49th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 66 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090299679 | Method of Adaptively Selecting Chips for Reducing In-line Testing in a Semiconductor Manufacturing Line - A method for identifying potentially defective integrated circuit chips and excluding them from future testing as wafers move through a manufacturing line The method includes data-collecting steps, tagging the chips on wafers identified as potentially bad chips based on information collected as the wafer moves down the fabrication line, evaluating test cost savings by eliminating any further tests on the tagged chips preferably using a test cost database. Considering all the future tests to be preformed, the tagged chips are skipped if it is determined that the test cost saving is significant. Tagging bad chips is based on various criteria and models which are dynamically adjusted by performing the wafer final test on samples of the tagged chips and feeding-back the final test results. The dynamic adaptive adjustment method preferably includes a feedback loop or iterative process to evaluate financial tradeoffs when assessing the profit of salvaging chips against the additional test costs. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299680 | System and method for message-queue-based server testing - A system for testing a banking transactions server. The system includes a storage medium storing a plurality a simulated banking transactions. The system also includes a script engine executing on a processor. The system also includes a plurality of templates useable by the script engine. The script engine tests a banking transactions server by transmitting a series of simulated banking transactions to a message queue on the banking transactions server. There is also a method including storing a plurality a simulated banking transactions in a storage medium. The method also includes executing a script engine on a processor. The method also includes testing a banking transactions server by transmitting a series of simulated banking transactions to a message queue on the banking transactions server. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299681 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING INFORMATION TO BE USED FOR SELECTING VALUES FOR ONE OR MORE PARAMETERS OF A DETECTION ALGORITHM - Methods and systems for generating information to be used for selecting values for parameter(s) of a detection algorithm are provided. One method includes without user intervention performing a scan of an area of a wafer using an inspection system and default values for parameter(s) of a detection algorithm to detect defects on the wafer. The method also includes selecting a portion of the defects from results of the scan based on a predetermined maximum number of total defects to be used for selecting values for the parameter(s) of the detection algorithm. The method further includes storing information, which includes values for the parameter(s) of the detection algorithm determined for the defects in the portion. The information can be used to select the values for the parameter(s) of the detection algorithm to be used for the inspection recipe without performing an additional scan of the wafer subsequent to the scan. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299682 | SURFACE TEMPERATURE PROFILE - Thermometric apparatus includes one or more temperature sensors, which are configured to provide respective temperature-dependent readings at two or more locations on a surface in a vicinity of a sub-surface heal source. A processing unit is configured to process the readings from the two or more locations so as to determine a temperature of the sub-surface heat source. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299683 | Emitting and focusing apparatus, methods, and systems - Apparatus, methods, and systems provide emitting, field-adjusting, and focusing of electromagnetic energy. In some approaches the field-adjusting includes providing an extended depth of field greater than a nominal depth of field. In some approaches the field-adjusting includes field-adjusting with a transformation medium, where the transformation medium may include an artificially-structured material such as a metamaterial. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299684 | Method for calibrating cameras installed on vehicle - A method for calibrating vehicle cameras is simplified by providing painted patterns on a road surface and by capturing those patterns by the cameras to be calibrated. According to a predefined positional relationship of the cameras with the painted patterns, captured images of the painted patterns are bird's-eye converted and matched with reference to calculate camera positions in a vehicle, thereby enabling an automatic calibration of camera directions and the like. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299685 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR POSITION DETERMINATION - A method and device for position determination, in which one or more application requests a positioning method selection device for positioning data. The positioning method selection device provides an application with positioning data using one or more positioning method in accordance with settings defined by the application and/or the user. The positioning method selection device receives a positioning request from an application, forms a parameter or parameters indicating the quality of positioning requested by the application, compares the quality of positioning data provided by the positioning methods with the positioning quality required by the application, and sends the positioning data to the application in response to the positioning request. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299686 | POINTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING ROTATIONAL ANGLE OF POINTING DEVICE - The invention discloses a pointing device comprising a first sensing unit, a second sensing unit and a processing unit. The first sensing unit is utilized for sensing a first rotational angle of the pointing device relative to an absolute coordinate system. The second sensing unit is utilized for sensing a second rotational angle of the pointing device relative to the absolute coordinate system. The processing unit is utilized for receiving the first and second rotational angles, calculating an absolute difference between the first and second rotational angles and judging whether the absolute difference is smaller than a predetermined threshold. If it is YES, the processing unit outputs the first rotational angle; otherwise, the processing unit calibrates the first rotational angle by the second rotational angle and then outputs the calibrated rotational angle. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299687 | Reverse engineering disk inspection - A method of inspecting gas turbine engine rotor disks for reverse engineering includes establishing a plurality of datums for providing a local coordinate system, establishing rim face and primary rim slot data, manually verifying coordinate measuring machine probe indexing relative to probe locations on a rotor disk programming coordinate measuring machine probing of the primary rim slot as a function of the manually verified coordinate measuring machine probe indexing along a plurality of scan lines that are substantially parallel to each other, obtaining coordinate measuring machine probing data from coordinate measuring machine probing of a plurality of sample rotor disks, outputting dimension data as a function of average values of coordinate measuring machine probing data for the plurality of sample rotor disks, and outputting tolerance data as a function of dimension data value ranges for the plurality of sample rotor disks. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299688 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A VIRTUAL TOOL CENTER POINT - In order to determine a virtual sensor tool center point sensor TCP of a light section sensor, the invention provides that: the sensor TCP is placed in sufficient concordance with a point on a line on a surface a so-called feature of a reference part with a known location; a normal to the surface of the reference part is determined; the Z direction of the sensor is brought in concordance with the normal of the surface of the reference part, and; a defined alignment of the sensor with the line of the feature is determined. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299689 | Portable Leveling Table - An automatic table leveling system includes a linear accelerometer, a microcontroller, motor drivers, motors and lead screws. The microcontroller reads linear accelerometer sensor information which indicates the table top's attitude with respect to the gravity vector. Then the microcontroller sends signals to the motor drivers to cause the motors to drive the table legs up or down via a lead screw mechanism. The changed leg lengths adjust the attitude of the table top to make it level. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299690 | Scanner based optical inspection system - A method for measuring dimensions between selected points on a side of interest in objects selected for measurement by an optical measuring system comprising a flatbed scanner and a connected computer system through acquiring a reference image to provide corresponding image distance errors; and also acquiring a measurement object image. Deviation curves are provided as the basis for determining deviation errors in the measurement object image. Corrected measurement object image distances are formed through combining the deviation errors in the measurement object image distances with the corresponding measurement object image. These corrected measurement object image distances are used to determine distances between chosen pairs of those selected locations. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299691 | MOBILE APPARATUS - According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a mobile apparatus including: a vibration sensor; an acquisition module configured to periodically acquire the number of vibration in a time period as a detected step count value; a first determination module configured to determine whether there is a possibility that the detected step count value is due to walking or running based on the detected step count value; and a calculation module configured to count the detected step count value as an interim step count. The first determination module determines the detected step count value is due to continuous walking or running of a user when the detected step count value satisfies a certain condition. The calculation module calculates total of the interim step count when the first determination module determines the detected step count value is due to the continuous walking or running. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299692 | SHAPE MEASURING APPARATUS AND SHAPE MEASURING METHOD - A moving vector calculation unit calculates a moving vector M representing a quantity and a direction of movement of a probe on basis of a stylus displacement vector, a stylus displacement vector D, and a direction change angle θ of the stylus displacement vector D that is caused by a frictional force between a stylus | 2009-12-03 |
20090299693 | Laser System Calibration - Disclosed is a method to determine behavior characteristics of one or more modules of a laser system. The method includes applying inputs to the one or more modules of the laser system, measuring outputs resulting from the application of the inputs, and determining an equation-based mathematical relationship relating the inputs to the resultant outputs of the one or more modules of the laser system. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299694 | FLOATING INTELLIGENT PERIMETER SENSOR SYSTEM - A system, method, and floating intelligent perimeter sensor, provide protection for waterways and critical infrastructures. The system and method utilize one or more floating intelligent perimeter sensors to detect, and in some cases identify, hazardous materials associated with vessels in the waterways. The hazardous materials detected, and optionally identified, can include radiological materials, fissile materials, explosives, chemicals and biological materials (CBRNE). A set of radiation data associated with a radiation source in a vessel is received from the one or more floating intelligent perimeter sensors. At least one histogram is generated based on the set of radiation data. The at least one histogram is compared to multiple spectral images associated with known materials. The at least one histogram is determined to substantially match at least one of the multiple spectral images. A determination is made whether a material associated with the radiation source is a hazardous material. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299695 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADVANCED CONDITION MONITORING OF AN ASSET SYSTEM - A method for advanced condition monitoring of an asset system includes sensing actual values of an operating condition for an operating regime of the asset system using at least one sensor; estimating sensed values of the operating condition by using an auto-associative neural network; determining a residual vector between the estimated sensed values and the actual values; and performing a fault diagnostic on the residual vector. In another method, an operating space of the asset system is segmented into operating regimes; the auto-associative neural network determines estimates of actual measured values; a residual vector is determined from the auto-associative neural network; a fault diagnostic is performed on the residual vector; and a change of the operation of the asset system is determined by analysis of the residual vector. An alert is provided if necessary. A smart sensor system includes an on-board processing unit for performing the method of the invention. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299696 | DAMAGE PROBABILITY CALCULATING APPARATUS, DAMAGE PROBABILITY CALCULATING METHOD, MAINTENANCE METHOD, AND DAMAGE PROBABILITY CALCULATING PROGRAM - A damage probability calculating apparatus for calculating a damage probability of a specific estimation target includes: a storage unit | 2009-12-03 |
20090299697 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRIP EVENT DATA ACQUISITION AND WIND TURBINE INCORPORATING SAME - A system and method is provided for acquiring operational data from a wind turbine and analyzing trip events. One or more data buffers can store operational data obtained from at least one control subsystem. A trip event detection system can be connected to the data buffers, and monitors for the occurrence of a trip event. The data stored in the data buffers can be transferred to a trip log buffer. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299698 | Co-Resident Software Performance Tracking - A method for determining the operating status of a proposed application configuration on a first client including receiving updates from a plurality of clients, each update including a client identification, a previous state indication, a current state indication, and an indication of the operating status of the current state. The method also includes storing the updates in a database, the updates being stored such that the performance of a current state may be identified at two different times; receiving a proposed state change from the first client, the proposed state change including a current state of the first client and a proposed application to be added to the first client; querying the database to identify instances of the proposed state change; determining risks associated with adding the proposed application based on the results of querying the database; and transmitting to the first client a description of the risks associated with adding the proposed application. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299699 | AUDIO TESTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An audio testing system includes a computer and a mobile terminal. The computer includes a first audio recording and storing module, and a testing module. A first audio file is stored in the computer. The mobile terminal includes a second audio recording and storing module, and a second playing module. The testing module starts up the second recording and storing module to record and store the first audio file as a second audio file, starts up the second audio playing module to play the second audio file, and starts up the first audio recording and storing module to record and store the second audio file as a third audio file in the computer. The computer compares a waveform of the third audio file with a waveform of the first audio file to determine if an audio of the mobile terminal meets a standard. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299700 | Sensor for a Measuring Point and Method for Testing a Sensor for a Measuring Point - A two-part sensor composed of a sensor head and a sensor-head counterpart, testing is performed as to whether a correct sensor head is connected with the sensor-head counterpart. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299701 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING SHOWER PLATE FOR PLASMA CVD APPARATUS - A method of designing a shower plate for a plasma CVD apparatus includes (a) providing a shower plate having a convex surface configured by a convex equation; (b) forming a film on a wafer using the shower plate in the plasma CVD apparatus; (c) determining a distribution of thickness of the film formed on the wafer by dividing a diametrical cross section of the film into multiple regions; (d) determining at least one secondary equation; and (e) designing a surface configuration of the shower plate by overlaying the secondary equation on the convex equation. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299702 | Systems and Methods of Limiting Contact Penetration in Numerical Simulation of Non-linear Structure Response - Systems and methods of limiting contact penetration in numerical simulation of non-linear structure response using implicit finite element analysis are described. According to one aspect, a finite element analysis (FEA) model of a structure is defined as a number of nodes and elements based on geometry and material properties of the structure. A time-marching analysis of the FEA model is then performed. The time-marching analysis results contain a number of solutions of non-linear structure response at respective time steps. Solution at each time step requires at least one iteration to compute. Non-linear structure response is determined in the following manner: 1) determining a search direction; 2) calculating a contact penetration parameter in the search direction; and 3) finding a minimum energy imbalance location along the search direction as a solution which is further restricted by the CPP such that contact penetration of the structure is substantially limited. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299703 | VIRTUAL PETROLEUM SYSTEM - A method of stochastically modeling a plurality of litho-facies within a formation includes defining a fades classification for each of a top and a base of the formation, dividing the formation into a plurality of layers, and interpolating classifications for each of the plurality of layers, based on the defined facies classification for the top and the base, wherein the interpolating includes a random variation component. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299704 | Methods of detection of propogating phase gradients using model field theory of non-gaussian mixtures - Methods, computer-readable media, and systems are provided for the detection of propagating phase gradients using model field theory of non-Gaussian mixtures. One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method for identifying phase cones in a data set. The method includes generating an initial set of values of parameters (ξ | 2009-12-03 |
20090299705 | Systems and Methods for Processing High-Dimensional Data - Systems and methods are disclosed for factorizing high-dimensional data by simultaneously capturing factors for all data dimensions and their correlations in a factor model, wherein the factor model provides a parsimonious description of the data; and generating a corresponding loss function to evaluate the factor model. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299706 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND PROGRAM FOR SIMULATING NANO SUBSTANCE IN ELECTRIC FIELD - The present invention provides with a method for enabling a highly accurate simulation by calculating dynamical response of electrons in the electric field without using a “fitting parameter”. According to the present invention, the method for simulating a field distribution of a nano substance in an electric field comprises the step of a Fourier transform process by virtually applying a model on which a three-dimensional periodic boundary condition is imposed to the a field distribution of a nano substance in an electric field. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299707 | System for Evaluating the Productivity of a Working Machine and its Driver - A system and method for evaluating the productivity of a working machine and its driver in a real or virtual operating environment is controlled by means of a control system to perform work, and in which the work cycles relating to the work performed by the working machine are determined by means of continuous measurements directed to the working machine when it is controlled by the driver. Characteristic values relating to the performance of the determined work cycles are collected on the basis of the continuous measurements for the purpose of evaluating the performance of the work or for comparison. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299708 | Focusing and sensing apparatus, methods, and systems - Apparatus, methods, and systems provide focusing, focus-adjusting, and sensing. In some approaches the focus-adjusting includes providing an extended depth of focus greater than a nominal depth of focus. In some approaches the focus-adjusting includes focus-adjusting with a transformation medium, where the transformation medium may include an artificially-structured material such as a metamaterial. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299709 | VIRTUAL PETROLEUM SYSTEM - An integrated system for management, visualization and analysis of geophysical and geological data includes an input module, to accept data pertaining to a geological region, modeling modules to model physical, geophysical and/or geological properties of the geological region based on the data, an interface module, operable to input parameters and to select portions of the input data for use by the modeling modules, and a data management module, to receive data from the input module and provide data to the modeling modules. When a change in data is received by the input module or a change in parameters received by the interface module, the data management module invokes the modeling modules for re-processing in accordance therewith. A display module creates graphical displays based on the modeled properties of the geological region and updates the graphical displays in accordance with the re-processing. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299710 | VIRTUAL PETROLEUM SYSTEM - A method of modeling a salt history for a geologic region containing a salt formation includes defining initial geometry of salt volume and sediment volume in three dimensions, changing geometry of the salt top and maintain the geometries of a top of the sediment and a base of the salt formation for a plurality of time steps, and for each change of geometry, conserving a volume of salt and a volume of sediment. The method includes initially constraining a geometry of the base of the salt during the changing geometry of the salt and sediment volumes, modeling geological activity in the geologic region and modifying the base of the salt formation during a time of the time steps, and modifying the volumes in accordance with the modeled geological activity. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299711 | Physically Realistic Computer Simulation of Medical Procedures - An apparatus for interfacing the movement of a shaft with a computer includes a support, a gimbal mechanism having two degrees of freedom, and three electromechanical transducers. When a shaft is engaged with the gimbal mechanism, it can move with three degrees of freedom in a spherical coordinate space, where each degree of freedom is sensed by one of the three transducers. A fourth transducer can be used to sense rotation of the shaft around an axis. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299712 | Systems and methods for simulating an engine environment - A system for simulating an engine environment during engine operation is disclosed. The system includes a surface. The system also includes a liquid delivery device configured to deliver a liquid to the surface. The system further includes a temperature controller operably coupled to the surface, and the system is configured to cause condensation of a fluid on the surface. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299713 | METHOD OF MODELLING THE EFFECT OF A FAULT ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF A SYSTEM - A method of modelling the effect of a fault on the behaviour of a system. The method comprises modifying a functional model of a system to specify a fault in the system; running the model in accordance with a test, the test having an input and an expected output, the input defining the value of a least one input variable over a period of time and the expected output defining the expected value of at least one output variable over the period of time; the functional model calculating, in dependence on the value of the input variable defined by the input, a modelled output comprising the modelled value of the output variable over the period of time; and comparing the modelled output with the expected output to determine a severity score for the fault based on the difference between the modelled output and the expected output. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299714 | DYNAMIC UPDATING OF SIMULATION MODELS - The preferred embodiment of the instant invention preferably takes place in three stages. In the first stage, a determination is made as to which sands (or other reservoir bodies) are in fluid communication with the existing wells, and the disconnected sands are removed from the fine scale geological model. In the second stage, the transmissibilities in the fine scale model are upscaled to the course grid for direct use in the simulation. In the third stage the connected sands only are upscaled and a simulation is carried forward to the point when a new well is to be drilled. The pressure and saturation data are exported to combine with newly connected sands (reservoir bodies), and new pressure and saturation is calculated. The new values are exported in the simulation model and simulation run is continued. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299715 | ANGULAR-DOMAIN CHANNEL MODEL AND CHANNEL ESTIMATION - A method of modeling wireless communication channels in angular domain is disclosed. The method includes considering radiation patterns | 2009-12-03 |
20090299716 | Hot-Carrier Device Degradation Modeling and Extraction Methodologies - The present invention is directed to a number of improvements in methods for hot-carrier device degradation modeling and extraction. Several improvements are presented for the improvement of building device degradation models, including allowing the user to select a device parameter used to build the device degradation model independent of the device parameter selected. The user can also select the functional relation between stress time and degradation level. To further improve accuracy, multiple acceleration parameters can be used to account for different regions of the degradation process. Analytical functions may be used to represent aged device model parameters, either directly or by fitting measured device parameters versus device age values, allowing devices with different age values to share the same device model. The concept of binning is extended to include device degradation. In addition to a binning based on device width and length, age is added. In an exemplary embodiment, only devices with minimum channel length have degraded models constructed. The present invention also allows the degradation of one device parameter to be determined based on an age value derived from another parameter. In yet another aspect, a degraded device is modeled as a fresh device with a voltage source connected to a terminal. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299717 | ENHANCED CHANNEL SIMULATOR FOR EFFICIENT ANTENNA EVALUATION - Method and apparatus for channel simulation is disclosed. The claimed invention provides method and apparatus | 2009-12-03 |
20090299718 | Power source network analyzing apparatus, power source network analyzing method, and power source network analyzing program - An area partitioning processing unit equally partitions a power source network analysis object area of an LSI according to the number or size of partitioned areas specified by a user or partitions the power source network analysis object area according to the user's specification. A border processing unit extracts and adds a range-of-influence part of the power source network that can electrically influence a border between the partitioned area partitioned by the area partitioning processing unit and an adjacent power source network area. A modeling processing unit performs processing of resistance modeling of the partitioned area or a correction spot with the range-of-influence part added thereto by the border processing unit. A power source network analyzing processing unit analyzes a resistance model modeled by the modeling processing unit and calculates potential of each via as a current source to a load element. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299719 | CIRCUIT SIMULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD,MEDIUM CONTAINING CIRCUIT SIMULATION PROGRAM - A circuit simulation apparatus includes a first acquisition unit that acquires information on a jitter transfer function of a jitter pass element with respect to a predetermined frequency band, a second acquisition unit that acquires information pertaining to input jitter to the jitter pass element, a first calculation unit that determines a jitter frequency based on the information acquired by the first acquisition unit or the second acquisition unit to calculate a jitter transfer function value which is a value of the jitter transfer function acquired by the first acquisition unit at the jitter frequency, and a second calculation unit that calculates output jitter from the jitter pass element based on the information pertaining to the input jitter acquired by the second acquisition unit and the jitter transfer function value calculated by the first calculation unit. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299720 | Circuit protection and control device simulator - A power circuit protection and control device simulator emulates in real time identical circuit protection and control functions performed by the actual device being simulated and generates real time simulated operational information concerning at least one of the device or the power circuit. A human-machine interface, such as through a web browser, allows a user to input power circuit operational parameters, such as motor current and load, and device variable circuit protection and control operational parameters, such as trip class, ground fault detection or phase unbalance protection. The simulator displays in real time simulated operational information on the human-machine interface. The simulator may be used to simulate operation of an electronic overload relay and an electric motor controlled by the relay. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299721 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MODELING POWER CHARACTERISTICS OF ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY - Apparatus and methods for calculating power consumption of circuitry within integrated circuits (ICs), such as programmable logic devices (PLDs) are disclosed and described. A method of estimating power consumption of a circuit in an IC includes decomposing the IC into a plurality of overlapping blocks. Each block in the plurality of blocks includes a portion of the circuitry in the IC. The method further includes estimating power consumption of each block in the plurality of blocks, and estimating power consumption of the IC based on the power consumption of the plurality of blocks. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299722 | METHOD FOR EMULATING OPERATING SYSTEM JITTER - Techniques for emulating operating system jitter on a platform using a given trace are provided. The techniques include calculating a scale factor, wherein the scale factor is equal to a maximum of measured overhead of introducing synthetic jitter on the platform and a resolution of one or more timer calls on the platform, scaling up each of one or more jitter values and each of one or more gaps between each of one or more jitter instances in the trace and an execution period of a benchmark parallel application using the scale factor, introducing synthetic jitter using each of the one or more scaled jitter values and each of the one or more scaled gaps from the trace while running the benchmark parallel application for the scaled execution period to emulate operating system jitter on a platform, and scaling down one or more final time measurements from the benchmark parallel application by the scale factor. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299723 | MONITORING PHYSICAL PARAMETERS IN AN EMULATION ENVIRONMENT - A method and system is disclosed for monitoring and viewing physical parameters while the emulator is emulating a design. Additionally, the parameters are in real time or substantially real time, such as after a periodic update. In one embodiment, a monitoring portion of the emulator periodically monitors the emulator boards and power supplies for physical information. The physical information is communicated to a workstation for communication to a user. For example, the workstation can display the physical information in a graphical user interface (GUI) that shows which boards are plugged in the system and which slots are empty. In yet another aspect, the user can select a particular board in the system and view communication information, such as data errors, status, link errors, global errors, etc. In a further aspect, power supply information can be viewed, such as current and voltage levels, air temperature, fan speed, board temperatures at particular points, etc. In another aspect, the IC layout on a board can be viewed with a graphical presentation of which ICs are malfunctioning. Even further, the sections within a particular IC can be viewed with a graphical presentation of sections within the IC that are malfunctioning. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299724 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLYING BRIDGING MODELS FOR ROBUST AND EFFICIENT SPEECH TO SPEECH TRANSLATION - A system and method for speech translation includes a bridge module connected between a first component and a second component. The bridge module includes a transformation model configured to receive an original hypothesis output from a first component. The transformation model has one or more transformation features configured to transform the original hypothesis into a new hypothesis that is more easily translated by the second component. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299725 | DEEP TAG CLOUD ASSOCIATED WITH STREAMING MEDIA - In some embodiments, a method for providing access to media segments using a tag cloud comprises receiving a request to play streaming media, identifying deep tags associated with the streaming media, and determining preferences of a user based on information provided by the user. The method can also comprise selecting a group of the deep tags based on the information provided by the user and displaying the group of the deep tags in a tag cloud, wherein the deep tags hyperlink to segments within the streaming media. The method can also include presenting, in response to activation of a deep tag in the group, one of the segments within the streaming media. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299726 | Method and System For Localizing A Software Product - Localizing a software product is improved. A plurality of attributes of a plurality of interface elements according to a specified type of user interface are retrieved. Responsive to user input, one or more countries in which the software product is to be localized are specified. An interface element for the user interface is selected. From the attributes of the selected interface element, it is determined whether the interface element is consistent with the specified countries. If not, an alert on a computer display is displayed, in the event the selected interface element is not consistent with the countries specified by the user. The invention also calculates a cost of localizing the selected interface element, wherein the projected cost of localizing the user interface is incremented with the cost of localizing the selected interface element. An alert for the projected cost of localizing the user interface is displayed on the computer display. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299727 | METHOD OF E-MAIL ADDRESS SEARCH AND E-MAIL ADDRESS TRANSLITERATION AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE - An improved method of transliterating non-Latin input within an e-mail address field to the Latin equivalent. A routine in a handheld device is structured to detect a triggering event that indicates an e-mail address is being input into an e-mail address field. Following the triggering event, both prior and subsequent input is transliterated to Latin characters as these characters are required by Internet protocols. The transliteration routine may also be utilized to search an e-mail address book wherein names are recorded using both Latin and non-Latin characters. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299728 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MANUAL IN DISPLAY DEVICE - A method for controlling a display device includes setting an operational language of the display device, receiving a request to display a manual, reading an image, and reading language data to be displayed with the image. The language data may correspond to the operational language set for the display device. The image and language data are combined for display at predetermined locations within a page of the manual. The image and language data may be stored separately and the manual may be a type which guides a user in controlling an operation of the display device. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299729 | PARALLEL FRAGMENT EXTRACTION FROM NOISY PARALLEL CORPORA - Machine translation algorithms for translating between a first language and a second language are often trained using parallel fragments, comprising a first language corpus and a second language corpus comprising an element-for-element translation of the first language corpus. Such training may involve large training sets that may be extracted from large bodies of similar sources, such as databases of news articles written in the first and second languages describing similar events; however, extracted fragments may be comparatively “noisy,” with extra elements inserted in each corpus. Extraction techniques may be devised that can differentiate between “bilingual” elements represented in both corpora and “monolingual” elements represented in only one corpus, and for extracting cleaner parallel fragments of bilingual elements. Such techniques may involve conditional probability determinations on one corpus with respect to the other corpus, or joint probability determinations that concurrently evaluate both corpora for bilingual elements. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299730 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING TEXT THEREOF - A method for selecting text created in a mobile terminal by word and correcting it or changing it to another word, and a mobile terminal implementing the same are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes: a display unit to display one or more words of text, and to display tags for each of the one or more words; an input unit to select at least one of the tagged one or more words as selected one word; and a controller to display candidate words having a similar pronunciation to that of the word selected via the input unit, select one of the candidate words as selected one candidate word, and change the selected one word from the text to the selected one candidate word. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299731 | AURAL SIMILARITY MEASURING SYSTEM FOR TEXT - The aural similarity measuring system and method provides a measure of the aural similarity between a target text ( | 2009-12-03 |
20090299732 | CONTEXTUAL DICTIONARY INTERPRETATION FOR TRANSLATION - A method and apparatus provides for interpreting a foreign word or phrase using a contextual likelihood model and a dictionary. An apparatus may translate foreign language text by taking context into account and displaying the translation with alternatives on an adaptive user interface display. The contextual likelihood model may be interlaced with a dictionary. In an embodiment, the interaction between the contextual likelihood model and a dictionary may result in an adaptive adjustment of the meanings or the order of meanings displayed. The order of meanings displayed may be representative of the calculated likelihoods. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299733 | METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND EDITING AN XML-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS DOCUMENT - A method for creating and editing an XML-based speech synthesis document for input to a text-to-speech engine is provided. The method includes recording voice utterances of a user reading a pre-selected text and parsing the recorded voice utterances into individual words and periods of silence. The method also includes recording a synthesized speech output generated by a text-to-speech engine, the synthesized speech output being an audible rendering of the pre-selected text, and parsing the synthesized speech output into individual words and periods of silence. The method further includes annotating the XML-based speech synthesis document based upon a comparison of the recorded voice utterances and the recorded synthesized speech output. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299734 | STEREO AUDIO ENCODING DEVICE, STEREO AUDIO DECODING DEVICE, AND METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a stereo audio encoding device capable of improving a spatial image of a decoded audio in stereo audio encoding. In this device, an original cross correlation calculation unit ( | 2009-12-03 |
20090299735 | Method for Transferring an Audio Stream Between a Plurality of Terminals - A method of transferring an audio stream between at least two terminals, comprising the following steps: a step of connecting a first device and at least a second device; and a step of transferring an audio stream from the first device to the second device; the method being characterized in that it further comprises the following steps: a determination step during which it is determined that the first device or a first network to which the first device is connected or a second network to which the second device is connected is adapted to produce or transfer an audio stream comprising N channels and that the second device includes an electroacoustic transducer adapted to receive an audio stream comprising P channels; and a conversion step during which an audio stream sent by the first device or transmitted by the first network or transmitted by the second network is converted into an audio stream comprising P channels. An associated transfer system is also disclosed. Application to telephone or videophone communication in IP networks. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299736 | Pitch period equalizing apparatus and pitch period equalizing method, and speech coding apparatus, speech decoding apparatus, and speech coding method - To provide a speech coding technology that realizes a low bit rate and can suppress distortion of reproduction speech as compared with a conventional technology. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299737 | Method for adapting for an interoperability between short-term correlation models of digital signals - The invention relates to the code conversion of digital signals, particularly voice signals, and in particular coding according to a second format from information obtained by carrying out a coding according to a first format. These first and second formats use LPC (linear predictive coding) short-term prediction models on digital signal sample blocks while using filters represented by respective LPC coefficients. The LPC coefficients of the second format are determined from an interpolation on the representative values of the LPC coefficients of at least the first format, between at least one given block and a preceding block. According to the invention, the interpolation ( | 2009-12-03 |
20090299738 | VECTOR QUANTIZING DEVICE, VECTOR DEQUANTIZING DEVICE, VECTOR QUANTIZING METHOD, AND VECTOR DEQUANTIZING METHOD - A vector quantizing device for dividing a sequence of vectors and quantizing them with an enhanced performance of vector quantization by using information on the correlation between the high and low order that the vector sequence has. The vector quantizing device ( | 2009-12-03 |
20090299739 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR MULTICHANNEL SIGNAL BALANCING - A method for processing a multichannel audio signal may be configured to control the amplitude of one channel of the signal relative to another based on the levels of the two channels. One such example uses a bias factor, which is based on a standard orientation of an audio sensing device relative to a directional acoustic information source, for amplitude control of information segments of the signal. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299740 | METHOD OF PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNALS FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF OUTPUT AUDIO SIGNAL WHICH IS TRANSFERRED TO SUBSCRIBER'S TERMINAL OVER NETWORK AND AUDIO SIGNAL PRE-PROCESSING APPARATUS OF ENABLING THE METHOD - A method of pre-processing an audio signal transmitted to a user terminal via a communication network and an apparatus using the method are provided. The method of pre-processing the audio signal may prevent deterioration of a sound quality of the audio signal transmitted to the user terminal by pre-processing the audio signal, and by enabling a codec module, encoding the audio signal, to determine the audio signal as a speech signal. Also, the method of pre-processing the audio signal may improve a probability that the codec module may determine a corresponding audio signal as a speech when the audio signal is transmitted via the communication network by pre-processing the audio signal using a speech codec. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299741 | Detection and Use of Acoustic Signal Quality Indicators - A computer-driven device assists a user in self-regulating speech control of the device. The device processes an input signal representing human speech to compute acoustic signal quality indicators indicating conditions likely to be problematic to speech recognition, and advises the user of those conditions. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299742 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR SPECTRAL CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT - Systems, methods, and apparatus for spectral contrast enhancement of speech signals, based on information from a noise reference that is derived by a spatially selective processing filter from a multichannel sensed audio signal, are disclosed. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299743 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSCRIBING TELEPHONE CONVERSATION TO TEXT - Methods and systems for transcribing portions of a telephone conversation to text enables users to request transcription such as by pressing a button on a mobile device, with the request transmitted to a server including transcription software. The server transcribes some or all of the telephone conversation to text, and transmits the text to the mobile device. The text data may be scanned for selected information, and only the selected information transmitted to the mobile device. The selected information may be automatically stored in memory of the mobile device, such as in an address book. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299744 | VOICE RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - A voice recognition apparatus determines whether an input sound is a voice segment or a non-voice segment in time series, generates a word model for the voice segment, allocates a predetermined non-voice model for the non-voice segment, connects the word model and the non-voice model in sequence according to the time series of the segments of the input sound corresponding to the respective models and generates a vocalization model, and coordinates the vocalization model with a vocalization ID in one-to-one correspondence, and stores the same. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299745 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN INTEGRATED, MULTI-MODAL, MULTI-DEVICE NATURAL LANGUAGE VOICE SERVICES ENVIRONMENT - A system and method for an integrated, multi-modal, multi-device natural language voice services environment may be provided. In particular, the environment may include a plurality of voice-enabled devices each having intent determination capabilities for processing multi-modal natural language inputs in addition to knowledge of the intent determination capabilities of other devices in the environment. Further, the environment may be arranged in a centralized manner, a distributed peer-to-peer manner, or various combinations thereof. As such, the various devices may cooperate to determine intent of multi-modal natural language inputs, and commands, queries, or other requests may be routed to one or more of the devices best suited to take action in response thereto. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299746 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPEECH SYNTHESIS - A method for performing speech synthesis to a textual content at a client. The method includes the steps of: performing speech synthesis to the textual content based on a current acoustical unit set S | 2009-12-03 |
20090299747 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING IMPROVED SPEECH SYNTHESIS - An apparatus for providing improved speech synthesis may include a processor and a memory storing executable instructions. In response to execution of the instructions by the processor, the apparatus may perform at least selecting a real glottal pulse from among one or more stored real glottal pulses based at least in part on a property associated with the real glottal pulse, utilizing the real glottal pulse selected as a basis for generation of an excitation signal, and modifying the excitation signal based on spectral parameters generated by a model to provide synthetic speech. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299748 | MULTIPLE AUDIO FILE PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM - An audio file generation method and system. A computing system receives a first audio file comprising first speech data associated with a first party. The computing system receives a second audio file comprising second speech data associated with a second party. The first audio file differs from the second audio file. The computing system generates a third audio file from the second audio file. The third audio file differs from the second audio file. The process to generate the third audio file includes identifying a first set of attributes missing from the second audio file and adding the first set of attributes to the second audio file. The process to generate the third audio file additionally includes removing a second set of attributes from the second audio file. The third audio file includes third speech data associated with the second party. The computing system broadcasts the third audio file. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299749 | PRE-PROCESSED ANNOTATION OF STREET GRAMMAR IN SPEECH ENABLED NAVIGATION SYSTEMS - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to virtualization and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for annotation of street grammar in speech enabled navigation devices. In an embodiment of the invention, a pre-processing street grammar annotation system can be provided. The system can include an annotated street grammar storage that contains street root names wherein each street root name has more than one street suffix associated with said street root name, and a street annotation pre-processor wherein the street annotation pre-processor contains logic enabled to annotate a set of street suffixes to a street root name prior to processing a voice input in a speech enabled navigation device, wherein the street root name has more than one street suffix associated with said street root name. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299750 | Voice/Music Determining Apparatus, Voice/Music Determination Method, and Voice/Music Determination Program - According to one embodiment, various characteristic parameters for determining whether an input audio signal is a voice signal or a music signal are calculated and the calculated characteristic parameters are compared with a threshold value for voice determination and a threshold value for music determination. A voice characteristic score is provided to a characteristic parameter indicating voice and a music characteristic score is provided to a characteristic parameter indicating music. Then, based on a difference between a sum total of voice characteristic scores and a sum total of music characteristic scores, it is determined whether the input audio signal is a voice signal or a music signal. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299751 | Robot apparatus and method for registering shortcut command thereof - A robot apparatus including an input unit to receive a voice command from a user, a determination unit to determine whether a voice command is repeated a predetermined number of times, and a control unit to register a shortcut command to shorten a voice command if it is determined a voice command is repeated a predetermined number of times. A shortcut command to shorten a voice command of a user is generated, and thus user convenience is enhanced. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299752 | Recognition of Voice-Activated Commands - Systems and methods for voice activated commands in a digital home communication terminal are disclosed. One example method includes storing a program audio signal corresponding to a program tuned by the digital home communication terminal. The method also includes storing an incoming audio signal carrying speech and removing from the incoming audio signal a portion of the incoming audio signal that corresponds to the program audio signal, this producing an improved version of the incoming audio signal. The method also includes selecting one of a plurality of voice-activated commands that corresponds to the improved version of the incoming audio signal, and performing a function corresponding to the selected voice-activated command. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299753 | Audio Signal Transient Detection - Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for detecting whether a transient exists within an audio signal. According to one representative embodiment, a segment of a digital audio signal is divided into blocks, and a norm value is calculated for each of a number of the blocks, resulting in a set of norm values for such blocks, each such norm value representing a measure of signal strength within a corresponding block. A maximum norm value is then identified across such blocks, and a test criterion is applied to the norm values. If the test criterion is not satisfied, a first signal indicating that the segment does not include any transient is output, and if the test criterion is satisfied, a second signal indicating that the segment includes a transient is output. According to this embodiment, the test criterion involves a comparison of the maximum norm value to a different second maximum norm value, subject to a specified constraint, within the segment. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299754 | FACTORIZATION OF OVERLAPPING TRANFORMS INTO TWO BLOCK TRANSFORMS - An audio encoder/decoder uses a combination of an overlap windowing transform and block transform that have reversible implementations to provide a reversible, integer-integer form of a lapped transform. The reversible lapped transform permits both lossy and lossless transform domain coding of an audio signal having variable subframe sizes. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299755 | Method for Post-Processing a Signal in an Audio Decoder - A method of post-processing in an audio decoder a signal reconstructed by time and frequency shaping ( | 2009-12-03 |
20090299756 | Ratio of speech to non-speech audio such as for elderly or hearing-impaired listeners - A hybrid stereophonic/monophonic audio signal encoding comprises generating, in response to a discrete two-channel stereophonic audio signal, an encoded hybrid stereophonic/monophonic audio signal in which the audio signal is a discrete two-channel audio signal below a frequency f | 2009-12-03 |
20090299757 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING - An method for encoding comprising: obtaining, according to a data length of a first overlapped portion between encoding data of a current frame and encoding data of a previous frame, first encoding data corresponding to the data length of the first overlapped portion from the previous frame, if the previous frame is encoded in a first encoding mode and the current frame is to be encoded in a second encoding mode; and encoding, in the second encoding mode, the first encoding data corresponding to the data length of the first overlapped portion from the previous frame and encoding data of the current frame. The corresponding decoding method, encoding and decoding apparatuses are also disclosed. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299758 | Method and Apparatus for Reducing Access Delay in Discontinuous Transmission Packet Telephony Systems - Systems are disclosed for operating a communications network. The system includes a module to buffer frames of a signal, and a module to determine an access delay. The system also includes a module to compress a portion of the signal based on the access delay by removing a first portion of a frame of the signal and generating an overlap-added segment from a first segment and a second segment of the frame. In another embodiment, the system includes a module to buffer frames of a signal, a module to establish a communication channel with a handset, and a module to determine an access delay. The system also includes a module to compress a portion of the signal based on the access delay by removing a first portion of a frame of the signal and generating an overlap-added segment from a first segment and a second segment of the frame. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299759 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEFEATING THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE COMPUTER HACKING TECHNIQUE - A method for constructing a secure Internet transaction, the method includes: receiving a user identification (userid) and user password on a client device for filling out a form generated by a secure web site; concatenating the user's Internet Protocol (IP) address with a separate password that is maintained on the secure web site that the user is authenticating to; encrypting the concatenated user IP and separate password to form an Internet Protocol password (IPPW); wherein the encrypting is carried out with a client device linear feedback shift register (LFSR) with a defined cycle count; building a transaction consisting of the IPPW, defined cycle count, and userid; transmitting the transaction and form via a network towards the secure web site; wherein in response the secure website performs the following: decrypts the IPPW, and determines if the IP portion of the decrypted IPPW is equal to the user's IP address. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299760 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAXIMIZING THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF NONPROFIT SCIENTIFIC AND OTHER RESEARCH - A computer-implemented system for the exchange of proposed scientific and other research projects and the submission of solutions to such projects. The system facilitates the posting of proposed research projects and the submission of solutions to such projects prepared by interested researchers. The solutions are reviewed according to criteria specified by the research proposal, and, in the event the solutions are accepted, compensation may be paid to the researcher upon transfer of the intellectual property rights in the solution. Subsequent dissemination of the information to the public is also contemplated. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299761 | COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOCIAL SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS BY EMPLOYING BI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION - A computer program product and a system are provided. The product and system provide associations between individuals having health care needs and available social services. The providing is efficient and cost effective. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299762 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING MEDICAL LAB REPORTS - A system and method scan a document printed by a first document processing device (using a second document processing device separate from the first document processing device). The document has printed thereon machine readable markings that comprise information of a patient, information of at least one lab test to be performed, and formatting information for the return of the lab test results. The second document processing device identifies the lab test to be performed on the patient based on the machine readable markings. After the lab tests have been performed on the patient, the second document processing device prepares the lab test results by formatting them. These formatted lab test results are then output from the second document processing device to the first document processing device. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299763 | METHODS OF CELL-BASED TECHNOLOGIES - The present disclosure features methods relating to conducting a stem cell technology business such as a regenerative medicine business based on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and cells differentiated from iPSCs. The present disclosure also provides a database of iPSC-derived cells and methods of using the database for tracking customers and samples, as well as methods for marketing and running the business. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299764 | Obtaining, Posting And Managing Healthcare-Related Liens - A system and method for health providers to assert their rights of fair trade and financial interest in optimizing revenue and full fee collection for bills relating to their rendered services in cases of patients, who receive treatment and subsequently utilize related health provider's billings as a part of an injury related to a tort or injury claim. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299765 | Device and Method for Selective Medical Record Releases - A printing device includes a user interface that receives a patient identifier, and a communications port that contacts a database to obtain the history of healthcare providers of the patient. A processor prepares a form as an electronic document. On the form, each of the healthcare providers has a separate consent marking area. A printing engine is included to print the electronic document. A scanner is used to scan the printed document after the patient has placed markings in the consent marking areas of the form and has signed the form to create a scanned image. The processor can then process the scanned image to identify consented and non-consented healthcare providers. Then, the communications port can output the list of consented healthcare providers. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299766 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING MEDICAL TREATMENT PLANNING AND SUPPORT IN DIFFICULT SITUATIONS SUBJECT TO MULTIPLE CONSTRAINTS AND UNCERTAINTIES - A computer implemented method for managing a condition of a patient during a chaotic event. A datum regarding a first patient is received. A first set of relationships is established. The first set of relationships comprises at least one relationship of the datum to at least one additional datum existing in a database. Based on the first set of relationships, cohorts to which the first patient belongs are established. Ones of the plurality of cohorts contain first data regarding the first patient and second data regarding a set of additional information. The set of additional information is related to the first data. The second data further regards a constraint imposed by a chaotic event. The plurality of cohorts is clustered according to at least one parameter. A cluster of cohorts is formed. Which of at least two cohorts in the cluster are closest to each other is determined. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299767 | Automated systems and methods for obtaining, storing, processing and utilizing immunologic information of individuals and populations for various uses - A system and method for assessing the immunological status of one or more individuals in a patient population is presented. The method includes establishing a database comprising a plurality of records of information each representative of the immune status of an individual in the population, each of said records including (1) current information from one or more assays for the presence of a biochemical, and (2) individual specific information comprising one or more of said individual's medical history, said individual's doctors' observations and historical, demographic, lifestyle, and familial information relating to said individual. The method further includes processing the information in said database to find trends or patterns relating to the immune status of individuals in said patient population; and using the said trends or patterns as part of a health care related decision making process. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, processing the information in the database includes generating a list of correlations between variables or fields in the database. The correlations in the list can be further refined automatically, and a set of hypotheses or literature citations can be linked to the final correlations. The correlations, the processing, their associated hypotheses can then be reported to a user or automatically fed into another system component to generate a medical or health related decision. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, a first assay panel containing a plurality of cytokine assays can be administered and the results processed. Based on automatic analyses of the cytokine data, a second tier or set of assays can be run on the same individual. The cytokine assay results being used to inform the contents of a second assay panel. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299768 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING HEALTHCARE REVENUE CYCLE OUTCOMES AND CONTROLLING WORK FLOW - An outcome prediction model is generated and/or executed to predict an outcome of processing a healthcare patient account. As examples, these outcomes may relate to the payment of the healthcare patient account, to the timing of when payment of the healthcare patient account will be paid, to at least an initial denial of payment of the healthcare patient account, to payment of the healthcare patient account after a defined time period, and or to qualification of the patient for a government sponsored program regarding healthcare. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299769 | Prognostic osteoarthritis biomarkers - A computer based calculation of a prognostic index I of osteoarthritis based on biochemical and imaging based biomarkers a mathematical combination of said values, wherein a first imaging based biomarker is a measure of the quantity of a cartilage in a joint compartment, a second imaging based biomarker relating to the quality of said cartilage in said joint compartment, and wherein a value of said first biomarker indicative of a larger quantity of cartilage affects the index to make it predictive of more disease progression, and a value of said second biochemical marker indicative of a greater departure from the quality of disease free cartilage affects the index to make it predictive of more risk of disease progression, exemplified by | 2009-12-03 |
20090299770 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAKING PATIENT RECORDS FOLLOW A PHYSICIAN - A computer-based system for providing physicians automatic, secure access to patient records at the time a patient visits and consults a physician. The system can include one or more computing devices configured to process and display data. The system can also include one or more emitting devices carried by physicians for identifying each particular physician and one or more scanning devices configured to detect and communicatively link to the one or more emitting devices based on the proximity of the physician to an examination room. Additionally, the system can include a manager module communicatively linked to the one or more scanning devices and configured to manage the signal data from the one or more scanning devices. Furthermore, the system can also include one or more servers communicatively linked with the one or more computing devices, one or more scanning devices, and manager module, the one or more servers configured to authenticate and register a particular patient upon a visit to a hospital or office, synchronize the particular physician identifier, patient identifier, personal wellness electronic record (PWER), and examination room identifier based upon physician's proximity to an examination room, initiate a physician-patient session at the at least one computing device at the examination room, transfer the PWER to the at least one computing device at the examination room, and automatically terminate the physician-patient session and receive the PWER based upon the physician leaving the proximity of the examination room. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299771 | DICOM-BASED 12-LEAD ECG GATEWAY AND BROWSER UNDER THE CLINICALLY-USED INFORMATION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a DICOM-based 12-lead ECG gateway and browser for use in clinical information system. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299772 | Pet passenger insurance coverage and methods therefor - A method of insuring pet passengers of motor vehicles comprises collecting underwriting data from a prospective customer, the underwriting data including identification of at least one covered pet, and issuing an insurance policy to the prospective customer, the prospective customer becoming an insured under the insurance policy, the insured owning the at least one covered pet. The method further comprises determining the occurrence of a covered loss, the covered loss comprising one of injury to, death of or disappearance of the at least one covered pet caused by a motor vehicle collision and paying a first payment for the purposes of paying covered expenses related to the covered loss. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299773 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING AN INSURANCE SCHEME - A system for managing an insurance scheme includes a benefit module to define at least one insured event for an insured person and to define at least one benefit to be paid out on the occurrence of one of the insured events. A monitoring module monitors any interest rate increases or decreases as set by a financial institution. A calculation module alters the at least one benefit based on any monitored change in interest rate, wherein the amount of the altering is related to the amount of the increase or decrease of the interest rate and an awards module, on the occurrence of the at least one insured event, provides the at least one altered benefit to the insured person. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299774 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING AN INSURANCE SCHEME - A system for managing an insurance scheme includes a calculation module to, on the occurrence of an insured event for an insured person, calculate a subsidy for expenses for the insured person or a nominated beneficiary. The subsidy is calculated by accessing data defining a plurality of categories of expenses and determining for each category a spend amount. The spend amount is either an average historical spend amount over a period of time prior to the insured event or an actual spend amount for a period of time after the insured event. A percentage is then calculated using the insured person's participation with a wellness programme. Finally, the amount of the subsidy is calculated by multiplying the percentage by the spend amount. A payment module effects payment of the subsidy to the insured person, the nominated beneficiary or a third party goods or services provider. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299775 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING AN INSURANCE SCHEME - A system for managing an insurance scheme, the system including a benefit module to define at least one insured event for an insured person and to define at least one benefit to be paid out on the occurrence of one of the insured events. A monitoring module monitors the compliance of the insured person with a wellness programme. A calculation module alters the at least one benefit based on the degree of participation of the insured person with the wellness programme and an awards module, on the occurrence of the at least one insured event, provides the at least one altered benefit to the insured person. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299776 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING AN INSURANCE SCHEME - A system for managing an insurance scheme includes a benefit module to define at least one insured event for an insured person and to define at least one benefit to be paid out on the occurrence of one of the insured events. A calculation module alters the at least one benefit based on a) a time factor; and b) the life impact of the insured event on the insured person. An awards module, on the occurrence of the at least one insured event, provides the at least one altered benefit to the insured person. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299777 | Hotel reservation system without check-in - A hotel reservation system comprises hotel rooms having combination locks electronically set so as to be openable by any one of a plurality of combination codes whenever the combination code is inputted. A computer system accessible through a telecommunications network allows remote sign-in and reservation of a hotel room for a check-in date under a guest identity by payment and selection of a combination code specific to the hotel room. The computer system, upon electronic notification of a selection of a combination code, automatically electronically may set or schedule the setting of the combination lock controlling entry to the reserved hotel room. The computer system may be programmed to automatically electronically set the combination lock at a set time on the check-in date. The hotel may maintain digital records of the codes for each room and of instances of entry into the room using the code. | 2009-12-03 |
20090299778 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING TRAVEL SERVICE LISTINGS - A system and method of providing travel service listings is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving a request for a particular travel related service and searching a database for at least one travel provider that provides the particular travel related service requested. The method further includes generating a travel service listing via a search of the database wherein the database associating at least one particular travel provider of the requested travel related service and identifying an assigned protocol of the at least one particular travel provider. In addition, the assigned protocol contemporaneously indicating an ability of the at least one particular travel provider to satisfy a plurality of predetermined standards. | 2009-12-03 |