29th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 51 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130185027 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DIGITALLY DESIGNING A DENTAL RESTORATION AND A COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - Computer-implemented method for digitally designing a dental restoration for a rest tooth, wherein the rest tooth is described by data of the rest tooth and wherein a tooth template is described by data of the tooth template, by means of an Laplacian surface deformation to deform the tooth template towards the surface of the rest tooth, wherein the method uses, for the Laplacian surface deformation, an angle weighting function depending on: the angle between the normal direction of a target on the surface of the rest tooth or the normal direction of a handle on the tooth template; and the direction of a line connecting the target and the handle; wherein the angle weighting function is used to weight the handle for deforming the tooth template towards the rest tooth. Further, the invention is related to a computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions, which when executed by a processor, are adapted to perform the method steps of the inventive computer-implemented method. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185028 | Hybrid Adaptively Sampled Distance Fields - A computer program product for processing a model of an object according to a set of instructions includes a non-transitory computer-readable memory storing a model of an object represented by a hybrid adaptively sampled distance field (ADF), wherein the model includes a hierarchy of cells, wherein at least one cell includes a set of distance functions forming at least part of a boundary of the object and a set of distance samples of at least some of the distance functions, such that a processor executing the set of instructions processes the model of the object. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185029 | Numerically simulating structural behaviors of a product using explicit finite element analysis with a mass scaling enhanced subcycling technique - Methods and systems for numerically simulating structural behaviors of a product using explicit FEA with a mass scaling enhanced subcycling technique are disclosed. A FEA model of the product defined by a plurality of nodes and finite elements is received. A critical time step size is calculated for each finite element and then assigned to associated nodes. Elements are partitioned into N element groups with first group requiring minimum time step size Δt | 2013-07-18 |
20130185030 | Numerically simulating structural behaviors of a product using explicit finite element analysis with a combined technique of mass scaling and subcycling - Methods and systems for numerically simulating structural behaviors of a product using explicit FEA with a combined technique of subcycling and mass scaling are disclosed. A FEA model representing a product and a minimum time step size (Δt | 2013-07-18 |
20130185031 | METHOD AND PROCESS COMPUTER FOR COMPUTATION OF THE STATE VARIABLES OF A HYBRID DIFFERENTIAL-ALGEBRAIC PROCESS MODEL - A method for computation of the state variables of a hybrid differential-algebraic process model in succeeding time steps on a process computer with a process interface, the process computer being set up such that, via the process interface, at least one process variable of a physical process can be detected by the process computer and/or one output for influencing the physical process can be output by the process computer. In a computation process, a current mode of the hybrid DAP is determined by evaluating the state variables for a deviation of the current mode of the hybrid DAP from the mode of the hybrid DAP applying beforehand, a mode-specific process model which corresponds to the current mode being chosen from the group of executable mode-specific process models and further computation is based on it. At least one probable future mode of the hybrid DAP is determined in a prediction process. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185032 | DETERMINING AN ELASTIC MODEL FOR A GEOLOGIC REGION - A technique includes determining at least one impulse response of a modeling and migration of at least one point scatterer in a target structure and based at least in part on the impulse response(s) and a reflection amplitude image, determining a model for at least part of the target structure. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185033 | UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION FOR LARGE-SCALE NONLINEAR INVERSE PROBLEMS USING GEOMETRIC SAMPLING AND COVARIANCE-FREE MODEL COMPRESSION - A method for uncertainty estimation for nonlinear inverse problems includes obtaining an inverse model of spatial distribution of a physical property of subsurface formations. A set of possible models of spatial distribution is obtained based on the measurements. A set of model parameters is obtained. The number of model parameters is reduced by covariance free compression transform. Upper and lower limits of a value of the physical property are mapped to orthogonalspace. A model polytope including a geometric region of feasible models is defined. At least one of random and geometric sampling of the model polytope is performed in a reduced-dimensional space to generate an equi-feasible ensemble of models. The reduced-dimensional space includes an approximated hypercube. Probable model samples are evaluated based on data misfits from among an equi-feasible model ensemble determined by forward numerical simulation. Final uncertainties are determined from the equivalent model ensemble and the final uncertainties are displayed in at least one map. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185034 | SIMULATION EXECUTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SYSTEM - [Object] To provide a technique for increasing the speed of parallel running of logical processes without sacrificing the accuracy of data update timing in a parallel discrete event simulation system. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185035 | Systems and Methods of Analysis of Granular Elements - Systems and methods are described for performing mechanical analysis of particulate systems by describing particle morphology of particles within the system using Non-Uniform Rational Basis Spline (NURBS). One embodiment includes generating a NURBS description for the particle morphology of a plurality of particles within a particulate system, determining contact points between at least two particles based on the NURBS description, determining a magnitude of the contact between the at least two particles based on the NURBS description, determining normal forces and associated moments based upon the contact points and the magnitude of the contact between the at least two particles, determining tangential forces and associated moments based upon the contact points and the magnitude of the contact between the at least two particles, and performing mechanical analysis of the particulate system based on the contact between the at least two particles and the resulting forces and associated moments. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185036 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF USING DRIVE TEST DATA FOR PROPAGATION MODEL CALIBRATION - A method using drive test data for propagation model calibration includes: step 1, obtaining original drive test data; step 2, selecting the data from the drive test data according to predefined conditions as effective drive test data; and step 3, extracting the effective drive test data to form a data file used for propagation model calibration. An apparatus using drive test data for propagation model calibration includes: a drive test data obtaining module, configured to obtain the drive test data in the regions to be calibrated; an effective drive test data generation module, configured to generate effective drive test data from the drive test data according to predefined conditions; and a data file generation module, configured to extract the effective drive test data to form a data file used for propagation model calibration. The present invention utilizes drive test data of existing networks to largely decrease the CW test work and reduce the network building cost. It is believed that the calibrated model can relatively accurately reflect the propagation characteristics in the field. Furthermore, base stations can be optimally allocated. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185037 | System for Modelling the Conversion of Lignocellulosic Materials - A system for modelling the conversion of crystalline insoluble cellulose to ethanol is provided which includes a processor configured to calculate the production rate for ethanol based on a number of inputs and as a function of specific equations. The system can form part of a control system for controlling the operation of a plant which produces ethanol from cellulose. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185038 | Performance Calculation, Admission Control, and Supervisory Control for a Load Dependent Data Processing System - An performance calculation apparatus, an admission rate controller, and a supervisory control and decision apparatus, and methods thereof are provided to improve the control of an admission rate of discrete service events to a data processing system. The performance calculation apparatus, the admission rate controller, and the supervisory control and decision apparatus rely on an improved mathematical modelling mechanism that determines a relation between response times of the discrete service events and their arrival rate and thus provide an improved control over the data processing system by externally monitoring the response times of the data processing system. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185039 | MONTE-CARLO PLANNING USING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION - A method, system and computer program product for choosing actions in a state of a planning problem. The system simulates one or more sequences of actions, state transitions and rewards starting from the current state of the planning problem. During the simulation of performing a given action in a given state, a data record is maintained of observed contextual state information, and observed cumulative reward resulting from the action. The system performs a regression fit on the data records, enabling estimation of expected reward as a function of contextual state. The estimations of expected rewards are used to guide the choice of actions during the simulations. Upon completion of all simulations, the top-level action which obtained highest mean reward during the simulations is recommended to be executed in the current state of the planning problem. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185040 | PARAMETERIZING A GEOLOGICAL SUBSURFACE FEATURE - A method to parameterize the geometry of a geological, subsurface feature such as a salt body is provided. Data corresponding to a subsurface, geological formation is acquired. The acquired formation data corresponds to a subsurface body having a certain geometry and a subsurface region. At least part of the subsurface body geometry is directly inverted into an inversion domain. The direct inversion includes partitioning the inversion domain into a first partitioned region, corresponding at least in part to the subsurface body, and a second partitioned region. The inversion further uses a level set representation to parameterize the subsurface body geometry. A computing system that includes a processor, a memory, and one or more programs stored in the memory is also provided. The programs comprise instructions that, when executed by the processor, are configured to perform the provided method. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185041 | MULTI-OBJECTIVE ENGINEERING DESIGN OPTIMIZATION USING SEQUENTIAL ADAPTIVE SAMPLING IN THE PARETO OPTIMAL REGION - Systems and methods of selecting sampling points (product designs) in a multi-objective engineering design optimization of a product are disclosed. The method comprises (a) receiving a description of the product to be optimized, (b) selecting an initial set of sampling points in a design variable space of the product, (c) obtaining numerically-simulated structural responses of each of the current set, (d) deriving a set of approximate POPs from optimization using metamodels constructed from numerically-simulated structural responses, (e) establishing subregions around POF kernels that are selected from approximate POPs using “Piercing” procedure, (f) creating a set of Diversity Basis Points by populating the subregions with a space filling criterion, (g) selecting another set of sampling points from a combined group of the Diversity Basis Points and POF kernels using “Piercing” procedure, (h) reducing the subregion size, and (i) repeating (c)-(h) until a termination condition has been reached. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185042 | SIMULATION DEVICE AND SIMULATION PROGRAM - A simulation device and simulation program are provided that can be suitably applied to a manufacturing process including a plurality of processing steps. The simulation device is provided for simulating the manufacturing process including a first processing step using a first mask, and a second processing step using a second mask. The simulation device includes first obtaining means for obtaining a first intensity distribution generated over a substrate of interest for processing by the first mask, second obtaining means for obtaining a second intensity distribution generated over the substrate by the second mask, and revising means for revising an intensity of a region in the first intensity distribution to be processed by the second mask, to a value regarded as a region not to be processed, based on the second intensity distribution. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185043 | KARSTIFICATION SIMULATION - The invention relates to a method for simulating karstification phenomena in a karstic region, comprising a) defining a gridded geological model of the karstic region, in order to model a plurality of environments including a first environment described by values of at least one geological grid parameter, and a second environment described by values of edge parameters between two grid nodes, b) simulating stochastic displacements of particles in the grid of the geological model, the probability of each displacement of a particle being calculated taking into account values describing the environment within which the displacement is carried out, and c) modifying the values describing the first and/or second environment according to the courses taken by the particles. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185044 | Method of Characterizing Chemical Composition Of Crude Oil For Petroleum Processing - A computer method of characterizing chemical composition of crude oil and crude oil blends, includes determining respective segment type and segment number range of selected classes of hydrocarbon constituent molecules based on physical and chemical property data on each class of hydrocarbon constituent molecules and on crude oil physical and chemical property data. The method determines relative ratio of each class of hydrocarbon constituent molecules that forms a chemical composition representative of the subject crude oil, and therefrom characterizes chemical composition of the subject crude oil. The method/system displays to an end-user, the characterized chemical composition of the subject crude oil. Based on the identified distribution functions and the relative ratio of each class of hydrocarbon constituent molecules, the method estimates chemical composition of the crude oil. Estimates of physical and chemical properties of the crude oil are then based on the estimated chemical composition. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185045 | ANALYZING A PATTERNING PROCESS USING A MODEL OF YIELD - Techniques are presented that include accessing results of forward simulations of circuit yield, the results including at least circuit yield results including simulated device shapes. Using the circuit yield results, high-level traits of at least the simulated device shapes are determined. Based on the determined high-level traits and using the circuit yield results, a compact model for predicted yield is constructed, the compact model including a plurality of adjustable parameters, and the constructing the compact model for predicted yield including adjusting the adjustable parameters until at least one first predetermined criterion is met. An optimization problem is constructed including at least the compact model for yield, an objective, and a plurality of constraints. Using the optimization problem, the objective is modified subject to the plurality of constraints until at least one second predetermined criterion is met. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185046 | Analyzing A Patterning Process Using A Model Of Yield - Techniques are presented that include accessing results of forward simulations of circuit yield, the results including at least circuit yield results including simulated device shapes. Using the circuit yield results, high-level traits of at least the simulated device shapes are determined. Based on the determined high-level traits and using the circuit yield results, a compact model for predicted yield is constructed, the compact model including a plurality of adjustable parameters, and the constructing the compact model for predicted yield including adjusting the adjustable parameters until at least one first predetermined criterion is met. An optimization problem is constructed including at least the compact model for yield, an objective, and a plurality of constraints. Using the optimization problem, the objective is modified subject to the plurality of constraints until at least one second predetermined criterion is met. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185047 | SIMULATION MODELLING - A method of simulation including selecting program elements from a library to use in a simulation model defining a network including the program elements and interactions therebetween. The method stores the simulation model and divides the simulation model into portions each having at least one program element. The method also runs each portion on a processing core and collating the results. A simulation architecture having a first library containing program elements is also included. The architecture includes a second library that contains a simulation model network that defines interactions between program elements and links to selected program elements in the first library. There is a plurality of processing cores to run portions of the simulation model and a controller to allocate portions of the simulation model to each of the plurality of processing cores dependent on the number of interactions between program elements. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185048 | Systems and Methods of Optimizing Resources for Emulation - Methods and systems for providing an emulation session to emulate a computer product for a host device. A method and system involve providing a communication link between the host device and an emulation bridge module provided on an emulation server separate from the host device; providing a host resource library file including a list of the plurality of resources available on the host device to the emulation bridge module; operating the emulation bridge module to determine emulation session resources required to provide the emulation session; selecting at least one of the host device and the emulation server for providing each required emulation session resource in the emulation session resources required to provide the emulation session: and providing the emulation session using the required emulation session resources provided by at least one of the host device and the emulation server. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185049 | Predicting Pronouns for Pro-Drop Style Languages for Natural Language Translation - A method, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for determining a dropped pronoun from a source language. The method includes collecting parallel sentences from a source and a target language, creating at least one word alignment between the parallel sentences in the source and the target language, mapping at least one pronoun from the target language sentence onto the source language sentence, computing at least one feature from the mapping, wherein the at least one feature is extracted from both the source language and the at least one pronoun projected from the target language, and using the at least one feature to train a classifier to predict position and spelling of at least one pronoun in the target language when the at least one pronoun is dropped in the source language. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185050 | CONVERTING DATA INTO NATURAL LANGUAGE FORM - Converting technical data from field oriented electronic data sources into natural language form is disclosed. An approach includes obtaining document data from an input document, wherein the document data is in a non-natural language form. The approach includes determining a data type of the document data from one of a plurality of data types defined in a detection and conversion database. The approach includes translating the document data to a natural language form based on the determined data type. The approach additionally includes outputting the translated document data in natural language form to an output data stream. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185051 | TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING OUTGOING MESSAGES BASED ON LANGUAGE, INTERNATIONALIZATION, AND LOCALIZATION PREFERENCES OF THE RECIPIENT - According to various embodiments of the disclosure techniques for generating outgoing messages are disclosed. The technique includes receiving a request to generate an outgoing message for a recipient and retrieving one or more recipient preferences of the recipient from a recipient preferences database. The one or more recipient preferences relate to customization of messages that are to be delivered to the recipient. The technique further includes retrieving a message template from a plurality of message templates stored in a message template database based on the request and the one or more recipient preferences. The technique also includes generating the outgoing message based on the retrieved message template and the one or more recipient preferences, and providing the outgoing message to the recipient. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185052 | LANGUAGE TRANSLATION OF VISUAL AND AUDIO INPUT - The present translation system translates visual input and/or audio input from one language into another language. Some implementations incorporate a context-based translation that uses information obtained from visual input or audio input to aid in the translation of the other input. Other implementations combine the visual and audio translation. The translation system includes visual components and/or audio components. The visual components analyze visual input to identify a textual element and translate the textual element into a translated textual element. The visual image represents a captured image of a target scene. The visual components may further substitute the translated textual element for the textual element in the captured image. The audio components convert audio input into translated audio. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185053 | Typing Candidate Generating Method for Enhancing Typing Efficiency - For relieving typing burdens caused by incorrect spellings, typing errors, unknown spellings, and characters with diacritical marks, and for enhancing a typing efficiency of a typist with some simplified techniques, several candidate generating methods are provided for assisting the typist to pick a candidate word from a list of generated candidate words, or for selecting a candidate word from said list of generated candidate words in an automatic-selection manner. A proper-designed user interface may also be utilized for implementing the candidate generating methods. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185054 | TECHNIQUES FOR INSERTING DIACRITICAL MARKS TO TEXT INPUT VIA A USER DEVICE - A computer-implemented method for assisting a user to input Vietnamese text to a user device lacking a subset of characters in a Vietnamese alphabet includes receiving a character input by a user, determining three words previously input by the user, the three words having already had diacritical marks inserted, transmitting the three words and the character to a server via a network, receiving first and second information corresponding to the character from the server via the network, the first and second information generated at the server based on a context of the three words, the context determined at the server using a language model, the first and second information indicating whether the character requires a diacritical mark and a specific diacritical mark, respectively, generating a modified character comprising a character in the Vietnamese alphabet based on the character and the first and second information, and displaying the modified character. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185055 | System and Method for Performing Analysis on Information, Such as Social Media - A system for analyzing text-based information is presented. Each datum of information includes an author, a description and a timestamp. A fetcher fetches the raw information according to keywords. A parser parses the raw information to refine the results. A lexicon management module extracts lemmas from the raw information, and creates an edited lexicon containing the raw data and the lemmas for each datum. A data manager correlates lemmas in the edited lexicon and identifies clusters of lemmas that are correlated between each other. The results can be visually displayed to a user, and clusters of lemma that are less correlated than the other clusters can be visually identified. In one aspect, the user is able to excise the less correlated clusters, in order to further refine the results of the keyword search. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185056 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATING TEST SCENARIOS AND TEST CONDITIONS AND EXPECTED RESULTS - A requirements testing system facilitates the review and analysis of requirement statements for software applications. The requirements testing system automatically generates test artifacts from the requirement statements, including test scenarios, test conditions, test hints, and expected results. These test artifacts characterize the requirements statements to provide valuable analysis information that aids understanding what the intentions of the requirement statements are. The automation of the generation of these test artifacts produces numerous benefits, including fewer errors, objectivity, and no dependency on the skills and experience of a creator. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185057 | Computer-Implemented Systems and Methods for Scoring of Spoken Responses Based on Part of Speech Patterns - Systems and methods are provided for scoring a speech sample. Automatic speech recognition is performed on the speech sample using an automatic speech recognition system to generate a transcription of the sample. Words in the transcription are associated with parts of speech, and part of speech sequences are extracted from the parts of speech associations. A grammar metric is generated based on the part of speech sequences, and the speech sample is scored based on the grammar metric. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185058 | FORMAT FOR DISPLAYING TEXT ANALYTICS RESULTS - A system can receive text. The text can be divided into various portions. One or more significance indicators can be associated with each portion of text: these significance indicators can also be received by the system. The system can then display a portion of text and the associated significance indicators to the user. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185059 | Method and System for Automatically Detecting Morphemes in a Task Classification System Using Lattices - The invention concerns a method and corresponding system for building a phonotactic model for domain independent speech recognition. The method may include recognizing phones from a user's input communication using a current phonotactic model, detecting morphemes (acoustic and/or non-acoustic) from the recognized phones, and outputting the detected morphemes for processing. The method also updates the phonotactic model with the detected morphemes and stores the new model in a database for use by the system during the next user interaction. The method may also include making task-type classification decisions based on the detected morphemes from the user's input communication. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185060 | PHRASE BASED DOCUMENT CLUSTERING WITH AUTOMATIC PHRASE EXTRACTION - Meaningful phrases are distinguished from chance word sequences statistically, by analyzing a large number of documents and using a statistical metric such as a mutual information metric to distinguish meaningful phrases from groups of words that co-occur by chance. In some embodiments, multiple lists of candidate phrases are maintained to optimize the storage requirement of the phrase-identification algorithm. After phrase identification, a combination of words and meaningful phrases can be used to construct clusters of documents. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185061 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MASKING SPEECH IN A PRIVATE ENVIRONMENT - A speech masking apparatus includes a microphone and a speaker. The microphone can detect a human voice. The speaker can output a masking language which can include phonemes resembling human speech. At least one component of the masking language can have a pitch, a volume, a theme, and/or a phonetic content substantially matching a pitch, a volume, a theme, and/or a phonetic content of the voice. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185062 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR CRITICALITY THRESHOLD CONTROL - Systems, methods, and apparatus as disclosed herein may be implemented to adjust criticality thresholds for speech frames, based on channel conditions. Such a threshold may be used to control retransmission frequency in response to changes in channel state. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185063 | MULTIPLE CODING MODE SIGNAL CLASSIFICATION - Improved audio classification is provided for encoding applications. An initial classification is performed, followed by a finer classification, to produce speech classifications and music classifications with higher accuracy and less complexity than previously available. Audio is classified as speech or music on a frame by frame basis. If the frame is classified as music by the initial classification, that frame undergoes a second, finer classification to confirm that the frame is music and not speech (e.g., speech that is tonal and/or structured that may not have been classified as speech by the initial classification). Depending on the implementation, one or more parameters may be used in the finer classification. Example parameters include voicing, modified correlation, signal activity, and long term pitch gain. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185064 | ECHO REMOVING APPARATUS, ECHO REMOVING METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - To be provided is an echo removing apparatus including a transmission path estimate update processing unit, and an output selection unit. A fixed section of the transmission path estimate is updated based on an error from an echo estimate determined using all of the fixed section, the holding section, and the update section. These sections are updated depending on whether an estimate obtained by adding the fixed section and the holding section is better than an estimate of the fixed section alone in every fixed period. Only when the estimate is better, the holding section is added to the fixed section cumulatively, and the update section is substituted into the holding section. Depending on whether an estimate is better, an error from the eco estimate determined using all these sections or the fixed section alone is selected as an output. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185065 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING SOUND RELATED VEHICLE INFORMATION TO ENHANCE SPEECH RECOGNITION - An audio signal may be received, in a processor associated with a vehicle. Sound related vehicle information representing one or more sounds may be received by the processor. The sound related vehicle information may or may not include an audio signal. A speech recognition process or system may be modified based on the sound related vehicle information. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185066 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING VEHICLE SOUND INFORMATION TO ENHANCE AUDIO PROMPTING - Sound related vehicle information representing one or more sounds may be received in a processor associated with a vehicle. The sound related vehicle information may or may not include an audio signal. An audio signal output to a passenger may be modified based on the sound related vehicle information. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185067 | NOISE REDUCTION METHOD. PROGRAM PRODUCT AND APPARATUS - A probability model represented as the product of the probability distribution of a mismatch vector g (or clean speech x) with an observed value y as a factor and the probability distribution of a mismatch vector g (or clean speech x) with a confidence index β for each band as a factor, executes MMSE estimation on the probability model, and estimates a clean speech estimated value x̂. As a result, each band influences the result of MMSE estimation, with a degree of contribution in accordance with the level of its confidence. Further, the higher the S/N ratio of observation speech, the more the output value becomes shifted to the observed value. As a result, the output of a front-end is optimized. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185068 | SPEECH RECOGNITION DEVICE, SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides a speech recognition device includes a threshold value candidate generation unit which extracts a feature indicating likeliness of being speech from a temporal sequence of input sound, and generates a plurality of threshold value candidates for discriminating between speech and non-speech; a speech determination unit which, by comparing the feature indicating likeliness of being speech with the plurality of threshold value candidates, determines respective speech sections, and outputs determination information as a result of the determination; a search unit which corrects each of the speech sections represented by the determination information, using a speech model and a non-speech model; and a parameter update unit which estimates a threshold value for determining a speech section, on the basis of distribution profiles of the feature respectively in utterance sections and in non-utterance sections, within each of the corrected speech sections, and makes an update with the threshold value. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185069 | AMUSEMENT SYSTEM - A technique for allowing a virtual experience of more realistic live performance. A main apparatus reproduces music data and audience video data recording a video image of audience. A user holds a microphone and makes a live performance for the audience displayed on a monitor. The microphone sends voice data and motion information of the microphone to the main apparatus. The main apparatus determines that the user makes a live performance when the user calls on the audience with a specific phrase and performs an action corresponding to the specific phrase. The main apparatus reproduces reaction data recording a video image and sound indicating a reaction of the audience to the live performance. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185070 | NORMALIZATION BASED DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING FOR CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION - A speech recognition system trains a plurality of feature transforms and a plurality of acoustic models using an irrelevant variability normalization based discriminative training. The speech recognition system employs the trained feature transforms to absorb or ignore variability within an unknown speech that is irrelevant to phonetic classification. The speech recognition system may then recognize the unknown speech using the trained recognition models. The speech recognition system may further perform an unsupervised adaptation to adapt the feature transforms for the unknown speech and thus increase the accuracy of recognizing the unknown speech. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185071 | VERIFYING A USER - Verifying a user, such as, but not limited to, a user who answered questions for an unproctered test for employment. A representation of a transition pattern is stored ( | 2013-07-18 |
20130185072 | Communication System and Method Between an On-Vehicle Voice Recognition System and an Off-Vehicle Voice Recognition System - A vehicle based system and method for receiving voice inputs and determining whether to perform a voice recognition analysis using in-vehicle resources or resources external to the vehicle. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185073 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM WITH HUGE VOCABULARY - The invention deals with speech recognition, such as a system for recognizing words in continuous speech. A speech recognition system is disclosed which is capable of recognizing a huge number of words, and in principle even an unlimited number of words. The speech recognition system comprises a word recognizer for deriving a best path through a word graph, and wherein words are assigned to the speech based on the best path. The word score being obtained from applying a phonemic language model to each word of the word graph. Moreover, the invention deals with an apparatus and a method for identifying words from a sound block and to computer readable code for implementing the method. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185074 | Paraphrasing of User Requests and Results by Automated Digital Assistant - Methods, systems, and computer readable storage medium related to operating an intelligent digital assistant are disclosed. A user request is received, the user request including at least a speech input received from a user. In response to the user request, (1) an echo of the speech input based on a textual interpretation of the speech input, and (2) a paraphrase of the user request based at least in part on a respective semantic interpretation of the speech input are presented to the user. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185075 | Audio Signal Encoding Method, Audio Signal Decoding Method, Encoding Device, Decoding Device, Audio Signal Processing System, Audio Signal Encoding Program, and Audio Signal Decoding Program - When a frame immediately preceding an encoding target frame to be encoded by a first encoding unit operating under a linear predictive coding scheme is encoded by a second encoding unit operating under a coding scheme different from the linear predictive coding scheme, the encoding target frame can be encoded under the linear predictive coding scheme by initializing the internal state of the first encoding unit. Therefore, encoding processing performed under a plurality of coding schemes including the linear predictive coding scheme and a coding scheme different from the linear predictive coding scheme can be realized. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185076 | MOTION ANALYZER, VOICE ACQUISITION APPARATUS, MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM, AND MOTION ANALYSIS METHOD - A motion analyzer includes a motion detection unit that detects motion of a part of a body of a subject, a speaking detection unit that detects speaking of the subject, and a determination unit that determines that the subject has performed predetermined motion when motion of a part of the body is detected by the motion detection unit and speaking of the subject is detected by the speaking detection unit. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185077 | DEVICE FOR SUPPLEMENTING VOICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A device for supplementing a voice includes: a sensing unit sensing a bio-signal corresponding to a first vibration of vocalization and generating a first signal corresponding to the bio-signal; a vibration unit generating a second vibration using the first signal; and a power unit supplying a power to the sensing unit and the vibration unit. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185078 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING SOUND RELATED VEHICLE INFORMATION TO ENHANCE SPOKEN DIALOGUE - Sound related vehicle information representing one or more sounds may be received in the processor. The sound related vehicle information may or may not include an audio signal. Spoken dialogue of a spoken dialogue system associated with the vehicle based on the sound related vehicle information may be modified. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185079 | HOME APPLIANCE, HOME APPLIANCE SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME - The present invention relates to a home appliance, to a home appliance system, and to a method for operating same, wherein the home appliance and a mobile terminal are connected to one another to add or update data in the home appliance through the mobile terminal connected thereto, diagnose the state of the home appliance by means of the mobile terminal, and supplement the function of the home appliance by means of the mobile terminal, thus expanding the functions of the home appliance to enable the easy control of the home appliance, and more conveniently controlling the home appliance. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185080 | USER SPEECH INTERFACES FOR INTERACTIVE MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATIONS - A user speech interface for interactive media guidance applications, such as television program guides, guides for audio services, guides for video-on-demand (VOD) services, guides for personal video recorders (PVRs), or other suitable guidance applications is provided. Voice commands may be received from a user and guidance activities may be performed in response to the voice commands. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185081 | Maintaining Context Information Between User Interactions with a Voice Assistant - Methods, systems, and computer readable storage medium related to operating an intelligent digital assistant are disclosed. A first task is performed using a first parameter. A text string is obtained from a speech input received from a user. Based at least partially on the text string, a second task different from the first task or a second parameter different from the first parameter is identified. The first task is performed using the second parameter or the second task is performed using the first parameter. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185082 | AUDIO ENCODER, METHOD FOR PROVIDING OUTPUT SIGNAL, BANDWIDTH EXTENSION DECODER, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BANDWIDTH EXTENDED AUDIO SIGNAL - An audio encoder for providing an output signal using an input audio signal includes a patch generator, a comparator and an output interface. The patch generator generates at least one bandwidth extension high-frequency signal, wherein a bandwidth extension high-frequency signal includes a high-frequency band. The high-frequency band of the bandwidth extension high-frequency signal is based on a low frequency band of the input audio signal. A comparator calculates a plurality of comparison parameters. A comparison parameter is calculated based on a comparison of the input audio signal and a generated bandwidth extension high-frequency signal. Each comparison parameter of the plurality of comparison parameters is calculated based on a different offset frequency between the input audio signal and a generated bandwidth extension high-frequency signal. Further, the comparator determines a comparison parameter from the plurality of comparison parameters, wherein the determined comparison parameter fulfils a predefined criterion. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185083 | AUDIO ENCODING APPARATUS - There is provided an audio encoding apparatus that can avoid that audio data becomes irreproducible after fast-forward play. A quantization unit quantizes and buffers audio data into a buffer unit. A stream generating unit puts buffered audio data in a frame where there is a header related to the audio data in a stream and/or in one or plural frames preceding that frame. As for a predetermined frame, the stream generating unit puts in a data field of the frame the whole of an audio data piece related to a header included in that frame and puts audio sample data following that audio sample in a remaining part of the data field. As for a frame not a predetermined one, it puts in a data field of the frame an audio data piece related to a header included in that frame and/or audio data pieces following that audio data piece. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185084 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR BIT ALLOCATION FOR REDUNDANT TRANSMISSION - Compressibility-based reallocation of initial bit allocations for frames of an audio signal is described. Applications to redundancy-based retransmission of critical frames (e.g., for fixed-bit-rate modes of speech codec operation) are also described. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185085 | Audio Signal Encoding Method, Audio Signal Decoding Method, Encoding Device, Decoding Device, Audio Signal Processing System, Audio Signal Encoding Program, and Audio Signal Decoding Program - When a frame immediately preceding an encoding target frame to be encoded by a first encoding unit operating under a linear predictive coding scheme is encoded by a second encoding unit operating under a coding scheme different from the linear predictive coding scheme, the encoding target frame can be encoded under the linear predictive coding scheme by initializing the internal state of the first encoding unit. Therefore, encoding processing performed under a plurality of coding schemes including the linear predictive coding scheme and a coding scheme different from the linear predictive coding scheme can be realized. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185086 | GENERATION OF SALES LEADS USING CUSTOMER PROBLEM REPORTS - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for generating sales leads in a sales lead generation engine. The sales lead generation engine receives one or more keywords describing one or more aspects of a product. The sales lead generation engine performs a search using the received one or more keywords in a collection of problem reports to identify matching keywords in the problem reports. A display of a computing device displays matching keyword pairs resulting from the search, along with a context in which the keywords occur. A selection of one or more matching keyword pairs is received from a user of the computing device. The sales lead generation engine performs a sales-oriented operation with respect to a customer associated with a problem report related to a selected matching keyword pair | 2013-07-18 |
20130185087 | MEDICAL HISTORY DATABASE - Methods and systems for storing information-complete medical records and making these information-complete medical records accessible to medical researchers. The methods may include obtaining medical records donated by deceased patients, converting the medical records into an electronic format, storing the electronic medical records in a database, making at least one piece of data contained with the medical records electronically searchable, and electronically transmitting the data to a user of the database. Systems may include a processor programmed with a server application configured to store electronic medical records data in a searchable format and to transmit the data to a user of the system. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185088 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MEDICAL CARE USING RFID AND BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION TECHNOLOGIES - A medical management system and method operates over a computer network to supervise and manage services and medication provided by a care provider to one or more patients in a care facility. The system uses RFID and biometric authentication technologies to determine appropriate proximity of the patient to the care provider and the identities of the patient and care provider, respectively, both before and after a service event to effectively manage and document interactions between the care provider and the patient. Electronic voice technology and electronic notification generation capability are also incorporated to audibly confirm identities and services, and to notify supervisory personnel of anomalies in service events, respectively. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185089 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING CLINICAL OUTCOMES - Described herein are methods and systems useful for characterizing clinical outcomes of a subject. Provided herein includes computer-assessed methods, medical information systems, and computer-readable instructions that can aid an end-user in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of a clinical outcome. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185090 | System for Preplanning Placement of Imaging Equipment and Medical Workers In an Operating Room - A medical procedure planning system uses a repository of information associating a type of interventional medical procedure with image acquisition angles used for acquiring images during a particular type of interventional medical procedure and with positions of workers having particular roles in a procedure in an operating room and with corresponding different stages of a medical procedure. A position processor, in response to receiving data identifying a medical procedure type, automatically uses the information and predetermined data identifying location and dimensions of an X-ray system C-arm and a patient support table in determining positions of a C-arm and workers at different stages of a medical procedure of the medical procedure type. A display processor provides a display image showing the determined positions of the C-arm and workers at different stages of the medical procedure. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185091 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CROSS-REFERENCING - A sample, embedded in a paraffin block, is placed on a tissue cassette which carries a label which may be a bar code. When the sample is processed, the cassette is given to a microtome operator who scans the label. Scanning causes information to be displayed on a screen and the operator verifies that what is on the screen matches what was on the label. The paraffin block is then placed in a microtome chuck and sections are cut from the block. A number of slide labels related to the cassette label are printed for the sections. If the operator does not verify that the information displayed on the screen matches the information on the cassette label and/or does not place the paraffin block in the microtome chuck within an allocated time interval after scanning the cassette label, dispensing and labeling of slides and/or operation of the microtome is prevented. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185092 | Dynamically Allocating Business Workflows - Dynamically allocating business workflows, each workflow comprising a reusable component of a business transaction, including: receiving, by a workflow orchestrator, a request for a business transaction; determining, by the workflow orchestrator, a desired result for the business transaction in dependence upon the request; selecting, by the workflow orchestrator, one or more workflows from a set of available workflows in dependence upon the request and the desired result; determining an execution order for the one or more workflows; and executing, by the workflow orchestrator, the one or more selected workflows in the execution order. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185093 | DYNAMIC DECISION SEQUENCING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING A DIAGNOSTIC TEST PLAN - A dynamic diagnostic plan generator arranges diagnostic test procedures related to a vehicle/power tool/patient symptom or operational problem in a sequence based on a probabilistic Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). The diagnostic plan generator also tracks a vehicle/power tool/patient state, and provides instructions for test preparation steps and instructions for performing the diagnostic test procedures. The plan generator further generates schematic illustrations of the diagnostic test procedures, and creates a diagnostic data structure containing information related to the diagnostic test procedures. In addition, the diagnostic plan generator sends and receives information regarding actual failure mode occurrences, for example, to and from a central database. Furthermore, the diagnostic plan generator facilitates the creation of failure mode tests by an expert diagnostics author. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185094 | Automated ICD-9 To ICD-10 Code Conversion System - Code conversion from ICD-9 data to ICD-10 codes is semi-automatic. Codes that cannot readily be converted in a fully automatic environment are referred to an interactive code assignment engine, which retrieves information from clinical databases to suggest codes to a human worker. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185095 | PAPERLESS PATIENT INFORMATION COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT PROCESS AND SYSTEM - A system for collecting and managing patient information includes a tablet device configured to provide information regarding a medical procedure to a patient. Tablet device is further configured to query a patient regarding important aspects of the medical procedure. The tablet device being further configured to receive input from the patient in response to the query. The system of further includes a server operating a database and configured to store the input from the patient in response to the query and a network configured to connect to the tablet device and the server. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185096 | METHODS FOR DATA COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION - Provided are methods of performing research in which participation is incentivized by early access to the data and samples collected. Also provided are methods for distributing research data. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185097 | MEDICAL SCORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for generating a medical score are disclosed. In some embodiments, an accurate medical score is generated within a relatively short period of time. The medical score can be derived from observational data and/or physiological time-series data collected from a subject. In some embodiments, a scoring system accesses the data, and at least a portion of the data is used in the calculation of the medical score. In certain embodiments, health care providers can use the medical score to make early predictions of complications in intensive care unit patients. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185098 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING, PROCESSING, AND STORING DISCRETE DATA RECORDS BASED UPON A SINGLE DATA INPUT - A system and method for the collection, capture, processing, storage, and tracking of data for both electronic clinical trial and electronic heath records based upon a single data collection instance, and including data collected by electronic medical devices. Devices and methods for creating certified digital image copies of original documents, including paper source documents for a clinical trial. Devices and methods for ensuring the secure archiving of original electronic documents, including electronic clinical trial source documents, in a secure document storage server. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185099 | MEDICAL QUERY REFINEMENT SYSTEM | 2013-07-18 |
20130185100 | Method and System For Assessing Property Loss In A Catastrophe - The present invention provides for a method of assessing lost property after a catastrophe which would be covered under an insurance policy and overcomes the deficiencies of prior methods to provide an improved method for identifying property at the time of loss for both commercial and residential policies. A legal review provides a policy customized for the individual policy holder. Maintenance of a digitized detailed record of all items covered under the insurance policy is established and verified at the beginning of coverage or at a time point prior to a catastrophic event so that if a catastrophic event results in complete loss of covered property or property is destroyed beyond identification, 100% of the covered property is accurately and verifiably recorded for replacement/reimbursement purposes. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185101 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Underwriting Mortgage Loan Insurance - Underwriting systems and methods include a non-transitory, tangible computer-readable storage medium bearing instructions for performing underwriting steps for a mortgage insurance product for a mortgage between a borrower and a lender. A processor is adapted to execute an underwriting program contained on the computer-readable medium. A web-enabled interface is adapted to exchange information with partner sites, including to receive loan information, to send mortgage insurance information generated by the underwriting program, and to receive borrower credit information. The underwriting program includes a post-closing underwriting module adapted to perform a post-closing fraud analysis using the loan information received through the web-enabled interface and adapted for use in performing at least a portion of a post-closing borrower credit review using the borrower credit information received through the web-enabled interface within a predetermined period of time after the loan has closed and before a claim under the mortgage insurance product has been received. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185102 | Mobile eCommerce Ordering and Entertainment Management System and Method - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for delivering items, comprising: upon a user launching a computer program on a device or visiting a proprietary mobile website using the device, presenting the user with a series of user-selectable events and participating venues on the device; passing menu items specific to the venue to the user's device based on criteria entered by the user; prompting the user to check out and confirm the items selected for purchase; prompting the user to enter credit card information; building a virtual order; splitting the virtual order into two streams including order detail information and credit card information; sending the order detail information to dispatch screens; automatically communicating order status to the user's device; and using the credit card information to process the order for payment. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185103 | SPORTS AND CONCERT EVENT TICKET PRICING AND VISUALIZATION SYSTEM - A system and method for displaying seat inventory at a venue and facilitating planning of ticket prices for events at the venue is presented. Methods to predict total revenue for an event are described. Also presented are systems and methods for determining at what price and when to release so-called ‘flex’ price tickets during an on-sale using the sales velocity and sales/inquiry ratios. Determining demand of seats from secondary markets is also described with methods to use the demand for either re-pricing the seats in the primary market or presenting ‘best value’ seats to a prospective purchaser. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185104 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING AGRICULTURAL PEDIGREE FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS THROUGHOUT PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION AND USE OF THE SAME FOR COMMUNICATION, REAL TIME DECISION MAKING, PREDICTIVE MODELING, RISK SHARING AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE - A method for establishing an agricultural pedigree for agricultural products comprises the steps of: (a) Providing an open communication network accessible information storage device adapted to receive input of data relating to agricultural product production and distribution from multiple sources; (b) Inputting said data into said information storage device; (c) Storing and said data; and (d) Providing access to said data via the open communication network, wherein the information storage device is configured to be used as at least: (i) A tool for traceability of the agricultural products, (ii) A real time decision making tool, and (iii) A predictive modeling tool. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185105 | GENERATION OF SALES LEADS USING CUSTOMER PROBLEM REPORTS - Methods implementing and using techniques for generating sales leads in a sales lead generation engine. The sales lead generation engine receives one or more keywords describing one or more aspects of a product. The sales lead generation engine performs a search using the received one or more keywords in a collection of problem reports to identify matching keywords in the problem reports. A display of a computing device displays matching keyword pairs resulting from the search, along with a context in which the keywords occur. A selection of one or more matching keyword pairs is received from a user of the computing device. The sales lead generation engine performs a sales-oriented operation with respect to a customer associated with a problem report related to a selected matching keyword pair | 2013-07-18 |
20130185106 | USING SOCIAL MEDIA OBJECTS FOR CONTENT CURATION, MANAGEMENT, AND ENGAGEMENT FACILITATION - Provided are techniques for updating web content. A data mining scan of one or more data sources is performed for one or more topics to identify one or more trending topics. One or more relationships of the one or more trending topics to content objects are identified. One or more recommendations on how to update the web content based on the one or more relationships are provided. Input is received on the one or more recommendations. In response to the received input, the web content is automatically updated based on making associations between the web content and the content objects. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185107 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR MATCHING INDIVIDUALS WITH ORGANIZATIONAL JOBS/ROLES - Systems, methods and computer readable media for matching individuals with jobs/roles include using profiles of the individual and profiles of the job/roles. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185108 | Strategic Quality Support System - Healthcare providers are faced with an extremely fast paced environment where patient care is closely coupled with quality and safety standards. To promote a safe and optimal environment for patients and healthcare workers, numerous standards must be met. The number of standards continues to grow as healthcare continues to become more complex. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185109 | Non-Emergency Transportation Dispatching, Routing, Compliance and Auditing Software and Technology - The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented system and method of managing non-emergency transportation to achieve a balance between cost control, high performance and high quality of service. Further goals include minimizing fraud, waste and abuse of non-emergency transportation systems. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185110 | SYSTEM FOR COMPLETING COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS ONLINE - A computer system for tracking online community service. The system includes receiving an assignment of community service for a citizen. The system tracks the online community service activity of the citizen. And, the system receives approval from a charity that the assigned community service has been completed by the citizen because of the tracked online community service. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185111 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING AND POPULATING A SCHOOL CALENDAR UTILIZING A PREDETERMINED CLASS ROTATION SCHEDULING PATTERN - A scheduling method, computer-readable medium, system, and an apparatus are provided. In this scheduling method, a user request is received, order of classes for each day in the user request is calculated and an organizer is populated with the calculated order of classes for each day of the week specified in the user request and provides a schedule in a predetermined output format or in a format specified by the user. The calculation of the schedule may include for said each day in the user request determining corresponding day in a scheduling cycle, and calculating the order of classes for said corresponding day based on a stored pattern or a table. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185112 | OPTIMIZING BENEFITS OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WITH REFERENCE TO RESOURCES THROUGH MULTIPLE TIME PERIODS FOR MULTIPLE COOPERATING AND COMPETING ENTITIES WITH REFERENCE TO MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS - A method, system and computer program product for optimizing resources for organizations. The steps include discovering goals and objectives of organizations and resources available from resource groups and storing the data in a repository; categorizing the data regarding the goals and objectives and the resources available; matching the resources available from the resource groups with the goals and objectives of the organizations; assigning values and weights to the resources and optimizing the resources; determining global optima and parse the global optima into resource allocation subsets, sending the subsets to the resource groups; capturing locally chosen resource allocation from the resource groups and storing the locally chosen resource allocation in the repository; determining unstated weights and values from the locally chosen resource allocation from the resource groups; storing actual pairings of the resources with a project of the organization, and recalculating the global optima based on remaining resources available. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185113 | WELL WORK OPPORTUNITY SYSTEM - A non-transitory, computer-readable storage device comprises software that, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to track one or more well work opportunities. For example, the software may cause the computer to receive input, from a user input device, information pertaining to well work opportunity for an existing production rig, and perform an analysis of the well work opportunity based on the information to compute an incremental increase in rate of production from the production rig and a time period by which an investment will be paid back. The software may also cause the computer to compare the incremental increase in rate of production and the time period to a table that cross references incremental rates of production to time periods, assign a ranking to the well work opportunity based on the comparison, and display the ranking. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185114 | QUALITY IMPROVEMENT SYSTEM WITH EFFICIENT USE OF RESOURCES - A method refines performance of a product that includes a plurality of interacting systems. A plurality of system-based FMEAs are developed for the interacting systems, each having system-specific failure modes and corresponding actions for respective ones of the system-specific failure modes. Product feedback from recipients of the product is collected, wherein the product feedback is indicative of product performance shortcomings. A plurality of experts for the respective interacting systems review the product feedback to identify particular system-specific failure modes contained in the plurality of system-based FMEAs that have an influence on the product performance shortcomings. The particular system-specific failure modes identified by the experts are prioritized based on a potential to improve the product performance shortcomings. The corrective actions are pursued for the particular system-specific failure modes according to the prioritization. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185115 | PARKING REWARD SYSTEM - A combination parking and shopping system comprising a data collection system for collecting purchase data of a user of the system, a parking entry machine comprising a portable user device dispenser, and a parking station comprising an identity input device and a data input device. The data collection system comprises a data input device for receiving the purchase data from a portable user device, an identity input device for receiving a user identification input in association with the purchase data, and a communication interface for communicating with a user database adapted to store user records corresponding to respective users of the system. The records comprise purchase data of the respective users. The communication interface is adapted to output to the user database the purchase data received by the data input device in association with a user identifier comprising or derived from the user identification input received by the identity input device, for storage in a user record of the user database corresponding to the user identifier. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185116 | AUTOMATIC DEMAND PARAMETER ESCALATION - A system provides automatic escalation of demand parameters to determine a reliable demand parameter for a level within a sales hierarchy. The system measures difference in demand parameters between a level of interest within the sales hierarchy and a plurality of other levels within the sales hierarchy. The system also compares the differences in demand parameters of the other levels. The system further determines an escalation path for a demand parameter based on the comparison. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185117 | AUTOMATIC DEMAND PARAMETER ESTIMATION - One embodiment is directed generally to a computer system, and in particular to a system for providing automatic estimating of demand parameters. According to certain embodiments, a computer readable medium has instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to determine a reliable demand parameter for a level within a sales hierarchy. The instructions include estimating a demand parameter for a first pool. The estimating is based on blending and comparing with respect to an enlarged pool comprising the first pool as a subset of the enlarged pool to obtain an estimated demand parameter. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185118 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED ONLINE AUCTION - Methods and systems for improving auction-based online commerce are provided, including methods and systems for facilitating advance, rapid, accurate estimation of shipping costs between a seller and the winner of an online auction. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185119 | DYNAMIC GOAL-ORIENTED PLANNING - In general, one aspect of the subject matter described herein can be embodied in methods that include the actions of: receiving a goal-identifier corresponding to an achievement of one or more objectives and including actor parameters, resource parameters, and/or constraints, processing the goal-identifier against templates, each of which include methods that include actor parameters, resource parameters, constraints, and/or tasks, the tasks including actor parameters, resource parameters, and/or constraints, in order to identify templates and/or tasks having comparable respective actor parameters, resource parameters, and/or constraints, monitoring for changes with respect to the actor parameters, resource parameters, and/or constraints of the goal-identifier, based on a determination of the one or more changes, further processing the goal-identifier against the templates in order to identify, with respect to the one or more changes, templates and/or tasks having comparable actor parameters, resource parameters, and/or constraints, and implementing the templates/tasks with respect to the goal-identifier. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185120 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR ENERGY BENCHMARKING FOR GAP ANALYSIS FOR A PLANT IN A PAPER INDUSTRY - Methods and systems for energy benchmarking for gap analysis are disclosed, for example, for a plant in a paper industry having at least one equipment. The method can include a) monitoring the performance parameter of one or more equipments of the plant and/or of one or more other plants and/or of the plant or other plants, the performance parameter being evaluated from design data or plant model or historical operating data or current operating data; b) comparing at least one performance parameter against at least one other performance parameter of the at least one equipment of the one plant or other plant, or of the one plant or at least one other plant or a combination thereof; c) selecting one of the performance parameters from the at least one or other performance parameters being compared; d) setting the value of the selected performance parameter as a benchmark; and e) controlling the plant based on the benchmark. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185121 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CROSS-CARRIER PARCEL TRACKING - A system and method is provided that enables a carrier of a mailpiece, such as a national postal service, to track a mailpiece as it passes from the control of a first carrier to the control of another, second carrier. The tracking of the mailpiece continues until the mailpiece is delivered, by the second carrier, to its ultimate recipient. In this manner the first carrier, who had control of the mailpiece when first posted, can monitor the handling of the mailpiece and can calculate delivery times when the mailpiece was in the control of the second carrier. The method and system of the present invention will find particular application to a national postal service seeking to track delivery performance of internationally addressed express mail that is first domestically posted and then ultimately delivered in a foreign country by the postal service of the foreign country. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185122 | Virtual-to-Real Good/Service System Based on User Participation or Drawing - Exemplary embodiments are directed to determining an availability of an actual good and/or service based on activity of or with respect to a virtual icon on one or more webpages. The virtual icon can represent the actual good and/or service. The activity of or with respect to the virtual icon on the webpage(s) can be monitored and a determination of whether a conversion criteria has been satisfied can be made based on the monitored activity. The availability of the actual good or service can be based on satisfaction of the conversion criteria. In an alternative exemplary embodiment, a method of determining an availability of an actual good and/or service is provided based on a value of or with respect to a virtual icon on one or more webpages. The value of or with respect to the virtual icon on the webpage(s) can be compared to a value criteria to determine whether a value criteria has been satisfied. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185123 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED TRANSPORTATION USE TRACKING AND BILLING - A user registers with an automated transportation use and billing system. The user's geographical location/position is monitored and periodically compared with the geographical location/position of one or more public transportation systems. When a determination is made that the user's geographical location/position is the same as the geographical location/position of a public transportation system, an assumption is made that the user is making use of the public transportation system and once the user's geographical location/position data differs from the public transportation system's geographical location/position data, it is further assumed that the user is no longer making use of the public transportation system. Data indicating the users assumed use of the public transportation system, calculated as described above, is then recorded and credited to the user's account. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185124 | Mobile Card Processing Using Multiple Wireless Devices - A taxi fare system for a vehicle includes a meter, a wireless access point carried on the vehicle, a first mobile computing device a wireless, a second mobile computing device, a display and a credit card reader. The meter is configured to receive data from the vehicle indicating distance travelled, to measure waiting time, and to calculate an amount of a passenger fare based at least on the distance travelled and the waiting time. The first mobile computing device is positioned in a driver section of the vehicle and receives data from the meter. The second mobile computing device is positioned in a passenger section of the vehicle and receive card information from the card reader. The first and second mobile computing devices are configured to wirelessly connect to the wireless access point. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185125 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING OVERAGES IN DAILY DEALS - Methods and apparatus are disclosed for using a financial transaction card number system of a payment processing network as part of an overage management system. In an embodiment, a method receives an intelligent transaction card number used with a redemption code to purchase products or services contained in an offer, wherein the intelligent transaction card number indicates a total amount of a transaction and the total includes a value of the redeemed offer and an overage spent by the consumer in addition to the value of the redeemed offer. The method conducts post-clearing adjustments based on terms of the redeemed offer and generates instructions for corresponding credits or debits of funds. The method then receives instructions to: transfer funds from a first purse for the value of the redeemed offer and authorizes, clearing and settling the transferred funds; and to transfer funds from a second purse for the overage. | 2013-07-18 |
20130185126 | ONLINE PROMOTIONAL SYSTEMS AND METHOD - In one preferred form there is provided a computer implemented coupon system | 2013-07-18 |