| 18th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 71 |
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| 20120109624 | TEXT CONVERSION METHOD AND TEXT CONVERSION SYSTEM - A text conversion method and a text conversion system are provided. A term mapping table recording a term mapping relationship between a source language and a target language is provided. A tokenization process is performed on a paragraph in the source language to obtain tokenization results. The tokenization results are compared with the term mapping table to determine each source language term in the paragraph is belonging to a first type or a second type. The source language terms belonging to the first type are converted into corresponding target language terms according to the term mapping table. Regarding each source language term of the second type, one of multiple corresponding candidate target language terms is selected as the target language term according to a co-occurrence relevance of relevant terms, wherein each relevant term is constituted by one candidate target language term and words before and after that in the paragraph. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109625 | SYNCHRO TRANSLATION VERIFICATION TEST FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - Verifying text translation in a program including obtaining a first program integrated information (PII) file and a second PII file of text in the program. An original page is generated by using the first PII file. Document object model (DOM) tree information of the original page is obtained. For each text unit in the original page: identification information corresponding to a first text unit in the first PII file is extracted; a second text unit is identified in the second PII file using the extracted identification information and a relationship between the identification information and the second text unit; and the first text unit is replaced in the DOM tree with the second text unit. A new page is generated using the text units from the second PII file. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109626 | Speech Morphing Communication System - A communication system is described. The communication system including an automatic speech recognizer configured to receive a speech signal and to convert the speech signal into a text sequence. The communication also including a speech analyzer configured to receive the speech signal. The speech analyzer configured to extract paralinguistic characteristics from the speech signal. The communication system further includes a translator coupled with the automatic speech recognizer. The translator configured to convert the text sequence from a first language to a second language. In addition, the communication system includes a speech output device coupled with the automatic speech recognizer and the speech analyzer. The speech output device configured to convert the text sequence into an output speech signal based on the extracted paralinguistic characteristics. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109627 | Speech Morphing Communication System - A networked communication system is described. The communication system including an automatic speech recognizer configured to receive a speech signal from a client over a network and to convert the speech signal into a text sequence. The communication also including a speech analyzer configured to receive the speech signal. The speech analyzer configured to extract paralinguistic characteristics from the speech signal. In addition, the communication system includes a speech output device coupled with the automatic speech recognizer and the speech analyzer. The speech output device configured to convert the text sequence into an output speech signal based on the extracted paralinguistic characteristics. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109628 | Speech Morphing Communication System - A communication system is described. The communication system including an automatic speech recognizer configured to receive a speech signal and to convert the speech signal into a text sequence. The communication system also including a speech analyzer configured to receive the speech signal. The speech analyzer configured to extract paralinguistic characteristics from the speech signal. In addition, the communication system includes a voice analyzer configured to receive the speech signal. The voice analyzer configured to generate one or more phonemes based on the speech signal. The communication system includes a speech output device coupled with the automatic speech recognizer, the speech analyzer and the voice analyzer. The speech output device configured to convert the text sequence into an output speech signal based on the extracted paralinguistic characteristics and said one or more phonemes. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109629 | Speech Morphing Communication System - A communication system is described that includes an automatic speech recognizer configured to receive a speech signal and to convert the speech signal into a text sequence and includes a speech analyzer configured to receive the translator speech signal and to convert the translator speech signal into a text sequence. The speech analyzer configured to receive the translator signal. The speech analyzer configured to extract paralinguistic characteristics from the translator speech signal. The communication system includes a voice analyzer configured to receive a speech input signal. The voice analyzer configured to generate one or more phonemes based on the speech input signal. And, a speech output device coupled with the automatic speech recognizer, the speech analyzer, and the voice analyzer. The speech output device configured to convert the text sequence into an output speech signal based on the extracted paralinguistic characteristics and based on the one or more phonemes. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109630 | TEXT-TO-SPEECH METHOD AND SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREFOR - A text-to-speech system adapted to operate on text in a first language including sections in a second language, includes a grapheme/phoneme transcriptor for converting the sections in the second language into phonemes of the second language; a mapping module configured for mapping at least part of the phonemes of the second language onto sets of phonemes of the first language; and a speech-synthesis module adapted to be fed with a resulting stream of phonemes including the sets of phonemes of the first language resulting from mapping and the stream of phonemes of the first language representative of the text, and to generate a speech signal from the resulting stream of phonemes. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109631 | PROVIDING MULTI-LINGUAL TRANSLATION FOR THIRD PARTY CONTENT FEED APPLICATIONS - Multi-lingual translation for third party content feed applications is provided in social network and similar environments in an independent manner from the content feed. A copy of a content feed may be distributed to consumers via content feed channels of a social network or similar service with language specific views. Translation is performed post-content feed based on tagged format of the content feed translating language dependent text into a selected (or detected) language for a user and leaving language independent text in its original form. Support for new languages may be added or existing languages removed independent of the content feed. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109632 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a portable electronic device includes a touch-screen display. The electronic device executes a function which is associated with a display object corresponding to a tap position on the touch-screen display. The electronic device includes at least one microphone, a speech processing module configured to process an input speech signal from the at least one microphone, and a translation result output module configured to output a translation result of a target language. The translation result of the target language is obtained by recognizing and machine-translating the input speech signal which is processed by the speech processing module. The speech processing module detects a tap sound signal in the input speech signal, the tap sound signal being produced by tapping the touch-screen display, and corrects the input speech signal in order to reduce an influence of the detected tap sound signal upon the input speech signal. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109633 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIACRITIZING ARABIC LANGUAGE TEXT - The present invention provides a method and system for diacritizing a text. The method includes analyzing the text to determine whether the text require one or more diacritical marks of a set of diacritical marks. The text includes a plurality of characters associated with an Arabic language. Thereafter, the text is processed for identifying diacritical marks for each character of the plurality of characters. Subsequently, the diacritical marks of the set of diacritical marks are applied on each character of the plurality of characters based on a context associated with the text to obtain a diacritized Arabic text. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109634 | Bidirectional Text Checker - Methods and systems for checking bidirectional text in text content, such as in a web page, are provided. A method for checking bidirectional text may include determining intrinsic and declared text directions of text content. The method may also include generating a bidirectional text error based on a mismatch between the intrinsic text direction and the declared text direction. Bidirectional text errors may be reported. A system may include a walker, a bidirectional text checker and a bidirectional error reporter. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109635 | BI-DIRECTIONAL HANDWRITING INSERTION AND CORRECTION - Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing bi-directional handwriting recognition and correction. A combined handwriting recognizer is provided that supports left-to-right and right-to-left language recognition by using a combined dictionary. The combined dictionary includes a dictionary from a language in a first direction, along with a backwards version of a dictionary from a language in a second direction. The combined recognizer is used with the combined dictionary to generate a most likely recognition result for mixed direction hand written input received from a user. Character by character correction is provided for mixed left-to-right and right-to-left text. The most likely recognition result is displayed in a visual order. The user can correct a particular character to a different character. When recognized text needs to be sent to a separate application, an inverse bi-directional process is performed to convert the text from the visual order to the logical order. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109636 | SUBSTITUTION, INSERTION, AND DELETION (SID) DISTANCE AND VOICE IMPRESSIONS DETECTOR (VID) DISTANCE - A device may receive user input, select two strings to compare based on the user input, obtain a first set of keyboard codes for a first of the two strings, obtain a second set of keyboard codes for a second of the two strings, and determine a distance between the two strings based on the first and the second set of keyboard codes. In addition, the device may send a result associated with determining the distance to another device, store the result in a storage device, or display the result. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109637 | EXTRACTING RICH TEMPORAL CONTEXT FOR BUSINESS ENTITIES AND EVENTS - Methods and apparatus for performing computer-implemented extraction of temporal information for business entities and events are disclosed. In one embodiment, a sequence of text is obtained. A label is assigned to one or more of a plurality of segments of the text such that each of the one or more of the plurality of segments of the text is classified as temporal data in one of a plurality of classes of temporal data. One or more rules are applied to the one or more segments of the text that have been classified as temporal data to generate a structured representation of the temporal data, where the rules include one or more schematic rules. Each of the schematic rules pertains to one or more of the plurality of classes of temporal data and indicates a structure in which temporal data in the corresponding one or more of the plurality of classes is to be stored. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109638 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING COMPONENT NAMES USING THE SAME - A method for extracting component names from a document reads text content of the document, searches for component labels in the text content, and stores a position of each component label in the text content in a storage device. The method further extract a component name corresponding to each component label in the text content according to the position of each component label, and creates a component table according to the component label and the component name. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109639 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING SYMBOLS IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM - The present invention provides a computer-implemented method of analyzing messages in a computer system to allow workflows constituted by the messages to be identified, the method comprising: analyzing a sequence of messages in a computer system in order to classify the messages, thereby producing a corresponding sequence of classifications of the messages; and, applying sequence induction to the sequence of classifications of the messages to produce (i) a set or sub-sequences of the classifications of the messages and (ii) a sequence grammar for the sub-sequences, from which a workflow constituted by the sequence of messages can be identified. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109640 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING AND TRANSLATING VARIOUS LANGUAGES WITH USE OF SEMANTIC HIERARCHY - A method and computer system for analyzing sentences of various languages and constructing a language-independent semantic structure are provided. On the basis of comprehensive knowledge about languages and semantics, exhaustive linguistic descriptions are created, and lexical, morphological, syntactic, and semantic analyses for one or more sentences of a natural or artificial language are performed. A computer system is also provided to implement, analyze and store various linguistic structures and to perform lexical, morphological, syntactic, and semantic analyses. As result, a generalized data structure, such as a semantic structure, is generated and used to describe the meaning of one or more sentences in language-independent form, applicable to automated abstracting, machine translation, control systems, Internet information retrieval, etc. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109641 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR VALIDATION - In a method for validating data, a text of a document is received. At least one fact is extracted from the text. At least one expert refinement is merged with the at least one fact to create at least one modified fact. The at least one modified fact is provided for a review. An expert refinement to the at least one modified fact is captured in response to the review. A superset document based on the at least one pre-existing refinement and the expert refinement is stored. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109642 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED PATENT PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS METHOD AND APPARATUS - A computer-implemented apparatus and method for performing patent portfolio analysis. The patent portfolio analysis apparatus and method clusters a group of patents based upon one or more techniques. The clustering techniques include linguistic clustering techniques (e.g., eigenvector analysis), claim meaning, and patent classification techniques. Different aspects of the clusters are analyzed, including financial, claim breadth, and assignee patent comparisons. Moreover, patents and/or their clusters are linked to the Internet in order to determine what products might be covered by the claims of the patents or whether materials on the Internet might render patent claims invalid. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109643 | ADAPTIVE AUDIO TRANSCODING - A system and method provide an audio/video coding system for adaptively transcoding audio streams based on content characteristics of the audio streams. An audio stream metadata extraction module of the system is configured to extract metadata of a source audio stream. An audio stream classification module of the system is configured to classify the source audio stream into one of the several audio content categories based on the metadata of the source audio stream. An adaptive audio encoder of the system is configured to determine one or more transcoding parameters including target bitrate and sampling rate based on the metadata and classification of the source audio stream. An adaptive audio transcoder of the system is configured to transcode the source audio stream into an output audio stream using the transcoding parameters. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109644 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND MOBILE TERMINAL - There is a need to enable decompression of a speech signal even if no network synchronizing signal is output from a baseband processing portion. For this purpose, an information processing device includes a first serial interface. The first serial interface includes a notification signal generation circuit that generates a notification signal each time compressed data incorporated from the baseband processing portion reaches a predetermined data quantity, and notifies a speech processing portion of this state using the notification signal. The speech processing portion includes a synchronizing signal generation circuit that generates a network synchronizing signal based on the notification signal. A clock signal for PCM communication is generated based on the network synchronizing signal. A speech signal can be decompressed even if no network synchronizing signal is output from the baseband processing portion. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109645 | DSP-BASED DEVICE FOR AUDITORY SEGREGATION OF MULTIPLE SOUND INPUTS - There is provided a unique signal processing technique for localizing and characterizing each of a number of differently located acoustic sources. Specifically there is provided a method for auditory segregation of multiple voice inputs comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of voice input signals from different source locations; filtering said voice input signals with head related transfer functions (HRTF) using a digital signal processor (DSP) thereby assigning the voice input signals to different locations in virtual auditory space; and changing the HRTF filtered voice input signals in two dimensions, wherein pitch is changed and the signal is filtered with different filters emulating vocal tracts of different sizes thereby further segregating the voice input signals from each other. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109646 | SPEAKER ADAPTATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A speaker adaptation method and apparatus are provided including extracting adapted data from speech recognition data stored in a database, and modifying a sound model by using a speaker adaptation method selected based on a type of the extracted adapted data. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109647 | System Enhancement of Speech Signals - A system enhances speech by detecting a speaker's utterance through a first microphone positioned a first distance from a source of interference. A second microphone may detect the speaker's utterance at a different position. A monitoring device may estimate the power level of a first microphone signal. A synthesizer may synthesize part of the first microphone signal by processing the second microphone signal. The synthesis may occur when power level is below a predetermined level. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109648 | Speech Morphing Communication System - A communication system is described. The communication system including an automatic speech recognizer configured to receive a speech signal and to convert the speech signal into a text sequence. The communication also including a speech analyzer configured to receive the speech signal. The speech analyzer configured to extract paralinguistic characteristics from the speech signal. In addition, the communication system includes a speech output device coupled with the automatic speech recognizer and the speech analyzer. The speech output device configured to convert the text sequence into an output speech signal based on the extracted paralinguistic characteristics. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109649 | SPEECH DIALECT CLASSIFICATION FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION - Automatic speech recognition including receiving speech via a microphone, pre-processing the received speech to generate acoustic feature vectors, classifying dialect of the received speech, selecting at least one of an acoustic model or a lexicon specific to the classified dialect, decoding the acoustic feature vectors using a processor and at least one of the selected dialect-specific acoustic model or selected lexicon to produce a plurality of hypotheses for the received speech, and post-processing the plurality of hypotheses to identify one of the plurality of hypotheses as the received speech. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109650 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING ACOUSTIC MODEL - Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for creating an acoustic model. The apparatus includes a binary tree creation unit, an information creation unit, and a binary tree reduction unit. The binary tree creation unit creates a binary tree by repeatedly merging a plurality of Gaussian components for each Hidden Markov Model (HMM) state of an acoustic model based on a distance measure reflecting a variation in likelihood score. The information creation unit creates information about information about the largest size of the acoustic model in accordance with a platform including a speech recognizer. The binary tree reduction unit reduces the binary tree in accordance with the information about the largest size of the acoustic model. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109651 | DATA RETRIEVAL AND INDEXING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method of searching a plurality of data files, wherein each data file includes a plurality of features. The method: determines a plurality of feature groups, wherein each feature group includes n features and n is an integer of 2 or more; expresses each data file as a file vector, wherein each component of the vector indicates the frequency of a feature group within the data file, wherein the n features which constitute a feature group do not have to be located adjacent to one another; expresses a search query using the feature groups as a vector; and searches the plurality of data files by comparing the search query expressed as a vector with the file vectors. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109652 | Leveraging Interaction Context to Improve Recognition Confidence Scores - On a computing device a speech utterance is received from a user. The speech utterance is a section of a speech dialog that includes a plurality of speech utterances. One or more features from the speech utterance are identified. Each identified feature from the speech utterance is a specific characteristic of the speech utterance. One or more features from the speech dialog are identified. Each identified feature from the speech dialog is associated with one or more events in the speech dialog. The one or more events occur prior to the speech utterance. One or more identified features from the speech utterance and one or more identified features from the speech dialog are used to calculate a confidence score for the speech utterance. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109653 | Very Low Bit Rate Signal Coder and Decoder - Improved oscillator-based source modeling methods for estimating model parameters, for evaluating model quality for restoring the input from the model parameters, and for improving performance over known in the art methods are disclosed. An application of these innovations to speech coding is described. The improved oscillator model is derived from the information contained in the current input signal as well as from some form of data history, often the restored versions of the earlier processed data. Operations can be performed in real time, and compression can be achieved at a user-specified level of performance and, in some cases, without information loss. The new model can be combined with methods in the existing art in order to complement the properties of these methods, to improve overall performance. The present invention is effective for very low bit-rate coding/compression and decoding/decompression of digital signals, including digitized speech and audio signals. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109654 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR FACILITATING SPEECH SYNTHESIS - Methods and apparatuses are provided for facilitating speech synthesis. A method may include generating a plurality of input models representing an input by using a statistical model synthesizer to statistically model the input. The method may further include determining a speech unit sequence representing at least a portion of the input by using the input models to influence selection of one or more pre-recorded speech units having parameter representations. The method may additionally include identifying one or more bad units in the unit sequence. The method may also include replacing the identified one or more bad units with one or more parameters generated by the statistical model synthesizer. Corresponding apparatuses are also provided. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109655 | WIRELESS SERVER BASED TEXT TO SPEECH EMAIL - An email system for mobile devices, such as cellular phones and PDAs, is disclosed which allows email messages to be played back on the mobile device as voice messages on demand by way of a media player, thus eliminating the need for a unified messaging system. Email messages are received by the mobile device in a known manner. In accordance with an important aspect of the invention, the email messages are identified by the mobile device as they are received. After the message is identified, the mobile device sends the email message in text format to a server for conversion to speech or voice format. After the message is converted to speech format, the server sends the messages back to the user's mobile device and notifies the user of the email message and then plays the message back to the user through a media player upon demand. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109656 | AUDIO OUTPUT OF A DOCUMENT FROM MOBILE DEVICE - Architecture for playing a document converted into an audio format to a user of an audio-output capable device. The user can interact with the device to control play of the audio document such as pause, rewind, forward, etc. In more robust implementation, the audio-output capable device is a mobile device (e.g., cell phone) having a microphone for processing voice input. Voice commands can then be input to control play (“reading”) of the document audio file to pause, rewind, read paragraph, read next chapter, fast forward, etc. A communications server (e.g., email, attachments to email, etc.) transcodes text-based document content into an audio format by leveraging a text-to-speech (TTS) engine. The transcoded audio files are then transferred to mobile devices through viable transmission channels. Users can then play the audio-formatted document while freeing hand and eye usage for other tasks. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109657 | Narrative Voice Files for GPS Devices - The invention consists of a compilation of unified audio tour files in compressed format i.e. MP3 or MP4 that provides pre-recorded spoken commentary to Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled devices. Using satellite technology, audio is triggered based on a user's location, providing relevant facts, geography, points of interest, history, and trivia of every city/town/area as it is being traveled throughout the World. These audio tour files will be provided in multiple languages. Upgrades shall be available via the Internet. The invention will narrate the entire World beginning with the large metropolitan areas of the United States of America, through to the smallest towns in Malta. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109658 | VOICE-CONTROLLED POWER DEVICE - A voice-controlled power device includes a voice-controlled circuit which includes a power module for getting an AC input voltage, a switch module having an electromagnetic relay and a driving circuit, and a control module having a microcontroller, a power unit regulating an output voltage of the power module and providing a work voltage for the microcontroller, a voice-detecting unit receiving voice signals and transforming the voice signals into electric signals, and a voice-amplifier unit amplifying the electric signals. The microcontroller receives and analyzes the amplified electric signals and sends out control signals to drive the driving circuit to control switch states of the electromagnetic relay and further control whether there is power output to an external electric appliance or not. The switch states of the electromagnetic relay rest with whether the output voltage of the power module is provided thereon or not under the control of the driving circuit. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109659 | Compensator and Compensation Method for Audio Frame Loss in Modified Discrete Cosine Transform Domain - The invention provides a compensation method for audio frame loss in a MDCT domain, the method comprising: when a frame currently lost is a P | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109660 | Integrated process and system for cosmetic vehicle repairs - The present invention is directed to an integrated process and system for cosmetic vehicle repair. The invention provides a process and a system to produce repair formulas, repair estimates, and repair scheduling. The present invention is particularly directed to a process and a system for repairing coating defect of a vehicle. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109661 | ASSOCIATIVE INFORMATION LINKING FOR BUSINESS OBJECTS - A method to create or modify a data item of a first application based on a data item of a business object of a second application or to create or modify the data item of the business object based on the data item of the first application is disclosed. The method includes detecting, using a processor, an interaction of a user of the first application with respect to the visual representation of the business object. Additionally, the method includes performing, in response to the detecting, at least one of creating or modifying the data item of the first application based on the data item of the business object of the second application and creating or modifying the data item of the business object based on the data item of the first application. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109662 | MANAGING REPLACEMENT OF AN EXISTING COMPONENT - In a method of managing replacement of at least one existing component with at least one replacement component, in which the at least one replacement component comprises a different number of components than the at least one existing component, at least one cost associated with implementing the at least one existing component is obtained. The at least one cost includes an environmental cost and a utility cost associated with implementing the at least one existing component. An existing net benefit of continuing implementation of the at least one existing component is calculated based upon the obtained at least one cost. A new net benefit of at least one of procuring and implementing the at least one replacement component is calculated. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109663 | Advanced Metering Infrastructure Event Filtering - Disclosed are various embodiments for validating and filtering events related to an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) deployment. Events received from a vendor supplied AMI head-end can be validated by an AMI event filtering application, which can then store the validated event in a data store. The AMI event filtering application can also generate and publish destination filtered and/or composite events based at least upon destination filters and/or composite events defined in the data store. Subscribing systems can receive the destination filtered and/or composite events. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109664 | OPTIMIZED CUSTOMER TARGETING BASED ON TEMPLATE CRM OFFERS - A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) offer template is established in data storage and includes at least one variable field and having at least one offer attribute. For each of a plurality of customer groups, a data processing system calculates an expected benefit to be obtained by sending an instantiated CRM offer to a customer based upon historical responses, offer cost, and legal values of the at least one variable field. The data processing system outputs a CRM offer instance and target list of customers that maximizes the expected benefit. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109665 | DYNAMIC ORDER IDENTIFICATION CODES - The subject disclosure relates devices, systems and methodologies that employ dynamically determined reusable unique order identification codes or numeric identifiers to improve service-based transaction efficiency and customer satisfaction. In one aspect, reusable unique order identification codes or numeric identifiers can be dynamically determined at or near the time of a transaction or a prospective transaction, based in part on one or more independently specifiable order attributes as selected by a user. As a further advantage, embodiments of the disclosed subject matter can improve customer loyalty and provide a competitive edge in attracting customers. Further non-limiting embodiments are provided that illustrate the advantages and flexibility of the disclosed subject matter. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109666 | FAULT TREES METHOD OF EARLY WARNING INDICATION FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION - The present invention relates to a fault trees method of early warning indication for critical infrastructure protection, which can provide a proper quantization result to be used for identifying a specific early warning indication for a critical infrastructure based upon the severity of risk assessed according to the quantification result. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109667 | TRANSACTIONAL SERVICES - Methods and systems are provided for supporting electronic transactions, including transactions that are provided with per-user, per-device and per-domain security across domains of multiple service providers. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109668 | TRANSACTIONAL SERVICES - Methods and systems are provided for supporting electronic transactions, including transactions that are provided with per-user, per-device and per-domain security across domains of multiple service providers. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109669 | TRANSACTIONAL SERVICES - Methods and systems are provided for supporting electronic transactions, including transactions that are provided with per-user, per-device and per-domain security across domains of multiple service providers. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109670 | TRANSACTIONAL SERVICES - Methods and systems are provided for supporting electronic transactions, including transactions that are provided with per-user, per-device and per-domain security across domains of multiple service providers. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109671 | TRANSACTIONAL SERVICES - Methods and systems are provided for supporting electronic transactions, including transactions that are provided with per-user, per-device and per-domain security across domains of multiple service providers. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109672 | TRANSACTIONAL SERVICES - Methods and systems are provided for supporting electronic transactions, including transactions that are provided with per-user, per-device and per-domain security across domains of multiple service providers. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109673 | TRANSACTIONAL SERVICES - Methods and systems are provided for supporting electronic transactions, including transactions that are provided with per-user, per-device and per-domain security across domains of multiple service providers. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109674 | TRANSACTIONAL SERVICES - Methods and systems are provided for supporting electronic transactions, including transactions that are provided with per-user, per-device and per-domain security across domains of multiple service providers. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109675 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A PROSPECTIVE CLINICAL THERAPY FOR A PROSPECTIVE PATIENT HAVING A MEDICAL DEVICE - System and method for identifying a prospective clinical therapy for a prospective patient. The patient has a medical device, performed with a medical apparatus. The system has a historical database and an analyzer. The historical database incorporates information relating to a multiplicity of patients, each of the multiplicity of patients having a medical device and each of the multiplicity of patients having undergone a clinical therapy, the information including, for each of the multiplicity of patients, device characteristics of the medical device and an assessment of efficacy of clinical therapy. The analyzer correlates device characteristics of the prospective patient with the device characteristics and the assessment of efficacy of clinical therapy of the multiplicity of patients using the historical database to identify a prospective clinical therapy for the prospective patient associated with the device characteristics in the historical database having a relatively greater efficacy than the clinical therapy. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109676 | MULTIUSER HEALTH MONITORING USING BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION - A device, system and method for multiuser health monitoring includes a computer, a biometric sensor for sensing a unique trait of a user, and at least one measurement device for measuring at least one parameter of the user's health. The computer is configured to receive biometric information relating to the user from the biometric sensor and health information relating to the user from the at least one measurement device, and to associate the received biometric information with the received health information. The associated biometric information and health information is transmitted to a health monitoring data center. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109677 | BLOOD BANK MANAGEMENT AND RAPID BLOOD TYPE DETERMINATION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein is a method for increasing the efficiency and reducing cost of the blood donation, processing and storage by pre-screening candidate donors for blood type and only collecting blood from donors having a needed blood type. Also disclosed are methods and systems for rapid determination of blood type of a blood donor prior to the initiation of the blood donation process. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109678 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMPARING MOLECULAR SIGNATURES | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109679 | CONSUMER PORTAL FOR HEALTHCARE APPOINTMENTS ACROSS PRACTICE GROUPS - Systems and methods for aggregating available healthcare appointment times across multiple unaffiliated practitioner groups, including search and display algorithms. A centralized marketplace is provided for real time booking of healthcare appointments which does not require the patient to have a preexisting relationship with the practitioner. The aggregated booking system enhances the number of available near term and conveniently located appointment options while the search and display algorithms reduce the complexity of the patient and practitioner information required to maintain accurate and synchronized database booking records. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109680 | METHOD FOR ENSURING ACCURACY OF HEALTHCARE PATIENT DATA DURING PATIENT REGISTRATION PROCESS - A method of ensuring accuracy of healthcare patient data entered into a primary computer system by a user during patient registration. Healthcare patient data for a patient entered into the primary computer system is electronically received. The received healthcare patient data is analyzed using a secondary computer processor programmed to identify data entry errors including discrepancies and omissions. The identified errors are automatically presented to the user by the programmed secondary computer processor following analysis of the healthcare patient data. The identified errors are placed into a work list by the programmed secondary computer processor to enable the user to enter corrections for the identified errors into the primary computer system within a designated time-frame. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109681 | Method of Increasing Efficiency in a Medical Claim Transaction, and Computer Program Capable of Executing Same - A method of adjudicating a medical claim includes providing a requirements for a first claim and a second claim, receiving a medical claim for a medical procedure, setting a first score for the first claim and a second score for the second claim to an initial value, comparing components of the medical claim to the requirements of the first and second claims, changing the first and second scores for each one of the components that match one of the requirements and for each one of the requirements that is missing from the components, and selecting the first or second claim based upon predetermined criteria applied to their respective scores to determine either a monetary value of the medical procedure for a medical service provider associated with the medical procedure or a monetary value of medical coverage for a patient associated with the medical procedure. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109682 | CLOSED LOOP WORKFLOW - A system includes an orchestrator ( | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109683 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OUTCOME BASED REFERRAL USING HEALTHCARE DATA OF PATIENT AND PHYSICIAN POPULATIONS - A recommendation system and method includes extracting patient features for a current patient to generate representation of the current patient. The patient features for the current patient are compared to physician features of one or more physicians and patient-to-physician features of a group of patients from medically related records. Outcome measures associated with physicians are compared related to a current query. A future outcome for patient, physician pairs are predicted for the current patient based upon at least one predictive model constructed from the features and outcome measures to output. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109684 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPARING MEDICAL SERVICES - A method for comparing medical services provided by a plurality of healthcare entities includes creating a performance criterion that is associated with the medical services provided to patients by first and second healthcare entities and using a processor to determine first and second compliance indices by comparing the performance criterion to first and second sets of electronic health records (EHRs) of the patients that are maintained by the first and second healthcare entities, respectively. The first and second compliance indices represent quantities of the patients having medical data in the first and second sets of EHRs that satisfies the performance criterion. The method also includes presenting the first and second compliance indices associated with the first and second healthcare entities to a user. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109685 | LINKING HEALTH RECORDS - Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for linking health records. A patient document may be received from a provider and confirmed by a patient to be linked to their health record. To confirm a document, a connection between a provider and a health record is established. Once the connection is initially established between the provider and the health record, subsequent patient documents received from the approved provider may be automatically linked to the health record. Connections may be established with multiple providers such that a single health record includes patient documents for multiple patient encounters with different providers. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109686 | ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEM AND METHOD - An electronic medical record system and method that enables easy entry and use of patient and other information. The system and method provides improvements in terms of features, speed, and ease of use. It includes the following steps: inputting patient information into an EMR system utilizing customizable templates; cross-referencing the information input with information databases, e.g., publicly available demographic-based information on the standards of care; and generating information from cross-referencing to provide user with recommendations for the patient (e.g., prescribe medication, order procedures, give immunization), if such a recommendation exists in the standards of care or is added by the user. The system and method utilize a computer. The present invention can be used to help practitioners avoid mistakes (e.g., forgetting standards of care), deliver a higher quality of care, measure performance, and proactively identify and contact patients who need a particular type of care. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109687 | Medical System and Method for Providing Information for Glycemic Control - A medical device and a method for configuring a process for determining a dose of insulin to be administered for glycemic control is provided, wherein the dose is stepwise adapted, comprising defining different dose adjustment profiles for stepwise adapting the dose, wherein each of the different dose adjustment profiles is based at least on a specific initial dose value, a specific time interval for increasing the dose, a specific dose increase step and a specific low blood glucose threshold value, storing the different dose adjustment profiles, selecting one of the stored different dose adjustment profiles based on specific requirements for stepwise adapting the dose, and personalising the selected dose adjustment profile by defining at least a specific target blood glucose value for a specific user. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109688 | INTERNET PHONE APPARATUS INCLUDING BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS DEVICE AND A REMOTE MEDICAL-SERVICE METHOD USING THE SAME - Disclosed are an internet phone apparatus including a biological analysis device and a remote medical service method using the same. The biological analysis device is built in the internet phone apparatus. The internet phone apparatus transmits measurement data obtained from the biological analysis device to a remote doctor through an internet network and outputs medical service data as the medical service data are received from the remote doctor through the internet network. The internet phone apparatus including the biological analysis device and the remote medical service method using the same realize an effective remote medical diagnosis. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109689 | Support System for Improved Quality Healthcare - The present invention, defined as MEGICS (Medical+Logics), has been developed in order to improve quality of care and enhance the efficiency of operation of healthcare facilities and providers. When front-line healthcare doctors and nurses make various clinical decisions, MEGICS management system can provide them with relevant clinical knowledge in a timely manner. MEGICS management system can, therefore, increase the level of user satisfaction and provide patients with better quality of healthcare services. The Inventor believes that the present invention, MEGICS, can penetrate a new market and be easily adopted by healthcare facilities, due to its flexible system structure, experience-based approach, and user-friendly features. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109690 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RAPID EXCHANGE OF ACCIDENT SCENE DATA - A system and method are disclosed for rapidly exchange accident related information. Data locator codes representing people and respective vehicles the people are insured to drive are generated and stored by central server. Software is installed on mobile devices that interface with the central server, and the software is configured with at least one of the data locator codes. A notification regarding an accident event involving two parties is received via the software. The central server receives accident information, which may include a data locator code the other driver, as well as images, voice messages or text information representing the accident. The central server uses the information to contact respective insurers of the parties, processes the data, and the parties can depart the scene without a need for police or other emergency care personnel. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109691 | CHECK FRAUD PROTECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Check fraud protection method in which customer is automatically enrolled in check fraud protection service without separately subscribing to the service. In the event of fraudulent activity, customer requests compensation from financial institution and retains the exclusive right of recovery from financial institution. If customer is not fully compensated by financial institution, the difference is paid to customer by service provider or an insurer thereof, and new checks for a new checking account are provided to customer free of charge. A custody indicator may also be used to determine chain of custody data that can be used to track the source of fraudulent activity if the fraud was perpetrated by someone involved in the check printing or delivery process, and for this purpose, a check order or individual checks may have respective indicators such as sequential serial numbers. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109692 | MONITORING CUSTOMER-SELECTED VEHICLE PARAMETERS IN ACCORDANCE WITH CUSTOMER PREFERENCES - Vehicle insurance customers select parameters and/or preferences for monitoring using one or more telematics devices. The parameters and/or preferences may comprise an operating characteristic associated with at least one vehicle associated with a personal insurance product. Selection and measurement of parameters and/or preferences may result in lower insurance premiums. In one embodiment, an apparatus causes, based on a user selection of at least one of a plurality of menu-selectable options, a remotely programmable memory of at least one monitoring device to store an indication of the monitoring parameters and/or preferences represented by the user selection. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109693 | RECEIPT INSURANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Receipt insurance systems and methods provide protection to consumers against losses which may result from failure to possess a physical receipt or proof of purchase for retail purchase transactions. In one embodiment, a third party receipt insurer insures or guarantees consumers or purchasers of benefits associated with having possession of a receipt or other proof of purchase for a retail purchase without the need for possession of a physical or paper receipt. A receipt insurance agreement between a receipt insurance provider and a consumer protects the consumer against a loss of consumer rights or personal property insurance rights resulting from a lost receipt by electronically storing for retrieval, if necessary, an electronic record of all of the receipt information. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109694 | VEHICLE ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for dispatching a vehicle receives a reservation request sent from a handheld device by a dispatch system, and confirms an available service vehicle nearest to an original position of the handheld device from a vehicle database in the dispatch system. The method further transmits information of the confirmed vehicle to the handheld device, and information of a user of the handheld device to the confirmed vehicle. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109695 | Travel Kiosk System and Method for Facilitating Travel With and Without Pets - A technologically specialized pet travel kiosk located directly on-site at a travel facility, such as an airport, wherein convenient pet handling, transfer, and care may be offered, and wherein informational data handling and exchange may facilitate delivery of personalized services, characterized by maximized efficiency and quality. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109696 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERNET-BASED CUSTOMER CHECK-IN - An internet-based system and method allows customers to remotely check-in to a wait list for a no-appointment first listed-first served business. A location associated with a customer is received and an interactive map displays multiple icons with each icon corresponding to a location of the business. A dynamically updated estimated wait time for the wait list at each business location is displayed. A customer selection of a location at which to receive a service from the business is received by a selection of the icon representing the business and the customer is added to the wait list at the location. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109697 | ASSESSING HEALTH OF PROJECTS - Determining vectors for a set of project features and determining an indication of health of some aspect of the project using a classifier trained for the set of project features is useful in assessing project health. Classifiers can be trained for such methods by determining a set of training elements for one or more projects of a data set, and training the classifier using the set of training elements. Each training element comprises a feature vector for a particular project at a particular time interval and a health classification deemed to be correct for that particular project at that particular time interval. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109698 | LOGICAL CHART OF ACCOUNTS WITH HASHING - A Chart of accounts (COA) is maintained as a logical set of constraints, criteria, and relationships and does not persist any of the valid combinations until a first time a particular combination is used. When any business logic or properties need to be set or referenced on an individual combination, that combination is physically persisted “just in time” and then becomes a physical combination that may be used going forward. A hash value is associated with each combination such that lookups are simplified. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109699 | BUSINESS RISK SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - A system and program captured in a computing device for managing the risk of a new business opportunity. The system and computing device accept data and creates plans to optimally reduce the risk of new business opportunities and then uses the resulting data to create management reports that can be both viewed or integrated into existing management reporting systems. A training module can be integrated with the system. The entire system can be operated via the cloud so as to allow users to interface the system remotely. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109700 | Payroll System Optimization - In one preferred implementation, a business rules engine optimizes staffing decisions by accepting as inputs top-down constraint as well as bottom-up constraint rules to dynamically determine short to medium term optimal staffing patterns. The business rules engine of this embodiment optionally utilizes a Holt-Winters algorithm which factors in both seasonal and annualized trend information. In certain embodiments, the business rules engine is able to more accurately estimate necessary minimum staffing based on business constraints at both the strategic and operations levels. For instance, strategic (top-down) factors may include intentional overstaffing of stores during certain time periods or in certain key geographic regions, sales forecasts, aggregate margin enhancement, etc. Operational (bottom-up) factors can, in selected embodiments, include time-to-unload, time-to-stock, product throughput and related factors. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109701 | Fulfillment Workflow Optimization - A system and method for an optimization of fulfillment workflow is disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure. In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a method may include receiving a request to be fulfilled from a client. The method may also include determining one or more item attributes associated with the request. The method may additionally include generating a batch of work units related to the request based at least in part on the one or more item attributes. The method may further include selecting an agent from a plurality of agents to process the batch. Moreover, the method may include transmitting the batch to the agent. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109702 | STANDARD KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM - Systems and methods are provided for associating business processes with knowledge management. In accordance with one implementation, a system is configured to perform a knowledge assessment to collect documents of the entire enterprise. The system is further configured to associate all of the required documents related to a business process of the enterprise. Further, the system provides editing the collected documents by an assigned owner of the documents, a new employee of the enterprise. In addition, the system is configured to perform a knowledge management audit by the executives of the enterprise. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109703 | DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING TO REDUCE A LATENCY OF DATA ANALYSIS OF A SALES AND OPERATIONS PLAN - In one embodiment, a method includes creating a demand plan in a distributed cloud infrastructure based on a demand-forecasting algorithm that considers multi-party input in client-side visualizations of a certain aspect of the demand plan appropriate to a demand-side stakeholder based on a rules-based algorithm that considers a demand-side access privilege and a demand-side role of the demand-side stakeholder. In addition, the method includes creating a supply plan in the distributed cloud infrastructure based on another supply-forecasting algorithm that considers multi-party input in client-side visualizations of a particular aspect of the supply plan appropriate to a supply-side stakeholder based on a rules-based algorithm that considers a supply-side access privilege and a supply-side role of the supply-side stakeholder. In addition, the method includes applying a planning algorithm using a combined processing power of available ones of the set of processing units in the distributed cloud infrastructure to create a build plan. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109704 | MANAGING UTILIZATION OF BIOGAS IN AN INFRASTRUCTURE - A system for managing utilization of biogas in an infrastructure includes a plurality of biogas implementing apparatuses. The system also includes a biogas source to supply biogas to the plurality of biogas implementing apparatuses and an optimizer to determine a distribution of the biogas to the plurality of biogas implementing apparatuses that substantially optimizes at least one metric associated with operating the infrastructure. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109705 | DATA CENTER SYSTEM THAT ACCOMMODATES EPISODIC COMPUTATION - A data center system is described which includes multiple data centers powered by multiple power sources, including any combination of renewable power sources and on-grid utility power sources. The data center system also includes a management system for managing execution of computational tasks by moving data components associated with the computational tasks within the data center system, in lieu of, or in addition to, moving power itself. The movement of data components can involve performing pre-computation or delayed computation on data components within any data center, as well as moving data components between data centers. The management system also includes a price determination module for determining prices for performing the computational tasks based on different pricing models. The data center system also includes a “stripped down” architecture to complement its use in the above-summarized data-centric environment. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109706 | IDENTIFYING A CANDIDATE ACTION FOR AN ISSUE - Information relating to a particular issue associated with a particular project is received. In response to the information, at least one candidate action to take to address the particular issue is identified. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109707 | PROVIDING A STATUS INDICATION FOR A PROJECT - To provide a status indication for a particular project, a rule describing a condition relating to the status indication for the particular project is provided, where the condition is based on a probability of an issue occurring. It is determined that the condition is satisfied using information from selected past projects, and the status indication is selectively set to one of plural states based on the condition being satisfied. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109708 | EVALUATING PATTERN-BASED CONSTRAINTS ON BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS - Methods and related systems for evaluating pattern-based constraints on business process models provide specifications for business process models, related structural patterns, and constraints on structural patterns so that instances of structural patterns can be identified in models and constraints on these instances can be evaluated. Model elements may include tasks that correspond to prescribed activities, events that correspond to states of the model, and gateways that control process flow between model elements. Identifying instances of structural patterns within models may include assigning classes or textual labels to model elements and then employing a search query or production rule to search over the model elements for instances of the structural patterns. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109709 | Systems and Methods for Panel Enhancement with Transaction Data - In one aspect, a computing apparatus is configured to generate audience measurement data regarding presentation of information to a plurality of customers via one or more media channels, identify the plurality of customers to a transaction handler to request information, receive the information generated based on transaction data related to a plurality of transactions processed at the transaction handler, and generate a report based on the audience measurement data and the information generated based on the transaction data. The one or more media channels may include an online media channel, a mobile communication channel, or an offline media channel, such as television broadcast, radio broadcast, newspaper, magazine, direct mail, billboard, etc. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109710 | RETAIL TIME TO EVENT SCORECARDS INCORPORATING CLICKSTREAM DATA - The current subject matter provides the ability to infer a richer customer profile using clickstream data obtained in connection with the traversal of a website by a customer. In some cases, this clickstream data is used in connection with in-store point of sale data and inputted into a Time to Event scorecard model in order to identify transactions (e.g., offerings, campaigns, etc.) to be initiated. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109711 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROFILING CUSTOMERS FOR TARGETED MARKETING - A targeted marketing system and method are provided that provide a customer with customer questions, receive responses to the customer questions from the customer, and store data associated with the responses. The customer is provided with a feedback page that graphically illustrates data associated with the customer's standing in a selected peer group. The customer is provided with options operable to adjust the customer's actual demographic to a hypothetical demographic, and data associated with hypothetical demographic changes from the customer is received and processed. Hypothetical feedback information is then displayed that graphically illustrates the hypothetical standing of the customer within the selected peer group such that the customer can see the effect of the hypothetical demographic changes. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109712 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING FORECASTS - A method and system for defining and generating forecasts. The forecast system receives a forecast definition from a user, generates a forecast in accordance with the forecast definition, stores a forecast snapshot of the generated forecast, and presents to users forecast information derived from the forecast snapshots. A forecast definition specifies the participants to be included in a forecast and when to generate the forecast. At the scheduled time, the forecast system automatically generates the forecast and stores the forecast snapshot. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109713 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING A CERTIFIED CONTRACTOR - The present invention relates generally to a management method and system for the selection of a reliable, trusted and safe certified contractor from a proprietary information database. More particularly the database will contain contractors that have undergone a thorough background investigation so that only company and individual contractors satisfying the certification requirements can be allocated to homeowners. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109714 | Confidence Based Selection for Survey Sampling - A system and method for confidence-based selection of items for use in conducting a computer-implemented survey. The survey presents information about a selected plurality of items to a survey participant, to elicit survey feedback information. Information regarding the plurality of items is stored, the stored information including display information about each of the plurality of items for presentation to a survey participant. A subset of items for presentation to a survey participant is selected in accordance with a predetermined selection algorithm. Information corresponding to the selected subset of items is displayed to the survey participant via a survey user interface. Rating information is input by the survey participant via the survey user interface indicating the survey participant's preferences as to items in the presented subset of items. The rating information is utilized in various manners to affect the selection algorithm for a subsequent survey. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109715 | VISUALIZING VISITATION PATTERNS AT SITES OF A COMMERCIAL FACILITY - Sensor data characterizing detected physical presence characteristics of customers visiting respective sites distributed about a commercial facility is obtained. Visitation patterns of different demographic groups of the customers to the sites are determined. A graphic visualization of one or more of the visitation patterns is generated. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109716 | ANALYZING UTILITY CONSUMPTION - Consumption levels are monitored over a period of time and analyzed. In response to a determination that a monitored consumption level is above a threshold that is defined based on consumption levels of an associated reference group, a notification may be provided. A plurality of notifications may be prioritizing based on a priority index. The plurality of notifications or portions thereof may be provided based on the determined priorities. The priority may take into account parameters such as for example cost of consumption, variance in respect to past consumption levels, variance in respect to the reference group and the like. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109717 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUSINESS DECISION-MAKING - Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for supporting of decisions regarding activities of an organisation are disclosed. At least one business objective for activities of the organisation is determined ( | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109718 | System and Method for What-If Analysis of a University Based on Their University Model Graph - An educational institution (also referred as a university) is structurally modeled using a university model graph. A key benefit of modeling of the educational institution is to help in an introspective analysis by the educational institute. Specifically, the model is quite beneficial for undertaking the analysis of the various issues faced by the educational institute. A what-if scenario requires the model to be suitably changed to address the issue under consideration and the changed model needs to be analyzed to determine how the issue could be handled. A system and method for what-if scenario analysis based on the university model graph is discussed. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109719 | SMART GRID DEPLOYMENT SIMULATOR - A decision management system simulates a smart grid communications network service deployment using business and technology changeable parameters, models describing traffic profiles for smart grid domain devices and smart grid applications, smart grid infrastructure and a cost model. Candidate solutions for deploying the smart grid service are determined for different sets of changeable parameters through the simulations. These solutions are analyzed to identify a solution for deploying the smart grid service. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109720 | Intelligent location system - An intelligent location system for automatically determining and recording a recordable event by automatically determining a combination of the following criteria:
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| 20120109721 | IMPROVEMENTS RELATING TO EFFICIENT TRANSPORT - A system for handling transport information comprising hardware to receive information, hardware to transmit information and optionally hardware to store information. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109722 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PERFORMING MASS TRANSIT MERCHANT TRANSACTIONS - Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for enabling access to mass transit systems using a financial transaction instrument including reading an identifier including financial payment information from the financial transaction instrument and determining whether the identifier is stored in a database. Access to a holder of the financial transaction instrument is provided based on the determining. | 2012-05-03 |
| 20120109723 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF CREDIT GROUPS - A group management system for managing credit transactions for groups of lenders, borrowers, and/or referencers is described. The system allows the formation of credit groups comprised of one or more of lenders, borrowers, and/or referencers. The system monitors group performance and provides rewards and incentives when milestones are reached. When the group is underperforming, the system allows modification of group paramaters to improve performance. In one embodiment, the system tracks group metrics and provides information to aid in achieving an optimal group configuration. | 2012-05-03 |
