32nd week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 68 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140222390 | Advanced Methods and Techniques for Designing Knee Implant Components - Disclosed are various advanced methods, devices, and systems for implants, tools and techniques that facilitate the surgical repair of a knee joint while allowing retention of more natural kinematics and preserving controlled rotation and translation of the repaired joint. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222391 | System and Method for Generating Enhanced Density Distribution in a three Dimensional Model of a Structure for Use in Skeletal Assessment Using a Limited Number of Two Dimensional Views - A method of generating a density enhanced model of an object is described. The method includes generating a customized a model of an object using a pre-defined set of models in combination with at least one projection image of the object, where the customized model is formed of a plurality of volume elements including density information. A density map is generated by relating a synthesized projection image of the customized model to an actual projection image of the object. Gains from the density map are back-projected into the customized model to provide a density enhanced customized model of the object. Because the density map is calculated using information from the synthesized projection image in combination with actual projection images of the structure, it has been shown to provide spatial geometry and volumetric density results comparable to those of QCT but with reduced patient exposure, equipment cost and examination time. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222392 | Simulating an Injection Treatment of a Subterranean Zone - Systems, methods, and software can be used to simulate a fracture treatment. In some aspects, a common solution vector for multiple distinct subsystem models is defined. Each subsystem model represents a distinct subsystem of an injection treatment system. Parameters of the subsystem models are updated based on the solution vector according to predefined relationships between the solution vector and the parameters of the subsystem models. The subsystem models are operated based on the solution vector and the updated parameters. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222393 | Modeling Subterranean Rock Blocks In An Injection Treatment Simulation - Systems, methods, and software can be used to simulate a fracture treatment. In some aspects, physically separate rock blocks of a subterranean zone are modeled by separate block models. The block model for each physically separate rock block represents intra-block mechanics of the rock block, for example, as a group of discrete block elements. Interactions between adjacent pairs of the rock blocks are modeled by separate joint models. The joint model for each adjacent pair of rock blocks represents inter-block mechanics between the adjacent rock blocks, for example, as pre-defined joints. The block models and joint models are used to simulate an injection treatment of the subterranean zone. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222394 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING A FAULT CONDITION IN A BUILDING - Systems and methods for evaluating a fault condition in a building include determining a change to energy use model parameters attributable to the fault condition. The change to the energy use model parameters are used to calculate a corresponding change to the building's energy consumption. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222395 | CONTACT SURFACE DEFINITION CREATION INVOLVING LOW ORDER AND QUADRATIC FINITE ELEMENTS IN A NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF AN IMPACT EVENT - Methods and systems for creating a contact surface definition involving lower order and quadratic finite elements (QFE) in a FEA model used for numerically simulating an impact event are disclosed. FEA model is organized by one or more groups of finite elements. Each group represents one of the product's parts and is identified by a part ID. Further, the FEA model is configured with one or more contact surface definitions for detecting contacts amongst the parts due to the impact event. For each determined group that is determined to contain QFE, a new group is created. The new group is associated with a unique part ID. Contact segments for the new group are then generated in accordance with a set of predefined rules for subdividing one or more geometric shapes associated with the QFE. Contact surface definitions are updated by replacing each determined group with the new group. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222396 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING HVAC ENERGY CONSUMPTION - A method for predicting energy consumption of an HVAC system is provided. The method includes providing a model for an indoor temperature of a building, a model for an operating state of the HVAC system, and predicted future outdoor temperatures. Utilizing at least the models for the indoor temperature and the operating state of the HVAC system and the predicted future outdoor temperatures, a predicted future energy consumption of the HVAC can be estimated. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222397 | FRONT-END SIGNAL GENERATOR FOR HARDWARE IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATION - A front-end signal generator for hardware-in-the-loop simulators of a simulated missile is disclosed. The front-end signal generator is driven by the Digital Scene And Reticle Simulation-Hardware In The Loop (DSARS-HITL) simulator. The simulator utilizes a computer to calculate irradiance on an Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) detector. The generator converts irradiance values into voltages that are injected into the missile's electronics during simulation. The conversion is done with low latency and a high dynamic range sufficient for hardware-in-the-loop simulation. The generator is capable of emulating laser pulse inputs that would be present during laser-based jammer countermeasures. Computer control of the generator occurs via front-panel-data-port (FPDP). | 2014-08-07 |
20140222398 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DOUBLE-INTEGRATION ORTHOGONAL SPACE TEMPERING - The orthogonal space random walk (OSRW) algorithm is generalized to be the orthogonal space tempering (OST) method via the introduction of the orthogonal space sampling temperature. A double-integration recursion method enables practically efficient and robust OST free energy calculations, augmented by a θ-dynamics approach. The double-integration OST method performs alchemical free energy simulations, to calculate the free energy difference between benzyl phosphonate and difluorobenzyl phosphonate in aqueous solution, to estimate the solvation free energy of the octanol molecule, and to predict the nontrivial Barnase-Barstar binding affinity change induced by the Barnase N58A mutation. The DI-OST method robustly enables practically efficient free energy predictions, particularly when strongly coupled slow environmental transitions are involved. A classical set of p38α MAP Kinase inhibitors are also employed as a test bed for evaluating relative binding affinity calculation methods. Throughout the molecular dynamics (MD) sampling no human intervention was involved | 2014-08-07 |
20140222399 | Predictive Model for Use in Sequencing-by-Synthesis - A method of obtaining a more accurate estimate of a signal correction parameter(s) in sequencing-by-synthesis operations, such as incomplete extension rates, carry forward rates, and/or signal droop rates. The sequencing operation produces signal data. A model is constructed to simulate a population of template strands as it undergoes the sequencing process and becomes divided into different phase-states as the sequencing-by-synthesis progresses. For example, the model may be a phase-state model. The output from the model is used to adjust the signal correction parameter(s). For example, the model may be fitted to the signal data. This fitting results in a more accurate estimate of the signal correction parameter(s). In another embodiment, the signal droop rate is modeled as a decaying function and this decaying function is fitted to the signal data to obtain an improved estimate of the signal droop rate. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222400 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUANTIFICATION AND PRESENTATION OF MEDICAL RISK ARISING FROM UNKNOWN FACTORS - Example methods of quantifying known and unknown risks of an adverse drug event in an individual based on various factors are disclosed. In some embodiments, factors include known drug-drug interactions and unknown phenotypes of cytochromes. Quantification may be based on severity of the adverse drug event/and or probability of occurrence in some embodiments. Example methods of displaying the quantified risk are also disclosed. In one embodiment, the risk of individuals is aggregated to display the risk of a population. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222401 | ESTABLISHING AVAILABILITY OF A TWO-ENGINE AIRCRAFT FOR AN ETOPS FLIGHT OR AN ETOPS FLIGHT PATH FOR A TWO-ENGINE AIRCRAFT - A method is provided for establishing availability of a two-engine aircraft for a predefined ETOPS flight. The method may include calculating a probability of a dual independent engine shutdown sequence for each of a climb phase, a plurality of cruise phases including an ETOPS phase, and a descent phase into which the predefined ETOPS flight is divisible. The shutdown sequence may be composed of events that for each phase may include events having respective, conditional probabilities specific to a model of the two-engine aircraft, a product of which is the probability of the shutdown sequence for the respective phase. The method may include calculating the risk of the shutdown sequence as a function of a sum of the probabilities for the phases, and establishing availability of the aircraft based on the risk and a preexisting baseline. A similar method is provided for establishing availability of an ETOPS flight path. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222402 | Systems and Methods for X-Ray Source Weight Reduction - The present specification discloses an X-ray scanning system having a shield surrounding an X-ray source of an X-ray inspection system, the shield comprising a first material or a combination of the first material and a second material; and a thickness that keeps a radiation dose below a predefined limit at a plurality of locations on a boundary of a defined exclusion zone, wherein the plurality of locations change as the X-ray source moves in a scan direction, and wherein the thickness of the shield varies non-uniformly as a function of a plurality of angles of radiation. In another embodiment, the shield comprises a first inner material and a second outer material; and a thickness and a contour that keeps a radiation dose below a predefined limit at a plurality of locations on a boundary of a defined exclusion zone, wherein the plurality of locations change as the X-ray source moves in a scan direction, and wherein the thickness and contour of the shield varies non-uniformly as a function of a plurality of angles of radiation. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222403 | GEOLOGIC MODEL VIA IMPLICIT FUNCTION - A method can include formulating a linear system of equations for an implicit function with respect to a mesh that represents a geologic environment; solving the linear system of equations as a first sub-system subject to at least one second order smoothness constraint and at least a portion of data and as a second sub-system subject to at least one first order smoothness constraint and at least a portion of the data; and, based at least in part on the solving, outputting values for the implicit function with respect to at least a portion of the mesh. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222404 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED PSUEDO-BROWSING - A client-side pseudo-browsing application may control interactions with the search engine, collecting true browsing input from the client and providing pseudo-browsing information to the search engine or other information provider. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222405 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING DOWNHOLE STIMULATION OPERATIONS - A system and method for performing stimulation operations at a wellsite having a subterranean formation with of a reservoir therein is provided. The method involves generating a plurality of quality indicators from a plurality of logs, and combining the plurality of quality indicators to form a composite quality indicator. The plurality of stress blocks may then be merged using diversion criterion. The composite quality indicator may be combined with the merged stress blocks to form a combined stress and composite quality indicator, the combined stress and composite quality indicator comprising a plurality of blocks with boundaries therebetween. The method may further comprise defining stages along the combined stress and composite quality indicator based on the diverter-assisted stage classifications; and selectively positioning perforations in select stages based on the diverter-assisted stage classifications thereon. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222406 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODELING OF BLOOD FLOW - Embodiments include a system for determining cardiovascular information for a patient. The system may include at least one computer system configured to receive patient-specific data regarding a geometry of the patient's heart, and create a three-dimensional model representing at least a portion of the patient's heart based on the patient-specific data. The at least one computer system may be further configured to create a physics-based model relating to a blood flow characteristic of the patient's heart and determine a fractional flow reserve within the patient's heart based on the three-dimensional model and the physics-based model. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222407 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE MECHANICAL AXIS OF A FEMUR - A method positions a profile of a prosthetic component on the three-dimensional model of a limb. Patient-specific anatomical data of the limb is gathered. First and second anatomical landmarks are identified to determine a first spatial relationship. A third anatomical landmark is identified to determine a second spatial relationship with respect to the first spatial relationship. The profile of the prosthetic component is positioned in all but one degree of freedom. A fourth anatomical landmark is identified to position the profile of the prosthetic component in the one remaining degree of freedom. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222408 | SIMULATION SYSTEM, METHOD OF CARRYING OUT A SIMULATION, GUIDANCE SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A simulation system for a control system which controls a process running in a technical system is provided. The control system has at least one first process environment embodied as a container and which is also designed to simulate the automatic process to be run in the system and comprises corresponding interfaces to the control system. The simulation system includes a second process environment designed as a container for simulating the hardware of the periphery of the control system and a third process environment designed as a container for the simulation of the process to be run in the technical system. In another embodiment, both process environments can be also be combined to form one process environment. In both embodiments, the interfaces of the second process environment are practically identical to the interfaces of the third process environment and the interfaces of the first process environment. A method for carrying out a simulation, a corresponding control system, and computer program product are also provided. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222409 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR MAPPING A MAGNETIC FIELD - A system for mapping a magnetic-field in a volume-of-interest comprising a magnetic-field transmitter, generating a magnetic-field in the volume-of-interest, a freestanding magnetic-field detector operative to freely move within the volume-of-interest, a pose-information-acquisition-module and a processor. The detector acquires measurements of flux of the magnetic-field at a plurality of poses. The pose-information-acquisition-module measures information related to the pose of the detector. The processor determines pose-related-information respective of at least a portion of the measurements according to the information related to the pose of the detector. The processor estimates the entire set of parameters of a magnetic-field model template according to the magnetic-field flux measurement and the respective poses-related-information thereof. The processor incorporates the entire set of parameters into the magnetic-field model template, thereby determining the magnetic-field model. The entire set of parameters includes the coefficients, the order the number and location of the centers of expansion of the magnetic-field model. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222410 | HYBRID EMULATION AND KERNEL FUNCTION PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - One embodiment pre-builds translations of kernel functions (KFs) and loads them into a translation pool and corresponding indexed table. The KFs are thus quickly loaded and do not necessarily await trapping and emulation via a LIB emulator. This results in faster access to KFs. Other embodiments provide hybrid emulation where some application functions (e.g., those that need quick performance) are translated from a source ISA library while other applications functions are processed via emulation to a target ISA library. Doing so provides faster access to certain functions. Other embodiments are described herein. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222411 | CREATION AND USE OF VIRTUAL DEVICE DRIVERS ON A SERIAL BUS - A node on a serial bus, preferably a device such as a personal computer (PC), can emulate other devices using virtual device drivers. A PC connected to a 1394 bus exposes its CROM on the bus which presents an image to other nodes on the 1394 bus and describes the functional units supported by the node. The CROM can be changed dynamically by adding unit directories to the CROM detailing peripherals connected to the PC. The PC can then be enumerated as the connected device by other PCs on the bus. The PC can emulate or morph itself into any desired device or even multiple devices at the same time. The invention also allows a PC to create devices that don't yet exist on the bus. The invention allows a user to create virtual device objects with device properties to have just in case a user plugs the particular device in to the PC. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222412 | Message Translations - Systems for translating text messages in an instant messaging system comprise a translation engine for translating text messages into a preferred language of a recipient of the text messages. The systems are preferably configured to send and receive the text messages and to determine whether the text messages that are received in a source language are in the preferred language of the recipients so that the text messages are displayed in the preferred language of the recipients of the text messages. Other systems and methods are also provided. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222413 | METHOD AND USER INTERFACE FOR CONTROLLING LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS USING TOUCH SENSITIVE DISPLAY SCREENS - As social networks such as Twitter become an integral part of a growing number of smartphone and tablet apps and other software, app users more frequently encounter brief foreign language comments from other users. The invention provides a convenient touch screen user interface and method by which a user, with a minimal set of finger touches, may request a translation of such foreign language comments without otherwise leaving the app display screen where the comment was originally found. By using the appropriate set of finger movements, the user's device can be directed to first initiate translation, and then display the translation in a user finger gesture controlled manner in which the comment may be viewed both in its original language and in the foreign language. When the user is satisfied, the app can then resume operations at its original initiating display screen. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222414 | MESSAGING TRANSLATOR - A seamless translation method particularly suited to XMPP instant messaging where each user has a unique account with an XMPP service provider. Each unique account is associated with a mobile device and has a preferred language selected. When a sender sends a message in their preferred language the message is sent to the XMPP server to deliver the message where the recipients are identified along with their preferred language. The XMPP server sends the message to a third party translation service that translates the message into the preferred. language of the recipient. The XMPP server then delivers the translated message to the intended recipient. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222415 | ACCURACY OF TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS - According to a first example configuration, a pair of text-to-speech synthesizers produces audio representations for each of multiple words. The outputs are compared to identify instances in which a lexicon lookup algorithm and a grapheme-to-phoneme algorithm produce different audio representations for the same words. Results of the analysis are used to train a classifier that subsequently determines a degree to which a grapheme-to-phoneme algorithm is likely to detect a newly detected out-of-vocabulary word to be converted into an audio representation. According to a second example configuration, a text analyzer tags a non-standard word. A group of reviewers generate one or more proposed text-to-speech expansion rules for a detected non-standard word. When there is a high amount of agreement amongst the reviewers how to expand the non-standard word, the proposed expansion rule is published for use by respective one or more text-to-speech synthesizers. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222416 | SEARCHING AND MATCHING OF DATA - Described herein is a technology for facilitating searching and matching of data. In accordance with one implementation, first and second feature sets are extracted. The first feature set is associated with an input data string including one or more first ideographic elements, while the second feature set is associated with a candidate string including one or more second ideographic elements. A match score of the candidate string is determined based on the first and second feature sets. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222417 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ACOUSTIC LANGUAGE MODEL TRAINING - A method and a device for training an acoustic language model, include: conducting word segmentation for training samples in a training corpus using an initial language model containing no word class labels, to obtain initial word segmentation data containing no word class labels; performing word class replacement for the initial word segmentation data containing no word class labels, to obtain first word segmentation data containing word class labels; using the first word segmentation data containing word class labels to train a first language model containing word class labels; using the first language model containing word class labels to conduct word segmentation for the training samples in the training corpus, to obtain second word segmentation data containing word class labels; and in accordance with the second word segmentation data meeting one or more predetermined criteria, using the second word segmentation data containing word class labels to train the acoustic language model. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222418 | FIXED STRING DICTIONARY - The subject matter described herein relates to implementation of a dictionary in a column-based, in-memory database where values are not stored directly, rather, for each column, a dictionary is created with all distinct values. For each row, a reference to the corresponding value in the dictionary is stored. In one aspect, data is stored in a memory structure organized in a column store format defined by a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows. A dictionary for each column in the memory structure is generated. The dictionary has distinct values for each column. A reference to the dictionary is generated for each column in the memory structure. The dictionary and the reference to the dictionary are stored in the memory structure. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222419 | Automated Ontology Development - Systems and methods of automated ontology development include a corpus of communication data. The corpus of communication data includes communication data from a plurality of interactions and is processed. A plurality of terms are extracted from the corpus. Each term of the plurality is a plurality of words that identify a single concept within the corpus. An ontology is automatedly generated from the extracted terms. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222420 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD THAT SELECTIVELY PERFORMS ERROR CORRECTION OPERATION IN RESPONSE TO DETERMINATION BASED ON CHARACTERISTIC OF PACKETS CORRESPONDING TO SAME SET OF SPEECH DATA, AND ASSOCIATED DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - A data processing method for performing data processing on wireless received data and an associated data processing apparatus are provided, where the data processing method is applied to an electronic device. The data processing method includes the steps of: wirelessly receiving a plurality of packets corresponding to a same set of speech data from another electronic device; and selectively performing error correction operation on at least one of the plurality of packets to obtain the set of speech data, wherein whether to perform the error correction operation is determined according to at least one characteristic of the plurality of packets. More particularly, the error correction operation is selectively performed for at least one scenario of a timing critical scenario and a re-transmission limited scenario. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222421 | STREAMING ENCODER, PROSODY INFORMATION ENCODING DEVICE, PROSODY-ANALYZING DEVICE, AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIZING - A speech-synthesizing device includes a hierarchical prosodic module, a prosody-analyzing device, and a prosody-synthesizing unit. The hierarchical prosodic module generates at least a first hierarchical prosodic model. The prosody-analyzing device receives a low-level linguistic feature, a high-level linguistic feature and a first prosodic feature, and generates at least a prosodic tag based on the low-level linguistic feature, the high-level linguistic feature, the first prosodic feature and the first hierarchical prosodic model. The prosody-synthesizing unit synthesizes a second prosodic feature based on the hierarchical prosodic module, the low-level linguistic feature and the prosodic tag. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222422 | SCALING STATISTICAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING SYSTEMS ACROSS DOMAINS AND INTENTS - A scalable statistical language understanding (SLU) system uses a fixed number of understanding models that scale across domains and intents (i.e. single vs. multiple intents per utterance). For each domain added to the SLU system, the fixed number of existing models is updated to reflect the newly added domain. Information that is already included in the existing models and the corresponding training data may be re-used. The fixed models may include a domain detector model, an intent action detector model, an intent object detector model and a slot/entity tagging model. A domain detector identifies different domains identified within an utterance. All/portion of the detected domains are used to determine associated intent actions. For each determined intent action, one or more intent objects are identified. Slot/entity tagging is performed using the determined domains, intent actions, and intent object detector. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222423 | Method and Apparatus for Efficient I-Vector Extraction - Most speaker recognition systems use i-vectors which are compact representations of speaker voice characteristics. Typical i-vector extraction procedures are complex in terms of computations and memory usage. According an embodiment, a method and corresponding apparatus for speaker identification, comprise determining a representation for each component of a variability operator, representing statistical inter- and intra-speaker variability of voice features with respect to a background statistical model, in terms of an orthogonal operator common to all components of the variability operator and having a first dimension larger than a second dimension of the components of the variability operator; computing statistical voice characteristics of a particular speaker using the determined representations; and employing the statistical voice characteristics of the particular speaker in performing speaker recognition. Computing the voice characteristics, by using the determined representations, results in significant reduction in memory usage and substantial increase in execution speed. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222424 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTEXTUAL TEXT TO SPEECH CONVERSION - The present specification discloses systems and methods for contextual text to speech conversion, in part, by interpreting the contextual format of the underlying document, and modifying the literal text so as to reflect that context in the conversion, thereby converting text to contextually appropriate speech. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222425 | SPEECH RECOGNITION LEARNING METHOD USING 3D GEOMETRIC INFORMATION AND SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD USING 3D GEOMETRIC INFORMATION - Provided are a speech recognition learning method using 3D geometric information and a speech recognition method by using 3D geometric information. The method performs learning by using 3D geometric information for learning or information derived from the 3D geometric information to generate a recognizer, and the speech recognition method performs speech recognition by applying 3D geometric information on a physical object correlated to or dependent on voice or information derived from the 3D geometric information to the recognizer. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222426 | System and Method of Providing an Automated Data-Collection in Spoken Dialog Systems - The invention relates to a system and method for gathering data for use in a spoken dialog system. An aspect of the invention is generally referred to as an automated hidden human that performs data collection automatically at the beginning of a conversation with a user in a spoken dialog system. The method comprises presenting an initial prompt to a user, recognizing a received user utterance using an automatic speech recognition engine and classifying the recognized user utterance using a spoken language understanding module. If the recognized user utterance is not understood or classifiable to a predetermined acceptance threshold, then the method re-prompts the user. If the recognized user utterance is not classifiable to a predetermined rejection threshold, then the method transfers the user to a human as this may imply a task-specific utterance. The received and classified user utterance is then used for training the spoken dialog system. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222427 | Command Prefix For Voice Commands - Methods, systems, and products describe hands-free operation of a communications device. A user defines a command prefix that is recognized as preceding one of several voice commands. When the user speaks the command prefix, a processor identifies the spoken command prefix and treats a next spoken word as one of the voice commands. The voice command may then be executed for control. The command prefix thus helps avoid control confusion when the voice command is inadvertently spoken. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222428 | Method and Apparatus for Efficient I-Vector Extraction - Most speaker recognition systems use i-vectors which are compact representations of speaker voice characteristics. Typical i-vector extraction procedures are complex in terms of computations and memory usage. According to an embodiment, a method and corresponding apparatus for speaker identification, comprise determining a representation for each component of a variability operator, representing statistical inter- and intra-speaker variability of voice features with respect to a background statistical model, in terms of a linear operator common to all components of the variability operator and having a first dimension larger than a second dimension of the components of the variability operator; computing statistical voice characteristics of a particular speaker using the determined representations; and employing the statistical voice characteristics of the particular speaker in performing speaker recognition. Computing the voice characteristics, by using the determined representations, results in significant reduction in memory usage and possible increase in execution speed. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222429 | VIDEO CONFERENCE CALL CONVERSATION TOPIC SHARING SYSTEM - Systems and methods are disclosed herein to a method for presenting topics of conversation during a call comprising: connecting, by a computer, a first device and a second device over a network; opening, by a computer, an audio channel that facilitates audio communication between a first user of the first device and a second user of the second device; receiving, by a computer, an audio stream over the audio channel; analyzing, by a computer, the audio stream to determine spoken words said by either the first or second users; correlating, by a computer, the determined spoken words to determine a topic of conversation; and displaying, by a computer, the topic of conversation in an information post to a remote terminal connected to the network. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222430 | System and Method for Multimodal Utterance Detection - The disclosure describe a system and method for detecting one or more segments of desired speech utterances from an audio stream using timings of events from other modes that are correlated to the timings of the desired segments of speech. The redundant information from other modes results in a highly accurate and robust utterance detection. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222431 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION - A computer-implemented method, apparatus and computer program product. The computer-implemented method performed by a computerized device, comprising: transforming a hidden Markov model to qubits; transforming data into groups of qubits, the data being determined upon the hidden Markov model and features extracted from an audio signal, the data representing a likelihood observation matrix representing likelihood of phoneme and state combinations in an audio signal; applying a quantum search algorithm for finding a maximal value of the qubits; and transforming the maximal value of the qubits into a number, the number representing an entry in a delta array used in speech recognition. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222432 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CHANNEL OPERATION METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PORTABLE TERMINAL - A voice talk function-enabled terminal and voice talk control method for outputting distinct content based on the current emotional state, age, and gender of the user are provided. The mobile terminal supporting a voice talk function includes a display unit, an audio processing unit, which selects content corresponding to a first criterion associated with a user in response to a user input, determines a content output scheme based on a second criterion associated with the user, and outputs the selected content through the display unit and audio processing unit according to the content output scheme. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222433 | System and Method for Evaluating Intent of a Human Partner to a Dialogue Between Human User and Computerized System - A system and method for assigning relative scores to various possible intents on the part of a user approaching a virtual agent, the method comprising predicting priority topics, including gathering first data and employing the first data to discern and seek user confirmation of at least one possible intent on the part of the user; and subsequent to receipt of the confirmation, gathering second data and employing the second data to provide service to the user to suit the user's confirmed intent. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222434 | AUDIO SIGNAL SYNTHESIZER AND AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER - An audio signal synthesizer generates a synthesis audio signal having a first frequency band and a second synthesized frequency band derived from the first frequency band and comprises a patch generator, a spectral converter, a raw signal processor and a combiner. The patch generator performs at least two different patching algorithms, each patching algorithm generating a raw signal. The patch generator is adapted to select one of the at least two different patching algorithms in response to a control information. The spectral converter converts the raw signal into a raw signal spectral representation. The raw signal processor processes the raw signal spectral representation in response to spectral domain spectral band replication parameters to obtain an adjusted raw signal spectral representation. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222435 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH USER DEPENDENT LANGUAGE MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a navigation system includes: providing a history list including a request having a tag; assigning a probability to the request based on the tag to create a speaker dependent model; providing a returned result generated from the speaker dependent model; and updating the request and the tag of the history list based on a user's confirmation of the returned result for displaying on a device. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222436 | VOICE TRIGGER FOR A DIGITAL ASSISTANT - A method for operating a voice trigger is provided. In some implementations, the method is performed at an electronic device including one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving a sound input. The sound input may correspond to a spoken word or phrase, or a portion thereof. The method includes determining whether at least a portion of the sound input corresponds to a predetermined type of sound, such as a human voice. The method includes, upon a determination that at least a portion of the sound input corresponds to the predetermined type, determining whether the sound input includes predetermined content, such as a predetermined trigger word or phrase. The method also includes, upon a determination that the sound input includes the predetermined content, initiating a speech-based service, such as a voice-based digital assistant. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222437 | Out-of-Band Notification of Muting During Voice Activity - Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer-readable media comprise: a muter configured to pass or block an audio signal; a voice activity detector configured to detect voice activity in the audio signal; and a vibrator configured to produce a mechanical vibration responsive to the contemporaneous occurrence of i) the voice activity detector detecting the voice activity in the audio signal; and ii) the muter being configured to block the audio signal. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222438 | ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO WATERMARK - Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for providing targeted location-based communications. An exemplary apparatus is configured to receive an encoded signal, decode the encoded signal such that embedded data is retrieved, send the embedded data a remote server; and receive a message based at least partially on sending the embedded data. Another exemplary apparatus is configured to provide the encoded signal by receiving data input, receiving a host signal, embedding the data input within the host signal such that an encoded signal is generated, and transmitting the encoded signal. A third exemplary apparatus is configured to provide the targeted communications by storing one or more messages associated with an entity, receiving data, selecting at least one of the one or more messages based at least partially on the data received, and sending the at least one of the one or more messages selected. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222439 | Apparatus and Method for Encoding/Decoding Signal - An encoding method and apparatus and a decoding method and apparatus are provided. The decoding method includes skipping extension information included in an input bitstream, extracting a three-dimensional (3D) down-mix signal and spatial information from the input bitstream, removing 3D effects from the 3D down-mix signal by performing a 3D rendering operation on the 3D down-mix signal, and generating a multi-channel signal using a down-mix signal obtained by the removal and the spatial information. Accordingly, it is possible to efficiently encode multi-channel signals with 3D effects and to adaptively restore and reproduce audio signals with optimum sound quality according to the characteristics of an audio reproduction environment. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222440 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AN AUDIO SIGNAL - A method for decoding an audio signal, receiving a downmix signal having at least one independent object and a background object downmixed therein receiving object information and enhanced object information, wherein the object information includes at least one of level information and correlation information between the independent object and the background object, wherein the enhanced object information includes a residual signal extracting the at least one independent object and the background object from the downmix signal using the object information and the enhanced object information receiving mix information from a user, the mix information being usable to control gain or panning of the independent object or the background object generating downmix processing information using at least one of the object information and enhanced object information processing at least one independent object and the background object using at least one of the downmix processing information and the mix information. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222441 | APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A DECORRELATED SIGNAL USING TRANSMITTED PHASE INFORMATION - An apparatus for generating a decorrelated signal having a receiving unit for receiving phase information, a transient separator, a transient decorrelator, a second decorrelator and a combining unit, wherein the transient separator is adapted to separate an input signal into a first signal component and into a second signal component such that the first signal component has transient signal portions of the input signal and such that the second signal component has non-transient signal portions of the input signal. The transient decorrelator is adapted to apply the phase information received by the receiving unit to a transient signal component. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222442 | ENCODER, DECODER AND METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING DATA SEGMENTS REPRESENTING A TIME-DOMAIN DATA STREAM - An apparatus for decoding data segments representing a time-domain data stream, a data segment being encoded in the time domain or in the frequency domain, a data segment being encoded in the frequency domain having successive blocks of data representing successive and overlapping blocks of time-domain data samples. The apparatus includes a time-domain decoder for decoding a data segment being encoded in the time domain and a processor for processing the data segment being encoded in the frequency domain and output data of the time-domain decoder to obtain overlapping time-domain data blocks. The apparatus further includes an overlap/add-combiner for combining the overlapping time-domain data blocks to obtain a decoded data segment of the time-domain data stream. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222443 | MOLECULAR PROFILING FOR CANCER - Provided herein are methods and systems of molecular profiling of diseases, such as cancer. In some embodiments, the molecular profiling can be used to identify treatments for a disease, such as treatments that were not initially identified as a treatment for the disease or not expected to be a treatment for a particular disease. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222444 | Method And System For Clinical Trial Management - A method of managing a clinical trial includes verifying compliance with pre-determined data collection protocols in real time of medical data collected by peripheral clinical trial centers participating in the clinical trial, sending compliance verifications, collecting review reports submitted by the reviewers on the medical data, such as medical imaging data, according to a predetermined question-and-answer format, evaluating the answers in the review reports, for concordance, and transmitting at least one electronic notification pertaining to a result obtained from the evaluating, wherein at least one of the verifying, sending, collecting, evaluating, and transmitting is performed using at least one processor. A system for implementing the method also is provided. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222445 | HEALTH RELATED SOCIAL NETWORKING - The present disclosure includes method, system, and computer readable medium embodiments to implement a health related social network. One or more embodiments include receiving health information relating to a first user in a health related social network, publishing the received health information to a health page of the first user, and allowing access to the health page of the first user to a second user in the health related social network | 2014-08-07 |
20140222446 | REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for remotely monitoring health metrics for a patient. An indication of health metrics to monitor for the patient and information related to the health metrics is received. The criticality of each health metric is determined based on recognizing that the information associated with each health metric falls into a predetermined range of values that are associated with a defined criticality for the health metric. A health alert status is assigned to each of the health metrics based on the determined criticalities. If the information related to the health metric indicates that the health metric has reached a predefined level of criticality, an alert is provided to a healthcare provider associated with the patient. The health alert status is presented on a graphical user interface. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222447 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING MEDICAL TREATMENTS - This invention is in the field of medical devices. Specifically, the present invention provides portable medical devices that allow real-time detection of analytes from a biological fluid. The methods and devices are particularly useful for providing point-of-care testing for a variety of medical applications. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222448 | DRUG LABELING TOOL - A tool for aiding a user author labels for drugs. The tool receives inputs that define requirements for a label, or aggregated requirements for a set of related labels. The requirements may be derived from inputs specifying values of label attributes and then be used to identify fields to appear in each of one or more labels to be generated. Information on fields may be used to dynamically render an interface through which a user may specify text strings to appear in each field when label text is generated. Input elements of the interface may be populated with lists of options identified based on the requirements. The requirements may also be used in generating similar labels and assessing the impact of changes, such as to regulatory requirements. The tool may be particularly useful for authoring labels for clinical trials in which multiple label formats for multiple countries may be generated. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222449 | GUARANTEED COST HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - Automated systems and methods for implementing and managing the submission, quote, proposal and binding stages (i.e., placement process) for securing insurance coverage. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222450 | MEDICAL DEVICE MANAGEMENT USING ASSOCIATIONS - Via communications with an association management resource, an operator of a respective fluid delivery system can associate a medical device (fluid pump) with a particular entity such as a patient, location, one or more other medical devices, the caregiver, etc. Thereafter, the operator of the fluid delivery system is able to better manage use of the fluid delivery system based on relevant medical information, which is accessible as a result of creating the association. For example, the association management resource gathers and stores information associated with the entity prior to the operator providing the input associating the fluid delivery system with the entity. After the operator of the fluid delivery system creates the association, the medical information associated with the entity is immediately available to the fluid delivery system and/or corresponding operator of the fluid delivery system. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222451 | PROGRAM OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM - Program optimization systems are provided herein. The program optimization system can include a plurality of data sources that can be mined for information relating to one or several patients. The format and content of the information from the data sources can be evaluated and can be conformed to formats and content types used by the program optimization system. The information retrieved from the data sources can be evaluated for one or several trigger events. If a trigger event is identified in the retrieved data, a treatment protocol can be selected. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222452 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPILING AND DESIGNING CARE SUPPORT INFORMATION - Methods and systems to enable users to select and compile personal care information filtered by the selection of a specific care concern or diagnosis, filtered by the user's geographic location, and filtered by available health care benefits. The method and system may provide information concerning home care assistance, transportation options, respite care, child care, home maintenance, shopping, pet care, technology, meal preparation, case management and advocacy services. Users may store information and post saved information to multiple planning boards for future reference or to share with others. The system and method may provide the total costs of services listed within the filtered information. Information concerning volunteer or barter opportunities may be provided to the user. The health care information may include links to various community, non-profit and governmental assistance entities. Users may purchase or be awarded credits to assist themselves or fellow users to access and utilize services contained within the system. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222453 | System and Methods for Dynamically Matching Sponsors with Vendors - A system and methods for dynamically matching sponsors with vendors in connection with a request for proposal (“RFP”) are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the system provides a central computing system and a database server containing data related to each of the sponsor, the vendors, and the RFP. The sponsor is able to create the RFP and provide an associated confidential disclosure agreement (“CDA”). The database server is searched for vendors that the sponsor would potentially find suitable and compiles said vendors in a matched vendors list. The sponsor is able to review the matched vendors list and decide which should receive the RFP. Each contacted vendor must accept the CDA before gaining access to the RFP. If interested, each contacted vendor must complete an electronic proposal form, at which point the sponsor is able to review the completed forms and select one of the matched vendors. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222454 | Systems and Methods That Administer a Health Improvement Program and an Adjunct Medical Treatment - Systems and methods that administer a health improvement program and an adjunct medical treatment are provided herein. A method includes tracking performance of a participant in a health improvement program, the health improvement program designed to improve the health condition of the participant, comparing the performance of the participant to a minimum threshold requirement that signals that the participant is not adequately improving under the health improvement program, identifying when the performance of the participant falls below the minimum threshold level, and when the performance of the participant falls below the minimum threshold level, outputting a message to at least one of the participant or a third party that the participant is a potential candidate for an adjunct medical treatment. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222455 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING HEALTHCARE INFORMATION - Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a method that can comprise, for a predetermined user, automatically determining a score for each resource from a plurality of predetermined resources based on the user's weighting of predetermined factors associated with the resources and an objective score for each factor for each resource, ranking the scored resources, and/or providing an identity of a best matched resource for the user. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222456 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DRUG PURCHASE VALIDATION - Methods and systems for drug purchase validation are described. In an example embodiment, drug sale data is accessed from a prescription drug wholesaler regarding prescription drugs sold to the pharmacy by the prescription drug wholesaler during a period of time. A number of units of a prescription drug sold to the pharmacy are determined based on the drug sale data during the period of time. Pharmacy claims data over the period of time is accessed, where the pharmacy claims data reflects a plurality of adjudicated claims, and the plurality of adjudicated claims are a plurality of claims that were submitted for adjudication by the pharmacy during the period of time. A number of units of a prescription drug associated with the plurality of claims submitted during the period of time by the pharmacy for adjudication are determined based on the pharmacy claims data. The number of units of the prescription drug associated with the plurality of adjudicated claims that were submitted for adjudication by the pharmacy is compared with the number of units of the prescription drug sold to the pharmacy. A determination is then made as to whether a discrepancy exists based on the results of the comparison. Additional methods and systems are disclosed. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222457 | RISK FACTOR ENGINE THAT DETERMINES A USER HEALTH SCORE - A method for processing risk factors for a user is disclosed. The method may include receiving protocol data for creating a risk factor engine by an application stored and executed at a computing device. The risk factor engine may be stored in memory and executable by a processor to process a first set of stored user health data for a user. The protocol data may include a rule and one or more health attribute values. The rule and the one or more health attribute values may each include a computer programming expression editable by an administrator. The method may further include determining a user health score through execution of the risk factor engine by the processor and based on the user health data. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222458 | METHOD AND APPRATUS FOR COLLECTING AND ANALYZING SURFACE WOUND DATA - A computer-implemented method of analyzing damage to personal protective equipment (PPE) uses a processor connected to a memory device. A plurality of location informations are stored in the memory device. Each location information relates to a respective damage sustained by a respective PPE and comprises a size, shape, and location of the respective damage on the respective PPE. The method includes aggregating and analyzing the location informations from a plurality of the plurality of location informations. At least two of said plurality of the plurality of location informations relate to respective damages sustained by different respective personal protective equipment. The analysis may include displaying the damage from a plurality of the location informations as a function of location on a personal protective equipment model. The analysis may involve filtering the information to isolate criteria of interest. The analysis may be used to improve PPE design and/or tactical training. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222459 | AUTOBOX MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Disclosed is an autobox management system to register intrinsic ID information in an autobox, which stores drugs therein, thereby determining if the autobox is original when the autobox is mounted in a cabinet of a hospital, and to manage information of drug consumption through the communication with a cabinet, a hospital server, and a producer server. The autobox management system including a production management unit to produce an autobox, individually register autobox ID information in the autobox, and authenticate that the autobox is original, and a hospital management unit to request determination on if the autobox is original and to transmit information of drug consumption to the production management unit through communication with the production management unit. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222460 | ADAPTIVE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM - The present disclosure includes method and devices to implement an adaptive healthcare system. A number of embodiments include creating a healthcare file for each of a number of persons, wherein each of the healthcare files includes outcomes associated with changes in a lifestyle and/or medical condition of the number of persons, adjustments to the lifestyle and/or treatment of the number persons, and observations of the number of persons in an environment; and adapting healthcare of the number of persons using decision support based on the healthcare files. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222461 | Machines, Computer-Implemented Methods and Computer Media Having Computer Programs for Clinical Data Integration - Embodiments of a machine, computer-implemented method, and computer medium having computer program are provided to manage clinical data include components and operations for transmitting data between a site-side platform for the collection and management of electronic medical records (EMRs) relating to treatment of clinical patients and a sponsor-side platform for assessing and managing data relating to a clinical study. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222462 | System and Method for Augmenting Healthcare Provider Performance - A system and method for augmenting healthcare-provider performance employs a head-mounted computing device that includes camera and microphones to capture a patient encounter and events immediately before and after: video, dictation and dialog. Wearing the device by the provider during the encounter permits normal interaction between provider and patient, encouraging the provider to maintain focus on the patient. An “ears-open” earpiece delivers audio data from a remote location without obstructing the ear canal. Augmented reality multimedia is displayed via a heads-up display over the eye(s). Real-time capture of audio and video enables dramatic cost reductions by saving doctor time. Using the system, a doctor no longer need spend hours daily on transcription and EHR entry. A patient encounter is captured and transmitted to a remote station. Relevant parts of the encounter are saved or streamed, and updates to an EHR are entered for provider confirmation after the patient encounter. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222463 | ENHANCED MONITORING - The presently disclosed subject matter provides for efficient and effective monitoring, while eliminating practices that may not be of value in assuring human subjects protection and reliable and informative study results. The present disclosure provides methods, computer program products, and systems for data collection and validation for Enhanced Monitoring (EM). The Enhanced Monitoring model disclosed herein increases productivity and efficiency by decreasing the frequency of on-site monitoring visits and employing remote review techniques to focus on the process as compared to individual data points. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222464 | System and Method Of Using Patient-Specific Data To Drive Patient-Specific Decisions - Provided is an electronic medical records system enhancement and method of implementation and use. The system is in electronic communication through a network with one or more databases containing patient-specific data identifying any or all medications for which a patient's pharmaceutical benefit provider provides financial benefits, and identifying the net cost to the patient of each medication in view of all financial benefits and restrictions that the pharmaceutical benefit provider provides to that particular patient. The patient's health savings and related accounts can be linked to the system and their preferred order of payment automated. A pharmacy may access certain patient-specific data though the system to quickly compare net costs to the patient for appropriate medication substitutes. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222465 | BEDSIDE PATIENT INTERACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method, apparatus, and system of bedside patient interaction through a secure, regulation compliant interaction device. A bedside interaction method includes determining an identity of a patient constrained to a bed through an interaction device using a processor and a memory, accessing an electronic medical record of the patient constrained to the bed, monitoring a behavior of the patient interacting with the interaction device, and automatically updating the electronic medical record based on the monitoring. Privacy may be maintained through the interaction device when the interaction device is enabled to work. An encrypted access methodology may be provided to the interaction device that may be tied to when the patient is physically at the bed to ensure regulatory compliance. A multi-tier access methodology may be provided through the interaction device each time the patient interacts with it to comply with regulatory requirements. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222466 | CPR ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - Disclosed is a method and computer program product for analyzing treatment of a sudden cardiac arrest victim. The method includes attaching the victim to an automatic external defibrillator, capturing treatment information about the CPR event, alerting a rescuer of treatment steps, and displaying a chest compression interface based on the treatment information. The chest compression interface may include an event log about various AED, rescuer, and background events and may be used to generate a graphical chest compression chart for simple analysis of the quality of a CPR treatment. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222467 | PATIENT PORTAL - A computer-implemented includes receiving, from one or more contributing channels, medical data; assigning the received medical data to one or more data silos; and generating a graphical user interface that when rendered on a display device renders a visual representation of a patient portal, with the patient portal including: one or more visual representations of the one or more data silos for data associated with a user that requested the patient portal. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222468 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a receiving unit that receives personal identification information to identify a user and system identification information to identify a local system, a recording unit that associates and records the personal identification information, the system identification information, system internal user identification information used in the local system to identify the user, and shared data about the user, a data search unit that searches for the shared data associated with the received personal identification information, a user search unit that searches for the system internal user identification information associated with the received personal identification information and the received system identification information, and a transmitting unit that transmits the shared data and the system internal user identification information that are obtained in a search. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222469 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED INTELLIGENT INSURANCE RE-QUOTING - A computer system is configured to perform automated insurance re-quoting operations and perform acts including storing an insurance customer data set and, in association therewith, one or more insurance re-quoting triggers and one or more betterment conditions. The computer system is configured to conduct an insurance re-quoting operation responsive to satisfaction of at least one insurance re-quoting trigger and access, directly or indirectly, at least one insurance carrier quoting system to cause the insurance carrier or carriers to return insurance quote(s), access at least one third-party service to cause the third-party service to return insurance quote(s) or an insurance quote estimate(s). The computer system stores, in association with the insurance customer data set, the returned insurance quote(s) or insurance quote estimate(s) and compares the returned insurance quote(s) and/or insurance quote estimate(s) to determine if the returned insurance quote(s) and/or insurance quote estimate(s) satisfy the betterment condition(s). | 2014-08-07 |
20140222470 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE CREATION AND DELIVERY TO A USER OF AN AUTOMATED, REAL TIME, ONLINE INSURANCE POLICY AND CERTIFICATE INSURANCE FOR RENTAL OF A VENUE AND/OR EQUIPMENT - A method of furnishing a real-time, self-binding, on-line bound policy for a venue and rental equipment insurance product for a user of such a venue, comprises presenting to the user, via electronic interface, prompted questions relating to venue and location, and at least one of activity to be undertaken at venue and duration of activity; receiving from the user at a computing device, answers to the prompted questions; searching attributes of the venue in a base data relating to said venue; receiving rating information from a rating engine relating to at least one of: venue and location, activity to be undertaken at venue, duration of activity and maximum benefits payable upon the occurrence of an insured event (limit selection); and using base data and rating information to calculate insurance terms, an insurance quote and to create, issue electronically transmit insurance policy and certificate of insurance to computing device of user. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222471 | METHOD TO VERIFY GASIFIER QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE - The application provides a computer implemented method for quality and performance inspection of a gasifier. The method comprises a step of identifying a gasifier, a step of identifying one or more feed to be delivered into at least one identified inlet conduit belonging to the identified gasifier, and a step of identifying one or more gas, solids, or liquid product is to be collected from at least one identified outlet conduit belonging to the identified gasifier. The identified gasifier is then inspected against said at least one identified inlet conduit and said at least one identified outlet conduit to determine a match against the step of identifying one or more feed and the step of identifying one or more gas, solids, or liquid product. A primary certificate of conformance is later generated based on the result of the step of inspecting identified gasifier. The method also comprises a step of operating identified gasifier at a remote operating site for a determined time period and delivering one or more identified feed into at least one identified inlet conduit and collecting one or more identified gas, solids, or liquid product from at least one identified outlet conduit, and a step of generating one or more data values from at least the step of operating identified gasifier. A secondary certificate of conformance is then generated based at least from the result of the step of operating identified gasifier, the step of generating one or more data values or a combination. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222472 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIDESPREAD LOW COST ORBITAL SATELLITE ACCESS - A satellite support and administration system includes a web based portal to allow widespread user access to advanced satellite technology at extremely low costs. The system supports the sequential launch of increasingly sophisticated satellites having limited life spans. Each satellite is equipped with a powerful array of sensors for space based measurement of scientifically and commercially important phenomena. A ground based platform supports and encourages the development of software and custom applications to operate experiments utilizing the processors and sensor array on the satellite. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222473 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DIRECT BIDDING FOR A TRAVEL-RELATED SERVICE VIA AN INTERNET-BASED TRAVEL SYSTEM - In one exemplary embodiment, a customer's search criteria with respect to a travel-related service is received. A database of a travel-service provider and a travel-related service is searched. A travel-related query result relevant to the customer's search criteria is received. The travel-related query result includes a pricing data for the travel-related service. The at least one travel-related query result to a customer's computing device is provided. A customer's bid for the travel-related service is received. The customer's computing device is provided an alternative travel-related service. A success probability value is calculated. The success probability value includes a probability that the customer's bid is accepted by the travel service provider. The alternative travel-related service is provided to the customer's computing device when the probability that the customer's bid is accepted by the travel service provider is below a specified threshold and the travel service provider does not accept the customer's bid. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222474 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CERTIFYING ATTENDANCE AT A PROMOTIONAL EVENT - In a method for certifying attendance at a healthcare promotional event a computer retrieves data indicative of a healthcare professional's pre-registration for a healthcare promotional event. A computer prompts for a signature, wherein the signature confirms the healthcare professional's attendance at the healthcare promotional event. A computer receives data representative of the signature. A computer prompts for a response to a presented certification statement. A computer certifies the healthcare professional's attendance at the healthcare promotional event responsive to receiving a response to the certification statement and responsive to receiving the data representative of the signature. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222475 | FLIGHT SAVER SYSTEM - A fare searching system that includes a receiver configured to receive a fare request from a user device, the fare request including at least a source location, a destination location, and a time of departure. A transmitter that is configured to process the fare request and transmit a request for fare information regarding the fare request to an airline fare information system. A processor that is configured to process and compile a first list of fares received from the airline fare information system, wherein the processor is also configured to generate a second list of fares including fares in which an intermediate location is the source location and/or the destination location, and the processor generates a combined list of fares based on the first and second lists. The transmitter transmits the combined list to the user device. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222476 | Anomaly Detection in Interaction Data - Method of automated anomaly detection includes obtaining a corpus of interaction data. Regular interaction data is identified from the corpus of interaction data with a processor. New interaction data is received. The processor compares the new interaction data to the identified regular interaction data The processor identities anomalies in the new interaction data. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222477 | AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING A CAPACITY OF A RESOURCE - A method and associated systems for automatically identifying critical resources in an organization. An organization creates a model of the dependencies between pairs of resource types, wherein that model describes how the organization's projects and services are affected when a resource type becomes unavailable. This model may include a system of directed graphs. This model may be used to automatically identify a resource type as critical if unacceptable cost is incurred by resuming projects and services rendered infeasible when the resource type is disrupted. The model may also be used to automatically identify a first resource type as critical for a second resource type when disruption of the first resource type forces the available capacity of the second resource type to fall below a threshold value. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222478 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND MANAGING SCHEDULE ON BASIS OF SOCIAL NETWORK - The present disclosure provides a method and a system for creating and managing a schedule based on a social network. The method comprises the steps of: a schedule management server obtaining information from a specific account of the social network; the schedule management server parsing a type of the information, an identity of an information creator and information content; the schedule management server creating a schedule event based on the parsed type of the information, the identity of the information creator and the information content; and the schedule management server providing a user interface, so that a user views the created schedule event. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222479 | CUSTOMER SERVICE STATUS ANALYSIS DEVICE, CUSTOMER SERVICE STATUS ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND CUSTOMER SERVICE STATUS ANALYSISMETHOD - A customer service status analysis device includes: a first time obtaining unit configured to detect occurrence of a prescribed customer service event and obtain an occurrence time of the prescribed customer service event based on image information provided by an imaging device capturing images of an interior of a commercial establishment; a second time obtaining unit configured to obtain an occurrence time of a prescribed customer service event from a sales information management device; a time period information obtaining unit configured to obtain time period information relating to customer service based on the occurrence time of the customer service event obtained by the first time obtaining unit and the occurrence time of the customer service event obtained by the second time obtaining unit; and an output information generation unit configured to generate output information representing a result of analysis based on the time period information. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222480 | TEST SCHEDULING - A set of test requests, a test calendar, and a list of prototype control models are received in a computing device having a processor and a memory. Each of the test requests includes an identifier for one of a plurality of tests to be performed and one or more attributes required to be included in a prototype to be used in the one of the tests. The test calendar includes a test duration and a list of build dates, each of the build dates associated with one of a plurality of prototypes to be available for testing on the respective build date. The list of prototype control models includes a list of possible buildable configurations of the prototypes. A control model compatibility list is generated, including, for each pair of prototypes in the plurality of prototypes, an indication of whether the prototypes in the pair are compatible for tests. A test schedule is generated using at least one of a heuristic and a mathematical optimization. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222481 | ELECTRONIC CALENDAR - The invention comprises a system and method for enabling a user to specify groups of dates using user-defined rules specified in plain English. These rules define lists of dates that are specified using a set of predefined atomic entities, Boolean logic, predicates, set operations such as union and intersection, and other rules. Using these methods, sets may be defined such as WorkingDays=Year—(Saturdays+Sundays+Holidays) | 2014-08-07 |
20140222482 | ONLINE APPOINTMENT SCHEDULERS - Provided is are a system and method for online appointment scheduling. A central online application presented at an electronic display is searched for a store location of a plurality of store locations The plurality of store locations are part of a retail establishment that presents information related to the store locations from the central online application. The store location is selected. An appointment scheduler processes an appointment scheduling request corresponding to the store location that is submitted to the central online application. A response to the appointment scheduling request is generated. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222483 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING STRUCTURED MEETINGS - A system for facilitating organized and structured meetings of one or more users through a server. The system includes a processor and a memory unit. The memory unit stores data related to the assignment of meetings and the processor is operable to process a registration module for users, an event setup module for setting up an event, a meeting request module for sending meeting requests, and a meeting assignment module. The event setup module allows the user to set up an event and further allows creation of one or more sessions and list of categories for each session, furthermore to create rules based on the categories and then assign locations and schedule for each session. The meeting request module to allow submission of request for meetings during the session. The meeting assignment module to assign meetings between two registered users on the basis of the rules submitted under meeting request module. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222484 | DEVICE-INDEPENDENT ATTENDANCE PROMPTING TOOL FOR ELECTRONICALLY-SCHEDULED EVENTS - In one embodiment, a system for motivating electronically-scheduled event attendance can include a set of attendance listening components, an attendance prompt, and an attendance prompting tool. The attendance listening components can monitor activities performed in a networked environment. The attendance prompt can represent an electronic message and feedback mechanism that is provided on an electronic device. The attendance prompting tool can interject the attendance prompt into an activity identified by an attendance listening component as being performed by a user-selected member of the networked environment. The attendance prompt can be associated with an electronically-scheduled event the user-selected member is to attend. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222485 | EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF CHANGING PROJECT PARAMETERS ON THE LIKELY DELIVERY DATE OF A PROJECT - A user may be allowed to specify a change in one or more parameter data associated with the project, the one or more parameter data used previously to compute a probability distribution of completion time of the project. The probability distribution of completion time of the project may be recomputed based on the change. The recomputed probability distribution of the completion time of the project may be presented. An option to save the recomputed probability distribution may be provided. An option may be provided to specify another change in one or more parameter data associated with the project and repeat the recomputing and the presenting procedures based on another change in one or more parameter data associated with the project. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222486 | ENERGY SEARCH ENGINE METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Systems and methods dynamically assess energy efficiency by obtaining a minimum energy consumption of a system, receiving in a substantially continuous way a measurement of actual energy consumption of the system, and comparing the minimum energy consumption to the measurement of actual energy consumption to calculate a substantially continuous energy performance assessment. The system further provides at least one of a theoretical minimum energy consumption based at least in part on theoretical performance limits of system components, an achievable minimum energy consumption based at least in part on specifications for high energy efficient equivalents of the system components, and the designed minimum energy consumption based at least in part on specifications for the system components. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222487 | Total-Ordering In Process Planning - A method is provided that includes receiving process-related information describing a hierarchical process for production of a product. The process may include segments each of at least some of which include segment components. The method also includes determining an instance in which the segment components are total-ordered, which may include determining an instance in which the segments are total-ordered. For the total-ordered segments, the segment components may be partitioned by disjoint collections based upon earliest availability to produce earliest-available partitions, and separately based upon latest availability to produce latest-available partitions. Order flexibility may be identified for each segment component based upon membership in both earliest-available and latest-available partitions, and an instance in which each partition in both the earliest-available and latest-available partitions contains only one order-inflexible segment component may be determined. In this instance, the segment components may be total-ordered. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222488 | Quantifying the Quality of Trend Lines - Techniques, apparatus and articles of manufacture for quantifying the quality of trend lines. A method includes defining a collection of reference data sets derived from multiple historical projects in a similar subject area as the target project, defining one or more indicators of data set applicability to a target project estimation, said defining based on multiple characteristics of the target project, evaluating applicability of each of the reference data sets based on the one or more indicators, and identifying one or more of the reference data sets as applicable for use in the target project estimation. | 2014-08-07 |
20140222489 | Quantifying the Quality of Trend Lines - Apparatus and articles of manufacture for quantifying the quality of trend lines include defining a collection of reference data sets derived from multiple historical projects in a similar subject area as the target project, defining one or more indicators of data set applicability to a target project estimation, said defining based on multiple characteristics of the target project, evaluating applicability of each of the reference data sets based on the one or more indicators, and identifying one or more of the reference data sets as applicable for use in the target project estimation. | 2014-08-07 |