22nd week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 62 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100138188 | SYSTEM, REMOTE DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR VALIDATING OPERATION OF A WIND TURBINE - A method for validating operation of a wind turbine from a remote device. The remote device communicates with a controller, which is operatively coupled to the wind turbine. The method includes enabling a user through the remote device to submit a request for wind turbine operating data, composing a command corresponding to the request, transmitting the command to the controller, and receiving by the remote device a response from the controller. The response includes wind turbine operating data corresponding to the command. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138189 | FAST DETECTION OF PROCESS OUTAGES - A method for process monitoring with an automation manager includes: obtaining a unique process identifier (pid) of a to be monitored application process; calling an operating system using a system call function from a monitoring process; wherein the system call function adds the monitoring process to a list of interested processes of one or more to be monitored application processes; wherein the to be monitored application processes are not child processes of the monitoring process; waiting of the monitoring process until the operating system notifies the monitoring process, that the unique pid of the to be monitored process is no longer available; wherein in the event the unique pid of the to be monitored process is no longer available: notifying the automation manager that the to be monitored application process associated with the unique pid has terminated; and wherein interested processes are the monitoring processes that have called the system call function. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138190 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING AND REPORTING EMISSIONS - The present invention relates to methods and systems of tracking enterprise gas emissions such as greenhouse gas emissions. The systems and methods relate to collecting or entering data relating to one or more emissions source of an enterprise or an enterprise location, calculating emissions totals, and, according to certain embodiments, generating emissions reports. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138191 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACQUIRING AND TRANSFORMING ULTRASOUND DATA - A method and system for transforming acquired ultrasound data for processing that includes the steps of generating ultrasound data, calculating object motion, modifying a data generation parameter using the calculated object motion, processing the ultrasound data related to the generated ultrasound data, and outputting the processed data. The method and system may additionally include buffering data from a data acquisition device. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138192 | Systems and Methods for Selecting Components for Use in RF Filters Within Implantable Medical Device Leads Based on Inductance, Parasitic Capacitance and Parasitic Resistance - Techniques are provided for selecting and configuring inductors for use in radio-frequency (RF) inductive filters within pacing/sensing leads of pacemakers or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. The filters are employed to reduce heating due to induced currents caused by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) procedures or other sources of strong RF fields. In particular, techniques are provided for determining optimal inductance values by taking into account parasitic resistances and parasitic capacitances of the inductors. Tolerances of the inductive devices are also taken into account. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138193 | CUSTOM BRACES, CASTS AND DEVICES AND METHODS FOR DESIGNING AND FABRICATING - A custom device and method for fabricating the custom device includes marking a body with reference points and/or other indicators. Multiple images of the body from multiple angles are then obtained. The images are used to determine the contours of the body and the other markings are located and used to design the custom device. The custom device can be fabricated as a single piece structure or in multiple pieces that are assembled to complete the custom device. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138194 | METHOD OF ANTHROPOMETRIC PRODUCT DESIGN AND MEDIA THAT CAN RECORD COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR METHOD THE SAME - Provided are an anthropometric product design method and a recording media storing a computer program for the same. The anthropometric product design method includes the operations of: (a) expressing the relationships between human body variables and design variables in equations, and establishing design equations for design variables, respectively, of a product to be designed; (b) generating a representative human model (RHM) for the product to be designed; (c) extrapolating postures according to changes in design dimensions through a computer simulation using the design equations and RHMs, and comparing data on the extrapolated postures with defined reference posture data to perform a design sensitivity analysis; and (d) determining optimal design dimensions for related design variables based on the design sensitivity analysis. Accordingly, because various human body dimensions and product use postures of users can be reflected in product designs through computer simulation, products that are better customized for users can be designed, and products can be designed that are optimized through design sensitivity analyses of posture loss scores according to changes in design dimensions. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138195 | ANALYSIS MESH GENERATION APPARATUS - The conventional technologies are impractical for the following reason. CAD has been the only solution for changing an analysis model with adding or deleting a fillet. In this case, it is necessary to repeat the mesh generation and condition configuration, which makes the work time longer especially for large-scale or complicated shape data. The present invention, accomplished to solve the above-mentioned problem, provides an analysis mesh generation apparatus including a computer for generating a mesh model. The apparatus is configured to create a screen for selecting an edge of a mesh model and entering a radius of a fillet to be applied to the selected edge; and to create a screen for generating a mesh for the applied fillet, generating a new mesh model by deleting or adding an area enclosed by a contour of the mesh model and the fillet, and displaying the new mesh model. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138196 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING FLUID FLOW CHARACTERISTICS WITHIN FRACTURED SUBSURFACE RESERVOIRS - A system and method having application notably towards predicting fluid flow characteristics within fractured subsurface reservoirs. The system and method include steps of reservoir characterization, gridding, discretization, and simulation of geologically realistic models describing the fractured subsurface reservoirs. A stochastic fracture representation that explicitly represents a network of fractures within a subsurface reservoir is constructed and used to build a fine-scale geological model. The model is then gridded such that the network of fractures is represented by interfaces between the fine-scale cells. The model is the discretized and simulated. Simulation can be on a fine-scale or on an upscaled course-scale to produce efficient and reliable prediction of fluid flow characteristics within the subsurface reservoir. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138197 | Device for Predicting and Managing Blood Glucose by Analyzing the Effect of, and Controlling, Pharmacodynamic Insulin Equivalents - Embodiments of the invention are devices for assisting users in the management of blood glucose concentration levels in patients. Devices of the invention provide users with detailed information related to the pharmacodynamic behavior of insulin in a patient. By displaying and accepting information concerning time-dependent rates and amounts of pharmacodynamic insulin unit equivalents, the devices of the invention empower the user to make effective decisions regarding insulin dosing. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138198 | METHODS FOR ESTIMATING TARGET NUCLEIC ACID IN A SAMPLE PRIOR TO AMPLIFICATION BY QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION - Provided are methods for estimating the amount of initial target nucleic acid in a sample prior to nucleic acid amplification by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The methods generally involve modeling signal intensity data generated across a range of PCR cycles with a phenomenological model in concert with a chemical model, to yield an estimate of the amount of initial target nucleic acid in the sample. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138199 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING DECISION SUPPORT - A method for providing decision support includes using a programmed computer to input a regression model specification, and to repeat the input a plurality of times to obtain and store a plurality of regression model specifications. The method further includes using the programmed computer to analyze selected regression model specifications to determine at least one of common variables and functions of common variables, to thereby determine a reduced-redundancy request for input of variables, when a plurality of the stored regression model specifications are selected for use. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138200 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DEMONSTRATING STAGGER - In one embodiment a device is provided for visually demonstrating stagger. In this embodiment, the device includes first and second tires coaxially mounted on an axle, wherein the first tire has a smaller diameter than the second tire. The device also includes a member configured to be pushed or pulled by a person. The device may be pushed or pulled on a flat surface, such as a paved road. When the device is pushed or pulled in a forward direction, the first and second tires will rotate at the same rotational speed, but because the second tire has a larger diameter than the first tire, the second tire will travel a greater distance than the first tire during each tire rotation. Thus, the device will move in a curved path. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138201 | METHOD FOR ENHANCEMENT OF A WIND PLANT LAYOUT WITH MULTIPLE WIND TURBINES - The layout and configuration of wind turbines in a wind power plant includes identifying constraints of a power plant site and defining at least one region in the site for placement of a plurality of wind turbines. The wind state at the region in the site is determined. An actual wind condition at the various possible wind turbine locations within the site is determined by modeling the wind state with wake effects at the respective wind turbine locations, the wake effects resulting from cumulative placement of other wind turbines at various locations in the region. Individual wind turbine configuration and location within the region is then selected as a function of the actual wind conditions that each of the individual wind turbine locations to optimize power output of the individual wind turbines. The selection of turbine configuration includes selection of a turbine hub height that minimizes wake loss of the individual wind turbines as a function of the actual wind conditions predicted for the turbine location. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138202 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GRID GENERATION FOR DISCRETE FRACTURE MODELING - Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for generating accurate grids that can be used for simulation of highly complex subsurface reservoirs, such as fractured subsurface reservoirs. A representation of a fractured subsurface reservoir and an explicit discrete fracture represented within the fractured subsurface reservoir are provided. The representation of the fractured subsurface reservoir is decomposed into polyhedral cells. Interfaces between the polyhedral cells are selected to approximate the discrete fracture explicitly represented within the fractured subsurface reservoir. The selected interfaces are used to produce a grid that can be used for constructing a simulation model of the fractured subsurface reservoir. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138203 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTIVELY MANAGING TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS ON A PERSONALIZED BASIS - A system and method for actively managing Type 2 diabetes mellitus on a personalized basis is provided. A model of glycemic effect for a Type 2 diabetic patient for digestive response is established. The digestive response model is adjusted for a degree of insulin resistance experienced by the patient. A rise in postprandial blood glucose through food ingestion of a planned meal is estimated in proportion to the adjusted digestive response model. The tool also allows for the avoidance of hypoglycemic episodes by medications. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138204 | CELL-BASED MODELS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION AND OTHER BIOLOGICAL EVENTS - Systems and methods are disclosed herein that enable computer-implemented modeling of lymphocyte differentiation and developmental processes. Cell-based models and methods for simulating natural and transgenic lymphocyte differentiation are also disclosed. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for cell-centric simulation of lymphocyte differentiation with accommodating virtual thymic and/or bone marrow environment feedback. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of modeling lymphocyte differentiation can include receiving configurable simulation information and initializing an ontogeny engine to an initial step boundary in accordance with the configurable simulation information. The method can also include advancing the ontogeny engine, until a halting condition is encountered, from a current step boundary to a next step boundary in accordance with the configurable simulation information and the current step boundary. The initial step boundary can define at least one virtual early lymphoid progenitor cell. The advancing can include performing a stepCells function. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138205 | STOCHASTIC MOLECULAR BINDING SIMULATION - The invention provides methods of dynamically simulating molecular interactions between a target molecule and a plurality of ligand molecules. The ligand molecules may be presented in the model as a homogeneous set of identical ligands or as a heterogeneous set of different ligands, such as, for example, a set of structural variants of a ligand molecule. Typically, the ligand molecule will be a small organic compound, such as a drug or other small molecule, and the ligand will be a protein or a protein domain, a nucleic acid (i.e., DNA, RNA), or a biomolecular complex of proteins and/or nucleic acid molecules. Unlike all known molecular dynamics simulation methods, the invention provides ligand molecules to the simulation's interaction environment(s) in excess relative to the target molecule. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138206 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PRODUCING THEORETICAL MASS SPECTRAL FRAGMENTATION PATTERNS OF CHEMICAL STRUCTURES - Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating theoretical mass spectral fragmentation patterns of a chemical structure is provided. The method includes obtaining a description of a chemical structure and generating, from the description, a list of chemical structure information. A binary tree data structure is used to organize the list of chemical structure information. The binary tree data structure may be fragmented by determining, based on a set of predetermined rules, a fragmentation point between two nodes in the binary tree data structure thereby dividing the binary tree data structure into a fragment and a complement. The molecular formula and molecular weight of each fragment is determined. The binary tree data structure is traversed and appropriate fragmentation rules are applied to produce a plurality of theoretical molecular fragments. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138207 | Method and Apparatus for Circuit Simulation - An integrated circuit simulator and method of integrated circuit simulation comprising providing a voltage lookup table having predetermined drain voltage data for a given transistor type, providing a voltage lookup table having predetermined gate voltage data for a given transistor type and providing a temperature lookup table having predetermined temperature data. Then simulating operation for each transistor in the integrated circuit by determining a current value through the transistor in dependence upon one of the predetermined voltage data values and one of the predetermined temperature data values; and simulating operation for each transistor in the integrated circuit by determining a transistor temperature value and incrementing a simulation time step and repeating the last two steps until simulations complete. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138208 | VIRTUAL MACHINE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INTERRUPT THEREOF - A VMM disables an interrupt interception flag on at least one CPU to execute, upon reception of an interrupt, an interrupt handler code of an OS, and enables the interrupt interception flag on the at least one CPU to execute, upon the reception of the interrupt, an emulator in the VMM. When, to a virtual machine, an I/O device is assigned in a dedicated form, and when the CPU is assigned while the interrupt interception is disabled, a destination of the interrupt from the physical I/O device is set to the corresponding CPU on which the interrupt interception is disabled. When, to the virtual machine, the I/O device is assigned in a shared form, or when the CPU is assigned while the interrupt interception is disabled, the destination of the interrupt from the physical I/O device is set to the corresponding CPU on which the interrupt interception is enabled. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138209 | System and Method for Translating Timed Text in Web Video - This invention relates to translating timed text in web video. In a first embodiment, a method automatically translates timed text for web video. The method includes receiving a request identifying a web video from a client. In response to the request, a timed text track for the web video is retrieved from a timed text database. Each timed text track in the timed text database specifies text to display at particular times in a video. Text from the timed text track is automatically translated to a target language. Finally, the translated text is sent to the client to display with the web video. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138210 | POST-EDITING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING TRANSLATION ERRORS - A post-editing apparatus for correcting translation errors, includes: a translation error search unit for estimating translation errors using an error-specific language model suitable for a type of error desired to be estimated from translation result obtained using a translation system, and determining an order of correction of the translation errors; and a corrected word candidate generator for sequentially generating error-corrected word candidates for respective estimated translation errors on a basis of analysis of an original text of the translation system. The post-editing apparatus further includes a corrected word selector for selecting a final corrected word from among the error-corrected word candidates by using the error-specific language model suitable for the type of error desired to be corrected, and incorporating the final corrected word in the translation result, thus correcting the translation errors. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138211 | ADAPTIVE WEB MINING OF BILINGUAL LEXICON - Embodiments for the adaptive mining of bilingual lexicon are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, the adaptive mining of bilingual lexicon includes retrieving one or more bilingual web pages, wherein each of the bilingual web page including a search term and one or more additional terms. The adaptive mining also includes forming a plurality of candidate translation pairs for each of the terms and extracting one or more translation layout patterns from the plurality of candidate translation pairs. The adaptive mining further includes deriving a term translation in a second language for the search term. The term translation being derived based on a hidden conditional random field (HCRF) model that includes the one or more candidate translations, the one or more translation layout patterns, and one or more additional features. The term translation is further stored in a lexicon repository. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138212 | VIEWING MESSAGES AND MESSAGE ATTACHMENTS IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES - Architecture that facilitates language conversion and previewing of a message attachment in multiple different languages. The architecture can be employed in a messaging application or a personal information manager program, for example, such that the message attachment can be selected and designated for conversion into a different language, and then previewed in the different language. For example, a first language can be simplified Chinese and a second language can be traditional Chinese, such that the user can toggle the preview to view the attachment in the simplified or traditional Chinese languages. The attachment can be a word processing document, a spreadsheet document, a presentation document for the presentation of information, and/or a web feed document. Additionally, the attachment can be one of multiple attachments to the message that is selected by the user. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138213 | DYNAMIC TRANSLATION MEMORY USING STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION - A translation method comprises: retrieving a fuzzy match text segment translation pair from a translation memory (TM) for an input source language text segment, the fuzzy match text segment translation pair comprising a fuzzy source language text segment having a fuzzy match to the input source language text segment and a corresponding translated target language text segment; extracting from the fuzzy match text segment translation pair an exact match phrase pair comprising a source language phrase that exactly matches a phrase of the input source language text segment and a corresponding translated target language phrase; and invoking a statistical machine translation (SMT) system to generate a proposed translation of the input source language text segment based on a statistical translation model that is enriched by the exact match phrase pair with the exact match phrase pair assigned a high statistical probability. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138214 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING TRANSLATION MEMORY IN AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION SYSTEM - A translation-memory application method for automatic translation includes: generating TM-expanded forms by applying TM expansion rules respectively to source sentences whose morphemes have been analyzed; storing in an expanded TM database translated sentences corresponding to the generated TM-expanded source sentences; analyzing morphemes if an input sentence does not match any of the source sentences stored in basic TM database; generating a TM-expanded form by applying pertinent ones among the TM expansion rules to the input sentence whose morphemes have been analyzed; and producing, if the TM-expanded input sentence matches one of the TM-expanded source sentences stored in the expanded TM database, a translated output corresponding to the matched TM-expanded source sentence. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138215 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING ALTERNATE RECOGNITION HYPOTHESES TO IMPROVE WHOLE-DIALOG UNDERSTANDING ACCURACY - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media for using alternate recognition hypotheses to improve whole-dialog understanding accuracy. The method includes receiving an utterance as part of a user dialog, generating an N-best list of recognition hypotheses for the user dialog turn, selecting an underlying user intention based on a belief distribution across the generated N-best list and at least one contextually similar N-best list, and responding to the user based on the selected underlying user intention. Selecting an intention can further be based on confidence scores associated with recognition hypotheses in the generated N-best lists, and also on the probability of a user's action given their underlying intention. A belief or cumulative confidence score can be assigned to each inferred user intention. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138216 | METHOD FOR THE EXTRACTION OF RELATION PATTERNS FROM ARTICLES - A method for building a knowledge base containing entailment relations, including
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20100138217 | METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING CHINESE DICTIONARY AND APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIA USING THE SAME - A method for constructing a Chinese dictionary is disclosed, including determining a probability for nominalization of a Chinese term with a given collocation term according to a determination rule and the correlation between the Chinese term and its corresponding collocations, wherein the Chinese term is determined to be a verb part-of-speech. The method further includes modifying the verb part-of-speech of the Chinese term with the given collocation term to an appropriate part-of-speech when the probability for nominalization of the Chinese term with the given collocation term is higher than a predetermined value, and storing the correlation between the Chinese term, the given collocation term and the appropriate part-of-speech in a storage device. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138218 | Encoder, Decoder and Methods for Encoding and Decoding Data Segments Representing a Time-Domain Data Stream - An apparatus for decoding data segments representing a time-domain data stream, a data segment being encoded in the time domain or in the frequency domain, a data segment being encoded in the frequency domain having successive blocks of data representing successive and overlapping blocks of time-domain data samples. The apparatus includes a time-domain decoder for decoding a data segment being encoded in the time domain and a processor for processing the data segment being encoded in the frequency domain and output data of the time-domain decoder to obtain overlapping time-domain data blocks. The apparatus further includes an overlap/add-combiner for combining the overlapping time-domain data blocks to obtain a decoded data segment of the time-domain data stream. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138219 | Coding Apparatus and Decoding Apparatus - A coding apparatus capable of coding a spectrum at a low bit rate and with high quality without producing any disturbance in a harmonic structure of the spectrum. In this apparatus, internal state setting section sets an internal state of a filtering section using a first spectrum S | 2010-06-03 |
20100138220 | COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR RECORDING AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING ESTIMATING PROGRAM AND AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING ESTIMATING DEVICE - A computer-readable medium recording a program allowing a computer to execute: setting a plurality of frames on a common time axis between a first waveform of an input to the audio processing and a second waveform of an output from the audio processing, detecting a voice frame and a noise frame in the first and second waveform, calculating a first and second spectrum from the first and second waveform, adjusting the level of the first or second spectrum of the noise frame, and setting the adjusted first and second spectrum of the noise frame as a third and fourth spectrum, calculating a distortion amount of the noise frame from the third and fourth spectrum, estimating a noise model spectrum from the first or second spectrum, and calculating a distortion amount of the voice frame from the first and second spectrum of the voice frame at the selected frequency. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138221 | DEDICATED HARDWARE/SOFTWARE VOICE-TO-TEXT SYSTEM - A text preparation system has a first and a second CPU, with the first dedicated to a conventional voice-to-text software and the second to all other functions including a voice-to-text correction software. Voice commands enable the user to initiate the first and the second voice-to-text software and associated lexicons alternately, the second software and lexicon providing a corrections mode for errors made by the first voice-to-text software. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138222 | Method for Adapting a Codebook for Speech Recognition - A method for adapting a codebook for speech recognition, wherein the codebook is from a set of codebooks comprising a speaker-independent codebook and at least one speaker-dependent codebook is disclosed. A speech input is received and a feature vector based on the received speech input is determined. For each of the Gaussian densities, a first mean vector is estimated using an expectation process and taking into account the determined feature vector. For each of the Gaussian densities, a second mean vector using an Eigenvoice adaptation is determined taking into account the determined feature vector. For each of the Gaussian densities, the mean vector is set to a convex combination of the first and the second mean vector. Thus, this process allows for adaptation during operation and does not require a lengthy training phase. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138223 | SPEECH CLASSIFICATION APPARATUS, SPEECH CLASSIFICATION METHOD, AND SPEECH CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM - An object of the present invention is to allow classification of sequentially input speech signals with good accuracy based on similarity of speakers and environments by using a realistic memory use amount, a realistic processing speed, and an on-line operation. A speech classification probability calculation means | 2010-06-03 |
20100138224 | NON-DISRUPTIVE SIDE CONVERSATION INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - Information is exchanged between a user of a communications device and an application during an ongoing conversation between the user using the communications device and a party, without disrupting the conversation. An application associated with the communications device is accessed via the communications device in response to a command and keyword spoken by the user during the communications session. Information is retrieved from the application according to the keyword spoken by the user. When the information is retrieved from the application, the user is prompted in a manner transparent to the party, after which a response is sent to the user. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138225 | OPTIMIZATION OF MP3 ENCODING WITH COMPLETE DECODER COMPATIBILITY - An iterative rate-distortion optimization algorithm for MPEG I/II Layer-3 (MP3) encoding based on the method of Lagrangian multipliers. Generally, an iterative method is performed such that a global quantization step size is determined while scale factors are fixed, and thereafter the scale factors are determined while the global quantization step size is fixed. This is repeated until a calculated rate-distortion cost is within a predetermined threshold. The methods are demonstrated to be computationally efficient and the resulting bit stream is fully standard compatible. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138226 | Method and Arrangement for Controlling and Charging for Peer-to-Peer Services in an IP-based Communication Network - A system and a method permit P2P services in an IP-based communications network and also permit direct IP-traffic between subscribers in a controlled manner solely for specific P2P applications that are predetermined by the system provider. Other aims are to provide options for carrying out a special billing method for subscribers of P2P services and to enable the detection of the termination of a P2P session of a subscriber in order to withdraw the authorization for the corresponding P2P service in the network of the system provider. The aims are achieved by software containing logic P2P service-specific communication channels in the terminals, each terminal communicating with an index server prior to establishing direct logic communication connections to other terminals in the communications system. The index server then carries out a P2P service-specific access check for each terminal in conjunction with the billing and access check control function. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138227 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DYNAMICALLY PLACE PRODUCTS IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - A system and method is provided to dynamically place products in a virtual universe and, in particular, to dynamically place products in a virtual universe based on an entity's budget. The system includes a placement location analysis engine configured to identify at least one location within a virtual universe and a placement cost analysis engine configured to determine a cost for displaying one or more items at one or more of the at least one location. The system also includes a recommendation engine configured to recommend one or more of the at least one location based on a budget. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138228 | REGIONAL ATTRIBUTE DETERMINATION METHOD, REGIONAL ATTRIBUTE DETERMINATION DEVICE, AND REGIONAL ATTRIBUTE DETERMINATION PROGRAM - In a regional attribute determination method for determining a regional attribute representing an attribute of people gathering in each region, user information including the locations and attributes of a number of users is acquired from a number of portable information terminal devices used by the number of users, the acquired user information of the number of users is stored in a user information storage part, and the regional attribute is determined on the basis of the user information of the number of users stored in the user information storage part. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138229 | IMPLEMENTING A GUIDELINE BASED CLINICAL PROCESS - The invention refers to a computer-implemented method, a computerized system, a product and a computer-readable medium for implementing a clinical process, which is based on guideline data. Relevant guideline data for implementing the process is selected automatically. The architecture for the implementation process is based on designing, modelling and visualizing, wherein designing, modelling and visualizing are executed independently of each other and wherein the modelled clinical process is structured procedurally. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138230 | METHOD FOR TELERADIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS - A system and method is described for building a community of clients and radiologists. The method and system bring clients i.e. persons or organisations requiring the analysis of radiographic images, together with radiologists i.e. persons or organisations qualified to undertake analyses of radiographic images. The clients and radiologists register their respective requirements and services with the system, the system matching a suitable client to a suitable radiologist. The method and system use an algorithm to match client and radiologist(s) most effectively. A open feedback facility in which the client indicates his satisfaction with the radiologist (e.g. quality of report, timeliness, cost), and in which the radiologist also indicates his satisfaction with the client (e.g. image quality, quality of associated data, timely payment) is implemented so the quality of service and client of a teleradiology community evolves and high standards are achieved. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138231 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLINICAL ELEMENT EXTRACTION, HOLDING, AND TRANSMISSION IN A WIDGET-BASED APPLICATION - Certain example embodiments provide systems and methods for providing clinical element extraction, holding, and transmission in a widget-based application. An example clinical data element communicator system includes a user interface including clinical content retrieved from a plurality of clinical information sources for graphical display to a user. The user interface facilitates user interaction with the displayed clinical content, the clinical content including applications and patient data. The example system also includes a holding area for clinical content and a transmission unit for transmitting the clinical content to one or more recipients. The holding area is displayed as part of the user interface and holds clinical content selected by the user and deposited in the holding area. The clinical element transmission unit receives the clinical content deposited in the holding area, packages the clinical content, and transmits the clinical content in an electronic data message to one or more recipients. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138232 | MOTIVATIONAL SYSTEMS FOR REMOTE PATIENT MANAGEMENT - A patient management system includes a scheduler ( | 2010-06-03 |
20100138233 | ANALYZING CAREGROUP DATA TO FACILITATE DIAGNOSIS OF SUBPOPULATIONS OF DISEASE OR DISABILITY AND EVALUATE OR DISCOVER NEW METHODS OF DIAGNOSIS OR INTERVENTION STRATEGIES - Methods and systems for analysis of aggregate data from multiple caregroups participating in a closed communication service are provided. According to one embodiment, a closed communication service is provided that is configured to facilitate and encourage communications among members of caregroups and targets of the caregroups. The targets of the caregroups use communication appliances associated with respective caregroups to transmit and receive electronic communications via the closed communication service to and from members of the respective caregroups. Data relating to the electronic communications is collected and aggregated. Diagnosis of subpopulations of disease or disability and evaluation or discovery of new methods of diagnosis or intervention strategies to slow, ameliorate, prevent or remediate a condition including one or more of a chronic condition in elders, a disability, a disease and a mental or physical condition is facilitated by analyzing the collected and aggregated data. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138234 | DEVICE FOR CONDITIONING A MEDICAL APPARATUS OF THE PROBE TYPE - The invention relates to a device defining an inner housing ( | 2010-06-03 |
20100138235 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR CLINICAL TRIAL MANAGEMENT OVER A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A centralized, online clinical study system configured to coordinate aspects of a clinical study can include a training module configured to evaluate whether users have completed training for selected workflows for the clinical study that are available from the clinical study system, and to provide training to registered users for the selected workflows. The system also can include a financial engine configured to determine when a participating site meets or exceeds a milestone of the clinical study and to initiate a payment to the participating site. Further, the system can include a module configured to receive and verify clinical research data and to designate the verified clinical research data as official source data for the clinical study. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138236 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING HEATLHCARE INFORMATION TO AND FROM A PORTABLE, HAND-HELD DEVICE - A method and an apparatus for communicating healthcare information utilize a set of codes to communicate healthcare data in a convenient manner. A set of codes each corresponding to respective healthcare data is generated. The set of codes is stored in a memory associated with a portable terminal. Selection of at least one code corresponding to healthcare data relevant to a patient is detected, where after the selected at least one code is wirelessly transmitted to a recipient. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138237 | SENSITIVE DRUG DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A drug distribution system and method utilizes a central pharmacy and database to track all prescriptions for a sensitive drug. Information is kept in the database regarding all physicians allowed to prescribe the sensitive drug, and all patients receiving the drug. Abuses are identified by monitoring data in the database for prescription patterns by physicians and prescriptions obtained by patients. Further verification is made that the physician is eligible to prescribe the drug by consulting a separate database, and optionally whether any actions are taken against the physician. Multiple controls beyond those for normal drugs are imposed on the distribution depending on the sensitivity of the drug. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138238 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INVENTORY CONTROL IN MEDICAL TREATMENT AREAS - Methods and systems for controlling inventory in a medical facility include providing a medical device into a medical treatment area within a wireless range of a medical facility network and automatically identifying the medical device upon introduction into the medical treatment area. Patient records are automatically updated to reflect that the medical device has been assigned to a patient. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138239 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING DYNAMIC AND CUSTOMIZABLE MEDICAL EXAMINATION FORMS - A system and method of providing dynamic and customizable medical forms is disclosed. In certain specific embodiments, these dynamic and customizable medical forms may be automatically presented to users based on a predefined series of rules which allow multiple users having different roles in the clinical process to collaborate and contribute to a medical examination report, while at the same time maintaining an independent record of what was contributed and by whom it was contributed. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138240 | Data for Use of Accessible Computer Assisted Detection - Computer assisted detection (CAD) is made accessible to more medical offices. The CAD is provided as a service. Customers gain access to CAD service through a computer network but without the purchase of expensive software and/or hardware. The customers use software for extracting needed patient data to use the CAD service. The CAD service provider uses a server farm or third party server facilities, allowing growth without as substantial upfront costs. The CAD service provider collects patient data by providing the service. The aggregated patient data allows training of different or improved CAD algorithms. The service also identifies suspect data, such as associated with incorrect imaging settings, and provides help to the customers. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138241 | System and Method for Computerized Medical Records Review - A system and method for computerized medical records review are provided. A draft diagnostic report is reviewed by a computerized draft analyzer for report inadequacies, including inadequate information to support reimbursement for diagnostic studies described in the diagnostic report. The review may also encompass other electronic medical records. Any inadequacies identified by the draft analyzer are flagged for correction prior to finalization of the draft diagnostic report. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138242 | Electronic Vehicle Repair Management (eVRM) - Automated processing of damage data related to a damaged vehicle is described. Damaged vehicle data including vehicle location data is received at a vehicle repair processor (VRP) from a user mobile device (UMD), either at the time of an accident or when a vehicle is disabled. The vehicle data may be augmented by data directly from the damaged vehicle by telematics processing. A repair decision is generated by the VRP based on the damage data which reflects whether or not to treat the damaged vehicle as likely to be commercially repairable. From the repair decision, a vehicle destination is determined by the VRP for delivery of the damaged vehicle, and the vehicle destination is communicated to the UMD. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138243 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING HEALTHCARE COST REMITTANCE, ADJUDICATION, AND REIMBURSEMENT PROCESSES - A claim processing system, claim processors, and a settlement agency are disclosed for assisting in paying one or more providers. The agency can also provide the providers with an updated claim processing status through updates received from the claim processors. An advantage of this system is that by providing the providers with a common portal or interface in which they find the claim status information; the payers may experience lower call volume, less disputed claims, and frustrated providers. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138244 | RECORDING AND REPORTING OF DRIVING CHARACTERISTICS WITH PRIVACY PROTECTION - In a vehicle usage monitoring system, the privacy of the user is protected by performing some coding prior to sending the information from the user. Specific details of the user's driving history are converted to generalized codes that relate to insurance rates. Optionally, different types of vehicle information may be combined into generating the codes to be sent from the user in order to provide even more privacy. The codes may be used to calculate a vehicle insurance rate. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138245 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A FIXED RATE ANNUITY WITH A LOCK-IN INTEREST RATE FEATURE - A data processing method and system administers a deferred annuity product during the accumulation phase of a contract term. The annuity product permits the client to select both an interest rate which is reset periodically (reset rate) and an interest rate which is guaranteed for multiple years (MYG rate), during the same contract term. The client may elect to automatically switch from the reset rate to the MYG rate, for the remainder of the contract term, when the reset rate falls below the MYG rate. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138246 | Event management system - An event management system is disclosed. The event management system includes a memory, a computer display, an event creation component, a conversion mapping component that maps passenger data from a user format into an application specific format; a group scheduling component that categorizes passengers into groups, a passenger management component, a vehicle management component, a staff management component, a versioning component, an invoicing component, and a data visualization component. Also disclosed is a computerized method for event planning. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138247 | System and method for managing enterprise capabilities - Systems and methods are disclosed for managing enterprise capabilities. The system comprises a database that stores a plurality of capability templates in an asset library. The system also includes a user interface configured to communicate with the database and receive capability data for a user project, and a processor configured to analyze the capability data based on at least one of the capability templates and generate a capability profile of the user project based on the analysis. A display is included in the system to output the capability profile. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138248 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A COMMERCIAL ECOSYSTEMS BLUEPRINT IN AN ASSET BASED COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL ARCHITECTURE - A method and system for constructing a business architecture based on a commercial ecosystem blueprint. The commercial ecosystem blueprint provides a layout of components generic to the ecosystem and its participants, each component having an asset type and an associated commercialization mechanism, and all the components providing a mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive representation of the ecosystem. The blueprint provides a common migration target for ecosystem participants seeking a relatively stable asset based business architecture. Each component on the blueprint, and the information technology system supporting implementation of the component, are configurable to adapt to particular participants and business systems. A collaborative network of such components may be assembled to provide a business system, and these components may be performed by other ecosystem participants, as determined by global sourcing and supply-line optimization. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138249 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STRUCTURED COLLABORATION USING REUSABLE BUSINESS COMPONENTS AND CONTROL STRUCTURES IN AN ASSET BASED COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL ARCHITECTURE - A method and system for using an asset based business architecture having components to operate a business, implementing collaborative interactions between the components by using control structures granular to the level of the corresponding asset based components. To respond to a business opportunity components are assembled into a collaborative network, and the assembled components are configured to the business opportunity. Additional or modified control structures are employed in the collaborative network as needed. Preferably, the collaborative network operates in a business control domain. The components may be adapted from a component business model (CBM) map developed for an industry within which the business competes. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138250 | Governing Architecture Of A Service Oriented Architecture - Governing architecture of a Service Oriented Architecture (‘SOA’) including identifying business requirements for the SOA; establishing an architecture management framework; and creating an SOA reference architecture in dependence upon the architecture management framework and the identified business requirements. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138251 | Governing The Design Of Services In A Service Oriented Architecture - Governing the design of services in an SOA including creating a high level service design from the service model; if the high level service design and the estimated cost of the SOA complies with predetermined service design verification policies, creating a low level service design from the high level service design; and if the low level service design and the estimated updated cost of the SOA complies with predetermined low-level service design verification policies, incorporating the low level service design in a design specification for the SOA. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138252 | Governing Realizing Services In A Service Oriented Architecture - Governing realizing services in a Service Oriented Architecture (‘SOA’) including receiving a preliminary service model and a preliminary SOA service architecture; allocating services in the preliminary service model ( | 2010-06-03 |
20100138253 | All aspect quantification system for the risk rating of operating errors for an advanced boiling water reactor - Based on the discovered operating errors under all basic operating mode s for advanced boiling water reactor, a suitable quantification analytical model is employed to fast assess the risk situation for the discovered operating errors and quantified results are used to differentiate the risk rating for the operating errors. This is used to determine the necessity and urgency for the corrective measures to respond to the errors. The adopted quantification analytical model is the safety assessment (Probabilistic Risk Assessment, PRA) model for all basic operating mode s for advanced boiling water reactor, including power operation, low power operation and shutdown for major repairs. For the discovered operating error during power operation period, the invention uses the specifically developed safety assessment model for plant event, earthquake, flood and fire to determine risk effect for the discovered operating error on different event to manifest the risk characteristics for the discovered operating error and match the quantification results to existing plant design, operation and maintenance conditions. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138254 | Governing Exposing Services In A Service Model - Methods and systems for governing service identification in an SOA governance model according to embodiments of the present invention are provided. Embodiments include receiving a set of input parameters for identifying candidate services for the SOA; determining whether the set of input parameters comply with a predetermined input parameter validation policy. If the set of input parameters comply with a predetermined input parameter validation policy, governing service identification includes identifying in dependence upon the set of input parameters one or more candidate services available for the SOA in existing SOA business applications and determining whether each candidate services available in existing SOA business applications comply with a predetermined service selection policy. If one of the candidate services available in existing SOA business applications complies with a predetermined service selection policy, governing service identification includes selecting the candidate service as a service available for the SOA and communicating the identification of that selected service to relevant stakeholders in the SOA. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138255 | ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FOR MANUAL INVOICING APPLICATION SOFTWARE - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing manual invoicing. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The process components include a Customer Invoice Processing process component, a Due Item Processing process component, a Payment Processing process component, an Accounting process component, a Project Processing process component, and a Balance of Foreign Payment Management process component. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138256 | FREE TRADE QUALIFICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A free trade qualification system to determine whether finished products qualify for a given free trade agreement. Bill of materials maintenance uses tables that constitute the bill of materials, including an item master table and an item relationship table. The item master table contains records for the parts and finished products. The item relationship table contains all relationships between items structured as parent to child in a recursive manner. Free trade qualification traverses the bill of materials to calculate whether a given finished product is qualified. The harmonized tariff code for the part or subassembly being processed is evaluated in terms of the appropriate qualification rules to determine which of these rules applies to the part in the context of its relationship to the subassembly being processed. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138257 | ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FOR SELLING STANDARDIZED SERVICES APPLICATION SOFTWARE - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing selling standardized services. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The process components include a Customer Quote Processing process component; a Sales Order Processing process component; a Service Confirmation Processing process component; a Financial Accounting Master Data Management processing component; a Customer Invoice Processing process component; an Accounting process component; a Balance of Foreign Payment Management process component; a Due Item Processing process component; and a Payment Processing process component. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138258 | ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FOR INTRA-COMPANY STOCK TRANSFER APPLICATION SOFTWARE - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing intra-company stock transfer of physical inventory. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service operations, each implemented for a respective process component. The process components include a Supply and Demand Matching process, a Customer Requirement Processing process component, a Logistics Execution Control process component, a Site Logistics Processing process component, an Outbound Delivery Processing process component, an Inbound Delivery Processing process component, an Inventory Processing process component, a Production and Site Logistics Auxiliaries process component and a Freight Documents Processing process component. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138259 | SERVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - Service management systems and associated methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a service management system can include a system for delivering various types of services including property management services, residential rental services, social services, low income housing services, and/or the like. One aspect of the disclosure is directed toward a computer implemented service management process (e.g., a property management process) that includes maintaining an inventory of property associated with a rental program, providing information associated with the rental program, processing an application to enter the program from a potential program participant, and administering various program elements of the rental program. In selected embodiments, the method can further include providing products/services and/or providing advertising. In still further embodiments, the method can include terminating the program participant's participation in the rental program/service management process. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138260 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING THE OPERATION OF A SYSTEM FOR REALIZING AT LEAST ONE ONLINE POLL AND A SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method for optimizing the operation of a system for distributing at least one poll over the Internet, includes successive steps for: | 2010-06-03 |
20100138261 | Configurable System And Method For Managing Facilities - A system allowing a user to answer a series of questions to generate survey data, associating system data with the survey data to generate a highly accurate report. The user may, customize the survey by selecting categories corresponding to certain series of questions and be presented with a running total of costs associated with each selected action, a total cost for all selected actions, and an impact on the property FCI corresponding to the selected action. The report allows, for example, for targeted assessment of select facilities systems including a time frame within which work to be performed on select facilities systems and/or a cost associated with work to be performed. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138262 | Automated Political Risk Management - A risk management method and system for facilitating analysis and quantification of risk associated with politically exposed persons is disclosed. A computerized political risk management system maintains a database relating individuals to politically sensitive positions and world events. A rating system is used to assess risk based upon criteria such as a position held, historical data and/or interpretation of world events. The system can generate a risk quotient or other rating based upon a weighted algorithm applied to the criteria. The risk quotient is indicative of risk associated with an account. Actions commensurate with a risk quotient can be presented to an institution to help the institution properly manage risk associated with a politically exposed person. A log or other stored history can be created such that utilization of the system can mitigate adverse effects relating to a problematic account. Mitigation can be accomplished by demonstrating to regulatory bodies, shareholders, news media and other interested parties that corporate governance is being addressed through tangible risk management processes. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138263 | CONCISE COMMUNICATION OF REAL-TIME BUSINESS INFORMATION IN AN ENTERPRISE NETWORK - A method, system, computer program product, and related business methods for concisely communicating real-time business information to end users in an enterprise network is described. An integrated business system having at least ERP and CRM functionality is accessed via a browser-based user interface. A plurality of portlet windows are simultaneously displayed within a browser window, each portlet window occupying a relatively small area therein. The portlet windows are selected and arranged according to a customizable user profile for each user, and include reporting portlets displaying up-to-date business results retrieved from the integrated business system. Each reporting portlet further comprises report access links associated with at least one of the business results that, when selected by the user, invoke browser-based displays of up-to-date business data underlying those business results. Preferably, in accordance with a user-customizable alert setting stored in the user profile, regular electronic mail messages are sent to the user communicating up-to-date versions of those business results. Preferably, data labels that identify business items within the browser-based user interface and on the electronic mails are expressed in a business vernacular tuned to each user according to customizable business vernacular settings in their user profiles. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138264 | DYNAMIC BUSINESS ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM - A computer enabled business system is disclosed which provides a business with the ability to be aware on a moment-to-moment basis of their historic, current and future operational states. The business system uses a dynamic data engine for the purposes of creating and displaying historic transactions, current stock levels and forecasted demand data in real-time. As the data is created and cast forward, the data retains attributes of the original transaction data. These attributes are configured and modified dynamically resulting in precise and managed demand forecast, budget and purchasing information. Any change in the raw data as a result of a business transaction is immediately reflected in the demand forecast; hence, the data is in a perpetual dynamic state. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138265 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLY OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS FROM REUSABLE BUSINESS CONTROL ELEMENTS IN AN ASSET BASED COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL ARCHITECTURE - A method and system for assembling business systems by identifying assets and commercialization mechanisms needed for a business system, which are then associated with business components described on a component business model (CBM) map, based on asset types and elemental control structures that are common across an industry, and therefore reusable. The generic elemental control structures needed for the business system are configured and then assembled into a service network for implementing the business system. A business system so assembled may be enhanced by adding elemental control structures to the service network. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138266 | MANAGEMENT OF MATERIALS ON A CONSTRUCTION SITE - A computer implemented method and computer system for management of materials on a construction site. In one embodiment, at least one cost scenario is defined for moving at least one material with a vehicle pool. A status of a project which uses the material is then determined. A report is generated which identifies a vehicle of the vehicle pool and defines a load of the material which is to be moved by the vehicle from a first location to a second location. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138267 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIND TURBINE HEALTH MANAGEMENT - A controller for use in managing an operational lifetime of at least one wind turbine is communicatively coupled to at least one wind turbine and a server sub-system. The controller is configured to receive operational data from the wind turbine, transmit the operational data to the server sub-system, and transmit a request for historical data corresponding to the wind turbine to the server sub-system. The controller is further configured to receive a response from the server sub-system, wherein the response includes historical data corresponding to the wind turbine, and to determine an estimate of a time failure of the wind turbine based on at least one of the operational data and the historical data. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138268 | PROGRESS MANAGEMENT PLATFORM - A device receives milestone information and dependency information associated with a project, generates a milestone flow chart based on the milestone information and the dependency information, and represents one or more milestones, in the milestone flow chart, with one or more nodes. The device also represents one or more dependencies among the one or more milestones with one or more directed arcs provided between corresponding nodes of the one or more nodes, and calculates a critical path associated with the one or more milestones. The device further represents the critical path with bolded directed arcs provided between corresponding nodes of the one or more nodes, and provides the milestone flow chart, including the representations of the one or more milestones, the one or more dependencies, and the critical path, for display. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138269 | ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FOR SELLING PROJECT-BASED SERVICES APPLICATION SOFTWARE - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing the selling of project-based services are disclosed. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The process components include a Project Processing process component that supports the management of projects, a Supplier Invoice Processing process component that manages supplier invoices, an Accounting process component that records relevant business transactions, a Customer Invoice Processing process component that manages customer invoices, and a Goods and Service Acknowledgement process component that receives a confirmation from an employee of goods received or services rendered. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138270 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING REMOTE TECHNICAL SUPPORT VIA A CENTRALIZED SERVICE - The solution described herein provides an innovative use of remote services technology integrated with service personnel onsite at the point of service, such as a consumer repair outlet, to provide a pool of technical support resources to service a widely distributed resource need, such as support and repair resource needs of a chain of consumer outlets or an aggregated group of single proprietor consumer outlets. With this solution, qualified technical resources are provided from a central location to service a widely distributed retail environment. This is on-demand online remote support service is called or referred to as “support from a spigot.” The distribution method enables the delivery of higher quality, more reliable and overall lower cost services. Instead of requiring dedicated technical resources at each location, lower skilled labor may be deployed at the location to enable the remote technical support services process. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138271 | Techniques for facilitating on-line contextual analysis and advertising - Various techniques are disclosed for facilitating on-line contextual analysis and/or advertising operations implemented in a computer network. According to some embodiments, various aspects may be used for enabling advertisers to provide contextual advertising promotions to end-users based upon real-time analysis of web page content which may be served to an end-user's computer system. In at least one embodiment, the information obtained from the real-time analysis may be used to select, in real-time, contextually relevant information, advertisements, and/or other content which may then be displayed to the end-user, for example, via real-time insertion of textual markup objects and/or dynamic content. According to specific embodiments, various operations may be performed for adapting or modifying a conventional context-based advertising systems to improve various features such as, for example, ad relevance estimation, click-through rate estimation, advertisement selection and layout, balancing exploration and exploitation, etc. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138272 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A THRESHOLD OF DECOMPOSITION FOR ENABLING INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF PERSISTENT AND REUSABLE BUSINESS COMPONENTS AND CONTROL STRUCTURES IN AN ASSET BASED COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL ARCHITECTURE - A method and system for generating a business architecture by decomposing an asset based model of the business to a threshold level of decomposition, at which level the decomposition resolves into elemental design elements having asset types which are commercialized by corresponding elemental control structures. At this level of decomposition the elemental design elements and their elemental control structures are reusable in other businesses. This decomposition technique may be applied incrementally to gradually displace legacy systems in the course of developing an asset based architecture for the business. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138273 | REPEATABILITY INDEX TO ENHANCE SEASONAL PRODUCT FORECASTING - A repeatability score is described for determining the quality and reliability of product sales data for generating seasonal demand forecasts. The repeatability scores are calculated from seasonal sales data stored in a data warehouse. Products are sorted based on their reliability scores such that those products that are highly seasonal and have a reliable year-to-year demand pattern are used to form initial or unique demand models. Products that are determined to be less reliable based on their repeatability score are added to the unique demand models through an iterative matching process or left out of the unique demand models. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138274 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING DAILY WEIGHTING FACTORS FOR USE IN FORECASTING DAILY PRODUCT SALES - A product demand forecasting methodology is presented that applies daily weight values to a weekly forecast to determine daily forecasts for a product or service. The method determines daily weight values for use in forecasting current product sales by blending daily weight values calculated from historical demand data for both recent weeks and year-prior weeks. Recent weeks are used to account for recent correlations and alternation effects, and year-prior weeks are used to account for seasonality effects. The method automatically calculates a measure of significance for the daily weights calculated from the recent weeks and year-prior weeks. The significance of each week is applied as a weighting factor during the blending of recent weeks and year-prior daily weight values. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138275 | AUTOMATIC EVENT SHIFTING OF DEMAND PATTERNS USING MULTI-VARIABLE REGRESSION - A product demand forecasting technique is presented which employs multivariable regression analysis to identify demand associated with annual events and shift demand associated with those events when the events occur in different weeks of different years. Historical weekly product demand data is acquired for one or more years. An event influencing demand for products which occurs at in different weeks in a prior year than in the forecast year is identified. Mulitvariable regression techniques are used to analyze the historical weekly product demand data to determine demand components associated with the event. These demand components can then be removed from the historical weekly demand data and re-applied to weeks in the prior year corresponding to the week the event occurs in the forecast year to create a shifted historical weekly demand for said product. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138276 | ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FOR MAKE-TO-SPECIFICATION APPLICATION SOFTWARE - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing plan-driven procurement. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The process components include The process components include an RFQ Processing process component, a Purchase Request Processing process component, a Purchase Order Processing process component, a Purchasing Contract Processing process component, a Supplier Invoice Processing process component, a Supply and Demand Matching process component, an External Procurement Trigger and Response process component, and a Customer Requirement Processing process component. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138277 | PRODUCT MIGRATION ANALYSIS USING DATA MINING - A method and system for mining a database for product migration analysis includes querying product usage data for a legacy product and a new product from the database as time series data. The product usage data is representative for a large number of consumers of the legacy and new products. A mathematical model may be used to determine a relationship between the two time series data. Product migration values and other features related to product migration, such as a transition period of product usage, may be estimated, determined or predicted. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138278 | APPLICATIONS FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES USER PROFILING - Computer program product comprising instructions to carry out profiling of a telecommunications services user in a multi-platform environment ( | 2010-06-03 |
20100138279 | BRAND SUSTAINABILITY INDEX - A system and method for determining a composite rating for sustainability for a brand are provided. The method comprises selecting sustainability factors applicable to the brand. For each applicable sustainability factor, selecting an activity that is an attribute of the brand and determining a score for each selected activity. The method then calculates a composite rating for the brand based on the score for each selected activity. The method then displays the composite rating for the brand and the score for each selected activity in a graphic format. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138280 | Electronic inventory movement and control device - Disclosed is a method and apparatus to electronically tabulate items marked with a bar code. The system may optionally operate to manage, control and tabulate inventory, produce vendor-correct purchase orders, manage multiple locations, multiple buildings, multiple clients and multiple stores to facilitate efficiency for a wholesaler or retailer or alternatively for a distributor, broker or sales agent. The system may alternatively be used to manage inventory for a manufacturing environment or for tracking evidence or items in a chain of custody environment useful for governmental and scientific functions. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138281 | System and method for retail store shelf stock monitoring, predicting, and reporting - A system for retail store shelf stock status monitoring, predicting, and reporting that is capable of monitoring retail store current shelf stock capacity and shelf product freshness at product level, category level, department level, store level, and other product hierarchy levels. It is also capable of intelligently predicting future shelf stock status according to predicted future store sales activities. It uses shelf stock empty index, out-of-stock alert, shelf stock freshness, shelf stock expiration alert, and other shelf stock performance measures to present current shelf status, future shelf status, and past shelf stock performances through interactive store maps and other visual presentation means to optimally deliver retail store shelf stock performance information in real time. The system empowers store clerks, store managers, chain store management, and corporation analysts to monitor, review, and analyze store shelf stock status in real time from anywhere at any time. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138282 | MINING INTERACTIONS TO MANAGE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE THROUGHOUT A CUSTOMER SERVICE LIFECYCLE - A customer experience is improved through data mining and text mining technologies and that derive insights about a customer by analyzing interactions between the customer and a customer service agent. One or more numerical measurements of customer satisfaction are derived and recommended actions are provided to an agent to enhance the customer experience throughout a customer service lifecycle. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138283 | AUDIENCE RESEARCH DATA COLLECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IPTV SERVICE - An audience research data collecting method and system for collecting audience research data from devices connected to an IP service. An audience research data reporting method of a device includes receiving an audience research data collection management object for collecting audience research data from a device management server, configuring a reporting condition of the audience research data collection management object based on parameters received from the device management server and collecting and reporting the audience research data to the device management server according to the reporting condition. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138284 | METHOD FOR MANAGING CUSTOMER-ORIENTED SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT METRICS AND PROFILE QUALITY AND SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT SYSTEM THEREOF - Provided are a method for managing a customer-oriented service level agreement metrics and profile quality, and a service level agreement system thereof. The system includes an interworking device, a customer-oriented SLA metrics managing device, an SLA quality managing device, and a providing device. The interworking device collects quality information, which includes information on SLA agreement metrics of a customer, profile quality, fault quality, and network performance quality, and subscriber information for each customer, and the customer-oriented SLA metrics managing device generates the customer-oriented profile quality monitoring information corresponding to a customer based on the received SLA metrics and metrics value for each customer to manage quality. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138285 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADVERTISEMENT SERVING NETWORKS - A system and method for distributing media content via networked devices. A system includes at least one networked device configured to receive media content and business rules from a control server. The at least one networked device may be configured to select media content for display based at least in part on the business rules. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138286 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENTAL OF ELECTRONIC DISPLAY SCREEN SPACE TO ADVERTISERS FOR COMPENSATION - A system and method are disclosed for providing a way for advertisers to rent advertising space from a consumer on an electronic device owned or used by the consumer, such as a computer screen, television screen, or mobile telephone, and pay the consumer based upon the amount of time the consumer actively uses the device. Consumers can also receive compensation for electronic device advertising space referrals based upon the amount of time a referred consumer actively uses the device. The method further includes details regarding the compensation model. | 2010-06-03 |
20100138287 | Flexible Savings System - A savings system, method, and apparatus that combines benefits of a layaway payment plan, a traditional Christmas savings bank account and individual savings accounts and also are able to take advantage of merchant promotional offers. The system for saving for an internet purchase has no membership or service fees to end user and includes an adjustable electronic savings structure that permits at least one end-user to create at least one flexible electronic layaway account for a topic of savings. The end user has flexibility as to how much to save, when to save and for what to save, including the ability to change to a different topic of savings. The topic of savings is a good or tangible service and not a financial instrument such as installment payments of debt, investments, retirement accounts, tuition payments, or favorable governmental tax treatment saving programs. | 2010-06-03 |