47th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140343890 | HANDHELD MEASURING AID FOR USE WITH A SIX-DEGREES-OF-FREEDOM LASER TRACKER - Some embodiments of the invention relate to a handheld measuring aid for use in a system—having a station for position and orientation determination of the handheld measuring aid—for surveying an object surface. the handheld measuring aid has in this case on a body, visual markings which are arranged in a defined spatial relationship, forming a pattern, on the body in a marking region, a measuring probe, which is arranged on an orifice of the body in a defined spatial relationship in relation to the pattern, for the object surface, an operating element, an electronic circuit for generating a measurement triggering signal—occurring as a function of an actuation of the operating element—and wireless communication means for transmitting the measurement triggering signal to the station. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343891 | DISTRIBUTED REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM SENSING DEVICE - A vehicle detection sensor apparatus including a frame and a dual mode sensor connected to the frame, the dual mode sensor having an active and a passive sensing mode wherein at least one of the active and passive sensing mode is automatically cycled between on and off states when providing a positive reading condition. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343892 | Methods and Systems for Geo-Location Optimized Tracking and Updating for Events Having Combined Activity and Location Information - A method includes obtaining a first geo-location and a second geo-location. The first and second geo-locations are associated with a monitoring device. The monitoring device is configured to be used by a user. The first geo-location is determined at a first time and the second geo-location is determined at a second time. The first time and the second time are associated with a rate of obtaining geo-location data. The method includes calculating a difference in distance between the second and first geo-locations and changing the rate of obtaining a third geo-location associated with the monitoring device based on the difference in distance between the second and first geo-locations. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343893 | METROLOGICAL APPARATUS AND A METHOD OF DETERMINING A SURFACE CHARACTERISTIC OR CHARACTERISTICS - A metrological apparatus has a surface data determiner to determine from measurement data a measured surface roughness data set ( | 2014-11-20 |
20140343894 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AT LEAST ONE TRANSIENT PHASE IN A STEADY ACTIVITY OF AN ANIMATED BEING - A system for detecting at least one transient phase in a steady activity of an animated being includes processing circuitry for determining signals representative of the motion of the animated being along at least one axis, for calculating a resultant signal representative of a statistical link between samples of signals representative of the motion belonging respectively to at least two temporally offset sliding windows over the samples, and for detecting a transient phase on the basis of the resultant signal. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343895 | MONITORING OF PRIMARY DEVICES IN A POWER SYSTEM - For monitoring diagnostic rules of a power system, an exemplary method is disclosed and includes collecting operational diagnostic data from a first primary device; identifying a change of a diagnostic indicator based on the operational diagnostic data; adapting a diagnostic rule to the identified change, wherein the diagnostic rule is applicable to the diagnostic data for determining a diagnostic warning which indicates a diagnostic state of a primary device; and providing a diagnostic warning of a second primary device by applying the adapted diagnostic rule to operational diagnostic data collected for the second primary device. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343896 | Determining Sensor Information in the Background On a Mobile Device - Methods and systems for acquiring and batching sensor data using a mobile device are described. In one example, a system in a mobile device is provided. The system includes one or more sensors, a memory, a sensor processor, and a main application processor. The sensor processor is configured to determine sensor data using the one or more sensors on an interval basis and store the sensor data into one or more first-in, first-out (FIFO) queues. Additionally, the sensor processor is configured to replace at least a portion of the stored sensor data if a main application processor of the mobile device does not request the stored sensor data within a certain amount of time. The main application processor is configured to receive data indicating a request for sensor data for a recent time period and, in response, to retrieve the sensor data from the one or more FIFO queues. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343897 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT CONTOURS AND GATING IN FLOW CYTOMETRY - Methods and systems for efficient contour and gating in flow cytometry are provided. Event data is compressed to reduce the number of points needed to represent polygon contours for the event data. Selection of a level within the contour then causes the generation of a gate. This allows limited resource devices, such as touchscreen wireless devices, to render and gate flow cytometry data in a resource efficient manner. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343898 | BAT CUSTOMIZATION SYSTEM - A bat customization system for use with a processing unit of an electronic device. The system includes a first sensing bat, at least one sensor carried by the first sensing bat, and a wireless transmitter for transmitting signals from the sensors. The at least one sensor is configured to detect characteristics of at least one test swing of the first sensing bat. The signals represent the detected characteristics. A non-transient computer readable medium containing computer readable programming is configured to direct the processing unit to identify a recommended bat based on the characteristics detected by the at least one sensor carried by the first sensing bat. The programming is configured to direct the processing unit to generate data relating to the at least one test swing. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343899 | Methods and systems for using bi-directional level sets to partition an undirected graph representing a matrix to be used in CAE - An N×N matrix is generated from computerized model representing a physical domain, comprises coefficients of N simultaneous linear equations with N unknown physical quantities associated with N degrees-of-freedom of the physical domain, and is represented by an undirected graph having N vertices connected by a plurality of edges. A best suitable partition scheme for dividing the N vertices into a separator group and, first and second mutually independent groups as follows: distance vectors of source vertices selected from the N vertices are calculated; for each distinct pair of the source vertices, the difference of respective distance vectors is used for finding a coarse graph whose adjacency coarse matrix is pentadiagonal; a trial partition scheme is determined using the coarse graph initially; the separator group is then iteratively improved by trimming vertices contained therein and merging them into one of the mutually independent groups until the separator group becomes minimal. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343900 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EAR DEVICE DESIGN USING COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY (CT)-COLLECTED ANTHROPOMORPHIC DATA - Methods and systems for designing an earpiece device are provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of images for a respective plurality of individuals. Each image includes at least one ear anatomy. For each image, a three-dimensional (3D) surface representing the at least one ear anatomy is extracted, to form a plurality of extracted surfaces corresponding to the plurality of images. At least one statistical measurement representative of at least a portion of the plurality of individuals is determined from among the plurality of extracted surfaces. At least one design parameter for the earpiece device is optimized based on the at least one statistical measurement, The earpiece device is formed using the optimized at least one design parameter. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343901 | Method for Optimizing Electrodeposition Process of a Plurality of Vias in Wafer - The presently claimed invention provides a method for optimizing an electrodeposition process of a plurality of vias in a wafer. Instead of simulating a large number of via on the wafer for via filling, a representative via is selected with the maximum value of critical factor, which is a function of process parameters. The filling of the representative via is simulated with different sampling points to find out the filling goodness in order to find out the optimized process windows of process parameters. An optimizer is also disclosed, which either provides sampling points or reduces sampling points under artificial neural network method. Calculation of filling goodness is used for evaluating via filling quality and further comparing among via fillings simulated at different sampling points. Consequently, the method of present invention is able to shorten the simulation time for via filling as well as provide a process window with high accuracy. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343902 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING DETAILED RIGID WALL FORCE SUMMARY IN A TIME-MARCHING SIMULATION OF A VEHICLE COLLIDING WITH A RIGID WALL - A finite element analysis (FEA) model of a vehicle and a rigid wall definition are received. The FEA model comprises a number of nodes connected by finite elements that are organized in groups. The rigid wall comprises one or more segments each corresponding to a load cell installed thereon. A list of groups that are desired to have a detailed rigid wall force (RWF) summary is defined by user. A contribution weighting factor is calculated for each node in the FEA model. A time-marching simulation of the vehicle colliding with the rigid wall is conducted. At each solution cycle, a nodal force contribution is calculated for each node according to node type. The calculated nodal force contribution modified with the contribution weighting factor is accumulated in the detail RWF summary under respective groups and segments. A full detailed RWF summary is presented. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343903 | FACTORIAL HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS ESTIMATION DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An approximate computation unit computes an approximate of a determinant of a Hessian matrix relating to a parameter of an observation model represented as a linear combination of parameters determined by each layer | 2014-11-20 |
20140343904 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING LENS - A method for designing a lens is disclosed. A curve of a light incident face of the lens is defined by a formula of Y | 2014-11-20 |
20140343905 | VORTICITY-REFINEMENT BASED NUMERICAL METHOD FOR SIMULATING AIRCRAFT WING-TIP VORTEX FLOWS - The present invention relates a numerical method to simulate the incompressible wing-tip vortex flows. This method is called Vorticity-Refinement, which refines the added vorticity as two different forms of force multiplied by two different factors to counteract the numerical diffusions in the numerical solutions by utilizing the high-order spatial discretization and improving the stability and convergence of the governing equations for incompressible flows. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343906 | BLOOD-VESSEL BLOODSTREAM SIMULATION SYSTEM, METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE PROGRAM - This system is a system for analyzing blood flow which imposes a boundary condition relating to the blood flow to three dimensional shape data of a target vascular site of a subject and divides a lumen of the target vascular site into meshes for obtaining state quantities of the blood flow at each mesh position by means of computation, having: a labeling unit, by a computer, for reading out the three dimensional shape data on the lumen of the target vascular site, and labeling a plurality of vascular elements included in the target vascular based on a size of the cross-sectional area of each of the vascular elements; wherein, the computation of the state quantities is carried out by varying a level of mesh detail for each vascular element based on the labeling according to the size of the cross-sectional area. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343907 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BUILDING AT LEAST ONE AIRCRAFT GUIDELINE IN AN AIRPORT NAVIGATION NETWORK - This building method concerns building of at least one aircraft guideline in an airport navigation network. The navigation network includes a plurality of polygons and is associated with an airport area including taxiways, each guideline connecting two distinct sides of a corresponding polygon, the navigation network being configured to be stored in a memory of a computer system. The method is implemented by a computer and includes the following steps creating nodes at each intersection between an existing guideline and a side of a corresponding polygon, or at the middle of a side shared by two polygons when no guideline is secant with said side, detecting at least one pair of nodes not connected by a guideline, computing, for each detected pair of nodes, a guideline in the form of a polynomial curve, and storing the computed guidelines in the memory of the computer system. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343908 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING TRACER SHOTS FOR ESTIMATING INFLUX VOLUMES OF FLUIDS FROM DIFFERENT INFLUX ZONES TO A PRODUCTION FLOW IN A WELL - A method for estimating influx volumes of fluids to a production flow in a well with two or more influx locations along the well includes arranging tracer sources with unique tracer materials in fluid communication with two or more of the influx zones, each tracer material having a predefined short duration release dose to the fluids in the well, allowing the tracer sources to release the tracer material to the fluids at a given release instant, after the release instant, consecutively collecting samples of the production flow at the topside, analysing the samples for identifying types of tracer material and concentration of the identified tracer materials, based on the concentrations and their sampling sequence and the well geometry, sequence of the separate influx zones, calculating the influx volumes from transient flow models using the calculated influx volumes as parameters for controlling the production flow or for characterizing the reservoir. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343909 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY MODELING A MULTIPHASE FLUID FLOW - A method for dynamically determining at least one physico-chemical property and the composition of a multiphase fluid flow in a porous medium: including the building of a geological model of said the porous medium and the discretization of said model into elementary meshes, the determination ( | 2014-11-20 |
20140343910 | METHOD TO DETERMINE UNIT LOAD STABILITY - A method of using computer based models for determining the stability of a unit load is disclosed. The method includes representing one or more packages and a domain space. The method further includes configuring the packages within the domain space, containing the packages to form a unit load, simulating conditions on the unit load, and determining the stability of the unit load. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343911 | Method for Monitoring a Process and/or Production Plant - A method for monitoring a process and/or production plant, which includes a plurality of components and which is planned using a plurality of engineering systems, includes a step of providing first result data pertaining to at least one portion of the plurality of components using a first of the plurality of engineering systems, and second result data pertaining to at least one portion of the plurality of components using a second of the plurality of engineering systems. The method also includes a step of extracting topology data, which describe an arrangement of the plurality of components within the process and/or automation plant, and operating data for the plurality of components from the first and second result data. The method further includes creating a model for the process and/or production plant by using the topology data and the operating data. Also disclosed is an apparatus for carrying out the method. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343912 | PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED FUEL ECONOMY RATINGS BASED ON CUSTOMER DRIVE CYCLE - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing customized fuel economy ratings. The method includes collecting customer drive cycle information from a first vehicle operated by a customer and simulating an operation of a second vehicle based on the customer drive cycle information. Based on the simulating, the method includes calculating the customized fuel economy rating of the second vehicle. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343913 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING SURGICAL PROCEDURES - A system and method for converting static/still medical images of a particular patient into dynamic and interactive images interacting with medical tools including medical devices by coupling a model of tissue dynamics and tool characteristics to the patient specific imagery for simulating a medical procedure in an accurate and dynamic manner. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343914 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING A MODEL OF COMPOSITION FOR A COMPOSITE FORMED BY COMBINING A PLURALITY OF HYDROCARBON STREAMS - Systems and methods for creating a model of composition for a current composite created by combining a plurality of hydrocarbon streams. The method comprises receiving at least one primary data value related to the current composite, associating the at least one primary data value with a profile of the current composite, selecting a modeling scenario for the current composite using a hierarchy of modeling scenarios, and creating a model of composition for the current composite using at least one processor, The modeling scenario is selected based at least in part on a collection of primary data values associated with the profile of the current composite. The model of composition is created based at least in part on the modeling scenario and the collection of primary data values associated with the profile of the current composite. Systems of creating the model of composition are also disclosed. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343915 | TEST ENVIRONMENT CONFIGURATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OPERATING NETWORK SIMULATION APPARATUS USING SAME - A test environment configuration apparatus and a method of operating a network simulation apparatus using the test environment configuration apparatus are disclosed. The test environment configuration apparatus includes a scenario configuration module, a simulation initiation module, and a monitoring module. The scenario configuration module configures a simulation scenario performed on one or more virtual machines and one or more simulation nodes generated by a network simulator. The simulation initiation module controls the internal applications of the virtual machines corresponding to the simulation nodes, and generates a simulation initiation signal to run a network simulation for testing a communication connection between the simulation nodes. The monitoring module monitors the network simulation and the internal applications, and provides the results of the monitoring to a user. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343916 | VIABLE SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE FOR SERVICE PROVISIONING ENGAGEMENTS - Systems and methods for governing execution of a service provisioning engagement are described. In one implementation, the described methods are implemented in the systems, where the method includes determining a customized schema based on a viable systems model, where the customized schema is defined using a plurality of dimensions and a plurality of sub-dimensions, where the plurality of dimensions and the plurality of sub-dimensions is defined using a plurality of parameters. The method also includes determining a system dynamics model which defines relationship between the plurality of parameters of the customized schema. The method further includes setting targets for at least one parameter from amongst the plurality of parameters of the customized schema and simulating the at least one parameter interactively based on the system dynamics model. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343917 | Providing Virtual Optical Disk Drive - A method for providing a virtual optical disk drive (ODD) is provided. The method can comprise: simulating a PCI IDE controller through PCI configuration space IO trap and simulating the ODD through IDE device IO trap. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343918 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMULATION OF AN AUTOMATION CONTROL SYSTEM - Present embodiments include an automation control system including one or more processors and memories with an application stored on the one or more memories and implemented by the one or more processors. The application includes an interface configured to communicate with automation devices via a communication subsystem. Further, the application includes an operation environment, a programming environment, and an emulation environment. The programming environment is configured to generate device elements corresponding to the automation devices within the operation environment in which the device elements are configured to functionally interact with the automation devices. The emulation environment is configured to automatically host an emulation model of the automation devices based on the device elements generated within the operation environment. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343919 | MODULAR TRANSLATION OF LEARNING APPLICATIONS IN A MODULAR LEARNING SYSTEM - A modular learning system is provided that incorporates translation of language and media metadata associated with learning applications. The author of a learning application may provide a description of a desired translating user to perform translation of the author's learning application. The modular learning system provides a set of translating users meeting the description. The author selects a translating user and the selected translating user is provided on a translation request being made. After translation by the translating user, the language and media are updated to provide the translation to users. A badge is created for display to users to indicate the translation and data about the translation. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343920 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DETERMINE PART-OF-SPEECH - A computer-implemented method to determine a part-of-speech (POS) category associated with a word in a text. The method includes determining a first set of candidate POS categories associated with the word based on a dictionary. The method further includes determining one or more contexts in which the word is used in the text based on a first set of rules. The method further includes determining a second set of candidate POS categories from the first set of POS categories based on the one or more contexts. The method furthermore includes determining the POS category from the second set of candidate POS categories based on a second set of rules. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343921 | ANALYZING DOCUMENTS CORRESPONDING TO DEMOGRAPHICS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for analyzing documents corresponding to demographics. A computer determines whether a first text analysis algorithm corresponds to a demographic of a document, wherein Natural Language Processing (NLP) utilizes text analysis algorithms to produce an analysis of the document and provide annotations. Responsive to determining that the first text analysis algorithm does correspond to the demographic of the document, the computer analyzes the document utilizing the determined corresponding first text analysis algorithm. In another embodiment, the computer determines whether a second text analysis algorithm is available. Responsive to determining that a second text analysis algorithm is not available, the computer provides information from the analysis of the document utilizing one or more text analysis algorithms. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343922 | DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR ASSESSING SYNONYMOUS EXPRESSIONS - A synonymous expression assessment device includes: synonymy assessment means for receiving input of binary relations each of which includes a nominal and a predicate, and assessing whether or not the input binary relations are synonymous using a similarity between input nominals and a similarity between input predicates; and inter-predicate similarity computation means for, when computing the similarity between the input predicates based on a distribution of occurrence frequencies of nominals that are in binary relations to the input predicate in a document set, performing the computation using a distribution of only nominals that are used in the same type of concept as the input nominal. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343923 | Systems and Methods for Assessing Constructed Recommendations - A computer-implemented method of training an assessment model for assessing constructed texts expressing opinions on subjects includes accessing a plurality of training texts, which are constructed texts. The training texts are analyzed with the processing system to derive values of a plurality of linguistic features of an assessment model. At least one of the plurality of linguistic features relates to sentiment and at least one of the plurality of linguistic feature relates to specificity. The assessment model is trained with the processing system based on the values of the plurality of linguistic features. Based on the training, a weight for each of the plurality of linguistic features is determined. The assessment model is calibrated to include the weights for at least some of the plurality of linguistic features such that the assessment model is configured to generate assessment measures for constructed texts expressing opinions on subjects. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343924 | Active Lab - Various embodiments provide a tool, referred to herein as “Active Lab” that can be used to develop, debug, and maintain knowledge bases. These knowledge bases (KBs) can then engage various applications, technology, and communications protocols for the purpose of task automation, real time alerting, system integration, knowledge acquisition, and various forms of peer influence. In at least some embodiments, a KB is used as a virtual assistant that any real person can interact with using their own natural language. The KB can then respond and react however the user wants: answering questions, activating applications, or responding to actions on a web page. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343925 | TEXT ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A text analysis system is described. A natural language input unit ( | 2014-11-20 |
20140343926 | LANGUAGE MODEL GENERATING DEVICE, METHOD THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - A text in a corpus including a set of world wide web (web) pages is analyzed. At least one word appropriate for a document type set according to a voice recognition target is extracted based on an analysis result. A word set is generated from the extracted at least one word. A retrieval engine is caused to perform a retrieval process using the generated word set as a retrieval query of the retrieval engine on the Internet, and a link to a web page from the retrieval result is acquired. A language model for voice recognition is generated from the acquired web page. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343927 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEANING DRIVEN PROCESS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY, QUALITY OF WORK AND OVERALL CUSTOMER SATISFACTION - A customer service system for providing enhanced guidance and resources to service agents and providing an enhance ability to select service agents that are best suited to address specific customers and specific customer needs, and methods for manufacturing and using same. The customer service system includes a system server with a semantic engine configured to analyze customer contact events and customize service agent interfaces based on determined customer needs. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343928 | Wearable-Based Virtual Agents - Virtual agents may be implemented on a wearable device. The wearable device may include an input device to receive input and a communication component to send the input to a computing device for processing and to receive a response for the input. The wearable device may also include an output device to output the response via the virtual agent as part of a conversation with a user. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343929 | VOICE RECORDING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An electronic device includes a camera and two microphones. The space in front of the camera is divided into a plurality of imaginary cubic areas. Each imaginary cubic area is associated with a delay parameter. The camera locates a face of a user and determines an imaginary cubic area in which the face is located from the plurality of imaginary cubic areas. A wave beam pointing to the imaginary cubic area is calculated according to the delay parameter associated with the imaginary cubic area. The two microphone record voices within a range of the wave beam. A voice recording method is also provided. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343930 | Systems and Methods for Voice Data Processing - Systems and methods are provided for voice data processing. For example, a first data packet included in voice data transmitted by a client is received; the first data packet is stored in a storage area; whether to process one or more second data packets stored in the storage area is determined based on at least information associated with a type of the first data packet and a current storage state of the storage area; in response to a determination to process the second data packets, voice resources are applied for; and the second data packets stored in the storage area are processed using the voice resources. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343931 | ROBUST SIGNATURES DERIVED FROM LOCAL NONLINEAR FILTERS - Content signal recognition is based on a multi-axis filtering of the content signal. The signatures are calculated, formed into data structures and organized in a database for quick searching and matching operations used in content recognition. For content recognition, signals are sampled and transformed into signatures using the multi axis filter. The database is searched to recognize the signals as part of a content item in the database. Using the content identification, content metadata is retrieved and provided for a variety of applications. In one application, the metadata is provided in response to a content identification request. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343932 | SPEECH DECODING DEVICE AND SPEECH DECODING METHOD - The present invention pertains to a speech decoding device that is capable of preventing degradation in sound quality associated with an adjustment of the slope of a spectrum of an output signal (a decoding signal), making it less likely that a loss of bandwidth sensitivity due to the attenuation of a higher band region is perceived. For each frame of the bandwidth extension layer decoding signal, a filter assessment unit ( | 2014-11-20 |
20140343933 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING SIMILARITY OF AUDIO FILE - A method for calculating a similarity of audio files includes constituting a pitch sequence of a first audio file and a pitch sequence of a second audio file; calculating an eigenvector of the first audio file according to the pitch sequence of the first audio file, and calculating an eigenvector of the second audio file according to the pitch sequence of the second audio file; calculating a similarity between the first audio file and the second audio file according to the eigenvector of the first audio file and the eigenvector of the second audio file. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343934 | Method, Apparatus, and Speech Synthesis System for Classifying Unvoiced and Voiced Sound - A method, apparatus, and speech synthesis system are disclosed for classifying unvoiced and voiced sound. The method includes: setting an unvoiced and voiced sound classification question set; using speech training data and the unvoiced and voiced sound classification question set for training a sound classification model of a binary decision tree structure, where the binary decision tree structure includes non-leaf nodes and leaf nodes, the non-leaf nodes represent questions in the unvoiced and voiced sound classification question set, and the leaf nodes represent unvoiced and voiced sound classification results; and receiving speech test data, and using the trained sound classification model to decide whether the speech test data is unvoiced sound or voiced sound. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343935 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING ASYNCHRONOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION USING MULTIPLE MICROPHONES - An apparatus and method for performing asynchronous speech recognition using multiple microphones are disclosed. The apparatus includes a microphone selection unit, a signal-to-noise ratio measurement unit, a speech recognition and verification unit, and a final recognition result output unit. The microphone selection unit selects two or more microphones responsive to a user's voice from among a plurality of microphones distributed around the user. The signal-to-noise ratio measurement unit measures the signal to noise ratios of inputs of the selected two or more microphones. The speech recognition and verification unit performs speech recognition using the input of the microphone having a highest signal to noise ratio, and verifies the speech recognition using the inputs of the remaining microphones. The final recognition result output unit outputs the final recognition results of the user's voice based on the results of the speech recognition and verification unit. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343936 | CALENDARING ACTIVITIES BASED ON COMMUNICATION PROCESSING - A method is provided in one embodiment and includes establishing a communication session involving a first endpoint and a second endpoint that are associated with a session, the first endpoint being associated with a first identifier and the second endpoint being associated with a second identifier. The method also includes evaluating first data for the first endpoint; evaluating second data for the second point; and determining whether to initiate a calendaring activity based, at least in part, on the first data and the second data. In more specific embodiments, the method includes evaluating a first availability associated with the first endpoint; evaluating a second availability associated with the second endpoint; and suggesting a future meeting based, at least in part, on the first availability and the second availability. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343937 | INTERRUPT MODE FOR COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS - An interrupt mode for messaging applications intended to run on smart phones, tablets and computers. The interrupt mode enables the automatic rendering of incoming messages, in accordance with various embodiments, when (i) the application is closed, (ii) the conversation for which the message pertains has not been selected for participation, (iii) the interrupt mode has been designated for the sender of the message or (iv) any combination of (i) through (iii). When a message is rendered in the interrupt mode, the media of the message is automatically rendered. As a result, the user of the communication device is interrupted. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343938 | APPARATUS FOR RECORDING CONVERSATION AND METHOD THEREOF - A method for recording conversation is provided. The method includes capturing content, receiving at least one voice signal, distinguishing at least one person corresponding to the at least one voice signal by analyzing the at least one voice signal, converting the at least one voice signal into a text corresponding to the at least one voice signal, and displaying the text in the captured content to correspond to the distinguished at least one person. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343939 | Discriminative Training of Document Transcription System - A system is provided for training an acoustic model for use in speech recognition. In particular, such a system may be used to perform training based on a spoken audio stream and a non-literal transcript of the spoken audio stream. Such a system may identify text in the non-literal transcript which represents concepts having multiple spoken forms. The system may attempt to identify the actual spoken form in the audio stream which produced the corresponding text in the non-literal transcript, and thereby produce a revised transcript which more accurately represents the spoken audio stream. The revised, and more accurate, transcript may be used to train the acoustic model using discriminative training techniques, thereby producing a better acoustic model than that which would be produced using conventional techniques, which perform training based directly on the original non-literal transcript. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343940 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AN EXEMPLARY AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM - An exemplary computer system configured to user multiple automatic speech recognizers (ASRs) with a plurality of language and acoustic models to increase the accuracy of speech recognition. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343941 | VISUALIZATION INTERFACE OF CONTINUOUS WAVEFORM MULTI-SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION - A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code having programming instructions tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium. The programming instructions are operable to receive a current waveform of a communication between a plurality of participants. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to create a voiceprint from the current waveform if the current waveform is of a human voice. Furthermore, the programming instructions are operable to determine one of whether a match exists between the voiceprint and one library waveform of one or more library waveforms, whether a correlation exists between the voiceprint and a number of library waveforms of the one or more library waveforms and whether the voiceprint is unique. Additionally, the programming instructions are operable to transcribe the current waveform into text and provide a match indication display (MID) indicating an association between the current waveform and the one or more library waveforms based on the determining. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343942 | Multitask Learning for Spoken Language Understanding - Systems for improving or generating a spoken language understanding system using a multitask learning method for intent or call-type classification. The multitask learning method aims at training tasks in parallel while using a shared representation. A computing device automatically re-uses the existing labeled data from various applications, which are similar but may have different call-types, intents or intent distributions to improve the performance. An automated intent mapping algorithm operates across applications. In one aspect, active learning is employed to selectively sample the data to be re-used. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343943 | Systems, Computer Medium and Computer-Implemented Methods for Authenticating Users Using Voice Streams - Provided are embodiments of systems, computer medium and computer-implemented methods for authenticating users using voice biometrics. Methods including receiving a request to access a resource via a user device, receiving a credentials set from a user (the credentials set including candidate credentials and candidate voice stream), determining whether the candidate credentials are valid based on a comparison of the candidate credentials to existing user credentials, in response to determining that the candidate credentials are valid, determining whether the candidate voice stream is valid based on a comparison of the candidate voice stream to a voice biometric associated with the candidate credentials and, in response to determining that the candidate voice stream is valid, generating an authentication signal configured to enable access to the resource via the user device. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343944 | METHOD OF VISUAL VOICE RECOGNITION WITH SELECTION OF GROUPS OF MOST RELEVANT POINTS OF INTEREST - The method comprises steps of: a) forming a starting set of microstructures of n points of interest, each defined by a tuple of order n, with n≧1; b) determining, for each tuple, associated structured visual characteristics, based on local gradient and/or movement descriptors of the points of interest; and c) iteratively searching for and selecting the most discriminant tuples. Step c) operates by: c1) applying to the set of tuples an algorithm of the Multi-Kernel Learning MKL type; c2) extracting a sub-set of tuples producing the highest relevancy scores; c3) aggregating to these tuples an additional tuple to obtain a new set of tuples of higher order; c4) determining structured visual characteristics associated to each aggregated tuple; c5) selecting a new sub-set of most discriminant tuples; and c6) reiterating steps c1) to c5) up to a maximal order N. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343945 | METHOD OF VISUAL VOICE RECOGNITION BY FOLLOWING-UP THE LOCAL DEFORMATIONS OF A SET OF POINTS OF INTEREST OF THE SPEAKER'S MOUTH - The method comprises steps of: a) for each point of interest of each image, calculating a local gradient descriptor and a local movement descriptor; b) forming microstructures of n points of interest, each defined by a tuple of order n, with n≧1; c) determining, for each tuple of a vector of structured visual characteristics (d | 2014-11-20 |
20140343946 | Storing State Information From Network-Based User Devices - Network-based services may be provided to a user through the user of a speech-based user device located within a user environment. The speech-based user device may accept speech commands from a user and may also interact with the user by means of generated speech. Operating state of the speech-based user device may be provided to the network-based service and stored by the service. Applications that provide services through the speech-based interface may request and obtain the stored state information. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343947 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING DIALOG OF SPEECH SYSTEMS - Methods and systems are provided for managing speech dialog of a speech system. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving at least one first utterance from a user of the speech system; determining a user interaction style based on the at least one first utterance; and generating feedback to the user based on the interaction style. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343948 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NETWORK COORDINATED CONVERSATIONAL SERVICES - A system and method for providing automatic and coordinated sharing of conversational resources, e.g., functions and arguments, between network-connected servers and devices and their corresponding applications. In one aspect, a system for providing automatic and coordinated sharing of conversational resources includes a network having a first and second network device, the first and second network device each comprising a set of conversational resources, a dialog manager for managing a conversation and executing calls requesting a conversational service, and a communication stack for communicating messages over the network using conversational protocols, wherein the conversational protocols establish coordinated network communication between the dialog managers of the first and second network device to automatically share the set of conversational resources of the first and second network device, when necessary, to perform their respective requested conversational service. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343949 | SMART MICROPHONE DEVICE - A smart microphone device is provided. The smart microphone device is coupled to a host, and includes: an analog microphone unit, receiving sounds; a voice detection unit, coupled to the analog microphone unit, detecting voices from the sounds; a speech detection unit, coupled to the voice detection unit, detecting a speech from the voices; and a channel select pin, coupled between the smart microphone device and the host, wherein an interrupt signal is sent from the smart microphone device to the host via the channel select pin to enable the host to operate in the normal mode when the speech detection unit detects the speech. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343950 | INTERACTIVE USER INTERFACE FOR AN INTELLIGENT ASSISTANT - A system, method and computer program for performing voice commands on a mobile device and presenting the results on an interactive timeline is disclosed. A user may utter a voice command into the microphone of their mobile device while an application is running. The voice command is processed to derive the intention of the user, specifically by determining the domain, at least one task and at least one parameter for the task from the voice command. A services component performs the task identified and presents the results on the mobile device screen. In various embodiments, the results are presented on a timeline and may be grouped together by domains and sorted by the time that the results were obtained. A search history view may also be viewed that includes search results sorted chronologically each of which is represented graphically by an icon that represents the category of each search. When a user utters a voice command, the text representation is displayed together with an edit button, a resay button, and a progress bar. A user may modify the text representation at any time while the natural language processing is being performed. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343951 | Simplified Decoding of Voice Commands Using Control Planes - Systems and methods for training voice activation control of electronic equipment are disclosed. One example method includes receiving a selection corresponding to at least one command used to control the electronic equipment. The method further includes instructing a user to speak, and responsive to the instruction, receiving a digitized speech stream. The method further includes segmenting the speech stream into speech segments, storing at least one of the speech segments as an entry in a dictionary, and associating the dictionary entry with the selected command. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343952 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LIP READING CONTROL OF A MEDIA DEVICE - Systems and methods of generating device commands based upon spoken user commands are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment captures a series of images of a user of a media device, generates image information corresponding to the series of captured images, determines lip movement of the user from the generated image information, determines at least one spoken user command based upon the determined lip movement of the user, and determines a device command based upon the determined spoken user command. Then, the device command is communicated to, for example, a media presentation device, wherein an operation of the media presentation device is controlled in accordance with the determined spoken user command. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343953 | MULTI-MODE AUDIO CODEC AND CELP CODING ADAPTED THEREFORE - In an embodiment, bitstream elements of sub-frames are encoded differentially to a global gain value so that a change of the global gain value results in an adjustment of an output level of the decoded representation of the audio content. Concurrently, the differential coding saves bits. Even further, the differential coding enables the lowering of the burden of globally adjusting the gain of an encoded bitstream. In another embodiment, a global gain control across CELP coded frames and transform coded frames is achieved by co-controlling the gain of the codebook excitation of the CELP codec, along with a level of the transform or inverse transform of the transform coded frames. In another embodiment, the gain value determination in CELP coding is performed in the weighted domain of the excitation signal. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343954 | BINAURAL MULTI-CHANNEL DECODER IN THE CONTEXT OF NON-ENERGY-CONSERVING UPMIX RULES - A multi-channel decoder for generating a binaural signal from a downmix signal using upmix rule information on an energy-error introducing upmix rule for calculating a gain factor based on the upmix rule information and characteristics of head related transfer function based filters corresponding to upmix channels. The one or more gain factors are used by a filter processor for filtering the downmix signal so that an energy corrected binaural signal having a left binaural channel and a right binaural channel is obtained. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343955 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A PREDICTIVE HEALTHCARE SERVICE - An approach for providing a predictive healthcare service includes generating an ensemble model for predicting one or more health classifications based on one or more health variables, the ensemble model consisting of a plurality of predictive models. The approach also includes tuning the ensemble model based on a test data set and providing a predictive healthcare service based on the ensemble model. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343956 | Linking the Role of Integrated Delivery Networks to Prescriber Behavior - The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for identifying the role of Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) in determining prescriber behavior. An IDN is a network of facilities and providers that work together to offer a continuum of care to a specific geographic area or market, and is a type of managed care organization. The disclosure relates to implementations that facilitate the accessing of information from actors within a health care system and processing the information by an analytical infrastructure. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343957 | CLINICAL CONTENT ANALYTICS ENGINE - Clinical content analytics engines and associated processes are described. An engine receives a clinical decision support document, accesses corresponding reference content, identifies and extracts medical intervention content from the clinical decision support document, segments extracted medical intervention content into a first plurality of segments including at least a first segment comprising a first set of text, determines if the first segment corresponds to at least a first item included in the reference content, the first item comprising a second set of text comprising terminology different than that found in the first set of text, and in response to determining that the first segment corresponds to the first item included in the reference content, causing a report to include an indication that the first segment corresponds to the first item included in the reference content. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343958 | PHARMACEUTICAL SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present application discloses a system and method for providing real-time supervision of adverse drug reactions in patients. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343959 | ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND ANALYSIS METHOD - It is provided an analysis system comprising: an input unit to receive a medical cost of a insured person, intervention information on a provision of an intervention service and a start date of the intervention service; a propensity score calculation unit to analyze a relationship between the medical cost before the provision of the intervention service and the intervention information, and to calculate a propensity score of an intervention group and a propensity score of a nonintervention group; and an adjusted medical cost calculation unit to calculate adjusted medical costs of the intervention group before and after the provision of the intervention service by using the propensity score of the intervention group and medical costs of the intervention group before and after the provision of the intervention service, and to calculate adjusted medical costs of the nonintervention group before and after the provision of the intervention service. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343960 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC PROCESSING OF PATIENT RESPONSIBILITY PAYMENTS - Secondary medical claims for medical charges to a consumer not paid by primary insurance are automatically submitted and paid, after adjudication by the primary insurance carrier, by a transaction processing entity/system that maintains accounts for consumers. Secondary medical claims are submitted through a partner/clearinghouse of the transaction processing entity. The partner/clearinghouse sends notification to the patient and pays amounts from a consumer payment account absent objection from the consumer. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343961 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PRIORITIZING AND ADMINISTERING HEALTHCARE TO PATIENTS HAVING MULTIPLE INTEGRAL DIAGNOSES - A method of administering healthcare to patients with multiple integral diagnoses such that the clinical outcomes and health-related quality of life of said patients are improved while medical costs are minimized. A patient population is first identified. The population is then stratified into specific levels of intervention. Each individual patient is then assigned a Priority Care Nurse Manager who serves to establish communication between the patient, the patient's Primary Care Physician, and any healthcare providers. The most appropriate treatment plan is cooperatively developed and the patient receives treatment according to the plan. The most appropriate treatment may include home care and palliative measures. The patient may appoint a Health Care Agent to make medical decisions for the patient should the patient be unable to make decisions. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343962 | COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING AND CONTROLLING ACCESS TO MEDICAL INFORMATION - A computer-based method for presenting medical information, including: storing, in at least one memory element of at least one computer, computer readable instructions; and executing, using at least one processor for the at least one computer, the computer readable instructions to: receive an input selecting a medical condition; identify a portion of an electronic medical record (EMR) for the patient, specific to the patient, related to the medical condition; generate a video including at least one video segment with the portion of the EMR; designate at least one first level of access for the at least one video segment; and control access to the at least one video segment according to the at least one first level of access. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343963 | Dynamic Superbill Coding Workflow - A computer system generates an initial set of billing codes based on one or more documents (e.g., clinical notes) representing a patient encounter, such as clinical notes created by a physician. The system expands the initial set of billing codes based on a billing code standard to create an expanded set of billing codes for consideration by the physician. The system provides output representing the expanded billing code set to the physician. The physician selects one or more billing codes from the expanded billing code set for inclusion in a final billing code set for use in a bill for the services provided in the patient encounter. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343964 | PERSONAL ASSESSMENT INCLUDING FAMILIAL RISK ANALYSIS FOR PERSONALIZED DISEASE PREVENTION PLAN - Family health history information can be used to assess familial risk for common diseases and determine early detection and prevention medical strategies. Assessed familial risk of disease can then be used to determine recommendations for disease prevention and screening that are targeted to familial risk. Other factors can be included to generate personalized disease prevention recommendations. For example, personal health history information, personal health behavior information, or both can be collected and assessed to generate personalized disease prevention recommendations based on the information collected. Recommendations for disease prevention and screening based at least on familial risk can be used to provide a personalized disease prevention plan that encourages a person to make behavior changes that will reduce the risk of disease and utilize preventive health services. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343965 | ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND HEALTH BUSINESS SUPPORT METHOD - It is provided an analysis system comprising: a causation/transition structure calculating unit generating a graph structure including a node and a probability variable relating to item, and a probabilistic dependency defined by one of a directed link or an undirected link between the nodes; a node generating unit generating an event space of the nodes; a probability calculating unit calculating a conditional probability of the graph structure; a state transition model reconstructing unit reconstructing a state transition model with a graph structure, an event space and a conditional probability including specified probability variables based on a state transition model; a disease state transition estimating unit estimating a disease state transition probability based on the reconstructed state transition model; and a health guidance supporting unit selecting a subject for health guidance and a content of health guidance based on the estimated disease state transition probability. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343966 | ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND HEALTH BUSINESS SUPPORT METHOD - It is provided an analysis system comprising a processor executing a program and a memory storing the program. The analysis system further comprises a data mapping unit controlling the processor to set an attractive force and a repulsive force acting between the instances based on the similarity information between data, and arranging the instances in a vector space having a certain number of dimensions so that an energy caused by the attractive force and the repulsive force is less than a threshold defined in advance, and a clustering unit classifying the instances arranged in the vector space. The data mapping unit is configured to virtually add one dimension to the vector space, add a minute fluctuation to coordinates of the instances in a direction of the added dimension, and calculate a minimum number of dimensions of the vector space where the instances are stable with respect to the minute fluctuation. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343967 | Methods to Improve Workflow by Automatically Adding Patient Identification - A method implemented on an electronic device for pairing patient records with a patient identifier includes programming a smart tag with the patient identifier. The smart tag is attached on an item associated with a patient. The patient identifier is read from the smart tag. The reading of the patient identifier from the smart tag activates a software application on the electronic device for reading the patient records. After the patient identifier is obtained, one of the patient records is automatically accessed on the electronic device using the patient identifier. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343968 | Patient Room and Bed Management Apparatus and System - A patient room and bed management apparatus and system detects changes in a patient's status and updates the status of a room of a healthcare facility associated with the patient. The system may receive the patient status information from a remote system, such as a health information system used by a healthcare facility. The patient room and bed management system may determine one or more actions to be performed by a bed in the patient's room. The system may determine one or more actions to be performed by a caregiver or other staff person of the healthcare facility. The actions to be performed by the bed or staff person may be triggered by a change in status of the patient, the patient's bed, or the patient's room. The actions to be performed may be electronically communicated to the bed, to one or more remote displays, and/or to communication devices associated with staff persons of the healthcare facility. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343969 | IMMEDIATE GIFT ANNUITY PORTAL - I provide a cloud-based portal for a nonprofit organization of any size to offer immediate gift annuities to prospective donors. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343970 | Real Estate Transaction Management Processes - A real estate transaction management process. A developer and a transaction institution enter into an agreement for the developer to purchase a pool of real estate assets at a price above market value. The pool has REO parcels and delinquent loans, each loan secured by a mortgage encumbering a parcel. Pursuant to the agreement the developer obtains some or all of the encumbered parcels by foreclosure, consent sales, and short sales, renovates some of the REO and obtained parcels, leases some of them and pays part of the rent to the transaction institution, and sells some of them and pays part of the sales revenue to the transaction institution. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343971 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR INTERACTION WITH USER DEVICES PRESENTING A KEYBOARDLESS DATA ENTRY INTERFACE AND THIRD PARTY DATA SYSTEMS - A computer system for interaction with user devices presenting a keyboardless data entry interface and third party data systems is configured to provide data for display on a user device of a selectable input graphical user interface, the graphical user interface including a series of user selectable inputs not requiring user keyboard-type information entry. The system is configured to obtain data from a user device and from third party computer systems. The system is further configured to determine an insurance quotation based on inputs via the graphical user interface not requiring user keyboard-type information entry and the data from one or more of the user device and third party computer systems. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343972 | Computer System for Processing Motor Vehicle Sensor Data - A system and method are disclosed herein to predict a benefit associated with motor vehicle telematics data. The system includes a processor configured to determine demographic information associated with a driver of a vehicle. The processor may then display to the driver a first average number of safety events associated with a first safety event type along with a second average number of safety events associated with a second safety event type, wherein the first and second average numbers of safety events are based at least in part on the demographic information. A first predicted number of safety events associated with the first safety event type may be received from the driver along with a second predicted number of safety events associated with the second safety event type. Based on the first and second predicted numbers of safety events, a benefit may be automatically calculated and output. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343973 | Computer System for Processing Data From a Plurality of Remote Input Devices for Transmission to a Third-Party Computer - According to some embodiments, workers' compensation claims are received at a payor processing system from a plurality of remote bill input devices. The workers' compensation claims may be transformed in accordance with a jurisdiction-based claims processing rule. The transformed workers' compensation claims may then be transmitted to a workers' compensation adjudication engine. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343974 | Selecting a Subset of Transit Trips Based on Time and Duration - Systems and methods for filtering an initial set of transit trips between an origin and a destination to identify a subset of reasonable transit trips between the origin and the destination are provided. Once identified, the subset of reasonable transit trips can be further analyzed based on various criteria (e.g. earliest arrival, lowest price, least amount of waking, least number of transfers, etc.) to recommend one or more transit trips to a user. The subset of reasonable transit trips can be identified by obtaining transit trip data suitable for identifying a trip duration (e.g. departure time and arrival time) for each trip in the initial set of transit trips. This transit trip data can be used to filter out trips from the set that do not provide an optimal trip duration at some specific time over a time interval. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343975 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - When an information processing apparatus cannot confirm validity of a designated credit card for a request of a reservation, the information processing apparatus accepts the reservation and stores information of the designated credit card in a storage means. After the reservation is accepted, the information processing apparatus checks the validity of the designated credit card on the basis of the information stored in the storage means. At this time, if the validity can be confirmed, the information processing apparatus outputs information indicating that a settlement method is determined to be a settlement by the designated credit card. On the other hand, if the validity cannot be confirmed, the information processing apparatus outputs information indicating that the settlement method is determined to be a method different from the settlement by the designated credit card. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343976 | Computer-implemented systems and methods for restaurant reservations and food orders - A system and method are provided which allow customers making restaurant reservations to, in addition to the other information required to make a booking, also specify the time they wish their meal, or the various courses therein, to arrive at their table. This information is relayed to the restaurant so that the meal is ready at the desired time. In addition, a system and method are provided which allow customers to make reservations at restaurants which are accessible by other reservation guests through the use of a unique identification code. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343977 | QUEUE REMOTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A queue remote management system and a related method are provided, allowing a user to remotely book, receive and manage a ticket for participating to a virtual queue, and finally to receive the call for approaching the counter and the corresponding physical queue, minimizing the time of physical presence at the counter before being provided of the expected service, with integration between conventional ticket machines, operating at different counters and at different entity locations, and a wireless virtual ticket system operated by any user through his personal client terminal, the system comprising: at least one queue management server ( | 2014-11-20 |
20140343978 | TECHNIQUES FOR VISUAL INTEGRATION OF MEETING SPACE IN CALENDAR SYSTEMS - Techniques for visual integration of meeting spaces within a calendar system are presented. A meeting room can be viewed via a map and selected for scheduling a meeting. The map depicts the location of the meeting room within a facility of an enterprise. A meeting scheduler visually sees the meeting room within the map and can select the meeting room and acquire details about the meeting room. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343979 | CONFIGURABLE DATA ACCUMULATORS - Embodiments provide techniques for creating and managing accumulator tables for use in generating reports for a business entity. Embodiments include identifying a report for a business entity. A plurality of data fields are determined across two or more database tables that are used to generate the report. Embodiments include creating an accumulator table and populating the accumulator table with data values for all of the plurality of data fields. Upon receiving, from a point of sale system, an indicator of an occurrence of a business event for the business entity, an instance of the report is automatically generated using the populated accumulator table. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343980 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE APPLICATION REQUESTS OF PHYSICAL FACILITIES - Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling users to request information or services relating to a physical facility. One method includes receiving, from a device associated with a user, one or more of: a request to receive information about an asset or component of the facility, and a request to receive maintenance of an asset or component of the facility, wherein the request includes an identifier associated with the user and an identifier associated with the asset or component of the facility; accessing, based on the request, a database storing one or more user identifiers and one or more identifiers associated with a plurality of assets or components of the facility; and transmitting, to the device associated with the user, either a presentation of information about the asset or component of the facility, or a representation of a ticket for initiating maintenance of the asset or component of the facility. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343981 | REAL TIME VEHICLE DATA MANAGEMENT AND ANALYTICS - Disclosed is a platform for real time management of vehicle data in an enterprise. The vehicle data may be evaluated by one or more rules. Based on outcomes of the evaluation of the rules, alerts may be provided to a user of the platform and/or to drivers (operators) of the vehicles. Further, the enterprise's backend systems may be invoked to initiate activity in the backend system depending on outcomes of evaluating the rules using the vehicle data. Backend activity may include initiating purchase orders, updating backend system databases, initiating workflows in the enterprise, and other business processes. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343982 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATED TO WORKFLOW MENTORING - Workflow mentoring. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods including: creating, by a first computer system, a workflow mentoring plan for a group of users by receiving, from a second computer system, a first plurality of workflow steps, wherein at least one of the workflow steps is selected from predetermined workflow steps; receiving, from a third computer system, a second plurality of workflow steps, wherein at least one of the workflow steps is selected from the predetermined workflow steps; determining, from the first and second pluralities and the predetermined workflow steps, a value indicative of relevance weighting of each of the first and second pluralities of workflow steps, wherein the determination is made based on frequency of repetition of workflow steps; and allocating a percentage of the workflow mentoring plan to each individual step within the pluralities of steps based on the value indicative of relevance weighting. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343983 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF DEMAND RESPONSE AND DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES - A system and a method for optimization and management of Demand Response in real time manner is provided. The system employs a resource modeler, a forecasting engine, an optimizer, a dispatch engine, and a baseline engine. The system is built using open framework standards based signaling and data collection, and is offered under a “Software-as-a-Service” model to significantly reduce the cost of participation in demand response. It uses off the shelf information and communication technology (ICT) and controls equipment. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343984 | SPATIAL CROWDSOURCING WITH TRUSTWORTHY QUERY ANSWERING - Spatial crowdsourcing systems and methods assign spatial tasks to be performed by human workers. The systems and methods can verify the validity of the results provided by workers. Every worker can have a reputation score stating the probability that the worker performs a task correctly. Every spatial task can have a confidence threshold determining the minimum quality of the accepted level of its result. To satisfy this threshold, a task may be assigned redundantly to multiple workers. A reputation score can be associated to every worker, which represents the probability that a worker performs a task correctly. A task may be assigned to a subset of workers whose aggregate reputation score satisfies the confidence of the task. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343985 | TASK BASED ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method of managing tasks and organizations is provided herein. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343986 | PRODUCT NOTICE COSTING - Various embodiments include at least one of systems, methods, and software for product notice costing. Some embodiments include receiving a product notice and storing the product notice in a product notice database, identifying tasks associated with a product notice, and storing tasks within a product notice task database. The tasks may be sent to business personnel, and the business personnel may be prompted to update the task status. Task status updates may include entering percentage complete, cost per unit time of the business personnel, quantity of time spent completing the assigned task, or assigning a cost category. In an embodiment, the cost of multiple tasks may be aggregated, and a report may be generated including the aggregated task costs for a product notice. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343987 | CONSTRUCTION PROJECT SUBMITTAL MANAGEMENT - A network based construction project management system. The system includes network accessible databases of project information including drawings and specifications. The system allows for varying amount of access for various user including general contractors, subcontractors, architects and project owners. The system allows for the effective creation, management and long term accessible storage of project submittals. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343988 | AUTOMATIC RESOURCE SCHEDULING - An activity is selected. Resource requirement user inputs, indicative of resource requirements for the activity, are received, as are priorities identifying which of the resource requirements are more important than others. Resources are automatically identified based on how well they match the resource requirements, as prioritized, and based on availability. The identified resources are automatically assigned to the activity. | 2014-11-20 |
20140343989 | IMPLICITLY LINKING ACCESS POLICIES USING GROUP NAMES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implicitly linking access policies using group names. One of the methods includes receiving first information corresponding to a directory service of network users, the directory service configured to organize the network users into a plurality of user roles, receiving second information corresponding to a resource available to the network users, the resource having a plurality of policy groups, identifying at least one first user role name that matches at least one first policy group name, and linking the user role corresponding to the matched first user role name with the policy group corresponding to the matched first policy group name such that the one or more network users in the linked user role are subject to the usage policies associated with the linked policy group. | 2014-11-20 |