| 23rd week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 51 |
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| 20090144015 | Apparatus And Method for Monitoring A Heating System - An apparatus and method for measuring the efficiency of a heating system in which the temperature of the flue, or stack, is measured during a heating cycle and data collected to show the elapsed time and maximum temperature achieved. This data is compared to predetermined limits and if the elapsed time and/or the maximum temperature exceeds the predetermined limits, an error message is generated that may be video, audio, and/or an email sent to a predetermined email address. Other statistics may be generated and temperature data from more than one heating cycle may be aggregated together. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144016 | Detection of Insufficient Sample During Aspiration with a Pipette - Analyzing the pressure profile generated during a limited period of time immediately prior to the end of a liquid aspiration process and comparing the standard deviation of the residuals to a critical value to determine if the liquid was of a desired sufficient volume. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144017 | DEVICE FOR LOCATING A RIGHT OR LEFT POSITION OF A TIRE AND WHEEL ASSEMBLY OF A VEHICLE - A location device is provided, in which the device is configured to be carried by a tire and wheel assembly so as to locate a right or left position of the assembly in a vehicle. The device includes two magnetic sensors with axes of maximum sensitivity; a measurement circuit for measuring a signal across terminals of each of the magnetic sensors, the measurement circuit being able to deliver two periodic signals phase-shifted with respect to one another and each periodic signal being representative of variations in values of a magnetic field detected by a corresponding magnetic sensor during a revolution of the tire and wheel assembly; and a calculation processor programmed to determine, based on the phase shift between the two periodic signals, a direction of rotation of the tire and wheel assembly, and to deduce from the direction of rotation and a direction of travel of the vehicle, a right or left location of the tire and wheel assembly. The two magnetic sensors have their axes of maximum sensitivity oriented in parallel, and in the two magnetic sensors are configured to be placed on the tire and wheel assembly at distinct azimuths. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144018 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING COORDINATE VALUES OF A MEASURING MACHINE - A method for calculating coordinate values of a measuring machine is provided. The method includes receiving signals in three dimensions from a raster ruler signal generator, identifying a direction of each signal and multiply a frequency of each signal. The method further includes counting each of multiplied signals in each dimension, sending the counted data to the MCU. The method further includes adding the counted data of each of the multiplied signals in each dimension to obtain an accumulated number in each dimension and calculating coordinate values of the measuring machine according to the accumulated number in each dimension and a proportionality factor of the raster ruler signal generator. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144019 | Method for Determining Contact Erosion of an Electromagnetic Switching Device, and Electromagnetic Switching Device Comprising a Mechanism Operating According to Said Method - In order to determine contact erosion of an electromagnetic switching device, a mechanical parameter is measured which characterizes the time course of the relative movement between the contacts, said movement being caused by an actuator. The point in time when the contacts close is determined by evaluating the time course of the relative movement, and the distance traveled by the contacts until said point in time or the distance traveled by the actuator from said point in time until reaching the final position thereof is detected at least indirectly and is compared to a stored reference value. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144020 | Storage medium having step count calculation program stored therein, step count calculation apparatus, and step count calculation system - By repeatedly obtaining acceleration data, a gravity direction acceleration acting in a gravity direction of a housing and a horizontal direction acceleration acting in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the gravity direction are calculated. By using a first coefficient, a first step count in accordance with a change in the gravity direction acceleration is calculated and by using a second coefficient which is different from the first coefficient, a second step count in accordance with a change in the horizontal direction acceleration is calculated. Based on a predetermined condition, one of the first step count and the second step count is selected as a user's step count. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144021 | Long Range Mobile Communication Enabled Personal Weighing Device - A device and method for measuring a person's weight and transmitting the measurement results to a remote data center for storage and processing are disclosed. The measuring apparatus comprising a sensor unit, a processor unit and a communication module capable of transceiving data over a long range mobile communication network. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144022 | Mixed statistical and numerical model for sensor array detection and classification - A method and system for detecting and classifying biosensor and chemical sensor data includes processing data fetched from an array of sensors. A statistical analysis of the processed data is performed, to obtain statistically analyzed sensor data. A determination is made, based on the statistically analyzed sensor data, whether or not there a response signal has been generated from the array of sensors. If a response signal is determined to have been generated, a numerical pattern recognition is performed on the data collected from the array of sensors, in order to categorize the data | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144023 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING PERFORMANCE OF CONTROL SYSTEMS - A system is disclosed for scaling performance indicators of control applications in an environmental control system. The system is configured to identify a probability distribution that is characteristic of a fault-free environmental control system and to use the probability distribution of a fault-free environmental control system in calculations to display probability distributions of data from first and second control applications on a common scale. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144024 | Method and Structure for Screening NFET-to-PFET Device Performance Offsets Within a CMOS Process - A method of screening on-chip variation in NFET-to-PFET device performance for as-manufactured integrated circuits (ICs) made using a CMOS process. The method includes defining an acceptable frequency- or period-based NFET-to-PFET device performance envelope by simulating a pair of ring oscillators, one of which contains only NFET transistors and the other of which contains only PFET transistors. The ring oscillators are then fabricated into each as-manufactured ICs. At screening time, the ring oscillators in each fabricated IC are tested to measure their frequencies (periods). These frequencies (periods) are then compared to the performance envelope to determine whether the NFET-to-PFET device performance of the corresponding IC is acceptable or not. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144025 | METHOD FOR DISCRIMINATING BETWEEN OPERATING CONDITIONS IN MEDICAL PUMP - A method is disclosed for determining the operating condition of a medical pump based on data derived from a pressure sensor and a position sensor. The pressure sensor generates pressure data by sensing the force on the pumping element. The position sensor generates position data by tracking the pumping cycle and determining the position of the pumping element. The pump pressure data and pump position data are processed and the calculated results compared with a pre-determined threshold value to determine the operating condition of the pump. The three main types of operating conditions of concern are the following: normal condition, where liquid is present and no leaks exist in pumping chamber; leak condition, where liquid is present but a leak exists in the pumping chamber; and air stroke condition, where the chamber contains some air. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144026 | METHOD FOR DISCRIMINATING BETWEEN OPERATING CONDITIONS IN MEDICAL PUMP - A method is disclosed for determining the operating condition of a medical pump based on data derived from a pressure sensor and a position sensor. The pressure sensor generates pressure data by sensing the force on the pumping element. The position sensor generates position data by tracking the pumping cycle and determining the position of the pumping element. The pump pressure data and pump position data are processed and the calculated results compared with a pre-determined threshold value to determine the operating condition of the pump. The three main types of operating conditions of concern are the following: normal condition, where liquid is present and no leaks exist in pumping chamber; leak condition, where liquid is present but a leak exists in the pumping chamber; and air stroke condition, where the chamber contains some air. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144027 | POWER MACHINE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD - A power machine diagnostic system. The diagnostic tool system includes a first interface removably coupled to a power machine, a computer to identify a type of the power machine coupled at the first interface, and a second interface to interface between the tool and the computer. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144028 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF COMBINING MIXED RESOLUTION DATABASES AND MIXED RADIO FREQUENCY PROPAGATION TECHNIQUES | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144029 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING CODE COMPLIANT WALL BRACING - Aspects of the present invention are directed at determining whether a structure's braced wall layout complies with building code bracing requirements. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided that obtains input describing the geometry of the braced wall line. Then, the applicable building codes that define the wall bracing requirements for the structure are identified. Each bracing member in the braced wall line is selected and processed so that the method may compile data that identifies the location of each bracing member and quantifies the bracing provided in the aggregate. Then, a determination may be made regarding whether the aggregate amount and location of bracing that is provided is a sufficient to satisfy the applicable building codes. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144030 | COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTIONS FOR APPLYING CLOTHOID CURVE VALUES TO ROADWAYS IN A GEOGRAPHIC DATA INFORMATION SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention include a computer readable storage medium storing instructions for applying clothoid curve values to roadways in a geographic data information system. One embodiment is a computer readable storage medium, storing instructions executable by a processor for applying clothoid curve values to roadways in a geographic data information system, the instructions comprising: selecting database segments in the geographic data information system, wherein the database segments describe roadways; determining segment chains from the selected database segments; preparing the segment chains for transition to curvature space; transitioning to a curvature function in the curvature space, by computing heading change at points along the segment chain, resulting in a transformation of the segment chains into clothoids; smoothing the curvature function; fitting the smoothed curvature function with a more generalized form which remains within a selected tolerance of the smoothed curvature function; and storing identified segments of straight lines, transition zones, and segments of constant curvature in the geographic data information system. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144031 | SYSTEM FOR APPLYING CLOTHOID CURVE VALUES TO ROADWAYS IN A GEOGRAPHIC DATA INFORMATION SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention are systems for applying clothoid curve values to roadways in a geographic data information system. One embodiment is a system, comprising: a geographic data information system, wherein the geographic data information system stores database segments in a database, wherein the database segments describe roadways; and a system for applying clothoid curve values to roadways, wherein the system for applying clothoid curve values to roadways: determines segment chains from the selected database segments; prepares the segment chains for transition to curvature space; transitions to a curvature function in the curvature space, by computing heading change at points along the segment chain, resulting in a transformation of the segment chains into clothoids; smooths the curvature function; fits the smoothed curvature function with a more generalized form which remains within a selected tolerance of the smoothed curvature function; and stores identified segments of straight lines, transition zones, and segments of constant curvature in the geographic data information system. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144032 | SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT TO PREDICT EDGES IN A NON-CUMULATIVE GRAPH - To predict edges in a non-cumulative graph, based on a sequence of non-cumulative previous occurrences of the graph, the sequence of non-cumulative previous occurrences of the graph is obtained, and topological properties of each of the previous occurrences of the graph are extracted. Topological similarities between each of the previous occurrences of the graph are computed based on the topological properties. The edges of the graph are predicted by computing a score for each possible edge of the graph, based upon the topological similarities. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144033 | OBJECT COMPARISON, RETRIEVAL, AND CATEGORIZATION METHODS AND APPARATUSES - Object comparison is disclosed, including: adapting N universal mixture model components to a first object to generate N corresponding first object mixture model components, where N is an integer greater than or equal to two; and generating a similarity measure based on component-by-component comparison of the N first object mixture model components with corresponding N second object mixture model components obtained by adaptation of the N universal mixture model components to a second object. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144034 | TIME MODULATED GENERATIVE PROBABILISTIC MODELS FOR AUTOMATED CAUSAL DISCOVERY - Dependencies between different channels or different services in a client or server may be determined from the observation of the times of the incoming and outgoing of the packets constituting those channels or services. A probabilistic model may be used to formally characterize these dependencies. The probabilistic model may be used to list the dependencies between input packets and output packets of various channels or services, and may be used to establish the expected strength of the causal relationship between the different events surrounding those channels or services. Parameters of the probabilistic model may be either based on prior knowledge, or may be fit using statistical techniques based on observations about the times of the events of interest. Expected times of occurrence between events may be observed, and dependencies may be determined in accordance with the probabilistic model. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144035 | Black box model for large signal transient integrated circuit simulation - A modified “black box” integrated circuit simulation model is provided that is based only upon on the external steady-state and transient characteristics of a device under test (DUT). The method utilizes probe pulses as well as steady-state I-V and C-V look-up tables. In contrast to conventional black box simulation models, which support only steady-state and small signal frequency analysis, the disclosed method also supports large signal transient analysis. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144036 | System and Method for Sound System Simulation - A sound system design/simulation system includes background noise to provide more realistic sound renderings of the designed space and more accurate quality measures of the design space. The background noise may be provided as a library in the design system that allows the user to select a background noise profile. The user may also provide a recording of a background noise from the built space or from a similar space. The design system converts the recorded background noise to a background noise profile and adds the profile to the library of background noise profiles. The user can select a background noise profile and associate the profile with a specified space. The user can adjust the noise level of the background noise and the design system automatically updates one or more quality measures in response to the change in background noise level. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144037 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING THE ACCURACY AND SPEED OF A RAY LAUNCHING SIMULATION TOOL | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144038 | ANALYZING STRUCTURAL DURABILITY IN THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN - A method of analyzing the durability of a structure. Load-controlled testing is performed on samples of a composite material of the structure to relate critical strain invariants of the material to cyclic rates of strain invariant accumulation and frequencies associated with the cyclic rates. The material is characterized based on effective properties of the material, including the cyclic rates of strain invariant accumulation. Laminate properties and a geometrical definition of the structure are used to obtain a parametric model. Material characterizations are used to determine model element frequency responses to applied load conditions. Each element's frequency responses and critical strain invariants are used to determine whether damage is indicated at the element. Progression of damage is tracked and accounted for in the model. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144039 | Optimization of Energy Source Usage in Ships - A method, computer program and system for optimizing the usage of energy sources on ships is disclosed. The method involves creating a computer simulation model of a ship, optimized for fuel efficiency. Creating the computer simulation model involves selecting equations from a pool of equations, describing core components and structural features of a ship, and data from a pool of characteristic data for ship's core components and structures. Moreover, a method, computer program, and system for optimizing fuel efficiency of ships by the use of a computer simulation model is disclosed. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144040 | SHAPE PREDICTION SIMULATOR, METHOD AND PROGRAM - An overlap amount definition section defines an amount of overlap between divided regions when a shape prediction objective region in a polished surface formed by chemical mechanical polishing is divided into a plurality of regions. A shape prediction computation processing section divides the objective region into the plurality of regions each of which includes a region corresponding to the overlap amount defined by the overlap amount definition section, and performs computation for shape prediction on each divided region by distributed processing. A merging processing section combines the results of shape prediction on the divided regions that are calculated by the shape prediction computation processing section. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144041 | System and method for simulating a semiconductor wafer prober and a class memory test handler - A method runs a simulation. The method comprises receiving a selection of a device. The device is one of a prober used in wafer testing and a handler used in package testing. The method comprises receiving at least one parameter for a set of parameters for the simulation. The method comprises running the simulation by executing commands to be performed as if the device were present. A controller supplies the set of commands. Results from the simulation indicate a performance of the controller. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144042 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCHEMATIC CAPTURE AND RESULT VISUALIZATION OF MULTI-PHYSICS SYSTEM MODELS - A 3-D multi-physics design environment (“3-D design environment”) for designing and simulating multi-physics devices such as MEMS devices is discussed. The 3-D design environment is programmatically integrated with a system modeling environment that is suitable for system-level design and simulation of analog-signal ICs, mixed-signal ICs and multi-physics systems. A parameterized MEMS device model is created in a 3-D graphical view in the 3-D design environment using parameterized model components that are each associated with an underlying behavioral model. After the MEMS device model is completed, it may be exported to a system modeling environment without subjecting the model to preliminary finite element meshing. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144043 | POST INITIAL MICROCODE LOAD CO-SIMULATION - Disclosed is simulation of circuit behavior by running a central electronic core simulation in a high level simulator up to and including initial microload, creation of a post-IML (initial microcode load) state, and transferring the post-initial microcode state from the central electronic core simulation to the post-initial microcode load co-simulator. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144044 | Logic simulator and logic simulation method - A logic simulator includes a storage device and a simulator part. The storage device stores a signal duration delay file which associates first signal duration information indicating duration of an input signal supplied to a logic gate of a logic circuit with first element delay value information indicating a first element delay value. The simulator part extracts first element delay value information associated with the first signal duration information corresponding to second signal duration information indicating duration of an input signal supplied to the logic gate when a logic simulation is performed by referring the signal duration delay file, and performs the logic simulation of the logic circuit based on the extracted first element delay value information. By setting element delay value taking duration of an input signal into account, highly accurate logic simulation can be achieved. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144045 | DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM-ON-CHIP MEMORY MODEL BASED VALIDATION - Systems and/or methods that facilitate simulation, verification, and optimization of a data transmission system by utilizing simulation memory component(s) are presented. A simulation memory component can be used to replace memory components and/or hardware components to facilitate early simulation and/or verification of the overall interconnectivity of the system. A simulation memory component(s) can be configured to emulate various sizes of memory components associated with the system. Data throughput can be measured during simulation, and the depth and/or width associated with a simulation memory component can be adjusted to facilitate obtaining a desired data throughput based in part on predefined data throughput criteria. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144046 | METHOD TO ENCAPSULATE AN OPTION ROM FOR OPERATION IN MULTIPLE FIRMWARE AND PLATFORM ARCHITECTURES - A method and apparatus described herein are for providing a simplified option Read Only Memory (ROM) that is compatible in multiple firmware and platform architectures. Instead of providing multiple option ROM images for every variation of platform architecture and firmware architecture, a single code image is provided along with an interpreter stub. If the default code type of the code image is supported by a platform, then the option ROM is directly launched from the single code image without launching the interpreter stub. However, if a device including the option ROM is inserted in a different variation of platform or firmware architecture that does not support the single code image code type, then the interpreter is launched, which in turn interprets, translates, and/or launches the single code image. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144047 | METHODS INVOLVING TRANSLATING TEXT EMPHASIS - An exemplary method for translating emphasis in text, the method comprising, receiving text in a first language, determining a first emphasis associated with the first language in the text, comparing the first emphasis with emphases associated with a second language to determine a second emphasis associated with the second language corresponding to the first emphasis, converting the text in the first language having the first emphasis into text having the second emphasis associated with the second language, and outputting the converted text to a display. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144048 | Method and device for instant translation - Digital translating, using computer program, internet site or mobile phone, for use by one or more people, involving two or more languages, one after the other or simultaneously. Using technologies including voice recognition, language recognition, voice activation, voice-voice translation and voice-text translation. Automatic language recognition and thereby automatic translation to the other languages being used by that group of people. Translation could be vocal or text on a screen or printed. Ability to expand or explain words and phrases. Ability to synopsize words and phrases. Translations and explanations in layman's language or professional language. Ability to translate instantly while one party of the conversation is speaking. Dictionary word source internet connection or local memory. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144049 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE TRANSLITERATION - A system and method for transliteration between two different character-based languages is provided. In some embodiments, the system and method provide transliteration from the Arabic language into Roman-based languages such as English. In some embodiments this system and method allows a user to more easily produce Arabic text on English or Roman-based computer hardware and software. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144050 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUGMENTING SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING BY CORRECTING COMMON ERRORS IN LINGUISTIC PERFORMANCE - A method and system for automatic speech recognition are disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech from a user, the speech including at least one speech error, increasing the probabilities of closely related words to the at least one speech error and processing the received speech using the increased probabilities. A corpora of data having common words that are mis-stated is used to identify and increase the probabilities of related words. The method applies to at least the automatic speech recognition module and the spoken language understanding module. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144051 | METHOD OF PROVIDING PERSONAL DICTIONARY - Disclosed is a method of using a computerized dictionary for building an electronic word list. The method can include accessing a computerized dictionary, opening an entry of the dictionary for a word, the entry comprising a listing of a plurality of descriptions of the word, selecting a first one of the plurality of descriptions, and causing to store the first description or a portion thereof in an electronic word list of a user. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144052 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONVERSATION DICTIONARY SERVICES BASED ON USER CREATED DIALOG DATA - A method for providing a conversation dictionary service includes the steps of: (a) receiving a request for editing conversation expressions from a user; (b) providing the user with a format page for editing the expressions; (c) creating expression data by connecting the information inputted in a conversation entry window and a situation entry window with identification information on the user; and (d) recording the expression data in an expression database. The service can make a user edit conversation expressions and expanding the coverage of the conversation expressions, thereby providing more various examples reflecting the newly or uniquely used conversation expressions in a daily life. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144053 | SPEECH PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS APPARATUS - An information extraction unit extracts spectral envelope information of L-dimension from each frame of speech data. The spectral envelope information does not have a spectral fine structure. A basis storage unit stores N bases (L>N>1). Each basis is differently a frequency band having a maximum as a peak frequency in a spectral domain having L-dimension. A value corresponding to a frequency outside the frequency band along a frequency axis of the spectral domain is zero. Two frequency bands of which two peak frequencies are adjacent along the frequency axis partially overlap. A parameter calculation unit minimizes a distortion between the spectral envelope information and a linear combination of each basis with a coefficient by changing the coefficient, and sets the coefficient of each basis from which the distortion is minimized to a spectral envelope parameter of the spectral envelope information. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144054 | Embedded system to perform frame switching - The present patent discloses an embedded transient detection module, which improves the quality of the audio encoder, at the same time requires less computational power, as compared to existing schemes. This module uses a long frame, when the input audio signal is in steady state, while a short frame is used, when there are transients in the signal. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144055 | Audio Coding System Using Temporal Shape of a Decoded Signal to Adapt Synthesized Spectral Components - A receiver in an audio coding system receives a signal conveying frequency subband signals representing an audio signal. The subband signals are examined to assess one or more characteristics of the audio signal including temporal shape. Spectral components are synthesized having the one or more assessed characteristics, integrated with the subband signals and passed through a synthesis filterbank to generate an output signal. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144056 | Method and computer program product for generating recognition error correction information - A method for providing recognition error correction information, the method includes: obtaining metadata associated with a capture of a media item; and generating recognition error correction information in response to the metadata. The recognition error correction information is to be used in a recognition process selected out of a list consisting of an automatic speech recognition process and an optical characters recognition process. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144057 | Method, Apparatus, and Program for Certifying a Voice Profile When Transmitting Text Messages for Synthesized Speech - A mechanism is provided for authenticating and using a personal voice profile. The voice profile may be issued by a trusted third party, such as a certification authority. The personal voice profile may include information for generating a digest or digital signature for text messages. A speech synthesis system may speak the text message using the voice characteristics, such as prosodic characteristics, only if the voice profile is authenticated and the text message is valid and free of tampering. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144058 | Restoration of high-order Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients - A method for estimating high-order Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients, the method comprising initializing any of N-L high-order coefficients (HOC) of an MFCC vector of length N having L low-order coefficients (LOC) to a predetermined value, thereby forming a candidate MFCC vector, synthesizing a speech signal frame from the candidate MFCC vector and a pitch value, and computing an N-dimensional MFCC vector from the synthesized frame, thereby producing an output MFCC vector. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144059 | HIGH PERFORMANCE HMM ADAPTATION WITH JOINT COMPENSATION OF ADDITIVE AND CONVOLUTIVE DISTORTIONS - A method of compensating for additive and convolutive distortions applied to a signal indicative of an utterance is discussed. The method includes receiving a signal and initializing noise mean and channel mean vectors. Gaussian dependent matrix and Hidden Markov Model (HMM) parameters are calculated or updated to account for additive noise from the noise mean vector or convolutive distortion from the channel mean vector. The HMM parameters are adapted by decoding the utterance using the previously calculated HMM parameters and adjusting the Gaussian dependent matrix and the HMM parameters based upon data received during the decoding. The adapted HMM parameters are applied to decode the input utterance and provide a transcription of the utterance. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144060 | System and Method for Generating a Web Podcast Service - Disclosed is a system and method for generating a web podcast interview that allows a single user to create his own multi-voices interview from his computer. The method allows the user to enter a set of questions from a text file using a text editor. (Answers may also be entered from a text file although this is not the more preferred embodiment.) For each question, the user may select one particular interviewer voice among a plurality of predefined interviewer voices, and by using a text-to-speech module in a text-to-speech server, each question is converted into an audio question having the selected interviewer voice. Then, the user preferably records answers to each audio question using a telephone. And a questions/answers sequence in a podcast compliant format is generated. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144061 | Systems and methods for generating verbal feedback messages in head-worn electronic devices - Systems and methods for generating and providing verbal feedback messages to wearers of man-machine interface (MMI)-enabled head-worn electronic devices. An exemplary head-worn electronic device includes an MMI and an acoustic signal generator configured to provide verbal acoustic messages to a wearer of the head-worn electronic device in response to the wearer's interaction with the MMI. The head-worn electronic device may be further configured to monitor device states and generate and provide verbal acoustic messages indicative of changes to the device states to the wearer. The verbal messages are digitally stored and accessed by a microprocessor configured to execute a verbal feedback generation program. Further, the verbal messages may be stored according to multiple different natural languages, thereby allowing a user to select a preferred natural language by which the verbal acoustic messages are fed back to the user. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144062 | Method and Apparatus to Facilitate Provision and Use of an Energy Value to Determine a Spectral Envelope Shape for Out-of-Signal Bandwidth Content - One provides ( | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144063 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROL OF RANDERING MULTIOBJECT OR MULTICHANNEL AUDIO SIGNAL USING SPATIAL CUE - The present research relates to controlling rendering of multi-object or multi-channel audio signals. The present research provides a method and apparatus for controlling rendering of multi-object or multi-channel audio signals based on spatial cues in a process of decoding the multi-object or multi-channel audio signals. To achieve the purpose, the method suggested in the research controls rendering in a spatial cue domain in the process of decoding the multi-object or multi-channel audio signals. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144064 | Local Pitch Control Based on Seamless Time Scale Modification and Synchronized Sampling Rate Conversion - This invention locally controls the pitch of speech and audio signals. The invention is based on a seamless time scale modification (S-TSM) scheme connected to a synchronized sampling rate converter that switches between different time scale factors in a seamless manner and controls pitch during playback in a nearly continuous way. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144065 | Requirements Management Semantics Modeling - Described is a method and system of requirements management including the expression in a requirements management tool of a relationship selected from the group consisting of a satisfaction relationship, an alternative relationship, a conflict relationship, and a content dependency relationship. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144066 | Method and System for Differential Billing - A system and method of distinguishing between transactions involving a widget and charging the same or different parties for the use, placement and content of the widget and clones of a widget based on those transactions. Such a system and method allows for differential billing for clones of widgets used on the same or different websites. Charges may be incurred based on the type of transaction and charges for the same or different transactions or the same or different uses of the same widget may be incurred by one or more customers. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144067 | Method and Apparatus for Controlling Access to Liability Exposure Data - A computer-based processing system for use in controlling access to liability exposure data contains input received from an end user. The end user declares a plurality of exposure security levels that are associated with particular liability exposure data. A permission is declared for a user and the permission is mapped to the exposure security level. Upon an attempt to access the particular liability exposure data, the system then automatically verifies whether the user attempting to access the data has the permission required to access the exposure security level correlating to the particular liability exposure data. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144068 | Methods and Apparatuses to Provide Connections for Real Time Communications - Methods and apparatuses to identify user terminals in providing connections for real time communications. In one embodiment, a method implemented on a connection server includes: establishing a first connection with a first terminal over a communication network for real time communications; in response to the first connection, assigning a first communication reference to uniquely identify the first terminal among a plurality of terminals on the communication network; establishing a second connection with a second terminal for real time communications; bridging the first and second connections to connect the first and second terminals for real time communications; and identifying the first terminal to a user of the second terminal using the first communication reference. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144069 | System and method for providing personalized service - Disclosed herein is a system for providing personalized service. The system for providing personalized service includes one or more bio-signal measurement sensors and a service terminal. The bio-signal measurement sensors measure a user's bio-signals and output the measured bio-signals over a communication network. The service terminal establishes a service provision plan based on the bio-signals, measured by the bio-signal measurement sensors, and information about characteristics of use depending on use of service by the user, and providing service. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144070 | EVALUATING PUBLIC RECORDS OF SUPPLY TRANSACTIONS - A platform facilitates buyers, sellers, and third parties in obtaining information related to each other's transaction histories, such as a supplier's shipment history, the types of materials typically shipped, a supplier's customers, a supplier's expertise, what materials and how much a buyer purchases, buyer and shipper reliability, similarity between buyers, similarity between suppliers, and the like. The platform aggregates data from a variety of sources, including, without limitation, customs data associated with actual import/export transactions and facilitates the generation of reports as to the quality of buyers and suppliers, the reports relating to a variety of parameters that are associated with buyer and supplier quality. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144071 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING, AND PROGRAM - An information processing terminal includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire biological information concerning a biological reaction of a user to each content block during playback of the content block, a group specifying unit configured to specify a group of content blocks, to which the user has similar biological reactions during playback, on the basis of the biological information acquired through the acquiring unit, a recommended content specifying unit configured to specify as recommended content a content block belonging to the same group as that to which a reference content block belongs, and a recommending unit configured to present information concerning the recommended content specified by the recommended content specifying unit to the user. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144072 | CONTENT PROVIDING/OBTAINING SYSTEM - A content providing apparatus previously receives customer identification information and content identification information as customer reservation information via a terminal device, and sends customer desired content data corresponding to the content identification information to a content obtaining apparatus, so as to provide a customer with the customer desired content data via the content obtaining apparatus more easily, thus making it possible to significantly improve the usability of a content obtaining/providing system. In addition, a content providing server sends three-dimensional images to a portable dedicated terminal in response to a preview request sent from the portable dedicated terminal to display it, and then sends commercial data corresponding to a preview request sent according to the display state of the three-dimensional images to reproduce it, so as to make the customer view and preview the content to allow the customer to accurately judge whether the content meets his/her taste, thus making it possible to select content data lightheartedly. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144073 | Probability adjustment of a virtual world loss event - Embodiments include an apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented system includes a virtual world in which a participant may participate and that includes a loss event having a likelihood of occurrence. The computer-implemented system also includes a record of a protected loss corresponding to the loss event, the protected loss described in an agreement that includes an obligation to provide a benefit to the participant upon an occurrence of the protected loss suffered in the virtual world by the participant. The computer-implemented system further includes a loss event regulator module operable to change the likelihood of occurrence of the loss event in response to the protected loss. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144074 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STREAMLINED REGISTRATION OF ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS OVER A COMMUNICATION NETWORK AND FOR VERIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION RELATED THERETO - The system and method of the present invention provide integrated or embedded components, for electronic (or other) products, each operable to securely store and selectively provide access to, a unique ID (UID) previously assigned to its corresponding specific product, where the UID of each product is registered with one or more particular UID registration centers over at least one communication network, and associated with one or more data records stored in a corresponding database file at the particular UID registration center, the data records being inclusive of information related to the product, the product purchase history, current ownership, etc., and wherein one or more authorized parties may subsequently advantageously utilize at least one UID (and optionally a verifier) to access, verify, edit, transfer, transmit, and/or otherwise manage at least one information item related to the one or more corresponding registered products in their UID registration center database file. Also provided is an optimized process for verifiable transfer of ownership rights between a product's authorized owner and intended recipient, the transfer process being implemented over at least one communication network with graphical user interfaces provided for each party, where the transfer of ownership rights involves association of the product's UID with the receiving party's data record and confirming ownership transfer, and optional transfer of additional product-related information from the former product owner to the current recipient. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144075 | Adaptive Social Network Management - A computer-implemented system and method of adaptive social network management is disclosed. The social networks comprise a network of computer-implemented objects representing people and may include content that has a relation to one or more of the people. The adaptive social network management system provides functions to generate social network metrics associated with people that are determined derivatively from interactions with objects that have a relationship with the corresponding people. The adaptive social network management system can also generate affinities among computer-implemented objects that represent people from inferences of the interests of the people. Social network representations are generated and applied that include the social network metrics and/or affinities. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144076 | Methods and Systems for Performing Horological Functions in Commercial Transactions Using Time Cells - A method and system for controlling a commercial transaction is presented. An article of manufacture has a time cell that is read by an electronic apparatus. In response to a determination of a state of the time cell by the electronic apparatus, usage of the article of manufacture in a commercial transaction is enabled or denied based on the determined state of the time cell. The expiration period of a time cell controls the time period during which the commercial transaction is enabled or is denied to be performed; an unexpired time cell may both enable or deny performance of a commercial transaction, and an expired time cell may also both enable or deny performance of a commercial transaction. The time cell may be used to restrict the usage period of a coupon, a promotional offer, a pre-paid service, or some other commercial transaction that involves an article of manufacture. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144077 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING EXPOSURES PRESENTED BY AN ORCHESTRATED PROCESS - The present invention provides a system and method to dynamically identify, assemble, or otherwise simulate the availability of resources for an orchestrated service or application, thereby allowing for strategic changes in scheduling, purchasing, hiring, and the like to ensure that the resources needed to deliver the desired outcome during a particular time period are present. In particular, the system includes an orchestration module storing a plurality of resource parameters, correlating a predetermined criterion for one or more resources with an event, and simulating the event, where the simulation includes comparing the stored plurality of parameters with the predetermined criterion. The system further determines whether the stored plurality of parameters satisfy the predetermined criterion, and may store the determination for subsequent evaluation. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144078 | Methods and Apparatus for Healthcare Supply Planning for Healthcare Continuity and/or Patient Surge - Methods and apparatus for determining a minimum recommended healthcare product supply to maintain a healthcare facility through a supply chain disruption, patient surge or a combination of both are described. Embodiments of the invention include the ability to make a combined list of healthcare products, minimizing the number of different healthcare products which are required to maintain a minimum inventory. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144079 | Patient identification mechanism in a telemonitoring system - A method and a system for obtaining measurement data collected from an object by means of a medical measurement device from a plurality of medical measurement devices. The medical measurement device is personalized by transmitting personalization information to the medical measurement device, the personalization information being related to the object from which the measurement data is to be collected. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144080 | Digital Fitness Enhancement Method and Apparatus - The presently preferred embodiment of the invention provides a digital fitness enhancement system having multiple components, including controlled playback of digital media for fitness training; a data module which acquires real-time training data, such as heart rate, speed, and distance, where the data can be recorded and also used as feedback to control media playback; and a web service (fitpod.com) which provides tools for storage and analysis of personal fitness data, community services for system users, e.g. events, chat, and a bulletin board, and the ability for users to create and share fitness workout and training programs (fitcasts). | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144081 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMIC MEAL PLAN GENERATION - Provided are methods and systems for dynamic meal plan generation comprising determining meal plan servings, receiving meal plan factors, selecting recipes in accordance with the meal plan factors, and outputting the selected recipes as a meal plan. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144082 | Physician practice management software for maximizing reimbursement rates from payer contracts - A software solution for optimizing healthcare providers' profitability by benchmarking payer reimbursements to the Medicare locality rates and rates of other payers, by analyzing a payer contract's operational language, by modeling the effect on revenue of a provider's decision to stay in a payer's network, by modeling the effect on revenue of a provider's decision to adjust charge master rates, and by sampling a provider's claims. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144083 | Healthcare Exchange II - A system and method for controlling health-care resources by physicians, patients and health-care buyers effect by an innovative computer program and software, the use of certain words and terms in health and health-care generated and submitted by physicians and a network or networks of computers and servers. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144084 | Educational Fitness and Health Training System and Method Having Research Capabilities - A system for delivering health science education and public health information to a user includes a central database comprising information on health science education and public health information; at least one exercise facility database, located at an exercise facility, coupled to the central database; at least one accessing device located within the exercise facility allowing a user to access the health science education and public health information from the exercise facility; and at least one remote accessing device located at a remote location allowing a user to access the health science education and public health information on the central database from a remote location. The health science education and public health information includes user-controlled curriculums and tutorials featuring virtual learning approaches to exercise techniques and health science. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144085 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING FORMULARIES - An system for constructing formularies is disclosed. The system includes a central computer system and at least one additional computer. The central computer system compiles a list of various pharmaceutical products and sort them into different categories. Formularies are then created by selecting individual products or categories of products that will be covered. When prescription claims are received, coverage is either accepted or denied based on whether the products in the prescription claims are covered by the formulary. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144086 | PATIENT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A patient communication system and method which leverages mobile communication devices of patients. The system includes a computer of a healthcare provider for obtaining patient contact information associated with a patient from a patient record, and for sending an electronic message capable of receipt by a mobile communication device of the patient. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144087 | Medication identifying and organizing system - A method and a system designed to assist individual patients and/or caretakers in visually identifying and confirming a single medication or a plurality of medications, based on comparison with an actual-size color photograph of each item of medication. After such verification, the said medication may then be arranged or organized in a container for future use, or immediately ingested by the patient or administered by a caregiver. The medication photographs are available for electronic display means and the images are printable by physicians, pharmacists, caregivers, or wholesale drug suppliers by accessing, via the Internet, a preliminary authentication server which electronically records, stores and integrates databases containing the relevant medication and patient information. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144088 | DIAGNOSTICS BENEFITS MANAGEMENT AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A system may receive a proposed medical diagnosis of a patient, and automatically identify potential medical services to be performed with respect to the patient. The identified medical services may be deemed relevant to the proposed medical diagnosis, which the system may determine from a customizable decision table. Further, the system may receive selection of a potential medical service from the identified potential medical services, and present an automated, real-time indication regarding paying entity/plan coverage and estimated cost and/or quality metrics for the selected medical service based on the patient and paying entity/plan of the patient. In addition, the system may facilitate selection of a lab/facility to perform the selected medical service. To communicate across clinicians, labs/facilities and paying entities, the system may employ a catalog of medical services spanning multiple clinicians, labs/facilities or paying entities/plans to thereby integrate their nomenclatures, and may employ a coding system in this regard. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144089 | PERSONALIZED MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDICAL CONDITIONS - The invention provides a system and a method for tracking, assessing, and managing personalized data related to medical conditions, diseases, disease symptoms, treatments, body function metrics, health and well-being, education, and training. In one embodiment, a method for personalized management of a medical condition is provided. The method includes providing a graphical user interface for allowing the patient to input at least one medical condition metric and at least one intervention, receiving at least one medical condition metric for a patient for a time interval, receiving information about at least one intervention for the patient for the time interval, and displaying the at least one medical condition metric and intervention over the time interval. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144090 | Method and device for documenting medical data - A method for documenting medical data in which the data captured by at least one data entry device from an operating room are stored in a storage medium wherein storage is activated only by the presence in the operating room of a patient who is to be operated on. A device for documenting medical data includes at least one data reception device for entering data from at least one data source, at least one visual display unit for showing data for a user, and at least one entry device for entering data and/or instructions by the user, wherein the storage device includes a data memory that is configured for automatic erasing and/or overwriting of stored data after a predetermined period. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144091 | MEDICAL PRODUCT MANAGEMENT METHODS - A method for providing a medical product including receiving a request for a medical product for use with a specific patient to be used at a particular location, and creating a patient specific package which includes the medical product. The method further includes associating at least one of the patient specific package or the medical product with the specific patient, and causing the patient specific package to be delivered to the particular location. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144092 | COLLECTION OF MEDICAL DATA - A system for collecting medical data includes a database server programmed to receive data in a number of different formats from respective different data sources. The database server is connectable to a communications network. A number of remote data collection arrangements are associated with respective medical operators and each is configured to permit said respective medical operators to input medical data relating to a medical condition of a patient into the data collection arrangement and to write the medical data to the database server via the communications network. The database server is configured to receive the medical data and to generate an electronic record representing a compilation of different items of the medical data. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144093 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING A PATIENT - A remotely programmable and accessible medical device system including an interface unit and a medical device connected to a patient is disclosed. Through a transceiver, such as a telephone or computer, a person may obtain status reports from a remotely located medical device in audible, electronic or paper form. In addition, the person may change a protocol associated with the medical device or be alerted at a remote location of an alarm associated with the medical device. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144094 | Systems And Methods For Hospital Confinement And Care Industry Insurance Policy - In various disclosed embodiments, systems, methods, and hospital confinement and care insurance policies can be used to provide coverage to an ill person confined to a hospital or a caregiver providing assistance to such ill person to compensate for lost income due to absence from work. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144095 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING AND MANAGING BIOSAFETY AND BIOSECURITY RISKS - Methods and systems for evaluating, mitigating, and managing biosafety and biosecurity risks. The methods and systems establish biosafety and biosecurity risk management procedures and systems, and facilitate auditing of facilities and testing individuals and companies to evaluate compliance with such procedures and systems. Systems and business methods for establishing biosafety and biosecurity risk management procedures and systems, auditing and certifying companies, facilities, systems and individuals for compliance, and analyzing biosafety and biosecurity risks for making investment decisions and for pricing and underwriting such risks in the insurance industry. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144096 | VALUING ENVIRONMENTAL CREDITS - A method of creating environmental credits, the method including determining a damage caused by an environmental injury and determining a solution for the damage. Additionally, the method includes monetizing the solution into a credit that replace the damage, wherein the credit is valued in terms of the environmental injury, and creating the credit. Also, a method of valuing environmental credits, the method including determining a solution to an environmental damage and monetizing the solution into a credit. Additionally, the method includes valuing the credit based on the environmental benefits of the solution and outputting the valuation. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144097 | REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A real estate management system and method are provided. The system and method provide an integrated system that handles all of the aspects of a piece of property including identification, acquisition, development (design and construction), management, maintenance and disposal. The system may include a five year plan, a sign package, a lease wizard and a work orders module. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144098 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXECUTING WORK ORDERS - What is described is a method and a system for executing work orders. A first request for receiving a progress information on a work order is generated. A degree of violation between the work order and the progress information is calculated by comparing the work order and the progress information. A tolerance violation status is determined based upon the degree of violation. A second request is generated for receiving a content for the work order to resolve the tolerance violation status. The work order is updated based the content. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144099 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NEGOTIATING A WORK ORDER - What is described is a method and system for negotiating work orders. A work order comprising delivery information is provided. A negotiation action is performed for the delivery information. A first input and output pair including a first transport phase input and a first transport phase output is detected in a transport phase for the delivery information. A second input and output pair including a second production phase input and a second production phase output linked to the first input and output pair is determined in a production phase. The negotiation action is applied to the second input and output pair. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144100 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEVIATION ANALYSIS - Disclosed is a method and system for generating a deviation result for a work order. The generation of the deviation analysis results involves initiating a deviation analysis for a work order, determining a comparison group for deviation analysis based on an available data and a planned data, generating a deviation analysis result for the comparison group and updating a status of the work order with the deviation analysis result. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144101 | System and Method Determining Reference Values of Sensitivities and Client Strategies Based on Price Optimization - A computer implemented method for determining the reference values of sensitivities and strategies for price optimization demand models from a profit function and current product price. A total profit objective is expressed as the maximization of profit and volume, where a strategy parameter represents the relationship between profit and volume. From the total profit objective, the bounds of the strategy parameter are expressed as conditional inequalities relating the bounds to functions of the unit profit at the current rate and average volume. The strategy parameter is then set to the average of these bounds. The reference elasticity is expressed as a function of the unit profit function and average volume. The resulting reference values can be used in a price optimization system to generate recommended prices that relate to an industry's current pricing scheme. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144102 | Collection and Analysis of Multiple Data Sources - Communication data for an organization, such as call, email, and instant messaging activity data from different data sources is collected and analyzed together using a correlation and behavior analysis tool. A set of communication activity records and/or specific contact data information may be provided by the organization's data sources or by an external law enforcement entity. The organization data may be analyzed according to rules and policies of data analysis and correlation using the multiple data sources to identify and report related communication activity or contact data to the internal personnel or external law enforcement for continued investigation in tracking fraud rings and other illegal activities. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144103 | Method and System Incorporating Business Rules and Price Optimization for Financial System - A computer system for modeling a portfolio of products in a financial system to determine the rate of a target product. The products are defined by attribute values, an attribute being any criteria that impacts product rates. Linear associated product rules are used by the computer system to create an optimized scenario of total profit and overall volume of sales for the portfolio. From the optimized scenario a rate for the target product can be determined which maintains a financial institution's strategic and business objectives. The optimizing process includes applying the associated product rules to products actively contributing to key performance indicators. Densification is then used to infer the rate for all other products in the portfolio. Finally, if the starting rate of a product violates an associated product rule, the starting rate is relaxed to avoid the violation. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144104 | System and Method of Selectively Notifying Consumers of Product Recalls - Described herein is a system and method of using the system for notifying consumers regarding product recall comprising: assignment of a unique user account to a newly registered consumer by an internet-based product recall notification system, the user account comprising a database wherein all products registered by that consumer are listed and a web interface whereon the products the consumer has listed as owned are listed with product recall alert-level status shown, and the unique user account requiring a logon verification method that is selected from the group consisting of username-and-password match, username match, and password match; the product recall notification system collecting consumer contact information; the product recall notification system collecting product information from the consumer about one or more products that the consumer has acquired; the product recall notification system sending regular periodic email to the registered consumers; the product recall notification system responding to email returned undeliverable; the product recall notification system receiving information about a product recall; the product recall notification system comparing the information received about the product recall to the consumer's data; the product recall notification system generating an email alert at a level determined by the match between the consumer's registered product and a recalled product to the consumer notifying the consumer about the recall of the registered product; and the product recall notification system generating a flashing screen alert at a level determined by the match between the consumer's registered product and a previously recalled product when the consumer enters information about a product that has previously been recalled. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144105 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DYNAMICALLY CHANGING ADVERTISING ON AN AVATAR AS VIEWED BY A VIEWING USER - A method, system and program product for brokering advertising of products and services in a virtual world. The method includes accepting subscriptions from advertisers willing to pay for advertising products and services on a persona associated with a virtual space belonging to a virtual world user, creating a user profile based on specified likes/dislikes and establishing whether a user is willing to display advertising on their persona in the virtual world in exchange for receiving a benefit. Further, the method includes displaying advertisements on the persona, such that, the one or more advertisements displayed on the persona dynamically changes based on a viewing user viewing the persona of the advertising user, the one or more advertisements displayed to the viewing user being based on a viewing user profile, such that, the advertisements displayed on the persona varies simultaneously in real time mode from one viewing user to another. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144106 | System and method for tracking communications - A system and method for monitoring operations within an organization may include a database configured to store information representative of communication history between first employees and service provider employees within the organization. The database may include at least one parameter indicative of a purpose for each communication between the employees. A computing system may be in communication with the database and be configured to execute software for enabling the service provider employees to enter information associated with the communications and for generating reports that include statistics associated with the at least one parameter indicative of a purpose for a communication. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144107 | Multi-level referral system method - A system and method are disclosed for referring, educating, and incentivizing sales personnel. An Internet (or intranet) website may be established to allow sales and/or retail associates to sign up with the website for product training or to receive pertinent information from the vendor. The website may test knowledge, convey educational information, and provide incentives to sales personnel to refer other sales personnel to the website where such incentives, such as achievement levels, discounts and free products, are only given to the referrer when the referees or such number of referees are signed up to the site. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144108 | System for commoditization of information through centralized communication between advertisers, internet service providers or similar entities, consumers, and financial institutions - A method for commodisizing information that utilizes market based or auction pricing to establish the value of both advertising and non-advertising content consumed by specific individuals. The integration of these two market values through centralized information providers, together with the use of a transactions instrument which contains biographical and financial information pertaining to a specific consumer, allows for specific market derived individual prices to be set for every piece of information consumed by an individual of whatever type. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144109 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AN ORDER STATUS - A computerized system and method for monitoring an order placed by a customer for a product produced by a supplier to be delivered to a retail location. The method includes presenting an order-entry interface to collect order information about the order to be transmitted to the supplier and store the order information in a computer-accessible order database. Warehouse information authorized by the supplier and transmitted to the warehouse is also stored. A carrier database stores a shipping rate of carriers for transporting the product ordered by the customer to the retail location, and a report generation subsystem collects at least a portion of the order information, the warehouse information and the shipping rate and generates a report displaying the collected information in a single display to be substantially simultaneously reviewed by a supervisor. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144110 | Method and system for monitoring process performance in the production of products - A method for monitoring performance of an organization having a plurality of hierarchical levels is provided. The method includes defining a plurality of organizational principles that apply to the organization. The method also includes defining a plurality of practices to enable the plurality of organizational principles. Each of the practices is associated with one or more metrics for performance measurement. The method also includes monitoring the plurality of practices using the one or more metrics. The method also includes visually displaying a set of the one or more metrics at a first level of the organization. The method also includes visually displaying a subset of the set of the one or more metrics at a second level of the organization. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144111 | Method and system for enabling process improvement in the production of products - A method of enabling improvement in the production of products in an organization having at least one production practice is provided. The method includes defining a plurality of organizational principles that apply to the organization. The method also includes defining a plurality of practices to enable the plurality of organizational principles. Each of the practices is associated with at least one metric for performance measurement. The method also includes identifying a current state of a production practice. The production practice includes at least a portion of at least one of the practices to enable the plurality of organizational principles. The method also includes mapping the current state of the production practice. The mapping identifies wastes within the production practice. The method also includes mapping a future state of the production practice. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144112 | COMPUTER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT CENTRAL SCHEDULE FOR BUSINESS DOWNTIMES - A method and a system are described that involve a schedule for central downtime planning. In one embodiment, the method includes creating a plurality of entries in a downtime schedule, wherein the downtime schedule can be a central downtime schedule, residing on a managing system, or a local downtime schedule, residing on a managed system. The method further includes synchronizing the central downtime schedule with the local downtime schedule. Finally, the method includes querying the downtime schedule to retrieve downtimes of the managed system. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144113 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSISTING IN THE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF PHYSICIAN PRACTICES - A computerized system and method for financial management of physician practices. In some embodiments, there are decision support tools to assist users in specified areas for physician practice, financial, and operational improvement. The decision support tools could provide help screens that provide assistance specific to financial reports or financial tools being viewed by the user. The decision support tools could be associated with a variety of financial tools and reports, including but not limited to monthly reports, year-to-date reports, benchmark tools, financial ratio reports, revenue cycle reports, Current Procedural Terminology (“CPT”) coding histograms/financial tables, and fee analyzer reporting tools. | 2009-06-04 |
| 20090144114 | OPERATIONS FOR PRODUCT PROCESSING - An operational process for product distribution includes grouping product into groups when the product is in a first sort level and sorting the groups of product, in a first pass operation, to a second level sort. The method further includes sequencing the second level sort product including late arriving product, in a second pass operation, into a sequence of product. A machine readable code can also be used to implement the functionality of the operational process. | 2009-06-04 |
