expressions that can be used, for example, to provide an application program interface to underlying system applications. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073812 | SERVER SIDE CROSSFADING FOR PROGRESSIVE DOWNLOAD MEDIA - In exemplary embodiments of the present invention systems and methods are provided to implement and facilitate cross-fading, interstitials and other effects/processing of two or more media elements in a personalized media delivery service so that each client or user has a consistent high quality experience. The effects or crossfade processing can occur on the broadcast, publisher or server-side, but can still be personalized to a specific user, thus still allowing a personalized experience for each individual user, in a manner where the processing burden is minimized on the downstream side or client device. This approach enables a consistent user experience, independent of client device capabilities, both static and dynamic. The cross-fade can be implemented after decoding the relevant chunks of each component clip, processing, recoding and rechunking, or, in a preferred embodiment, the cross-fade or other effect can be implemented on the relevant chunks to the effect in the compressed domain, thus obviating any loss of quality by re-encoding. A large scale personalized content delivery service can be implemented by limiting the processing to essentially the first and last chunks of any file, since there is no need to processing the full clip. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention this type of processing can easily be accommodated in cloud computing technology, where the first and last files may be conveniently extracted and processed within the cloud to meet the required load. Processing may also be done locally, for example, by the broadcaster, with sufficient processing power to manage peak load. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073813 | System and Method for Doctors to Dynamically Measure Physician Influence on Patient Consumerism to Optimize Profitability on Sales of Non Prescription Medically Unnecessary Products and Services - The present invention provides a system and method for determining, defining and quantifiably measuring the influence of a physician on patient consumerism, and converting each unit of physician influence into a measurable dollar amount per unit sales and consequently optimizing profitability on non-prescription non-medically necessary products and services. This is novel system and method, as well in the literature as in the patent database. The invention answers the question: “If a physician puts “x” amount of effort to sell products to their patients, then physician will increase per unit sales price by “y” amount and consequently optimize profitability. The system and method contained herein includes a database that utilizes a server and a mobile application to input real time market metrics to dynamically measure physician influence on their patients in terms of their patients' consumerism and purchasing behavior. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073814 | PHYSICAL THERAPY PATIENT ACCOUNTABILITY AND COMPLIANCE SYSTEM - A patient accountability and compliance system includes a patient computer with a patient tailored treatment program, the patient computer operable to receive a patient input. A patient compliance sensor in communication with the patient computer to receive a measure patient physical therapy activity and a therapist computer in communication with the patient computer operable to the therapist computer receive the measured patient physical therapy activity and the patient input to correlate patient compliance with the patient tailored treatment program. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073815 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LABORATORY TESTING AND RESULT MANAGEMENT - In one embodiment, a method is provided comprising displaying a laboratory test menu on a mobile computing device, where the test menu is variable-based on geographic location; selecting one or more tests from said test menu; and using the mobile computing device to send a laboratory test request to a server. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073816 | COMPUTER-BASED OPERATING ROOM SUPPORT SYSTEM - A computer-based surgery support system and method for obtaining information of surgical procedures from networked equipment in an operating room, storing the retrieved information in a database, receiving a request for the stored information from a user terminal, and providing the stored information in accordance with the received request. The networked equipment may be configured for use in cataract surgical procedures, such as a phacoemulsification system. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073817 | BILLING SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a method and system for billing a payer for a healthcare service provided by a healthcare service provider to a patient using a computerized billing system. More particularly, a first biometric scan of the patient is taken and stored in at least one storage device located locally in at least one location associated with the healthcare service provider. At least one second biometric scan of the patient is taken in conjunction with a healthcare service session to be provided to the patient by the healthcare service provider and compared to at least one of a plurality of biometric scans stored in the at least one storage device and including the first biometric scan and biometric scans of other patients. The computerized billing system is authorized to issue an invoice to the payer for the healthcare service session if the at least one second biometric scan matches with the first biometric scan. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073818 | EXECUTABLE GUIDELINE SOLUTION WITH MULTIPLE ALTERNATIVE VIEWS ON RECOMMENDED CARE STEPS | 2015-03-12 |
20150073819 | DRUG PRESCRIBING SYSTEM - A drug prescribing system that can prevent a wrong drug from being taken during picking is provided. A drug prescribing system includes a host computer including an input device through which prescription data based on a prescription is input, a drug dispensing apparatus in which drugs are housed in advance, and that dispenses a drug in accordance with the prescription data, and a picking inspection apparatus that conducts a picking inspection for a drug picked in accordance with the prescription data. The drug dispensing apparatus outputs supplementary information on a drug that is not dispensed with the drug dispensing apparatus and needs to be supplemented. The picking inspection apparatus receives an input of the supplementary information, and conducts the picking inspection for a supplementary drug supplemented based on the supplementary information. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073820 | RISK STRATIFICATION OF SUSPECTED AMI PATIENTS - The current invention enables a method to improve early diagnosis and risk stratification of AMI in patients presenting with chest pain. A quick and accurate diagnosis/risk stratification means that high risk patients can be assigned to the appropriate treatment pathway and low risk patients can be reassured that they have not suffered an AMI and alternative causes of chest pain can be investigated. The method of the present invention is based on the outcome of three factors determined on admission; Electrocardiogram, cardiac troponin level and H-FABP level. Dependent on the results of these three tests the subject can be placed into an appropriate risk category for an AMI having recently occurred and the appropriate treatment pathway can be initiated. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073821 | AUTOMATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME REVIEW OF RESEARCH AND COLLABORATION ACTIVITIES OF PROFESSIONALS - Systems, methods, and computer program product for reviewing current research and collaboration activities of a professional in real-time maintain, in storage memory, a database containing profiles of professionals including current research and collaboration activities of such professionals, submit a query to the database to search for information related to the research and collaboration activities associated with the profile of a given professional, and display, in response to receiving results of the query submitted to the database, each current research and collaboration activity of the given professional. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073822 | AUTOMATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO MANAGE COMPLIANCE OF CONTRACTS BETWEEN PROFESSIONALS AND THIRD PARTIES - Systems, methods, and computer program product for managing contracts between professionals and organizations include providing online access to a proposed contract through a first online portal to a professional, who is a party to the proposed contract, and to a legal representative through an online legal portal. A review of the proposed contract, performed by the legal representative through the online legal portal, is guided in accordance with predefined criteria. Certain data extracted from the proposed contract by the legal representative are recorded in a database through the online legal portal. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073823 | REAL-TIME COMPLIANCE SYSTEM - Systems, methods, and computer program product for ensuring compliance by an employee to requirements of an employer includes storing a profile of each employee in a database. The profile of each employee includes information about one or more contractual relationships related to a practice of that employee. A first online portal is provided to each employee with a profile in the database. The first online portal presented to each employee has a user interface customized for that employee through which that employee dynamically manages the information in the profile of that employee. An employer of one or more of the employees with a profile stored in the database accesses the dynamically managed information in each profile of that one or more employees through a second online portal. One or more rules are automatically applied to the information accessed by the employer to determine whether the one or more employees are in compliance with requirements of the employer. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073824 | Systems and Methods for Evaluating Health Care Provider Referrals - In one embodiment, a method comprises accessing a physician-referral-network, which comprises a number of nodes and a number of edges connecting the nodes, each of the edges representing a single degree of separation between the nodes. Each node represents a physician, and each edge represents a patient-referral between two physicians corresponding to the connected nodes. One or more references indicating a patient-referral from a first physician to a second physician is received. The physician-referral-network is updated based on the received reference. One or more performance-scores from the second physicians may be received, each performance-score corresponding to a patient-referral. A referral-score is calculated for the first physician based on the performance-scores. The method further comprises determining if a referral-score for a first physician is below a threshold referral-score. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073825 | METHOD FOR ONLINE MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS, AND APPARATUS AND SYSTEM UTILIZING SAME - A method for a patient having a computing device to communicate with clinical medical personnel regarding a surgical procedure. The method can include opening an internet-accessible application, accessing a page of the application, inputting information pertaining to the surgical procedure into a plurality of input fields, and receiving a communication on the computing device from the clinical medical personnel in response to the inputted information. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073826 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING DATA - System and methods are disclosed, one method can comprise the steps of receiving a request for a diagnostic message, receiving a selection of diagnostic information, retrieving at least a portion of the selected diagnostic information, generating the requested diagnostic message, wherein the diagnostic message comprises the portion of the selected diagnostic information, and transmitting the requested diagnostic message. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073827 | Managing Patient Consent in a Master Patient Index - A system and method for managing patient consent. A data access manager includes a controller, a lookup module, a clinical authorization engine, a logging/auditing unit, a user profile engine, a report module and a user interface engine. The controller manages the core functions and the transmission of data between the data access manager components. The lookup module enables a user to query patient data. The clinical authorization engine authorizes access to patient data. The logging/auditing unit logs and monitors user activity. The user profile engine accesses and updates user profile information. The patient profile engine accesses and updates patient profile information. The report module generates reports related to the user activity. The user interface engine generates user interfaces for displaying the user profiles and patient information data. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073828 | MEDICAL REPORTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods for use in providing input relating to medical data are provided. A method includes receiving a partial textual input relating to medical data. The method further includes determining one or more suggested input strings associated with the partial textual input. Determining the suggested input string(s) includes: (1) for each of a plurality of reference input strings contained within one or more of a plurality of reference files within a database, identifying a frequency with which the reference input string appears in the plurality of reference files, and (2) determining the suggested input string(s) further includes determining the suggested input string(s) from among the plurality of reference input strings based on the frequencies with which the reference input strings appear in the plurality of reference files. The method further includes providing the suggested input string(s) to the user as suggestions for completing the partial textual input. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073829 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING PATIENT DATA AND PATIENT STATUS NOTIFICATIONS - A method for distributing patient data includes: storing patient data entries, each entry including a patient identifier and patient data points, each point being associated with an access control; storing a plurality of user data entries, each user entry including a user identifier, authentication information, and access control information; receiving questionnaire answers and a specific patient identifier associated with the patient; updating the points in a specific patient entry including the specific patient identifier based on the questionnaire answers; receiving a patient data request including the specific patient identifier, a specific user identifier, and supplied authentication information; and transmitting a subset of points based on the access control associated with each point in the subset and the access control information included in a specific user data entry including the specific user identifier, if the supplied authentication information matches the authentication information included in the specific user data entry. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073830 | Electrical Computing Devices for Recruiting a Patient Population for a Clinical Trial - One disclosed method includes obtaining an electronic representation of a primary patient population within a first data store, the primary patient population comprising a plurality of electronic health records (EHRs); receiving an electronic representation of a target secondary patient population, the target secondary patient population comprising a target number of patients and at least one characteristic; and generating an electronic representation of the secondary patient population from the primary patient population based on the target number of patients and the at least one characteristic. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073831 | EVALUATING POPULATION INDICATED FOR MEDICAL THERAPIES - A method may include, receiving, by a computer system, indications of a plurality of attributes associated with applicable individuals, wherein each respective one of the applicable individuals is a member of a human population and is a potential user of a medical therapy. The method may further include, for each respective attribute of the plurality of attributes, receiving, by the computer system, a respective indication of a prevalence of the respective attribute, and estimating, by the computer system, based on the indications of the prevalence of the respective attributes, a number of applicable individuals. The method may also include outputting, by the computer system, the estimate of the number of the applicable individuals. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073832 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DOCUMENTING A BLOOD DONATION COLLECTION PROCESS - Methods and apparatus collecting blood from patients and managing blood donations are provided, which may include any number of features. One feature is a blood collection device configured to collect blood and collection information from a patient. Another feature is a system and method for acquiring and receiving the blood and collection information, and entering the information into a blood records management system. Computing methods and systems are described which can acquire the desired data with screen scraping and enter the data into the blood records management system with terminal emulation. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073833 | Systems and Methods for Evaluating Experience of a Health Care Provider - In one embodiment, a method comprises identifying one or more health-care-providers associated with one or more medical-specializations, wherein each medical-specialization is associated with a specialty class and at least one geographic area. A number of patient-diagnosis codes is received, each patient-diagnosis code corresponding to one of the health-care-providers and representing a patient-visit to the health-care-provider. The patient-diagnosis code includes at least one diagnosis within a condition-group for the patient visit, and a severity-factor for the diagnosis. The method further comprises determining all patient-diagnosis codes corresponding to the health-care-providers. A patient-volume is calculated for each health-care-provider, based on the patient-diagnosis codes and associated severity-factors. A variety-score is calculated for each health-care-provider based on the patient-diagnosis codes. An experience-score is calculated for each health-care-provider based on the patient-volume and variety-score. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073834 | DAMAGE-SCALE CATASTROPHE INSURANCE PRODUCT DESIGN AND SERVICING SYSTEMS - Technology-implemented systems and methods for use of a damage-scale method in the design, issuance, management, and claim servicing of a catastrophe insurance policy are disclosed. A catastrophe insurance policy is issued to insure property from wide-scale natural catastrophic events such as floods, earthquakes, and the like natural disasters. The catastrophe insurance policy includes specific damage-scale method clauses defined in the terms and conditions of the insurance policy that require use of a damage-scale method to evaluate and manage insurance claims for property damage. For example, a catastrophe insurance policy application is defined to include contractually defined insurance indemnification payouts that are tied to specific states of property damage (rather than property replacement or repair cost estimates provided by insurance loss adjustors). The insured property damage payout is determined through the application of damage-scale based computational algorithms and supporting claims management systems and technologies. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073835 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN INSURANCE QUOTE OF A PROPERTY IN REAL-TIME - The present subject matter described herein, in general, relates to insurance, and more particularly to a system and method for generating an insurance quote of a property in real-time. In one embodiment, a real-time insurance quote generation method is disclosed, comprising: obtaining a user selection, via a single action, of a property displayed on a map via a user interface of a device; determining an address of the property using at least geo co-ordinate details; collating data associated with the property from a plurality of data sources; assessing one or more risk factors associated with the property and underwriting the property based upon the data; computing, via a processor, an insurance quote for the property by using at least one of the data or the one or more risk factors; and providing the insurance quote. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073836 | FLEXIBLE PREMIUM INCOME ANNUITY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computerized method and system for providing a flexible income annuity includes inputting a plurality of premium payments for the income annuity from an investor, the flexible premium payments being received on different dates. The computerized method and system further includes computationally aggregating income benefits from the one or more investment vehicles of the income annuity where the income benefits are associated with premium payments received on different dates. The method and system further includes calculating an income payment based the aggregated income benefits and outputting the income payments to a payee on one or more selected disbursement dates. Therefore, the investor is provided the flexibility to make premium payments for the income annuity on varying dates. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073837 | Transferring A Document - Disclosed are systems and methods to transfer a document. The systems and methods provide techniques to provide a secure system coupled to a network, relate a transaction identifier to a transaction, allow a third party access to the secure system to transfer an electronic copy of the document to the secure system and to associate the electronic copy of the document with the transaction identifier, and receive the electronic document file from the third party on the secure system. The transaction may relate to an insurance or financial transaction. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073838 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PURCHASING INSURANCE - Systems and methods related to an online website wherein businesses seeking insurance can obtain quotations and be connected to a plurality of insurance providers are described herein. In some embodiments, the businesses are authenticated and verified by providing such details as, e.g., employer identification number (EIN) or tax identification number (TIN), and being registered with the system prior to requesting quotations. In some embodiments, the system has an online collaboration system where a business can ask or post questions and receive answers from insurance providers or agents who match their search criteria. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073839 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR AUTOMATING TRAVEL AGENCY - An apparatus, method, and program for automating a Travel Agency which facilitates the end user to book and issue the tickets in commercial travel engagement by the user himself without delay and errors, in turn reduces the total operating cost of travel agency by reducing/avoiding the intervention of agents in the process. The invention makes use of the document reader to read the international travel documents and a thermal printer to print the compact size of the ticket in addition to the touch screen monitor that allow the users to interact with the system. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073840 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM AND ELECTRONIC RECEIPT SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a member association unit configured to maintain a code of a consumer, a reception unit configured to receive electronic receipt information and additional information corresponding to the code maintained by the member association unit from an electronic receipt management server, which associates the code of each consumer with the electronic receipt information and other information collected for a plurality of companies, the electronic receipt information including information concerning payments made by the consumer to each of the plurality of companies, and the additional information added to the electronic receipt information, and a display unit configured to display the electronic receipt information and the additional information, which are received by the reception unit. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073841 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING VACATION PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT - The invention provides a method and system for facilitating vacation planning and management. The method includes enabling planning of a vacation based on one or more of a user input, a user profile and a travel history associated with the user profile. The method also includes enabling booking of vacation and providing in-travel support. The in-travel support comprises providing one or more of a concierge service and a crisis management service during travel. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073842 | Seat Reassignment Method for Transport Vehicles - A passenger reassignment method is provided, in which a substantially automated system is employed to reassign passenger seat assignments from one transport vehicle to another without requiring staff to manually reassign seats, distribute updated boarding passes, or permit free-boarding on the new vehicle. In the commercial airline scenario, when one aircraft is downed because of a maintenance issue, the present method analyzes passenger data from the original flight, locates available substitute flights to the same location or general direction, reassigns the original passenger list to the new aircraft or several aircraft, and displays the updated boarding information on a common display or via individualized displays within the aircraft. The method reassigns seats despite desperate interior arrangements or aircraft types between original and substitute aircraft, and optimizes seat usage on alternative flights to maximize seat usage. Overall, the system improves efficiency in the event of a downed aircraft and vehicle substitution. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073843 | Secure Facility Resident Grievance / Request FIling System - An exemplary embodiment provides for a computer-implemented method for processing a secure facility resident request. The method includes accepting a request type selection by the secure facility resident, providing a request form corresponding to the request type, accepting input for the request form and routing the request form to secure facility staff for review. The method additionally includes routing the request form back to the secure facility resident if further information is required and if the further information is required, accepting the further information from the secure facility resident. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073844 | GENERATING MULTIPLY CONSTRAINED GLOBALLY OPTIMIZED REQUESTS FOR PROPOSAL PACKAGES SUBJECT TO UNCERTAINTY ACROSS MULTIPLE TIME HORIZONS - A method, system and computer program product for determining an optimized set of sales events for a company. The method including the steps of if a likelihood of the company being awarded the sale is greater than a predetermined probability: determining a weighted profitability from being awarded the sale; determining unavailability costs and penalties associated with providing the resource package if resources within the package are unavailable; determining a weighted overall cost by assigning weights to the costs and penalties of the resources in the resource package and the unavailability costs and penalties; selecting an optimized mathematical set of sales events to be followed up, based on the weighted overall cost relative to the weighted profitability from being awarded the sale. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073845 | WIRELESS COVERAGE INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN - A system and method for wireless communication network deployment. The system includes a computer having a processor and memory and a plurality of interfaces including: a building data interface, a network design interface, and a project management interface. The building data interface is configured to receive and process, by the computer, building data, network data, network KPI's and financial data and generate, by the computer, a model of obstacles and their conglomeration within the environment of interest (digitized building model). The network design interface is configured to generate, a network design based upon the digitized building model and the network KPI's and to analyse, by the computer, interaction between the network model and the model of the obstacles and their conglomeration within the environment of interest. The project management interface, configured to schedule, by the computer, the projects, and automatically generates tasks and plans resources based upon the network design. A digitized building model is generated by the invention through data inputs into the system and stored in the data store. The digitized building model is created by the network design interface. The controller provides an interface between the interfaces and the data store. The data used between the interfaces is accessible in a standardized manner. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073846 | OBTAINING A PRODUCT VIA A REPOSITORY IN AN ORGANIZATION WITH OBTAINMENT UNITS - A purchase order is received by an entity associated with an organization for a product to be obtained via a vendor, wherein the product has a value in external-obtainment units. The product is inventoried in a repository of the organization, wherein the product is obtainable via the repository of the organization with internal-obtainment units. The product is allocated to a number of entities associated with the organization. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073847 | DISPATCH VOIP SYSTEM - A dispatch VOIP system is disclosed. The dispatch VOIP system includes a VOIP server system with a VOIP system, a processor system, a communications interface, a communications system, an input system and an output system and a GPS system residing on the VOIP server system, the GPS system allows a dispatcher user to track one or more second users without distance limitation. The dispatch VOIP system establishes a two-way communication system between one or more for hires and one or more dispatchers. The dispatch VOIP system may also be a for hire dispatch VOIP system for one or more for hire driver users or one or more taxi cab driver users. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073848 | DEAL STAGE DATA VISUALIZATION AND USER INTERFACE - Data visualizations and user interfaces help managers view the totality of deal opportunities in progress and identify potential shortfalls. A deal stage visualization includes deal stage regions corresponding with deal stages and arranged along a first axis. Deal icons represent individual pending deals and are assigned to one of the deal stages. The set of deal icons associated with each deal stage form a deal icon set. The deal stage visualization also includes a second axis representing aggregate values of the deal stages. Each deal icon set is associated with a display region having a displayed size along the second axis that is proportional to an aggregate value of its included deal icons. Different icon sets with different aggregate deal values will have different size scrollable display areas. The size of the display area associated with an icon set remains unchanged during scrolling. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073849 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY COORDINATING TASKS, SCHEDULE PLANNING, AND WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for dynamically coordinating a plurality of tasks are provided. Such tasks include a priority rank and at least one of a target date, a classification, an associated application, an associated action, and an associated priority rank adjustment parameter. A particular task can be processed relative to other tasks to generate a first scheduling scheme that defines a prioritized arrangement of the tasks. Based on the priority rank adjustment parameter(s), further scheduling schemes can be generated in lieu of the first scheduling scheme, thereby accounting for the respective priority rank adjustment parameters by influencing the arrangement of the tasks relative to one another. Additionally, based on a status notification, the tasks can be processed to generate a scheduling scheme that accounts for the status notification by influencing the arrangement of the first task and the stored tasks relative to one another. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073850 | Assessing Staffing Coverage for Software Applications - A computer system enables a business to determine a structure of a software application, obtain staffing information assigned to the application, and determine a staffing gap for different levels of the application. Staffing assessment may be expanded to a software portfolio that typically includes different applications and further to a line of business segment that corresponds to one or more portfolios. Supply coverage and demand coverage for each of the application levels is then determined so that staffing gaps for each of the application levels can be assessed. Staffing information may include staffing at different skill levels include subject matter experts, specialists, and generalists. The structure of an application may include modules that further include sub-modules. A training plan may be invoked when staffing is overly dependent on contractor support. | 2015-03-12 |
20150073851 | PROVIDING A REQUISITE LEVEL OF SERVICE FOR AN ELECTRONIC MEETING - Providing a requisite level of service for an electronic meeting. An embodiment can include receiving a request to schedule a first electronic meeting in a time slot, identifying an electronic meeting system to host the first electronic meeting, identifying a second electronic meeting scheduled to be hosted by the electronic meeting system in the time slot, determining an estimate of resource usage within the electronic meeting system during the time slot at least based on the second electronic meeting being scheduled to be hosted by the electronic meeting system in the time slot, comparing the estimate of resource usage with a threshold value, responsive to determining that the estimate of resource usage exceeds the threshold value, providing the requisite level of service to the first electronic meeting in the time slot by reducing anticipated resource usage of the electronic meeting system by the second electronic meeting. | 2015-03-12 |