31st week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 48 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090192724 | TRANSCUTANEOUS ANALYTE SENSOR - The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for measuring an analyte in a host. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for transcutaneous measurement of glucose in a host. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192725 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING COMPOUND CONCENTRATIONS IN A MIXTURE - A method of determining a concentration level of a compound in a mixture is provided. A plurality of compounds are identified in the mixture based on intensity peaks identified from NMR data generated from the mixture. A compound is selected from the identified plurality of compounds for a concentration determination. A concentration equation associated with the selected compound is determined. A first peak associated with the selected compound is selected from the NMR data. The selected first peak does not overlap with a peak associated with another compound of the identified plurality of compounds. An intensity value associated with the selected first peak is determined. A concentration of the selected compound in the mixture is calculated using the determined concentration equation and the determined intensity value. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192726 | Electrochemical Composition Detection Device and Method Thereof - A lighting system is provided that includes at least one lighting device, at least one connector, and a plurality of external power sources. The lighting device includes at least one lighting source, and an internal power source supplying a first electrical current to illuminate the lighting source. The connector electrically connects to the lighting device. The external power sources include at least first and second external power sources that are adapted to be electrically connected to the lighting device by the connector. The first external power source supplies a second electrical current to the lighting device to illuminate the lighting source and the second external power source supplies a third electrical current to illuminate the lighting source, such that the internal power source and one of the plurality of external power sources each supply electrical current to illuminate the lighting source at different times. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192727 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING STRUCTURES FOR DAMAGE USING NONDESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION TECHNIQUES - A system and method for monitoring a structure for damage is provided. The method includes stimulating a sensor in a sensor array to generate a plurality of waves. The sensor array includes one or more quadrants, wherein each quadrant includes one or more sensors. Sensor data from all sensors are acquired in each quadrant in parallel. The sensor data wave characteristics is processed for analysis. The processed sensor data wave characteristics are compared with threshold values to determine the presence of damage to the structure. If the presence of damage is determined, a corrective system is notified for corrective action. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192728 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ONBOARD DEGRADED AND DEADLINED MECHANICAL SYSTEM ALERTING - An apparatus, method and system are provided for determining a mechanical-system-(MS)-health measurement and a MS-health state of an MS. The MS is a system that uses a fluid that can be measured by a sensor for purposes such as lubrication or cooling. The MS-health measurement is determined by processing MS-measurement data. The MS-measurement data includes an fluid-viscosity measurement value. The fluid-viscosity measurement value is transmitted using a wired or wireless sensor interface. The MS-health state is determined by comparing the MS-health measurement to one or more MS-health thresholds. The MS-health state is either in a normal state, a degraded state, or a critical state. The MS-health state is indicated, preferably using a onboard stop-light display, on a MS-health indicator. Depending on the MS-health state, one or more MS-performance characteristics may be reduced. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192729 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE DETERMINATION OF DAMAGE LOCATION - A method for determining the health of a structural element. The method includes providing a plurality of transducer elements arranged and disposed to permit measurement of vibration generated by at least one of the transducer elements at one or more of the other transducers elements. Vibration is induced with at least one transducer element. Vibration is measured at least one other transducer element, where the measured vibration corresponding to a vibratory path. At least one damage index value is calculated for each vibratory path in response to the measured vibration. At least one damage image is generated in response to the damage index value. The damage image assigns damage index values to each vibratory path. A damage location is determined from the damage image. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192730 | Damage Detection Apparatus, Damage Detection Method and Recording Medium - To provide a damage detection apparatus and damage detection method enabling an identification of a crack at a higher speed with a nondestructive inspection method which enables a quantification of a damage such as a crack buried inside a specimen, a crack exposed on a surface, or a wall thinning of the specimen, in three dimensions with an optional aspect ratio and inclination. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192731 | System and Method for Monitoring a Health State of Hydrocarbon Production Equipment - A device for monitoring the health state of hydrocarbon production equipment is disclosed. The device has a plurality of targets, which are associated with the hydrocarbon production equipment. A record of the initial target positions and/or dimensions relative to the hydrocarbon production equipment is created. A sensor that is compatible with the targets is used to observe the targets and produce a sensor output. An analysis device uses the record of the initial positions, dimensions and the sensor output to determine one or more health state parameters, which may be used to determine the health state of the hydrocarbon production equipment. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192732 | PROCEDURE FOR DIAGNOSING A METERING VALVE OF AN EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT DEVICE AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING THE PROCEDURE - Suggested are a procedure for diagnosing a metering valve ( | 2009-07-30 |
20090192733 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A LEAK IN A CYLINDER OF AN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A device for detecting a leak in a cylinder of an internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine including a piston in the cylinder, the piston being attached to a crankshaft, includes a time interval determining unit which is designed to determine a first time interval in which the crankshaft passes a preset first angle segment before reaching the ignition top dead center of the piston in the cylinder, and to determine a second time interval in which the crankshaft passes a preset second angle segment after reaching the ignition top dead center of the piston in the cylinder, and a cylinder leak determining unit which is designed to detect a leak in the cylinder as a function of the first time interval and as a function of the second time interval. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192734 | CORN HEAD CLUTCH MONITOR - A system for determining slippage of row unit or chopping unit slip clutches of a corn head includes a microcomputer coupled to at least one vibration sensor and a display or aural annunciator. A slipping clutch or group of clutches including a slipping clutch may be identified by recognizing a speed dependent predominant frequency. A slipping clutch or group of clutches including a slipping clutch may be identified by comparing magnitudes or times of receipt of vibrations from a pair of sensors. A slipping clutch or group of clutches including a slipping clutch may also be identified by comparing vibrations received from a single sensor with known location identifying magnitudes | 2009-07-30 |
20090192735 | FAILURE PREDICTION APPARATUS AND FAILURE PREDICTION METHOD - An optical pickup which has a failure prediction apparatus for predicting a failure of a laser diode has an input inputting a value of a current that flows through the laser diode and is measured at predetermined time intervals, a storage storing the current values inputted by said input, a detector detecting a current value that is a current value at any one of the measurement times of day stored in said storage and that has a change greater than or equal to a predetermined value relative to the current value at the preceding measurement time of day, and a generator generating a prediction curve that indicates a relationship between said elapsed time and the current value applicable at and after the measurement time of day of the current value detected by said detector. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192736 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING IMPAIRED ELECTRIC POWER EQUIPMENT - A system and method for detecting impaired electric power equipment. An exemplary embodiment may receive electromagnetic radiation and process the resulting signal. For example, signal processing may be used to identify electromagnetic radiation having a particular pattern that is characteristic of electric power equipment. Furthermore, an embodiment may determine the time and/or location during testing. As a result, an exemplary embodiment may be useful for stationary and/or mobile testing of an electrical system. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192737 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING LIFE STATUS OF LITHIUM BATTERY - A method for estimating a life status of a lithium battery applicable to a portable electronic device is described. The method includes the following steps. Firstly, a plurality of lithium battery life status intervals are sectioned out by a plurality of voltage-electric quantity curves representing characteristics of the lithium battery. Then, an actual voltage and an actual electric quantity of the lithium battery of the portable electronic device are measured. Afterwards, positions of the actual voltage and the actual electric quantity in the lithium battery life status intervals are determined to estimate the life status of the lithium battery. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192738 | CALIBRATION TECHNIQUE FOR POWER AMPLIFIERS - A method of calibrating an amplifier includes receiving input and output samples, wherein the input and output samples are time-aligned, assigning at least one of the input and output samples to one of a plurality of categories based on the input sample, and estimating at least one characteristic of the amplifier based on the contents of at least one of said plurality of categories. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192739 | AUTOMATIC SIGNAL IDENTIFYING METHOD AND AUTOMATIC SIGNAL SKEW MEASUREMENT METHOD - In order to automatically measure a signal skew between a first test signal and a second test signal by using an oscilloscope, a method is provided by the present invention. The method includes: capturing a band center of the first test signal; capturing a first sampling point and a second sampling point of the second test signal; comparing a voltage difference between the first sampling point and the second sampling point of the second test signal with a threshold value so as to decide and capture a rising band center and a falling band center of the second test signal. By using the invented method, the signal skew between the first test signal and the second test signal can be calculated according to the band center of the first test signal, the rising band center and the falling band center of the second test signal. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192740 | MARK EXTENSION FOR ANALYSIS OF LONG RECORD LENGTH DATA - A method of analysis of long record length data using mark duration includes displaying together with a portion of the long record length data each mark that identifies a specified feature of interest together with the mark duration. Associated with the mark may be text identifying the feature of interest, measurement values associated with the duration of the mark, or a combination thereof. Multiple sets of marks may be generated for the long record length data, which sets may be combined to generate new marks with duration. The marks also may be filtered to further refine the marks to be displayed according to user specified criteria. In this way analysis of long record length data representing an acquired signal may be readily automated so a user may move from one interesting event to another without having to pan through the long record length data. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192741 | METHOD FOR MEASURING FIELD DYNAMICS - The method patented enables robust and reliable relative measurements of the dynamics of a physical field (or: of a conceptual system). The patented method extends least squares spectral analysis (LSSA) technique's unique features. The LSSA has been proven over the past thirty years as being able of fully replacing the Fourier and Fourier-based spectral analysis methods (as the most used methods of spectral analysis in all sciences). The patented method uses the known feature of the LSSA as a reliable periodicity estimator, and expands its application by claiming its variance-spectral magnitudes are also most useful in terms of their epochal averages (meaning: averages from variance-spectra of data belonging to successive and equal time-intervals) being directly correlated to the energy levels exciting (i.e., supplied into) the field/system. Thus by taking the average (over certain band) spectral magnitude after analyzing datasets that sample a field/system at different instances or/and under various conditions, one can easily and accurately measure the dynamics of the observed field/system in relative terms, using only the changes of such an average. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192742 | PROCEDURE FOR INCREASING SPECTRUM ACCURACY - The method patented enables increase in reliability of periodicity estimates, and consequently of the natural band (of an object; of a body; of a system; etc.) definition too. The patented method is based on the least squares spectral analysis (LSSA) method. The LSSA has been proven over the past thirty years to be fully able of replacing the Fourier and Fourier-based spectral analysis methods (as the most used methods of spectral analysis in all sciences). The here patented method then uses this known feature of the LSSA as a reliable periodicity estimator, and expands its application by claiming that periodicity estimates generally (in all sciences and in all situations) could be improved by removing a number of measurements from the original dataset. Thus, by removing the least reliable (where ‘least’ is according to some, e.g., well-known, criteria) measurements from the dataset of interest, one can estimate periodicities in any (complete or not) type of a numerical record to the logically greatest extent possible. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192743 | SAMPLING ESTIMATING METHOD, SAMPLING INSPECTION ESTIMATING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING SAMPLING INSPECTION ESTIMATING PROGRAM - A sampling inspection estimating method comprises determining an acceptable range of a measured value and an acceptable range of a acceptance probability, determining a first sampling plan to be inspected and a condition of calculating a first acceptance variables of lots, obtaining a first measured value of a production lot based on the determined first sampling plan, calculating first acceptance variables of lots based on the obtained first measured value and the determined condition of calculating the first acceptance variables of lots, calculating a first acceptance probability based on the first acceptance variables of lots, determining a second sampling plan to be inspected and a condition of calculating a second acceptance variables of lots, obtaining a second measured value of a production lot based on the determined second sampling plan, calculating second acceptance variables of lots based on the obtained second measured value and the determined condition of calculating the second acceptance variables of lots, calculating a second acceptance probability based on the second acceptance variables of lots, calculating operating characteristics of the first and second sampling plans based on the first acceptance probability and the second acceptance probability, and estimating the operating characteristics by using the determined acceptable range of the acceptance probability. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192744 | DETERMINING AN ANALYTE BY MULTIPLE MEASUREMENTS THROUGH A CUVETTE - A method for measuring the presence or concentration of an analyte in a sample by spectrophotometry: providing an open top cuvette having a sample with an analyte to be measured; providing a light source and a detector for detecting emitted light; taking at least two measurements that includes: (i) directing at least two beams of light from the light source to different locations on the cuvette; (ii) passing the at least two beams through the cuvette at their respective locations and through the sample to be measured; and (iii) measuring at least two respective emitted light beams with the detector; and comparing the at least two emitted light beams to determine if: all the emitted light beams should be disregarded; one or more of the emitted light beams should be disregarded; or the sample absorbances should be averaged. In a preferred embodiment, the method includes taking at least three measurements. In another preferred embodiment, the spectrophotometry is absorption spectrophotometry, and the method is performed on a diagnostic analyzer. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192745 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING SENSOR DATA - Systems and methods for processing sensor data are provided. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for calibration of a continuous analyte sensor. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for classification of a level of noise on a sensor signal. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for determining a rate of change for analyte concentration based on a continuous sensor signal. In some embodiments, systems and methods for alerting or alarming a patient based on prediction of glucose concentration are provided. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192746 | Methods for Altering One or More Parameters of a Measurement System - Methods for altering one or more parameters of a measurement system are provided. One method includes analyzing a sample using the system to generate values from classification channels of the system for a population of particles in the sample. The method also includes identifying a region in a classification space in which the values for the populations are located. In addition, the method includes determining an optimized classification region for the population using one or more properties of the region. The optimized classification region contains a predetermined percentage of the values for the population. The optimized classification region is used for classification of particles in additional samples. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192747 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING THE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - In a method for monitoring a measurement system having a transmitter which determines the position of a moveable element and has a transmitter clock, and an electrical energy store which, in the event of a failure of an external electrical supply voltage (for the transmitter, continues to supply electrical power to at least a part of the transmitter, including the transmitter clock. After the external electrical supply voltage has been restored, the clock time of the transmitter clock is compared with a clock time of an external clock, and an incorrectly determined position is identified on the basis of the comparison of the clock times. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192748 | SYSTEM FOR CHANGING FLUID TEMPERATURE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SUCH A SYSTEM - A system for changing the temperature (T | 2009-07-30 |
20090192749 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR CALIBRATION OF A FLOW METER USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH A VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE - A blood flow calibration system | 2009-07-30 |
20090192750 | Parallel testing system with shared golden calibration table and method thereof - A parallel testing system with shared golden calibration table includes: a storage unit, multiple testing platforms, and a server. The storage unit is used for storing the golden calibration table, and the testing platforms are used to test a device under test (DUT) respectively by utilizing the golden calibration table. The server is connected to the storage unit and the testing platforms to send the golden calibration table to the testing platforms, and then, to cumulatively record calibration data produced after the testing platforms respectively test the DUTs, so that the server can further perform a weighted arithmetic operation to the calibration data so as to update the golden calibration table. Thereby, the purpose of accelerating the convergence speed of the golden calibration table can be achieved. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192751 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING SENSOR DATA - Systems and methods for processing sensor data are provided. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for calibration of a continuous analyte sensor. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for classification of a level of noise on a sensor signal. In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided for determining a rate of change for analyte concentration based on a continuous sensor signal. In some embodiments, systems and methods for alerting or alarming a patient based on prediction of glucose concentration are provided. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192752 | AUTOMATED PORTABLE MEDIA DEVICE TESTING SYSTEM - Circuits, methods, and apparatus for testing media devices. One example provides a test system for testing a number of media players. One or more computers can control the testing of the media players and collect results. Each media player tested may be connected to a computer via an adapter. The adapter may include a connection control circuit and an interface. The connection control circuit may connect and disconnect a power supply to the media player being tested. The voltage waveform produced when the power supply is connected and disconnected may be designed to mimic the voltage waveform produced when a user connects and disconnects a cable or docking station from the media player. The interface may receive commands to provide specific instructions to the media player. The interface may monitor the status and activities performed by the media player and report back to the computer. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192753 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TESTING ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS - The technology and economics of system testing have evolved to the point where a radical change in methodology is needed for effective functional testing of systems at clock rates of 1 GHz and higher. Rather than providing a test fixture to interface between the system under test and an external tester, it is preferable to provide critical testing functions within each electronic system in the form of one or more special-purpose test chips. An architecture is proposed that supports full-speed testing with improved noise margins, and also efficient methods for learning correct system behavior and generating the test vectors. The test program is preferably written using the same programming language as used for the system application. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192754 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TEST TIME OUTLIER DETECTION AND CORRECTION IN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTING - Methods and systems for semiconductor testing are disclosed. In one embodiment, devices which are testing too slowly are prevented from completing testing, thereby allowing untested devices to begin testing sooner. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192755 | Material property estimation using inverse interpolation - Magnetic field sensor probes are disclosed which comprise primary or drive windings having a plurality of current carrying segments. The relative magnitude and direction of current in each segment are adjusted so that the resulting interrogating magnetic field follows a desired spatial distribution. By changing the current in each segment, more than one spatial distribution for the magnetic field can be imposed within the same sensor footprint. Example envelopes for the current distributions approximate a sinusoid in Cartesian coordinates or a first-order Bessel function in polar coordinates. One or more sensing elements are used to determine the response of a test material to the magnetic field. These sense elements can be configured into linear or circumferential arrays. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192756 | Utilizing Gross Vehicle Weight to Determine Passenger Numbers - A method, system, and computer program for determining the number of passengers riding on a vehicle in real time is presented. A total weight of passengers on the vehicle is divided by an estimated weight of each of the passengers to estimate how many passengers are on the vehicle in real time. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192757 | Apparatus for Measuring Surface Temperature Using Embedded Components - In one embodiment, a temperature sensing apparatus includes two temperature sensors that are disposed at differing depths from a surface and a measurement circuit that is coupled to the temperature sensors. The measurement circuit is operable to calculate the temperature of the surface based on a first temperature of one temperature sensor with a second temperature of the other temperature sensor. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192758 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND KIT FOR MEASURING A DISTANCE WITHIN A RAILROAD SYSTEM - A system is provided for measuring a distance within a railroad system. The railroad system includes a rail vehicle having a plurality of pairs of wheels, where the plurality of pairs of wheels are in respective contact with a pair of rails. The system further includes a transducer positioned on an outer surface location of the rail vehicle. The transducer is configured to emit a signal to an object located the distance away from the transducer. The transducer is configured to receive the signal having reflected from the object along the distance to the transducer. The system further includes a controller coupled to the transducer to receive transmission and reception data of the signal to determine the distance. A method is also provided for measuring a distance within a railroad system, as well as a kit for converting a rail vehicle from a first configuration to a second configuration. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192759 | FOOTWEAR BASED INFORMATION DISPLAY CASE DESIGN - The present invention is directed to an information display unit containing a power source, a program for gathering and calculating information and a display means on an upper surface for displaying the information. A side or lower surface of the information display unit is provided with a means for releasably attaching the display case to a shoe. Preferably, the information gathered and calculated by the program and displayed on the display means includes one or more of the distance traversed, calories burned, the amount of steps taken, speed traverse, altitude attained or geographical location. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192760 | SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING A VEHICLE MASS - A vehicle mass estimation system for use in a vehicle, such as a truck, including a transmission is provided. A processor may be operable to receive a signal relating to a mass of at least a portion of the vehicle. The processor may be further operable to estimate a vehicle mass based, at least in part, on the signal. The processor may be further operable to select a desired gear ratio for engagement in a transmission based, at least in part, on the estimated vehicle mass. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192761 | PERFORMANCE-TESTING A SYSTEM WITH FUNCTIONAL-TEST SOFTWARE AND A TRANSFORMATION-ACCELERATOR - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates testing a system-under-test with functional-test software and a transformation accelerator. During operation, the system receives a functional-test template at the transformation accelerator. The system also receives a test signal at the transformation accelerator, wherein the test signal comprises testing parameters. Next, the system manipulates the functional-test template at the transformation accelerator according to the testing parameters to create one or more functional-test transactions. The system then sends the one or more functional-test transactions to the system-under-test. Next, the system receives results for the one or more functional-test transactions from the system-under-test. Finally, the system queues the results. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192762 | Method for Measuring Quantity of Usage of CPU - The present invention relates to a method for measuring a quantity of usage of a CPU, in particular to a method for measuring a quantity of usage of a CPU which is capable of getting a credible quantity of usage of a CPU without amending an algorithm in order to adapt it to the an operating system, e.g., MS-Windows System, or requiring a complicated code. The method uses various algorithms provided by the operating system on the behalf of a registry storing a quantity of usage of a CPU inside a system. Accordingly the present invention can measure a quantity of usage of a CPU easily without lowering a performance of the operating system. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192763 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC PEST TRAP REPORT GENERATION AND ADDITIONAL TRAP PARAMETER DATA - A reporting system for collecting, communicating and analyzing information from a plurality of pest monitoring locations is disclosed. The monitored locations include activity sensing pest devices. These devices can include traps and/or passive and active monitoring devices not having a trapping or killing functionality. While traps may constitute the majority of activity sensing pest devices in a given pest control program, devices which only monitor pest activity may be preferred in some locations and applications. The system includes automatic reporting from the plurality of activity sensing pest devices and also includes physical inspection data. Preferably an automatic real-time communication system is used, with the preferred communication system being a radio-frequency (RF) or other over-the-air system. However, hardwired systems, use of a personal digital assistant (PDA) as an interim data carrier, and other technologies may also be employed. Manual input means for providing the additional physical inspection data on the activity sensing pest device parameters and a computer based report generation means (of the resulting combined data) provide for a robust and efficient pest monitoring and/or trapping tool. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192764 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIRELESSLY MONITORING A BROCHURE BOX - This invention relates generally to electronics, mechanics, and software, and more specifically, to systems and methods for wirelessly monitoring a brochure box. In one embodiment, the invention includes an apparatus that provides for remote content monitoring, the apparatus including a receptacle, the receptacle configurable to storing content; and a sensor node, the sensor node disposed proximate to the receptacle, the sensor node associated with a unique identifier, the sensor node configurable to monitor the existence of any stored content, the sensor node configurable to transmit a signal containing the unique identifier to a remote device, the signal being any of a cellular, satellite, and wireless network signal. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192765 | Techniques for Filtering Systematic Differences from Wafer Evaluation Parameters - A method, system and computer program product for filtering systematic differences from wafer evaluation parameters provides an efficient visual display and numerical map technique for observing wafer-level process variation. Measurement data is gathered from electronic circuits at multiple positions within multiple regions on one or more wafers and parameters are computed from the measurement data, which may be the measurement data values themselves. The set of parameters is filtered for expected systematic variation by computing a set of normalization values from the set of parameters and normalizing the data according to the normalization values. The normalized parameter set is then either presented in a visual display, e.g., by color mapping, or arranged in a numerical map of parameter value by location. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192766 | Method for simulating the behavior of a bonded joint of two parts - The invention relates to a method for simulating the behavior of a bonded joint of two composite material parts ( | 2009-07-30 |
20090192767 | MODEL-BASED THEORY COMBINATION - A method is described for combining models of a plurality of theory solvers in order to produce a model which may be satisfiable by each of the plurality of theory solvers. A model is accessed for a first theory solver which is satisfiable in the first theory solver. It is determined that one or more equalities are implied by the model and it is determined if the equalities are compatible with a second solver. The model is updated in accordance any equalities determined not to be compatible with the second solver. A method is also described for mutation of models using freedom intervals. A freedom interval is determined for a variable within a model and the model is updates by choosing a value for the variable which lies within the freedom interval. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192768 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF PETROLEUM FLUID AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF - An improved method and system for characterizing the compositional components of a hydrocarbon reservoir of interest and analyzing fluid properties of the reservoir of interest based upon its compositional components. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192769 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODELING THE MODAL PROPERTIES OF OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES - A method and apparatus models one or more electromagnetic field modes of a waveguide. The method includes calculating a first matrix having a plurality of elements and having a first bandwidth using a refractive index profile of the waveguide. The plurality of elements of the first matrix represents an action of Maxwell's equations on a transverse magnetic field within the waveguide. The method further includes rearranging the plurality of elements of the first matrix to form a second matrix having a second bandwidth smaller than the first bandwidth. The method further includes shifting the second matrix and inverting the shifted second matrix to form a third matrix. The method further includes calculating one or more eigenvalues or eigenvectors of the third matrix corresponding to one or more modes of the waveguide. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192770 | Analysis supporting apparatus, analysis supporting method, and analysis supporting program - An analysis supporting apparatus that supports a product analyzing operation includes a model-data generating unit that generates model data regarding an analysis model of an analysis target component in association with component hierarchy data representing a hierarchy of components forming an analysis target product; a model-data updating unit that reflects results of an analyzing process in the model data; and a calorific-value summing unit that sums analysis information regarding the analysis target product based on the model data stored in associated with the component hierarchy data. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192771 | Analysis supporting apparatus, analysis supporting method, and analysis supporting program - An analysis supporting apparatus that supports a product analyzing operation, includes a model-data generating unit that generates model data regarding an analysis model of an analysis target component in association with component hierarchy data representing a hierarchy of components forming an analysis target product; a model-data updating unit that reflects results of an analyzing process in the model data; and a verifying unit that verifies the progress of the operation and data consistency based on the model data. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192772 | OPERATION SIMULATION SYSTEM FOR PLANT CONSTRUCTION - An operation simulation system for plant construction, in which operating expense in a construction operation is calculated based on crane type determined by a command input; the expense to construct foundation is calculated based on the foundation placement on which the determined crane is put; the operating expense is calculated based on a period during which an operation is carried out; the expense to temporarily place the installation object is calculated based on the specifications of the installation object before the installation; the installation operation expense is calculated based on an installation milestone reflecting a due date of the installation object; the total necessary expense is calculated based on all the expenses calculated; the total necessary expense is analyzed and evaluated; and the command input is adjusted by reflecting the results of an evaluation analysis so that the value of the command input falls within ranges set in mutually. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192773 | MODIFYING A MAGNIFIED FIELD MODEL - An example method of modifying a model of a field includes presenting a representation of field data in a first window and receiving a selection of a portion of the representation of the field data. The method further includes presenting the portion of the representation in a second window, creating a magnified portion, where the representation and the magnified portion are presented concurrently. The method further includes receiving a request to modify the field data presented in the magnified portion, modifying the field data based on the request, and based on the modified field data, updating the magnified portion and the representation to obtain a modified magnified portion and a modified representation, respectively. The method further includes concurrently presenting the modified magnified portion in the second window and the modified representation in the first window. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192774 | Engine transition test instrument and method - A transition test on an engine is conducted by simulation using a simulation model of the engine, and a transition test on an actual engine is conducted using the control value. In the actual engine transition test, alteration of the control value by an ECU is efficiently carried out thereby to shorten the time required for the actual machine transition test. For the unaltered control value, the output from the actual ECU is used as it is. The output about the other control value is masked. Only for the examined and altered control value, the output from a virtual ECU is used to conduct the transition test. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192775 | Robot simulator and method of controlling robot simulator - In a robot simulator of the present invention, when a portion of an operable area set for each figure to be selected and controlled, a right-hand system and a left-hand system, of a robot overlaps, when an obstacle is positioned within the operable areas, a personal computer color-codes and displays an image of the operable area of each system reset in adherence to the obstacle in a display. As a result, because the operable areas in a periphery of the obstacle, differing for each figure, are displayed in a clearly discernable state, it can be easily lo understood which figure should be used to perform operation within which area can be easily grasped. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192776 | CHARGE-BASED CIRCUIT ANALYSIS - A solution for analyzing a circuit using initial charge information is provided. In particular, one or more nodes in a design for the circuit is initialized with an initial charge. The charge can comprise a non-equilibrium charge, thereby simulating the history effect, the impact of a charged particle, electro-static discharge (ESD), and/or the like. Operation of the circuit is then simulated over a set of input cycles based on the initial charge(s). To this extent, the non-equilibrium initial condition solution enables the state of the circuit to be controlled and solves the initial system based on these values. This capability is very useful to condition the circuit at a worst-case, best-case, and/or the like, status. Further, in one embodiment of the invention, a set of equations are provided to implement the non-equilibrium initial charge analysis, which provide a more efficient initialization of the circuit than current solutions. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192777 | Method for Estimating a Noise Generated in an Electronic System and Related Method for Testing Noise Immunity - The invention concerns a method for testing immunity to noise derived from interferences between components in a mixed analogic and digital electronic system. The method comprises determining by simulating the highest-level noise observed in the system, or the worst noise generated by interferences. If a test for noise sensitivity is successful with this injected worst noise, then the system is accepted. In the case where the worst noise test fails, the method comprises calculating by simulating the lowest-level noise observed in the system, or the injected best noise. If a test for noise sensitivity fails with this injected best signal, then the system is rejected. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192778 | TRACKING CONVERGE RESULTS IN A BATCH SIMULATION FARM NETWORK - A method and system for providing centralized access to count event information from testing of a hardware simulation model within a batch simulation farm which includes simulation clients and an instrumentation server. Count event data for said hardware simulation model is received by the instrumentation server from one or more simulation clients. A first and a second counter report are generated for the hardware simulation model, in which the first and second counter reports are derived from the count event data received by the instrumentation server. The first counter report is compared to the second counter report, and responsive to this comparison, a counter difference report is generated within the instrumentation server that conveys count event trends associated with the simulation model under different simulation testcases. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192779 | SYSTEM FOR MODELING LPAR BEHAVIORS IN A SIMULATION TOOL - A simulation tool for modeling LPAR behavior in a mainframe computer. The simulation tool comprises: a system for calculating a resource percentage, wherein the resource percentage represents a percentage of total resources allocated to the LPAR, wherein the resource percentage is equal to: 100%—a percentage of resources allocated to all other LPARs running in the simulated computer; a system for calculating a time slice percentage for the LPAR based on the resource percentage and CP (central processor) data, wherein: time slice percentage=((resource percentage)×(# of physical CPs))/(# of logical CPs); a system for determining a CP (central processor) percentage, wherein the CP percentage represents a percentage of time that all physical CPs in the computer being modeled have been allocated to the LPAR; a system for determining causing the computer simulation not to dispatch CPs to the LPAR for a current modeling interval if the CP percentage is greater than the time slice percentage; and a system for outputting and displaying the behavior of the modeling. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192780 | HARDWARE EMULATION USING ON-THE-FLY VIRTUALIZATION - At least one anomaly associated with at least one actual hardware element in a computer system having a plurality of hardware elements is addressed. The anomaly is detected, and, responsive to the detection, a virtualization layer is inserted between (i) an operating system of the computer system, and (ii) the plurality of hardware elements. Hardware emulation and/or selective hardware activation/deactivation are performed on the at least one actual hardware element by the virtualization layer. The insertion of the virtualization layer is accomplished in an on-the-fly manner. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192781 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING MACHINE TRANSLATION FROM A SOURCE LANGUAGE TO A TARGET LANGUAGE - A machine translation method, system for using the method, and computer readable media are disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a source language sentence, selecting a set of target language n-grams using a lexical classifier and based on the source language sentence. When selecting the set of target language n-grams, in at least one n-gram, n is greater than 1. The method continues by combining the selected set of target language n-grams as a finite state acceptor (FSA), weighting the FSA with data from the lexical classifier, and generating an n-best list of target sentences from the FSA. As an alternate to using the FSA, N strings may be generated from the n-grams and ranked using a language model. The N strings may be represented by an FSA for efficiency but it is not necessary. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192782 | Method for increasing the accuracy of statistical machine translation (SMT) - A method to significantly improve the accuracy of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) translation output, while increasing the effectively of the required ongoing human translation effort by correlating said ongoing professional human translation effort directly to the translation errors made by the system. Once said translation errors have been corrected by professional human translators and re-input to the system, the SMT's inherent “learning process” will ensure that the same, and possibly similar, translation error(s) will not occur again. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192783 | Method and System for Providing Translated Dynamic Web Page Content - A method, system and computer-readable storage medium are provided for generating translated dynamic Web page content comprising a phrasebook storing source phrases and translated phrases, a Web server, and an application server that generates dynamic Web page content in response to Web page requests and includes a translation engine that replaces source phrases in the dynamic Web page with a corresponding translated phrase stored in the phrasebook. In another embodiment the phrasebook also stores translations in a second dialect so that source phrases in a dynamic Web page can be translated into two or more dialects. Also provided is a system of collecting translatable dynamic Web page content including a Web server, a database comprising source phrases and corresponding translated phrases, and an application server that generates a dynamic Web page, identifies within the dynamic Web page a candidate phrase for addition to the database, and adds to the database a translatable component of the candidate phrase. Also disclosed is a method for maintaining a database of translated content whereby translatable dynamic Web page content is collected, translated, and added to the database. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192784 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS TO DISCOVER NONCOMPLIANCE WITH ESTABLISHED NORMS - A computer-implemented method for analyzing documents to discover noncompliance with an established norm is provided. The method can include receiving one or more terms indicating possible noncompliance with a pre-established norm, and, based upon the at least one term, constructing at least one grammatical unit. The grammatical unit can specify a predetermined syntax and can correspond to semantic content that is indicative of noncompliance with the pre-established norm, wherein the norm can include a statute, regulation, policy, or other standard. The method can further include identifying from among multiple electronic documents each document that contains one or more grammatical units specifying a predetermined syntax and corresponding to semantic content indicative of noncompliance with the pre-established norm. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192785 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING NATURAL LANGUAGE DESCRIPTIONS OF OBJECTS IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for constructing a natural language description of one or more objects in a virtual environment includes determining a plurality of properties of an object and an environment given a current viewpoint in a virtual environment. An object description is created using the plurality of properties where the object description reflects multiple display characteristics of the object in the virtual environment. Object descriptions in the virtual environment are combined by classifying objects in the virtual environment to condense a natural language description. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192786 | TEXT INPUT DEVICE AND METHOD - The present invention relates to a text input device and a method for inputting text, and a computer program for performing the method. A text input device ( | 2009-07-30 |
20090192787 | GRAMMER CHECKER - A method for parsing a computerized text, the method including preparing a set of logical rules, using logical grammatical links, for parsing a text, using the logical rules to identify a part of speech of each word of text and all links between the words in the text, and labeling the links as grammatically correct links or grammatically incorrect links for correction, so as to parse substantially every word in the text. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192788 | Sound Processing Device and Program - In a sound processing device, a modulation spectrum specifier specifies a modulation spectrum of an input sound for each of a plurality of unit intervals. An index calculator calculates an index value corresponding to a magnitude of components of modulation frequencies belonging to a predetermined range of the modulation spectrum. A determinator determines whether the input sound of each of the unit intervals is a vocal sound or a non-vocal sound based on the index value. The modulation spectrum specifier analyzes the input sound to obtain a cepstrum or a logarithmic spectrum of the input sound for each of a sequence of frames defined within the unit interval, then specifies a temporal trajectory of a specific component in the cepstrum or the logarithmic spectrum along the sequence of the frames for the unit interval, and performs a Fourier transform on the temporal trajectory throughout the unit interval to thereby specify the modulation spectrum of the unit interval as the result of the Fourier transform of the temporal trajectory. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192789 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING AUDIO SIGNALS - Provided are a method and apparatus for effectively encoding/decoding remaining difference signals excluding sinusoidal components, from input audio signals. In the method and apparatus for encoding audio signals, sinusoidal analysis is performed on low frequency signals of less than a predetermined critical frequency in order to extract sinusoidal signals and then, an encoding operation is performed on the remaining difference signals excluding the sinusoidal signals, from input audio signals, by using linear prediction coding (LPC) analysis. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192790 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR CONTEXT SUPPRESSION USING RECEIVERS - Configurations disclosed herein include systems, methods, and apparatus that may be applied in a voice communications and/or storage application to remove, enhance, and/or replace the existing context. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192791 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTEXT DESCRIPTOR TRANSMISSION - Configurations disclosed herein include systems, methods, and apparatus that may be applied in a voice communications and/or storage application to remove, enhance, and/or replace the existing context. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192792 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AUDIO SIGNAL - Provided are methods and apparatuses for more efficiently encoding and decoding a high frequency band signal which is from an audio signal and which is greater than a predetermined threshold frequency. The method and apparatus for encoding the audio signal encodes a linear prediction coding (LPC) coefficient and gain information of a residual signal, which are generated by performing LPC analysis, thereby encoding a high frequency signal so as to have enhanced sound quality, while using less bits. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192793 | METHOD FOR INSTANTANEOUS PEAK LEVEL MANAGEMENT AND SPEECH CLARITY ENHANCEMENT - A method for raising the soft and mid-level amplitude of sounds for greater clarity and perceptual benefit, while simultaneously removing the high level amplitude peaks without delay and providing protection for the auditory sense organ. The method does not require a feedback mechanism for the accomplishment of this treatment and exploits the psychoacoustic phenomenon of temporal integration which reduces the audibility of short duration signals, including distortions associated with peak clipping. The human auditory system requires greater time to integrate signal energy for audibility than provided by brief duration waveform peaks. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192794 | Digital filtering method, digital filtering equipment,digital filtering program, and recording medium and recorded device which are readable on computer - Included in the digital filtering equipment for extracting a feature quantity from a speech signal in order to execute a speech recognition based on an inputted speech signal are: a) an waveform determining section for obtaining an inputted speech signal and quantizing the speech signal waveform; b) a division value operating section for summing a quantized signal data in a prescribed adjoining region to divide the summation value by the number of summed data, with respect to a data quantized at each point by the waveform determining section, whereby a division value is obtained with the data being centered; c) a comparison section for comparing a division value calculated by the division value operating section and the quantized data calculated in the division value operating section to output logical truth of a comparison result, with respect to each data; and d) a conversion section for converting the quantized data into the selected data points based on an output from the comparison section. Thus, the feature quantity can be extracted only by applying an integer summation and comparison operation, so that performance of arithmetic operation is extremely simplified to be fast and inexpensive. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192795 | System and method for receiving audible input in a vehicle - A steering wheel system for a vehicle. The steering wheel system includes a first microphone mounted in a steering wheel and a second microphone mounted in the vehicle. The first and second microphones are each configured to receive an audible input. The audible input includes an oral command component and a noise component. The steering wheel system also includes a controller configured to identify the noise component by determining that the noise component received at the first microphone is out of phase with the noise component received at the second microphone. The controller is configured to cancel the noise component from the audible input. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192796 | FILTERING OF BEAMFORMED SPEECH SIGNALS - The invention relates to speech signal processing that detects a speech signal from more than one microphone and obtains microphone signals that are processed by a beamformer to obtain a beamformed signal that is post-filtered signal with a filter that employs adaptable filter weights to obtain an enhanced beamformed signal with the post-filter adapting the filter weights with previously learned filter weights. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192797 | Talk text - The patent that I am requesting is for an existing product on the market. It is for voice transponding or activated texting. Rather than typing a text message, the user can simply speak into their cell phone and the message will be typed into the text message. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192798 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CAPABILITIES LEARNING - A method for task execution improvement, the method includes: generating a baseline model for executing a task; recording a user executing a task; comparing the baseline model to the user's execution of the task; and providing feedback to the user based on the differences in the user's execution and the baseline model. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192799 | Breathing Apparatus Speech Enhancement - Speech enhancement in a breathing apparatus is provided using a primary sensor mounted near a breathing mask user's mouth, at least one reference sensor mounted near a noise source, and a processor that combines the signals from these sensors to produce an output signal with an enhanced speech component. The reference sensor signal may be filtered and the result may be subtracted from the primary sensor signal to produce the output signal with an enhanced speech component. A method for detecting the exclusive presence of a low air alarm noise may be used to determine when to update the filter. A triple filter adaptive noise cancellation method may provide improved performance through reduction of filter maladaptation. The speech enhancement techniques may be employed as part of a communication system or a speech recognition system. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192800 | Medical Ontology Based Data & Voice Command Processing System - A computerized integrated order entry and clinical documentation and voice recognition system enables voice responsive user entry of orders. The system includes a voice recognition unit for detecting spoken words and converting detected spoken words to data representing commands. A data processor, coupled to the voice recognition unit, processes the data representing commands provided by the voice recognition unit, to provide order and documentation related data and menu options for use by a user, by interpreting the data representing commands using an ordering and documentation application specific ontology and excluding use of other non-ordering or non-documentation application specific ontologies. The ordering application enables initiating an order for medication to be administered to a particular patient, or additional ordered services to be performed. A user interface processor, coupled to the data processor, provides data representing a display image. The display image, includes the order related data and menu options provided by the data processor and supports a user in selecting an order for medication to be administered to a particular patient | 2009-07-30 |
20090192801 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH VOICE COMMANDS USING A MOBILE PHONE - A method for controlling an electronic device with voice commands using a mobile phone ( | 2009-07-30 |
20090192802 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR CONTEXT PROCESSING USING MULTI RESOLUTION ANALYSIS - Configurations disclosed herein include systems, methods, and apparatus that may be applied in a voice communications and/or storage application to remove, enhance, and/or replace the existing context. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192803 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR CONTEXT REPLACEMENT BY AUDIO LEVEL - Configurations disclosed herein include systems, methods, and apparatus that may be applied in a voice communications and/or storage application to remove, enhance, and/or replace the existing context. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192804 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TIME SCALING OF A SIGNAL - A decoder receives ( | 2009-07-30 |
20090192805 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING VARIABLE BLACK LENGTH WATERMARKING OF MEDIA - Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are disclosed in which auxiliary information is added to or removed from an audio signal. In one example, the information may be added to the audio signal using at least two frequencies that are dictated by two different frequency transformation block sizes, such that the two frequencies are not fully visible when an incorrect block size is used to perform a frequency transformation. Additionally, in another example, a decoder may compensate for time and frequency affects caused by removing old samples and adding new samples, which, in one example, alleviates the need to perform repeated frequency transformation using different frequency transformation block sizes. Other examples are described. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192806 | Broadband Frequency Translation for High Frequency Regeneration - An audio signal is conveyed more efficiently by transmitting or recording a baseband of the signal with an estimated spectral envelope and a noise-blending parameter derived from a measure of the signal's noise-like quality. The signal is reconstructed by translating spectral components of the baseband signal to frequencies outside the baseband, adjusting phase of the regenerated components to maintain phase coherency, adjusting spectral shape according to the estimated spectral envelope, and adding noise according to the noise-blending parameter. Preferably, the transmitted or recorded signal also includes an estimated temporal envelope that is used to adjust the temporal shape of the reconstructed signal. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192807 | Identification of specialty drugs - Methods for determining whether a drug is a specialty drug, methods for creating tools to be used in making the determination, and the tools themselves are disclosed. The overall value of a drug depends on the drug's attribute values with respect to each of a set of drug attributes (concerning, e.g., the drug's route of administration, targeted disease, possible adverse reactions, risk of toxicity, cost, need for patient compliance with the treatment regime, and handling, preparation, and/or storage requirements. If the overall value or its partial overall values meet certain criteria, the drug is deemed to be a specialty drug. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192808 | Method and Device for Providing a Personal Product Recommendation - The invention disclosed provides a device and method for recommending at least a product or a plurality of products to a user based at least in part on opinion-based criteria. The invention proceeds by first choosing a plurality of products in a category. At least one product in the category is associated with at least one rating. The rating comprises a rating of a plurality of criteria, and the plurality of criteria comprises opinion-based criteria. In the next step of the method of the invention, a calculation of product recommendability of the plurality of products is made (caused to be made) based on a selection by at least one user of an importance level of a plurality of criteria. Then at least one product recommendation is provided (received) based on the selection by at least one user of an importance level of a plurality of criteria and the opinion-based criteria. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192809 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING CHURNERS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - Data pertaining to interactions between a plurality of customers is obtained. A graph is formed, having a plurality of nodes representing the customers and a plurality of edges representing interactions between the customers. A sub-set of the customers are denoted as previously churned customers. A spreading activation model is applied to the graph to identify, based on the graph and the previously churned customers, the potential churning customers. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192810 | FRAUD DETECTION SYSTEM & METHOD - Methods and systems are disclosed for combining the results from multiple fraud detection devices into a single, ordered list of suspect items. The confidence value for each suspect item identified by each fraud detection process may be calculated. Calculated confidence values may be refined by resealing the confidence value. The confidence value of items from multiple lists may then be further refined using a voting process. Use of a voting process takes into account the determinations of each of the fraud detection processes in order to calculate or refine the confidence values associated with each suspect item. After conducting the voting process, the suspect items may be combined into a single suspect list. The new suspect list may be ordered by confidence values. Additionally, the expected loss of each item may be calculated for each suspect item. Suspect lists may also be ordered according to expected loss. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192811 | BUSINESS MODEL FOR COMPUTER RENT CENTER - A business model is provided, which includes computing zones, computers, food zones, an entrance, and a rest zone. The computing zone includes furniture and networking connectors. The computer is disposed in the computing zone and connected to the networking connectors. The furniture are customized with visual indications according to computing power of the computer and speed of the networking connectors. The computers are connected to each other through an internal network which is connected to an Internet. The food zones are at locations accessible from the computing zones. The entrance is close to one of the food zones such that a user of the computing zones passes by the food zones to get to the computer. The rest zone is close to the computing zones such that a user of the food zones passes by at least one of the computing zones. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192812 | Wall Street Rating System, Method, and Apparatus - While several services offer ratings of different investment firms, these have little value when it comes to evaluating the actual quality of the individuals an investor or businessman will be working with. Given the vast size of the financial services firms, and the wide variation in their employees, the quality of the individual is often far more important than the identity of their employer. That is as true for the individual seeking an investment advisor as the business seeking a trustworthy team to manage their merger, acquisition, or IPO. As a result, individuals and businesses too often have to rely on the word of mouth information from other people (friends and family members) who do not have good grounds for comparison, and who may provide recommendations to help out their investment advisor, or to give the impression that they are achieving high rates of return. Our current service (solution) addresses this problem and need. There is no other service or procedure available that has the elements similar to ours, mentioned here. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192813 | INFORMATION TRANSFER THROUGH OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION - A medical data receiver configured to optically capture medical data, extract the medical data from the optical capture as alphanumeric characters, and provide the alphanumeric medical data for analysis. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192814 | Method for updating metadata on write once media containing digital audio and/or video - Write once media is used to store many different versions of metadata along with recorded video program. The metadata can be written many times over, for example once for each renter. The metadata can include rental information, or movie trailers, or other information. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192815 | Initiating A Service Call For A Hardware Malfunction In A Point Of Sale System - Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for initiating a service call for a hardware malfunction in a POS system, the POS system having a POS controller domains, the POS controller domain composed of a POS controller and one or more POS terminals, the POS controller operatively coupled to a service dispatcher for a hardware service provider, that include: detecting, by a POS operating system installed on the POS controller, a hardware error within the POS controller domain, the hardware error described by hardware error data; notifying, by the POS operating system, a system administrator of the detected hardware error in dependence upon the hardware error data; generating, by the POS operating system, a service request message in dependence upon the hardware error data; and transferring, by the POS operating system, the service request message to the service dispatcher, the service dispatcher initiating a service call by the hardware service provider. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192816 | System and method for assisting contributors - A management system for managing, streamlining and automating the process of obtaining contributions for philanthropic entities (e.g., charities and other non-profit organizations), wherein user friendly Internet based processes are provided to (potential and actual) contributors that substantially eases the burden on such contributors in, e.g., contributing to such entities via planned giving or estate planning. For each of the philanthropic entities, the management system automates and facilitates the marketing and estate planning aspects for obtaining contributions in a manner that is consistent with the avowed beliefs and/or values of the entity, and that provides potential and actual contributors with contacts to professionals that also share the beliefs and/or values of the entity. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192817 | Method and Portable Device for Management of Electronic Receipts - A system for managing electronic receipts is provided. According to one aspect, the system includes a portable device, a base device, a user device and an electronic receipts administration system. The electronic receipts administration system provides the base device with the appropriate data to allow the base device to generate, store and manage electronic receipts accordingly. A user uses the portable device to conduct a transaction with the base device. The base device uses a variety of information to generate an electronic receipt for the transaction. Such information includes, for example, information stored on the portable device, information stored locally on the base device and information stored on another device such as an electronic cash register. The electronic receipt is then stored on the portable device. The user device allows the user to subsequently retrieve the electronic receipt for management purposes. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192818 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS HEALTH MONITORING - A system for continuous health monitoring includes a computer system including a locking mechanism configured to allow multiple health point checks to be accessed simultaneously, a plurality of component health point checks configured to monitor at least one component of the system and configured to store health monitoring statistics in the computer system, and a scheduler configured to periodically enable the plurality of component health point checks based on one of a user request and a predefined amount of time. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192819 | PHARMACEUTICAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A method of distributing pharmaceutical items from a primary distributor to a secondary seller. A request for pharmaceutical items is received by the primary distributor from the secondary seller. Shelving information indicative of a sequential arrangement of pharmaceutical items along the secondary seller's shelving system is reviewed. A mobile cart having a plurality of compartments is provided, and a sequential order to the plurality of compartments is designated. Based upon the request, the shelving information, and the compartment order, a compartment assignment plan is generated that assigns the requested pharmaceutical items to respective compartments in an order corresponding with the sequential arrangement of the shelving system. The compartments are then loaded in accordance with the compartment assignment plan, and delivered to the secondary seller. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192820 | ASSAY SYSTEM AND METHOD - Assay system, comprising: at least one first assay device (IA) that is configured to assay one or more samples and to provide at least one assay result; and at least one distribution system ( | 2009-07-30 |
20090192821 | Medical image annotation - Incorporating new technology into an existing medical practice is often difficult. Documents associated with a patient, for example, a patient's medical charts, are typically provided physically, i.e., as “hard copies,” when a patient is being serviced by multiple health care providers Disclosed are means for electronically annotating an image associated with a patient workflow. In one implementation, there is a method that includes receiving an image via a communications network, presenting the image to a user, and capturing an annotation made to the image by the user. The annotations and the image to a medical practice management server via the communications network and the annotated image is stored as part of a patient medical record. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192822 | METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FRAMEWORK TO ASSIST IN THE EVALUATION OF MEDICAL CARE - A computerized method for evaluating medical reports includes identifying at least one or more medical reports stored in a database related to the medical condition, validating the identified medical reports by determining if key words associated with the medical condition found in the at least one or more reports are surrounded by a negative context and extracting relevant data from the medical reports. The exemplary method also includes evaluating the relevant data from the medical reports with provisions set forth in clinical guidelines corresponding to a medical condition, storing a flag identifying one or more of the medical reports as noncompliant when its corresponding relevant data does not comply with the provisions set forth in the clinical guideline unless a valid contraindication applies and displaying the medical reports identified as noncompliant. | 2009-07-30 |
20090192823 | ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD TIMELINE AND THE HUMAN FIGURE - A patient information interface system presents an aggregated, graphical view of patient anatomy and history. The system includes a graphical representation of at least a portion of a human anatomy including one or more indicators, aggregated from a plurality of clinical information sources and located at anatomical locations on the representation, that correspond to clinical events that have occurred in connection with a patient. The system also includes an electronic health record timeline of clinical events for the patient. The timeline includes the same one or more indicators that are displayed on the graphical representation corresponding to clinical events that have occurred in connection with a patient. A selection or change of an indicator on one of the graphical representation or the electronic health record timeline triggers a corresponding selection or change of the indicator on the other of the graphical representation or the electronic health record timeline. | 2009-07-30 |