| 18th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 69 |
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| 20110106492 | WAIST BELT FOR AUTOMATICALLY MEASURING WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE - Provided is a waist belt for automatically measuring a waist circumference. The waist belt includes a belt part ( | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106493 | ACOUSTIC THICKNESS MEASUREMENTS USING GAS AS A COUPLING MEDIUM - An acoustic apparatus adapted to operate in a gas filled space from a first side of an object to be measured for making a non-contact thickness measurement thereof includes an electro acoustic transducer, a transceiver coupled with the electro acoustic transducer and adapted to excite electro acoustic transducer to output an acoustic signal towards the object to be measured and receive an acoustic response signal therefrom, and a signal processor adapted to process the response signal and determine a thickness of the object. The electroacoustic transducer has a transducer-to-gas acoustic interface, and the transceiver is adapted to operate the electroacoustic transducer so as to emit into a gas filled gap an acoustic broad band pulse towards the object and to receive an acoustic resonance response signal in the acoustic response signal at a level that allows acquisition of the resonance response signal above a predetermined signal to noise level. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106494 | Method and Device for Counting Elapsed Real Time - A method for counting elapsed real time using a counter wherein, in one embodiment, the length of the counter is a sixteen bit number which, in one embodiment, has been divided into six ranges of logarithmic numbers which each have been assigned a different real time value. A recorded logarithmic number is converted into the elapsed real time to be counted by converting the logarithmic numbers in each of the ranges preceding the recorded logarithmic number into a real time value and then adding up all of the real time values to arrive at the elapsed real time. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106495 | Methods for Altering One or More Parameters of a Measurement System - Methods for altering one or more parameters of a measurement system are provided. One method includes analyzing a sample using the system to generate values from classification channels of the system for a population of particles in the sample. The method also includes identifying a region in a classification space in which the values for the populations are located. In addition, the method includes determining an optimized classification region for the population using one or more properties of the region. The optimized classification region contains a predetermined percentage of the values for the population. The optimized classification region is used for classification of particles in additional samples. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106496 | TESTING ANALYTICS TOOL - Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for testing analytics. Embodiments herein disclosed provide for automating the collection and storage of test data, automating test performance calculations across a multitude of segments within the test group and automating test result information delivery. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106497 | Yield Computation and Optimization for Selective Voltage Binning - Techniques for improving parametric chip yield of manufactured chips are provided. In one aspect, a method for optimizing parametric chip yield is provided. The method includes the following steps. Parametric chip yield is computed based on performance and power consumption of a plurality of manufactured chips subject to a given voltage binning scheme. It is then determined whether the parametric chip yield computed is optimal. If the parametric chip yield is not optimal, the voltage binning scheme is altered and the compute and determine steps are repeated. Otherwise the binning scheme is left unaltered. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106498 | STATUS DETECTING DEVICE FOR IEPE PIEZOELECTRIC ACCELERATION SENSOR - A detecting device for determining the status of an IEPE piezoelectric acceleration sensor is disclosed. The detecting device comprises a battery power supply management system, an IEPE sensor operating power supply management system, an IEPE operating status detection system, a microprocessor control system, a low battery LED indicator, a sensor operating status LED indicator, a universal meter/voltage meter interface, and a characteristic signal generating system. Therefore, a display system may be removed from the detecting system, thereby providing improved convenience for technicians tasked with sensor maintenance and also making the detecting device more portable. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106499 | METHOD FOR DETECTING STATUSES OF COMPONENTS OF SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS - An apparatus for detecting an operational status of a semiconductor equipment includes an audio frequency signal receiving unit and an analysis and determination unit. The audio frequency signal receiving unit is used for receiving an audio frequency signal from the semiconductor equipment while the semiconductor equipment is working. The analysis and determination unit is used for analyzing the audio frequency signal to determine statuses of components of the semiconductor equipment. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106500 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING GOLF BALL AND GOLF BALL MANUFACTURED BY THE SAME - A method for manufacturing a golf ball includes the step of designing plural dimples on a surface of the golf ball so as to satisfy the following parameters. A total number N of the dimples is approximately 400 or less; a surface roughness Rda of the golf ball is approximately 0.085 mm or less; and a value obtained by dividing an average convex part surface area Srt in the first cross-section and the second cross-section by an average concave part cross-section Sru in the first cross-section and the second cross-section is approximately 0.9 or less. The golf ball surface roughness Rda is the average value of a first golf ball cross-section surface roughness Rp, a second golf ball surface roughness Rm, and a third golf ball surface roughness Rs. The average convex part surface area Srt is the average value of a first convex part surface area Art that, in the first cross-section, is surrounded by the reference spherical surface and the golf ball surface that is higher than the reference spherical surface and a second convex part surface area Art that, in the second cross-section, is surrounded by the reference spherical surface and the golf ball surface that is higher than the reference spherical surface. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106501 | AUTOMATED DESIGN OF AN IT INFRASTRUCTURE - A method for automated design of an IT infrastructure, includes a) identifying IT equipment to support services to be provided to meet one or more user requirements; b) identifying one or more auxiliary infrastructures to meet requirements of the identified computer equipment; c) synthesizing the IT equipment and the one or more auxiliary infrastructures to generate a candidate design; d) analyzing one or more operating characteristics of the candidate design; e) repeating steps a)-d) on at least one additional candidate design that differs from the candidate design generated at step c); and f) storing at least one of the candidate design and the at least one additional candidate design. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106502 | METHOD FOR DRAWING BELLMOUTH BY USING 3-DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT OF BELLMOUTH MODEL - A bellmouth drawing method includes dividing a scaled-down bellmouth model from the real bellmouth into a plurality of cross-sections, indicating the cross-sections on a scaled-down bellmouth model with curved lines, measuring coordinates of the curved lines, forming cross-sections of the bellmouth model with the measured coordinates, and creating the drawing of the real bellmouth by scaling-up the cross-sectional views. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106503 | WIND TUNNEL AIRCRAFT MODEL WITH TRUNCATED WING - An aircraft model ( | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106504 | System, Method, and Program Product For Synthesizing Heat Exchanger Networks and Identifying Optimal Topology for Future Retrofit - Systems, methods, and program product to synthesize a grass-roots heat exchanger network for hot process streams to be cooled and cold process streams to be heated and to identify optimal topology for future retrofit, are provided. An exemplary system includes a heat exchange network synthesizing computer and heat exchange network synthesizing program product configured to analyze the waste heat recovery problem, without decomposition, to produce a result having a better number of heat exchanger units and/or better waste heat recovery through application of advanced process-to-process matching schemes for both non-constrained and non-thermodynamically constrained problems. The heat exchange network synthesizing program product is also configured to produce alternative optimal heat exchanger network designs which account for variations in energy and capital costs to allow for construction of a physical heat exchanger network configured during its initial construction or deployment to be “easily-retrofitable” in future times according to a continuum of possible energy-capital cost scenarios. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106505 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING AMBIENT AIR TEMPERATURE PRIOR TO COMBUSTION IN AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A method to estimate ambient air temperature in the vicinity of a vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine equipped with at least an electronic control unit (ECU) with memory and a temperature sensor. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106506 | PREDICTING NOx EMISSIONS - A method of predicting a nitrogen oxide (NO | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106507 | METHOD FOR BUILDING A DEPOSITIONAL SPACE CORRESPONDING TO A GEOLOGICAL DOMAIN - A method for building a depositional space corresponding to a geological domain includes the steps of (i) partitioning the present day geological domain with at least one conformal mesh sensibly matching the boundaries of said geological domain, (ii) calculating depositional coordinates defining a depositional space, wherein the depositional coordinates calculations includes calculations of fields of displacement including simulations of mechanical deformations in the geological domain, using a solid material deformation model. A computer program implementing the method is also described. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106508 | FITTING PROCEDURE FOR HEARING DEVICES AND CORRESPONDING HEARING DEVICE - The method for adjusting a hearing device ( | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106509 | IMPROVED TECHNIQUES FOR STOCHASTIC COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION - In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes: modeling, by at least one processor, a problem as an approximated exogenous Markov decision process (X-MDP); converting, by the at least one processor, the approximated X-MDP into a Markov decision process (MDP); solving, by the at least one processor, the MDP using at least one search algorithm to obtain a decision; and returning, by the at least one processor, the decision. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106510 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMS FOR MODEL-BASED DIAGNOSIS - The invention relates to the diagnosis of faults and damage in a gearbox in order to predict the operational life of a gearbox. An end of line test is performed to infer information on each gearbox on the production line. A highly detailed model of the gearbox is created to determine the optimal sensor positions for the end-of-line test so that the test can discriminate between different types of manufacturing variation. This information is then used to construct a unique, highly detailed model for each gearbox. During operation, forces and moments acting on the gearbox are measured at regular intervals and the model is used to continuously update a prediction of the total damage on each gearbox component. The probability of failure in a given time period is then calculated. An existing condition monitoring system approach such as vibration analysis may be used in parallel with the model-based diagnosis. The overall probability of failure for a required lifetime is calculated and, if necessary, operation is limited to provide a required probability of failure in a given time period. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106511 | INPUT PARAMETER VALUE SET IDENTIFYING APPARATUS AND METHOD - For each input variable value set, an indicator value associated with dispersion of actually measured output variable values is calculated from data including, for each input variable value set, the actually measured output variable values. Then, a processing to cause a simulator to compute a calculated output variable value for each combination of a candidate input parameter value sets and one input variable value set, and a processing to calculate, for each candidate input parameter value set, an entire error obtained by taking into consideration, with respect to all input variable value sets, partial errors obtained respectively by evaluating, by the indicator value for a corresponding input variable value set, difference between the calculated and actually measured output variable values for the corresponding input variable value set are repeated to identify the candidate input parameter value set making the entire error minimum. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106512 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING MACHINE CODE, THE EXECUTION OF WHICH GENERATES AN OPTIMIZED ROLLING MODEL - In a method for establishing a machine code which can be immediately executed by a computer, the execution of which causes the computer to implement a rolling model and to determine an output variable that quantitatively describes at least one material flow occurring in the rolling stock during a rolling process defined by the condition of the rolling stock and the roll stand setting. The output variable is determined on the basis of the rolling model, a rolling stock condition lying within a predetermined range of conditions, and a roll stand setting lying within a predetermined range of settings. Furthermore, a computer program, a data carrier, a computer, and a rolling train with at least one roll stand are disclosed. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106513 | Computer Based Models for Disposable Articles, Disposable Article Material, and/or Disposable Article Converting Machines - Computer based CAE models for simulating the physical behavior of disposable articles during manufacturing processes. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106514 | FORMATION MODELING WHILE DRILLING FOR ENHANCED HIGH ANGLE FOR HORIZONTAL WELL PLACEMENT - Methods for three-dimensionally characterizing a reservoir while drilling a high angle or horizontal wellbore through the reservoir are disclosed. An initial reservoir model for the reservoir is selected and a section is extracted for a planned trajectory of the wellbore. A secondary model is generated by performing secondary modeling for at least part of the planned trajectory. An area of interest is identified within the secondary model where statistical uncertainty is high. Possible causes of the statistical uncertainty are identified for the area of interest within the secondary model that are not present or accounted for in the initial reservoir model. A set of parameters for the area of interest are defined at that are based on the possible causes of statistical uncertainty. The area of interest is logged with at least one logging while drilling LWD tool. Sensitivities of the LWD tool response to the subset of parameters are evaluated by performing at least one tertiary model for a range of the subset of parameters. The most sensitive parameters from the subset of parameters and corresponding measurements are identified. One or more real-time LWD measurements to be used for proactive well placement along the planned trajectory are identified and are based on the most sensitive parameters. The initial reservoir model is updated while drilling with information from the tertiary model. The model update is based on physics-based modeling or on inversion and on running multiple models and selection of a best candidate model based on correlations between the tool measurements and modeled results for each geologic model. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106515 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESOURCE IDENTIFICATION - Systems and methods for resource identification. Preferably, this can be undertaken via modeling in which primary constraints include requirements and availability and building a resource map that includes alternatives which can help in the realization of the function. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106516 | AUTOMATED DERIVATION, DESIGN AND EXECUTION OF INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT - A computer-implemented method, system and program product for creating a physical information environment for a specific industry type are presented. A candidate industry type is selected to describe a customer's operations. A set of information environment components, which is modeled and simulated in software and is specific for the candidate industry type, is selected. Inherent constraints, from the candidate industry type and the set of information environment components, are identified. The set of information environment components are then recursively optimized in order to comply with the inherent constraints and to meet the specific information environment requirements. Based on optimized information environment components, construction of a information environment is simulated in order to define an architecture of a simulated information environment for the candidate industry type. A physical information environment that comports with the architecture of the optimally simulated information environment is then constructed and deployed. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106517 | METHOD OF SIMULATING AN ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE ANALOGUE PART WITH A POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY - An electronic circuit, comprising at least an analog part, subjected to predefined input signals in the time domain, is broken down into at least one modeled elementary block. The input signal is transformed into a simulation signal which comprises at least one useful signal component representative of the spectral power density of the input signal. Application to an input of the simulation signal circuit is simulated. The useful component of the simulated signal is computed on output of each successive block. The useful component of the simulated signal output from the circuit is compared with at least one predefined signal to test at least one characteristic of the circuit. A noise component can be introduced in a simulation signal or in the output signal of a block passed through. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106518 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF NETWORK EMLATION FOR TEST OF ON-LINE SERVER PROCESSING HEAVY TRAFFIC - In a network emulation system of the present invention, a packet transmitted from a user-mode application program is intercepted at a kernel-mode network driver and transferred to a user-mode emulation module to perform emulation, and, thereafter, the corresponding packet is returned to the network driver. The emulation module emulates a network characteristic of a multi-node environment through configuration of virtual network topology. At this time, the emulation module classifies the intercepted packets for each flow, stores the classified packets in a plurality of real queues, stores a virtual packet corresponding to the real packet in a virtual queue, and transfers the virtual packet to a virtual network including a plurality of virtual nodes to emulate the network. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106519 | SIMULATING AN APPLICATION - One example embodiment is a method that simulates a sampling period of an application to collect execution counts of basic blocks and compute cycles per instruction (CPI) data. A non-sampling period of the application is simulated to collect execution counts of basic blocks, and a comparison of the execution counts collected during the sampling period is performed to the execution counts collected during the non-sampling period. Based on the comparison, a determination is made whether to estimate CPI for the basic blocks during the non-sampling period using the CPI data collected during the sampling period. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106520 | VIRTUALIZING A VIDEO CONTROLLER - One embodiment is a remote system management controller that virtualizes a video controller for a server that is managed by a remote computer. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106521 | Extended Input/Output Measurement Word Facility and Emulation of That Facility - An Extended Input/output (I/O) measurement word facility is provided. Provision is made for emulation of the Extended I/O measurement word facility. The facility provides for storing measurement data associated with a single I/O operation in an extended measurement word associated with an I/O response block. In a further aspect, the stored data may have a resolution of approximately one-half microsecond. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106522 | VIRTUAL PLATFORM FOR PROTOTYPING SYSTEM-ON-CHIP DESIGNS - A system to prototype a system-on-chip design is presented. In one embodiment, the system includes an electronic board comprising a logic device programmable to emulate system components. The system further comprises a processor to execute a virtual machine monitor which redirects an input/output request to the system components via an interconnect. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106523 | Method and Apparatus for Creating a Language Model and Kana-Kanji Conversion - Method for creating a language model capable of preventing deterioration of quality caused by the conventional back-off to unigram. Parts-of-speech with the same display and reading are obtained from a storage device ( | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106524 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING TEXT TYPE AND TEXT ORIENTATION OF A BIDIRECTIONAL (BIDI) TEXT - A method for processing a bidirectional text is described. The method includes: dividing the text into a set of words; determining a first parameter representing a number of non-bidirectional words in the text, a second parameter representing a number of bidirectional words in the text, a third parameter representing a number of non-bidirectional words in reverse letter order in the text, and a fourth parameter representing a number of bidirectional words in reverse letter order in the text; and determining a text type attribute and/or a text orientation attribute of the bi-directional text from the values of the first parameter, of the second parameter, of the third parameter and the fourth parameters. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106525 | GUIXI INPUT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPLTIING WORD LETTERS - A Guixi input method and system for splitting word letters, comprises classifying and sorting of words. The classifying step classifies words according to maternal lines, which comprises: splitting each word into groups, each group consists of vowels and following consonants, and only one group among the plural groups is the maternal line which consists of vowels and consonants, wherein, the consonants are called Zili, the vowels are called Muyuan, the words with the same maternal line are classified to the same class and sorted. The sorting step comprises that the words are sorted according to the alphabetical order of the Zili as follows: first, a consonant with the monophthong before the consonant is sorted, second, a consonant with the diphthong before the consonant is sorted, third, two or more consonants with vowel or vowels before the consonant are sorted according to the alphabetical order of the vowels, and so on. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106526 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRUNING SIDE INFORMATION FOR GRAMMAR-BASED COMPRESSION - A computer-implemented method for generating side information for grammar-based data compression systems, such as YK compression systems, is described. An admissible grammar (G) for an input sequence (A(s | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106527 | Method and Apparatus for Adapting a Voice Extensible Markup Language-enabled Voice System for Natural Speech Recognition and System Response - A system for analyzing natural language spoken through a voice recognition system comprising: a language separator for separating a natural language expression into multiple word segments; and a grammar module for creating XML-based description sets or binary sets using word segments as input. In a preferred embodiment, the word segments are further processed as class objects and then organized according to original spoken order and wherein content fields are created to contain the class objects for comparison during voice interaction using the voice recognition system. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106528 | Method and System to Automatically Change or Update the Configuration or Setting of a Communication System - A method and device for automatically changing or updating a configuration or setting of a communication system is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes providing information to the communication system, the information comprising natural human language, storing the information in a digital storage device, detecting a triggering event in the information, and changing the configuration or setting of the communication system automatically using a processor. The information is an input to the communication system, an input from at least one alternate communication system, or a combination of an input to the communication system and an input from the at least one alternate communication system. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106529 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING AN AUDIOSIGNAL INTO A PARAMETERIZED REPRESENTATION, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MODIFYING A PARAMETERIZED REPRESENTATION, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING A PARAMETERIZED REPRESENTATION OF AN AUDIO SIGNAL - Apparatus for converting an audio signal into a parameterized representation, has a signal analyzer for analyzing a portion of the audio signal to obtain an analysis result; a band pass estimator for estimating information of a plurality of band pass filters based on the analysis result, wherein the information on the plurality of band pass filters has information on a filter shape for the portion of the audio signal, wherein the band width of a band pass filter is different over an audio spectrum and depends on the center frequency of the band pass filter; a modulation estimator for estimating an amplitude modulation or a frequency modulation or a phase modulation for each band of the plurality of band pass filters for the portion of the audio signal using the information on the plurality of band pass filters; and an output interface for transmitting, storing or modifying information on the amplitude modulation, information on the frequency modulation or phase modulation or the information on the plurality of band pass filters for the portion of the audio signal. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106530 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING VOICE QUALITY IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method for improving a sound quality of a portable terminal are provided. Particularly, an apparatus and method for tuning to a voice quality that a user desires using the portable terminal, in case where the user determines an abnormal sound quality, are provided. The apparatus includes a sound quality improving unit for selecting a Digital Signal Processing (DSP) filter value corresponding to a voice quality that a user desires among a plurality of DSP filters for controlling the voice quality according to a user's voice quality. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106531 | PROGRAM ENDPOINT TIME DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - This invention relates to retrieval for multimedia content, and provides a program endpoint time detection apparatus for detecting an endpoint time of a program by performing processing on audio signals of said program, comprising an audio classification unit for classifying said audio signals into a speech signal portion and a non-speech signal portion; a keyword retrieval unit for retrieving, as a candidate endpoint keyword, an endpoint keyword indicating start or end of the program from said speech signal portion; a content analysis unit for performing content analysis on context of the candidate endpoint keyword retrieved by the keyword retrieval unit to determine whether the candidate endpoint keyword is a valid endpoint keyword; and a program endpoint time determination unit for performing statistics analysis based on the retrieval result of said keyword retrieval unit and the determination result of said content analysis unit, and determining the endpoint time of the program. In addition, this invention also provides a program information retrieval system. With present invention, program information regarding a program attended by user can be rapidly obtained. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106532 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING ENHANCEMENT LAYER - Provided is a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an enhancement layer to reduce quantization error in a G.711 codec. Exponent indices of additional mantissa information of each sample are calculated based upon exponent information of each sample in a frame. A process of allocating 1 bit to each sample with a current exponent index is repeated, the exponent index starting from the maximum value while decreasing by 1 at every repetition until the total number of bits allocated to the samples is equal to the total number of available bits in the frame. And the most significant bits, as many as the number of bits allocated to each sample, are extracted from the additional mantissa information of each sample in the frame. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106533 | Multi-Microphone Voice Activity Detector - A dual microphone voice activity detector system is presented. A voice activity detector system estimates the signal level and noise level at each microphone. A level differential between the two microphones of nearby sounds such as the signal is greater than the level differential of more distant sounds such as the noise. Thus, the voice activity detector detects the presence of nearby sounds. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106534 | Voice Actions on Computing Devices - A computer-implemented method includes receiving spoken input at a computing device from a user of the computing device, the spoken input including a carrier phrase and a subject to which the carrier phrase is directed, providing at least a portion of the spoken input to a server system in audio form for speech-to-text conversion by the server system, the portion including the subject to which the carrier phrase is directed, receiving from the server system instructions for automatically performing an operation on the computing device, the operation including an action defined by the carrier phrase using parameters defined by the subject, and automatically performing the operation on the computing device. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106535 | Caption presentation method and apparatus using same - A caption presentation method and an apparatus using the method, by which caption and information related to the caption can be provided together in a broadcast receiver or in an image reproducer that displays the caption in a closed caption method. The method includes detecting subject information from a caption signal; obtaining visual information with respect to the caption, based on the detected caption subject information; and displaying the visual information and the caption signal together. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106536 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING DIALOG BETWEEN A USER AND MEDIA EQUIPMENT DEVICE - Systems and methods for simulating dialog between a user and a media equipment device are provided. Videos of a user selected actor may be retrieved. An opener video of the selected actor may be displayed and based on a verbal response received from the user, a clip of a media asset associated with the selected actor may be retrieved. User reactions to the displayed clip may be monitored and subsequent videos of the actor and clips may be provided based on the user reactions. Clips of a media asset that matches preferences of the user may be retrieved. A clip associated with a mid level rank may be displayed. When the user reacts positively to the clip a clip associated with a low class level rank may be retrieved next otherwise a high class level rank clip may be retrieved next. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106537 | TRANSFORMING COMPONENTS OF A WEB PAGE TO VOICE PROMPTS - Embodiments of the invention address the deficiencies of the prior art by providing a method, apparatus, and program product to of converting components of a web page to voice prompts for a user. In some embodiments, the method comprises selectively determining at least one HTML component from a plurality of HTML components of a web page to transform into a voice prompt for a mobile system based upon a voice attribute file associated with the web page. The method further comprises transforming the at least one HTML component into parameterized data suitable for use by the mobile system based upon at least a portion of the voice attribute file associated with the at least one HTML component and transmitting the parameterized data to the mobile system. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106538 | SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM - This speech synthesis system includes a server device and a client device. The client device accepts text information representing text, and transmits a speech element request to the server device. The server device stores speech element information. The server device receives the speech element request transmitted by the client device and, in response to the received speech element request, transmits speech element information to the client device so that the speech element information is received by the client device in a different order from an order of arrangement of speech elements in speech corresponding to the text. The client device executes a speech synthesis process by rearranging the speech element information so that speech elements represented by the received speech element information are arranged in the same order as the order of arrangement of the speech elements in the speech corresponding to the text. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106539 | Audio and Video Signal Processing - The present disclosure related generally to audio and video signal processing. Various arrangements are disclosed. One method recites: (a) obtaining data representing audible portions of audio or representing picture portions of video; (b) using a programmed electronic processor, determining identifying information from the obtained data by computing a frequency transform to produce frequency transform data, and processing the frequency transform data to derive a pattern, and using the pattern as the identifying information for the audio or video; and (c) using the identifying data to facilitate purchase or license of the audio or video. Other arrangements are disclosed as well. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106540 | STEREO CODING AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A method of encoding input signals (l, r) to generate encoded data ( | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106541 | Partially Complex Modulated Filter Bank - An apparatus for processing a plurality of real-valued subband signals using a first real-valued subband signal and a second real-valued subband signal to provide at least a complex-valued subband signal comprises a multiband filter for providing an intermediate real-valued subband signal and a calculator for providing the complex-valued subband signal by combining a real-valued subband signal from the plurality of real-valued subband signals and the intermediate subband signal. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106542 | Audio Signal Decoder, Time Warp Contour Data Provider, Method and Computer Program - An audio signal decoder configured to provide a decoded audio signal representation on the basis of an encoded audio signal representation having a time warp contour evolution information has a time warp contour calculator, a time warp contour data rescaler and a warp decoder. The time warp contour calculator is configured to generate time warp contour data repeatedly restarting from a predetermined time warp contour start value on the basis of a time warp contour evolution information describing a temporal evolution of the time warp contour. The time warp contour data rescaler is configured to rescale at least a portion of the time warp contour data such that a discontinuity at a restart is avoided, reduced or eliminated in a rescaled version of the time warp contour. The warp decoder is configured to provide the decoded audio signal representation on the basis of the encoded audio signal representation and using the rescaled version of the time warp contour. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106543 | SPATIAL SYNTHESIS OF MULTICHANNEL AUDIO SIGNALS - A method and associated device are provided for spatial synthesis of a sum signal to obtain at least two output signals, the sum signal as well as the spatialization parameters being output from a parametric coding by matrixing of an original multi-channel signal. The method comprises: decorrelation of the sum signal to obtain a decorrelated signal; applying a synthesis matrix, whose coefficients depend on the spatialization parameters, to the decorrelated signal and to the sum signal to obtain said output signals, wherein for at least one range of value of at least one spatialization parameter, the coefficients of the synthesis matrix are determined according to a criterion of minimizing a quantitative function, relating to the quantity of decorrelated signal in each of the output signals obtained by applying the synthesis matrix. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106544 | ADAPTING MASKING THRESHOLDS FOR ENCODING A LOW FREQUENCY TRANSIENT SIGNAL IN AUDIO DATA - An improved audio coding technique encodes audio having a low frequency transient signal, using a long block, but with a set of adapted masking thresholds. Upon identifying an audio window that contains a low frequency transient signal, masking thresholds for the long block may be calculated as usual. A set of masking thresholds calculated for the 8 short blocks corresponding to the long block are calculated. The masking thresholds for low frequency critical bands are adapted based on the thresholds calculated for the short blocks, and the resulting adapted masking thresholds are used to encode the long block of audio data. The result is encoded audio with rich harmonic content and negligible coder noise resulting from the low frequency transient signal. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106545 | TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SHAPING OF MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO SIGNALS - A selected channel of a multi-channel signal which is represented by frames composed from sampling values having a high time resolution can be encoded with higher quality when a wave form parameter representation representing a wave form of an intermediate resolution representation of the selected channel is derived, the wave form parameter representation including a sequence of intermediate wave form parameters having a time resolution lower than the high time resolution of the sampling values and higher than a time resolution defined by a frame repetition rate. The wave form parameter representation with the intermediate resolution can be used to shape a reconstructed channel to retrieve a channel having a signal envelope close to that one of the selected original channel. The time scale on which the shaping is performed is shorter than the time scale of a framewise processing, thus enhancing the quality of the reconstructed channel. On the other hand, the shaping time scale is larger than the time scale of the sampling values, significantly reducing the amount of data needed by the wave form parameter representation. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106546 | SCALABLE LOSSLESS AUDIO CODEC AND AUTHORING TOOL - An audio codec losslessly encodes audio data into a sequence of analysis windows in a scalable bitstream. This is suitably done by separating the audio data into MSB and LSB portions and encoding each with a different lossless algorithm. An authoring tool compares the buffered payload to an allowed payload for each window and selectively scales the losslessly encoded audio data, suitably the LSB portion, in the non-conforming windows to reduce the encoded payload, hence buffered payload. This approach satisfies the media bit rate and buffer capacity constraints without having to filter the original audio data, reencode or otherwise disrupt the lossless bitstream. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106547 | AUDIO SIGNAL COMPRESSION DEVICE, AUDIO SIGNAL COMPRESSION METHOD, AUDIO SIGNAL DEMODULATION DEVICE, AND AUDIO SIGNAL DEMODULATION METHOD - When encoding an audio signal, it is possible to efficiently encode the audio signal while maintaining high register signal components, and prevent deterioration of sound quality of decoded signal. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106548 | COMPENSATION DISCRIMINATION DETECTOR - One embodiment of the invention includes a computer-implemented method for detecting compensation discrimination. The method includes determining compensation for an employee in a protected class, and determining median compensation for all comparable employees to the employee in the protected class. The method may then further include analyzing the compensation and the median compensation to determine whether there is a compensation differential that demonstrates discrimination in the compensation for the employee in the protected class. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106549 | ACCOUNT AND PRODUCT BASED SALES PROFESSIONAL WORKBENCH - An account and product based sales professional workbench for handling sales activity information are described, with a sales activity interface comprising a grouped plurality of fields that are grouped with respect to a customer account associated with a sales representative, the grouped plurality of fields including an account name field configured to identify the customer account; and a product indication field configured to provide one or more products associated with the customer account. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106550 | RESUME AND CV CERTIFICATION PROCESS - A process of resume certification is provided. The process includes receiving a resume from an individual and submitting the resume to a baseline certification to produce a baseline certified resume. The process further includes storing the baseline certified resume in a baseline candidate database. The process includes charging the individual for the baseline certification and storage within the baseline candidate database. The process further includes accepting potential candidate requirements from prospective employers and identifying resumes belonging to relevant candidates from the baseline candidate database. Finally, the process provides the prospective employers with the resumes of such relevant candidates in combination with the baseline certification. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106551 | Tracking an Aircraft Engine - Methods, systems, and apparatus for tracking aircraft engines are provided, wherein an engine has an engine log book associated therewith. Disclosed methods comprise receiving from at least one device attached to the log book one or more signals representative of a location of the log book; using the signal representative of the location of the log book to determine a location of the engine and storing in memory readable by the same or another data processor signals representative of the location of the engine. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106552 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING PERSONALIZED PATIENT DATA - In one embodiment, a method of personalized patient data delivery as performed by a personalized patient data delivery system is described. The method comprises receiving an emergency patient data request at a mobile network infrastructure via a communication device, determining at least one patient data delivery server comprising requested emergency patient data, transmitting the emergency patient data request to the patient data delivery server, obtaining requested emergency patient data from the patient data delivery server and transmitting the emergency patient data to the communication device. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106553 | HEALTH MANAGEMENT GUIDELINE ADVISING DEVICE - A health management guideline advising device includes input means for inputting personal information of a measuring subject; measurement means for measuring weight and body impedance of the measuring subject; estimation means for estimating a body composition distribution of the measuring subject from the inputted personal information and the measurement result by the measurement means; storage means for storing the measurement result by the measurement means and an estimation result by the estimation means with a measurement date and time, prediction means for predicting future weight fluctuation from the stored weight and the body composition distribution; and display means for displaying the predicted future weight fluctuation. Furthermore, target setting means for setting a weight reduction target and determination means for determining whether or not the weight reduction target can be achieved based on the prediction result by the prediction means are preferably arranged. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106554 | Health-care rates exchange I - The present invention provides an improved system and method for creating and generating fixed and adjustable or negotiable charges related to health and health-care services, goods and medications by and between health-care providers and related health-care buyers for implementing and serving in the functioning and operating computerized systems of payments and related disbursements and barters for managing, effecting and controlling said costs, expenses, payments, compensations and revenues of, by and among providers and related buyers in a network or networks of servers, computers and wireless devices, teleconferencing platforms and the Internet. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106555 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SYNERGISTIC ALERT CONDITION PROCESSING IN AN AUTOMATED PATIENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system and method for providing synergistic alert condition processing in an automated patient management system is presented. An alert condition is classified along a continuum that includes adverse outcome potential versus medical intervention impact potential. The alert condition is managed by assigning a disposition based on relative placement of the alert condition along the continuum. An alert notification is communicated over a selectable mode of communications and is conditioned upon the assigned disposition being actionable. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106556 | Modifying a Patient Adherence Score - Systems and techniques are disclosed for determining an intervention for a patient based at least in part on a likelihood of the patient to adhere to a prescription. In some implementations, a patient profile for a patient is obtained from one or more computer-readable storage devices in a patient population, the patient profile including multiple patient attributes; an adherence score is obtained for the patient profile, the adherence score for predicting patient adherence based on one or more of the multiple patient attributes wherein the adherence score indicates a likelihood of adherence of the patient to a prescribed treatment; and the adherence score obtained for the patient profile is modified into a modified score for intervention based on a set of weights for weighting the patient attributes. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106557 | NOVEL ONE INTEGRATED SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME VIRTUAL FACE-TO-FACE ENCOUNTERS - A one integrated system that helps users to login using remote user interface/client—“Single Computer Screen” connected with a centralized one-integrated system (ihasClinic software framework). The ihasClinic framework allows electronic interactions using real-time audio and video between a patient, family, caregiver, medical professionals, social workers, and other professionals. The framework enables capturing standardized data, records and content of the patients, store the information captured into integrated Application database and or into its objects stored in the applications folders. The iHAS screen provides electronic interactions capabilities using real-time audio and video simultaneous interactions with a click of a button to have improved access and consultations between a patient, family, care-givers, medical professionals, social workers and specialists. The users can use iHAS screen to schedule or change or modify or delete appointments and join an interaction session | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106558 | INFECTION CONTROL SOLUTION - Described herein are embodiments directed to electronically managing infections in healthcare facilities. A treating infection preventionist (“IP”) uses a remote computer to access patients assigned to the IP. A server analyzes healthcare data associated with patients and groups the patients into different infection control categories (“IC categories”) for treatment or further monitoring. The IP can view assigned patients by their IC categories, receive alerts for potentially dangerous conditions in patients, and access real-time patient records from a remote computer. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106559 | OPTIMIZATION OF A CLINICAL EXPERIENCE - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for optimizing a clinical experience are provided. Individuals may be approved by a patient to receive notifications of clinical events. The notifications may be accessed from the patient's electronic health record. In embodiments, a location of a clinician associated with a patient and a location of the patient are received. A determination whether the clinician is near the patient is made. Upon determining that the clinician is near the patient, a notification is sent to a non-present party (e.g., a family member) via a mobile device. Such notifications include individuals in the clinical process and avoid missed opportunities for interactions with clinicians. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106560 | PROVIDING CLINICAL INFORMATION TO CLINICIANS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing clinical information to clinicians are provided. In embodiments, a patient's electronic health record is accessed to identify that a first clinician has requested a consult with a second clinician. Each clinician is associated with a clinician identifier that is identified by a plurality of sensors. A location for both the first and second clinician is received from the plurality of sensors. A determination is made whether the first and second clinicians are near one another. Upon determining that the first and second clinicians are near one another, a notification is presented to the first clinician. Such tracking of clinician location helps avoid missed opportunities and provides efficient communication among clinicians. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106561 | LOCATION-BASED MANAGEMENT OF HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing healthcare environments are provided. In embodiments, a real-time status of a clinical device, along with a location, is received. The location of the clinical device is obtained via a clinical device identifier that is tracked by a plurality of sensors in a healthcare environment. A clinical device may be identified as inappropriate for use and an alert presented to a clinician including the problem of the clinical device and the location thereof. A replacement clinical device may be located, using clinical identifiers, and presented to the clinician. Such monitoring and location awareness facilitates efficient responses to healthcare situations. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106562 | PLANNING A RADIATION TREATMENT - In a method for planning a radiation treatment, a treatment plan request is received. The treatment plan request includes patient identification information for a patient, the treatment plan request for requesting creating of a treatment plan for use in radiation therapy. Patient files corresponding to the patient are received, the patient files including information for use in creating the treatment plan. A service provider is selected for creating a treatment plan. The service provider is provided access to the patient files and the treatment plan request. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106563 | CREATING A RADIATION TREATMENT PLAN - In a method for creating a radiation treatment plan, notification of selection of a service provider to provide treatment plan for use in radiation therapy is received. In response to the service provider accepting the selection to provide the treatment plan, a treatment plan request comprising patient identification information for a patient from a server is received. Patient files corresponding to the patient are received from the server, wherein the patient files include information for use in creating the treatment plan. The treatment plan is provided. In response to the service provider completing the treatment plan, the treatment plan is transmitted to the server. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106564 | Electronic medical records interoperability - In accordance with the principles of the present invention, an electronic medical record system is provided. A clinical web server connects to at least two information technology systems and providing real time exchange of data between existing databases. The clinical web server translates and maps existing databases into a common data structure format. A message to be transmitted is generated. Routing type and formatting routing are determined based on recipient delivery requirements. The message is parsed into segments and fields. The appropriate party to whom the message is directed is determined. Identifiers in the message are translated from a sender's value to a recipient's value. The message is translated from a sender's format to a recipient's format. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106565 | Proximity-Based Task Lists - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing proximity-based task lists to clinicians are provided. In embodiments, a task is identified as well as a clinician that is near a location associated with the task. In addition to identifying clinicians that are near the location associated with the task, clinicians authorized to complete the task and available to complete the task are identified. If all criteria are met, a clinician may be assigned to the task and notified of the task. Additionally, a task may be reassigned to a different clinician should any of the criteria fail to be satisfied at any point. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106566 | ON-LINE, ON-DEMAND RESOURCE, TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION PORTAL FOR REGULATORY COMPLIANCE IN HEALTHCARE COMMUNICATIONS - A computer program product comprising a computer-readable medium having computer readable program code embodied in said medium for causing a computer to execute via an online portal a method of certification organization comprising, displaying questions regarding regulations and policies related to healthcare communications; displaying questions regarding communications materials related to healthcare communications; receiving answers; determining the percentage of correct answers; determining based on the percentage of correct answers if that percentage corresponds to a passing grade, as well as a method of identifying and filling gaps in creating a culture of compliance with healthcare communications regulations and policies in an organization, a method for accessing information related to healthcare communication, a method for publishing industry benchmark reports, and a method for making grants. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106567 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENTLY TRACKING AND MANAGING CLAIM BASED CALCULATIONS - A method, system, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for managing and administering a spreadsheet-driven additional living expense calculators are disclosed. Third party data provides data input to the dynamic calculator and validation rules are implemented to preserve data integrity for calculating additional living expenses for policyholders. The system includes a graphical visual interface adapted to receive input of and display a plurality of additional living expense related values, an external data module for communicating one or more additional living expense related values for display on the graphical visual interface, a validation engine for validating the additional living expense values, the validation engine configured to compare a plurality of additional living expense input values with a plurality of additional living expense reference values, and to provide a visual indication based upon one or more of the comparisons, a calculation module for determining one or more payment values based on the validated additional living expense values and a communications module for providing instructions related to payment of the calculated additional living expense values. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING AND APPLYING INSURANCE PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION FEES - According to some embodiments, for each of a plurality of insurance contracts, a processor is operative to identify one or more premium payments and identify a distribution fee rule applicable to each of the premium payments. The processor is operative to compute, using the distribution fee rule, a distribution fee associated with each of the premium payments and calculate a total distribution fee associated with the contract based on a total of the distribution fees associated with each of the premium payments. The processor is further operative to update a value of said contract based on the total distribution fee. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106569 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED RISK MANAGEMENT APPRAISAL - The invention is a system and method of appraising and managing risk relating to technology needs using a risk management processing engine. The risk management processing engine serves as a central server for an administrator to manage a plurality of policy holders and third party service technicians. The invention gathers policy holder data, determining the risk associated with the data, creating a risk management policy for technology service events and technology service situations in order to mitigate or eliminate the risk, and resolving serviceable events when risk is actualized. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106570 | HEALTHCARE ELIGIBILITY TRANSACTIONS - Methods and systems permit registration of a service provider and permit eligibility information to be provided to the service provider. Registration information is received over a financial network from a point-of-sale terminal. The registration information has an identifier associated with the point-of-sale terminal and an identification of the service provider. The identifier is associated with information identifying a device disposed at a location of the service provider in a database, permitting a communication path to the device to be established. A confirmation of registration of the point-of-sale terminal is transmitted to the device over the communication path. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106571 | SYSTEM FOR MAKING REPORT WITH AUTHENTICATED IMAGE - Making a report with an authenticated image includes certifying an imaging time of an image captured by a portable terminal with a camera with an objective time to authenticate image information. A report making program for making a work report is downloaded in the portable terminal by a Web browser from a web server. Report data such as an image and information inputted according to the report making program is sent from the portable terminal to the web server. The web server transfers the report data to a document management program. The document management program automatically sorts the report data according to an information category of the report data and stores the report data. The imaging time of the image information included in the report data or the image information contained in the report made based on the report data is authenticated with a reference time of the web server. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106572 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING INSURANCE LIABILITIES USING STOCHASTIC MODELING AND SAMPLING TECHNIQUES - In computer-implemented methods and systems for estimating financial modeling outcomes, financial data segmented into a number (x) of classes and scenario data for a set of model scenarios are processed to obtain an estimated model outcome distribution. The class segments are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive of the financial data. Multiple model tests are performed with samples of the financial data until a cumulative model outcome distribution is within a pre-determined acceptable tolerance limit from a distribution of fully assessed model outcomes obtainable by performing a single test of the scenarios using all of the financial data. The number (x) of classes, the sample size (z), and a number (y) of times that the tests are performed ensure that the cumulative model outcome distribution is within the pre-determined acceptable tolerance limit from the distribution of fully assessed model outcomes. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106573 | AUTOMATED MEETING SCHEDULING - An improved meeting scheduling system that automatically proposes a reduced cost available meeting room for a meeting based on the invited attendees and locations of available meeting rooms. A reduced cost available meeting room may be the meeting room to which the attendees as a whole are presumed to be nearest in distance at the time the meeting begins. In addition to the proximity or distance of each of the attendees to the available meeting rooms, other relevant data concerning the attendees may be factored by the meeting scheduling system such as the hierarchy of an attendee in relation to the other attendees, attendee security access privileges to a particular location, and the distances between attendees. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106574 | Query Widening for Query Caches for Travel Planning Systems - A query cache for travel planning includes a cache database that stores query results and a cache test mechanism that receives a travel planning query and uses the query to find a result in the cache database and if a result is found returns the result, the result including a set of answers each answer in the set having a flight and a fare useable with the flight. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106575 | INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY (IT) ESTIMATION MODELING - In general, the present invention provides a technique for IT estimation modeling of any organization. Although this estimation model is applied to SOA herein, it is not limited to solely estimating SOA activities; the maturity-based estimation modeling can be applied to other areas and disciplines, even beyond the IT industry. The maturity-based model of the present invention also offers executives and project managers a very effective estimating tool to analyze the impact of project variances. Resources do not need to be taken off projects and assigned to perform estimations, as this model acquires knowledge over time and delivers ever more precise estimates with each successive project. Executives and project managers may analyze the effects of additional staff, function changes, or other events to an overall project. Additionally, new projects may be estimated without utilizing current personnel with this adaptive learning model. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106576 | EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND METHOD - In a management method for equipment in multiple locations using a device, an application form is generated according to reservation of an equipment item if the item is available, and it is determined whether another reservation has been made for the equipment item after the schedule time, assigns the equipment item accordingly, locates the equipment item, and issues notification of the status information and location of the equipment on an electronic device. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106577 | BUSINESS FLOW ANALYSIS METHOD AND APPARATUS - A series of transaction records is extracted for each case from a database storing processing results of respective performed jobs to generate, for each case, a process instance including job names and time data of the performed jobs arranged in a time series. Then, process instances satisfying a designated condition are classified among the process instances to calculate, for each classification, an average value and standard deviation of transition periods that are differences between a start time and an end time of a job section to be processed in the pertinent process instances. By identifying a process instance, which has correlation with the route before the job section and for which the reduction of the transition period is expected and/or a process instance, which has correlation with the entire route and for which the reduction of the transition period is expected, an improvement candidate is automatically shown to the user. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106578 | Reputation Risk Framework - A risk framework is described for computing risk. One or more persons may be grouped into classes of stakeholders. Different types of risk may be classified into risk categories. Within each risk category, events contributing to that type of risk may be determined and assigned a weight/severity value and a likelihood of occurrence value. Risk likelihood may be computed for each risk category by summing the products of weight/severity value and likelihood of occurrence value for each event within the risk category. A severity level may be determined and assigned with respect to each class of stakeholders regarding the risk categories, and a risk score may be computed for each stakeholder class and risk category combination. An aggregate risk likelihood may be computed by summing and/or weighting the risk likelihoods computed for each risk category. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106579 | System and Method of Management and Reduction of Subscriber Churn in Telecommunications Networks - A closed loop system to monitor a communications system and to detect conditions indicative of deficient subscriber service. Circuitry responsive to the detected conditions to adjust one or more parameters of the communications system to improve subscriber service. Additional circuitry to provide subscriber feedback so as to try to minimize subscriber churn and reduce dissatisfaction. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106580 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXAMPLE BASED TARGETED MARKETING - Embodiments of the invention provide retailers with the ability to employ concept-based marketing using only a few representative examples. Embodiments of the invention take seed examples, utilize the seed examples to provide an expanded list (that can be edited as desired) representative of the concept, and map the expanded list to a final set of customers to be included in a targeted marketing operation. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106581 | METHOD FOR VISUALIZING CUSTOMER INSIGHTS - A method for visualizing customer insights, comprising the steps of: receiving information data including at least one of transaction, product, shop and customer-related information data; generating a predefined analysis report by associating respective information included in the received information data with each other; parameterizing the generated analysis report with at least one user defined parameter; and outputting the parameterized predefined analysis report. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106582 | CONTACT EXPECTANCY AND NORMALIZATION - Contact expectancy and normalization is described. A product can be normalized based on product complexity. The normalized product can be compared to a database of products having a similar product complexity to determine contact expectancy for the product. When a quantity of contacts is received, the quantity of contacts can be weighed based on the normalization of the product. The weighed quantity can then be compared to other weighed quantities of other products to facilitate an understanding of whether a product has an issue and/or achievement and to facilitate the allocation of quality control resources within an organization. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106583 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDEXING TRAVEL ACCOMMODATIONS IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method for evaluating travel accommodations is provided that includes identifying a plurality of hotel properties and assigning a hotel marketability index score to one or more of the properties such that one or more of the properties may be ranked. The hotel marketability index score may be based on a selected one or more characteristics associated with one or more of the hotel properties, the characteristics including rate competitiveness, hotel availability, hotel location within a cluster location, and hotel quality within the cluster location. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106584 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING CUSTOMER INTEREST TO FORECAST ENTITY CONSUMPTION - A system and method comprises monitoring online user activity of one or more customers with regard to a first consumer entity. The user activity represents the one or more customer's interest in the first consumer entity categorized in a first product category. The method comprises monitoring the online user activity of the one more customers with regard to a second consumer entity categorized in a second product category different than the first category. The method comprises recording the monitored activity information to a data storage device and mapping it to a relational customer interest profile that represents a level of the one or more customer's interest at one or more corresponding phases of a consumption cycle with respect to the first and second consumer entities. The method comprises processing at least the mapped activity information to formulate a forecast of future consumption of at least the first consumer entity. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106585 | Communication of Managing Vending Operations Based on Wireless Data - A system coupled to one or more vending machines, such as soft drink vending machines, via a wireless data link can acquire operational vending data, for example sales data, hardware status, and product temperature. The system can compile data from multiple vending machines dispersed across a geographic area such as a city or state. The system can include software that refines the vending operations of one or more such vending machines based on analysis of acquired data, taking into consideration other information such as market, business, seasonal, or environmental factors. Refining vending operations can include adjusting product offerings, relocating vending machines, replicating favorable conditions, and addressing unexpected sales variations. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106586 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED CUSTOMER FEEDBACK - A system and method for automated customer feedback allows for automatically collecting and analyzing customer feedback data regarding customer satisfaction and customer task completion with respect to self-service applications and live agents. When contacting a customer service center, customers provide one or more customer tasks. The customers are routed within the customer service center based on the customer task and/or one or more customer characteristics. While interacting with the customer service center, the customers are automatically asked one or more specific survey questions relating to the customers' interaction with the customer service center and the customers' satisfaction levels. The customers provide one or more survey responses to the survey questions. The survey responses are recorded and analyzed in order to modify and update the customer service center and the survey questions in order to increase customer satisfaction and increase customer task completion. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106587 | DISTRIBUTED AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods are disclosed for customizing, distributing and processing audio fingerprint data. One or more items of audio content are processed to generate pre-recorded audio fingerprints After identifying one or more specific devices in accordance to panelist and/or household data from a central site, an activation message is communicated to the identified devices, together with the pre-recorded audio fingerprint in accordance with a predetermined schedule. After receiving the activation message, the portable device records the audio content, forms an audio fingerprint, and performs local matching to determine if a match exists. The matching result is then communicated back to the central site for further processing and analysis. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106588 | System and Method to Facilitate Installation of a Digital Subscriber Line - Systems and methods to facilitate installation of a digital subscriber line are provided. A particular computer-implemented method includes receiving an installation request for a digital subscriber line. The method includes determining performance data associated with one or more active digital subscriber lines that are located near an installation location of the digital subscriber line. The method includes comparing the performance data to installation criteria. The method also includes sending an installation notice to an installer. The installation notice includes a special installation instruction when the performance data satisfies at least one installation criterion of the installation criteria. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106589 | DATA VISUALIZATION PLATFORM FOR SOCIAL AND TRADITIONAL MEDIA METRICS ANALYSIS - According to some embodiments, data may be received from a plurality of remote data sources. The received data may be, for example, associated with a plurality of social and traditional media sources. The received data may be aggregated based on an association with an entity and stored. At least two superimposed graphs may then be automatically provided on a user display, including (i) a first graph having an x-axis representing time and a y-axis representing an amount of social networking activity in the aggregated data and (ii) a second graph having an x-axis shared with the first graph and a y-axis representing a financial value associated with the entity. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106590 | WEIGHTED ASSESSMENT OF COGNITIVE WORKLOADS OF TEAM MEMBERS RESPONSIBLE FOR EXECUTION OF AN OPERATION - A system is provided for assessing cognitive workloads of a team that is responsible for carrying out a designated operation having a plurality of execution phases. The system includes a processing architecture configured to carry out processor-executable instructions, a processor-readable medium accessible by the processing architecture, and processor-executable instructions stored on the processor-readable medium. When executed by the processor architecture, the processor-executable instructions cause the processor architecture to obtain workload data indicative of cognitive workloads of members of the team during the course of the designated operation. For each of the plurality of execution phases, the system generates weighted workload scores for participating members of the team, the weighted workload scores being generated from the workload data and from a respective set of weighting values. The respective set of weighting values includes individual weighting values for each of the participating members of the team. For each of the plurality of execution phases, the system presents the weighted workload scores for the participating members of the team in a human-interpretable format. | 2011-05-05 |
| 20110106591 | Awarding standings to a vehicle based upon one or more fuel utilization characteristics - A method may include, but is not limited to, receiving at least one of a status indicative of combustible fuel utilization or a status indicative of electricity utilization for a hybrid vehicle and conveying a standing, the standing based upon the at least one of the status indicative of combustible fuel utilization or the status indicative of electricity utilization for the vehicle. | 2011-05-05 |
