| 14th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 50 |
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| 20090089032 | ENHANCED SIMULATION MODELS FOR AUTOMATION - A simulation tool for an industrial automation system is provided. The tool includes a simulation component that simulates one or more components of an industrial control system. At least one directed model provides one or more suggested parameters or profiles to the simulation component, where the suggested parameters or profiles are derived from data relating to an industry or controls application. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089033 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF COMPONENTS WHILE IN OPERATION - A method for determining the life expectancy of machine components ( | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089034 | Surgical Planning - A method, apparatus and computer program code for automatically planning at least a part of a surgical procedure to be carried out on a body part of a patient are described. A virtual model of the body part is provided, in which the model has data associated with it representing at least a part of a planned surgical procedure. The virtual model is then morphed to the body part using data derived from the patient's real body part thereby also adapting the part of the planned surgical procedure to reflect the anatomy of the patient's real body part. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089035 | Hybrid multi-layer artificial immune system - The hybrid artificial immune system consists of three main layers, including a solution application layer that interacts with the environment, a solution generation layer that solves combinatorial optimization problems and a modeling layer that analyzes problems and presents solution scenarios. The system solves evolutionary multi-objective optimization problems in network computing, robotics, artificial neural networks, protein network modeling, evolutionary systems and evolutionary hardware. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089036 | Method And Apparatus for Establishing Network Performance Model - A method and apparatus for establishing a network performance model. The method includes: determining, according to performance data provided by network nodes and the probability of the performance data, a parameter α showing the correlation of the performance data of different network nodes in a whole network and a parameter β showing the distribution pattern of the performance data in the network; and establishing a Latent Dirichlet Allocation, LDA, network performance model by using the determined parameter α and the parameter β. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089037 | Method and apparatus for circuit simulation in view of stress exerted on MOS transistor - A circuit simulation method includes: generating graphical data indicating dimensions of a subject MOS transistor; calculating a parameter correction amount based on said graphical data; correcting a given transistor model parameter in response to said parameter correction amount; and performing circuit simulation of a circuit that includes said subject MOS transistor by using said corrected transistor model parameter. The parameter correction amount is calculated based on said graphical data by using arithmetic equations. The arithmetic equations include at least one stress model equation expressing a stress exerted on a channel region of a model MOS transistor. The stress model equation is suitably defined to simulate the stress exerted on the channel region. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089038 | Mechanism for realistic application/network modeling using a workload description - A method for benchmarking a computer system comprises encoding a profile of the computer system in a readable medium to form an encoded computer readable medium. This profile is interpretable by a test server so that the test server is able to simulate the interaction between the system server and one or more system clients. The profile of the computer system includes a first set of tokens and data associated therewith configured to describe a workload to be executed by test server and a second set of second set of tokens configured to describe actions taken by one or more test clients to simulate one or more system clients interacting with the system server. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089039 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EMULATING FUNCTIONALITY OF A WEB SERVICE - A system and method are provided for emulating the functionality of a web service. The system can include a web server that is configured to host web services. A web service can be configured to execute on the web server as defined by a service definition file. The web service can contain a plurality of executable emulation rules, and the emulation rules can include request argument formats and response formats. An end user can enter values using a graphical user interface for the expected request arguments and response values to be returned by the web service for each executable emulation rule, when the expected request arguments are received. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089040 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MULTI-COMPONENT MALWARE - Malicious behavior of a computer program is detected using an emulation engine, an event detector and an event analyzer. The emulation engine includes a system emulator configured to emulate, in an isolated computer environment, at least a part of a computer system and a program emulator configured to emulate in the isolated computer environment execution of the computer program, including execution of a plurality of executable components of the computer program, such as execution processes and threads. The event detector is configured to monitor events being generated by two or more of the executable components. The event analyzer is configured to determine, substantially in real time, based at least on one or more events generated by each of two or more of the plurality of executable components whether or not the computer program exhibits malicious behavior, wherein individually one or more of the plurality of executable components may exhibit benign behavior. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089041 | COMPUTER EMULATOR EMPLOYING DIRECT EXECUTION OF COMPILED FUNCTIONS - An emulation system that provides the functionality of an emulated computer on a host computer pre-processes the object code file to be emulated to reduce the run-time overhead due to parsing the object code. The emulator uses pre-programmed functions that model each instruction of the emulated computer. An object code file is pre-parsed to generate a translated file which includes a sequence of function calls corresponding to the sequence of instructions in the code file. The translated file is compiled to generate a corresponding translated object-code file. The translated object-code file is executed in the emulation environment on the host computer. The emulation system also includes a standard mode in which the object code file is emulated by sequentially parsing each instruction in the object code file and invoking an appropriate one of the preprogrammed functions in the emulated environment. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089042 | System and method for interpreter selection and connection to communication devices - A system having a computer system with one or more interfaces enabling communication with one or more communication devices, and memory storing a first database associating geographic regions with the most commonly spoken language(s) of those regions, and a second database associating interpreters with different languages, and a third database providing demographics of members who previously enrolled with the service and including information such as telephone numbers and languages spoken. In response to a requesting communication device, the computer system determines the language(s) spoken by the member associated with that requesting device as identified in the third database, determines a geographic region associated with the requesting communication device and a language of that region as identified by the first database, and selects a matching interpreter from the second database who can assist in both the regional language and one of the languages spoken by the member. The requesting communication device is connected to the communication device of the selected interpreter for either voice communication or text messaging with the user of the device. The requesting communication device may be associated with either a single user or with one of multiple participants associated with a request to the computer system to connect such participants in a multi-party call. In another embodiment, the second database is used to identify interpreters to assist in multi-party conferences or conference calls through remote audio links, in which a series of switches and volume adjustments are used to prevent distraction during simultaneous interpretation for selected participants. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089043 | System and method of providing a response with a different language for a data communication protocol - A system and method of providing a response with different language options for a data communication protocol, such as Session Initiation Protocol, are disclosed. For example, data communication is controlled between at least two endpoints. A response code indicative of a condition of the data communication is transmitted to one of the at least two endpoints. The response code is associated with a reason phrase operable to be displayed at the one of the at least two endpoints in a language selected from an option of a plurality of languages. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089044 | INTENT MANAGEMENT TOOL - Linguistic analysis is used to identify queries that use different natural language formations to request similar information. Common intent categories are identified for the queries requesting similar information. Intent responses can then be provided that are associated with the identified intent categories. An intent management tool can be used for identifying new intent categories, identifying obsolete intent categories, or refining existing intent categories. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089045 | METHOD OF TRANSFORMING NATURAL LANGUAGE EXPRESSION INTO FORMAL LANGUAGE REPRESENTATION - This invention comprises a series of steps which transforms one or more natural language expressions into a single, well-formed formal language representation. Each natural language expression is partially parsed into simple fragments, each of which is then associated with one or more short formal expressions. Each formal expression is constructed in such a way as to contain one or more placeholder variables, each of which is associated with one or more attributes to constrain the types of entities that each variable can potentially represent. The resulting plurality of formal expressions is then filtered for relevance within a given context, and the surviving expressions manipulated based upon a plurality of rules, which are cognizant of the attributes associated with each variable contained therein. A user is then presented with the resulting plurality of formal expressions, whereupon the user optionally selects, rejects, adds to, logically connects and otherwise manipulates each member of said plurality. When the user is satisfied that the plurality represents an intended meaning, the formal expressions are combined into a single, formal representation. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089046 | Word Use Difference Information Acquisition Program and Device - A device or computer implemented program for accurately and automatically obtaining general-purpose information regarding the usage difference between a plurality of synonyms and quasi-synonyms, such as the types of words with which the synonyms and quasi-synonyms are often used, is provided with: means for receiving the input of a plurality of words; means for extracting sentence data including an inputted word from a corpus; means for analyzing the sentence structure of the sentence data and extracting nouns that are in a grammatical relationship with the inputted word included in the sentence data; means for extracting the nodes representing the nouns and the nodes representing the semantic category of the noun from a thesaurus and forming a directional graph for each inputted word; means for comparing a plurality of directional graphs and extracting the difference nodes; and means for outputting the extracted difference nodes as information relating to the usage difference of the inputted words. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089047 | Natural Language Hypernym Weighting For Word Sense Disambiguation - Technologies are described herein for probabilistically assigning weights to word senses and hypernyms of a word. The weights can be used in natural language processing applications such as information indexing and querying. A word hypernym weight (WHW) score can be determined by summing word sense probabilities of word senses from which the hypernym is inherited. WHW scores can be used to prune away hypernyms prior to indexing, to rank query results, and for other functions related to information indexing and querying. A semantic search technique can use WHW scores to retrieve an entry related to a word from an index in response to matching an indexed hypernym of the word with a query term applied to the index. More refined and accurate query results may be provided based on reduced user inputs. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089048 | Two-Pass Hash Extraction of Text Strings - Data compression and key word recognition may be provided. A first pass may walk a text string, generate terms, and calculate a hash value for each generated term. For each hash value, a hash bucket may be created where an associated occurrence count may be maintained. The hash buckets may be sorted by occurrence count and a few top buckets may be kept. Once those top buckets are known, a second pass may walk the text string, generate terms, and calculate a hash value for each term. If the hash values of terms match hash values of one of the kept buckets, then the term may be considered a frequent term. Consequently, the term may be added to a dictionary along with a corresponding frequency count. Then, the dictionary may be examined to remove terms that may not be frequent, but appeared due to hash collisions. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089049 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVELY DETERMINING QUANTIZATION STEP ACCORDING TO MASKING EFFECT IN PSYCHOACOUSTICS MODEL AND ENCODING/DECODING AUDIO SIGNAL BY USING DETERMINED QUANTIZATION STEP - Provided are a method of adaptively determining a quantization step according to a masking effect in a psychoacoustics model and a method of encoding/decoding an audio signal by using the determined quantization step. The method of adaptively determining a quantization step includes calculating a first ratio value indicating an intensity of an input audio signal with respect to a masking threshold; and determining the maximum value of the quantization step in a range in which noise generated when the audio signal is quantized is masked, according to the first ratio value. According to the present invention, quantization noise may be removed and the number of bits required to encode an audio signal may be reduced, by using auditory characteristics of humans. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089050 | Device and Method For Frame Lost Concealment - A device and a method for frame lost concealment are disclosed. A pitch period of a current lost frame is obtained on the basis of a pitch period of the last good frame before the current lost frame. An excitation signal of the current lost frame is recovered on the basis of the pitch period of the current lost frame and an excitation signal of the last good frame before the lost frame. Thereby, the hearing contrast of a receiver is reduced, and the quality of speech is improved. Further, in the present invention, a pitch period of continual lost frames is adjusted on the basis of the change trend of the pitch period of the last good frame before the lost frame. Therefore, a buzz effect produced by the continual lost frames is avoided, and the quality of speech is further improved. In addition, by attenuating the energy of the excitation signal obtained from the continual lost frames, the device and method accord with the hearing physiological characteristics of human and reduce the hearing contrast of the receiver. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089051 | Vocal fry detecting apparatus - A VF detecting apparatus capable of highly accurate vocal fry (VF) detection includes: a very-short-term peak detection processing unit framing a speech signal with a first frame of a first frame length and first frame shift amount and detecting each power peak; a short-term periodicity detecting unit framing the speech signal with a second frame of a second frame length longer than the first frame length and a second frame shift amount larger than the first frame length and determining presence/absence of periodicity in each of the resulting frame; a periodicity checking unit for detecting power peaks in those frames determined to have no periodicity, from among the detected power peaks; and a similarity checking unit for detecting, for each of the selected power peaks, neighboring power peaks having high cross-correlation and detecting the section therebetween as the VF section. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089052 | Signal Recording and Reproducing Apparatus and Method - A signal recording and reproducing apparatus includes an encoder encoding an input signal to produce a first group of encoded data, and a second group of encoded data used for reproducing a signal of higher quality than a signal resulting from decoding of the first group of encoded data, a recording unit recording record-data, including the first group and the second group of encoded data, into a recording medium, a reproducing unit reproducing the record-data from the recording medium, a decoder decoding at least the first group of encoded data out of the record-data from the reproducing unit, and a controller controlling an operation of each part of the recording and reproducing apparatus, and the controller performs control so as to cause the recording unit to erase the second group of encoded data according to a command to increase the amount of free storage capacity of the recording medium. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089053 | MULTIPLE MICROPHONE VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTOR - Voice activity detection using multiple microphones can be based on a relationship between an energy at each of a speech reference microphone and a noise reference microphone. The energy output from each of the speech reference microphone and the noise reference microphone can be determined. A speech to noise energy ratio can be determined and compared to a predetermined voice activity threshold. In another embodiment, the absolute value of the autocorrelation of the speech and noise reference signals are determined and a ratio based on autocorrelation values is determined. Ratios that exceed the predetermined threshold can indicate the presence of a voice signal. The speech and noise energies or autocorrelations can be determined using a weighted average or over a discrete frame size. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089054 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF NOISE AND ECHO REDUCTION IN MULTIPLE MICROPHONE AUDIO SYSTEMS - Multiple microphone noise suppression apparatus and methods are described herein. The apparatus and methods implement a variety of noise suppression techniques and apparatus that can be selectively applied to signals received using multiple microphones. The microphone signals received at each of the multiple microphones can be independently processed to cancel echo signal components that can be generated from a local audio source. The echo cancelled signals may be processed by some or all modules within a signal separator that operates to separate or otherwise isolate a speech signal from noise signals. The signal separator can include a pre-processing de-correlator followed by a blind source separator. The output of the blind source separator can be post filtered to provide post separation de-correlation. The separated speech and noise signals can be non-linearly processed for further noise reduction, and additional post processing can be implemented following the non-linear processing. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089055 | Method and apparatus for identification of conference call participants - A system including a conferencing telephone coupled to or in communication with an identification service. The identification service is configured to poll user devices of conference participants to determine or confirm identities. In response, the user devices transmit audio electronic business cards, which can include user voice samples and/or preprocessed voice recognition data. The identification service stores the resulting audio electronic business card data. When the corresponding participant speaks during the conference, the identification service identifies the speaker. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089056 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND DISPLAY PROCESS METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a sound characteristic output module configured to analyze audio data in video content data, thereby outputting sound characteristic information indicative of sound characteristics of the audio data. A talk section detection process module detects talk sections in which talks are made by persons, which are included in the video content data, on the basis of the sound characteristic information, and classifies the detected talk sections into a plurality of groups which are associated with different speakers. A display process module displays, on a time bar which is representative of a sequence of the video content data, a plurality of bar areas indicative of positions of the detected talk sections in the sequence of the video content data, in different display modes in association with the groups. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089057 | SPOKEN LANGUAGE GRAMMAR IMPROVEMENT TOOL AND METHOD OF USE - A system and method of improving language skills and, more particularly, a spoken language grammar improvement tool and method of use is provided. The method includes monitoring and analyzing a user's speech pattern; matching a stored undesirable phrase and/or word with the user's speech pattern; and providing feedback to the user when a match is found between the stored undesirable phrase and/or word and the user's speech pattern. A system for monitoring spoken language includes a computer infrastructure being operable to: detect a user's speech pattern; compare the user's speech pattern with stored undesirable words and/or phrases; and provide a notification type to a user that the user's speech pattern matches with at least one of the stored words and/or phrases. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089058 | Part-of-speech tagging using latent analogy - Methods and apparatuses to assign part-of-speech tags to words are described. An input sequence of words is received. A global fabric of a corpus having training sequences of words may be analyzed in a vector space. A global semantic information associated with the input sequence of words may be extracted based on the analyzing. A part-of-speech tag may be assigned to a word of the input sequence based on POS tags from pertinent words in relevant training sequences identified using the global semantic information. The input sequence may be mapped into a vector space. A neighborhood associated with the input sequence may be formed in the vector space wherein the neighborhood represents one or more training sequences that are globally relevant to the input sequence. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089059 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING MULTIMODAL TAGS IN A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method and apparatus for enabling multimodal tags in a communication device is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a first training signal and receiving a second training signal in conjunction with the first training signal. A multimodal tag is created to represent a combination of the first training signal and the second training signal and a function is associated with the created multimodal tag. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089060 | Document Based Character Ambiguity Resolution - Methods and apparatus for document based ambiguous character resolution. An application searches a document for words that do not contain ambiguous characters and adds them to a dictionary, then searches the document for words that do contain ambiguous characters. For each ambiguous word, a set of candidate solutions is created by resolving the ambiguous characters in all possible ways. The dictionary is searched for words matching members of the candidate solution set. When a single member is matched, the ambiguous characters are resolved accordingly. When no member or more than one member is matched, a user is prompted to resolve the ambiguous characters. Alternatively, when more than one member is matched, the ambiguous characters are resolved to obtain the largest word, the smallest word, the most words, or the fewest words. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089061 | Audio Reader Device - An audio reader device for reading printed infrared media includes a linear sensor device sensitive to infra-red. A processor is operatively connected to the sensor device and is configured to read and decode infra-red audio data on the media. A memory is operatively connected to the processor for storing the audio data. A sound processing integrated circuit and speaker arrangement is operatively connected to the memory for playback of the audio data. A roller arrangement feeds the media past the linear sensor device. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089062 | PUBLIC SPEAKING SELF-EVALUATION TOOL - A public speaking self-evaluation tool that helps a user practice public speaking in terms of avoiding undesirable words or sounds, maintaining a desirable speech rhythm, and ensuring that the user is regularly glancing at the audience. The system provides a user interface through which the user is able to define the undesirable words or sounds that are to be avoided, as well as a maximum frequency of occurrence threshold to be used for providing warning signals based on detection of such filler or undesirable words or sounds. The user interface allows a user to define a speech rhythm, e.g. in terms of spoken syllables per minute, that is another maximum threshold for providing a visual warning indication. The disclosed system also provides a visual indication when the user fails to glance at the audience at least as often as defined by a predefined minimum threshold. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089063 | VOICE CONVERSION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method, system and computer program product for voice conversion. The method includes performing speech analysis on the speech of a source speaker to achieve speech information; performing spectral conversion based on said speech information, to at least achieve a first spectrum similar to the speech of a target speaker; performing unit selection on the speech of said target speaker at least using said first spectrum as a target; replacing at least part of said first spectrum with the spectrum of the selected target speaker's speech unit; and performing speech reconstruction at least based on the replaced spectrum. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089064 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND ARCHITECTURE FOR CONTROL AND MULTI-MODAL SYNCHRONIZATION OF SPEECH BROWSERS - Clients connecting to a VoiceXML browser obtain a control channel. Using this channel, clients may initialize a new VoiceXML session or attach to an existing VoiceXML session. The client after obtaining a session may perform a range of actions including controlling and monitoring actions. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089065 | ADJUSTING OR SETTING VEHICLE ELEMENTS THROUGH SPEECH CONTROL - A speech processing device includes an automotive device that filters data that is sent and received across an in-vehicle bus. The device selectively acquires vehicle data related to a user settings or adjustments of an in-vehicle system. An interface acquires the selected vehicle data from one or more in-vehicle sensors in response to a user's articulation of a first code phrase. A memory stores the selected vehicle data with unique identifying data associated with a user. The unique identifying data establishes a connection between the selected vehicle data and the user when a second code phrase is articulated by the user. A data interface provides access to the selected vehicle data and relationship data retained in the memory and enables the processing of the data to customize the in-vehicle system. The data interface is responsive to a user's articulation of a third code phrase to process the selected vehicle data that enables the setting or adjustment of the in-vehicle system. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089066 | RAPID AUTOMATIC USER TRAINING WITH SIMULATED BILINGUAL USER ACTIONS AND RESPONSES IN SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION - A system and method for automatic user training in speech-to-speech translation includes integrating an automatic user response system configured to be responsive to a plurality of training items and selecting a training item from the plurality of training items. For the selected training item, in response to an utterance in a first language, the utterance is translated into a second language, and a response to the utterance in the second language is generated. A simulated action corresponding with the response in accordance with a user speaking the second language is also generated. The response and simulated action are output as a learning exercise for learning operations of the automatic user response system. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089067 | SPREADSHEET WORKBOOK PART LIBRARIES - Disclosed are systems and methods that enable a workbook author to break a workbook out into a set of logically separate pieces, referred to herein as “workbook parts.” Calculation dependencies between the workbook parts may be maintained, so that all the calculations are correct across the entire spreadsheet. An organization may be enabled to manage each workbook part separately, thus certain users may be denied access to view or edit certain workbook parts. Accordingly, where multiple authors are contributing to a tightly controlled workbook, the person responsible for spreadsheet management is enabled to allow each of those authors access to edit only the portion that they need to be concerned with. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089068 | Method of Automatically Configuring Replacement Modules in Vehicles - Replacement modules are mapped to a telematics subscriber's account to allow a provider to properly manage a subscriber's services. Aspects of the invention allow vehicle dealer personnel to map replacement modules automatically through a provider website without contacting a live advisor. Subsequently, the provider automatically completes configuration of the replacement module via a wireless network. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089069 | METHOD FOR DEREGISTRATION OF REMOVED TELECOMMUNICATION MODULE - A method for deregistering a module removed from a telematics unit associated with a vehicle employs a network-based deregistration interface for module data uniquely identifying the removed module as well as optionally for uniquely identifying the vehicle owner or subscriber and the vehicle, e.g., a subscriber ID and VIN. The interface may also comprise one or more authentication fields for receiving and transmitting authentication data. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089070 | System and Method for Validating and Processing Customer Entered Addresses - A system includes an address validation and resolution module operable to determine a location corresponding to a civic address; a location key generator operable to generate a location key adapted to index a set of location-based services identifiers; and an available services determination module operable to use the location key to index the set of location-based services identifiers to determine location-based services available at the civic address. An embodiment of a computer-implemented method includes receiving address data identifying a civic address associated with a, determining a location corresponding to the identified civic address based on the address data; and determining whether one or more services are available at the identified civic address based on the determined location. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089071 | COMPRESSED NON-INDEXED DATA STORAGE - Systems and methods for storing and processing trading records are disclosed. The records may be arranged so that a single processor read operation reads multiple values. The records may also be arranged in a substantially sequential non-indexed collection and stored in a solid state memory module, such as a cache memory of a processor. A computer device may be configured to access the non-indexed collection of trading records and perform operations such as matching trades, recreating the state of an order book or analyzing trading records. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089072 | CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT DATABASE (CMDB) WHICH ESTABLISHES POLICY ARTIFACTS AND AUTOMATIC TAGGING OF THE SAME - The present invention discloses a solution for managing policy artifacts using a configuration management database (CMDB). Policies can be associated with a number of information technology resources, such as servers, businesses applications and the like. The solution permits automatic tagging of the policies (auto-discovery) as they enter the CMDB. For example, when a policy is added, it can be compared against a set of tagging rules. Multiple rules can match a new policy, which results in multiple tags being added for the policy. The policy specific tags can be optionally indexed for faster searching. Once indexed, the CMDB can support policy and policy tag based queries. In one embodiment, policy artifacts can be manipulated within a CMDB tool in a manner consistent with how the CMDB tool handles configuration items (CIs). | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089073 | Contact management system through internet - A contact management method includes the steps of providing an information center for a receiver to access through Internet; receiving a business portfolio in the information center, wherein the business portfolio contains information of a giver; receiving a personal code from the receiver in the information center; and verifying information of the giver in the business portfolio in responsive to the personal code. Therefore, the information center provides a communication platform to bond the relationship between the giver and the receiver after the exchange of the business card and verifies the giver by matching the information of giver on the business card with the information of the giver in the information center. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089074 | Identifying Trusted Providers - A computer-implemented method includes receiving a request from a consumer associated with a first medical service provider to engage in real time with a medical service provider over the Internet. The method also includes in response to the received request, displaying a list of medical service providers to the consumer on a user interface. The method also includes providing an indicator associated with a particular medical service provider in the list of medical service providers if the particular medical service provider is a trusted medical service provider identified by the first medical service provider. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089075 | FUEL ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION SYSTEM - The invention provides a fuel environmental evaluation system for evaluating a fuel environment characteristic in an energy distribution process comprising a means for inputting an amount of raw material supplied to equipment for each process of energy distribution, an amount of product produced from each equipment for each process, and a type and an amount of utility supplied to the equipment for each process when producing the product; a storage means for storing input data; a storage means for storing a basic unit for an amount of environmentally affecting matter emission per unit amount of an environmental emission matter in the raw material, utility and product; an environmental emission calculation section for calculating an amount of environmentally affecting matter emission from data of amounts of the raw material, utility and product, and the basic unit for the amount of environmentally affecting matter emission; and a means for storing a calculation result from the environmental emission calculation section. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089076 | Image forming apparatus, method of registering information of replacement component, and computer program product - An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of replacement components to be replaced according to their lifetimes. An information setting unit sets a replacement type of each of the replacement components, which indicates whether each of the replacement components is to be replaced at failure or replaced periodically, and a replacer who is in charge of replacing each of the replacement components. An information registering unit registers therein the replacement type and the replacer set by the information setting unit for each of the replacement components. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089077 | COLLECTION METHOD, COLLECTION SYSTEM, RECYCLING METHOD AND COLLECTION CONTAINER FOR USED PRINTING PLATE - An IC tag is fixed to a printing plate. An ID code is stored in the IC tag. A used printing plate is collected using a collection container. The collection container is provided with a reception device of the collected used printing plates. The reception device is provided with an IC tag reader. An ID code of the used printing plate is read with the IC tag reader. According to the read ID code, whether to reuse the used printing plate for a substrate of the printing plate is judged. The used printing plates judged to be reused are sent to an aluminum substrate recycling plant and recycled as raw materials for aluminum used in production of the substrates for the printing plates. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089078 | BUNDLING OF AUTOMATED WORK FLOW - An enterprise geospatial intelligence service oriented architecture (EGI-SOA) provides a consumer with one or more tailored products in response to either a dynamic request or a standing request by the consumer. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089079 | System and method for determining whether to issue an alert to consider prophylaxis for a risk condition - Disclosed herein is a system and method for determining whether to issue an alert to consider prophylaxis (e.g., mechanical and/or pharmacological) with respect to a risk condition (e.g., risk of VTE, DVT and/or PE). One or more sources of patient information are queried to retrieve patient information for a set of patients. From this retrieved patient information, it is determined whether any risk factors of a set of risk factors are satisfied for each such patient. For each patient for which one or more risk factors are satisfied, a respective value and/or classification is assigned to each risk factor. The values and/or classifications are combined to produce a combined value, and it is determined from the combined value whether the patient has the risk condition. If the patient has the risk condition, an alert is issued (e.g., on a display screen) to a health care provider for consideration of prophylaxis. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089080 | DYNAMIC STAFFING CONTROL NOTIFICATION METHOD - A process for dynamically controlling the scheduled staff in a department of a medical care facility wherein an initial workload requirement and staffing level requirement are calculated based upon either required patient care or scheduled medical procedures. Staff is scheduled to meet this calculated staffing level requirement. At some later time an updated workload requirement and updated staffing level requirement are calculated based upon changes in required patient care or scheduled medical procedures. The updated requirements are compared to the scheduled medical staff. Management is notified of a variance between the updated workload requirement and the assigned medical staff that exceeds a predefined threshold. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089081 | CUSTOMIZED PATIENT SURGICAL PLAN - Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed which generate surgical plans that have been customized for a particular patient. One such system includes a client, a surgical plan system and a computer assisted orthopaedic surgery system. The client generates a surgical plan request that includes data relevant to a patient and an orthopaedic surgical procedure to be performed upon the patient. The surgical plan system receives the surgical plan request and generates a surgical plan that has been customized based upon the data of the surgical plan request. The computer assisted orthopaedic surgery system assists a surgeon performing the orthopaedic surgical procedure per the surgical plan generated by the surgical plan system. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089082 | GET PREP QUESTIONS TO ASK DOCTOR - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates dynamically providing a question to ask a medical professional during an appointment. An interface can receive a portion of medical data. A counselor component can generate a question based on the portion of medical data, wherein the question is generated to elicit an answer from a medical professional during an appointment. Moreover, the counselor component can dynamically generate a second question directed toward the medical professional based upon at least one of the answer or a value of information (VOI) computation. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089083 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING HEALTH CARE COMPLEXITY VIA AN INTERACTIVE HEALTH MAP INTERFACE - To empower a member to make informed health care decisions, a health care organization (HCO) graphically presents the member with a manageable closed universe of health care information via an online interactive visual interface. The online interactive interface comprises a custom category node display of member health care data based on analyzing the member profile in light of the overall health care data taxonomy built by the HCO. Upon identifying the subset of relevant health care data categories, HCO initiates the display of the identified categories by way of a dynamically linked category node interface. To enhance the member's understanding of the relationships between the category nodes, the HCO preferably employs a ring node topology by displaying the online interface as a closed network or map, such as by locating each category node along one or more closed, loop-shaped wireframes, which connect the interrelated categories. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089084 | Auctioning Provider Prices - A computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a computer-based system for connecting consumers with providers in real time over the Internet, requested compensation amounts from a plurality of providers. The method also includes displaying a price associated with consulting with a particular provider to a consumer on a user interface, the price being based at least in part on the requested compensation amount received from the provider. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089085 | Managing Utilization - A computer-implemented method includes receiving a request from a consumer of medical services to engage with a provider of medical services in real time over the Internet using a computer-based brokerage system, accessing stored information related to past engagements of the consumer using the computer-based brokerage system, and determining allocation of a fee between the consumer and a third party for an engagement between the consumer and the provider based at least in part on the information related to the past engagements of the consumer. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089086 | ENHANCING REMOTE ENGAGEMENTS - An engagement is brokered between a consumer and a medical service provider; electronic text of a real-time, text-based communication between the medical service provider and the consumer is monitored during the engagement; the electronic text is analyzed for a triggering event related to at least one of medical diagnosis and medical treatment; the triggering event is detected in the electronic text; and medical information is provided to the medical service provider via a user interface in response to the triggering event. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089087 | Method for Developing and Marketing a Post Operative Home Recovery Kit for Use by a Patient After Discharge From a Hospital and for Recuperation At Home - A surgical recovery kit, which contain various medical and related articles, which are specifically “tuned” to be used by individuals who are planning to undergo specific medical procedures. The kits are intended to be used by convalescent patients who are re-covering at home. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089088 | Consolidation of Consumer Interactions within a Medical Brokerage System - In general in one aspect, agenda items are generated based on a consumer's one or more interactions with a system. The agenda items are consolidated into an agenda, a graphical user interface is produced that when rendered on a display displays the agenda, and a request from the consumer to interact with one or more of the agenda items is received. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089089 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING GERIATRIC CARE MANAGEMENT SERVICE - A method and apparatus provide geriatric care management service. The apparatus comprises a plurality of sensors, which generate sensor signals for informing daily behavior or health of an aged person, a signal processor, which analyzes the sensor signals to generate daily behavior information, an emergency situation manager, which informs a care giver that an emergency situation occurs and generates emergency situation occurrence information, an abnormal symptom manager, which analyzes the daily behavior information to informs the care giver whether or not the abnormal symptom occurs and generates abnormal symptom occurrence information, and a care information manager, which summarizes the daily behavior information, the emergency situation occurrence information, and the abnormal symptom occurrence information and generates care information. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089090 | Tracking the availability of service providers across multiple platforms - Amongst other things, the availability of service providers is tracked across one or more service provider networks. A status change of the service provider is identified on one or more of the service provider networks and the other service provider networks associated with the service provider is sent data indicating the changed status of the service provider. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089091 | EXAMINATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM - A medical image to be examined is displayed on a monitor of an examination support apparatus, and a doctor input a result of examination or image-interpretation through an operating section. A time measuring device measures a time taken for the doctor to complete the image-interpretation, and the measured time is compared with a standard interpretation time that is previously estimated according to the doctor and the kind of the examination. If the measured time is too short, an error alert is displayed, so that the doctor may reinterprets the displayed image. If the measured time is too long, the examination support apparatus judges it necessary to reexamine or reinterpret the image, and reports the need for reinterpretation along with the result of the image-interpretation. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089092 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO SCHEDULE RESOURCES IN DELIVERY OF HEALTHCARE TO A PATIENT - A method to schedule resources in delivery of healthcare to a series of patients is provided. The method comprises the steps of identifying an availability of the series of resources to deliver the healthcare to each patient; calculating a predicted duration to deliver the healthcare to each patient; calculating a schedule including a block of time dependent on the predicted duration for each resource to deliver healthcare to the patient, the block of time including a start time and an end time; calculating a confidence level in the schedule, the confidence level including a probability that one or more of the resources will not be available for the block of time of the schedule or calculating a likelihood that one or more resources will be available for the block of time in the schedule; and outputting the schedule and the confidence level in the schedule for display. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089093 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MANAGE DELIVERY OF HEALTHCARE TO A PATIENT - A system and method to manage delivery of healthcare via a plurality of resources to a patient is provided. The system and method track and output a signal representative of a location of at least one of a series of resources relative to a control volume associated with the patient, acquire at least one signal representative of detecting ingress or egress of at least one of the plurality of resources relative to the control volume; and output a first signal representative of one of a series of milestones as defined in a predetermined protocol in response to detecting ingress or egress of at least one of the resources relative to the control volume. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089094 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF ABUSE OF PATIENT DATA - A technique for detecting abuse of protected health information stored in a medical information system is presented. A record of each user's access to the protected health information is created and stored. The record of the access is configured to provide a basis for determining whether a user's access to the protected health information was for a legitimate reason or was a possible abuse of a patient's protected health information. A data mining program is used to search the records of access to the protected health information and identify possible abuses of patients protected health information. When a possible abuse of a patient's protected health information is identified as a result of the data mining, an alert is sent to notify a responsible authority of a possible abuse of a patient's protected health information. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089095 | Clinical Information Acquisition and Processing System - A system for acquiring and processing data for use by a clinical information system includes an interface processor for automatically receiving patient clinical data from multiple different sources. The interface processor parses clinical data received from an individual source to identify data elements indicating clinical data type as well as an associated time, stage, value and unit of measure. An adaptive data processor automatically adaptively processes the clinical data received from the individual source to provide processed clinical data accommodating absence of a value of at least one of the data elements by substituting at least one of, (a) a null value, (b) a zero value and (c) a default value for an absent data element. A storage processor stores the processed clinical data in a repository and retrieves a selectable plurality of the data elements for reproduction in an adaptively selectable presentation. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089096 | Documenting Remote Engagements - A service provider is prompted to provide a summary of an engagement with a consumer, an audible summary provided by the provider is recorded and, and the audible summary is associated with a record of the engagement. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089097 | Identification of Health Risks and Suggested Treatment Actions - Using a brokerage system, a consumer of services is matched with a service provider and a comprehensive health management plan is generated for the consumer during the consumer's interaction with the brokerage system. The brokerage system uses a rules engine to identify one or more conditions of the consumer's health and generate one or more follow-up actions based at least in part on the consumer's identified health condition. The consumer is notified of at least one of the identified conditions and the generated follow-up actions. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089098 | Identifying Clinical Trial Candidates - In general in one aspect, one or more clinical study candidates are identified by consolidating health care information for a consumer, applying the consumer's health care information to a rules engine, identifying a consumer as eligible to participate in one or more clinical studies, and presenting an opportunity to participate in the study to the consumer. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089099 | METHODS FOR TRACKING BAGS OF BLOOD AND BLOOD PRODUCTS - The invention involves a method for tracking bags containing biological fluids for dispensing within a human body, including, but not limited to human blood and plasma. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining a bag configured and arranged for sterile, aseptic, and stable retention of biological fluids; placing a quantity of the biological fluids into the bag; providing a first information-processing device with a data-input device and with a data-transfer device, said data-transfer device capable of writing data that has been input into the information-processing device, into a data-storage chip in a manner readable by a second information-processing device; affixing to the bag a readable/writeable data-storage chip; collecting fluid-data about the biological fluid; and inputting data, such as the fluid-data, into the first information-processing device for data transfer onto the chip. The readable/writeable data-storage chip is capable of interfacing with the first and second information-processing devices. The first information-processing device can write data to the data-storage chip and the second information-processing device can read of the data on the chip. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089100 | Clinical information system - A system, for interpreting information for a physician user or non-physician user, is described. The system includes a processing module configured to convert numerical data to at least one of a natural-language text and a machine vocalization. The at least one of the natural-language text and the machine vocalization describes a characteristic of the numerical data. The characteristic of the numerical data comprises at least one of a trend, a first derivative, a second derivative, a high value, a low value, and a time period, a pattern of repetition, an extrapolation, an interpolation, and a frequency. The physician user may enter data or receive data by voice alone through the backend database. The physician user may also order tests, labs or check on the same by voice alone. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089101 | Techniques for underwriting insurance policies using web-centric insurance management system - A scalable, adaptable, modular, and web-centric Insurance Back-Office System (IBOS) for serving the needs of carriers, agencies, agents, and service providers in the insurance industry is disclosed. The IBOS provides a framework for allowing web-centric collaboration among agents, agencies, carriers, and service providers, using applications that manage applicants, cases, and policies in an efficient and secure manner. The IBOS infrastructure is designed to facilitate the creation of a new application, module, tool, or view in a simplified manner. The web-centric application includes a first module for creating a case and a second module for tracking the case after the case has been submitted to the carrier for consideration. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089102 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADMINISTERING INDEXED LIFE INSURANCE - Disclosed is a system and method for administering a life insurance policy to provide increased interest based on specifically weighted linkage to multiple equity indices that typically may include Standard & Poor's 500 Composite Price Index, Dow Jones EURO STOXX 50, the Hang Seng Index, and/or derivatives thereof wherein the leading-performing index during a look back period is weighted more heavily than any other index. Also disclosed is a computer system using at least one administration component to implement a series of steps associated with administering an equity indexed-interest universal life insurance policy. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089103 | METHOD AND INSURANCE PLATFORM FOR INVESTMENT-TYPE WHOLE LIFE INSURANCE AT AUTONOMOUS INTEREST RATES - A method and insurance platform for whole life insurance implemented in the insurance field of financial e-commerce is provided. The present invention reflects the interactivity between a consumer and a platform provider in the age of network technology, and creates an insurance platform to enable the consumer to expand his/her credit on the platform and increase investment opportunities according to his/her own risk preference. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089104 | Point-of-Sale Investment Systems - As a positive alternative to lottery gambling, this invention permits consumers to elect to make small investments through lottery terminals. The investments are preferably made in a stock market based investment such as an Equity Index Annuity. Consumers may make investments anonymously and then consolidate them later into an account which may be managed in a manner similar to other investments. Subject to the policies regarding early redemption, consumers may also withdraw the invested amounts plus any associated gains. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089105 | DISPATCHING CAR APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - A dispatching apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a receiving module to receive the necessary car requirements from the passenger, wherein the necessary car requirements includes the condition of car and driver required by the passenger; a dispatching module for receiving the necessary car requirements; a memory unit storing information of cars and drivers of the dispatching companies, the dispatching module can compare the requirement with the information to select at least one car; and a wireless transferring network for broadcasting the necessary car requirements to at least one car and receiving responses from at least one car. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089106 | System And Method For Developing Strategic Scenario - Provided are a system and method for developing a strategic scenario. The system includes: a region analyzer for receiving initial scenario regions and sub-regions, verifying an organic relationships therebetween by performing a systematic thinking, calculating metric points of factors by performing an influencing matrix analysis, calculating a dynamic index for the factors based on the calculated metric points and classifying the factors into factor groups; a scenario diagnosis unit for selecting major factors based on the dynamic index and creating a projection catalogue of the selected major factors; a scenario developer for performing a comparability analysis between future prospects of selected major factors, performing a projection bundle extracting analysis based on the metric results from the comparability analysis, and deciding a final scenario by performing a cluster and a multidimensional scaling analysis; and a database for storing data generated from the region analyzer, the scenario diagnosis and the scenario developer. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089107 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANKING A CUSTOMER USING DYNAMICALLY GENERATED EXTERNAL DATA - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for ranking a potential customer. In one embodiment, external data associated with the potential customer is processed in a set of data models to generate a set of risk assessment factors for the potential customer. The external data comprises dynamic customer data elements generated in real-time as the potential customer is approaching a retail facility. The potential customer is ranked based on the risk assessment factors. The ranking indicates whether the potential customer poses a possible risk to the retail facility. In response to the ranking indicating that the potential customer poses the possible risk, actions are initiated to deter the potential customer from entering the retail facility. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089108 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING POTENTIALLY UNSAFE WORK CONDITIONS TO PREDICT AND PREVENT THE OCCURRENCE OF WORKPLACE ACCIDENTS - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for predicting an occurrence of a workplace accident. The process monitors current event data derived from a continuous video stream. The current event data comprises metadata describing events occurring at a workplace. The process then compares the current event data with previous event data that describes a set of previous events associated with a previously identified workplace accident. In response to detecting events in the current event data corresponding to at least one event in the set of previous events, the process generates a notification identifying a potential occurrence of the workplace accident. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089109 | CONFIGURATION OF WEB SERVICES - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for configuration of web services. In general, data is received characterizing web service calls for an application, a placeholder destination for the web service calls, and an identification of a system to be mapped to the placeholder; and a configuration is generated for the web service calls, where the configuration maps the placeholder destination to the system. The configuration may be a configuration of proxy objects to make the web service calls. Mapping the placeholder destination to the system may include generating a configuration including the system in lieu of the placeholder destination. Systems may be included in domains, where a security policy may be applied to systems in a domain. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089110 | METHODS OF RANKING CONTENT FOR BRAND CENTRIC WEBSITES - Computer-implemented methods for ranking modules within a module page of a website are provided. One method includes generating a website that relates to a brand, and the website is configured to contain one or more modules, and each module has media content related to the brand. The method includes monitoring each module for user interactivity and examining rules associated with monitored user interactivity of each module. Then, the method ranks each of the modules that are part of the website based on the user interactivity and the examined rules, and the ranking is capable of causing an automated repositioning of one or more modules within the webpage. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089111 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATING PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT - A system and method to automate product life cycle management is disclosed. Product registration is automated by providing a package with automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) media, such as an RFID tag or a barcode, and a point-of-sale terminal that writes a unique product registration key to the AIDC media. Information about the product and customer is maintained by the brand owner's product management system. A global directory service acting as a broker is used as an intermediary to facilitate interactions between point-of-sale or post sale systems and the brand owner's system. Upon product purchase, customer and unique product identifier is sent to the brand owner's product management system via the broker. The brand owner's system creates a unique product registration key that is sent back to the point of sale terminal, which then writes the unique product registration key to the AIDC media annexed to the product. When the product returned to a store, the AIDC media is scanned, the unique product registration key is extracted, and sent to the brand owner's system for decoding, verification and for product life cycle management. The disclosed system and method ensures that retailers or other unauthorized entities cannot track the product thus alleviating privacy concerns. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089112 | Service Resource Evaluation Method and System - A method for determining the value of service knowledge is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a database of service knowledge, including one or more service knowledge objects, corresponding to a system. The method may also include associating the service knowledge with a plurality of taxonomic service categories associated with respective service events. Further, the method may include establishing a value of the one or more service knowledge objects. Such value may be established through a comparison of a first and second expected maintenance costs for the system determined from the service knowledge without and with, respectively, the one or more service knowledge objects. Additionally, the method may include storing or outputting the established value. Various other methods, systems, and devices are also disclosed. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089113 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR IMPORTATION AND EXPORTATION PROCUREMENT, LOGISTICS, AND PAYMENT TRANSACTION FACILITATION - The disclosure details the implementation of apparatuses, methods, and systems for market generation and matches of importation and exportation procurement, logistics, and payment transactions; i.e., a cross-border Facilitator (hereinafter “Facilitator”). Through its various components, the cross-border Facilitator creates new markets by generating and facilitating three stages of a cross-border trade transaction: identification, selection and execution. In one embodiment, the Facilitator manages the transaction by: creating a transaction “template” based on transaction information (i.e., HS product code, ISO country code, etc), alerting the buyer to potential problem areas, and updating of important upcoming dates and actions. The Facilitator creates all the required documents, integrates all events, including the service providers, and allows both parties to track the status of the transaction on-line at any time. In one embodiment, the Facilitator receives a search request from a system user, the search request including product and shipping related data. The Facilitator then generates a quote for the transaction and transmitting the quote to the user. The Facilitator receives an indication that the transaction quote has been finalized by the user and effectuates one or more transaction logistics elements based on the product and shipping details included in the finalized quote. The Facilitator then facilitates payment of one or more entities involved in the transaction. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089114 | AUTOGENERATION OF CONFIGURATION ACTIVITIES - An activity generation system helps partners set up an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system by automatically generating a list of configuration activities that partners perform to configure the ERP system. The activity generation system programmatically generates a list of configuration activities and dependencies from the metadata of the ERP system. The activity generation system identifies the data sources associated with the menu items available to the user. For each identified data source, the activity generation system determines whether the data source is related to configuration of the system and creates a configuration activity related to the configuration of that data source. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089115 | Computer-implemented methods and systems for deriving process flow diagrams - A computer-implemented method of deriving a process flow diagram may include defining a computer-implemented business process, the business process including a plurality of computer-implemented operations, each of the plurality of operations including a condition precedent that must be satisfied for the activity to be executed. The defined computer-implemented process may be carried out over a selectable period of time, each time executing selected ones of the plurality of operations, depending on which of the condition precedents are satisfied and data may be collected on the executed selected ones of the operations upon execution thereof. A process flow diagram may then be derived from the collected data, the derived process flow diagram representing an historical view of the executed selected ones of the plurality of operations of the defined computer-implemented process. The derived process flow diagram may then be rendered. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089116 | Method and System for Acquiring and Tracking Redeemable Codes - Improved approaches to generate, distribute, redeem or return codes are disclosed. The codes can be used (i.e., redeemed) to purchase products from an online store. The codes can be electronically requested and received. In one embodiment, the codes can be acquired from a server via a network. The codes can be content specific codes that are redeemable for particular content, such as specific digital media assets. The codes can be returnable, and royalty obligations that may be due can be adjusted for returns. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089117 | Store Affiliation System - Techniques for improved interaction between online retailers and traditional brick-and-mortar retailers that provide patron-accessible networks are disclosed. The location and/or the fact that any given purchase was made from a particular retailer's patron-accessible network can be tracked for various purposes. The invention can facilitate partnering between online retailers (i.e., online stores) and traditional ‘brick-and-mortar’ business establishments. As an example, the invention can be used to track and give credit for online purchases at an online retailer that are facilitated by a brick-and-mortar retailer. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089118 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING SHARED SERVICE CENTERS - A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code includes storing collected data representative of service recipient attributes in multiple countries and storing collected data representative of at least one shared service center's (SSC's) attributes. Additionally, the method includes performing a feasibility analysis to determine if one or more SSCs are feasible to provide an indication of one or more feasible SSCs. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089119 | Method, Apparatus, and Software System for Providing Personalized Support to Customer - A software agent gathers data concerning customer usage of a software product, including error information and other relevant information. A support server gathers customer usage data and determines which optional features of a product are being used, or not being used, by the customer. The developer may then determine what features and functionalities of a product are critical for each individual customer or group of customers. The support server may generate a personalized support system for each customer or group of customers based on the gathered information. The support server may create a segment of customers within vertical industry segments and target the customers with new and advanced features to help solve their individual business problems. Customers may access personalized support pages based on their usage data. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089120 | ADVERTISEMENT PROCESSING METHOD, ADVERTISEMENT DISPLAY METHOD, AND CONTACT ADVERTISEMENT PRESENTATION SYSTEM - An advertisement processing method by accepting an extraction request including a customer ID of a particular customer and conditions relating to products that are handled by a store and may be purchased by the particular customer, accessing a contact advertisement data storage in which advertisement contact situation data including data relating to advertisements registered by customers as correlated with customer IDs of the customers and data relating to situations in which the customers came into contact with the respective advertisements are stored, searching the contact advertisement data storage by the customer ID of the particular customer and the conditions relating to the products that are handled by the store and may be purchased by the particular customer, extracting suitable advertisement contact situation data, and outputting information about the extracted advertisement contact situation data. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089121 | Method and system for controlling a project - A method and a system are disclosed for controlling a project for the provision of a product. In at least one embodiment, project data of the project is assigned to a product structure of the product and, depending on the project data which is assigned to the product structure, the control of the project takes place in an automated manner. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089122 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING FINANCIAL DATA TO DETERMINE THE COST OF FRAUD - A system for analyzing financial data to determine the cost of fraud related to financial presentation devices that are presentable to providers of goods or services is provided. A fraud assessment module executable by a processor receives sales data and operating cost data both related to financial presentation devices and determines a direct fraud loss and fraud operating cost based on the received data. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089123 | Method and a Tool for Performance Measurement of a Business Scenario Step Executed by a Single User - Described herein are a method and a tool for performance measurement of a business scenario step in an enterprise environment, which support “per business scenario step” granularity and do not attach any agents to the enterprise environment, thus avoiding any memory or CPU time overheads. The performance measurements are based on two sets of system readings collected prior to the and after the execution of the business scenario step. The method calculates the memory used by the enterprise environment during the business scenario step execution, the elapsed CPU times used by all Operation System (OS) processes involved, the number and duration of all roundtrips between the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) browser initiating the execution of the business scenario step and the enterprise environment, and between the enterprise environment and all back-ends involved. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089124 | JOB PLACEMENT SYSTEM WITH PROFILE MATCHING - Potential employees are matched with employers by storing data in a computer database regarding information on job openings from multiple employers, information on employee candidates, and information about the employers. Candidates are scored relative to a specific job posting and an anonymous list of the highest scoring candidates with a graduated fee rate based on one or more factors relating to the specific job posting and the scores associated with the highest scoring candidates. A selected candidate is rewarded when the selected candidate's information is revealed to the employer. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089125 | CUSTOMS INSPECTION AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF FOR WEB-BASED PROCESSING OF CUSTOMS INFORMATION - A multi-user, multi-organization web-based system for processing customs information is provided. The system includes a server device connected to a communication network and having a communication server module for communicating over the network. The server device receives a declaration pertaining to a consignment, including identification of specific goods in the consignment and predetermined parameters of the consignment. The server device further includes an application program module that verifies the declaration, conducts a risk analysis of the received information, calculates an amount of customs duty and taxes for the consignment, and determines whether or not to initiate an inspection process based on the risk analysis. A computer-implemented method for processing the customs information is also provided. The method includes the steps of receiving a declaration pertaining to a consignment, and verifying the declaration. Also included are the steps of conducting a risk analysis of the received information, calculating an amount of customs duty and taxes for the consignment, and determining whether or not to initiate an inspection process based on the risk analysis. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089126 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN AUTOMATED CORPORATE GOVERNANCE RATING SYSTEM - A method and system for developing and deploying an automated corporate governance rating software system for reducing the cost of research comprising analyzing data and generating scores. The system further comprises rating the performance of the leadership team, board of directors and executives of public and private companies. The system comprises web portals wherein a user selects a company of interest and a corporate governance score for that company is generated. The method further comprises retrieving the company's securities filings from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) database, generating the company's ratings. The method comprises domain-specific natural language questions, extracting concepts based on such a venture and automatically extracting and analyzing data to generate answers based on securities filings at the U.S. SEC. The method further comprises using over 200 corporate governance variables and an algorithm to generate corporate governance ratings and deliver them to the user via a web portal. The natural language processing involves over 2,000 industry key words and terms from the capital and financial markets, and four corporate governance categories including governance and ethics, compensation, auditing and accounting, and finance. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089127 | Techniques for utilizing decision criteria in a communication plan - Techniques are presented for utilizing decision criteria within a communication plan. As a communication plan is processed a new decision step may be dynamically added to the processing. The new decision step breaks a set of incoming leads into a plurality of different customer groups. Each group may then be dynamically assigned to one or more actions within the communication plan. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089128 | SERVICE-ORIENTED PIPELINE BASED ARCHITECTURE - Service-oriented systems employing pipeline architecture to accommodate third party extensions for extending existing functionality or providing additional functionality are provided. User or third party provided plug-ins are registered through metadata and executed in a pipeline along with platform operations. The pipeline is extendable on the fly with newly uploaded plug-ins. Dependency analyses for ordering synchronous or asynchronous pipeline operations enable multiple parties to extend the system and operate predictably. Loop detection mechanisms prevent misuse of system resources through accidental or malicious creation of infinite loops with exceptions for non-degenerate infinite loops. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089129 | Automated time budgeting - Dynamic schedules are created by using a budgeting process for allocating time. Time available is first allocated to the system. Once time resources are allocated, fixed tasks are subtracted out of the time resources, leaving only flexible time which the user will use for all other tasks. Variable tasks may be added by entering due date, task description, task dependencies, and priority. An algorithm is used to maximize the user's schedule. The algorithm schedules rapidly, prevents late tasks, and readjusts to accommodate for unplanned events or new tasks. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089130 | INTEGRATION OF FINANCIAL MODELS INTO WORKFLOW SOFTWARE TO ENABLE ACTIVITY BASED COSTING - A system and method for integrating financial models into workflow software to enable Activity Based Costing. In one embodiment of the invention, a workflow modeling system comprises a workflow modeling tool including a workflow design tool and an activity-based cost design tool. A unified workflow and financial model is generated by the workflow modeling tool and a workflow execution module executes the unified workflow and financial model. A workflow monitoring and controlling application receives workflow and cost data from the workflow execution module and a financial monitoring and controlling application receives cost data from the workflow execution module. A workflow change module communicates workflow changes to the unified workflow and financial model, wherein the unified workflow and financial model is automatically modified in response to the workflow changes. | 2009-04-02 |
| 20090089131 | Mobile Device Marketing and Advertising Platforms, Methods, and Systems - A mobile marketing campaign platform and method including: a planning module including: a definition module for setting budget and objectives; and a design module for designing the campaign utilizing a plurality of templates; an execution module including: design tools for designing an executable campaign from the campaign design made from the templates; and operating tools for causing the executable campaign to execute over multiple mobile services; and a reporting module including: tracking means for tracking at least one of a campaign activity, the campaign performance objectives; and the brand performance objectives. | 2009-04-02 |
