| 14th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 46 |
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| 20130085699 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THERMAL GRADIENT COMPENSATION FOR RING LASER GYROSCOPES - Systems and methods for thermal gradient compensation for ring laser gyroscopes are provided. In one embodiment, a method for producing bias compensated angular rate measurements from a ring laser gyroscope comprises: sampling an angle measurement output from a laser block sensor to obtain an angular rate measurement; obtaining an laser block temperature measurement (T | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085700 | TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED PEDOMETER READINGS - Techniques are provided for improving pedometer readings. In some embodiments, motion data, such as acceleration data is detected, and a magnitude of the acceleration data, referred to as the modulus, is processed. Techniques involve performing frequency analysis on the modulus. In some embodiments, the modulus samples are counted perform frequency analysis on each complete sample set. Each complete sample set includes overlapping samples with the previous sample set. A suitable frequency analysis algorithm, such as fast Fourier transform (FFT) dominant frequency computation is performed on each sample set to determine the dominant frequency of the modulus. The dominant frequency of the modulus may be smoothed in some embodiments to remove irregularities such as spikes or periods of inactivity. In some embodiments, results of frequency analysis may be used to determine whether a detected step is a walking step or a running step. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085701 | Self-Calibrating Ion Meter - An ion meter is calibrated by providing two ISFETS with different areas, where the two gate areas are used to calibrate the two ISFETS with respect to one another. The use of two ISFET gates that can be calibrated with respect to one another eliminates the need for an ion meter to be recalibrated before every use, and allows the ion meter to measure the concentration in the solution over an extended period of time. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085702 | MEDICAL LINEAR ACCELERATOR SIGNAL ANALYZER AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A method and system is proposed for providing automated, electronic testing of a linear accelerator from a remote position. According to one aspect of the claimed subject matter, a system is described which includes a linear accelerator with a scope circuit board, a multiplexer printed circuit board and a computing device. The multiplexer printed circuit board is coupled to the linear accelerator at a plurality of signal sites or locations corresponding to common areas of interest. Signal data received by the multiplexer circuit board may be continuously streamed from the linear accelerator to the multiplexer through each “channel” of data. The multiplexer circuit board is configured to receive, as input, the data corresponding to the electrical activity. In a further embodiment, the multiplexer outputs a selection of signals corresponding to a user selection of one or more channels from a remote terminal. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085703 | Histogram-Based Linearization of Analog-to-Digital Converters - Embodiments provide histogram-based methods and system to estimate the transfer function of an ADC, and subsequently to linearize a non-linear ADC transfer function. Embodiments include blind algorithms that require no a priori knowledge of the input signal distribution. Embodiments can be implemented using cumulative (i.e., cumulative distribution function (CDF)) or non-cumulative (i.e., probability density function (PDF)) histograms. According to embodiments, a non-linear transfer function can be estimated by linearly approximating successive local intervals of the transfer function. Linearly approximated successive local intervals of the transfer function can then be used to fully characterize and closely estimate the transfer function. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085704 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TESTING MULTIPLE-IC DEVICES - Embodiments include systems that include at least one integrated circuit (IC) and methods for their testing. Each IC includes an input interconnect to receive an input signal, a test enable interconnect to receive a test enable signal, and a controller (e.g., a TAP controller) for performing testing of the integrated circuit based on values in at least one register (values corresponding to the input signal). Each IC also includes an input port and a multiplexer coupled to the first input interconnect, the at least one register, and the input port. The multiplexer is controllable to pass the input signal to the input port in response to non-assertion of the test enable signal, and to pass the input signal to the at least one register in response to assertion of the test enable signal. When the system includes multiple controllers, each controller may implement a different opcode-to-instruction mapping. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085705 | METHOD AND APPARATUS PERTAINING TO AUTOMATICALLY PERFORMING AN APPLICATION FUNCTION OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE BASED UPON DETECTING A CHANGE IN PHYSICAL CONFIGURATION OF THE DEVICE - An electronic device detects a change in its physical configuration and automatically performs an application function in response to such detection. By one approach this can comprise detecting a change in configuration as regards a native component of the electronic device (such as, for example, whether the component is configured in a deployed position or a non-deployed position). The nature of the performed application function can vary with the application setting. As one example, this activity can comprise moving at least a portion of the application's user interface to the aforementioned component. As another example, this activity can comprise accessing preferences information (by, for example, accessing stored information that maps particular application functions to corresponding physical configurations of the electronic device). | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085706 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COUNTING AEROSOL PARTICLES IN ATMOSPHERE WITH RESPECT TO EACH PARTICLE SIZE BY APPROPRIATELY SETTING RATIO OF FLOW RATE OF SAMPLE GAS AND SHEATH GAS IN DMA - A maximum number of charges on aerosol particles which are measurement targets is decided as a natural number x equal to or larger than 2. First and second electrical mobility groups are derived based on x. The first group includes electrical mobility Zc(U) and electrical mobilities having voltage values equal to a voltage U multiplied by values from 2 to x respectively, and the second group includes electrical mobilities having respective voltage values equal to voltage U multiplied by irreducible fractions which are coprime to each other among values with regularity. A ratio of flow rate with which range corresponding to the electrical mobilities included in the first group do not interfere with one another and the range corresponding to the electrical mobilities included in the first group and range corresponding to the electrical mobilities included in the mobility group do not interfere with one another is calculated. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085707 | CAPACITIVE SENSOR FOR THERMOMETER PROBE - An electronic thermometer includes a probe adapted to be heated by a subject for use in measuring a temperature of the subject. At least one temperature sensor detects a temperature of the probe. A probe sensor detects a condition at the probe. The probe sensor has an idle condition when the probe is not inserted into the subject. A processor is operatively connected to the probe sensor and programmed to monitor a change in the condition of the probe sensor from the idle condition to determine whether the probe has been received in a probe cover and inserted into the subject. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085708 | DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR DETERMINING THE BODY CORE TEMPERATURE - A device for determining the body core temperature of a living being includes a first temperature sensor ( | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085709 | CIRCUITS FOR DETERMING DIFFERENTIAL AND AVERAGE TEMPERATURES FROM RESISTIVE TEMPERATURE DEVICES - Systems for determining differential and average temperatures from resistive temperature devices are provided. In one embodiment, a device comprises a bridge network including a first node and second node, wherein the first node receives a constant current from a current source; a first branch coupled between a first node and a second node, the first branch including a first temperature sensing element of a first resistive temperature device; a second branch coupled in parallel with the first branch between the first node and the second node, the second branch including a second temperature sensing element of a second resistive temperature device; a first output that provides a signal representing a difference between a voltage developed across the first temperature sensing element and a voltage developed across the second temperature sensing element; and a second output that provides a signal representing a voltage developed across first node and the second node. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085710 | METHOD FOR DETECTING WHEEL ROTATION USING A ONE-DIMENSIONAL ACCELERATION SENSOR - Embodiments relate to TPMS utilizing a single-axis acceleration sensor for measuring the direction of rotation of the tires in a tire localization methodology. In an embodiment, the known axis position of the acceleration sensor in the tires allows for the assessment by an integrated circuit in order to determine the left or right positioning of a tire, as well as the magnitude of acceleration or deceleration. Because of the dual components of the measured acceleration signal of first, the directional acceleration of the vehicle and second, the oscillating modulation due to gravity, the generated waveform is known to have differences between the left and right tire signals of an accelerating and decelerating vehicle. The impact of the oscillating modulation on the directional acceleration of the vehicle can be utilized to identify tire rotation direction, and thus the wheels localized therefrom, as well as the magnitude of acceleration and deceleration. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085711 | TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED PEDOMETER READINGS - Techniques are provided for improving pedometer readings. In some embodiments, motion data, such as acceleration data is detected, and a magnitude of the acceleration data, referred to as the modulus, is processed for improved step detection. Techniques involve computing a moving average of the modulus and applying an acceleration threshold filter to the modulus. Crossings are detected based on peak-to-peak swing of the modulus about the moving average. In some embodiments, the frequency of the modulus is used in an adaptive filtering technique. based on the dominant frequency of the modulus, a frequency band is selected to filter to modulus. The frequency band may be dynamically changed to one of several frequency bands when a significant frequency change is detected in the dominant frequency of the modulus. In some embodiments, steps are detected based on the acceleration threshold-filtered and the frequency-filtered modulus. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085712 | INERTIAL SENSING INPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An inertial sensing input apparatus includes a motion sensing module, a state determination module, an attitude estimation module, a coordinate transformation module, a gravity elimination module, an integral operation module, a data storage module, a trajectory modification module and a trajectory removal module. When the inertial sensing input apparatus is in a moving time period, the coordinate transformation module transforms a relative acceleration measured by the motion sensing module to an absolute acceleration based on a rotational attitude estimated by the attitude estimation module. The integral operation module calculates a velocity and a displacement based on an absolute acceleration revised by the gravity elimination module and forwards them to the data storage module. When the K | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085713 | SIGNATURE-BASED TRICK DETERMINATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SKATEBOARDING AND OTHER ACTIVITIES OF MOTION - The invention provides improved devices, systems and methods for skateboarding (and other sporting activities) that monitor motion of a skateboard to identify tricks performed on it by a user. A system according to one aspect of the invention includes (i) a sensing device that is attached (or otherwise coupled) to the skateboard and that measures a physical characteristic of it, and (ii) a data processor that identifies the feat or trick (or other action) performed by or on the skateboard based, at least in part, on correspondence between physical characteristics of motion and/or of the environment measured by the sensing device(s) and a unique signature associated with each of one or more possible tricks. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085714 | Method and device for moving a sensor close to a surface - A method and a system for positioning a sensor of an electrostatic force microscope is disclosed. In a method according to the invention, the AC bias voltage and DC bias voltage systems of the EFM are utilized to determine a sensor sensitivity “G”, which is then used to adjust the position of the sensor or the AC bias voltage in a manner that reduces the risk of arcing and/or contact between the sensor and the surface to be analyzed. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085715 | ANOMALY DETECTION IN STREAMING DATA - Systems and methods for anomaly detection in streaming data are disclosed. An example method includes applying statistical analysis to streaming data in a sliding window. The method also includes extracting a feature. The method also includes determining class assignment for the feature using class conditional probability densities and a threshold. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085716 | Methods for estimating location using signal with varying signal speed - Robust methods are developed to provide bounds and probability distributions for the locations of objects as well as for associated variables that affect the accuracy of the location such as the positions of stations, the measurements, and errors in the speed of signal propagation. Realistic prior probability distributions of pertinent variables are permitted for the locations of stations, the speed of signal propagation, and errors in measurements. Bounds and probability distributions can be obtained without making any assumption of linearity. The sequential methods used for location are applicable in other applications in which a function of the probability distribution is desired for variables that are related to measurements. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085717 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUALIFYING PERFORMANCE OF A CONVENTIONAL CONTROL VALVE - A method of qualifying performance of a conventional control valve in a process plant, the valve being controlled by a controller, the method comprising a processor obtaining data samples from a database stored on a server of the process plant, each data sample comprising a process variable, a set-point, and a manipulated variable; the processor computing a non-linearity index from the data samples and determining if the non-linearity index is greater than a threshold value; if the non-linearity index is greater than the threshold value, the processor charting a plot of the process variable against the manipulated variable and determining if the plot has an elliptical or rectangular fit; and if the plot has an elliptical fit, the processor determining if a percentage of the total number of data samples lying within a theoretical ellipse encompassed within the elliptical fit is less than or equal to a preset percentage. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085718 | Generating An Analytical Energy Model - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a system, for generating an analytical energy model from a conceptual representation or a mass form model. In one aspect, actions include receiving a conceptual representation of a building including one or more user-defined floor levels and multiple surfaces defining volumetric space, and, responsive to a request to generate an analytical energy model, automatically generating the analytical energy model by: deriving geometric information from the conceptual representation; defining one or more mass volumes; algorithmically assigning one or more surface types to mass volume surfaces; defining one or more thermal mass zones based on the mass volumes and a corresponding number of user-defined floor levels; deriving thermal properties of the one or more thermal mass zones; and combining the defined one or more thermal mass zones, the derived thermal properties, and predefined analytical energy model parameters to generate the analytical energy model. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085719 | APPLICATION-GENERATED FUNCTION BLOCK FOR DATA EXCHANGE BETWEEN CONTROL PROGRAMS AND BUILDING AUTOMATION OBJECTS - A system, process, and method for modeling a building automation system is provided that permits a control program to easily and efficiently add field devices, gather data from, and provide data to field devices, iterate though all field devices in a hierarchical structure, poll the field devices, evaluate the results, and react accordingly. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085720 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND MANAGING A VIRTUAL DEVICE - Certain embodiments of the present invention are configured to permit development and validation of a device driver or a device application program by using improved virtual devices. Such improved virtual devices facilitate driver development without use of real devices or hardware prototypes. The present invention also may be configured to permit advanced validation of a device-driver combination that would be difficult to achieve even with a real device. Certain embodiments also may detect inconsistencies between virtual and real devices, which may be used to improve drivers and device application programs and increase compatibility of such drivers and device application programs with real devices. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085721 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING TEETH - Methods and apparatus fit a set of upper and lower teeth in a masticatory system by generating a computer representation of the masticatory system and computing an occlusion based on interactions in the computer representation of the masticatory system. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085722 | ROTATING MACHINES - A method of computer aided engineering for designing a rotating machine assembly involves creating within a graphical user interface of a computer system a layout of the rotating machine assembly, and forming a functional model of the rotating machine assembly from the layout. The layout is created by selecting and positioning components for the rotating machine assembly, and then creating associations between them. The functional model is based on one or more of the associations, relative positions of the selected components, properties of the selected components and properties of the associations. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085723 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING ARTICULAR BONE DEFORMITY RESECTION USING MOTION PATTERNS - The invention relates to a method for real-time determination an optimal corrected surface of a first bone and/or a second bone forming together an articulation, the first and/or second bones presenting an overgrowth deformation, said corrected surface providing a greater range of motion of the articulation, the method comprising the following steps: i) constructing from acquired images of the articulation 3D voxel models of the first bone and the second bone; ii) for each of first and second bone voxel models, constructing a coordinate system defmed by a center and three axes; iii) applying a motion pattern on the coordinate system of the second bone with respect to the coordinate system of the first bone, a motion pattern being a set of contiguous positions of the first or second bone coordinate systems with respect to the other bone coordinate system, the contiguous positions defining a movement of one bone with respect to the other, wherein said motion pattern is initially loaded from a data base of pre-defined motion patterns; iv) determining a resection volume from said motion pattern as being the union of interpenetration volumes of the first or second bone voxel model with the other bone voxel model for each position of the motion pattern; v) determining the optimal corrected surface by virtually removing said resection volume from the first and/or the second bone voxel model. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085724 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING SENSOR MODELLING COEFFICIENTS - A method of calculating at least one sensor modelling coefficient for multiple sensor regions of operation includes defining a first sensor region of operation and a further sensor region of operation, and calculating the sensor modelling coefficient for the first sensor region of operation. A derivative equation then is derived for the further sensor region of operation based at least partly on at least one defined inter-region boundary constraint. The sensor modelling coefficient is calculated for the further sensor region of operation based at least partly on the derivative equation. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085725 | METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR CALCULATING SENSOR MODELLING COEFFICIENTS - A method of calculating sensor modelling coefficients includes determining a preliminary coefficient value for a first sensor modelling coefficient, calculating a coefficient value for a further sensor modelling coefficient using the preliminary coefficient value for the first sensor modelling coefficient and a data measurement value, and calculating a refined coefficient value for the first sensor modelling coefficient using the calculated coefficient value for the further sensor modelling coefficient and the data measurement value. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085726 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN SIMULATION MATRIX INTERPOLATION - Methods and systems perform a simulation on an integrated circuit design by applying a first value to a first variable and a second value to a second variable of the simulation to produce a first matrix corner simulation value. The methods and systems repeat the simulation using different values for the first and said second variables to produce a second matrix corner simulation value, a third matrix corner simulation value, and a fourth matrix corner simulation value. The methods and systems create a matrix, and the matrix has the first matrix corner simulation value, the second matrix corner simulation value, the third matrix corner simulation value, and the fourth matrix corner simulation value. The methods and systems interpolate all remaining values within the matrix based upon existing simulation values within the matrix. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085727 | Numerically simulating structural behaviors of embedded bi-materials using meshfree method - Methods and systems for numerically simulating structural behaviors of embedded bi-materials are disclosed. At least first and second grid models are created independently for an embedded bi-material that contains an immersed material embedded entirely within a base material. First group of meshfree nodes represents the entire domain (i.e., base plus immersed materials). Second group of meshfree nodes represents the immersed or embedded material, which includes all interface nodes and nodes located within a space bordered by the material interface. Numerical structural behaviors of the embedded bi-material are simulated using the first and second set of meshfree nodes with a meshfree method that combines two meshfree approximations. The first meshfree approximation covers the first set of meshfree nodes and is based on properties of the base material, while the second meshfree approximation covers the second set of meshfree nodes and is based on a differential between the immersed and base materials. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085728 | Method And System For Phasing Individual Genomes In The Context Of Clinical Interpretation - The present disclosure presents a unified system to phase a personal genome for downstream clinical interpretation. In an embodiment, an initial phasing is generated using public datasets, such as haplotypes from the 1000 Genomes Project, and a phasing toolkit. A local perturbation algorithm is applied to improve long range phasing. If available, a Mendelian inheritance pipeline is applied to identify phasing of novel and rare variants. These datasets are merged, followed by correction by any experimental data. This allows for full clinical interpretation of the role of a group of variants in a gene, whether inherited or de novo variants. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085729 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, POWER GENERATION DETERMINING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An estimated value or a predicted value of an output of photovoltaic generation is easily and properly determined. A learning processor constructs an output calculating model based on a measured value of an output of photovoltaic generation, sunshine hours, and a solar altitude in a learning period. The output calculating model calculates the output of the photovoltaic generation based on the sunshine hours and the solar altitude. An output calculator calculates an estimated value of the output of the photovoltaic generation in an estimation period and a predicted value of the output of the photovoltaic generation in a prediction period based on a measured value of the sunshine hours in the estimation period and the solar altitude or a predicted value of the sunshine hours in the prediction period and the solar altitude. Additionally, the features may be applied to a photovoltaic power system. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085730 | PRECONDITIONER FOR RESERVOIR SIMULATION - A method can include providing a system of equations with associated variables that describe physical phenomena associated with a geologic formation; decoupling the system of equations to provide a system of pressure equations with associated pressure variables; solving the system of pressure equations for values of the pressure variables; and, based at least in part on the values of the pressure variables, solving the system of equations for values of the associated variables where the solving the system of equations includes applying a block approximate inverse preconditioner technique to at least blocks of mass conservation terms of the system of equations. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085731 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MULTIPLE-DOMAIN INVERSION OF COLLECTED DATA - Methods and computing systems for multiple-domain inversion are disclosed to enhance subsurface region evaluation. In one embodiment, three or more datasets corresponding to a subterranean region are received, wherein at least one of the datasets is a magnetic dataset; and the three or more datasets are jointly inverted to generate at least a velocity model that corresponds to at least a first part of the subterranean region, and a susceptibility model that corresponds to at least the first part of the subterranean region, wherein the velocity model and the susceptibility model are correlated. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085732 | METHOD FOR SIMULATING DEFORMATION OF RUBBER COMPOUND WITH FILLER PARTICLES - A computerized method for simulating deformation of a rubber compound with filler particles comprises: a step in which a pseudo-two-dimensional rubber compound model of the rubber compound is generated; a step in which a deformation calculation is performed by the use of the pseudo-two-dimensional rubber compound model; and a step in which a necessary physical quantity is acquired from the deformation calculation. The pseudo-two-dimensional rubber compound model comprises a model of a rubber matrix and a plurality of models of filler particles. The pseudo-two-dimensional rubber compound model has a small thickness and has the same cross section in succession in the thickness direction. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085733 | NOx EMISSION ESTIMATION METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085734 | MODEL AND COMPUTER BASED COOLANT FLOW DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM - A model and computer based diagnostic method and system for automating a simulation process for a component, sub-system, and system of a vehicle engine relating particularly to coolant filling and draining. The method including the steps of creating a physical prototype and transparency of fluid passageways within the engine including the following elements: a radiator, a reservoir, a water jacket, a heater core, a heat exchanger, and other coolant system components thereby forming a complete cooling system within a vehicle engine. Geometry is then imported from the physical prototype to the computer automated design system including physics statistics and thermodynamics of each element. The method lastly includes the step of simulating fluid flow through the coolant system. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085735 | ASSESSMENT OF A TREATMENT PLAN - The present invention relates to a data processing method for determining an assessment of a candidate treatment plan, the candidate treatment plan being a plan for treatment of a patient's body, the data processing method comprising the following steps which are in particular performed by a computer:
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| 20130085736 | SIMULATED, REPRESENTATIVE HIGH-FIDELITY ORGANOSILICATE TISSUE MODELS - A method of making a tissue model comprises determining one or more material properties of a tissue, wherein the one or more material properties include at least one of mechanical properties, electroconductive properties, optical properties, thermoconductive properties, chemical properties, and anisotropic properties, creating an anatomical structure of the tissue, selecting an artificial tissue material having one or more material properties that substantially correspond to the one or more material properties of the tissue, and coupling the artificial tissue material to the anatomical structure. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085737 | RELAY NODE SIMULATOR AND TEST METHOD - A relay node simulator includes a marker display control unit that correlates a base station marker, a relay node marker, and a terminal marker to a predetermined coordinate system and allows the makers to be displayed on an operation screen, and that allows at least one of the markers to be displayed on the operation screen in a movable manner in accordance with an operation input, a position specifying unit that specifies respective positions of the respective markers in the coordinate system, and a pattern display control unit that allows a magnitude of a characteristic value relating to a first RF signal or a second RF signal to be displayed on the operation screen as a discriminable pattern, wherein, a test signal to which the characteristic value corresponding to the specified position is applied is output. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085738 | EXECUTING A HARDWARE SIMULATION AND VERIFICATION SOLUTION - One embodiment of the present invention provides systems and techniques to execute a hardware simulation and verification solution on a multiprocessor system. The hardware simulation and verification solution can be partitioned into different modules which can include a simulation kernel to simulate changes in signal values, a value change dump module to store the changes in the signal values on a computer-readable storage medium, a functional coverage module to check functionality, a toggle coverage module to check signal toggling, an assertion engine to check complex behaviors, and a testbench module to generate test scenarios. Embodiments of the present invention can execute different modules on different processors, thereby improving performance. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085739 | LOOKING GLASS: A HYBRID SIMULATION SYSTEM TO MODEL CASCADING EVENTS WITHIN A BLACK BOX SYSTEM - A hybrid simulation system to model cascading events within a black box system may include a tessellated field operable to allow a plurality of black box components to execute on a processor and communicate without needing a direct connection between the black box components. The black box components have transfer functions defined over a common coordinate system and time. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085740 | LOOKING GLASS: A HYBRID SIMULATION SYSTEM TO MODEL CASCADING EVENTS WITHIN A BLACK BOX SYSTEM - A hybrid simulation system to model cascading events within a black box system may include a tessellated field operable to allow a plurality of black box components to execute on a processor and communicate without needing a direct connection between the black box components. The black box components have transfer functions defined over a common coordinate system and time. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085741 | Test Planning Based on Dynamic Coverage Analysis - A method for refining a test plan is provided. The method comprises defining a coverage model including: one or more variables, wherein respective values for the variables are assigned, and one or more definitions for value combinations for said variables with assigned values, wherein zero or more of said value combinations are defined according to one or more restrictions for the purpose of generating a test plan to test a system for which the coverage model is constructed; determining zero or more uncovered value combinations in the test plan; and providing means to update the test plan. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085742 | SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT-AWARE MIGRATION FOR MULTITENANT DATABASE PLATFORMS - A method for migration from a multitenant database is shown that includes building an analytical model for each of a set of migration methods based on database characteristics; predicting performance of the set of migration methods using the respective analytical model with respect to tenant service level agreements (SLAs) and current and predicted tenant workloads, where the prediction includes a migration speed and an SLA violation severity; and selecting a best migration method from the set of migration methods according to the respective predicted migration speeds and SLA violation severities. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085743 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE IN PORTABLE DEVICE - A method for providing a user interface of a portable terminal is provided. The method includes converting a handwriting message inputted on a touch screen into a text message and outputting the text message on a display panel of the touch screen, outputting a candidate letter list when editing of the converted text message is requested, and correcting the text message using a candidate letter selected from the candidate letter list. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085744 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A FORM COMPLETION PROCESS - Certain embodiments provide systems and methods for managing a form completion process. The method includes providing a user form in the selected language to a user interface. The method further includes receiving the user form with associated form answers and determining whether the selected language of the user form matches a service provider language. The method also includes queuing a work item associated with the user form with associated form answers if the selected language of the user form does not match the service provider language, and dequeuing the work item when the user form with associated form answers is provided to a translation specialist. The method includes receiving a translation of the user form with associated form answers and generating a provider form based on one or more of the user form with associated form answers and the translation of the user form with associated form answers. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085745 | SEMANTIC-BASED APPROACH FOR IDENTIFYING TOPICS IN A CORPUS OF TEXT-BASED ITEMS - A method of identifying topics in a corpus that includes a plurality of text-based items begins by extracting keytext from each of the plurality of text-based items, resulting in sets of keytext. The method continues by processing the keytext sets to generate a respective semantic footprint for each of the text-based items, resulting in a plurality of semantic footprints. The semantic footprints are used to calculate similarity values for the text-based items, wherein the similarity values indicate commonality between pairs of the text-based items. The method continues by clustering the text-based items into a number of topic groups, wherein the clustering is influenced by the similarity values, and by generating a topic heading for each of the number of topic groups, resulting in a number of topic headings. Next, the text-based items are grouped into accessible topic groups associated with the topic headings. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085746 | PROOF READING OF TEXT DATA GENERATED THROUGH OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION - A novel system includes: a first proof reading tool for performing carpet proof reading on text data; a second proof reading tool for performing side-by-side proof reading on the text data; a storage unit configured to store a log of proof reading operations having been performed by using the first and second proof reading tools; and an analysis unit configured to determine, for each attribute serving as units in which carpet proof reading is performed with the first proof reading tool, whether or not to use the first proof reading tool in proof reading of the attribute, by comparing a first estimated value of a time taken when proof reading is performed by using the first proof reading tool with a second estimated value of a time taken when proof reading is performed by using the second proof reading tool without using the first proof reading tool, the first and second estimated values being calculated on the basis of the log. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085747 | System, Method and Computer-Readable Storage Device for Providing Cloud-Based Shared Vocabulary/Typing History for Efficient Social Communication - An input method editor (IME) is associated with a local user. Memory stores local data and a processor, coupled to the memory, is configured to receive input from a local, first user, obtain shared data associated with at least a remote, second user from a remote server and generate prediction candidates and conversion candidates based on the input provided by the local, first user and correlation of the input and the obtained shared data. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085748 | Method and device for modifying a compounded voice message - A method and device are provided for modifying a compounded voice message having at least one first voice component. The method includes a step of obtaining at least one second voice component, a step of updating at least one item of information belonging to a group of items of information associated with the compounded voice message as a function of the at least one second voice component and a step of making available the compounded voice message comprising the at least one first and second voice components, and the group of items of information associated with the compounded voice message. The compounded voice message is intended to be consulted by at least one recipient user. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085749 | SOUND PROCESSING TO PRODUCE TARGET VOLUME LEVEL - A sound process apparatus includes a processor. The processor may execute instructions, which are stored on a memory, and when executed cause the sound process apparatus to perform operations. An obtaining operation may obtain sound data in a remote site. A first determining operation may determine volume levels of voice and noise in the remote site based on the sound data. A second determining operation may determine a volume level of noise in a local site based on the sound in the local site. A third determining operation may determine a target volume level based on the volume level of the voice in the remote site, the volume level of the noise in the remote site, and the volume level of the noise in the local site. A notifying operation may notify a user of the target volume level. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085750 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS - A server apparatus acquires content based on instruction information; decodes image data of the acquired content compression encodes captured image data using a predetermined encoding scheme; decodes an audio signal and compression encodes the decoded audio signal using the predetermined encoding scheme, stores the image and the audio signal and sends the packet to a packet forwarding apparatus. A mobile terminal receives the packet, decodes and displays the compression encoded image data stored in the packet; and decodes and reproduces the compression encoded audio signal. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085751 | VOICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ENCODING AND DECODING VOICE AND NON-VOICE INFORMATION - In a voice coding apparatus of a voice communication system, feature parameters of background noise in background noise sections of an input signal stream are extracted and background noise is encoded into a comfortable-noise code, and embedding positions where additional information is to be embedded are determined according to the values of the extracted feature parameters. Additional information is embedded into the embedding positions thus determined of the voice or comfortable-noise code, which will be transmitted to a voice decoding apparatus in the system. In the decoding apparatus, the transmitted code is separated into voice and background noise sections to be decoded. From the background noise sections, the values of the feature parameters are found out and used to reference a correspondence relationship table to determine the embedding positions where the additional information is embedded. The additional information is extracted at the embedding positions thus determined to be restored. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085752 | DECODER, ENCODER, AND METHODS THEREOF - Disclosed is a decoder capable of improving the sound quality of a decoded sound signal in an encoding method which combines speech encoding and music encoding in a hierarchical structure. A transform-encoding decoding unit ( | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085753 | Hybrid Client/Server Speech Recognition In A Mobile Device - A computing device is able to use an embedded speech recognizer and a network speech recognizer for speech recognition. In response to detecting speech in the captured audio, the computing device may forward the captured audio to its embedded speech recognizer and to a speech client for the network speech recognizer. The embedded speech recognizer provides an embedded-recognizer result for the captured audio. If a network-recognition criterion is met, the speech client forwards the captured audio to the network speech recognizer and receives a network-recognizer result for the captured audio from the network speech recognizer. A speech recognition result for the captured audio is forwarded to at least one application, wherein the speech recognition result is based on at least one of the embedded-recognizer result and the network-recognizer result. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085754 | Interactive Text Editing - A method for providing suggestions includes capturing audio that includes speech and receiving textual content from a speech recognition engine. The speech recognition engine performs speech recognition on the audio signal to obtain the textual content, which includes one or more passages. The method also includes receiving a selection of a portion of a first word in a passage in the textual content, wherein the passage includes multiple words, and retrieving a set of suggestions that can potentially replace the first word. At least one suggestion from the set of suggestions provides a multi-word suggestion for potentially replacing the first word. The method further includes displaying, on a display device, the set of suggestions, and highlighting a portion of the textual content, as displayed on the display device, for potentially changing to one of the suggestions from the set of suggestions. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085755 | Systems And Methods For Continual Speech Recognition And Detection In Mobile Computing Devices - The present application describes systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for continuous speech recognition for mobile computing devices. One embodiment includes determining whether a mobile computing device is receiving operating power from an external power source or a battery power source, and activating a trigger word detection subroutine in response to determining that the mobile computing device is receiving power from the external power source. In some embodiments, the trigger word detection subroutine operates continually while the mobile computing device is receiving power from the external power source. The trigger word detection subroutine includes determining whether a plurality of spoken words received via a microphone includes one or more trigger words, and in response to determining that the plurality of spoken words includes at least one trigger word, launching an application corresponding to the at least one trigger word included in the plurality of spoken words. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085756 | System and Method of Semi-Supervised Learning for Spoken Language Understanding Using Semantic Role Labeling - A system and method are disclosed for providing semi-supervised learning for a spoken language understanding module using semantic role labeling. The method embodiment relates to a method of generating a spoken language understanding module. Steps in the method comprise selecting at least one predicate/argument pair as an intent from a set of the most frequent predicate/argument pairs for a domain, labeling training data using mapping rules associated with the selected at least one predicate/argument pair, training a call-type classification model using the labeled training data, re-labeling the training data using the call-type classification model and iteratively several of the above steps until training set labels converge. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085757 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION - An embodiment of an apparatus for speech recognition includes a plurality of trigger detection units, each of which is configured to detect a start trigger for recognizing a command utterance for controlling a device, a selection unit, utilizing a signal from one or more sensors embedded on the device, configured to select a selected trigger detection unit among the trigger detection units, the selected trigger detection unit being appropriate to a usage environment of the device, and a recognition unit configured to recognize the command utterance when the start trigger is detected by the selected trigger detection unit. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085758 | Telecare and/or telehealth communication method and system - A telecare and/or telehealth communication method is described. The method comprises providing predetermined voice messages configured to ask questions to or to give instructions to an assisted individual, providing an algorithm configured to communicate with the assisted individual, and communicating at least one of the predetermined voice messages configured to ask questions to or to give instructions to the assisted individual. The method further comprises analyzing a responsiveness and/or compliance characteristics of the assisted individual, and providing the assisted individual with voice messages in a form most acceptable and effective for the assisted individual on the basis of the analyzed responsiveness and/or the analyzed compliance characteristics. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085759 | SPEECH SAMPLES LIBRARY FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH AND METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND USING SAME - A method for converting translating text into speech with a speech sample library is provided. The method comprises converting translating an input text to a sequence of triphones; determining musical parameters of each phoneme in the sequence of triphones; detecting, in the speech sample library, speech segments having at least the determined musical parameters; and concatenating the detected speech segments. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085760 | TRAINING AND APPLYING PROSODY MODELS - Techniques for training and applying prosody models for speech synthesis are provided. A speech recognition engine processes audible speech to produce text annotated with prosody information. A prosody model is trained with this annotated text. After initial training, the model is applied during speech synthesis to generate speech with non-standard prosody from input text. Multiple prosody models can be used to represent different prosody styles. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085761 | Voice Control For Asynchronous Notifications - A computing device may receive an incoming communication and, in response, generate a notification that indicates that the incoming communication can be accessed using a particular application on the communication device. The computing device may further provide an audio signal indicative of the notification and automatically activate a listening mode. The computing device may receive a voice input during the listening mode, and an input text may be obtained based on speech recognition performed upon the voice input. A command may be detected in the input text. In response to the command, the computing device may generate an output text that is based on at least the notification and provide a voice output that is generated from the output text via speech synthesis. The voice output identifies at least the particular application. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085762 | AUDIO ENCODING DEVICE - An audio encoding device capable of efficient encoding processing includes: a storage unit which stores audio data; a data acquisition controller which acquires the audio data from the storage unit; a transformation unit which processes an audio data signal outputted from the data acquisition unit for frequency transformation; a harmonic overtone generation/synthesizing unit which generates a harmonic based on a first output wave out of an output wave of the transformation unit and synthesizes the harmonic and a second output wave out of the output wave of the transformation unit, the second output wave being higher in frequency than the first output wave; and an encoder which subjects an output from the harmonic overtone generation/synthesizing unit to encoding processing. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085763 | CODEC DEVICES AND OPERATING AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - The present application discloses coding and decoding (CODEC) devices and operating and driving methods thereof. The CODEC device includes a first interface compatible with High Definition Audio (HDA) specification, a second interface compatible with Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) specification, and a converter. The converter is configured to convert a first MIDI command received from the first interface and output a corresponding first converted MIDI command via the second interface, and to convert a second MIDI command received from the second interface and output a corresponding second converted MIDI command via the first interface. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085764 | CLINICAL PLUG-IN APPLICATION - Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage media for accessing clinical information on a mobile device are provided. A plug-in application receives from a mobile device a set of authorization credentials and a request for clinical information. A set of clinical information is determined based on the set of authorization credentials. The set of clinical information is retrieved from clinical information servers, and the set of clinical information is parsed and populated into a generic hierarchical structure. The populated hierarchical structure is communicated to the mobile device where it is subsequently rendered for display. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085765 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED ALERT SETTINGS - A system and method for providing customized alert settings operating on at least one computer device. The system and method including receiving, from a server, starting drug interaction content via a network, providing, from a server, a drug interaction alert customization request based on the initial drug interaction content via a network, receiving, a customized data base file comprising the customized drug interaction alert settings via the network, wherein the customized drug interaction alert settings are automatically implemented in a prescribing software executing on the one or more end user-systems. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085766 | CASE AND MEDICATION TRACKING - Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for medication management. In one embodiment, a medication dispense queue can be created for a medical procedure to pre-stock a medication dispensing unit prior to the medical procedure. Then, the medications can be tracked to determine when a medication has been, for example, dispensed, administered, wasted, and/or returned. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085767 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATMENT REGIMEN MANAGEMENT - Methods and systems for treatment regimen management are described. In one embodiment, a treatment regimen associated with a user is determined. The treatment regimen includes treatment first treatment component and a second treatment component. The treatment regimen also includes a first treatment schedule associated with the first treatment component and a second treatment schedule associated with the second treatment component. Multiple treatment events are scheduled in an electronic calendar. The treatment events are based upon the first treatment schedule and the second treatment schedule. A treatment alert associated with each of the treatment events is generated. Other methods and systems are also described. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085768 | MODULAR MICROPROCESSOR-BASED APPLIANCE SYSTEM - A method is described that enables a health care provider to monitor and manage a health condition of a patient. The system includes a health care provider apparatus operated by a health care provider and a remotely programmable patient apparatus that is operated by a patient. The health care provider develops a script program using the health care provider apparatus and then sends the script program to a remotely programmable patient apparatus through a communication network such as the World Wide Web. The script program is a computer-executable patient protocol that provides information to the patient about the patient's health condition and that interactively monitors the patient health condition by asking the patient questions and by receiving answers to those questions. The answers to these health related questions are then forwarded as patient data from the remotely programmable patient apparatus to the health care provider apparatus through the communication network. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085769 | CHARACTERIZING HEALTHCARE PROVIDER, CLAIM, BENEFICIARY AND HEALTHCARE MERCHANT NORMAL BEHAVIOR USING NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICAL OUTLIER DETECTION SCORING TECHNIQUES - This invention uses non-parametric statistical measures and probability mathematical techniques to calculate deviations of variable values, on both the high and low side of a data distribution, from the midpoint of the data distribution. It transforms the data values and then combines all of the individual variable values into a single scalar value that is a “good-ness” score. This “good-ness” behavior score model characterizes “normal” or typical behavior, rather than predicting fraudulent, abusive, or “bad”, behavior. The “good” score is a measure of how likely it is that the subject's behavior characteristics are from a population representing a “good” or “normal” provider, claim, beneficiary or healthcare merchant behavior. The “good” score can replace or compliment a score model that predicts “bad” behavior in order to reduce false positive rates. The optimal risk management prevention program should include both a “good” behavior score model and a “bad” behavior score model. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085770 | Qualifying Raters for Clinical Trials - The invention provides an efficient approach to qualifying raters to serve in a clinical trial or study, where efficiency includes all aspects pertinent to study raters: creating of qualification profile; identification of appropriate study sites and raters, selection, training, and supplemental qualification of raters during the course of a clinical study or trial, as may be necessitated by study protocol changes or other changes that may occur. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085771 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING PATIENT DATA IN A MEDICAL WORKFLOW ENVIRONMENT - An apparatus, a method and a system for displaying patient data in a medical workflow environment are disclosed. The method includes scanning a patient identifier with a hand-held device, displaying patient data on a display screen of the hand-held device, selecting a medication for administration to the patient from a list of one or more medications displayed on the display screen, scanning a medication identifier with the hand-held device, and confirming administration of the medication on the hand-held device | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085772 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERSONALIZED DOSING OF PHARMACOLOGIC AGENTS - A system and method for personalized dosing of a pharmacologic agent include: executing, using a processing device, a plurality of dosing regimen program modules to determine a respective plurality of dose sets in response to receiving, from an input device, a target response value for a patient; and executing, using the processing device, a dosing selection algorithm module, following executing the plurality of dosing regimen program modules and in response to receiving from the input device a response profile and a monitoring frequency of the patient, to determine a recommended dose set computed as a combination of the plurality of dose sets weighted by degrees of matching computed using fuzzy sets and the response profile. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085773 | METHOD FOR GENERATING HEALTHCARE-RELATED VALIDATED PREDICTION MODELS FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES - Provided is a method for generating prediction models from multiple healthcare centers. The method allows a third party to use data sets from multiple sources to build prediction models. By entering the data sets in a Model Deconstruction and Transfer (MDT) platform, a healthcare center may provide data to a third party without the need to de-identify data or to physically transfer any identifying or de-identified data from the healthcare center. The MDT platform includes a variable library, which allows the healthcare center to select variables that will be used to generate and validate the prediction model. Also provided is a method for compensating sources that contribute data sets based upon the percentage of clinical data that is used to generate a prediction model. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085774 | SEMI-AUTOMATED OR FULLY AUTOMATED, NETWORK AND/OR WEB-BASED, 3D AND/OR 4D IMAGING OF ANATOMY FOR TRAINING, REHEARSING AND/OR CONDUCTING MEDICAL PROCEDURES, USING MULTIPLE STANDARD X-RAY AND/OR OTHER IMAGING PROJECTIONS, WITHOUT A NEED FOR SPECIAL HARDWARE AND/OR SYSTEMS AND/OR PRE-PROCESSING/ANALYSIS OF A CAPTURED IMAGE DATA - Systems, methods and software are provided that simulate or facilitate imaging of medical procedures for purposes of optimized performance, simulation, training and/or accreditation. More particularly, aspects of the invention relate to a system, apparatus and/or subsystems for generating 3D and/or 4D imaging from 2 or more 2D images and/or projections for use in performing, simulating, training, and/or facilitating medical-access procedures. Such procedures use semi-automated and/or fully automated, network and/or web-based, 3D and/or 4D imaging of anatomy and corresponding medical devices or treatment for performing, training, rehearsing and/or conducting medical procedures, using multiple (e.g., >2 and/or >3) standard 2D x-ray and/or other radiation or sound imaging projections without a need for special hardware and/or systems (e.g., rotational runs) and/or pre-processing/analysis of a captured image data. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085775 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING MEDICAL CARE THROUGH DATA MONITORING AND FEEDBACK TREATMENT - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing a decision support solution to medical professionals to optimize medical care through data monitoring and feedback treatment are provided herein. In another embodiment, a computer-implemented method for modeling patient outcomes resulting from treatment in a specific medical area includes receiving patient-specific data associated with a patient, determining a plurality of possible patient states under which the patient can be categorized, a current patient state under which the patient can be categorized and determining probabilities of the patient transitioning from any of the possible patient states to every other possible patient state. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085776 | CLINICAL FRAMEWORK APPLICATION FOR MOBILE DEVICES - Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage media for presenting third-party clinical information on a mobile device are provided. A request for clinical information is received from a user of the mobile device. After the user is authenticated, a number of plug-in applications are determined for the user. The request for clinical information is communicated to the plug-in applications. The clinical information is received from the plug-in applications in the form of one or more generic hierarchical structures populated with the clinical information. The populated hierarchical structures are rendered for display on the mobile device. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085777 | Method and System for Wound Prevention, Management and Treatment - A method and system for wound care and management of patients. The method receives patient information regarding risk assessment and wound assessment relating to pressure ulcers, other wounds, wound severity, tissue types, wound treatment plans, or similar clinical data through a mobile device. The method may also transmit the patient information to a database via the Internet. The method uses the patient information to populate a worksheet, such as an electronic representation of Section M of the MDS 3.0. The method may then display, update, store, and print the worksheet. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085778 | ELECTRONIC MEDICAL CHART - A handheld electronic device includes a network communication device for wirelessly receiving information regarding a plurality of tasks involved in a treatment process for a patient from a database, a processor for processing the information regarding the plurality of tasks, a housing containing the processor, wherein the housing is configured for handheld, and a screen configured to display a graphic using the information regarding the plurality of tasks, the graphic indicating the plurality of tasks on respective dates in a time line. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085779 | AUTOMATIC TREATMENT PLANNING METHOD USING RETROSPECTIVE PATIENT DATA - A data processing method for planning a medical treatment comprising following steps performed by a computer:
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| 20130085780 | HEALTH CARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT - A method, computer program product, and system is described. A patient condition associated with a patient record is identified based upon, at least in part, a first input associated with the patient record. A point-of-care prompt is provided based upon, at least in part, the patient condition and clinical authority information. A point-of-care input, associated with at least in part, one or more of education material, a condition assessment, co-morbidity information, a diagnosis protocol, a treatment protocol, medication information, clinical order information, visit order information, patient resource information, and care planning information, is received. Treatment information is provided based upon, at least in part, the point-of-care input and one or more of education material, a condition assessment, co-morbidity information, a diagnosis protocol, a treatment protocol, medication information, clinical order information, visit order information, patient resource information, and care planning information. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085781 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND UPDATING ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS - Systems and methods are disclosed for creating and updating medical records and documents. A user input is received in a first section on an interface comprising unstructured textual data that is associated with a medical record. The user input received in the first section may be utilized to update the medical record preferably without requiring the user to provide an additional second input in a separate section. At least a portion of the unstructured textual data is mapped to one or more attributes associated with a structured format for the medical record. In response to receiving a single data transfer command, an instruction is generated causing a transfer of the unstructured textual data to a second section on the interface associated with the structured format for the medical record. The mapped data is displayed in the second section in accordance with the structured format. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085782 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ON-LINE MOVING INSURANCE - A system and method for providing moving insurance according to an automatically generated quote. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085783 | UNEMPLOYMENT INDICATOR PREDICTION - A method for determining unemployment insurance payment dollars and/or the unemployment rate at some point in the future includes receiving various data and performing a calculation based on such received data. In one embodiment, the unemployment insurance payment dollars can be determined in two quarters in the future by receiving data of percent change in personal consumption expenditures, receiving data of change in non-residential investment, and receiving data of median rent, and then, calculating such future total unemployment insurance payment dollars based on the percent change in personal consumption expenditures data, the change in non-residential investment data, and the median rent data. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085784 | USING A PAYMENT CARD TO ELECTRONICALLY ADJUDICATE CLAIMS FROM PATIENTS UTILIZING MAJOR MEDICAL BENEFITS FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND SERVICES - Processing a major medical claim in at least one processor. Receiving a major medical claim. Preparing a claim order from the received major medical claim. Transmitting the prepared claim order to a primary payer. Receiving a response to the transmitted claim order, the response comprising the amount of primary coverage. Transmitting claim order information and the amount of primary coverage to a secondary payer. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085785 | MEETING MONITORING AND COMPLIANCE ASSURANCE SYSTEM - An illustrative system and method according to the present invention monitors in-the-field meetings of representatives with customers, for example, marketing and sales activity. The system includes a central data system and a portable wireless device (e.g., tablet device, smartphone, etc) deployed with each representative. The portable wireless devices are equipped with a special software application (the “mobile application”) and also a communications device(s) for communicating with the central data system. The portable wireless device provides availability of the representative to the central data system and a guided meeting process, including collection of information, presentation of meeting content, and optional audio recording of the meeting. More particularly, the system can be used for monitoring in-the-field sales of regulated products, such as financial services, including insurance product sales. The monitoring can include guiding, documenting, and providing centralized assurance of regulatory and non-regulatory compliance during representatives' meetings with customers. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085786 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DYNAMIC MESSAGING - Dynamic messaging systems and methods include a non-transitory, tangible computer-readable storage medium bearing instructions for performing dynamic messaging steps. A request message is received from a partner site based on a travel product selected by a customer from the partner site. The request message is analyzed using a dynamic messaging service (DMS) module operating within the computer system. A travel insurance product is identified and a message-content is selected from a database based upon information received from the partner site concerning the selected travel product. A quote for the identified travel insurance product is generated. The quotation and the message-content are compiled into a return message, which is communicated to the partner site for display to the customer. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085787 | METHOD OF MANAGING AN INSURANCE SCHEME AND A SYSTEM THEREFOR - A method and system for managing an insurance scheme includes receiving and storing data relating to a life insurance agreement between an insured person and a life insurer including data relating to at least one premium to be paid to the life insurer and details of the life insurers obligations to the insured person or their beneficiary on the occurrence of the insured person dying or suffering disability. Receiving data including information relating to the compliance of the insured person in a plurality of programme areas related to motor vehicle driver behaviours and storing the data in a database. Points are awarded to the insured person wherein the points awarded are related to the compliance of the insured person in the programme areas and the points awarded are then used to determine a reward for the insured person from the life insurer. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085788 | CENTRALIZED DETECTION OF RADIATION IN MULTIPLE FACILITIES - A central system of monitoring radiation levels in a plurality of facilities at the same time is disclosed. The system may include radiation detection systems, at least one processor to process monitoring data generated by the radiation detection systems to compensate for naturally occurring radiation, and a central monitoring station capable of generating an alarm at the central monitoring station and at a facility where an undesired radiation level has been detected. A method of monitoring radiation levels in production facilities is also disclosed. The method may include providing a plurality of radiation detection systems, providing a central monitor in communication with the radiation detection systems, communicating data from the radiation detection systems to the central monitor, and analyzing the data to detect potential radioactive materials. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085789 | System and Method for Providing a Platform for the Trade of Financial Instruments - The present invention is a system and method for providing a trading platform for the trade of F.I.s. According to some embodiments of the present invention, there may be provided a server or server cluster including at least one Interfacing Server adapted to interface with a user, possibly via a distributed data network such as the interne. The IS1 may be adapted to present to a user a trading platform, to receive from a user trade instructions, via the platform, and execute them. The trading platform may include innovative trade options including mid-trade options (e.g. trade insurance), batch trade options, series trade options, parlay trade options and “close now”/“extend” options. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085790 | Organization of Group Attended Ticketed Event - Computing systems and methods for organizing group attended ticketed events. A computing system includes one or more memory device or storage components adapted to store user information regarding users of the computing system as well as event information regarding upcoming ticketed events, and one or more processors for conducting activities regarding ticketing for group members. Such activities include displaying information regarding a ticketed event, accepting a user input for inviting invitees to the ticketed event, communicating invitations to the invitees based on the input, receiving invitee response information from the invitees regarding interest in attending the ticketed event, and accepting a purchase request for tickets to the ticketed event from the user, wherein the purchase request is based at least in part on the invitee response information. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085791 | SWITCHING ROUTING ALGORITHMS TO OPTIMIZE SATISFACTION OF LONG-TERM COMMITMENTS - A contact center is described along with various methods and mechanisms for administering the same. The contact center proposed herein provides the ability to, among other things, monitor workload distribution to one or more sub-contractors and predict whether a contractual obligation will be met (or not) and based on such a prediction automatically switch routing algorithms within a contractual period of time to ensure that costs associated with a contract are minimized. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085792 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING AN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION SESSION WITH A REMOTE CONSULTANT - Methods and systems for communicating via an interactive communication session. Some embodiments include transmitting lives video images of a jewelry consultant, a jewelry designer, a jewelry item and results of various tests that are applied to a jewelry item. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085793 | METHOD OF PROSECUTING ACQUISITION OF RESPONSES TO A PROPOSITION, AND SYSTEM FOR DOING THE SAME - A method, of prosecuting acquisition of formal responses to a formal proposition put forth by a requestor, includes: electronically sending the proposition to a group of recipients; automatically tracking responses to the proposition; automatically determining statistics indicative of the tracked responses including a completion ratio; and electronically presenting to the requestor at least some of the statistics including the completion ratio. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085794 | SCREENING ELECTRONIC SERVICE REQUESTS - A facility for screening service requests for requesting assistance is described. The facility receives from a user a service request that requests assistance with solving a problem associated with a system accessible to the user and includes information related to the system. The facility searches a collection of system status information for at least one entry that corresponds with the received information related to the system. Where a corresponding entry is found, the facility provides to the user an indication of the correspondence and an opportunity to cancel the service request. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085795 | EVENT SYNCHRONIZED REPORTING IN PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS - Methods, systems, and computer-executable instructions for event synchronized reporting in an process control system are disclosed. Events may be synchronized by a synchronization parameter, whose instances of occurrence may be non-contiguous in time. Examples of synchronization parameters may include a work shift, a work group, an individual's on-duty time, a logged-on period of an individual, the execution times of a process control entity, a batch run type, and a procedure or sub-unit of a batch run. Instances of occurrence of the synchronization parameter may be recorded into a process control event database. Event synchronized reports may contain at least one synchronization value based on both the instances of occurrence of the synchronization parameter as well as historical process control data. Data from various historian databases may be accessed from process control system tools and integrated into a single report. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085796 | Method and Apparatus for Work Management - An apparatus, system and/or method that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, presenting scheduling options on a display device where the scheduling options are determined based on scheduling information that comprises employment schedule data for other users that are associated with a user requesting the scheduling, receiving a scheduling selection from among the scheduling options that is inputted by the user via a user interface and providing the scheduling selection for evaluation. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085797 | PROMISE DRIVEN PLANNING IN A SUPPLY CHAIN - Various embodiments of systems and methods for a promise driven planning are described herein. Customer requests are received for a product, which includes the requested quantity of the product and the requested date for delivering the product. A promise date for delivering the product is determined based on the material plan of the product. The requested quantity of the product is summed to obtain a cumulative demand of the product. The cumulative demand of the product is compared with the cumulative material plan of the product. Based on the comparison, the delivery of the product is planned either based on the promise date or the requested date. | 2013-04-04 |
| 20130085798 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING MEDICAL WORKFLOW - A method for use in a medical process includes providing a plurality of task objects for selection by a user, wherein the plurality of task objects represent respective tasks, determining a first one of the plurality of task objects, determining a second one of the plurality of task objects, linking the first one of the plurality of task objects with the second one of the plurality of task objects using a processor based at least in part on a command by the user, and storing data in a non-transitory medium regarding the linking. | 2013-04-04 |
