18th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 72 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100114528 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WELL SURVEILLANCE AND MANAGEMENT - A method and system is provided for managing well assets. The method includes the steps of determining “first tier” statuses corresponding to pre-defined well attributes, mapping the first tier statuses to one or more well performance classifications, determining “second tier” statuses corresponding to the well classifications, and combining the second tier statuses to determine an overall well surveillance status. The method and corresponding system can be used to manage wells by exception, to readily identify “under-performing” wells, and to prioritize actions to be taken by well operators. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114529 | DSL DIAGNOSIS EXPERT SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present invention relates to diagnostic analysis of DSL circuits. In particular, it relates to methods and devices that use a rule base and automated test initiation, with excellent reduction in test technician involvement in trouble shooting, reduced truck rolls and more accurate identification of probably causes of customer complaints. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114530 | Transfer of a Component with Effect on the Safety Function from the Safety-relevant Area - An electronic module for level measurements, pressure measurements or density measurements is disclosed. In the module, a safety-relevant function is transferred into an area that is categorized as safety-uncritical. In order to prevent malfunctions, a diagnostic function is performed in the safety-critical area of the electronic module in order to check the transferred function. This diagnostic function is also checked with respect to its effectiveness during the safety-oriented operation. Suitable measures can be initiated in case an error is detected. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114531 | Evaluating Service Level Agreement Violations - A technique for evaluating service level agreement (SLA) violations occurring in a computing system with agreed-upon model for exemptions is provided. The technique includes storing in a memory a model of the SLA and identifying occurrence of an SLA violation in a computing system that is providing services under the SLA. Based on the stored model, the technique further determines if the SLA violation is exempted from a penalty. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114532 | WEIGHTED SPECTROGRAPHIC MONITORING OF A SUBSTRATE DURING PROCESSING - A substrate having an outermost layer undergoing polishing and at least one underlying layer is irradiated with light. A sequence of current spectra is obtained with an in-situ optical monitoring system, a current spectrum from the sequence of current spectra being a spectrum of the light reflected from the substrate, wherein the current spectrum includes a range of wavelengths and, for all wavelengths in the range of wavelengths, a value corresponding to a wavelength. Further, a value of the current spectrum corresponding to a wavelength is modified with at least one value in a gain factor spectrum, wherein the gain factor spectrum includes a first range of wavelengths and, for all wavelengths in the first range of wavelengths, a value corresponding to a wavelength. The polishing of the outermost layer of the substrate is then changed based upon the modified value of the current spectrum. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114533 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXPLORING BY WAVE PROPAGATION - A method of exploring by wave propagation, in which method an incident wave is emitted a plurality of times towards the same target zone (r | 2010-05-06 |
20100114534 | CONSTANT CURRENT POWER SOURCE ELECTRONICS FOR A SENSOR - An apparatus comprises a sensor and a circuit. The sensor is capable of generating a signal in response to detecting a stimulus. The circuit is capable of powering the sensor and providing multiple other capabilities including signal conditioning, non-signal related noise cancellation, and signal transmission using a constant current source power input from a cable and sending the signal over the cable. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114535 | Grow Planning - A computer implemented method of displaying a plan of an area for growing plants. The method comprises displaying a graphical representation of said area, receiving from a user selection of a plant to be included in said plan, and displaying a graphical representation of said user selected plant wherein said graphical representation of said user selected plant indicates a growing area required for optimal growth of said plant. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114536 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DERIVING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN PARTS AND FASTENERS - A method, apparatus, and computer program product for identifying associations in a model of a structure. A number of fastener locations is identified in the model of the structure. A line segment extends through each of the number of fastener locations to form a number of line segments. The line segment extends a selected distance away from an associated fastener location in the number of fastener locations. A number of parts is identified through which the line segment extends to form a number of identified parts for a fastener for each of the number of line segments. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114537 | CONCURRENT DISPLAY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AERIAL ROOF ESTIMATION - User interface systems and methods for roof estimation are described. Example embodiments include a roof estimation system that provides a user interface configured to facilitate roof model generation based on one or more aerial images of a building roof. In one embodiment, roof model generation includes image registration, image lean correction, roof section pitch determination, wire frame model construction, and/or roof model review. The described user interface provides user interface controls that may be manipulated by an operator to perform at least some of the functions of roof model generation. The user interface is further configured to concurrently display roof features onto multiple images of a roof. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114538 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIGITALLY EVALUATING INSERTION QUALITY OF CUSTOMIZED ORTHODONTIC ARCH WIRE - A method and apparatus is provided for digitally checking the insertion quality of a target customized virtual arch wire designed during treatment planning prior to actually manufacturing the target arch wire. The method includes the steps of digitally simulating the insertion of the customized target virtual arch wire into the virtual brackets placed up on virtual teeth of a patient in an initial state of interest for checking if the arch wire could be inserted into the virtual brackets without conflicts or collisions. The initial state may be a malocclusion state or any intermediate treatment state of the patient. In the event the target virtual arch wire would cause conflicts, then the simulation optimizes the arch wire design in an attempt to eliminate the conflicts. In another aspect, a method is provided for selecting the recommended starting point for inserting the customized arch wire in the brackets placed on the dentition of the patient in the initial state. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114539 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A DIGITAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA MODEL - The present invention is directed to a method and a system for providing a digital three-dimensional data model of a component. Thereby, modifications which are accomplished on the component, for instance a cable, are being captured by means of photogrammetry for the creation of a digital three-dimensional modifications data model. The digital three-dimensional data model of the component is afterwards automatically updated as a function of the generated modifications data model. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114540 | Visual Simulator for Spectacle Lens, Visual Simulation Method for Spectacle Lens, and Computer Readable Visual Simulation Program for Spectacle Lens - A visual simulator for a spectacle lens including: a lens design data acquirer that acquires lens design data on design items of a spectacle lens including a prescription for a spectacle wearer's naked eye; a lens designer that designs the spectacle lens based on the lens design data; an original image data acquirer that acquires an original image data for the simulation; an image processor that processes the original image data acquired by the original image data acquirer and generates image data representing an image viewed through a lens processed based on the frame data; a display that comprises a screen that displays the image based on the image data generated by the image processor; a partial enlargement information acquirer that acquires partial enlargement information of a visual field, the partial enlargement information including a distance from a spectacle lens wearer to the screen of the display and a dimension of the screen, wherein a processing mode of the image processor includes: an entire display mode in which the visual field based on the shape data is entirely displayed on the screen of the display; and a partial display mode in which a part of the visual field determined by the distance from the spectacle wearer to the screen of the display and the dimension of the screen acquired by the partial enlargement information acquirer. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114541 | ENUMERATED LINEAR PROGRAMMING FOR OPTIMAL STRATEGIES - One embodiment is directed to an approach to solving a leader-follower problem in which a leader has a set of leader actions and a follower has a set of follower actions. The approach includes receiving an expression of the leader-follower problem as a normal form Stackelberg game. The approach further includes, for each possible follower action, solving a linear program (LP) problem to determine a respective optimal mixed leader strategy, wherein the LP problem optimizes a leader payoff for a given mixed leader strategy and a given fixed follower action over a feasible region that includes only mixed leader strategies that provoke that respective follower action. The approach further includes generating an output derived from the optimal mixed leader strategies, and outputting the output by changing a physical state associated with an interface. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114542 | Methods of modeling physical properties of chemical mixtures and articles of use - Included are methods for modeling at least one physical property of a mixture of at least two chemical species. One or more chemical species of the mixture are approximated or represented by at least one conceptual segment. The conceptual segments are then used to compute at least one physical property of the mixture. An analysis of the computed physical properties forms a model of at least one physical property of the mixture. Also included are computer program products and computer systems for implementing the modeling methods. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114543 | SIMULATION METHOD FOR TRANSISTOR UNSUITABLE FOR EXISTING MODEL - A simulation method includes determining a relationship between stress time and a degradation rate of drain current on a basis of a table in which data of a lifetime of a transistor, or the degradation rate of the transistor, is written, and calculating an amount of change in drain current accordance with the degradation rate, using a table in which information indicating a change in the drain current, being dependent on voltage, is written, based on actually measured data of drain current of the transistor after degradation, drain current in an initial state of a particular transistor model, and the relationship between stress time and the degradation rate of drain current. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114544 | Three Dimensional Well Block Radius Determiner Machine And Related Computer Implemented Methods And Program Products - Three dimensional well block radius determiner machines, systems, program products, and computer implemented methods are provided to determine a three dimensional equivalent well block radius of a perforated grid block cell, with three dimensional flow, of a three dimensional coordinate grid block constructed over a three dimensional simulated well formation in a finite difference petroleum reservoir simulator. Various embodiments of the invention, for example, can beneficially account for both horizontal and vertical flow of oil through a well perforation without the need for complicated, expensive, and time-consuming numerical or iterative solutions. Embodiments of the present invention, for example, can be used as a part of legacy simulators thereby providing more accurate well block radius calculations, by accounting for both horizontal and vertical perforation flow, without introducing significant implementation hurdles, development costs, or simulation runtime delays. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114545 | Compositions and methods for surface abrasion with frozen particles - Certain embodiments disclosed herein relate to compositions, methods, devices, systems, and products regarding frozen particles. In certain embodiments, the frozen particles include materials at low temperatures. In certain embodiments, the frozen particles provide vehicles for delivery of particular agents. In certain embodiments, the frozen particles are administered to at least one biological tissue. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114546 | Compositions and methods for therapeutic delivery with frozen particles - Certain embodiments disclosed herein relate to compositions, methods, devices, systems, and products regarding frozen particles. In certain embodiments, the frozen particles include materials at low temperatures. In certain embodiments, the frozen particles provide vehicles for delivery of particular agents. In certain embodiments, the frozen particles are administered to at least one biological tissue. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114547 | Compositions and methods for biological remodeling wih frozen particle compositions - Certain embodiments disclosed herein relate to compositions, methods, devices, systems, and products regarding frozen particles. In certain embodiments, the frozen particles include materials at low temperatures. In certain embodiments, the frozen particles provide vehicles for delivery of particular agents. In certain embodiments, the frozen particles are administered to at least one biological tissue. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114548 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING FIELDBUS DEVICES - Systems and methods for simulating operations of a Fieldbus system (FS). The FS ( | 2010-05-06 |
20100114549 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT HAVING A SIMULATION USER INTERFACE | 2010-05-06 |
20100114550 | Modeling Device, Simulation Device, Modeling Program, Simulation Program, Method for Using Heat Balance Model, and System for Using Heat Balance Model - Disclosed is a modeling device, including: a classification unit ( | 2010-05-06 |
20100114551 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING DIGITAL SYSTEM SIMULATION SPEED BY CLOCK PHASE GATING - An apparatus for simulating digital systems is described. The apparatus includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Instructions that are executable by the processor are stored in the memory. A simulation tool is started. The simulation tool is capable of simulating a plurality of components. A clock phase is adjusted to be turned off for at least one of the components. A digital system is simulated that includes the at least one component. The simulation does not simulate the clock phase for the at least one component. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114552 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CLOCK SIMULATION WITH CALIBRATION - A method for clock modeling in a simulation tool is described. An internal time (I) may be defined that governs the simulator tool's clock period. An external time (E) may be defined. The internal time may have a smaller resolution than the external time. A calibration period (C) may be defined for the clock. The calibration period may be smaller than 0.5E and greater than I. The largest inaccuracy of any clock edge may be monitored, and the clock may be calibrated if the largest inaccuracy is greater than (C−1). | 2010-05-06 |
20100114553 | Systems and Methods for Executing Unified Process-Device-Circuit Simulation - A unified simulation system is provided. The unified simulation system includes an input database storing input data comprising an input parameter and environment information, a unified simulator executing a unified process-device-circuit simulation of characteristics of a semiconductor apparatus based on the input data and at least one predetermined model and outputting a simulation result as output data, and an output database storing the output data. The unified simulator includes a process simulator simulating at least one process based on the input data and outputting process characteristic data, a device simulator simulating at least one device based on the process characteristic data and outputting device characteristic data, and a circuit simulator simulating a circuit comprising the at least one device. Accordingly, multiple devices can be simultaneously optimized for the optimization of circuit characteristics and an accurate specification at process and device levels can be provided. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114554 | PREDICTIVE MODELING - Predictive modeling, in which a first simulation model that simulates a first policy for managing a set of data is determined based on a pattern representative of the set of data and first operating variables for the first policy. The first simulation model is optimized and first prediction data that estimates performance of the first policy is computed using the optimized first simulation model. A second simulation model that simulates a second policy for managing the set of data is determined based on the pattern and second operating variables for the second policy. The second simulation model is optimized and second prediction data that estimates performance of the second policy is computed using the optimized second simulation model. The first prediction data is compared with the second prediction data, and a determination of whether the first policy is better than the second policy is made. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114555 | HANDLING MUTEX LOCKS IN A DYNAMIC BINARY TRANSLATION ACROSS HETEROGENOUS COMPUTER SYSTEMS - A method for executing non-native binaries on a host computer architecture comprises receiving a guest executable binary encoded on a computer readable medium. The guest executable binary is executable on a first computer architecture. Moreover, the guest executable binary includes a mutex lock encoded instructions for implementing a mutex lock. The guest executable binary is then executed on the host computer architecture by first translating the guest executable binary to a translated executable binary. The encoded instructions for implementing a mutex lock are translated by mapping the mutex lock to an instance of a compound mutex lock data structure. A computer system implementing methods for executing non-native binaries on a host computer architecture is also provided. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114556 | SPEECH TRANSLATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and apparatus for speech translation. The method includes: receiving a source speech; extracting non-text information in the source speech; translating the source speech into a target speech; and adjusting the translated target speech according to the extracted non-text information so that the target speech preserves the non-text information in the source speech. The apparatus includes: a receiving module for receiving source speech; an extracting module for extracting non-text information in the source speech; a translation module for translating the source speech into a target speech; and an adjusting module for adjusting the translated target speech according to the extracted non-text information so that the target speech preserves the non-text information in the source speech. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114557 | TRANSLATION ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND METHOD - A device includes a parsing unit that parses an input sentence into a plurality of clauses, an identification unit that identifies, as a target area, based on the clauses resulting from the parsing, any of the clauses corresponding to an area specified, a setting unit that sets, as a target clause, any of the clauses located at a boundary of the target area identified, and sets, as a candidate for modification of the target clause, any of the clauses adjacent to the target clause in the target area. A judgment unit judges whether there exists a relationship of modification between the target clause and the candidate for modification and a determination unit determines, when the judgment unit judges that there is the relationship of modification, a translation area based on the target area, the target clause, and the candidate for modification. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114558 | Automatic Translation Method - The present invention relates to an automatic translation method. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114559 | SHORT TEXT LANGUAGE DETECTION USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION - A content-providing entity receives a relatively short text from a user and attempts to determine, automatically, based on that short text (and on other available clues), a language that the user can read and understand. The content-providing entity may then provide, to the user, documents that are written in the determined language. The content-providing entity may determine a language of the input text based on several factors in combination: (a) the service provider's “market,” which is determined based on at least a portion of the URL of the Internet site to which the user directed his browser; (b) the user's “region,” which is determined based on the source Internet Protocol (IP) address of the IP packets that the user sends to the Internet site; (c) the “script” in which the short user-entered text is written; and (d) a statistical analysis of the frequency of the characters present in the short user-entered text. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114560 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING A SEQUENCE OF CHARACTERS - A sequence of characters may be evaluated to determine the presence of a natural language word. The sequence of characters may be analyzed to find a subsequence of alphabetical characters. Based on a statistical model of a natural language, a probability that the subsequence is a natural language word may be calculated. The probability may then be used to determine if the subsequence is indeed a natural language word. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114561 | LATENT METONYMICAL ANALYSIS AND INDEXING (LMAI) - The present invention relates to Latent Metonymical analysis and Indexing (LMai) is a novel concept for Advance Machine Learning or Unsupervised Machine Learning Techniques, which uses a statistical approach to identify the relationship between the words in a set of given documents (Unstructured Data). This approach does not necessarily need training data to make decisions on matching the related words together but actually has the ability to do the classification by itself. All that is needed is to give the algorithm a set of natural documents. The method is elegant enough to classify the relationships automatically without any human guidance during the process as shown in FIGS. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114562 | DOCUMENT PROCESSOR AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A computer implemented method of processing a digitally encoded document having a text composed by an author by using a processor to analyse the segmentation, punctuation and linguistics of text and storing the results in a digitally accessible format. Author traits are then predicted using a machine learning system based on the results of the segmentation, punctuation and linguistics analysis of the text. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114563 | REAL-TIME SEMANTIC ANNOTATION SYSTEM AND THE METHOD OF CREATING ONTOLOGY DOCUMENTS ON THE FLY FROM NATURAL LANGUAGE STRING ENTERED BY USER - Disclosed herein are a real-time semantic annotation system and a method of converting user-entered natural language strings into semantically-readable knowledge structure documents using the system in real time. The real-time semantic annotation system includes a natural language character string input device for enabling a user to enter natural language character strings, a character string pattern triplet-mapping table for storing natural language character string patterns and their corresponding triplets, a triplet extraction device for converting the entered natural language character strings into triplets by analyzing and processing the entered natural language character strings using the pattern-triplet mapping table, an alternative word recommendation device for providing notification that a user should enter an alternative word, and a machine-readable document generation device for generating machine-readable documents from the triplets using a semantically-readable knowledge structure. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114564 | DYNAMIC UPDATE OF GRAMMAR FOR INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE - A device provides a question to a user, and receives, from the user, an unrecognized voice response to the question. The device also provides the unrecognized voice response to an utterance agent for determination of the unrecognized voice response without user involvement, and provides an additional question to the user prior to receiving the determination of the unrecognized voice response from the utterance agent. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114565 | AUDIBLE ERRORS DETECTION AND PREVENTION FOR SPEECH DECODING, AUDIBLE ERRORS CONCEALING - A method and apparatus of providing an audio output to a user in a communications system in which the audio to be output to a user, preferably an audio frame, is assessed before it is broadcast to the user, and then selectively changed on the basis of the assessment. The assessment may be carried out in the audio encoding process, in the audio decoding process and/or after the audio decoding process. The selective changing of the audio output may comprise selectively replacing the audio output and/or re-encoding of the audio output. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114566 | Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding speech signal - An apparatus and method for encoding/decoding a speech signal which determines a variable bit rate based on reserved bits obtained from a target bit rate, is provided. The variable bit rate is determined based on a source feature of the speech signal and the reserved bits is obtained based on the target bit rate. The apparatus for encoding the speech signal may include a linear predictive (LP) analysis unit/quantization unit to determine an immittance spectral frequencies (ISF) index, a closed loop pitch search unit, a fixed codebook search unit, a gain vector quantization (VQ) unit to determine a gain vector quantization (VQ) index, and a bit rate control unit to control at least two indexes of the ISF index, the pitch index, the code index, and the gain VQ index to be encoded to be variable bit rates based on a source feature of a speech signal and the reserved bits. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114567 | Method And Arrangement For Smoothing Of Stationary Background Noise - In a method of smoothing background noise in a telecommunication speech session; receiving and decoding S | 2010-05-06 |
20100114568 | APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus for processing an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which extracting, by an audio processing apparatus, scheme type information indicating either time excitation scheme or frequency excitation scheme for each of a plurality of subframes included in current frame; when the time excitation scheme is applied to at least one subframe among the plurality of subframes according to the scheme type information, extracting mode information representing bit allocation of codebook index for the current frame; and, when the mode information is extracted, decoding the at least one subframe using the mode information according to the time excitation scheme. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114569 | DYNAMIC RANGE CONTROL MODULE, SPEECH PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR AMPLITUDE ADJUSTMENT FOR A SPEECH SIGNAL - The invention provides a dynamic range control module installed in a speech processing apparatus. In one embodiment, the dynamic range control module comprises a buffer, a voice activity detector, a peak calculation module, and an amplitude adjusting module. The buffer buffers a speech signal to obtain a delayed speech signal. The voice activity detector determines a syllable from the delayed speech signal. The peak calculation module calculates peak amplitude of the syllable. The amplitude adjusting module determines an attenuation factor corresponding to the syllable according to the peak amplitude in the syllable, and adjusts amplitude of the whole syllable with the same gain according to the attenuation factor to obtain an adjusted speech signal. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114570 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RESTORING VOICE - An apparatus and a method for restoring voice are provided. The apparatus reduces noise included in a voice signal input to a microphone and outputs a voice signal having reduced noise, detects harmonic frequencies from the voice signal having reduced noise, and restores the voice signal having reduced noise approximate to its original state before being input to the microphone according to detected harmonic frequencies of the voice signal having reduced noise. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114571 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL METHOD, AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL PROGRAM - An information retrieval system comprises: a speech input unit for inputting speech; an information storage unit for storing information with which speech information, of a length with which text degree of similarity is computable, is associated as a retrieval tag; an information selection unit for comparing a feature of each spoken content item extracted from each item of said speech information, with a feature of spoken content extracted from said input speech, to select information with which speech information similar to input speech is associated. The system further comprises an output unit for outputting information selected by said information selection unit, as information associated with input speech. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114572 | SPEAKER SELECTING DEVICE, SPEAKER ADAPTIVE MODEL CREATING DEVICE, SPEAKER SELECTING METHOD, SPEAKER SELECTING PROGRAM, AND SPEAKER ADAPTIVE MODEL MAKING PROGRAM - To enable selection of a speaker, the acoustic feature value of which is similar to that of an utterance speaker, with accuracy and stability, while adapting to changes even when the acoustic feature value of the speaker changes every moment. A speaker score calculating means ( | 2010-05-06 |
20100114573 | Method and Device for Verifying a User - A method and electronic device for verifying a user provides for secure speaker verification. The method includes activating a speaker verification process on the electronic device (step | 2010-05-06 |
20100114574 | RETRIEVAL USING A GENERALIZED SENTENCE COLLOCATION - A method and system for identifying documents relevant to a query that specifies a part of speech is provided. A retrieval system receives from a user an input query that includes a word and a part of speech. Upon receiving an input query that includes a word and a part of speech, the retrieval system identifies documents with a sentence that includes that word collocated with a word that is used as that part of speech. The retrieval system displays to the user an indication of the identified documents. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114575 | System and Method for Extracting a Specific Situation From a Conversation - A system, method, and computer readable article of manufacture for extracting a specific situation in a conversation. The system includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring speech voice data of speakers in the conversation; a specific expression detection unit for detecting the speech voice data of a specific expression from speech voice data of a specific speaker in the conversation; and a specific situation extraction unit for extracting, from the speech voice data of the speakers in the conversation, a portion of the speech voice data that forms a speech pattern that includes the speech voice data of the specific expression detected by the specific expression detection unit. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114576 | SOUND ENVELOPE DECONSTRUCTION TO IDENTIFY WORDS IN CONTINUOUS SPEECH - A speech recognition capability in which words of spoken text are identified based on the contour of sound waves representing the spoken text. Variations in the contour of the sound waves are identified, features are assigned to those variations, and then the features are mapped to sound constructs to provide the words. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114577 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE NATURAL-LANGUAGE RECOGNITION OF A VOCAL EXPRESSION - The invention relates to a method and a device for the natural-language recognition of a vocal expression. A vocal expression of a person is detected and converted into a voice signal to be processed by a voice recognition device. Afterwards, the voice signal is analyzed at the same time or sequentially in a plurality of voice recognition branches of the voice recognition device using a plurality of grammars, wherein the recognition process is successfully completed if the analysis of the voice signal in at least one voice recognition branch supplies a positive recognition result. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114578 | Method and Apparatus for Improving Voice recognition performance in a voice application distribution system - A vocabulary management system for constraining voice recognition processing associated with text-to-speech and speech-to-text rendering associated with use of a voice application in progress between a user accessing a data source through a voice portal has a vocabulary management server connected to a voice application server and to a telephony server, and an instance of vocabulary management software running on the management server for enabling vocabulary establishment and management for voice recognition software. The system is characterized in that an administrator accessing the vocabulary management server uses the software to create unique vocabulary sets that are specific to selected portions of vocabulary associated with target data sources the vocabulary sets differing in content according to administrator direction. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114579 | System and Method of Controlling Sound in a Multi-Media Communication Application - A computing device and computer-readable medium storing instructions for controlling a computing device to customize a voice in a multi-media message created by a sender for a recipient, the multi-media message comprising a text message from the sender to be delivered by an animated entity. The instructions comprise receiving from the sender inserted voice emoticons, which may be repeated, into the text message associated with parameters of a voice used by an animated entity to deliver the text message; and transmitting the text message such that a recipient device can deliver the multi-media message at a variable level associated with a number of times a respective voice emoticon is repeated. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114580 | Responding to a Call to Action Contained in an Audio Signal - An audio signal is monitored to detect the presence of a call to action contained therein. Addressing information is automatically extracted from the call to action and stored on a storage medium. An electronic message responding to the call to action may be automatically prepared, or a contact field may be automatically populated for inclusion in a contact list. The audio signal may be digitized or obtained from a broadcast transmission, and the process may be performed by a mobile communication device, a central system, or a combination thereof. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114581 | Method for encoding, method for decoding, encoder, decoder and computer program products - A method for encoding a plurality of signal values is described, wherein the signal values are grouped into a first subgroup and a second subgroup, the signal values of the first subgroup are compared to the signal values of the second subgroup and based on the result of the comparison it is decided whether the signal values of the first subgroup are bit-plane encoded with higher priority than the signal values of the second subgroup. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114582 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CODING AND DECODING MULTI-OBJECT AUDIO SIGNAL WITH VARIOUS CHANNEL INCLUDING INFORMATION BITSTREAM CONVERSION - Provided is an apparatus and method for coding and decoding multi-object audio signals with various channels and providing backward compatibility with a conventional spatial audio coding (SAC) bitstream. The apparatus includes: an audio object coding unit for coding audio-object signals inputted to the coding apparatus based on a spatial cue and creating rendering information for the coded audio-object signals, where the rendering information provides a coding apparatus including spatial cue information for audio-object signals; channel information of the audio-object signals; and identification information of the audio-object signals, and used in coding and decoding of the audio signals. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114583 | APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus for processing an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving a spectral data of lower band and type information indicating a particular band extension scheme for a current frame of the audio signal from among a plurality of band extension schemes including a first band extension scheme and a second band extension scheme, by an audio processing apparatus; when the type information indicates the first band extension scheme for the current frame, generating a spectral data of higher band in the current frame using the spectral data of lower band by performing the first band extension scheme; and when the type information indicates the second band extension scheme for the current frame, generating the spectral data of higher band in the current frame using the spectral data of lower band by performing the second band extension scheme, wherein the first band extension scheme is based on a first data area of the spectral data of lower band, and wherein the second band extension scheme is based on a second data area of the spectral data of lower band. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114584 | AUDIO DEVICE AND AUDIO PROCESSING METHOD - An audio device and an audio processing method are provided. The audio device includes a digital microphone module and an audio codec. The digital microphone module captures an external audio source according to a spread-spectrum clock, in order to generate a digital audio source signal. The audio codec includes a clock generation module, a storage unit, and an audio codec core. The clock generation module generates a clock signal and the spread-spectrum clock. The storage unit temporarily stores a first digital audio source signal from the digital microphone module according to the spread-spectrum clock, and outputs the first digital audio source signal according to the clock signal. The audio codec core comprises a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter and an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114585 | APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus for processing an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which a method for processing an audio signal, comprising: extracting noise filling flag information indicating whether noise filling is used to a plurality of frames; extracting coding scheme information indicating whether a current frame included in the plurality of frames is coded in either a frequency domain or a time domain; when the noise filling flag information indicates that the noise filling is used to for the plurality of frames and the coding scheme information indicates that the current frame is coded in the frequency domain, extracting noise level information for the current frame; when a noise level value corresponding to the noise level information meets a predetermined level, extracting noise offset information for the current frame; and, when the noise offset information is extracted, performs the noise-filling for the current frame based on the noise level value and the noise offset information. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114586 | BROKERED SERVICE DELIVERY - A selected activity of a service process model displayed in a process view of a graphical user interface may be determined. The service process model may represent a software service to be provided from a service provider to a consumer by way of a service broker. At least one service delivery entity associated with the service broker and providing service delivery functionality to be included in a brokered service process model may be determined, the service delivery entity including a state machine comprising states and transitions between the states. Configuration options may be provided in a configuration view of the graphical user interface. The configuration options may include goal states of the states to be reached as part of the brokered service process model and in association with the selected activity. A selected goal state of the goal states may be determined. The brokered service process model may be provided within a brokered service process view of the graphical user interface. The brokered service process model may include at least one entity activity configured to cause the selected goal state to be reached in association with the selected activity. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114587 | PATENT EVALUATING DEVICE - A patent evaluating device comprises a data acquiring section ( | 2010-05-06 |
20100114588 | METHODS AND SYSTEM TO MANAGE PATIENT INFORMATION - Methods and system to manage patient information are described. An example computer-implemented method to manage patient information includes analyzing a first patient identification to extract first information. Additionally, the example method includes comparing the extracted first information to extracted second information related to a second patient identification to determine if the first patient identification and the second patient identification are associated with the same patient. Further, the example method includes associating the first information and the second information with the same patient identification when the first patient identification and the second patient identification are determined to be associated with the same patient. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114589 | USER INTERFACE FOR PRESENTING CLINICAL ORDER CONTENT BASED UPON DESIGNATED PERFORMANCE LOCATION - Computerized methods and systems for permitting clinicians and other healthcare providers to designate performance locations for clinical orders having one or more phases associated therewith, and for presenting order catalog content that is flexed based upon the designated performance location for the clinical order are provided. Further provided are computerized methods and systems for permitting clinicians and other healthcare providers to designate a performance location for each phase of a multi-phase clinical order, and for presenting order catalog content for each phase that is flexed based upon the designated performance location for the phase. User interfaces for presenting content associated with clinical orders based upon designated performance locations are also provided. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114590 | ORDERING CLINICAL ORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH FUTURE EVENTS - Computerized methods and systems for permitting clinicians and other healthcare providers to designate performance locations for clinical orders having one or more phases associated therewith, and for presenting order catalog content that is flexed based upon the designated performance location for the clinical order are provided. Further provided are computerized methods and systems for permitting clinicians and other healthcare providers to designate a performance location for each phase of a multi-phase clinical order, and for presenting order catalog content for each phase that is flexed based upon the designated performance location for the phase. Systems and methods for providing control of plan and phase initiation based at least upon a location associated with the chart encounter are also provided. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114591 | PRESENTING MULTI-PHASE CLINICAL ORDER CONTENT BASED UPON A DESIGNATED PERFORMANCE LOCATION - Computerized methods and systems for permitting clinicians and other healthcare providers to designate performance locations for clinical orders having one or more phases associated therewith, and for presenting order catalog content that is flexed based upon the designated performance location for the clinical order are provided. Further provided are computerized methods and systems for permitting clinicians and other healthcare providers to designate a performance location for each phase of a multi-phase clinical order, and for presenting order catalog content for each phase that is flexed based upon the designated performance location for the phase. Systems and methods for providing control of plan and phase initiation based at least upon a location associated with the chart encounter are also provided. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114592 | Compositions and methods for therapeutic delivery with frozen particles - Certain embodiments disclosed herein relate to compositions, methods, devices, systems, and products regarding frozen particles. In certain embodiments, the frozen particles include materials at low temperatures. In certain embodiments, the frozen particles provide vehicles for delivery of particular agents. In certain embodiments, the frozen particles are administered to at least one biological tissue. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114593 | MEANS AND METHOD OF OBTAINING AND PROCESSING DATA FOR USE IN MEDICAL OR HEALTH ASSESSMENT - Present invention discloses a system and a method of obtaining and processing data for use in insurance underwriting which comprise a set of influencing factors, provide an application questionnaire including a series of application questions relating to a plurality of influencing factors and a plurality of possible application responses to each application question, assign risk-scores to at least a portion of said application responses, present said application questionnaire to an applicant, collect application responses to at least a portion of the application questions, compile optionally at least one expert questionnaire including all questions left unanswered by the applicant, present optionally said expert questionnaires to at least one expert, and collect responses to the expert questionnaires and determine a total response for the applicant. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114594 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF CLINICAL TRIALS - A tool for planning and management of clinical trials. The tool computes a patient enrollment timeline in a clinical trial using multiple factors that bear on the rate of patient enrollment. The factors may be site-dependent factors or may be country-dependent factors. When these factors are applied, different sites may have different rates of enrollment in the same interval. Further, the factors may be time dependent such that even the same sites may have different enrollment rates in different intervals. Once the timeline is created, the tool may use it to calculate a schedule of monitor visits, project trial completion or otherwise generate output used in management of the clinical trial. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114595 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING HEALTH INFORMATION - A method for providing health information associated with a health status, the method including the steps of, in a processing system, receiving an indication of an action performed ( | 2010-05-06 |
20100114596 | USE OF A CLOSED COMMUNICATION SERVICE FOR SOCIAL SUPPORT NETWORKS TO IMPROVE THE WELL BEING OF A PRIMARY CARE PROVIDER - Methods and systems for improving the well-being or reducing stress of a primary caregiver of an elder subject are provided. According to one embodiment, a communications network provides a closed communication service. A database is operable to store information regarding caregroup membership. One or more server computers coupled to the database are operable to receive from and distribute electronic communications among electronic communication access systems associated with members of a caregroup and a communication appliance associated with a target of the caregroup. The one or more server computers have stored therein one or more routines operable to facilitate and encourage one or more of affective communication, activity stimulating communication and intellectually stimulating communication among the members of the caregroup and the target of the caregroup as a method of improving well-being or reducing stress of a primary, residential caregiver of the target. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114597 | Method and system for medical imaging reporting - A method for supporting a preparation of medical report for a patient. The method comprises acquiring one or more medical imaging studies and/or medical records which are related to the patient, automatically matching a report template to the one or more medical imaging studies and/or medical records according to at least one characteristic thereof, presenting the matched report template to allow a user to provide a diagnosis of the one or more medical imaging studies and/or medical records, and embedding the diagnosis in the matched report template. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114598 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A MEDICAL REPORT AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREFOR - A method and a system for generating, with the assistance of a computer system( | 2010-05-06 |
20100114599 | SYSTEM FOR EVALUATION PATIENT CARE OUTCOMES - A system for providing healthcare providers, hospitals, and health plans with quality and cost data for risk-adjusted outcomes for patients within clinical service lines. The system integrates with the provider's or hospital's existing data management systems and sources to analyze patient care and outcomes using statistical analysis. The system produces tailored, risk-adjusted clinical outcomes and cost models, highlighting opportunities for improvements within a provider's or hospital's clinical landscapes, allowing providers, hospitals and health plans to quantify cost savings through focused efforts to improve clinical quality and reduce adverse effects. The system concentrates on class of complication, cost of complications, and financial returns and providing hospitals and health plans a comprehensive view of clinical performance. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114600 | Electronic Physician's Order Entering System - An electronic physician's orders system that automates and simplifies existing methods of generating, maintaining and retrieving physician's orders. In contrast to other systems, the electronic physician's orders system can create physician's orders electronically at the point-of-care and can maintain the orders in an Orders' Database or print the orders for use in a paper-based system. Thus, the system can eliminate or supplement creating and maintaining handwritten physician's orders records. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114601 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PRESCRIBING THERAPEUTIC AND PREVENTIVE REGIMENS - Systems and methods are disclosed for aiding physicians and other healthcare workers in setting prescriptions of therapeutic and/or preventive regimens. In certain embodiments the invention compares patient genotype, phenotype, proteomic, molecular, and/or other profile information with a database of information that associates third party profiles with third party responses to therapeutic and preventive regimens. The comparison information may be used by a physician or other healthcare provider to identify potential safety and/or efficacy effects of a prescribed regimen if undertaken by the patient. The systems and methods provide for the secure storage and directed access of the patient profiles. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114602 | Apparatus and method for processing and/or for providing healthcare information and/or healthcare-related information - A computer-implemented method, including receiving information regarding an individual transmitted from a first device associated with a healthcare provider via the Internet or World Wide Web, which information contains information regarding a symptom, examination finding, diagnosis, treatment, administration of a treatment, or procedure, processing information for performing a diagnostic evaluation of the individual, processing information for determining a risk level or risk score for the individual, storing the information regarding the individual, the diagnostic evaluation, the risk level, or the risk score, or updating the healthcare record or history of, for, or associated with, the individual, generating an insurance claim automatically in response to the storing of the information regarding the individual, the diagnostic evaluation, the risk level, or the risk score, or the updating of the healthcare record or history, and transmitting the insurance claim to a second device associated with a healthcare insurer or payer. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114603 | Systems and Methods for Obtaining Readings of Diagnostic Imaging Studies - Systems and methods for method providing a diagnostic image study to one or more interpreters may include receiving the diagnostic image study at a first translator, making the diagnostic image study available to one or more board certified and credentialed interpreters substantially simultaneously, and selecting one or more of the interpreters to provide an interpretation of the images based on one or more variables. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114604 | Authorization Process for High Intensity Medical Interventions - An authorization process for high intensity medical interventions (e.g., diagnostic, therapeutic) which includes the steps of: entering information regarding a patient and a particular service request into a computer-based algorithm; generating questions based on the information; receiving responses to the generated questions; assessing the responses to the generated questions; and determining whether a high intensity medical intervention is indicated. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114605 | MANAGING THE DISTRIBUTION OF DRUG SAMPLES - Computer-based method and system that helps track and manage drug sample distribution, helps ensure drug samples are dispensed and used in a safe and efficient manner, and helps capture information about how drug samples are being distributed and used. The method includes storing inventory information for one or more drug samples received at a prescriber's office, presenting a user-selectable list of drugs available in the inventoried samples and, in response to a user's selection of one of the listed drugs, presenting patient-specific information regarding the selected drug's suitability for dispensing as a sample. The method also includes automatically updating the stored inventory information for the selected drug in response to an indication from the user that a quantity of the selected drug is being dispensed to a patient as a sample. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114606 | Online therapy database - The present invention relates to the field online databases. More specifically, this method allows school districts to save money on hiring therapists on a full time basis. The present invention provides an automated method for providing therapy to a student by first having a school district issue a treatment plan to an agency. Next, an automated system generates a recommended schedule for the student. After the schedule is approved, the therapist meets with the student and records the detailed information from each session. Afterward, the school is billed for the treatment plan and the therapist is compensated for the services rendered. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114607 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING REPORTS AND SEGMENTATION OF PHYSICIAN ACTIVITIES - A system includes a database with at least one dataset with at least one data field corresponding to at least one field of data of a medical claim form, a computing platform in communication with the database, and a memory module. The at least one dataset is formed from de-identified provider information. The memory module contains at least one conversion table for converting between a provider identification code and a corresponding provider name. The computing platform receives a request for information, extracts from the database one or more datasets having information responsive to the request, and forms an output table based on the extracted one or more datasets. The table includes the provider name. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114608 | MEDICAL IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - Disclosed a medical image display system including: a control member to allow an electric medical record system which manages electric medical record data and a medical image management system which manages a series of various pieces of processing data from photographing to displaying of a medical image to work in concert with each other; and a display member to display a screen to show the electric medical record data and a screen to show the various pieces of processing data wherein the control member changes a displaying status and a display order of the screens displayed in the display member depending on a kind of cooperative operation between the electric medical record system and the medical image management system. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114609 | System and method for medical report generation - The present invention is a fully HIPAA and standards-compliant web-based reporting tool built by and for physicians to produce medical reports quickly and easily. The present invention comes with numerous reporting applications and can work independently or be embedded into other applications. A user can change applications to fit their workflow by adding or removing form objects, adjusting the display layout, changing error checking or business logic or changing the structure of the final report all without traditional programming. A user could start from scratch to build out a new application. The present invention interfaces with existing systems, provides a structured workflow, contains many advanced features that allow the user to review results and make changes before creating a structured report. A comparison feature examines data from previous reports and automatically displays clinically important changes into the new report. Quality assurance assessments, billing and statistical reporting can also be performed. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114610 | Electronic Method and System That Improves Efficiencies for Rendering Diagnosis of Radiology Procedures - An electronic method and system for improving radiologists' efficiencies when viewing radiology procedures and rendering diagnosis in a manner that emulates current methods and apparatus. The method of the present invention includes reviewing electronic radiology images and reports contained in a patient's digital master folder (an information object invented to manage the patient's radiology information), comparing images from the current procedure to specific images from prior procedures in a specified order, and dictating the procedure's diagnosis into the digital master folder. The apparatus of the present invention includes a flat panel monitor for the viewing and manipulation of digital master folders, a dictation trackball device for manual and voice enabled operation and navigation of the system, and multiple high-resolution computer monitors functioning as a “light-box” for the viewing of radiology images. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114611 | METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MEASURING AND UTILIZING EFFICIENCY OF MEDICAL RESOURCE AND SERVICES PROVIDERS - A method and computer program product is provided that, in various embodiments, may provide a measure of efficiency of resources used in medical treatment plan options. A normalized Relative Resource Value (RRV) may be obtained that measures the level of resources required to satisfy a “normal” case for a particular aspect of medical care. Applying this value against actual costs allows ranking and/or comparison of health care providers relative to one another on the basis of the price or resources applied or utilized. Moreover, applying the RRV against the quality of outcome allows comparison and ranking of providers on overall value. The invention may be applied to the components of medical care comprising, inter alia, acute inpatient, non-acute inpatient, outpatient, professional office-based care including scheduled outpatient, and pharmacy/prescriptions. The normalized RRV obtained under various embodiments of the invention may measure resource use for medical treatment plan options/resources independent of price. The RRV may be relative across, as well as within, each of the components of medical care. Thus, provider profiling generally as well as profiling across treatment plan options based on efficiency generally is within the scope of various embodiments of the invention. Moreover, providers may be compared based on efficiency for specific conditions, as well as across conditions, across treatment plan options and across components of care using various embodiments of the invention. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114612 | Systems and methods for providing supplemental insurance for leased vehicles - Methods of the present invention are designed to offer insurance to lessees of vehicles to cover up front, out-of-pocket lease expenses in the event of a total loss, e.g., theft, and preferably include steps performed by a vehicle leasing dealer as well as steps performed by one or more participating insurers. The steps are preferably performed with the aid of computing devices which are in communication. When the lease is prepared, the relevant information about the lease and the lessee is submitted by the lease dealer to the participating insurers. The insurers determine the cost of supplemental insurance based on this information and, if the cost is acceptable, offer insurance coverage to the lessee. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114613 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING AN EVENT - The present invention relates to a method, a system and a physical computer readable medium for distributing payment to a host of an event and a second entity by receiving payment confirmations indicating payment amounts from guests for the event. The payment amounts for all received confirmations are aggregated. Using the aggregated payment amounts, a first payment total and a second payment total are calculated and distributed to the host of the event and a second entity, respectively. The present invention further relates to a method for managing an event. The method involves registering a host, registering an event, and registering guests for the event. In response to receiving notification from at least one guest, status information for the event is provided to the host. The status information includes: the event, the guests, and at least some information based on the received notification. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114614 | Controlling Registration for a Social Event - A system and method for controlling registration for a social event comprising: receiving a request, at a server on a network, from a prospective attendee to register for the social event; determining based upon at least one attribute of the prospective attendee if the number of already registered prospective attendees plus the prospective attendee exceeds a predetermined limit for the at least one attribute, and if so cancelling the prospective attendee's registration; otherwise, determining whether the difference between the number of already registered prospective attendees plus the prospective attendee having the at least one attribute and the number of already registered prospective attendees having at least one other attribute exceeds a predetermined difference limit, wherein: if the difference is less than or equal to the predetermined difference limit, registering the prospective attendee to attend the social event; otherwise, suspending the prospective attendee's registration; notifying the prospective attendee of registration status. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114615 | OPTIMIZED INVENTORY SELECTION - Systems and methods for electronically ranking records of inventory items are provided. Inventory items satisfying search criteria are electronically identified and ranked according to an inventory score calculated from a function comprising inventory attribute values of the inventory items and weighting values corresponding to the inventory attributes. The scored inventory may be further displayed to a user, such as a user that electronically submits the search criteria. The attribute values may include inventory item characteristics perceptible to users of the inventory items. The weighting values may be generated from a discrete choice model employing a conditional logit function fit to training data. The inventory score function may further include a long term function that numerically represents inventory items characteristic that are not perceptible to users of the inventory items. The disclosed embodiments may be applied to inventory including, but not limited to, travel inventory, such as hotels. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114616 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING A FLEET OF MOTOR VEHICLES ACCESSIBLE VIA A STORAGE KEY AND METHOD FOR MANAGING THE CORRESPONDING FLEET - A system for managing a fleet of motor vehicles, including a central platform that can store data for the management of the fleet and an interface located remotely from the vehicle, enabling communication between a driver and the central platform. Each vehicle of the fleet can be accessed via a storage key that can store data relating to the identification and operation of the vehicle, as well as data relating to the fleet management contract, and which can be used to manage engine start-up/engine immobilization and locking/unlocking functions of the vehicle. Each key can be activated and released by the central platform at the user's request via the remote interface that can communicate with the central platform. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114617 | DETECTING POTENTIALLY FRAUDULENT TRANSACTIONS - An approach that detects potentially fraudulent transactions is provided. In one embodiment, there is a fraud detection tool including, an identification component configured to identify a first person present within a zone of interest at a point of sale (POS) device using a set of sensor devices; a transaction component configured to determine whether the POS device has performed a first transaction and a second transaction while the first person is present within the zone of interest at the POS device; an analysis component configured to: analyze a transaction type of the first transaction and the second transaction; and detect whether the second transaction is potentially fraudulent based on a determination of whether the POS device has performed a first transaction and a second transaction while the first person is within the zone of interest at the POS device, and an analysis of the transaction type of the second transaction. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114618 | Management of Variants of Model of Service - A system for developing a computer implemented service, for deployment on computing infrastructure, generates variants of the model by automatically choosing values for a limited set of design variables, and evaluates the variants in operation. A model manager ( | 2010-05-06 |
20100114619 | CUSTOMIZED TRANSFORMATION OF FREE-FORM BUSINESS CONCEPTS TO SEMANTICALLY RICH BUSINESS MODELS - A computer-implemented method for transforming a free-form process diagram into a semantically rich business model based on heuristics. The method includes generating and storing predefined mappings between informal elements to be used in a free-form process diagram and formal elements associated with a semantically rich business model, in a storage medium, receiving a free-form process diagram to be transformed, automatically detecting and mapping the informal elements of the free-form process diagram to the stored predefined-mappings, automatically detecting and mapping connectors positioned between the informal elements of the free-form process diagram, and obtaining user input from a user for generating user-defined mappings for mapping unrecognizable informal elements of the free-form process diagram to formal elements and transforming the unrecognized informal elements into formal elements based on the user-defined mappings. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114620 | Service Description Refinement Based on Actual Service Use - Techniques are disclosed for generation and refinement of service descriptions based on records of invocations of the services, i.e., service description refinement based on actual service use. For example, a method for describing one or more services in a service-oriented environment comprised of one or more clients invoking the one or more services comprises the following steps. An initial description is established for at least one of the one or more services. Information is collected from one or more service invocations including at least one of a client identity, a value of at least one parameter, a return value, and an execution time. The information is analyzed to refine the description. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114621 | System And Methods For Modeling Consequences Of Events - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for modeling consequences of events on performance indicators. A causality model is provided to define relationships between events and the consequences associated with each one of the events to modify a value of at least one of the performance indicators associated with each one of the events. An algorithm included in the causality model is executable to compute an impact of the consequences on the value. A causality model management system is provided to manage the causality model, including storing, execution of the algorithm, interfacing with other systems, and simulating what-if scenarios of the events and the performance indicators. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114622 | PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS ENHANCEMENT TO ENTITY MOBILITY/PRODUCTIVITY OPPORTUNITIES - Systems and methods are disclosed for assessing a relocation option. More specifically, a line of business may assess a relocation option by generating a geographic model that may be based on data about a relocation option. The system and method of generating a geographic model may include the generation of a reward score based on reward drivers. The model may also include generating a risk score that is based on risk factors. The reward score and the risk score may be compared. The line of business may also conduct an in-country/due diligence visit based at least in part on the geographic model and may assemble a risk mitigation framework. In addition, outputs of the model may be analyzed using portfolio theory analysis. Such portfolio theory analysis may include determining the Markowitz Efficient Frontier of optimal location sets. The analysis may also include obtaining an optimal location set based on a preferably predetermined concentration risk tolerance. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114623 | USING DETAILED PROCESS INFORMATION AT A POINT OF SALE - Techniques for using transactional and visual event information to facilitate loss prevention are provided. The techniques include obtaining video of one or more visual events at a point of sale environment and one or more transaction log entries that correspond to the video, wherein the one or more transaction log entries comprise one or more transactional events, categorizing each event as one of one or more model events, using each categorized event to create a revised transaction log, wherein the revised transaction log comprises a sequence of categorized events, wherein each categorized event is a combination of the one or more transactional events and the one or more visual events, examining the revised transaction log to correct one or more mis-categorizations, if any, and revise one or more model event categories with the one or more corrected mis-categorizations, if any, and using the revised transaction log to facilitate loss prevention. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114624 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE GENERATED BY MARKETING INVESTMENTS UNDER BUDGET CONSTRAINTS - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for optimizing financial performance. Time series data describing the financial performance generated by corresponding marketing investments is provided to configure an econometric model. Linear coefficients of the econometric model are adjusted in accordance with the qualitative factors received as inputs from experts. The econometric model is transformed into an aggregated non-linear econometric model that includes non-linear factors that cause the financial performance to change at a varying rate as a function of the marketing investments. An allocation of the marketing investments generated by the aggregated non-linear econometric model is adjusted by applying an optimization algorithm to provide an optimized financial performance. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114625 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING A CONSISTENT HIERARCHY OF DECOMPOSITION OF A BUSINESS METRIC - Methods and apparatuses for computing a variance between two business metrics is described. In one embodiment, the method computes a variance for each of a first set of activities based on the corresponding reference state of that activity, wherein the variance for an activity is the change in contribution for that activity between the first and second business metrics and with each of the first set of activities having a reference value. Furthermore, the method computes a variance for each of a second set of activities based on the corresponding start and end values of that activity with each of the second set of activities having a start and end value. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114626 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CAR SHARING - The present disclosure is directed to a method for facilitating ride sharing among a plurality of commuters having a common starting location. The method may comprise receiving a leaving status set by a first commuter; retrieving a set of predefined attributes of the first commuter from a repository; sending a travel request to a central manager, the travel request comprising the set of predefined attributes of the first commuter; analyzing the set of predefined attributes to determine a list of potentially matching commuters; broadcasting the travel request to the list of potentially matching commuters; determining a list of confirmed matching commuters based on responses from the list of potentially matching commuters; forming an agreement between the commuters; and setting a new status for the first commuter and each of the list of confirmed matching commuters, the new status indicating completion of ride sharing matching. | 2010-05-06 |
20100114627 | Processing of Provenance Data for Automatic Discovery of Enterprise Process Information - Techniques are disclosed for capturing, storing, querying and analyzing provenance data for automatic discovery of enterprise process information. For example, a computer-implemented method for managing a process associated with an enterprise comprises the following steps. Data associated with an actual end-to-end execution of an enterprise process is collected. Provenance data is generated based on at least a portion of the collected data, wherein the provenance data is indicative of a lineage of one or more data items. A provenance graph that provides a visual representation of the generated provenance data is generated, wherein nodes of the graph represent records associated with the collected data and edges of the graph represent relations between the records. The generated provenance graph is stored in a repository for use in analyzing the enterprise process. | 2010-05-06 |