| 19th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
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| 20140129169 | CHROMATOGRAM DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE - Before executing a search for optimal correspondence relationship with a coarse-to-fine DP (dynamic programming) algorithm using time information of peaks appearing in a chromatogram as input data, a simplified linear correction is executed based on detection of start point and end point of the section in which the peaks are present. It is sufficient to correct only nonlinear time deviations in coarse-to-fine DP, and the space to be searched is thus narrowed down. In addition, in coarse stage DP, the number of pieces of data to be processed is reduced by selecting peaks based on peak intensity. Between coarse stage DP and fine stage DP, local inappropriate matching is eliminated by performing filtering processing in accordance with trend of time deviations over the entire chromatogram. The space to be searched in fine stage DP becomes narrow, which reduces the number of candidates to be searched and shortens the calculation time. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129170 | METHOD FOR ALIGNING A MOBILE DEVICE SURFACE WITH THE COORDINATE SYSTEM OF A SENSOR - An accelerometer in a mobile device is calibrated by taking multiple measurements of acceleration vectors when the mobile device is held stationary at different orientations with respect to a plane normal. A circle is calculated that fits respective tips of measured acceleration vectors in the accelerometer coordinate system. The radius of the circle and the lengths of the measured acceleration vectors are used to calculate a rotation angle for aligning the accelerometer coordinate system with the mobile device surface. A gyroscope in the mobile device is calibrated by taking multiple measurements of a rotation axis when the mobile device is rotated at different rates with respect to the rotation axis. A line is calculated that fits the measurements. The angle between the line and an axis of the gyroscope coordinate system is used to align the gyroscope coordinate system with the mobile device surface. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129171 | RATE-OF-TURN BIAS ESTIMATION FOR MARINE NAVIGATION - An example includes a method to estimate a bias affecting an inertial sensor. The method can include monitoring a plurality of rate-of-turn samples, from the inertial sensor, in a sequence over time, wherein each of the plurality of rate-of-turn samples includes substantially the same actual bias value that is included in each of the plurality of other rate-of-turn samples. The method can include estimating the bias as a weighted average of the plurality of rate-of-turn samples. The method can include determining an adjusted rate-of-turn sample by subtracting the bias from an instant rate-of-turn sample of the plurality of rate-of-turn samples. The method can include putting out the adjusted rate-of-turn. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129172 | AUTOMATED SAMPLE PROCESSING SYSTEM - One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method comprising receiving instruction data relating to a sample in a sample container. The method includes generating, by at least one processor using a workflow management layer, a process plan for the sample, and providing the process plan to a process control layer. The process plan comprises a plurality of possible routes. The method also comprises selecting, by the at least one processor using the process control layer, an optimized route within the plurality of possible routes in the process plan, and providing the optimized route to a middleware control layer. The at least one processor and middleware control layer are operable to cause a transport system to proceed along the selected route. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129173 | Application Component Testing - Systems and methods described here include embodiments for generating component test code for use in an application test generation program used to test an application under test. Certain embodiments include a computer server running the application test generation program with an integrated custom engine and function libraries, the custom engine configured to allow a user to define a component, allow the user to select at least one application area, allow the user to define a component step for the defined component, wherein defining a component step includes, an object repository associated with the selected application area, at least one object option associated with the selected object repository, wherein the selection of the object option determines subsequent sets of object options for selection by the user, repeating, and to generate the component test code, via associations in the function libraries between component test code portions and the defined component steps. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129174 | Apparatus and Sensors for Attachment to the Apparatus - An apparatus and plurality of sensors where the apparatus includes a plurality of coupling elements; a plurality of attachment portions configured to enable a plurality of sensors to be removably attached to the apparatus; at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program instructions; wherein the at least one memory and the computer program instructions are configured to, with the at least one processor, enable the apparatus to individually address each of the plurality of coupling elements to obtain a reading from each of the plurality of sensors attached to the apparatus. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129175 | MAP-BASED ADAPTIVE SAMPLING OF ORIENTATION SENSORS FOR POSITIONING - Techniques are provided for adaptively sampling orientation sensors in positioning systems based on location (e.g., map) data. Embodiments can enable a device to use location, direction, and/or location information to anticipate an expected change in motion. The embodiments can then identify and prioritize a number of sampling strategies to alter sampling rates of orientation sensors, and implement at least one strategy, based on priority. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129176 | ESTIMATING THE GRAVITY VECTOR IN A WORLD COORDINATE SYSTEM USING AN ACCELEROMETER IN A MOBILE DEVICE - An accelerometer located within a mobile device is used to estimate a gravity vector on a target plane in a world coordinate system. The accelerometer makes multiple measurements, each measurement being taken when the mobile device is held stationary on the target plane and a surface of the mobile device faces and is in contact with a planar portion of the target plane. An average of the measurements is calculated. A rotational transformation between an accelerometer coordinate system and a mobile device's coordinate system is retrieved from a memory in the mobile device, where the mobile device's coordinate system is aligned with the surface of the mobile device. The rotational transformation is applied to the averaged measurements to obtain an estimated gravity vector in a world coordinate system defined by the target plane. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129177 | Systems and Methods for Frequency-Based Stride Length Correction in a Pedometer Device - A pedometer or other stride-detection device ( | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129178 | Selecting Feature Types to Extract Based on Pre-Classification of Sensor Measurements - A processing apparatus including one or more processors and memory receives sensor measurements generated by one or more sensors of one or more devices, pre-classifies the sensor measurements as belonging to one of a plurality of pre-classifications, and selects one or more feature types to extract from the sensor measurements based at least in part on the pre-classification of the sensor measurements. The processing apparatus also extracts features of the one or more selected feature types from the sensor measurements and determines a state of a respective device of the one or more devices in accordance with a classification of the sensor measurements determined based on the one or more features extracted from the sensor measurements. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129179 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI CHANNEL GLOSS MEASUREMENTS - The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for determining a set of gloss measurement values of a sample to be measured. The invention includes a plurality of light sources having a light output, the plurality of sources configured to project light in the direction of a single sample having a gloss characteristic to be measured, wherein the planes of incidence of the light sources are arrayed at different azimuthal angles about the perpendicular direction of the sample. Furthermore, the invention includes a plurality gloss-sensitive sensors, each positioned at 180 degrees of azimuthal angle from the plurality of light sources so as to receive light reflected off a sample and output a plurality of measured gloss sample channel values and a processor configured to compare the outputs of the plurality of sample channel values and generate a plurality of angle-indexed gloss measurement values. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129180 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING AND REPORTING EVENTS IN A BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems and methods for evaluating and reporting events in a building management system are provided. An event indication for building equipment of the building management system is received at a processing circuit. The event indication is associated with an event. The processing circuit classifies the event as at least one of a cause event and a symptom event. The processing circuit suppresses the event indication in response to classifying the event as a symptom event and displays the event indication in response to classifying the event as a cause event. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129181 | OBJECT DESIGN - Described herein are systems, methods and apparatuses that can provide an approach to facilitate the design of objects (e.g., modular objects that can facilitate industrial automation applications). The design approach includes: facilitate a display of configuration data representing a configuration of objects selected for an application; analysis of metadata associated with an object of the configuration of objects; and generation of suggestion data representing a suggestion regarding an optimization of the configuration of the objects for the application based on the analysis of the metadata. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129182 | OBJECT DESIGN DATA MODEL - Content management includes populating a library with modular objects and metadata associated with the modular objects. In response to a query, the library can be searched based in part on the metadata. The query can relate to implementation of an industrial process. One or more modular objects in the library can be identified as satisfying the query. A result of the query can be output and the output can include the identified modular objects and the respective metadata associated with the identified modular objects. The metadata can be anything known about the object that might not be accessible at runtime control. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129183 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING FINITE ELEMENT MODEL - A method for producing a finite element model is disclosed. From a contour data set about the original contour shape of an analysis object, a nonuniformly-scaled contour data set about a nonuniformly-scaled contour obtained by anisotropically scaling up or down the contour shape is reconstructed using a scaling factor. The nonuniformly-scaled contour is divided into a finite number of elements and node points are defined to form a primary model. The primary model is anisotropically scaled by the reciprocal of the scaling factor to form the finite element model having the original contour shape. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129184 | Systems, Methods, and Media for Labeling Three Dimensional Surfaces - A strategy for predicting the occurrence of labeling defects is described. Also described are associated systems and computer-readable media for predicting such defects. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129185 | APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A 3D MODEL - There are disclosed an apparatus of assembling a 3D model including a key input unit configured to generate a variety of key inputs for 3D model assembling or key data based on touch input on a screen; a control unit configured to drive an application to implement 3D model assembling based on the key input from the key input unit; a 3D model unit configured to provide a menu screen for 3D model assembling, when driven by the control unit, to display a screen of parts for a 3D model selected as an assembling object based on the touch or key input on the menu screen and to assemble parts selected from the part screen gradually to finish the 3D model; and a display unit configured to display gradual screens based on the 3D model assembling performed by the 3D model unit. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129186 | SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING FINAL POSITION OF TEETH - An apparatus and method define a fit of a set of upper and lower teeth of a patient by generating a computer representation of the teeth; and determining an occlusion from the computer representation of the teeth using one or more keys. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129187 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED RELIABILITY OPERATIONS - A system may include a model library configured to model a system, wherein the model library comprises a plurality of subsystem models, and each of the plurality of subsystem models is configured to derive a reliability measure. The system further includes a fault tolerance input and a maintenance policy input. The system further includes a dynamic risk calculation engine (DRCE) configured to use a user-defined set of the plurality of subsystem models, the fault tolerance input and the maintenance policy input, to derive a system risk for an apparatus. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129188 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF SEISMIC IMAGES - A method for modeling illumination in a seismic survey of a subsurface region using a velocity model thereof includes specifying locations for a plurality of seismic shots, specifying locations for a plurality of seismic receivers, specifying a source radiation pattern for each source, tracing each ray from a reflection surface, computing an energy value for each ray using a Fresnel zone defined at a receiving surface and defined for a single frequency, and repeating the tracing and computing for each shot. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129189 | Systems and Methods for Speed Estimation Based on Stride Data Using Predictive Modeling - Systems and methods for speed estimation based on stride data using predictive modeling relate to portable wireless devices ( | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129190 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR LOCATING A SOURCE OF DIFFUSION IN A NETWORK - The present invention discloses a method, apparatus and computer program product for locating a source of diffusion in a network, the method comprising providing a model of at least a portion of the network, the network comprising a plurality of nodes, a plurality of edges, and at least one source of diffusion, providing a model of a diffusion process initiated by the at least one source during a time period of interest, and employing a source estimator to determine a location of a source of diffusion in at least a portion of the network based on a plurality of network model parameters characteristic for the at least a portion of the network, and a plurality of diffusion process model parameters characteristic for the provided model of a diffusion process. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129191 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE THIGHTNESS OF A SEAL - A method for estimating a seal of a gasket, including: digitally simulating, using a computer, a creep deformation of a gasket resulting from crushing of the gasket between two bearing surfaces; calculating, at an interface between the gasket and one of the two bearing surfaces and during the computer simulation, a cumulative plastic deformation of the gasket, an axial stress between the gasket and the one the two bearing surfaces, and a contact length between the gasket and the one of the two bearing surfaces; and calculating a simulated porosity filling coefficient, representing the seal of the gasket at the interface. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129192 | DEVICE FOR DETECTING THE OPERATING STATE OF A MACHINE - A device for detecting the operating state of a machine comprises one or more sensors for making available in each case an output value relating to a current parameter of a component of the machine, and a processing unit which is connected to the sensors and is programmed to derive information about the operating state of machine using a Hidden Markov Model and on the basis of the measured values of the sensors and/or values derived therefrom. The processing unit can be supplied with a state transition matrix A, elements of an emission probability matrix B for the probability that an observation is conditioned by a certain state, and a vector π for describing an input state, in order to derive the operating states of the machine therefrom. The processing unit is programmed to derive elements of the emission probability matrix B from the measured values of the sensors. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129193 | METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING A BEHAVIOR MODEL OF AN AIRPLANE ENGINE - A method of constructing a behavior model ( | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129194 | METHODS OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL POTENTIAL FIELD MODELING AND INVERSION FOR LAYERED EARTH MODELS - A method for 3D modeling and inversion of potential field geophysical survey data measured above a geological formation having density and/or magnetization and/or susceptibility is described, using potential field data including but not limited to gravity and/or magnetic scalar and/or vector and/or tensor data. The 3D earth model is parameterized in terms of spatially variable contrast surfaces between different geological formations which are characterized by physical properties such as density and/or magnetization and/or susceptibility values and/or functions. The properties of the 3D earth model may be constrained from a priori information. The potential field responses and/or Frechet derivatives (sensitivities) of the spatially variable contrast surfaces between different geological formations and/or physical properties are analytically evaluated using Cauchy-type integral representations of the potential fields for each of the contrast surfaces. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129195 | REAL TIME DYNAMIC PHYSICS SIMULATION DEVICE OF FLEXIBLE DC TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a real time dynamic physics simulation device of flexible DC transmission system. The device includes simulated converter transformer, simulated AC field, simulated DC field, simulated converter reactor, simulated converter, and measurement and control cabinet chassis; the simulated AC field includes the vacuum switch I, the contactor I, resistors and the vacuum switch II connected orderly; the simulated DC field includes successively connected the vacuum switch contactor III and II; the simulated AC field is connected with said measurement and control cabinet chassis; Said converter transformer is set between said resistors and said vacuum switch II; Said simulated converter reactors and said simulated converter connected are set between the vacuum switch II and the vacuum switch III. The present invention can accurately simulate different voltage level flexible DC transmission system based on modular multilevel converter (MMC-HVDC), able to accurately understand the operation characteristics of MMC-HVDC and the dynamic responds to the instruction of the control system. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129196 | SPLIT, BREAK, SUBSTITUTE, AND FRAGMENT-SPLICE OPERATIONS FOR COMPUTER MODELS OF ENZYME CASCADES, METABOLIC SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION, SIGNALING PATHWAYS, CATALYTIC CHEMICAL REACTION NETWORKS, AND IMMUNOLOGY - Computer utilities for adapting data and properties of computer modeled biochemical pathways for use in a modified form. Utilities can be provided for split, break, substitute, and fragment-splice operations are presented for computer models of enzyme cascades, metabolic signal transduction, signaling pathways, catalytic chemical reaction networks, and immunology. Substitution operations can be used in situations where a specific portion of a modeled biochemical pathway is identified and replaced with an alternate topologically-compatible portion of a modeled biochemical pathway. Split/break operations can be used to break a modeled biochemical pathway into two or more fragments. Splice operations can be used to splice fragments obtained from previous editing operations. These and other operations can be used to introduce a new node or pathway hop in a step in a modeled biochemical pathway. The invention provides for resultant modeled biochemical pathway to comprise added feedback, feedforward, allosteric and/or non-allosteric modulation attributes and components. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129197 | ADJUSTMENT SIMULATION METHOD FOR ENERGY CONSUMPTION - A method for analyzing energy savings for a building is provided. The method includes receiving a historical energy usage and a weather data for a building, a set of operations parameters describing building operations and a set of building system parameters describing building systems. A baseline configuration is submitted to a first energy consumption simulation to determine a baseline energy usage profile. A calibrated configuration is determined from the baseline configuration and the historical energy usage. The calibrated configuration is submitted to a second energy consumption simulation to determine a calibrated energy usage profile. A hypothetical configuration is determined from the calibrated configuration and a set of energy improvement measures. The hypothetical configuration is submitted to a third energy consumption simulation to determine a hypothetical energy usage profile and report. The set of energy improvement measures are approved and implemented based on the hypothetical energy usage profile. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129198 | DEVELOPMENT OF WATERSHED FLOW AND ALLOCATION MODEL - Computer-implemented methods and non-transitory computer readable storage media facilitate calculating outflow of water from a selected catchment. A computer-implemented method calculates an outflow of water from a selected catchment is calculated. An identification of a selected catchment from a plurality of catchments within a geographical area is received from a user workstation. A database of multilayered data is accessed, where the data includes hydrological data, geophysical data, and meteorological data for each of the plurality of catchments within the geographical area. From the multilayered data, one or more additional catchments are automatically identified within the plurality of catchments, to identify a group of navigated catchments that drain into the selected catchment. For a given time period, a model is generated determining an outflow of water from the selected catchment and the group of navigated catchments. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129199 | SEQUENTIAL FULLY IMPLICIT WELL MODEL FOR RESERVOIR SIMULATION - A subsurface hydrocarbon reservoir with wells is simulated by sequential solution of reservoir and well equations to simulate fluid flow inside the reservoir and well production rates. Sequential solution of reservoir and well equations treats wells as specified bottom hole pressure wells. This avoids solving large matrices resulting from the simultaneous solution of the reservoir and well equations which can be computationally very expensive for large number of unknowns and require special sparse matrix solvers. Such sequential solution involves regular reservoir system solvers complemented by a small matrix for the numerical solution of the well bottom hole pressures. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129200 | PREOPERATIVE SURGICAL SIMULATION - An apparatus for simulating an image-guided procedure. The system comprises an input for receiving a three-dimensional (3D) medical image depicting an organ of a patient, a model generation unit for generating a 3D anatomical model of the organ according to the 3D medical image, and a simulating unit for simulating a planned image-guided procedure on the patient, according to the 3D anatomical model. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129201 | VALIDATION OF GENETIC TESTS - The invention provides a method for validating a genetic test by introducing a simulated mutation into sequence reads. By editing the information in one or more sequence read files, a set of sequence reads can be manipulated to represent an expected genotype. An analysis of those sequence reads produces an observed genotype and concordance between the expected and observed genotypes validates the analysis. Thus, the invention provides methods for validating new genetic tests. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129202 | PRE-SIMULATION CIRCUIT PARTITIONING - Before supplying a series of instructions to a circuit simulator, methods and systems cache the series of instructions and partition the series of instructions into an active portion and an inactive portion. Instead of supplying the entire series of instructions to the circuit simulator, the methods and systems supply only the instructions directed to the active portion of the integrated circuit to the circuit simulator. Thus, the circuit simulator creates a reduced circuit simulation from just the instructions directed to the active portion (instead of a full integrated circuit that would have been simulated with the entire series of instructions). The reduced circuit simulated by these systems and methods has less circuit elements relative to any integrated circuit that would have been simulated with the entire series of instructions. Thus, this reduced circuit is only a portion of the integrated circuit that would have been simulated. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129203 | SIMULATION METHOD, SIMULATION PROGRAM, SIMULATOR PROCESSING EQUIPMENT, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A simulation method to cause an information processing device to calculate, including: reversely tracing a first flux incident on any position on a surface of a workpiece subject to processing treatment from the position; when the first flux strikes another position on the workpiece surface as a result of the reverse tracing of the first flux, calculating a second flux to be the first flux by scattering at the another position and reversely tracing the second flux from the another position; and, by repeating calculation and reverse tracing of flux, when the reversely traced flux no longer strikes the workpiece surface, carrying out comparison of the flux with an angular distribution of a flux incident on the workpiece, and when the current flux is within the angular distribution, obtaining an amount of flux having contributed to the scattering for a flux group from the first flux to the current flux. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129204 | STATE ESTIMATION FOR COOPERATIVE ELECTRICAL GRIDS - Aspects of state estimation for cooperative electrical grids are disclosed. State estimation of a local electrical grid can be based on a local grid model and local electrical grid information. The local state estimation can reflect interactions and interconnections with other electrical grids by determining state estimation solution information based on the local grid model, local electrical grid information, and remote state estimator solution information associated with the other electrical grid. As such, a local state estimator can be configured to receive and employ remote state estimator solution information. This can be in addition to the more conventional technique or receiving a remote grid model and remote electrical grid information to estimate the conditions of the remote electrical grid. Further, state estimation solution information can be incremental to further reduce the amount of information to be transferred and the time needed to accomplish transmission of the information. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129205 | METHODS FOR DECODING AND DISPATCHING PROGRAM INSTRUCTIONS - Methods for encoding a program. Each program instruction in a program has one or more possible encodings, and each instruction encoding may have a different length. The instruction encodings are selected such that the resulting encoding of the program as a whole minimizes the number of program cycles used in a decoding stage of a processor. Instruction padding or program padding may be used to create instruction encodings of lengths. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129206 | SIMULATOR AND SIMULATING METHOD FOR FLASH MEMORY BACKGROUND - A simulating method for a flash memory and a simulator using the simulating method are provided. The simulator is configured to couple to a memory controller. The simulating method includes: setting a predetermined response condition; providing multiple command sets, wherein each of the command sets corresponds to a memory type; receiving a first command from the memory controller; identifying a second command in the command sets according to the first command; determining if the second command matches the predetermined response condition; obtaining a first signal corresponding to the second command according to the predetermined response condition; and, transmitting the first signal to the memory controller. Accordingly, the usage of the simulator is flexible. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129207 | Augmented Reality Language Translation - Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for translating an utterance into text for display to a user. The approximate location of one or more potential speakers can be determined and a detected utterance can be assigned to one of the potential speakers based, at least in part, on a temporal relationship between the commencement of lip movement by one of the potential speakers and the reception of the utterance. The utterance can be converted to text and, if necessary, translated from a source language to a destination language. The converted text can then be displayed to the user in an augmented reality environment such that the user can intuitively appreciate to which of the potential speakers the converted text should be attributed. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129208 | ELECTRONIC TRANSLATING SYSTEM - A system for translating a message. The system for translating a message includes a computer and a software program. The software program automatically receives and translates a message sent from a remote computer to a selected language. The software also translates outgoing messages to the remote computer. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129209 | STACK-BASED ADAPTIVE LOCALIZATION AND INTERNATIONALIZATION OF APPLICATIONS - The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates use of an application. During operation, the system obtains a language stack containing an ordered set of preferred languages for a user of the application. Next, for each user-interface component from a set of user-interface components in the application, the system obtains content for the user-interface component based on an order of languages in the language stack. The system then includes the content in the user-interface component during use of the application on an electronic device by the user. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129210 | System And Method For Extracting And Reusing Metadata To Analyze Message Content - A system and method for extracting and reusing metadata to analyze messages is provided. A stream of messages is monitored. Those messages with a predetermined message component pointing to a referent are identified. Words that are related to the referent are extracted from each of the messages. A local similarity of the identified messages is determined by comparing the extracted words of each message. A global similarity of the identified messages is determined by combining the extracted words from all the identified messages and by comparing the combined extracted words with extracted words from all messages that include a different referent. A determination is made as to whether one or more of the extracted words from the identified messages are descriptive of the referent based on the local and global comparisons. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129211 | SVO-BASED TAXONOMY-DRIVEN TEXT ANALYTICS - Organizing textual data into statement clusters. Sentences are extracted from textual data and parsed. A verb usage pattern is identified and an SVO triplet is determined. The SVO triplet is compared to a taxonomy associated with the domain of the data and a sentiment is derived. A statement cluster is constructed comprising a higher level SVO triplet sensitive to the taxonomy and verb usage pattern, as well as the derived sentiment. Accordingly, the statement clusters may be organized by grouping. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129212 | Universal Difference Measure - Described herein are methods for finding substantially similar/different sources (files and documents), and estimating similarity or difference between given sources. Similarity and difference may be found across a variety of formats. Sources may be in one or more languages such that similarity and difference may be found across any number and types of languages. A variety of characteristics may be used to arrive at an overall measure of similarity or difference including determining or identifying syntactic roles, semantic roles and semantic classes in reference to sources. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129213 | SVO-BASED TAXONOMY-DRIVEN TEXT ANALYTICS - Organizing textual data into statement clusters. Sentences are extracted from textual data and parsed. A verb usage pattern is identified and an SVO triplet is determined. The SVO triplet is compared to a taxonomy associated with the domain of the data and a sentiment is derived. A statement cluster is constructed comprising a higher level SVO triplet sensitive to the taxonomy and verb usage pattern, as well as the derived sentiment. Accordingly, the statement clusters may be organized by grouping. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129214 | Method and Apparatus for Generating a Candidate Code-Vector to Code an Informational Signal | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129215 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING QUALITY OF SPEECH SIGNAL - An electronic device and a method for measuring quality of a voice signal are provided. The method includes generating a mask of an echo signal and a mask of a speech signal by comparing the echo signal and the speech signal included in an input sound with respective thresholds, calculating an estimation of the echo signal and an estimation of the speech signal, and measuring quality of the input speech signal by using each of the calculated estimation of the echo signal and the calculated estimation of the speech signal. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129216 | MULTIPLE SCALE CODEBOOK SEARCH - It is inter alia disclosed to determine, for each set of basis code vectors of a plurality of sets of basis code vectors, a potential basis code vector for encoding an input vector, wherein each set of basis code vectors is associated with at least one scale representative of a plurality of scale representatives, and to determine a code vector for encoding the input vector from a subset of code vectors, said subset of code vectors comprising, for each determined potential basis code vector and each scale representative associated with the set of basis code vectors of the respective potential basis code vector, a code vector based on the respective potential basis code vector scaled by the respective scale representative. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129217 | Senone Scoring For Multiple Input Streams - Embodiments of the present invention include an apparatus, method, and system for calculating senone scores for multiple concurrent input speech streams. The method can include the following: receiving one or more feature vectors from one or more input streams; accessing the acoustic model one senone at a time; and calculating separate senone scores corresponding to each incoming feature vector. The calculation uses a single read access to the acoustic model for a single senone and calculates a set of separate senone scores for the one or more feature vectors, before proceeding to the next senone in the acoustic model. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129218 | Recognition of Speech With Different Accents - Computer-based speech recognition can be improved by recognizing words with an accurate accent model. In order to provide a large number of possible accents, while providing real-time speech recognition, a language tree data structure of possible accents is provided in one embodiment such that a computerized speech recognition system can benefit from choosing among accent categories when searching for an appropriate accent model for speech recognition. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129219 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Masking Special Data - A computer-implemented system and method for masking special data is provided. Speakers of a call recording are identified. The call recording is separated into strands corresponding to each of the speakers. A prompt list of elements that prompt the speaker of the other strand to utter special information is applied to one of the strands. At least one of the elements of the prompt list is identified in the one strand. A special information candidate is identified in the other strand and is located after a location in time where the element was found in the voice recording of the one strand. A confidence score is assigned to the element located in the one strand and to the special information candidate in the other strand. The confidence scores are combined and a threshold is applied. The special information candidate is rendered unintelligible when the combined confidence scores satisfy the threshold. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129220 | SPEAKER AND CALL CHARACTERISTIC SENSITIVE OPEN VOICE SEARCH - Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods for open-domain voice-enabled searching that is speaker sensitive. Techniques include using speech information, speaker information, and information associated with a spoken query to enhance open voice search results. This includes integrating a textual index with a voice index to support the entire search cycle. Given a voice query, the system can execute two matching processes simultaneously. This can include a text matching process based on the output of speech recognition, as well as a voice matching process based on characteristics of a caller or user voicing a query. Characteristics of the caller can include output of voice feature extraction and metadata about the call. The system clusters callers according to these characteristics. The system can use specific voice and text clusters to modify speech recognition results, as well as modifying search results. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129221 | SOUND RECOGNITION DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORED THREREOF SOUND RECOGNITION PROGRAM, AND SOUND RECOGNITION METHOD - A sound recognition device includes a storage for storing a comment that is input while the user listening to sounds emitted as multimedia data being played. The sound recognition device further includes an extractor for extracting a word that appears in a set of sentences that contains the stored comment, and candidate words that contain co-occurrences of the word in the set of sentences. Furthermore, the sound recognition device includes a sound recognizer for recognizing sounds emitted as the multimedia data being played, based on the extracted candidate words. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129222 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM, RECOGNITION DICTIONARY REGISTRATION SYSTEM, AND ACOUSTIC MODEL IDENTIFIER SERIES GENERATION APPARATUS - When it is determined that sound data is unrecognizable through a speech recognition process by a first speech recognition unit ( | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129223 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VOICE RECOGNITION - A method and apparatus for voice recognition are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a voice receiver which receives a user's voice signal; a first voice recognition engine which receives the voice signal and recognizes voice based on the voice signal; a communicator which receives and transmits the voice signal to an external second voice recognition engine; and a controller which transmits the voice signal from the voice receiver to the first voice recognition engine, and in response to the first voice recognition engine being capable of recognizing voice from the voice signal, the controller outputs the voice recognition results of the first voice recognition engine, and in response to the first voice recognition engine being incapable of recognizing voice from the voice signal, the controller controls transmission of the voice signal to the second voice recognition engine through the communicator. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129224 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UTTERANCE VERIFICATION - A method and apparatus for utterance verification are provided for verifying a recognized vocabulary output from speech recognition. The apparatus for utterance verification includes a reference score accumulator, a verification score generator and a decision device. A log-likelihood score obtained from speech recognition is processed by taking a logarithm of the value of the probability of one of feature vectors of an input speech conditioned on one of states of each model vocabulary. A verification score is generated based on the processed result. The verification score is compared with a predetermined threshold value so as to reject or accept the recognized vocabulary. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129225 | FILTERING SOME PORTIONS OF A MULTIMEDIA STREAM - A computing platform may comprise a receiver, which may identify inappropriate words in the original audio portion of a multimedia stream. The receiver may allow a user to store the inappropriate words in a memory and then compare the words in the original audio stream with the inappropriate words stored in the memory. If there is a match then such words may be filtered or blanked off from the original audio portion to generate a modified audio portion. The modified audio portion and the video portion may be synchronized to generate a synchronized multimedia stream, which may be void of inappropriate words. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129226 | PRIVACY-SENSITIVE SPEECH MODEL CREATION VIA AGGREGATION OF MULTIPLE USER MODELS - Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods for privacy-sensitive training data collection for updating acoustic models of speech recognition systems. In one embodiment, the system locally creates adaptation data from raw audio data. Such adaptation can include derived statistics and/or acoustic model update parameters. The derived statistics and/or updated acoustic model data can then be sent to a speech recognition server or third-party entity. Since the audio data and transcriptions are already processed, the statistics or acoustic model data is devoid of any information that could be human-readable or machine readable such as to enable reconstruction of audio data. Thus, such converted data sent to a server does not include personal or confidential information. Third-party servers can then continually update speech models without storing personal and confidential utterances of users. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129227 | LANGUAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A parse unit parses an input sequence of token elements for an input string, wherein each token element contains a token and/or at least one corresponding token classifier. In a first mode the parse unit applies regular production rules on the token elements and on multi-token classifiers for phrases obtained from the token classifiers. If the first mode parsing does not result in a multi-token classifier encompassing all tokens of the input string, a control unit controls the parse unit to parse the input sequence in a second mode that applies both the regular and artificial production rules. A rule generator unit generates the artificial production rules based on the input sequence and/or intermediate results of the parsing. The parser unit provides a complete parse tree for ungrammatical sentences and a solution where the regular production rules do not cover the complete grammar of the respective natural language. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129228 | Method, System, and Relevant Devices for Playing Sent Message - A method and a system for playing a message that are applicable to the field of communications technologies. The message playing method includes: receiving, by a receiving terminal, a message that includes a user identifier and text information, obtaining a speech identifier and an image identifier corresponding to the user identifier, generating or obtaining a speech animation stream according to a speech characteristic parameter indicated by the speech identifier, an image characteristic parameter indicated by the image identifier, and the text information, and playing the speech animation stream. In this way, the text information in the message can be played as a speech animation stream according to the user identifier, the text information in the message can be presented vividly, and the message can be presented in a personalized manner according to the speech identifier and the image identifier corresponding to the user identifier. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129229 | PERSONAL AUDIO ASSISTANT DEVICE AND METHOD - A wearable device includes a housing for the wearable device, a first microphone within or on the housing, a communication module within or on the housing, a logic circuit communicatively coupled to the first microphone, a memory storage unit communicatively coupled to the logic circuit and an interaction element. The interaction element and logic circuit cooperatively initiate control of media content or initiate operations of the wearable device. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129230 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SYNTHETIC SPEECH WITH CONTRASTIVE STRESS - Techniques for generating synthetic speech with contrastive stress. In one aspect, a speech-enabled application generates a text input including a text transcription of a desired speech output, and inputs the text input to a speech synthesis system. The synthesis system generates an audio speech output corresponding to at least a portion of the text input, with at least one portion carrying contrastive stress, and provides the audio speech output for the speech-enabled application. In another aspect, a speech-enabled application inputs a plurality of text strings, each corresponding to a portion of a desired speech output, to a software module for rendering contrastive stress. The software module identifies a plurality of audio recordings that render at least one portion of at least one of the text strings as speech carrying contrastive stress. The speech-enabled application generates an audio speech output corresponding to the desired speech output using the audio recordings. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129231 | AUTHENTICATION BASED ON SOUND PROXIMITY - A computer program product comprises computer usable program code for receiving data describing a proposed electronic transaction between first and second communications devices. Additional computer usable program code is provided for generating a first audio signal by sound detected by a first microphone of the first communications device, and for generating a second audio signal by sound detected by a second microphone that is part of the second communications device. Still further computer usable program code provides for authenticating that the first communications device and the second communications device are in the same proximity in response to determining that the first and second audio signals were produced by the same sound event, and for completing the proposed electronic transaction between the first and second communications device in response to authenticating that the first and second communications devices are in close proximity. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129232 | Automatic Display of User-Specific Financial Information Based on Audio Content Recognition - Aspects herein describe at least a new method, system, and computer readable storage media for recognizing the content of the audio. A computing device determines whether the content comprises one or more financial products and services offered by a financial institution, correlates the one or more financial products and services with a profile of a person, determines a subset of the one or more financial products and services that are of interest to the person based on the correlation, and transmits data related to the subset to a television for viewing by the person. The subset of the one or more products and services are displayed on a portion of the screen of the television. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129233 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR USER INTERFACE - Disclosed is apparatus and system for user interface. The apparatus for user interface comprises a body unit including a groove which is corresponding to a structure of an oral cavity and operable to be mounted on upper part of the oral cavity; a user input unit receiving a signal from the user's tongue in a part of the body unit; a communication unit transmitting the signal received from the user input unit; and a charging unit supplying an electrical energy generated from vibration or pressure caused by movement of the user's tongue. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129234 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus and a method of controlling the electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving a voice command; and if the voice command is a first voice start command, changing a mode of the electronic apparatus to a first voice task mode in which the electronic apparatus is controlled according to further voice input, and if the voice command is a second voice start command, changing the mode of the electronic apparatus to a second voice task mode in which the electronic apparatus is controlled according to the further voice input received via an external apparatus which operates with the electronic apparatus. Therefore, providing efficiency and flexibility in controlling the electronic apparatus by using a microphone of the electronic apparatus or a microphone of the external apparatus. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129235 | AUDIO TRACKER APPARATUS - Apparatus comprising a receiver configured to receive a first audio signal, a signal characteriser configured to determine at least one characteristic associated with the first audio signal, a comparator configured to compare the at least one characteristic against at least one characteristic associated with at least one further audio signal, and a display configured to display the at least one characteristic associated with at least one further audio signal dependent on the first audio signal characteristic. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129236 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LINEAR FREQUENCY TRANSLATION, FREQUENCY COMPRESSION AND USER SELECTABLE RESPONSE TIME - A method and system has been developed and demonstrated which provides real-time frequency translation, frequency compression, and user selectable response time for non-deterministic signals. This method and system provides for the real-time separation and isolation of theoretically an infinite amount of frequencies present in an incoming non-deterministic signal. The bandwidth of the filter for the separated frequencies is user selectable and provides varying rise times for the individual frequencies. The linear frequency shifting property of the algorithm creates bandwidth compression opportunities while signals are present in a channel for transmission. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129237 | ESTIMATING MARKET-DRIVEN MEDICAL FACILITY RATES AND/OR CHARGES - Embodiments of methods or apparatus to estimate market-driven medical facility rates and/or charges are provided. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129238 | Remote Health Care Transaction Management System - A server facilitates and tracks a request for a change in patient care from a nurse and a responsive directive regarding that care from a physician as a transaction. Upon completion of the transaction by the physician in providing the responsive directive, the server automatically compensates the physician for processing the request. The server can require acknowledgment from the nurse that the responsive message was substantively responsive before declaring a transaction complete and therefore before compensating the physician for the response. Each user, whether a nurse or physician, can specify both (i) a schedule of days and times the user is scheduled to be available and (ii) one or more alternate users to which matter should be referred in times at which the user is not scheduled to be available. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129239 | GENERAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A WELLNESS APPLICATION USING DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A DATA-CAPABLE BAND - General health and wellness management techniques and devices are described including receiving data representing an activity profile defining parameters upon which a target activity score is established, acquiring sensor data representing acquired parameters based on sensors in a wearable computing device, determining values for the subsets of the acquired parameters based on reference values for the parameters set forth in the activity profile, establishing an ability profile using the values, the ability profile associated with a classification, calculating an activity score based on the values, detecting a difference between the activity score and the target activity score, modifying a rate at which the activity score accrues as a function of the difference, and presenting a representation of the activity score relative to the target activity score. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129240 | Health and Exercise Monitoring System and Method Thereof - An exercise monitoring system that includes a data obtaining unit arranged for gathering a set of health data of a user, a health management unit that communicates with the data obtaining unit, wherein health instruction is provided based on the set of health data provided from the health management unit with the goal of improving the user's health. The health instruction is automatically generated in response to an input from the set of health data. The health management unit includes an interaction unit, wherein a personal trainer of the user interacts with the user to provide the health instruction on a real-time basis. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129241 | Systems and Methods for Generating Healthcare Intelligence - A method includes a first healthcare provider purchasing a first offering for a first offering first price and a second offering for a second offering first price, a second healthcare provider purchasing the first offering for a first offering second price and the second offering for a second offering second price, and presenting at least one of (1) an indication configured to allow a comparison of a first sum of the first offering first price and the second offering first price versus a second sum of the first offering second price and the second offering second price and (2) an indication presented as a result of a comparison of the first sum versus the second sum. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129242 | GENERAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A WELLNESS APPLICATION USING DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A DATA-CAPABLE BAND - Health and wellness management techniques and devices are described including receiving data representing an activity profile defining parameters upon which a target activity score is established based on one or more health-related activities, acquiring sensor data representing subsets of acquired parameters based on sensors disposed in a wearable computing device, determining values for the subsets of the acquired parameters based on reference values for the parameters set forth in the activity profile, calculating an activity score based on the values, determining a context score based on at least one of an environmental parameter and a social parameter, forming an adjusted score using the context score, determining an time for a performance of an activity, and generating a representation of a recommendation to perform the activity at the time, the representation generated prior to the time. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129243 | GENERAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A WELLNESS APPLICATION USING DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A DATA-CAPABLE BAND - Health and wellness management techniques and devices are described including receiving data representing a nutrition profile defining parameters upon which a target score is established based on nutrition consumption, acquiring other data representing subsets of acquired parameters, each of the subsets of acquired parameters comprising a type of parameter and a unit of the acquired parameter, determining values for the subsets of the acquired parameters based on reference values for the parameters set forth in the nutrition profile, calculating a nutrition score based on the values, causing presentation of a representation of an overall score comprising the nutrition score relative to the target score, associating a classification with the nutrition score, determining a difference between the nutrition score and the target score, and changing the classification based upon the difference. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129244 | MODIFYING TIME DATA VALUES BASED ON SEGMENT RULES - In an embodiment, a method comprises: creating and storing laboratory test turnaround time (TAT) measurement data comprising one or more TAT values for one or more time segments associated with one or more laboratory sample processing stages in a testing laboratory; wherein, for a particular laboratory sample processing stage, a particular TAT value, from the one or more TAT values, is associated with a particular time segment, from the one or more time segments; applying one or more segment specific rules to the particular TAT value associated with the particular time segment to determine whether the particular TAT value is invalid; in response to determining that the particular TAT value is invalid, modifying the TAT measurement data for the particular time segment for the particular stage by removing the particular TAT value; repeating the applying and the modifying for all the TAT measurement data. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129245 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A document processing apparatus includes a document acquiring unit that acquires image information representing an electronic document, a unit that determines whether the electronic document represented by the image information is an electronic document scanned from a document created by a specific hospital, and a storing unit that stores the image information in a memory if the electronic document represented by the image information is not an electronic document that is scanned from a document created by the specific hospital, and stores compressed image information, which is obtained by compressing the image information, in the memory in place of the image information if the electronic document represented by the image information is an electronic document scanned from a document created by the specific hospital. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129246 | Extension of clinical guidelines based on clinical expert recommendations - A clinical decision support system comprises a clinical guideline ( | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129247 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING PATIENT-SPECIFIC COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSES FOR MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS - A method for performing patient-specific cost-effectiveness analysis for medical interventions includes retrieving patient data associated with a patient, selecting one or more interventions based on the patient data, estimating at least one of health effects, resource consumption, and intervention costs for each of the selected interventions, calculating the net health benefit for each intervention, and displaying the net health benefit for each intervention. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129248 | USAGE BASED SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A MEDICAL IMAGING DEVICE - A system for profiling operational usage associated with a plurality of medical imaging devices includes an information container processor, a database, a data analyzer module, and an output processor. The information container processor is configured to acquire operational data from each of a plurality of customer entities. The operational data acquired from each respective customer entity may include, for example, an identification of a imaging device used by a respective customer entity; a configuration setting associated with the imaging device; and an identification of one or more of an imaging scanning method utilized by the imaging device, an anatomical region imaged by the imaging device, and a medical condition investigated using the imaging device. The database is configured to store the operational data acquired from each respective customer entity. The data analyzer module is configured to generate one or more usage inquiries; using the database and the usage inquiries, derive one or more findings regarding the operational data acquired from each respective customer entity; and identify a significant finding included in the one or more findings. The output processor is configured to communicate data indicating the significant finding to a destination. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129249 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND FEEDBACK OF CHRONIC MEDICAL CONDITIONS - A system and method for improving asthma management is disclosed. A server receives periodic asthma control test (ACT) results from a patient. The server is in communication with a care coordinator such as a health care clinic. The server identifies an ACT score for each ACT. The server sends at least one of the ACT results and the ACT score to the care coordinator to enable the care coordinator to monitor the asthma management of the patient. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129250 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MONITORING THE TREATMENT OF A PATIENT - A method for monitoring the treatment of a patient in his home environment comprising the following steps is disclosed:
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| 20140129251 | CONTACT LENS DELIVERY SYSTEM AND AN EYE EXAMINATION GUIDING SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF THE SAME - The present invention is a system for determining the permission of the home delivery service when a user demands the home delivery contact lens renewal. The system comprises a server terminal | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129252 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - A biological information measurement system measures a plurality of types of biological information of a specific patient, selects recording biological information that is to be kept as a record of each type of biological information from the plurality of types of measured biological information based on a predetermined selection standard, and records the selected recording biological information so that the recording biological information can be confirmed later. As a result, highly-reliable biological information can be recorded efficiently and with certainty. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129253 | Apparatus and Method for Managing Medication Adherence - A system and method of a clinical trial is provided. The system comprises a summary page providing an overview of each clinical trial participant in a graphical format, each clinical trial participant being represented by a unique clinical trial participant identifier and one or more clinical trial participant identifier modifiers applicable to modify one or more of the clinical trial participant identifiers, each modifier indicative of a different status of the particular participant identifier to which it is applied. A zoom selector is provided for zooming in on a subset of the clinical trial participant identifiers included with the summary page. Upon selection of a particular level of zoom, a corresponding amount of detailed information related to the subset of the clinical trial identifiers is provided; the detailed information including at least an indication of the level of compliance of a clinical trial participant to a prescribed clinical trial protocol represented by a corresponding clinical trial participant identifier, and further information related to any particular clinical trial participant identifier modifiers applied to any one of the clinical trial participant identifiers included within the subset. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129254 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER CONTROLLED AUTOMATED MEDICAL HISTORY - The system and method according to certain embodiments of the present invention substantially overcome the deficiencies of known systems and methods by including the health care provider's participation in the computer generation of the medical history. A preferred embodiment comprises utilizing the computer system requesting and/or allowing the health care provider's participation with the computer system at certain points in the otherwise automated medical history by the computer system. A single health care provider can simultaneously allow a plurality of patients to use the system to automatically generate medical histories for these patients. Alternative embodiments of the present invention can be used in fields outside of health care to allow a single computer operator to participate in the computer generation of histories for a plurality of users. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129255 | Medical Information and Scheduling Communication - Technologies for medical information and scheduling communication include verifying the identity of a patient and determining a personal health record (PHR) controlled by the patient. Furthermore, the method includes, upon request of the patient, authorizing selective access to the PHR by an entity and selectively pushing information from the PHR to the entity, performing a real-time medical information activity associated with the PHR and the entity, and adding the activity to the PHR. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129256 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING HEALTHCARE FRAUD - In general, one aspect of the subject matter described herein can be embodied in methods that include the actions of: identifying one or more claims associated with a patient, selecting, from the identified claims at least a first claim and a second claim, comparing one or more patient claim parameters of the first claim with one or more patient claim parameters of the second claim, determining, based on the comparing, one or more patient variables, the one or more patient variables reflecting one or more aspects of the one or more claims associated with the patient, processing the respective determined patient variables to identify one or more patient clusters, each of the one or more patient clusters including one or more claims having one or more substantially similar patient variables, and, providing, based on the one or more identified patient clusters, notifications with respect to a medical entity record. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129257 | DIAGNOSTIC SELECTION, TRIAGE, MONITORING, AND PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT OF CRITICAL CARE PATIENTS USING COMPUTER-DRIVEN ASSESSMENT - High-risk patients may be enrolled in an intensive care program to reduce the likelihood of recurring symptoms. A method for identifying and enrolling these high-risk patients in the intensive care program may include receiving a plurality of patient health profiles corresponding to a plurality of patients from an electronic medical record database. Then, a first subset of patients of the plurality of patients may be identified to be at high risk of suffering an episode. Then, a patient from the first subset of patients may be enrolled in an intensive care program designed to reduce the rate of episodes for the patient. The intensive care program may involve coordinated treatments from a continuum of healthcare professions. The healthcare professionals may use data within the electronic medical record to improve treatment of the high-risk patient. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129258 | System and Method for Generating and Implementing a Stateless Patient History Module - A system and method for receiving and processing patient medical information for integration into third party applications, including patient medical records, billing systems, and reporting systems. The method may be implemented as a software as a service application separate from the middle tier application server or other computer system implementing the third party application. In addition, the system may operate in a stateless environment in which the computer system running the SaaS application may not retain the patient medical information or data relating to a patient history interview state. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129259 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENABLING CUSTOMERS TO OBTAIN VISION AND EYE HEALTH EXAMINATIONS - Systems and methods are provided for eye health and vision examinations. A customer diagnostic center is configured to generate customer examination data pertaining to an examination of a customer's eye. The customer diagnostic center provides a user interface for communicating with a customer and ophthalmic equipment for administering tests to the customer. A diagnostic center server is configured to receive the customer examination data from the customer diagnostic center over a network and allow the customer examination data to be accessed by an eye-care practitioner. A practitioner device associated with the eye-care practitioner is configured to receive the customer examination data from the diagnostic center server and display at least a portion of the customer examination data to the eye-care practitioner. Customer evaluation data is generated pertaining to the eye-care practitioner's evaluation of the customer examination data. An eye health report is provided to the customer via the network. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129260 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING APPLICATION SERVICE USING HEALTH CLASSIFICATION INFORMATION - The present application relates to a method for providing an application service using health category information, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving, from a user terminal, first data including at least one type of health category information from among information on bodily functions of a user, activity information, participation information, environmental factor information, and personal factor information; (b) extracting, from a database, a service provider for providing a service corresponding to the first data; (c) generating intervention information corresponding to the service and transmitting same to a service provider terminal of the service provider; and (d) receiving, from the service provider terminal, service data on the service provider corresponding to the intervention information. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129261 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF INSURANCE CLASSIFICATION OF ENTITIES - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining an insurance evaluation based on an industrial classification. The system may be configured to receive an electronic resource address relating to an entity, access data relating to the entity using the electronic resource address, tokenize the data, generate token counts based on the tokenized data; and apply at least one computerized predictive model to the token counts to determine one or more classifications associated with the entity. The system may further be configured to conduct evaluations of insurability, fraud determinations and other processes using the determined classification(s). | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129262 | PRESISTENT SALES AGENT FOR COMPLEX TRANSACTIONS - The present invention includes systems and methods employing branded virtual characters across multiple network platforms throughout various stages of complex transactions (eg, selling insurance). These characters initially engage prospective customers on a network platform, such as a social network, and persist over time across other network platforms (eg, university and company websites) to educate consumers until they are ready to purchase—from their “trusted advisor”—particular products and services offered by various providers. Even after completing transactions, these characters continue to provide various services, such as notifying a customer whose circumstances have changed of a relevant product or service, while remaining available to answer questions and provide information upon demand. By employing a semi-automated model, the system of the present invention can answer many questions via predetermined vignettes and automated answers generated by expert systems, while still utilizing live human experts (often transparently) when necessary. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129263 | Providing a Virtual Tour - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a virtual tour. A computer system comprising one or more displays arranged circularly can provide an interactive tour of an establishment such as a hotel. The one or more displays can provide a panoramic view of the establishment that updates in response to guest input. In some embodiments, a plurality of displays can be arranged circularly to provide the panoramic view in three dimensions. The panoramic view of the establishment can give the appearance that the guest is walking through the establishment as the guest provides input indicating a desired direction to proceed. One or more of the displays can also provide a touch interface that allows the guest to interact with objects being displayed. In this manner, a guest can tour and explore an establishment from the convenience of a single location. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129264 | RESERVATION MANAGEMENT DEVICE, RESERVATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, RESERVATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR SAME - A reservation management device ( | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129265 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SERVICES TO PARTNERS AND THIRD PARTY WEB DEVELOPERS - A system, method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in accordance with an example embodiment in order to provide a collection of services in a cloud environment that may be utilized by partners and web developers to build innovative travel applications. An example method may comprise providing a plurality of application user interfaces (APIs) allowing development of an application, each of the plurality of APIs being classified as at least one of an informational service, a transactional service, or an intelligence service, each informational service comprising static content, each transactional service configured for at least one of booking, shopping, or fulfillment transactions, and each intelligence service comprising contextual performance metrics derived from at least one of shopping data or transactional data. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129266 | SOCIAL INTERACTIVE TICKETING SYSTEM - A cloud-based service is provided for sharing information about an event and obtaining tickets for the event by a user. The server is associated with a social network to identify friends of the user on said network. A user is provided information about an event together with information on whether any friends from the social network are attending the event. The user can select to attend the event on his own, or to attend the event and get tickets near his friends. Conversely, a user can buy or block a number of tickets for the event and then share the tickets with his friends. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129267 | INTERNET TRAVEL ADVICE - A web portal in which a person requests a proposal for a travel product/service with a quotation and opportunity to accept the proposal. | 2014-05-08 |
| 20140129268 | ROLE DISCOVERY USING PRIVILEGE CLUSTER ANALYSIS - Systems and methods used in human resource management systems. The method optimizes the assignment of permissions (e.g., ability to write to a database, ability to create a new account, etc.) to jobs. The method discovers relationships between jobs, duties and privileges by accessing an organization chart that relates a plurality of jobs, a plurality of specific duties to be performed within the purview of a given job, and a plurality of permissions for the respective duties of the job. The method then flattens the organization chart to enumerate the permissions inherited by the jobs. The method proceeds to mine the inherited permissions across the jobs to optimize the sets of permissions. The sets can be optimized (e.g., minimize number of sets, maximize coverage, etc.) and named so as to be conveniently assigned (e.g., by an HR person) to a job (e.g., in the case of a new employee). | 2014-05-08 |
