19th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120116724 | SENSOR DATA TRANSMISSION FREQUENCY CONTROLLER USING SENSOR SITUATION INFORMATION - A transmission frequency controller includes situation information storage and a transmission frequency changing director. The storage stores respective situation information of sensors, which information clarifies the association of cooperating sensor with a subject detecting sensor. The director refers to the situation information in accordance with the subject detecting data from the subject detecting sensor to confirm the cooperating sensors cooperating with the subject detecting sensor and directs change of a data transmission frequency to the subject detecting sensor and the cooperating sensors. Thus, it is possible to acquire only the needed sensor data and decrease the traffic on the entire network. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116725 | Method and Arrangement for Reconstructing the Source of an Electromagnetic Field - The disclosure relates to a method for reconstructing the source of an electromagnetic field. Firstly, a measurement space separate from the source is selected so that the measurement space is connected to the source via a magnetically homogeneous spatial region. Measured values of the electromagnetic field emitted by the source are recorded on the surface of the measurement space so that the electromagnetic field in the measurement space can be uniquely determined in the context of an error bound determined by the discreteness of the measured values. A mathematical model of the electromagnetic source is developed which has a multiplicity of unknowns, and a system of equations is set up that relates the unknowns of the model to the measured values. The system of equations is solved in order to determine the characteristics of the electromagnetic source. The disclosure also relates to an arrangement for carrying out the method. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116726 | Design Aiding Apparatus, Design Aiding Method, and Computer Program Product - According to one embodiment, a design aiding apparatus includes a display controller, a receiving module, and a selecting module. The display controller displays on a display module a three-dimensional part model having a plurality of surfaces defined by a coordinate system defined by three coordinate axes that are perpendicular to one another. The receiving module receives an operation designating one of the coordinate axes as a designated coordinate axis. The selecting module selects surfaces corresponding to the designated coordinate axis from the surfaces based on corresponding axis identification information that identifies a surface corresponding to each of the coordinate axes. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116727 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING THREE DIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL SPACE RESERVATION SYSTEMS OF A VEHICLE USING DELTA STORAGE - A system and method for generating three dimensional functional space reservation systems of a vehicle from a conceptual space reservation is disclosed. In one embodiment, in a method for generating three dimensional functional space reservation systems, functional, connectivity and geometrical information associated with two conceptual space reservation versions of the vehicle is collected from design databases. The two conceptual space reservation versions include current and previous conceptual space reservation versions. Then, mathematical models are created in organized binary form. Delta information detected from the two conceptual space reservation versions of the vehicle is outputted. Further, a set of rules and checks is applied in the mathematical model of the current conceptual space reservation version and standardized entities information is outputted. A set of functional attributes is also applied to standardized entities and the three dimensional functional space reservation systems including new part numbers for the design entities are generated. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116728 | CLICK TO ACCEPT AS BUILT MODELING - A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product provide the ability to augment an as-built model. A CAD drawing of a project as well as a digital representation of a physical implementation of the project are obtained. A relationship that maps the digital representation to the CAD drawing is defined/established. A component of the digital representation is identified based on the relationship (e.g., and a database/catalog). Information about the identified component is transmitted to and displayed on a computer (e.g., a mobile device). | 2012-05-10 |
20120116729 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMBELLISHMENT PLACEMENT - A method for embellishment placement is provided. More specifically, an automated method for determining placement of embellishments for an item, such as a jewelry item, is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises, determining and setting values for parameters, creating offsets along a portion of the item to be embellished, setting points along the offsets, randomizing the points, adding decorative features to the item, and eliminating points based on the parameter values, After points violating the parameter values have been eliminated, the remaining points comprise positions for embellishments. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116730 | ABSOLUTE NUCLEAR MATERIAL ASSAY USING COUNT DISTRIBUTION (LAMBDA) SPACE - A method of absolute nuclear material assay of an unknown source comprising counting neutrons from the unknown source and providing an absolute nuclear material assay utilizing a model to optimally compare to the measured count distributions. In one embodiment, the step of providing an absolute nuclear material assay comprises utilizing a random sampling of analytically computed fission chain distributions to generate a continuous time-evolving sequence of event-counts by spreading the fission chain distribution in time. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116731 | Multidimensional relaxometry methods for consumer goods - Multidimensional relaxometry methods for products and/or systems resulting from the use of such methodology, as well as processes for making, changing and/or using such products and/or systems are disclosed. Such methodologies can obviate the current shortcomings of currently available measurement methodologies and can be used to define component parameters that can be used to produce new and/or superior products and/or systems. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116732 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PULSE NEUTRON CAPTURE SIGMA INVERSION - In some aspects of the invention, a computer-implemented method of obtaining sigma values from pulsed neutron capture decay curve is disclosed. The method can include selecting spectra collected by pulsed neutron instrument disposed down a borehole traversing a rock formation, the spectra including capture interactions and inelastic interactions; and modeling the selected spectra using a nonlinear model to obtain sigma values relating to one or more reservoir properties. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116733 | Data Perturbation for Wafer Inspection or Metrology Setup - Various embodiments for determining parameters for wafer inspection and/or metrology are provided. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116734 | Method of characterizing an electrical defect affecting an electronic circuit, related device and information recording medium - The method according to the invention consists of producing a real cartography of the magnetic field radiated by the circuit placed in a predetermined operating state. It includes the following steps: a) applying a transform to an initial hypothesis on the nature of the defect, to obtain a current hypothesis, b) superimposing the current hypothesis on an initial topology of the circuit to obtain a current topology; c) simulating the magnetic field generated by the current topology, so as to obtain a current simulated cartography; d) estimating the current value of a correlation function between the measured cartography and the current simulated cartography; and e) iterating steps a) to d) to seek a maximum of the correlation function by modifying the value of said characteristic parameter of the defect. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116735 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CREATING AND EXPLOITING THERMAL MODELS - The invention relates to a method for thermal simulation of an electronic circuit, including:
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20120116736 | METHOD FOR THE ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF A BODY AND A SYSTEM FOR THE EXECUTION OF SUCH A METHOD - A system and method for the acoustic analysis of a body, in particular a fuselage structure of an aircraft, is provided including: inputting data for geometry, material, boundary conditions and acoustic parameters of the body, generating a body idealised in terms of its structural mechanics, and a cavity simulating the interior of the body, on the basis of the data inputted as a numerical body model, inputting the geometry of the body with a pattern of nodes and the generation of finite elements, stimulating an acoustic loading case by subjecting the body model to at least one sound pressure wave at a defined frequency, analyzing the effect of the sound pressure wave on the body model, and outputting a sound reduction index (R) for the body with reference to that frequency. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116737 | ZONAL METHODS FOR COMPUTATION OF PARTICLE INTERACTIONS - A generalized approach to particle interaction can confer advantages over previously described method in terms of one or more of communications bandwidth and latency and memory access characteristics. These generalizations can involve one or more of at least spatial decomposition, import region rounding, and multiple zone communication scheduling. An architecture for computation of particle interactions makes use various forms of parallelism. In one implementation, the parallelism involves using multiple computation nodes arranged according to a geometric partitioning of a simulation volume. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116738 | Systems And Methods For Modeling Drillstring Trajectories - Systems and methods for modeling drillstring trajectories by calculating forces in the drillstring using a traditional torque-drag model and comparing the results with the results of the same forces calculated in the drillstring using a block tri-diagonal matrix, which determines whether the new drillstring trajectory is acceptable and represents mechanical equilibrium of drillstring forces and moments. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116739 | Infrared Microspectroscopy for Intact Fibers - Methods and a non-transient computer medium embodying computer readable code for extracting bulk spectroscopic properties of a particle. A forward model is built of an optical field focused on, and interacting with, the particle, where the forward model parameterized in terms of at least one geometrical characteristic of the particle. The particle, which may be a filamentary material, is illuminated with an incident optical field having a spectral range. Either a transmitted or scattered optical field is detected in a far-field zone as a function of wavenumber to obtain a measured spectrum. The measured spectrum is inverted to recover the imaginary part of the complex refractive index of the particle. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116740 | METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING THE FRACTURE NETWORK OF A FRACTURED RESERVOIR AND METHOD FOR DEVELOPING IT - The invention is a method for constructing a representation of a fluid reservoir traversed by a fracture network and by at least one well. The reservoir is discretized into a set of grid cells and the fractures are characterized by statistical parameters from observations of the reservoir. An equivalent permeability tensor and an average fracture opening is constructed from an image representative of the fracture network delimiting porous blocks and fractures is then deduced from the statistical parameters. A first elliptical boundary zone centered on the well and at least a second elliptical boundary zone centered on the well which form an elliptical ring with the elliptical boundary of the first zone are defined around the well. The image representative of the fracture network is simplified in a different manner for each of the zones which is used to construct the representation of the fluid reservoir. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116741 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CONSTRUCTING A PATIENT SPECIFIC NEURAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION MODEL - A system and a method of constructing a personalized or patient specific neural stimulation model. The method includes measuring an electro-physiology signal of an individual and establishing a personalized or patient specific neural stimulation model that has a preset model parameter and generates a human physiology parameter according to the model parameters; and analyzing the human physiology parameters and regulating the model parameters according to a parameter-optimizing algorithm, such that the human physiology parameters outputted by the personalized or patient specific neural stimulation model matches the measured electro-physiology signal. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116742 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYSIS OF MOLECULAR CONFIGURATIONS AND COMBINATIONS - Method and apparatus for the efficient computation of values for affinity functions for two or more molecular subsets of a molecular configuration, are provided. Either one or both of molecular subsets may be selected from a molecule library. Affinity engines can compute the affinity values, and can be synchronized in order to maximize utilization of processing power available in the affinity engines. A data path allocator can apportion molecular descriptor data to each affinity engine as one or more data blocks according to a data path schedule. Also, new configurations may be generated from one or more input configurations, computation of a plurality of affinity values for a plurality of configurations, and subsequent selection of processed configurations for further analysis. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116743 | OPTIMIZING STORAGE CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS THROUGH ADAPTIVE STATISTICAL MODELING - Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for adapting an information extraction middleware for a clustered computing environment (e.g., a cloud environment) by creating and managing a set of statistical models generated from performance statistics of operating devices within the clustered computing environment. This approach takes into account the required accuracy in modeling, including computation cost of modeling, to pick the best modeling solution at a given point in time. When higher accuracy is desired (e.g., nearing workload saturation), the approach adapts to use an appropriate modeling algorithm. Adapting statistical models to the data characteristics ensures optimal accuracy with minimal computation time and resources for modeling. This approach provides intelligent selective refinement of models using accuracy-based and operating probability-based triggers to optimize the clustered computing environment, i.e., maximize accuracy and minimize computation time. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116744 | Method for Designing a Process Controller - A method for designing a process controller for a process variable comprising a pressure or a flow rate, which is connectable upstream in a closed control loop of a controlled system having a positioning drive, where the closed control loop is simulated to determine the performance of the process controller. A predetermined noise value is added to a simulated profile of the actual value of a process variable, where the predetermined noise value is preferably obtained by performing a measurement at a real positioning drive. The simulated profile of the manipulated variable of the process controller is evaluated to determine an estimated energy consumption of the drive. As a result, it is thereby possible to find a compromise between the controller performance when setting the process controller without needing a direct measurement of the energy consumption at a real drive. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116745 | Electric Vehicle Simulator and Analyzer (EVSA) for Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment - Embodiments pertain to simulator circuitry, particularly to simulator circuitry configured to simulate an electric vehicle and test an electric vehicle charger. A test unit is configured to simulate a GFI current via modulator and to simulate electric vehicle loads via switched and combined resistor loads. The test unit provides for reprogramming of the electric vehicle charger via a pilot line. The test unit self-confirms its usability via associating received codes. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116746 | SIMULATION SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING COMPUTING DEVICE MODELS IN A MULTI-SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT - An embodiment of a simulation tool includes a path determiner and a simulator. The path determiner is configured to identify a first communication path between first and second devices of a system, and the simulator is configured to simulate a routing of a first item from one of the first and second devices to the other of the first and second devices via the identified path. The path determiner may also be configured to identify the communication path before the simulator simulates the routing of the item, or to identify the communication path while the simulator is inactive. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116747 | Recommending Alternatives For Providing A Service - In certain embodiments, one or more current service elements that can provide a service for a client are monitored. An event associated with a current service element is detected. One or more candidate service elements are analyzed with respect to the one or more current service elements operating for the client. The one or more candidate service elements operate in a client scenario corresponding to the client. A recommendation is provided in response to the analysis. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116748 | Voice Recognition and Feedback System - One embodiment may take the form of a system for translating an audio stream of programming content. The system may include an apparatus, a processing unit configured to execute a voice recognition algorithm and one or more executable commands, a receiver coupled to the processing unit and configured to receive a voice command in a first language, a communication component coupled to the processing unit and configured to receive programming content including an audio stream in a second language, and one or more storage media storing the voice recognition algorithm. The voice recognition algorithm may be configured to translate the audio stream into a first language if the first language does not match the second language. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116749 | AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - Provided are an automatic translation device and a method thereof. The automatic translation device includes: a character string error correcting unit correcting an error of an input text; a language simplification processing unit substituting the input text with a simplified input text by applying context based constraints and rules corresponding thereto; and an automatic translation unit translating the simplified input text into an output text. As a result, it is possible to ultimately improve automatic translation quality by mitigating inconvenience of an input text writer due to restriction of a vocabulary using list and a text configuring rule. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116750 | TRANSLATION DISPLAY APPARATUS - In a translation display apparatus, when an instruction to enlarge and display a part of an image of a translated sentence-added document displayed on a display unit is inputted from a display instruction input section, a partially-enlarged image creating section creates a partially-enlarged image in which a part of the image of a translated sentence-added document is enlarged. Under the control of a control section, an image creating section creates a partial enlargement-added image which is an image obtained by superimposing the partially-enlarged image created by the partially-enlarged image creating section on the image of the translated sentence-added document. Under the control of the control section, the display unit displays the partial enlargement-added image. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116751 | PROVIDING MESSAGE TEXT TRANSLATIONS - A system management product installed in a distributed computing environment can efficiently provide appropriate translations of message texts without preinstalled catalogues of translations. When a management activity that includes displaying a message text is performed, the system management product determines that a translation of the message text in the target language is unavailable at a client computer. A translation of the message text into the target language is requested from a translation service. A plurality of different translations of the message text in the target language is received. The plurality of different translations is displayed at the client computer. Feedback about the plurality of different translations is requested. The feedback is provided to the translation service. An indication of a vote for a preferred translation of the message text in the target language based on the feedback is recorded. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116752 | AUDIO DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND AUDIO DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - Audio data processing method and an audio data processing system are described. The audio data processing system includes an audio collect module, a processing module, a virtual play module, a virtual collect module, and a buffer memory. The virtual play module and the virtual collect module are registered in an application interface layer of a third-part software. The third-part software chooses the virtual play module and the virtual collect module. The virtual play module is configured for receiving audio data processed by the processing module and storing the processed audio data in the buffer memory. The virtual collect module is configured for collecting the processed audio data from the buffer memory and transmitting the processed audio data to the third-part software. The invention provides a universal solution suitable for any chatting tool by installing the virtual speaker and the virtual microphone. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116753 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REDUCING INTERFERENCE IN AN AUDIO SIGNAL DURING A CALL - In order to reduce interference in an audio signal during a call on a mobile communication device, a plurality of transforms of the audio signal is performed, each transform containing phase information and amplitude information of corresponding samples of the audio signal. The results of the transforms are then averaged in order to generating a compensation signal that can be subtracted from the audio signal. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116754 | NOISE SUPPRESSION IN A MEL-FILTERED SPECTRAL DOMAIN - Techniques are described herein that suppress noise in a Mel-filtered spectral domain. For example, a window may be applied to a representation of a speech signal in a time domain. The windowed representation in the time domain may be converted to a subsequent representation of the speech signal in the Mel-filtered spectral domain. A noise suppression operation may be performed with respect to the subsequent representation to provide noise-suppressed Mel coefficients. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116755 | APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING INTELLIGIBILITY OF SPEECH AND VOICE OUTPUT APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An apparatus for enhancing intelligibility of speech and a voice output apparatus using the same are provided. The apparatus detects a level of a voice frame of an input signal through an input envelope detection unit, provides the level to a cutoff frequency estimation unit, detects a level of a voice frame of an output signal through an output envelope detection unit, provides the level to the cutoff frequency estimation unit, determines a difference value between a level of an N-th voice frame that is received from the input envelope detection unit and a level of an (N−1)st voice frame that is received from the output envelope detection unit in the cutoff frequency estimation unit, calculates a cutoff frequency for amplifying a consonant component of the input signal with the difference value, and a shelving filter filters the input signal according to a cutoff frequency that is calculated by the cutoff frequency estimation unit and selectively amplifies a portion that is estimated as a consonant component of the input signal. Accordingly, the shelving filter dynamically changes a cutoff frequency according to more or less of a consonant component in the input signal and according to less being changed, amplifies a high frequency component corresponding to a consonant component of the input signal and attenuates a low frequency component and thus the consonant component is selectively emphasized, whereby speech intelligibility is enhanced. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116756 | METHOD FOR TONE/INTONATION RECOGNITION USING AUDITORY ATTENTION CUES - In a spoken language processing method for tone/intonation recognition, an auditory spectrum may be determined for an input window of sound and one or more multi-scale features may be extracted from the auditory spectrum. Each multi-scale feature can be extracted using a separate two-dimensional spectro-temporal receptive filter. One or more feature maps corresponding to the one or more multi-scale features can be generated and an auditory gist vector can be extracted from each of the one or more feature maps. A cumulative gist vector may be obtained through augmentation of each auditory gist vector extracted from the one or more feature maps. One or more tonal characteristics corresponding to the input window of sound can be determined by mapping the cumulative gist vector to one or more tonal characteristics using a machine learning algorithm. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116757 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING HIGH FREQUENCY SIGNAL - Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a high frequency signal by using a low frequency signal. The high frequency signal can be encoded by extracting a coefficient by linear predicting a high frequency signal, and encoding the coefficient, generating a signal by using the extracted coefficient and a low frequency signal, and encoding the high frequency signal by calculating a ratio between the high frequency signal and an energy value of the generated signal. Also, the high frequency signal can be decoded by decoding a coefficient, which is extracted by linear predicting a high frequency signal, and a low frequency signal, and generating a signal by using the decoded coefficient and the decoded low frequency signal, and adjusting the generated signal by decoding a ratio between the generated signal and an energy value of the high frequency signal. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116758 | Systems and Methods for Enhancing Voice Quality in Mobile Device - Provided are methods and systems for enhancing the quality of voice communications. The method and corresponding system may involve classifying an audio signal into speech, and speech and noise and creating speech-noise classification data. The method may further involve sharing the speech-noise classification data with a speech encoder via a shared memory or by a Least Significant Bit (LSB) of a Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) stream. The method and corresponding system may also involve sharing acoustic cues with the speech encoder to improve the speech noise classification and, in certain embodiments, sharing scaling transition factors with the speech encoder to enable the speech encoder gradually change data rate in the transitions between the encoding modes. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116759 | Method, Computer, Computer Program and Computer Program Product for Speech Quality Estimation - The invention relates to a method, computer, computer program and computer program product for speech quality estimation. The method comprises the steps of: determining a coding distortion parameter (Q | 2012-05-10 |
20120116760 | DEVICE FOR IMPROVING THE INTELLIGIBILITY OF SPEECH IN A MULTI-USER COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A device for improving the intelligibility of a signal arising from a source subjected to a noisy environment, said source marking the signal with a specific signature, the device comprising a processing circuit receiving the signal; and means for analyzing the signal and parameterizing the processing circuit according to characteristics of the signature present in the signal. A first channel with low distortion conveys the signal from the source to the means for analyzing, and a second channel, susceptible to introduce a distortion, conveys the signal from the source to the processing circuit. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116761 | Minimum Converted Trajectory Error (MCTE) Audio-to-Video Engine - Embodiments of an audio-to-video engine are disclosed. In operation, the audio-to-video engine generates facial movement (e.g., a virtual talking head) based on an input speech. The audio-to-video engine receives the input speech and recognizes the input speech as a source feature vector. The audio-to-video engine then determines a Maximum A Posterior (MAP) mixture sequence based on the source feature vector. The MAP mixture sequence may be a function of a refined Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). The audio-to-video engine may then use the MAP to estimate video feature parameters. The video feature parameters are then interpreted as facial movement. The facial movement may be stored as data to a storage module and/or it may be displayed as video to a display device. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116762 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION TERMINAL SURVEILLANCE BASED ON SPEAKER RECOGNITION - A Candidate Isolation System (CIS) detects subscribers of phone call services as candidates to be surveillance targets. A Voice Matching System (VMS) then decides whether or not a given candidate Communication Terminals (CTs) should be tracked by determining, using speaker recognition techniques, whether the subscriber operating the candidate CT is a known target subscriber. The CIS receives from the network call event data that relate to CTs in the network. The CIS detects candidate CTs using a unique candidate isolation process, which applies predefined selection criteria to the received call events data | 2012-05-10 |
20120116763 | VOICE DATA ANALYZING DEVICE, VOICE DATA ANALYZING METHOD, AND VOICE DATA ANALYZING PROGRAM - A voice data analyzing device comprises speaker model deriving means which derives speaker models as models each specifying character of voice of each speaker from voice data including a plurality of utterances to each of which a speaker label as information for identifying a speaker has been assigned and speaker co-occurrence model deriving means which derives a speaker co-occurrence model as a model representing the strength of co-occurrence relationship among the speakers from session data obtained by segmenting the voice data in units of sequences of conversation by use of the speaker models derived by the speaker model deriving means. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116764 | Speech recognition method on sentences in all languages - A speech recognition method on all sentences in all languages is provided. A sentence can be a word, name or sentence. All sentences are represented by E×P=12×12 matrices of linear predict coding cepstra (LPCC) 1000 different voices are transformed into 1000 matrices of LPCC to represent 1000 databases. E×P matrices of known sentences after deletion of time intervals between two words are put into their closest databases. To classify an unknown sentence, use the distance to find its F closest databases and then from known sentences in its F databases, find a known sentence to be the unknown one. The invention needs no samples and can find a sentence in one second using Visual Basic. Any person without training can immediately and freely communicate with computer in any language. It can recognize up to 7200 English words, 500 sentences of any language and 500 Chinese words. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116765 | SPEECH PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A speech recognition unit ( | 2012-05-10 |
20120116766 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION - A method and apparatus combining the advantages of phonetic search such as the rapid implementation and deployment and medium accuracy, with the advantages of speech to text, including providing the full text of the audio and rapid search. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116767 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SPEECH EVALUATION - A method is provided for user speech performance evaluation with respect to a reference performance for which a phoneme mark-up is available. The method includes capturing input speech from the user and formatting it as frames. For a respective frame of the input speech, the method generates probability values for a plurality of phonemes, generates a probability value for a phoneme class based upon the generated probability values for a plurality of phonemes belonging to that phoneme class. For a plurality of frames of the input speech, the method further includes averaging the phoneme class probability values corresponding to the plurality of frames of the input speech. The method also includes calculating a user speech performance score based upon the average. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116768 | Systems and Methods for Extracting Meaning from Multimodal Inputs Using Finite-State Devices - Multimodal utterances contain a number of different modes. These modes can include speech, gestures, and pen, haptic, and gaze inputs, and the like. This invention use recognition results from one or more of these modes to provide compensation to the recognition process of one or more other ones of these modes. In various exemplary embodiments, a multimodal recognition system inputs one or more recognition lattices from one or more of these modes, and generates one or more models to be used by one or more mode recognizers to recognize the one or more other modes. In one exemplary embodiment, a gesture recognizer inputs a gesture input and outputs a gesture recognition lattice to a multimodal parser. The multimodal parser generates a language model and outputs it to an automatic speech recognition system, which uses the received language model to recognize the speech input that corresponds to the recognized gesture input. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116769 | SYSTEM FOR BANDWIDTH EXTENSION OF NARROW-BAND SPEECH - A method applies a parametric approach to bandwidth extension but does not require training. The method computes narrowband linear predictive coefficients from a received narrowband speech signal, computes narrowband partial correlation coefficients using recursion, computes M | 2012-05-10 |
20120116770 | SPEECH DATA RETRIEVING AND PRESENTING DEVICE - A speech data retrieving and presenting device applied with an electronic device through a network includes a data receiving unit, a processing unit and a speech presenting unit. The data receiving unit connected to the network receives data of the electronic device through the network. The processing unit coupled to the data receiving unit receives speech data and retrieves a speech presenting signal from the speech data. The speech presenting unit coupled to the processing unit receives the speech presenting signal and outputs a speech according to the speech data. This device can assist a user to obtain network information, and provide the user a more flexible application according to the property that the device can be operated independently by a simple motion. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116771 | Method and apparatus for serching a music database - A method for a user to buy a song from a remote music source, the method comprising the steps of:
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20120116772 | Method and System for Providing Speech Therapy Outside of Clinic - A system and method for speech therapy is provided that includes a mobile device, a server and a web-client. The mobile device captures and processes voice signals analyzed locally and on the server and from which a speech therapy is coordinated and delivered. The web-client through interaction with the mobile device and through the server implements a speech therapy that can be monitored and managed thereon through specified clinical moderation. The web-client also provides an alternative method to capture and transmit voice signals to the server for analysis and from which a speech therapy is coordinated and delivered. Speech therapy management can implement therapy procedures, guidelines and one-to-one communication sessions between users and providers in a non-clinical setting in real-time or at scheduled times. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116773 | CONTENT FILTERING FOR A DIGITAL AUDIO SIGNAL - According to some embodiments, content filtering is provided for a digital audio signal. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116774 | SYSTEM FOR VOICE CONTROL OF A MEDICAL IMPLANT - An implantable system ( | 2012-05-10 |
20120116775 | BIOCHEMICAL ANALYZER HAVING MICROPROCESSING APPARATUS WITH EXPANDABLE VOICE CAPACITY - A biochemical analyzer having a microprocessing apparatus with expandable voice capacity is characterized in that a driving module is installed in a data processor and a voice carrier is replaceable. Thereby, increase or decrease of voice files can be easily done by replacing the current voice carrier with an alternative voice carrier storing desired voice files, without the need of replacing the driving module together with the voice carrier, thereby saving costs and reducing processing procedures. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116776 | System and method for client voice building - Provided is a system and method for building and managing a customized voice of an end-user, comprising the steps of designing a set of prompts for collection from the user, wherein the prompts are selected from both an analysis tool and by the user's own choosing to capture voice characteristics unique to the user. The prompts are delivered to the user over a network to allow the user to save a user recording on a server of a service provider. This recording is then retrieved and stored on the server and then set up on the server to build a voice database using text-to-speech synthesis tools. A graphical interface allows the user to continuously refine the data file to improve the voice and customize parameter and configuration settings, thereby forming a customized voice database which can be deployed or accessed. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116777 | Stateful, Double-Buffered Dynamic Navigation Voice Prompting - A navigation system written in J2ME MIDP for a client device includes a plurality of media players each respectively comprising a buffer. A navigation program manages the state of the plurality of media players. The plurality of media players are in either one of an acquiring resources state, and a playing and de-allocating state. The use of a plurality of media players each respectively comprising a buffer overcomes the prior art in which navigation system can cut off a voice prompt because of the time-consuming tasks associated with playing a voice prompt. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116778 | Assisted Media Presentation - A system and method is disclosed that uses screen reader like functionality to speak information presented on a graphical user interface displayed by a media presentation system, including information that is not navigable by a remote control device. Information can be spoken in an order that follows a relative importance of the information based on a characteristic of the information or the location of the information within the graphical user interface. A history of previously spoken information is monitored to avoid speaking information more than once for a given graphical user interface. A different pitch can be used to speak information based on a characteristic of the information. Information that is not navigable by the remote control device can be spoken after time delay. Voice prompts can be provided for a remote-driven virtual keyboard displayed by the media presentation system. The voice prompts can be spoken with different voice pitches. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116779 | STUTTERING TREATMENT METHODS AND APPARATUS - Stuttering treatment methods and apparatus which utilize removable oral-based appliances having actuators which are attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a dental or oral appliance are described. Such oral appliances may receive the user's voice and process the voice to introduce a time delay and/or a frequency shift. The altered audio feedback signal is then transmitted back to the user through a tooth, teeth, or other bone via a vibrating actuator element. The actuator element may utilize electromagnetic or piezoelectric actuator mechanisms and may be positioned directly along the dentition or along an oral appliance housing in various configurations. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116780 | ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM, ACOUSTIC SIGNAL DECODING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD IN THE SYSTEM AND APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - The amount of computation in an acoustic signal decoding apparatus for a signal transform process from a frequency domain to a time domain is reduced while realizing the generation of appropriate output acoustic signals. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116781 | ENCODING APPARATUS, ENCODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An encoding apparatus includes a noise detector configured to detect noise included in a certain band in accordance with an audio signal, a gain controller configured to perform gain control on the audio signal so that components in the certain band of the audio signal are attenuated when the noise is detected by the noise detector, a bit allocation calculation unit configured to calculate the numbers of bits to be allocated to frequency spectra of the audio signal which have been subjected to the gain control performed by the gain controller in accordance with the frequency spectra, and a quantization unit configured to quantize the frequency spectra of the audio signal which have been subjected to the gain control in accordance with the numbers of the bits. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116782 | Security systems and/or methods for cloud computing environments - Certain example embodiments described herein relate to security systems and/or methods for cloud computing environments. More particularly, certain example embodiments described herein relate to the negotiation and subsequent use of Trading Partner Agreements (TPAs) between partners in a Virtual Organization, the TPAs enabling resources to be shared between the partners in a secure manner. In certain example embodiments, TPAs are negotiated, an algorithm is executed to determine where an executable is to be run, the resource is transferred to the location where it is to be run, and it is executed—with the TPAs collectively defining a security policy that constrains how and where it can be executed, the resources it can use, etc. The executable may be transferred to a location in a multipart (e.g., SMIME) message, along with header information and rights associated with the executable. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116783 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING PROMOTIONS BASED ON INPUT AND PRODUCTION RESOURCES - A system for targeting promotions. The system can include a processor configured to aggregate material information, determine a plurality of product lineups based on the aggregated material information, determine a consumer demand for each of the plurality of product lineups based on a consumer liking of each product of each of the plurality of product lineups and at least one promotion; and calculate a profit for each of the plurality of product lineups based on the consumer liking and the at least one promotion. The material information can include quantity information, availability information, and quality information. The material information can be variable. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116784 | System and Method for Recording, Processing and Storing Citations - A method and system for processing a citation are disclosed. Specifically, a method for processing a citation can include receiving from a mobile citation device a citation record related to a citation issued to a violator. Further, a citation, comprising at least a portion of the citation record and fields to be completed by the Supervisor can be sent to a Supervisor of the violator. Further, the citation completed by the Supervisor can be received and information in the fields completed by the Supervisor can be captured. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116785 | System and Method for Approving Citations - A system and method for processing a citation is disclosed herein. In particular, the method comprises receiving from a mobile citation device a citation record related to a citation issued to a violator, recording to a storage device the citation record, transmitting to a citation officer computer a first portion of the citation record, receiving a citation officer disposition data from the citation officer computer, wherein the citation officer disposition data is added to the citation record. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116786 | Method and System for a lottery ticket identification owner of the ticket by a personal telephone number - This invention innovate a new invention, in method and system for a lottery ticket identification mark that enables the identification of the ticket owner, this by a personal telephone number of the ticket owner that is marked on the lottery ticket at the purchasing time. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116787 | Response Attribution Valuation - A computer-implemented method is described for determining a response attribution value that represents a credit assignment to a communication, for an associated response received from a recipient during a marketing campaign. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116788 | EVALUATING CONTRACT QUALITY - A system evaluates contract quality and includes a processing device configured for retrieving from a contract database, data extracted from a contract, evaluating a number of vendors competitively bidding on the contract, based at least in part on the extracted data, thereby resulting in a cost score, evaluating a time prior to contract termination at which competitive bidding takes place, based at least in part on the extracted data, thereby resulting in a time score, and evaluating a quality of the contract based on individual evaluation of a plurality of critical fields, based at least in part on the extracted data, thereby resulting in a quality score. The processing device is further configured for determining a contract evaluation score based at least in part on the cost score, the time score, and the quality score. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116789 | OPTIMIZING QUEUE LOADING THROUGH VARIABLE ADMITTANCE FEES - Attraction attendance levels experienced by a customer are dynamically managed as a function of customer admission pricing. A customer is offered an opportunity to pay a regular admission fee or a higher premium admission fee for admission to a facility with one or more attractions, wherein the customer is provided with information as to an amount of reduced queue loading that will be achieved by the customer if the customer pays the premium admission fee. Queue loading is monitored, and a queue load diminishment relative to an expected queue load is identified, the amount of reduced queue loading achievable by the customer through paying the premium admission fee updated accordingly. The customer is notified of the updated amount of reduced queue loading achievable through paying the premium admission fee as a function of customer metadata. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116790 | TRANSACTIONAL SERVICES - Methods and systems are provided for supporting electronic transactions, including transactions that are provided with per-user, per-device and per-domain security across domains of multiple service providers. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116791 | Automated Electronic Personal Reference & Proxy Network - An automated electronic personal preference & proxy network, that captures and exchanges personal profile information via an electronic means using network infrastructure is provided. Users may update preferences electronically. Permissions are generated in accordance with users permissions. Providers may enter an omnibus contract with an electronic agent, allowing various features such as cross-provider data transfer. An automated regulatory compliance engine is disclosed. An automated activity and offer engine is disclosed, to facilitate relevant offerings to users, and to automatically deepen user profiles. A violation engine for enforcing the contracts and regulations in an automated fashion is disclosed. Various other aspects are also disclosed. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116792 | TERMINAL CALCULATING CARBON EMISSION, CARBON EMISSION MANAGEMENT SERVER AND CARBON MONITORING METHOD - A terminal is provided, the terminal comprising: a display unit configured to display information that is processed; a user input unit configured to input information on amount of carbon emission; a storage stored with information on the amount of carbon emission inputted through the user input unit and a program for calculating the amount of carbon emission; and a controller configured to calculate the amount of carbon emission based on usage of carbon emission and to display the amount of carbon emission on the display unit. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116793 | Administering A Patient In A Hospital - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for administering a patient in a hospital. Embodiments include identifying, by a room optimizer module, upon the patient checking into the hospital, a set of patient attributes, each patient attribute describing an aspect of the health of the patient; selecting, by the room optimizer module, an optimized room for the patient in dependence upon the patient attributes and a set of room attributes of a plurality of rooms available, and indicating, by the room optimizer module, the selection of the optimized room to a hospital administrator. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116794 | MEDICAL ADVICE CARD HAVING AUDIO RECORDING - The present invention is related to a medical advice card and label containing an embedded audio chip or card. The embedded audio chip or card plays information related to a health care treatment plan in order to improve compliance with physician instructions. The medical advice card or label may also contain written information relating to the audible information related to a health care treatment plan. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116795 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING CURRENT ASSESSMENTS OF GENETIC RISK - This invention concerns an integrated method for providing individuals with current assessments of genetic risk based on genetic tests and genomic research. While existing genetic tests can provide an estimate of genetic risk for many common diseases, genomic research is expected to provide a large number of new genetic test that will enable more definitive assessments of an individuals risk of disease. The invention provides an integrated method and systems for providing individuals with a current assessments of their genetic risk based on such advances. This method has utility in enabling individuals and healthcare professions to use genetic tests in important healthcare and lifestyle decisions. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116796 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PATIENT CARE THROUGH AUTOMATED MESSAGING - A system and method are disclosed that allow a user to select when messages related to medication events are sent and to select the content parameters of those messages. In one aspect, a medication dispenser is configured to notify a messaging processor when an identified medication that was not previously loaded in the medication dispenser is newly loaded into the medication dispenser, and the messaging processor is configured to send a message to a user through a communication link upon receipt of this notification. In another aspect, the medication is identified during a review of a new medication order issued by a doctor. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116797 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING A HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT - A method and system for conducting a health risk assessment of one or more individuals are disclosed. In accordance with the method and system, previous responses by multiple users are used to generate specific inquires for the individual to provide specific recommended action to the individual. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116798 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATING AND VERIFYING MEDICATION COMPLIANCE - A computer-based system for monitoring medication compliance. The system can include one or more processors configured to process and manage data. Additionally, the system can also include one or more medication packagings comprising a machine-readable medium. Notably, the machine-readable medium can comprise medication information among other types of information. The one or more processors can be configured to receive the medication information of the machine-readable medium. The machine-readable medium and corresponding medication information can be adjustable based on a dispensing of a medication from the one or more medication packagings. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116799 | SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING RISK FOR PROGRESSION OR DEVELOPMENT OF PERIODONTITIS FOR A PATENT - The invention relates to a method, system and a device for assessing the risk for periodontitis progression or for developing periodontitis, and a method, system and a device for prognosticating the outcome of a treatment procedure for treating periodontitis, on the basis of a risk score calculated on the basis of weight factors, which may be associated with numerical values, assigned to a plurality of measures corresponding to a plurality of predictors promoting periodontitis comprising host predictors, local predictors, and systemic predictors for periodontitis progression or for developing periodontitis for a patient. The invention provides among other things an objective tool that allows for preventive measures to be taken in time before severe and often irreversible damage caused by periodontitis has occurred, by taking into account the most important risk predictors promoting periodontitis, and in particular takes into account the synergy between these predictors. The invention also relates to a computer readable storage medium, on which there is stored a computer program comprising computer code adapted to perform one or more of the above-mentioned methods, and furthermore such a computer program. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116800 | CLINICAL COLLABORATION USING AN ONLINE NETWORKING SYSTEM - Methods are provided for sharing patient information by way of an online collaboration system. A requesting clinician, through an online networking system, identifies one or more clinicians with whom the requesting clinician wishes to collaborate by sending at least one patient-focused clinical data element. For the clinicians who have been identified as not being authorized to access patient-identifying data, the at least one patient-focused clinical data element is de-identified such that it no longer includes any patient-identifying data. The de-identified patient-focused clinical data element is then communicated to the clinicians not allowed access to the patient-identifying information. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116801 | SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING POTENTIAL CLAIM OUTCOMES USING RELATED HISTORICAL DATA - A computer system includes a data storage device. The data storage module receives, stores, and provides access to historical claim data. A categorical aggregation component comprising program instructions stored in a program memory provides categorized and aggregated historical claim data by identifying claim categories based on the historical claim data, each of the one or more claim categories associated with a respective set of claim characteristics, identifying claims of the historical claim data associated with one of the claim categories, assigning each identified claim to one of a plurality of total severity ranges based on the total severity of the identified claim, and determining an average cost per claim year for claims of each total severity range when executed by a computer processor. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116802 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A CONNECTION BETWEEN STEM-CELL SAMPLING AND A HEALTH SAVINGS FINANCIAL PRODUCT - The present invention relates to a method of establishing a connection between a collection of stem cells taken from parturient women and a health savings financial product, the method consisting, in a first step in an “entity” body corporate proposing an option to the parturient woman to contract a financial product in the name of a beneficiary, herself or the newborn baby, which financial product includes an advantage in kind, being constituted by the stem cells taken at the time of birth, in taking a biological collection of placental tissues containing stem cells from the parturient woman, in sharing the tissue between two biocollections A and B that are entrusted to an entity, each of the two biocollections being accompanied by a respective data medium encoding an administrative, medico-technical, biological, medical, and financial management cycle specific to the biocollection. Subsequent steps complete the method. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116803 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DETECT THAT A DEVICE HAS BEEN CLEANED - A room monitoring system includes a plurality of in-room units. The in-room units collect information relating to a clean or dirty status of a plurality of patient rooms and/or equipment in the rooms. A monitoring station receives clean or dirty status information from the in-room units and determines which rooms are clean, and ready for a patient, which are dirty and in need of cleaning, and which are occupied. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116804 | VISUALIZATION OF SOCIAL MEDICAL DATA - A method, system, and computer program product for visualization of social medical data for a patient. The method including: providing a display representing part or all of a human body of a current patient; determining similar patients related by a bond of one or more entities to the current patient; determining an area of the body a binding entity relates to; and displaying an object representing a similar patient at the area of the body the binding entity relates to on the display representing the human body. Displaying an object representing a similar patient may reflect the level of similarity of the similar patient to the current patient according to the contribution to the similarity of the binding entity. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116805 | System and Method for Selecting and Implementing an Electronic Health Care Records System - Disclosed is a system and method for selecting and implementing an electronic medical records (EMR) system for a health care facility. The method allows a particular medical practice to be systemically analyzed relative to factors impacting EMR selection and implementation. This analysis is conducted by way of a graphical representation of the activities carried out by health care workers associated with the particular practice. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116806 | DATABASE MANAGEMENT FOR A TREATMENT SYSTEM - A process for treating orthopedic injuries including the steps of presenting a set of treatment protocols; approving a treatment protocol from among the presented set of treatment protocols; capturing information identifying the approved treatment protocol from among the set of presented protocols; and generating information from the captured information into a form compatible with a handheld computer adapted for connection to an orthopedic sensor system. The generated information includes parameters of the identified approved treatment protocol. The process may also include the steps of basing the presented set of treatment protocols upon a database of historic patients, orthopedic injuries, treatment protocols and outcomes, and retaining information about the current patient, the patients injury, treatment protocol and outcome. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116807 | Apparatus, system, and method for comparing healthcare - Methods, systems, and apparatuses for comparing healthcare data are disclosed. Some embodiments of the method for comparing healthcare data may include receiving healthcare data for geographic regions. The healthcare data may include healthcare variables and clinical data. Some embodiments of the method may further include analyzing, with a processing device, one or more healthcare variables for geographic regions. In some embodiments of the method, analyzing the one or more healthcare variables may include assigning each geographic region to one of several clusters based on the one or more healthcare variables. Some embodiments of the method may further include analyzing, with a processing device, the clinical data for geographic regions. In some embodiments of the method, analyzing the clinical data may include determining a primary magnitude for each geographic region of a primary measure, determining a secondary magnitude for each geographic region of a secondary measure, and comparing them. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116808 | MEDICAL DATA RECORDING SYSTEM - A device for recording information on CDRs or other recording media and printing file information for observing what is recorded thereon. The information may be medical images such as x-rays, cat scans, magnetic resonance images, or sonograms. The discs can have patient names and other information selected from information stored thereon, printed on the disc as well as logos for the hospital, service provider or trademarks. The discs can be automatically loaded into the recorder and printer. The fields of information or logos printed on the discs can be changed to suit the user. A database creates and updates a directory of patient files so the discs can be located and the images thereon viewed for each patient. The discs have software allowing the computer to view the images on the disc so that a personal computer not having imaging software can operate the disc. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116809 | METHOD FOR CREATING AND/OR KEEPING A PERSONAL MEDICATION FILE WITH THE AID OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM - Method for creating and/or keeping a personal medication file with the aid of a computer system, comprising: | 2012-05-10 |
20120116810 | MEDICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method of facilitating a patient's care transitions both into and upon subsequent discharge from an in-patient medical facility utilizes three points of health care provider intervention. The system and method utilizes a cloud-based medication management system applying rules to determine whether the patient's medications, clinical lab results, genomic information, or other relevant considerations would, in combination, amount to an adverse health outcome. If an adverse health outcome is predicted based on an application of the pre-programmed rules, health care intervention is sought. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116811 | SCREEN-TOUCH-CONTROL ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROVIDING MEDICAL INFORMATION - A screen-touch-control electronic device for providing medical information includes a communication module, a memory module, a control module and a touch screen. The communication module is in signal connection with at least a server to download patient information. The patient information are selected from the group consisting of patient abstracts, medical records, medicine records, laboratory data, doctor orders and medical image information and any combination thereof. The memory module stores a medical information application program and the patient information downloaded through the communication module. The control module electrically connects with the communication module and the memory module, and performs the medical information application program to generate an information window. The touch screen electrically connects the control module, displays the information window and detecting a touch event to generate a touch signal. The control module receives the touch signal to display the patient information within the information window accordingly. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116812 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR VALIDATION - In a method for validating data, a text of a document is received. At least one fact is extracted from the text. At least one expert refinement is merged with the at least one fact to create at least one modified fact. The at least one modified fact is provided for a review. An expert refinement to the at least one modified fact is captured in response to the review. A superset document based on the at least one pre-existing refinement and the expert refinement is stored. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116813 | Rule Management Method and System - A rule processing method includes defining a target group of patients chosen from a group of existing patients. An action to be taken concerning one or more patients within the target group of patients is defined, and an execution time for the action is scheduled. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116814 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ONLINE MEDICAL RECORDS - A method is provided for providing a user with the ability to access and collect records associated with the user in a secure and private manner. The method includes assigning a phone number to the user for private fax and voice communications from service providers, associating access information with the user for the user to use to access a web site, receiving a private fax communication comprising a record associated with the user for which the user has requested and given permission to the service provider to send to the phone number, converting the private fax communications into an image file format, storing the record encoded in the image file format, and providing the user with access to the web site using the access information and providing on the web site an interface to the records of the user for the user to access the record. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116815 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ONLINE MEDICAL RECORDS - A method for providing a consumer with the ability to access and collect personal health records associated with the consumer in a secure and private manner is provided. The method includes assigning a toll-free phone number individually associated with and dedicated to the consumer for private fax and voice communications from a health care provider, associating access information with the consumer for the consumer to use to access a secure web site, receiving a private fax communication comprising a personal health record associated with the consumer for which the consumer has requested and given permission to the health care provider to send to the toll-free number, converting the private fax communications into an image file format, storing the health record encoded in the image file format, and providing the consumer with secure access to the web site using the access information and providing on the web site an interface to the health records of the consumer for the consumer to access the health record. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116816 | PREORDER TELERADIOLOGY WORKFLOW SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for healthcare administration and, particularly, radiologic practice workflow. A referring physician applies chosen selection sets of policy configurations to at least one dashboard before an order is placed by the referring physician. Each dashboard includes a real time augmentation function and a plurality of ranged selection sets of policy configurations whereby each selection set is initially created by the referring physician. The policy configurations are updated in real time with, at least in part, shared data input received at a group application function of a radiology social network referral system. The referring physician generates a patient preorder workfile with at the at least one dashboard in response to a patient need. The group application function collects data input for the patent preorder workfile. After a physician order entry is entered, the patient preorder workfile is actively interfaced with an electronic medical records system. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116817 | Methods for Predicting Cardiovascular Mortality Risk - The present invention relates to a method for predicting cardiovascular mortality risk in a patient, comprising determining the level of endothelial microparticles in a blood sample obtained from said patient. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116818 | COOPERATION SYSTEM AND INFORMATION TERMINAL - Provided is a cooperation system ( | 2012-05-10 |
20120116819 | TRAFFIC COLLISION INCIDENT VISUALIZATION WITH LOCATION CONTEXT - A mapping data of a location associated with a traffic collision incident can be presented within an automobile incident application interface executing within a computing device. A visualization of the incident can be performed within the interface. The visualization can be a computer generated graphic re-creation of the incident having a starting location and a collision location associated with an object model. The object model can be a graphical representation of a vehicle. A user input can be received during the visualization. The user input can include manipulating the position of an object model presented upon the mapping data. The manipulation can be a translation, rotation, and/or scaling operation. The object model can be associated with visualization data which can link the object model with a heading and/or a track. The appropriate heading and track of the object model can be visually presented within the interface. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116820 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTIVE INSURANCE UNDERWRITING USING INTELLIGENT IP-ADDRESSABLE DEVICES - A system and method are disclosed herein for maintaining an inventory of assets located at an insured property covered under an insurance policy based on data received from IP-addressable devices located at the property. The system includes an inventory database for storing inventory information about assets located at an insured property, a communication interface for receiving registration and operational data associated with an IP-addressable device, and a business logic computer. The business logic computer creates a data structure for storing inventory information about assets located at the insured property in the inventory database for each insured property. The business logic computer determines, for the insured property, the inventory information about the insured property's assets based on registration and operational data received from its IP-addressable devices located at the property. The business logic computer stores the insured property's inventory information in its associated data structure in the inventory database. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116821 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRELATING A SELLER'S INSURANCE CLAIM WITH A BUYER'S COMPLAINT - A method and a system for maintaining a record of a shipping insurance elected by a seller eligible to purchase the shipping insurance for an item to be shipped to a buyer are described. A claim and complaint module receives a complaint from the buyer and a claim from the seller. A claim processing module processes the claim from the seller based on the corresponding complaint from the buyer. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116822 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC PRICING OF AN INSURANCE POLICY - A storage device stores a profile of a seller of an electronic marketplace. An insurance pricing generator module computes a shipping insurance rate for the seller based on the profile of the seller. The shipping insurance rate for the seller is computed based on the insurance coverage selected by the seller. The profile of the seller has an electronic marketplace profile of the seller and an insurance profile of the seller. A record of the shipping insurance elected by a seller eligible to purchase the shipping insurance at the shipping insurance rate for an item to be shipped to a buyer is maintained. A claim and complaint module receives a complaint from the buyer and a claim from the seller. A claim processing module processes the claim from the seller based on the corresponding complaint from the buyer. | 2012-05-10 |
20120116823 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SHIPPING INSURANCE AS A SERVICE - A shipping insurance service application has an electronic marketplace platform interface, a shipping insurance module, and an insurance provider module. The electronic marketplace platform interface communicates with at least one electronic marketplace application. The shipping insurance module provides a shipping insurance policy to a seller of the corresponding electronic marketplace application and processes a claim from the seller of the corresponding electronic marketplace application based on the shipping insurance policy. The carrier module obtains the shipping insurance policy from an insurance provider among a plurality of insurance providers. | 2012-05-10 |