| 14th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 54 |
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| 20150095012 | Automatic Translation of Advertisements - In an embodiment of a messaging system, a method for presenting a commercial message to a user is provided. A target language in which the user is comfortable communicating may be determined based on at least one communication received by the user or at least one communication provided by the user. The commercial message may be presented to the user in the target language. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095013 | Extending Concept Labels of an Ontology - Concept labels of an ontology are extended. An ontology includes concepts at least partially authored in a source language; a corpus at least partially authored in a target language is provided; said corpus is processed by a linguistical analysis and receiving a list of first terms as a result of said linguistical analysis, said first terms in said list ordered by a linguistical relevancy; within said list, at least one of said first terms is associated with an associated second term, said second term being a translation of said first term into said source language; a retrieval is conducted by using at least one of said second terms for identifying a matching concept within said ontology; and a concept label of said matching concept is extended by a first term associated to said second term of a matching retrieval. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095014 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT SCREENING AND RATING - An approach is provided for content screening and rating. A content rating platform processes content directed to or originating from a user to determine one or more elements in the content. The content rating platform calculates a content rating for the content by comparing the one or more elements against at least one user-configurable dictionary, and then selects an operation for processing the content based on the content rating. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095015 | Method and System for Presenting Statistical Data in a Natural Language Format - A computer-implemented method for presenting statistical analysis in a natural language textual output comprising: receiving data to be analyzed by the processor; processing the data according to at least one of a plurality of pre-established statistical analysis types, thereby providing processed data; interpreting the processed data by converting the processed data to a pre-determined natural language text, thereby providing interpreted data; and generating a natural language textual output for the interpreted data according to at least one pre-established rule for converting the interpreted data to a natural language textual output. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095016 | ONTOLOGICALLY DRIVEN PROCEDURE CODING - Computer implemented systems and methods of processing clinical documentation for a multi-axial coding scheme include inputting clinical documentation from memory operatively coupled with a computer system, and executing a natural language processor configured to process narrative text in the clinical documentation. The processor segments the narrative text based on boundaries defined in the clinical documentation, sequences words in the narrative text based on the segmentation, and maps the sequenced words to semantic objects in an ontology database. The ontology defines classes of semantic objects and relationships between them, corresponding to the multi-axial coding scheme. The semantic objects are converted into characters and output into slots in a medical code, with the characters positioned in the slots based on the multi-axial coding scheme. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095017 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEARNING WORD EMBEDDINGS USING NEURAL LANGUAGE MODELS - A system and method are provided for learning natural language word associations using a neural network architecture. A word dictionary comprises words identified from training data consisting a plurality of sequences of associated words. A neural language model is trained using data samples selected from the training data defining positive examples of word associations, and a statistically small number of negative samples defining negative examples of word associations that are generated from each selected data sample. A system and method of predicting a word association is also provided, using a word association matrix including data defining representations of words in a word dictionary derived from a trained neural language model, whereby a word association query is resolved without applying a word position-dependent weighting. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095018 | Methods and Systems for Automated Generation of Nativized Multi-Lingual Lexicons - An input signal that includes linguistic content in a first language may be received by a computing device. The linguistic content may include text or speech. The computing device may associate the linguistic content in the first language with one or more phonemes from a second language. The computing device may also determine a phonemic representation of the linguistic content in the first language based on use of the one or more phonemes from the second language. The phonemic representation may be indicative of a pronunciation of the linguistic content in the first language according to speech sounds of the second language. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095019 | FRAUD DETECTION USING TEXT ANALYSIS - In one embodiment, a method executed by at least one processor includes receiving text from submitted by a user. The method also includes determining a text score for the received text by comparing a first set of phrases included in the received text to a second set of phrases. The second set of phrases includes phrases from stored text. The stored text includes stored text known to be genuine and stored text known to be fraudulent. The method also includes determining that the received text is fraudulent based on the text score. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095020 | Systems and Methods for Identifying and Suggesting Emoticons - Various embodiments provide a method that comprises receiving a set of segments from a text field, analyzing the set of segments to determine at least one of a target subtext or a target meaning associated with the set of segments, and identifying a set of candidate emoticons where each candidate emoticon in the set of candidate emoticons has an association between the candidate emoticon and at least one of the target subtext or the target meaning. The method may further comprise presenting the set of candidate emoticons for entry selection at a current position of an input cursor, receiving an entry selection for a set of selected emoticons from the set of candidate emoticons, and inserting the set of selected emoticons into the text field at the current position of the input cursor. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095021 | MACHINE-BASED CONTENT ANALYSIS AND USER PERCEPTION TRACKING OF MICROCONTENT MESSAGES - A system and a method for microcontent natural language processing are presented. The method comprising steps of receiving a microcontent message from a social networking server, tokenizing the microcontent message into one or more text tokens, performing a topic extraction on the microcontent message to extract topic metadata, generating sentiment metadata for the microcontent message, analyzing co-occurrence of all available metadatas in the plurality of microcontent messages, producing a list that ranks the plurality of microcontent messages based on all available topic metadata, and compiling a trend database that reveals how perception of users of the social networking server on a given topic changes by tracking how the list changes over time. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095022 | LIST RECOGNIZING METHOD AND LIST RECOGNIZING SYSTEM - A list recognizing method and system, which comprises: parsing and analyzing metadata information within an original fixed-layout document, and extracting basic elements within a page; segmenting the basic elements, extracting segmented text lines within the page to obtain fragments; building an undirected graph with respect to the fragments; detecting indent features of a bullet according to features of the basic elements; training a learning model according to the indent features, local features of the fragments and neighborhood relation features among the fragments, obtaining model parameters, and establishing a list recognizing model; and invoking the list recognizing model to perform list recognizing on the required document, so as to get recognition result. This machine learning method may recognize not only a list, but also the contextual relationship between the first line and its subsequent lines of a list, and realize analyzing and understanding a layout of the list of the fixed-layout document ultimately. The accuracy of list recognizing on a fixed-layout document can be improved even if the bullets of the first line of the list are various. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095023 | APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING OF INTEGRATED SPEECH AND AUDIO - Provided is an encoding apparatus for integrally encoding and decoding a speech signal and a audio signal, and may include: an input signal analyzer to analyze a characteristic of an input signal; a stereo encoder to down mix the input signal to a mono signal when the input signal is a stereo signal, and to extract stereo sound image information; a frequency band expander to expand a frequency band of the input signal; a sampling rate converter to convert a sampling rate; a speech signal encoder to encode the input signal using a speech encoding module when the input signal is a speech characteristics signal; a audio signal encoder to encode the input signal using a audio encoding module when the input signal is a audio characteristic signal; and a bitstream generator to generate a bitstream. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095024 | FUNCTION EXECUTION INSTRUCTION SYSTEM, FUNCTION EXECUTION INSTRUCTION METHOD, AND FUNCTION EXECUTION INSTRUCTION PROGRAM - To appropriately execute functions based on words that are consecutively input, a function-execution instruction server of a function-execution instruction system includes: a function-execution instruction unit that issues an instruction of the execution of one or more tasks related to preset categories for respective tasks; a word input unit that inputs information containing a word; category identifying unit that identifies a category of a word; an executed-function determination unit that determines a task, based on the category thus identified; and an executed-function storage unit that stores therein a function the execution of which was instructed. The executed-function determination unit, based on the category identified and a category related to a task the execution of which was previously instructed, determines whether to issue an instruction of the execution of the function the execution of which was previously instructed from now. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095025 | Decoding-Time Prediction of Non-Verbalized Tokens - Non-verbalized tokens, such as punctuation, are automatically predicted and inserted into a transcription of speech in which the tokens were not explicitly verbalized. Token prediction may be integrated with speech decoding, rather than performed as a post-process to speech decoding. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095026 | SPEECH RECOGNIZER WITH MULTI-DIRECTIONAL DECODING - In an automatic speech recognition (ASR) processing system, ASR processing may be configured to process speech based on multiple channels of audio received from a beamformer. The ASR processing system may include a microphone array and the beamformer to output multiple channels of audio such that each channel isolates audio in a particular direction. The multichannel audio signals may include spoken utterances/speech from one or more speakers as well as undesired audio, such as noise from a household appliance. The ASR device may simultaneously perform speech recognition on the multi-channel audio to provide more accurate speech recognition results. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095027 | KEY PHRASE DETECTION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for key phrase detection. One of the methods includes receiving a plurality of audio frame vectors that each model an audio waveform during a different period of time, generating an output feature vector for each of the audio frame vectors, wherein each output feature vector includes a set of scores that characterize an acoustic match between the corresponding audio frame vector and a set of expected event vectors, each of the expected event vectors corresponding to one of the scores and defining acoustic properties of at least a portion of a keyword, and providing each of the output feature vectors to a posterior handling module. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095028 | Customer Identification Through Voice Biometrics - Systems and methods for determining an identity of an individual are provided. Audio may be received that includes a key phrase spoken by the individual, and the key phrase may include an identifier spoken by the individual. A key phrase voice print and key phrase text corresponding to the audio may be obtained. The key phrase text may include text corresponding to the identifier spoken by the individual. Voice prints may be retrieved based on the text corresponding to the identifier, and the voice prints may be provided to a voice biometric engine for comparison to the key phrase voice print. The individual may be authenticated based on a comparison of the key phrase voice print to the voice prints. The identifier may include a first name and a last name of the individual. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095029 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Quantitatively Assessing Vocal Behavioral Risk - Engaging persona candidates are provided with a skills assessment that includes vocal behavior. Each candidate provides both scripted and spontaneous answers to questions in a situational setting that closely matches the daily demands of the customer support industry. Samples of the candidate's speech are evaluated to identify distinct voice cues that qualitatively describe speech characteristics, which are scored based on the candidate's spoken performance. One or more of the voice cues are mapped to phonetic analytics that quantitatively describe vocal behavior. Each voice cue also has an assigned weight. The voice cue scores for each phonetic analytic are multiplied by their assigned weights and added together to form a weighted phonetic analytic, which is then used to form a part of the vocal behavior risk assessments. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095030 | CENTRALIZED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLARIFYING VOICE COMMANDS - A method and system for facilitating centralized interaction with a user includes providing a recognized voice command to a plurality of application modules. A plurality of interpretations of the voice command are generated by at least one of the plurality of application modules. A centralized interface module visually renders the plurality of interpretations of the voice command on a centralized display. An indication of selection of an interpretation is received from the user. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095031 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CROWDSOURCING OF WORD PRONUNCIATION VERIFICATION - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for crowdsourcing verification of word pronunciations. A system performing word pronunciation crowdsourcing identifies spoken words, or word pronunciations in a dictionary of words, for review by a turker. The identified words are assigned to one or more turkers for review. Assigned turkers listen to the word pronunciations, providing feedback on the correctness/incorrectness of the machine made pronunciation. The feedback can then be used to modify the lexicon, or can be stored for use in configuring future lexicons. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095032 | Keyword Detection For Speech Recognition - This application discloses a method implemented of recognizing a keyword in a speech that includes a sequence of audio frames further including a current frame and a subsequent frame. A candidate keyword is determined for the current frame using a decoding network that includes keywords and filler words of multiple languages, and used to determine a confidence score for the audio frame sequence. A word option is also determined for the subsequent frame based on the decoding network, and when the candidate keyword and the word option are associated with two distinct types of languages, the confidence score of the audio frame sequence is updated at least based on a penalty factor associated with the two distinct types of languages. The audio frame sequence is then determined to include both the candidate keyword and the word option by evaluating the updated confidence score according to a keyword determination criterion. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095033 | TECHNIQUES FOR UPDATING A PARTIAL DIALOG STATE - Embodiments provide for tracking a partial dialog state as part of managing a dialog state space, but the embodiments are not so limited. A method of an embodiment jointly models partial state update and named entity recognition using a sequence-based classification or other model, wherein recognition of named entities and a partial state update can be performed in a single processing stage at runtime to generate a distribution over partial dialog states. A system of an embodiment is configured to generate a distribution over partial dialog states at runtime in part using a sequence classification decoding or other algorithm to generate one or more partial dialog state hypothesis and/or a confidence score or measure associated with each hypothesis. Other embodiments are included. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095034 | PERSONALIZED TEXT-TO-SPEECH SERVICES - A personalized text-to-speech (pTTS) system provides a method for converting text data to speech data utilizing a pTTS template representing the voice characteristics of an individual. A memory stores executable program code that converts text data to speech data. Text data represents a textual message directed to a system user and speech data represents a spoken form of text data having the characteristics of an individual's voice. A processor executes the program code, and a storage device stores a pTTS template and may store speech data. The pTTS system can be used to provide various services that provide immediate spoken presentation of the speech data converted from text data and/or combine stored speech data with generated speech data for spoken presentation. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095035 | WIDEBAND SPEECH PARAMETERIZATION FOR HIGH QUALITY SYNTHESIS, TRANSFORMATION AND QUANTIZATION - A method for speech parameterization and coding of a continuous speech signal. The method comprises dividing said speech signal into a plurality of speech frames, and for each one of the plurality of speech frames, modeling said speech frame by a first harmonic modeling to produce a plurality of harmonic model parameters, reconstructing an estimated frame signal from the plurality of harmonic model parameters, subtracting the estimated frame signal from the speech frame to produce a harmonic model residual, performing at least one second harmonic modeling analysis on the first harmonic model residual to determine at least one set of second harmonic model components, removing the at least one set of second harmonic model components from the first harmonic model residual to produce a harmonically-filtered residual signal, and processing the harmonically-filtered residual signal with analysis by synthesis techniques to produce vectors of codebook indices and corresponding gains. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095036 | CONTROLLING A SYSTEM USING VOICELESS ALARYNGEAL SPEECH - Apparatus, including a sensor which is configured to be fixed to a neck of an operator of equipment in a location suitable for sensing a voiceless alaryngeal speech vibration generated by the operator during operation of the equipment, The apparatus further includes a processor which is configured to receive and process a signal output by the sensor so as to measure the voiceless alaryngeal speech vibration and so as to generate a control signal for the equipment responsively to the measured voiceless alaryngeal speech vibration. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095037 | VEHICULAR DEVICE, SERVER, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - The technique is implemented by a vehicular device for performing dialogs with the driver. This device has: a communication portion for communicating with a server; an output portion for outputting speech information to the driver; an input portion for inputting information based on speech uttered by the driver; and a controller for controlling the communication portion, the output portion, and the input portion. When trigger information for starting a dialog process in the vehicular device or in the server is generated, the controller receives information indicative of the type of a first dialog forming a starting point of the dialog process and information indicative of the type of a second dialog forming an ending point of the dialog process from the server and carries out the dialog process based on the received information. The second dialog is different in type from the first dialog. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095038 | SPEECH/AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND CODING APPARATUS - The present disclosure provides a speech/audio signal processing method based on wideband switching and a coding apparatus. The method includes: if a first wideband speech/audio signal is a harmonic signal, adjusting a determining condition for determining that a second wideband speech/audio signal is a harmonic signal, to obtain a first determining condition, where the first wideband speech/audio signal is a signal before wideband switching, and the second wideband speech/audio signal is a signal after the wideband switching; and determining, according to the first determining condition, whether the second wideband speech/audio signal is a harmonic signal. In the case of wideband switching, signal types of speech/audio signals remain as consistent as possible before and after the switching, so that continuity of the speech/audio signal decoded by a decoder device is ensured as much as possible, further improving speech communication service quality. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095039 | Enhancing Performance of Spectral Band Replication and Related High Frequency Reconstruction Coding - The present proposes new methods and an apparatus for enhancement of source coding systems utilising high frequency reconstruction (HFR). It addresses the problem of insufficient noise contents in a reconstructed highband, by Adaptive Noise-floor Addition. It also introduces new methods for enhanced performance by means of limiting unwanted noise, interpolation and smoothing of envelope adjustment amplification factors. The present invention is applicable to both speech coding and natural audio coding systems. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095040 | OBJECT-BASED AUDIO-VISUAL TERMINAL AND BITSTREAM STRUCTURE - As information to be processed at an object-based video or audio-visual (AV) terminal, an object-oriented bitstream includes objects, composition information, and scene demarcation information. Such bitstream structure allows on-line editing, e.g. cut and paste, insertion/deletion, grouping, and special effects. In the interest of ease of editing, AV objects and their composition information are transmitted or accessed on separate logical channels (LCs). Objects which have a lifetime in the decoder beyond their initial presentation time are cached for reuse until a selected expiration time. The system includes a de-multiplexer, a controller which controls the operation of the AV terminal, input buffers, AV objects decoders, buffers for decoded data, a composer, a display, and an object cache. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095041 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING MEDICAL DEVICE BY USING SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND METHOD OF THE SAME - Disclosed are a system for controlling a medical device by using a short-range wireless communication technology and a method of the same, and more particularly, a system for controlling the medical device by using the short-range wireless communication technology, for example, NFC, Bluetooth and the like. The method is to control the medical equipment by using a smart device and includes: (i) starting an application installed on a smart device | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095042 | HIGH/LOW BLOOD GLUCOSE RISK ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A blood glucose (bG) measurement engine selectively measures bG levels in blood samples input to a handheld diabetes management device. A computer readable medium includes code executed by a processor to: identify a period of N days, the period including the current date and N−1 days immediately prior to the current date, wherein N is an integer greater than 6; determine a total number of the N days during which the patient input at least two blood samples; and, when the total number of the N days is greater than M, M being an integer greater than zero and less than or equal to N: calculate a value based on the bG levels of blood samples input during the period; based on the value, classify the patient as having a first, second, or third risk of being hypoglycemic in the future. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095043 | AUTOMATIC CREATION AND SELECTION OF DOSE PREDICTION MODELS FOR TREATMENT PLANS - A dose prediction model can be determined for generating a dose distribution of a treatment plan for irradiating a target structure within a patient. Treatment plans from previous patients can be analyzed to determine D characteristic values to obtain a D dimensional point for each treatment plan. The treatment plans can be clustered based on the D dimensional points. The treatment plans of a cluster can then be used to determine a dose prediction model. A dose prediction model for patient can be selected from among multiple models. Characteristics about the patient can be used to determine a D dimensional point corresponding to the patient. The D-dimensional point can be used to select a model in comparison to D dimensional points of the models. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095044 | DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR CHOOSING TREATMENT PLANS - Patient data can be used to determine input values to different estimation functions for different treatment types. The estimation functions can each be used to estimate one or more outcome values for the respective treatment. A quality score can be determined using the outcome value(s). A first treatment plan having an optimal quality score can be identified, e.g., by displaying the treatment plans with the quality scores, which may correspond to the outcome values. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095045 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MOBILE HIGH-ENERGY RADIATION TREATMENT ENVIRONMENT - The present invention is directed to a method, system, and article of manufacture of a treatment environment engine on a mobile device to allow performance of workflow tasks inside of a high radiation medical procedure room. The treatment environment engine comprises a capturing module, a synchronization module, and a medical device control console component for capturing data (e.g., images or text) on the mobile device inside the medical procedure room and synchronizing the data via a wireless network with a medical device control console located outside the medical procedure room. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095046 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MITIGATING RISK OF A HEALTH PLAN MEMBER - A method for attempting to mitigate risk of a health plan member. The method includes: receiving medical data related to the health plan member; computing a first score for the health plan member corresponding to predicated future financial health care costs for the health plan member based on the medical data; computing a second score for the health plan member corresponding to a clinical risk for the health plan member based on the medical data; computing a third score for the health plan member corresponding to a probability of a future acute care event for the health plan member within a threshold amount of time based on the medical data; assigning the health plan member to a risk tier based on the first, second, and third scores; and engaging the health plan member based on the risk tier and one or more engagement factors. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095047 | DATA-ENABLED PHARMACEUTICAL CONTAINER AND METHODS FOR USING SAME - A data-enabled pharmaceutical container and methods for reminding at dose time, then tracking and communicating valid dose events and/or dose exception events are disclosed. Examples of dose exception events include, but are not limited to, missed doses, extra doses, early doses, and late doses. The data-enabled pharmaceutical container includes control electronics for processing and communicating information about valid dose events and/or dose exception events. For example, using a dose detection algorithm, a dose event is deemed valid based on (1) sensing the open state of the data-enabled pharmaceutical container (e.g., sensing that the closure is not present), (2) sensing a certain orientation or tilt of the data-enabled pharmaceutical container, and (3) sensing that the data-enabled pharmaceutical container is both opened and tilted simultaneously for a certain amount of time (e.g., a few seconds). | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095048 | AUTOMATED, CUSTOMIZABLE INCOMING REFERRAL PROCESS - A computer-implemented method of using task lists to manage incoming referrals in a medical care organization includes presenting a task manager configured to visually create and assign lists of work corresponding to an incoming referral process, and receiving input corresponding to visual creation and assignment of a list of work corresponding to an incoming referral process. The method further includes presenting a wait list manager configured to visually create a wait list entry based upon an incoming referral in a medical care organization, and receiving input, based on the incoming referral, corresponding to creation of a wait list entry. The method also includes creating the wait list entry based upon the incoming referral input, creating one or more tasks based upon the wait list entry, and automatically managing and tracking the tasks created based upon the wait list entry, thereby driving the incoming referral process. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095049 | Systems, Computer Medium and Computer-Implemented Methods for Quantifying and Employing Impacts of Workplace Wellness Programs - Provided are embodiments of systems, computer medium and computer-implemented methods for quantifying impacts of workplace wellness programs. Methods include receiving cohort health risk data for cohort groups subject to a workplace wellness program, direct cost data, and total cost data, normalizing the cohort health risk data to generate a normalized number of risk avoided, determining an average direct cost associated with a health risk, determining a ratio of total cost avoided to medical cost avoided, and determining a presenteeism value indicative of a total cost avoided over the given duration of time based at least in part on a product of the normalized number of risk avoided, a number of employees subject to the workplace wellness program, the average medical cost associated with a health risk and the ratio of total cost avoided to direct cost avoided. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095050 | DENORMALIZATION OF HEALTHCARE DATA - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for denormalizing healthcare data are provided. An indication a patient has been added to a tracking list is received. The tracking list is determined to be associated with a primed view. Data is retrieved for the patient. The data for the patient is cached into the primed view before a clinician requests the data. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095051 | AUTOMATED ALGORITHM AND FRAMEWORK FOR MULTI-PATIENT TREATMENT PLAN ACCESS IN RADIATION THERAPY - A method for reviewing a treatment plan including displaying list of at least one of a selected plurality of patients, institutions, and treatment plans associated with a treatment planning system, selecting at least one of the one or more patients, institutions, and treatment plans, querying treatment plan parameters associated with the selected one or more patients, institutions, and treatment plans, and generating a report file of the queried treatment plan parameters | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095052 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING FINANCIAL SUBSIDIES OF PATIENTS' PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION COSTS IN CONJUNCTION WITH MEDICATION SYNCHRONIZATION SERVICES - In an embodiment of the invention, a computer implemented method and system maps and organizes information derived from a patients' medication regimens with information derived from a set of copay subsidy processors to facilitate financial subsidizations for patients participating in a synchronization service of their prescription medication fills. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095053 | TRANSMITTING TREATMENT INFORMATION - A system includes a first computing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processor and the memory are configured to receive at least one of (i) information indicative of treatment of a victim by a first caregiver using the first computing device and (ii) information indicative of a health status of the victim; determine that treatment of the victim by the first caregiver using the first computing device is completed; and transmit the received information to a second computing device. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095054 | MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHOD - A system for monitoring a plurality of persons in an assisted living facility includes a local system in the assisted living facility. The local system includes a plurality of sensor systems. Each of the plurality of sensor systems is adapted to monitor changes in state of at least one monitored system caused by activity or lack of activity of at least one of the plurality of persons. The plurality of sensor systems include a plurality of presence sensors adapted to determine at least the presence or the absence of each one of the plurality of persons on a bed thereof or on a wheelchair thereof. The local system further includes a local communication device in communicative connection with each of the plurality of sensor systems to receive data from each of the plurality of sensor systems. The system further includes a remote system in communication with the local communication device. The remote system includes a processing system to process data from the plurality of sensor systems based upon predetermined rules. The remote system is adapted to provide an alert to at least one caregiver including at least one of (i) a fall alert and (ii) a condition alert related to at least one metric of bed use determined by the remote system and related to a potential change in condition of one of the plurality of persons. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095055 | METHODS FOR PROCESSING A PRESCRIPTION DRUG REQUEST - Methods and systems for processing prescription drug requests and patient discounts are disclosed. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095056 | POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM UTILIZING CLINICALLY RELEVANT ALGORITHMS - Methods, systems, computer storage media, and graphical user interfaces for population health management are disclosed. The population health management system may allow for cross-continuum tracking and subsequent interactions with transactional systems, providers, and/or patients. The population health management system may include utilizing clinically relevant algorithms to populate registries to enable healthcare providers to better facilitate care for a population of patients. The population health management system may consolidate and provide comprehensive condition-specific and/or patient situation specific information that is accessible and updatable across venues. The population health management system may create cross venue antibiograms based on medications information and susceptibility results which can be filtered for selected demographics. The population health management system may be utilized to provide multiple medication options including dosing, generic alternatives, cost, availability, and susceptibility information. Inappropriate trends may be flagged and monitored and medication stewards may be alerted or notified to intervene. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095057 | METHODS OF INITIATING A WORKFLOW AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method for initiating a workflow includes receiving, by a workflow initiation computing device, a patient identifier corresponding to a patient and a patient activity identifier corresponding to a patient activity, wherein the patient activity corresponds to the workflow. A patient activity code is generated based on the received patient identifier and the received patient activity identifier. The generated patient activity code is provided to the patient by at least one of an e-mail, a text message, a website, or an application. An input of the provided patient activity code is received. The workflow is initiated in response to the received input of the patient activity code. A workflow initiation computing device and a non-transitory computer readable medium are also disclosed. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095058 | METHODS FOR LABORATORY SAMPLE TRACKING AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method of managing and tracking a collected laboratory sample includes receiving a patient identifier and laboratory-workflow information related to the collected laboratory sample. Shipment information is obtained for the collected laboratory sample based on the received patient identifier. A tracking process is initiated after the shipping information has been obtained, which includes obtaining location information from one or more sample preparatory stations or sample analysis stations being used to prepare or analyze the collected laboratory sample based on the received laboratory-workflow information. Completion information related to the laboratory-workflow information is obtained indicating that the collected laboratory sample been prepared and analyzed by all designated sample preparatory stations or sample analysis stations. A status of the collected laboratory sample is provided after obtaining the shipment information, the location information, the completion information, or a combination thereof. A sample management computing device and a non-transitory computer readable medium are also disclosed. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095059 | PROVIDER DRIVEN MODEL REMOTE HEALTHCARE MONITORING AND BILLING SYSTEM - A healthcare monitoring and billing system having a practice management system connected to a third party facilitator system. A remote testing device is assigned to a patient that automatically transmits test results upon completion. Once reviewed by a healthcare provider a claim and billing request are automatically sent to a healthcare clearing house. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095060 | Method and System for Providing Data Management in Integrated Analyte Monitoring and Infusion System - Methods and systems for providing therapy related data management are provided. The subject systems include one or more device components, and at least one memory storage unit and at least one data storage unit associated with such one or more device components. The device components may include one or more of an analyte monitoring system, a fluid delivery device and a remote terminal. The subject methods include use of the subject systems to optimize treatment of a patient. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095061 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING HEALTH INFORMATION BY USING HEALTH-CARE STATION - Disclosed is a technology for measuring and managing health information, and more particularly disclosed are a method and a system for managing the health information by using a health-care station. The method for measuring and managing the health information by using the health-care station includes: (i) checking whether or not a health-care station linked application is installed in a health-care station | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095062 | PROCESSING METHOD, PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFECTED ANIMAL ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD DEVICE - An electronic medical record device stores a medical condition or an observation about an infected animal as an item name, and displays whether the item name corresponds to completion or incompletion of treatment in a visually recognizable manner in a case of a follow-up examination. When selection of an item name has been made, the electronic medical record device permits an input of treatment information corresponding to the medical condition or the observation about the infected animal, and stores the input treatment information in association with the selected item name. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095063 | FACILITATING USER INPUT VIA ARM-MOUNTED PERIPHERAL DEVICE INTERFACING WITH HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY DEVICE - An apparatus for performing data entry by a user includes a first electronic device configured to be attached to a person's head and including a display for viewing by the person; and a second electronic device configured to be attached to a person's forearm and used in combination with the first electronic device. The first and second electronic devices are configured for wirelessly communications with each other, at least some of the wireless communications representing user input by the person for interfacing with a user interface displayed to the person on the display of the first electronic device, whereby data entry by the person is accomplished. The first electronic device is configured to wirelessly transmit data entered by the person to a computer system for electronic storage in a non-transitory computer readable medium. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095064 | Method for Storage and Communication of Personal Genomic or Medical Information - Method of medical information management include obtaining medical information from the user. The obtained medical information may include personal genome sequence information. The medical information is sorted into a two-layered storage format. The sorted medical information is recorded at a computer readable medium accessible by an application. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095065 | Systems and Methods for Sorting Findings to Medical Coders - A sorter of medical findings for assessment by a medical coder is provided. In some embodiments, the sorter receives information about a user (coder), including identification, a role, and historical activity. The sorter determines whether to run in exploration or exploitation modes. Exploration is used to explore the scope of the findings and also identify variables that impact a finding. Exploitation is designed to maximize a goal (such as throughput or profitability). Lastly a finding is selected and provided to the user. The selection is based upon computing internal parameters when in exploration, or based upon optimizing for criteria when in exploitation. The sorter may also determine competency for the user, and cut them off from performing additional coding if they are found incompetent. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095066 | POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM UTILIZING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING ENHANCED STRATIFICATION - Methods, systems, computer storage media, and graphical user interfaces for population health management are disclosed. The population health management system may allow for cross-continuum tracking and subsequent interactions with transactional systems, providers, and/or patients. The population health management system may include utilizing clinically relevant algorithms to populate registries to enable healthcare providers to better facilitate care for a population of patients. The population health management system may consolidate and provide comprehensive condition-specific and/or patient situation specific information that is accessible and updatable across venues. The population health management system may create cross venue antibiograms based on medications information and susceptibility results which can be filtered for selected demographics. The population health management system may be utilized to provide multiple medication options including dosing, generic alternatives, cost, availability, and susceptibility information. Inappropriate trends may be flagged and monitored and medication stewards may be alerted or notified to intervene. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095067 | PROVIDING CROSS VENUE ANTIOBIOGRAMS, COMPREHENSIVE MEDICATION ADVISORS, AND MEDICATION STEWARDSHIP CLAIMS - Methods, systems, computer storage media, and graphical user interfaces for population health management are disclosed. The population health management system may allow for cross-continuum tracking and subsequent interactions with transactional systems, providers, and/or patients. The population health management system may include utilizing clinically relevant algorithms to populate registries to enable healthcare providers to better facilitate care for a population of patients. The population health management system may consolidate and provide comprehensive condition-specific and/or patient situation specific information that is accessible and updatable across venues. The population health management system may create cross venue antibiograms based on medications information and susceptibility results which can be filtered for selected demographics. The population health management system may be utilized to provide multiple medication options including dosing, generic alternatives, cost, availability, and susceptibility information. Inappropriate trends may be flagged and monitored and medication stewards may be alerted or notified to intervene. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095068 | POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLINICAL AND OPERATIONAL PROGRAMS - Methods, systems, computer storage media, and graphical user interfaces for population health management are disclosed. The population health management system may allow for cross-continuum tracking and subsequent interactions with transactional systems, providers, and/or patients. The population health management system may include utilizing clinically relevant algorithms to populate registries to enable healthcare providers to better facilitate care for a population of patients. The population health management system may consolidate and provide comprehensive condition-specific and/or patient situation specific information that is accessible and updatable across venues. The population health management system may create cross venue antibiograms based on medications information and susceptibility results which can be filtered for selected demographics. The population health management system may be utilized to provide multiple medication options including dosing, generic alternatives, cost, availability, and susceptibility information. Inappropriate trends may be flagged and monitored and medication stewards may be alerted or notified to intervene. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095069 | Algorithms to Identify Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma - A method for identifying patients with a high risk of liver cancer development includes receiving patient data describing a plurality of patients and executing a patient identification module on the patient data to identify at least some of the plurality of patients as having a high risk of developing liver cancer. The patient identification module is generated based on an application of machine learning techniques to a training data set, and the patient identification module is validated based on both the training data set and an external validation data set. Further, the method includes generating a grouping of the plurality of patients based on the identification of the at least some of the plurality of patients. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095070 | System, Process and Article of Manufacture for Human Health and Longevity Data Analysis - A system, process and article of manufacture includes the generation of a “BIG Data” set of searchable submissions of biographical and/or physical identity inputs by interested persons with knowledge of deceased third parties; or by self-disclosing individuals to be released either during the lifetime of the submitter (Inter-Vivos) or Post Mortem (PM), each knowing that the consequent anonymous Big Data set comprised of all released submissions will be made accessible to researchers. Submissions are solicited via proprietary questionnaires, developed and rigorously validated using established techniques in behavioral science, statistics and informatics. Since data contained in questionnaire(s) enters the proprietary Big Data set if and when the subject of the questionnaire is dead, a key element of the process is the opportunity for living family members or friends to complete an initial proprietary questionnaire to preserve for the deceased a “Continuity of Identity.” That first questionnaire initiates a profile of biographical and/or physical identity data of the deceased subject accessible at (or remotely from) the respective cemetery or specific place of Post Mortem corporal disposal. Consequently, the living responder is thereby encouraged to begin the assemblage of their own inter-vivos proprietary questionnaire submissions to be released into the proprietary Big Data set either Inter-Vivos or Post Mortem. The method exploits known software techniques to merge quantifiable data fields from all submissions of proprietary questionnaires, thereby creating a researchable Big Data set. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095071 | Systems and Methods for Identifying a Subrogation Opportunity for a Potential Subrogation Claim - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for determining a subrogation score for a potential subrogation claim. The systems and methods described herein provide a user, such as a claims adjuster, with the tools to retrieve and communicate information related to one or more products likely to have caused a property loss. The systems and methods may further determine a subrogation score indicative of subrogation opportunity for a potential subrogation claim relative to the one or more products. The subrogation score may be based on information in at least one database. The subrogation score may be provided to the user such as an insurance carrier. The user may then decide whether to proceed with further investigative analyses (e.g., component testing of the one or more products) pursuant to a potential subrogation claim. Additional systems and methods disclosed herein facilitate the insurance carrier's submission of the one or more products for component testing. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095072 | PROCESS TRACKING AND DEFECT DETECTION - A system monitors request processing operations and flags process defects (for example, a request that has become orphaned, stuck, or vanished from a processing queue.). The system uses knowledge of how a business process is expected to behave to how it is actually behaving to detect exception instances. The system can detect individual process instances behaving unexpectedly as well as patterns across instance sets. In some cases, the system maintains one set of information (for example, in a database) for requests that have been input to the system, and a second set of information for requests then being processed. The system may compare the two sets of information and identify differences between the sets of information. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095073 | FACILITATING PASSENGER TO MANAGE AIRLINE RESERVATION WITHIN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE - Systems and methods for facilitating passengers to manage airline reservations within electronic messages are disclosed. Interactive content may be determined based on airline reservation information associated with the passengers. The interactive content may include content sets for the passengers to purchase flight options such as upgrading seats, meals, entertainment, and the like within the electronic message. The interactive content may include content sets for the passengers to interact with (e.g., select) offers by merchants. Targeted offers or advertisements may be obtained from the merchants by providing passenger information. In some examples, selection of targeted offers for presentation to the passenger in the electronic messages may be made based on historical information related to the passenger (e.g., such as product preferences manifested by the passengers in the past). | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095074 | EMPLOYMENT RELATED INFORMATION CENTER ASSOCIATED WITH COMMUNICATION AND CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS ELECTRIC VEHICLE ELECTRICAL ENERGY TRANSFER - A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically tracking employment information at least in part associated with one or more employees as users of one or more electric vehicles and at least in part related to wireless electrical energy storage charging for vehicular propulsion of the one or more electric vehicles. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095075 | Method, Apparatus and System for Automated Funding - Embodiments herein provide for performing an automated transaction. A request for funding is received. A request processing is performed in response to said request. The request processing comprises routing said request to a approval unit, determining by said approval unit that said funding is authorized, and determining that sufficient amount of funds are available for providing said funding. The funding is either approved or denied said funding based upon said request processing. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095076 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING A REPORT - Embodiments herein provide for a method, system, and apparatus for automatically providing a report. Data associated with an activity relating to a user of an account is received. A determination is made as to whether the activity relates to funding of the account. In response to the activity relating to the funding, a determination is made as to whether the data indicates that a report is to be automatically generated based upon a predetermined rule. The report is automatically generated based upon determining that the data indicates that the report is to be automatically generated. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095077 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HIRING WORKERS - An apparatus, system and/or method that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, transmitting to a human resources system application information and permission to perform a background check for a job opening, where the application information and the permission are inputted by an applicant via a user interface of a time clock device, presenting a job offer from the human resources system to the applicant via a graphical user interface, receiving an acceptance of the job offer inputted by the applicant via the user interface to make the applicant a worker, capturing work time information for the worker via the user interface, and transmitting the work time information to a payroll system. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095078 | RESOURCE SCHEDULING BASED ON HISTORICAL SUCCESS RATE - An approach for resource scheduling of teams based on historic performance evaluations of projects of the teams. In one aspect, the approach comprises monitoring resource skills of one or more teams based on historical performance of previous problems solved by the one or more teams. The approach further comprises, evaluating success rates of the one or more team's effectiveness in utilizing the resource skills based on the historical performance of the previous problems solved. The approach further comprises determining a resource schedule for a new problem solved by the one or more teams based on the success rates of the team's effectiveness in utilizing the resource skills of the previous problems solved. The approach further comprises modifying the determined resource schedule based on altered conditions of the success rates of the one or more team's effectiveness in utilizing the resource skills over a duration of time. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095079 | DETERMINING ONE OR MORE SKILLS REQUIRED TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM SYMPTOMS OF A PROBLEM REPORT FILES - An approach for evaluating at least one problem report based on keyword parameters of the at least one problem report is provided. According to at least one aspect, the approach comprises determining problem symptoms of at least one problem report based on keywords of the problem symptoms. The approach further comprises comparing the keywords of the problem symptoms with skills of a symptom skills table in a computer data structure so as to rank a match of available skills to address the at least one problem report, wherein a rank is determined by closeness of match between the skills of the symptom skills table and the keywords of the problem symptoms to address the at least one problem report. The approach further comprises generating work assignments based on the ranked match of available skills. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095080 | TASK ASSIGNMENT USING RANKING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES - A method of ranking workers for an incoming task includes recording a list of completed tasks in a computer data structure, extracting first attributes from the list for the tasks that were completed during a pre-determined period, generating a first feature vector for each task and worker from the first extracted attributes, training a Support Vector Machine (SVM) based on the feature vector to output a weight vector, extracting second attributes from an incoming task, generating a second feature vector for each worker based on the second extracted attributes, and ranking the workers using the second feature vectors and the weight vector. The first attributes may be updated during a subsequent period to re-train the SVM on updated first feature vectors to generate an updated weight vector. The workers may be re-ranked based on the second feature vectors and the updated weight vector. Accordingly, the feature vectors are dynamic. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095081 | STACKABLE STRATEGIES - A contact center is provided with the ability to easily modify, change, append, delete, or create new strategies. Contact center strategies are provided with the ability to be stacked on one another, thereby creating a combination strategy. The combination strategy may hierarchically represent and perform the individual strategies that constitute the combination strategy. Moreover, individual strategies can be removed, added, or replaced with other individual strategies, thereby providing a simple and efficient way for changing the behavior of the combination strategy. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095082 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING TASKS AND METHODS THEREOF - Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for obtaining a table including a plurality of tasks, determining a due date for each task according to a rule associated with each task, normalizing the plurality of tasks by assigning a task value to each task of the plurality of tasks, determining a workload capacity of each of a plurality of practitioners, and updating the table by assigning a portion of the plurality of tasks to each practitioner of the plurality of practitioners according to the workload capacity of each practitioner, the due date of each task, and the task value of each task. The task value can be based on a first factor of a unit of measure, and the workload capacity can be based on a second factor of the unit of measure. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095083 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR MATCH RATING AND INTERVIEW SCHEDULING - Method, apparatus, and computer-readable media for managing training programs. An exemplary method comprises storing data associated with a plurality of training programs within at least one data structure in a database, receiving a selection of at least one training program of the plurality of training programs, tracking the at least one selected training program, managing an interview for a user corresponding to the at least one selected training program, and storing revised data associated with the at least one selected training program within the at least one data structure based at least in part on the interview. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095084 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONNECTING EMAIL SERVICE PROVIDERS TO CROWDSOURCING COMMUNITIES - Provided are computer implemented methods and systems for crowdsourcing an email testing task. A method for crowdsourcing an email testing task may include receiving the email testing task from a customer. The email testing task may include at least an email content. The method may include providing the email testing task to a crowdsourcing community. Upon performing the email testing task by the crowdsourcing community, results of performing the email testing task may be received from the crowdsourcing community. The method may further include providing the results of performing the email testing task to the customer. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095085 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEALER NETWORK VISUALIZATION - Systems and methods are provided for dealer network visualization. A method may include receiving a user identifier associated with a user and accessing vehicle transaction history associated with the user identifier. The method may also include determining, based at least in part on the vehicle transaction history, one or more vehicle transactions associated with the user identifier. Furthermore, the method may include identifying one or more dealers associated with the one or more vehicle transactions. The method may also include generating a network visualization indicating respective dealer connections between the user and the one or more dealers and displaying the network visualization. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095086 | SMART CALENDAR - A smart calendar system, method and program product that integrates disparate sets of data to identify scheduling conflicts and generate scheduling suggestions. The smart calendar system includes the following: a database for storing activity data associated with a user, wherein the activity data includes items scheduled for the user; an interface for receiving and storing profile data associated with the user; an analysis engine that includes: a system for selecting and interfacing with a plurality of external knowledge databases to obtain knowledge data associated with the user; a system that integrates the profile data, activity data, and knowledge data into a collection of integrated scheduling information; a suggestion system that suggests modifications to the items scheduled for the user, based on the integrated scheduling information; and a conflict system that identifies potential conflicts in the items scheduled for the user, based on the integrated scheduling information. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095087 | Calendar Integration In A Collaborative Environment - Integration of a virtual collaborative environment with an electronic meeting calendar. The virtual collaborative environment functions in a shared pool of resources to provide a virtual medium for multiple entities to work together. The electronic meeting calendar and scheduling integrates with the collaboration. Three separate and distinct factors are accounted for with the scheduling, including establishing a meeting, the duration of the meeting, and the attendees. Each of these factors is considered based upon content uploaded to the collaborative environment. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095088 | APPOINTMENT SCHEDULERS WITHIN SPONSORED CONTENT ITEMS - This specification describes methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage device, for providing a content item. The subject matter of the specification is embodied in a method that includes providing, from a processing device, data that causes a display of a sponsored content item on a client device. The display of the sponsored content item includes a control for scheduling an appointment, and the control, responsive to an input, causes a display of a form within the content item for receiving user-input related to scheduling the appointment. The method also includes receiving, at the one or more processing devices, information representing the user-input related to scheduling the appointment, and providing the information representing the user-input to a computing device associated with scheduling appointments related to the sponsored content item. The information is used by the computing device to schedule the appointment. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095089 | WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT FOR LICENSE COST OPTIMIZATION - A workload change evaluator may receive workload metrics characterizing a plurality of workloads executed within a license environment during a license period, and cost metrics characterizing license costs incurred by license environment during the license period. A baseline model generator may generate a baseline model providing a time-based contribution of each of the plurality of workloads to the license cost during the license period. A cost estimator may receive a potential workload change, and may estimate a license cost change caused by the potential workload change, based on the baseline model. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095090 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT WITH PREDICTIVE IRRIGATION SYSTEM ADJUSTMENT INDEX CALCULATION CAPABILITY - A system for landscape management includes an irrigation billing cycle budget calculation engine with predictive irrigation system adjustment index calculation capability such that the cost of irrigation water as well as volume of irrigation water may be managed, and such that weather-based guidance for the corrective actions to the irrigation system is automatically provided by the system. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095091 | Customer-Prioritized Inventory Allocation for Supply Chain | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095092 | Legal workflow management system - A computerized workflow automation method is provided for defining a business process by a user, implemented by executing instructions stored in memory using a processor coupled to the memory. The method includes: defining the business process and a plurality of tasks associated with the business process, the tasks including a first task and a second task; defining a process level service level agreement (PLSLA) for the process; defining task level service level agreements including at least a first task level service level agreement (TLSLA) for the first task and a second TLSLA for the second task; assigning the first task to a first user group and assigning the second task to a second user group; and storing data representative of the process, each of the tasks, the first TLSLA, the second TLSLA, the PLSLA, and each of the user groups, in the memory. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095093 | NODE-PAIR PROCESS SCOPE DEFINITION AND SCOPE SELECTION COMPUTATION - A connected directed graphical representation of a process model that includes a plurality of process nodes and interconnections between the process nodes of the process model is displayed. A user selection of a subset of the process nodes of the displayed connected directed graphical representation of the process model is received. A process scope definition represented as at least one begin-end node pair is computed. The at least one begin-end node pair is usable to identify all selected nodes and interconnection path links that are reachable in a traversal from a begin node to an end node of each of the at least one begin-end node pair of the received user selection of the subset of the process nodes. The computed process scope definition is stored. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095094 | NODE-PAIR PROCESS SCOPE DEFINITION ADAPTATION - A previously-computed scope definition represented as at least one begin-end node pair is obtained. The at least one begin-end node pair is usable to identify all nodes and interconnection path links that are reachable in a traversal from a begin node to an end node of each of the at least one begin-end node pair of a selection of a connected directed graphical representation of a process model. A change to the process model relative to the previously-computed scope definition is identified. A type of tooling environment used to change the process model is determined. The tooling environment includes one of a fully-integrated tooling environment and a componentized tool chain tooling environment. The previously-computed scope definition is adapted into an updated process scope definition based upon the identified at least one change to the process model relative to the previously-computed scope definition and the determined type of tooling environment. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095095 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MASS REPLICATION OF DIGITAL MEDIA - A method for replicating content onto a storage device commences by prioritizing a set of content replication jobs in accordance with work orders associated with such content replication jobs to establish a current highest priority content replication job. Thereafter, the content specified by the current highest priority replication job is downloaded onto a storage device for distribution to a location specified in the work order associated with the current highest priority replication job. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095096 | WORKFLOW PROCESS CONSOLIDATION - A workflow server is connected with operating computer terminals through a network to manage workflow. The workflow server consolidates information necessary for processing multiple consecutive nodes to be processed by one participant operating one of the operating computer terminals, and sends the consolidated information to the operating computer terminal concerned. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095097 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECONFIGURABLE WORKFLOWS - Methods, non-transitory computer-readable media and apparatuses for modifying a task flow are disclosed. For example, a method receives a request to modify the task flow template which is associated with a plurality of task flow modification rules. The method determines whether the request violates a modification rule of the plurality of task flow modification rules. A first rule specifies that no automated tasks in the task flow template can be deleted and a second rule specifies that no automated task in the task flow template can be moved to precede another automated task on which it depends. The method rejects the request when the request is determined to violate one of the first rule and the second rule of the plurality of task flow modification rules. Otherwise, the method modifies the task flow template in accordance with the request to produce a modified task flow template. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095098 | WORK MANAGEMENT METHOD AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A management system manages the works performed to a predetermined target device. A management system stores, in a storage device, a first work definition showing a first work to be performed by an operator to a target device, a second work definition showing a second work for acquiring evidence for confirming a result of one first work among the one or more first works, and flow information including order information prescribing an execution order of the first work and the second work. The management system determines whether the timing has come to execute the second work based on the flow information and, when the timing has come to execute the second work, performs a support display for causing the operator to acquire evidence, and stores the evidence acquired based on the support display in the storage device by associating the acquired evidence with work flow information. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095099 | RAPID ASSESSMENT OF EMERGING RISKS - Apparatus and methods described herein may rapidly identify emerging risks that may impact an entity. Methods may update and identify emerging risks on a frequent basis. Using an electronic form, information may be collected from a filtered set of experts. The set of experts may be “filtered” based on the emerging risk and a scope of the emerging risk. The information may include the experts' responses to a set of questions. The information may include values on absolute scales. The information may be analyzed to determine variation in the responses of the experts. The information may be aggregated across a plurality of emerging risks and across a plurality of lines-of-business. Based on the information, a convergence point may be determined. The convergence point may identify a time at which a combined impact of each of the plurality of emerging risks exceeds a risk threshold of an entity. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095100 | System and Method for Integrated Risk and Health Management of Electric Submersible Pumping Systems - A system and process for optimizing the performance and evaluating the risks of pumping systems includes the steps of measuring the operation and condition of components within a discrete electric submersible pumping system, accumulating these measurements across a field of electric submersible pumping systems, performing statistical analysis on the accumulated measurements and producing one or more selected outputs from the group statistical analysis. In the preferred embodiments, the statistical analysis and data processing occurs at both the individual pumping system and at one or more centralized locations. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095101 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POPULATING REQUIREMENTS - A non-transitory machine readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to perform a method of receiving input defining one or more requirements for a product. The method may generate one or more cross-reference matrices from the one or more requirements based on a hazard analysis risk assessment. The method may generate a parent-child structure for the one or more cross-reference matrices and populate a requirement file based on the cross-reference matrices. The method may generate a risk prevention analysis file based on input from the requirement file and one or more linkages between the one or more requirements and the parent-child structure, and output the risk prevention analysis file. The method may output the risk prevention analysis file as a tree structure and have a tool to enable a user to scroll through the tree structure. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095102 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENSURING COMPUTER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE CONTINUITY - The present invention relates to a system computer implemented information technology (“IT”) management solution that bridges the gap between deployed computer information technology infrastructure and business services to determine what information technology a business entity or other organization currently has, what is at risk and what is needed to assure IT infrastructure continuity. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095103 | CREATING AND MANAGING COMMERCE INSIGHTS IN WASTE MANAGEMENT - Methods and arrangements for creating and managing commercial insights in waste management. Codes of discarded products which enter a receptacle bin are scanned. There are provided, to an external entity, data relating to discarding of the products, the data including spatial location data and at least one of: temporal data relating to the discarding of the products, and product-specific data. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095104 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR EFFECTING TARGETED ACCESS TO ANONYMOUS USERS OF A NETWORK - A method, system, and apparatus for effecting targeted access to anonymous users of a network is provided. A second entity delineates parameters of an audience with heightened interest in an offering, and a first entity provides the second entity with access to an audience accordant with these parameters. Consumer data collected by a network connected appliance used by an appliance user is linked with an appliance user anonymous identifier, and communicated to the first entity. Using the parameters, the first entity analyzes the collected consumer data and aggregates the appliance user's anonymous identifier with anonymous identifiers of other appliance users, thereby generating an aggregate set of anonymous identifiers that point to members of the audience. This set is marked with an identification code that is communicated to the second entity that can be used by the second entity to gain access to the audience through the first entity. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095105 | INDUSTRY GRAPH DATABASE - Information may be extracted from a variety of source materials and mapped onto elements of a graph topology representative of industry information. The topology may comprise information indicative of industries and companies including partnerships, capabilities, products, solutions, and promotions. The topology may describe interrelationships between elements. Various qualities such as position within an industry, partnerships, promotions, technological and organizational capabilities, products and solutions, and so on may be quantified by examination of relationships within the industry graph topology. Quantified and unquantified data may be used for benchmarking and to compare trends. Information sets may be extracted by searching and/or traversing the industry graph topology. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095106 | Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System Having a Rules Engine for Processing Sales Program Rules - A CRM system is provided having a rules engine to process sales program rules. One or more sales programs are processed in a CRM system by obtaining one or more sales program rules defining the one or more sales programs; and applying the one or more sales program rules to a rules engine in the CRM system to determine if the one or more sales programs are applicable by accessing one or more of enterprise data and external commercial data. The sales program rules are optionally entered into the rules engine using a graphical user interface. The sales program rules can also be updated using the graphical user interface. The sales program rules comprise, for example, time-based conditions to enforce time restrictions of a given sales program and/or one or more collaborative filters. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095107 | STAY DURATION MEASUREMENT DEVICE, STAY DURATION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND STAY DURATION MEASUREMENT METHOD - A stay duration measurement device for measuring a stay duration in a measurement area for each moving object, includes: a movement line obtaining unit that obtains a movement line of each moving object detected from images including the measurement area; a movement line assessment unit that determines whether the movement line obtained by the movement line obtaining unit includes a missing part in the measurement area; and a stay duration obtaining unit that, in a case where it is determined by the movement line assessment unit that the movement line of a moving object of interest includes a missing part in the measurement area, obtains a stay duration compensated for the missing part based on a time period(s) required for movement(s) of one or more other moving objects in the measurement area. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095108 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR ASSESSING REACH, ENGAGEMENT, CONVERSATION OR OTHER SOCIAL METRICS BASED ON DOMAIN TAILORED EVALUATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA EXPOSURE - Embodiments described herein provide a social media analytics platform. An entity may be configured with respect to the platform and a number of social media accounts, and other data such as aliases or search terms associated with the entity. Data is collected at certain intervals from the various online sites, including social media sites, using the various disparate and proprietary interfaces and data models provided by the sites and the configurations for the social media accounts associated with an entity. Using this data obtained from these online sites one or more scores can be calculated or update based on the data, where the score(s) may serve to quantify a facet of the entity's social media exposure and may serve to be domain specific to the entity. The scores for each of the indices for an entity can thus serve to quantify facets of an entity's social media exposure. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095109 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR DECODING DATA STREAMS IN RECONFIGURABLE PLATFORMS - A decoding device is implemented on an integrated circuit, for decoding a market data input stream received in a given data representation format. The decoding device comprises an engine built around a finite state machine, the engine being generated from at least one description file and configured to perform the following steps, in a current state of the finite state machine: i) dividing the market data input stream into a number of tokens and reading a set of tokens, ii) accumulating the set of read tokens in internal registers, iii) generating output commands from the tokens accumulated in the internal registers depending on a condition related to the tokens accumulated in the internal registers, and iv) selecting the next state of the Finite State Machine state based on a triggering condition. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095110 | FUNNEL ANALYSIS OF THE ADOPTION OF AN APPLICATION - A funnel approach is used to analyze the behavior of users in adopting a software application offered through an electronic store. The electronic store may include an electronic store client module that provides a virtual electronic store front to users interested in licensing software applications offered by the electronic store. The electronic store may utilize a server that stores the applications store as well as collect instrumentation data representing user's actions in progressing through the various stages of adoption. | 2015-04-02 |
| 20150095111 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS IN AVAILABLE-TO-PROMISE SYSTEMS - A method and system are provided in which a computing device comprising an available-to-promise system of a merchant or business collects information content from at least one social networking website. The computing device may analyze the collected information content to extract data items that identify a product or service. Based on a result of the analysis, a composite score of predicted demand for the product or service may be generated by the computing device. The score may be used in the ATP system for generating a demand forecast used by the merchant or business in purchasing or allocating the product or service. | 2015-04-02 |
