51st week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 44 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150363469 | HIGH PERFORMANCE REAL-TIME RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USING SAME - A database system supporting persistent queries, comprising a persistent query service that receives connections and requests from client software applications; and a plurality of network-attached data sources; and a method for providing persistent queries using a persistent query service. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363470 | INDEX MERGE ORDERING - Method to order query results, by processing a received query at least in part using a composite key index, wherein the composite key index comprises at least two key columns, wherein the at least two key columns comprise at least one pre-ordering column and an ordering column, wherein the query specifies ordering criteria to order a result set based on values of the ordering column, wherein the processing comprises receiving, from the composite key index, an ordering column value for each unique pre-ordering column value in the composite key index, identifying a first ordering column value as being ordered first according to the ordering criteria, and returning the first ordering column value as being responsive to the query. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363471 | PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR SEARCHING FOR A PLACE - Process for searching for a place on the basis of a free request (in natural language). | 2015-12-17 |
20150363472 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING DATA - A computer system for analyzing data has a local computer network for storing raw data, that includes a local data mining unit for generating local analysis data by a statistical analysis based on the raw data. The computer system also has a central computer network for receiving the local analysis data from the local computer network, that includes a central data mining unit for generating central analysis data by a statistical analysis based on the local analysis data. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363473 | DIRECT ANSWER TRIGGERING IN SEARCH - Architecture comprising a framework for direct answer triggering, a step-by-step answer, and the user interface that facilitates the architecture. Generally, the architecture can comprise an answer datastore that stores an answer index of answer data, and a triggering component configured to invoke answer data in response to processing of a query that triggers a direct answer in a search results page. The triggering component can be configured to send an answer triggering message to the answer datastore and receive the answer data based on the answer triggering message. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363474 | AGGREGATION OF SEPARATE DOMAIN DATA - A device may include a multiple domains for separating applications and data. A query may be generated on the device. The query may be generated by an application or based on a received user selection. A determination of available domains on the device is made for processing the query. The available domains are scanned based on the query to obtain related content from the available domains. The related content is aggregated from the available domains. The aggregated related content is presented to a user of the device as a unified view from among the available domains. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363475 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR IMPLEMENTING AN INTERFACE TO VIEW AND EXPLORE SOCIALLY RELEVANT CONCEPTS OF AN ENTITY GRAPH - There are provided means for implementing an interface to view and explore socially relevant concepts of an entity graph including, for example, means of a social network system to perform operations including retrieving contextually relevant data for a plurality of concepts within an entity graph of the social network system; retrieving socially relevant data for a user's node within a social graph of the social network system; identifying intersects between the plurality of concepts within the entity graph and the social relevant data for the user's node within the social graph; selecting one of the plurality of concepts within the entity graph based on the intersects identified; and displaying the one of the plurality of concepts within the entity graph at a user interface associated with the user's node. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363476 | LINKING DOCUMENTS WITH ENTITIES, ACTIONS AND APPLICATIONS - Individuals often perform search queries with the intent of performing a particular action based on the search results. In an embodiment, mentions are identified in a document and candidate entities for the mention are identified. Confidence scores for mention-entity pairs are determined based on relationships between candidate entities, and entities are selected based on the scores. Selected entities are ranked indicating their relevance to a topic of the document. Actions associated with the selected entities are identified. Based on an intent of a search query that returned the document in search results, relevant actions are selected and links are presented within the search results to applications that perform the actions. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363477 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION ORGANIZATION AND EXCHANGE - Methods and apparatus for information organization and exchange by providing a data store of interconnected items of information that together form an intent-driven taxonomy. This allows users to easily discover and exchange real-time items of information across applications. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363478 | Systems, Devices, and/or Methods for Managing Data - Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, device, manufacture, circuit, and/or user interface adapted for, and/or a method and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise: via a hierarchy processor implemented via a predetermined information device: for each of a plurality of records of a data structure, displaying data corresponding to a hierarchically displayable field according to a hierarchy location field containing a corresponding hierarchy location identifier indicative of a display location of that data in a displayable hierarchical data structure. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363479 | WIRELESS SYSTEM WITH DATABASE TRANSFER MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a wireless system includes: receiving a notification packet through a wireless channel; calculating a retrieval route based on the content of the notification packet including identifying a final WLAN hub accessible form the retrieval route; transferring an update database while travelling the retrieval route including receiving a final update packet from the final WLAN hub through the wireless channel; and loading a storage unit with the content of the update database including copying the content to a display interface for displaying on a device. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363480 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A COPY-OFFLOAD OPERATION - Methods and systems for a copy-offload operation are provided. A soft range lock is placed for a data container for generating a token for a copy-offload operation for copying the data container from a source location to a destination location, where presence of the soft range lock indicates that content of the data container has not changed during the copy-offload operation. A token for the copy-offload operation represents the content of data container and includes information regarding the soft range lock. The token with the soft range lock information is provided to the client that requests the copy-offload operation. If the soft range lock exists, then the data container is copied without using a point in time copy of the data container. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363481 | Systems, Devices, and/or Methods for Managing Information - Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a method and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, automatically generating a story regarding a predetermined topic from a plurality of assertions. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363482 | METHOD OF VISUALLY REPRESENTING REPEATING DATA SETS - A method of displaying repeating data with improved intelligibility includes identifying sequential and non-sequential data in a data collection. The method further includes assigning data categories from the sequential data. The method further includes determining frequency of non-sequential data elements via software executing on a computer. The method further includes identifying affiliations between the non-sequential data elements and the data categories via software executing on a computer. The method further includes displaying the data categories on a chart in positions based on their sequential order via software executing on a computer. The method further includes displaying the non-sequential data elements on the chart in positions based on their affiliation with the data categories via software executing on a computer. The method further includes displaying a visual indicium of the frequency of each of the data elements via software executing on a computer. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363483 | POPULATING TEXT INDEXES - Provided are techniques for populating a new text index. In response to determining that a limit for indexing a set of documents to the new text index has been reached, a commit is performed, a restart key is updated to identify a next document to be indexed, and the next document is indexed in a next commit cycle. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363484 | STORING AND IDENTIFYING METADATA THROUGH EXTENDED PROPERTIES IN A HISTORIZATION SYSTEM - A historian system enables the creation, storage, and retrieval of extended metadata properties. A tag metadata database module of the historian system stores tag metadata received over a network connection in a tag metadata database and retrieves tag metadata in response to requests received over the network and from within the historian system. An extended property database module creates extended properties associated with a tag metadata instance in response to requests, stores the created extended properties, and retrieves the stored extended properties in response to requests. The extended property search index module indexes extended properties as they are created, searches the indexed extended properties in response to requests, and provides the indexes of extended properties to enable location of the extended properties in the extended property database. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363485 | LEARNING AND USING CONTEXTUAL CONTENT RETRIEVAL RULES FOR QUERY DISAMBIGUATION - Various technologies related to generating and applying content retrieval rules are described herein. A content retrieval rule maps a combination of a query and a context to one of a query reformulation or content. The content retrieval rule is learned from search logs of a search engine, and is applied when the query having the context is received at the search engine. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363486 | Device for Generating Attribute Data for Facility and Tangible Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Storage Medium Storing Computer Program for Generating Attribute Data for Facility - The present invention pertains to a device for generating attribute data for a facility from log data of a game in which a facility assumed by a user is guessed by an interactive question form. Provided is a game in which a facility assumed by a user is guessed by an interactive question form, wherein log data of questions and answers obtained from the game is associated with the facility and stored in a log database, a facility serving as a subject for generating attribute data pertaining to the facility is specified as a subject facility, log data pertaining to the specified subject facility is extracted from the log database, and attribute data pertaining to the subject facility is generated on the basis of the extracted log data. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363487 | EXTRACTING AND MINING OF QUOTE DATA ACROSS MULTIPLE LANGUAGES - Extracting and mining of quote data across multiple languages, including: retrieving, from a plurality of quote sources, a plurality of commentary summarizations, wherein each commentary summarization is embodied as a machine-readable data structure and wherein the plurality of commentary summarizations include information in at least two or more languages; for each commentary summarization: identifying, within the commentary summarization, quote data, wherein the quote data represents a quote from a commentator; creating a quote tuple for the quote data, the quote tuple including information associated with quantifiable aspects of the quote data; and storing, in a quote tuple repository, the quote tuple; mining, for quote analysis information, the quote tuple repository; and presenting, to a user, the quote analysis information. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363488 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON ORGANIC KEYWORD ANALYSIS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that may be used to generate recommendations based on organic search term analysis are provided. One method includes determining conversion path data for a content provider. The method further includes determining a plurality of organic search keywords within the conversion path data. The method further includes analyzing the plurality of organic search keywords within the conversion path data to generate an analysis metric for each of the plurality of organic search keywords. The method further includes selecting one or more of the plurality of organic search keywords based on the analysis metrics for the organic search keywords, and generating one or more recommendations for new content to be published by the content provider based on the selected one or more organic search keywords. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363489 | ENGAGEMENT SUMMARY GENERATION - A method and system for generating summary details is provided. The method includes retrieving event data of associated with a user. Attributes are extracted from the event data and the event data is segmented into logical groups of related activities performed by the user. Key information and associated attributes of each logical group are identified and in response the user is evaluated. The logical groups of related activities are ranked and presented to the user. In response, an engagement summary associated with the user and the logical groups is generated. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363490 | Systems and Methods for Interactively Disambiguating Entities - The disclosure relates to entity disambiguation in an interactive fashion based upon attributes. Once disambiguated, a manner in which to review a future article based upon an initial set of attributes and an additional set of attributes and, when needed, generate a warning flag based upon the review is also described. The warning flag may result in a change in the relationship between the entity and an organization such as a bank that is considering engaging in a business relationship with a candidate client, and that may subsequently abandon that plan, or a bank that had previously extended credit to the entity, and that subsequently may be less inclined as a result of the information retrieved by the present invention. A previously accepted entity may also be flagged for credit or anti-money laundering consideration if and when the applicant's situation (e.g., financial situation, involvement in anti-money laundering) changes. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363491 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING BIOMETRICS TO PREDICT AND SELECT MUSIC PREFERENCES - Systems and methods for using biometrics to select music preference are provided. A system for using biometrics to select music preferences for a user in a vehicle, comprises a music selection module electrically coupled to at least one biometric sensor in the vehicle, wherein the at least one biometric sensor senses a characteristic of the user and outputs data for the sensed characteristic to the music selection module, and wherein the music selection module selects a music selection for the user based on the sensed characteristic data, and a controller module electrically coupled to the music selection module to control playing of the music selection, wherein the controller module receives an output including the music selection from the music selection module. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363492 | USE OF COLLECTED DATA FOR WEB API ECOSYSTEM ANALYTICS - An embodiment of the invention pertains to Web application programming interface (API) data associated with a Web API ecosystem. The embodiment comprises constructing a data structure that is selectively related to at least some of the Web API data associated with the Web API ecosystem. The embodiment further comprises commencing an analytics operation to determine specified information which is of interest to a given Web API user, wherein the given Web API user has a role that pertains to the Web API ecosystem. Responsive to commencing the operation, Web API data related to the data structure is used to determine one or more preliminary data elements, wherein at least one of the preliminary data elements comprises an answer to a specified preliminary query. Respective preliminary data elements are selectively used to determine the specified information that is of interest to the given Web API user. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363493 | CONTINUOUS COLLECTION OF WEB API ECOSYSTEM DATA - An embodiment of the invention comprises a method associated with a Web API ecosystem and API users includes identifying specified events over a period of time that respectively affect the ecosystem. Events can comprise an interaction between the ecosystem and a Web API user or a specified Web API. The embodiment further includes constructing a data structure that contains a data element representing each identified event. An interface is used to translate respective data elements between the data structure and a data store, wherein the data store represents translated data elements in a form different from that used to represent the data elements in the data structure. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363494 | PERFORMING AN OBJECT RELATIONAL MODEL QUERY AGAINST A DATABASE THAT INCLUDES FIELDS DEFINED AT RUNTIME - A facility for querying user-defined database columns is described. The facility receives a database query referring to one or more database columns, at least one of the referred-to database columns being a user-defined database column. The facility provides access to a database query result generated for the perceived database query via a programmatic object. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363495 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING SEARCH EXTRACT TITLE - System and method for providing search results are disclosed. The methods of the present disclosure relate to displaying results of a search operation comprising at least one search extract and a title to the search extract, such that, the presentation semantics of the title is different from the rest of the extract. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363496 | METHODS OF PROVIDING FAST SEARCH, ANALYSIS, AND DATA RETRIEVAL OF ENCRYPTED DATA WITHOUT DECRYPTION - Methods and systems of providing remote coded data storage, data analysis, and search and retrieval, with assurance of data security are described. Data security is such that it protects the data from any provider, administrator of remote services, or anyone breaking into the servers housing the data at the remote site. The methods include a coding schema such that both the storage and the associated services, such as data analysis, search and retrieval, can be provided even more efficiently and more responsively than without the coding. Possible applications of the methods include data storage, powerful data search and analysis services which can all be provided “in the Cloud” over the Internet, completely securely, even when a customer's private data set needs to be uploaded to the remote site. The efficiency of analysis, and search means that the methods may be useful even when security of data is not an issue. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363497 | INTRA-AFFILIATION AND INTER-AFFILIATION POSTINGS MANAGEMENT - Techniques for managing intra-affiliation and inter-affiliation postings are described. Disclosed are techniques for receiving a posting from an account, the account being associated with an affiliation and an account parameter, transmitting one or more affiliation-specific parameters associated with the affiliation to the account, receiving a posting parameter from the account, the posting parameter being selected from one or more affiliation-specific parameters, determining a level of relevancy of the posting to a receiving account based on the posting parameter, the account parameter, and a receiving account parameter, the receiving account being associated with the receiving account parameter, generating an order of postings based on the level of relevancy, and transmitting the order of postings to the receiving account. One or more postings may be displayed at the receiving account based on the order. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363498 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA ORGANIZATION, OPTIMIZATION AND ANALYTICS - A system and method for data organization, optimization and analytics includes a web server, thrift server, distributed processing framework, key value store, distributed file system, and relational database. The web server provides a method whereby users issue control actions and query for records via interaction with the thrift server. The thrift server is the center of coordination and communication for the system and interacts with other system elements. The key value store organizes all of the operational data for the system. The key value store runs on a highly scalable distributed system, including a distributed file system for storage of data on disk. The distributed processing framework enables data to be processed in bulk and is used to execute analytical processing on the data. The relational database hold all of the administrative data in the system. Search queries are submitted by end user and results of the search query are sent from the web server to the end user. The web server sends control actions to queue background map reduce jobs. These jobs run in the distributed processing framework and are used to write data and indexes and execute bulk analytics against the key value store. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363499 | SEARCH BASED ON COMBINING USER RELATIONSHIP DATAUSER RELATIONSHIP DATA - A search request including user information and query information sent by a user is received. A search is conducted according to the query information to acquire a first search result associated with the query information. User relationship data associated with the user information is acquired. A second search result associated with both the query information and the user relationship data is acquired. A display order for various search result items in the first search result and the second search result is set. The first search result and the second search result are sent to the user after the display order is set. The techniques of the present disclosure provide abundant personalized search data for users, and meanwhile avoid poor user experience caused by excessive personalization. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363500 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTENT DISCOVERY - A system, method and graphic user interface for facilitating content discovery. The system and method including the selection ( | 2015-12-17 |
20150363501 | ANALYTICS BASED ON PIPES PROGRAMMING MODEL - A hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request that includes embedded scripted code that specifies requested data search, search result data manipulation, and manipulated search result data visualization processing is received at a server. The received embedded scripted code that specifies the requested data search, search result data manipulation, and manipulated search result data visualization processing is executed. Visualized manipulated search results are generated as output of the execution of the received embedded scripted code. The visualized manipulated search results are returned in response to receiving the HTTP request that includes the embedded scripted code. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363502 | Optimizing personalized recommendations with longitudinal data and a future objective - Systems and techniques are provided for optimizing personalized recommendations with longitudinal data and a future objective. An identifier may be received for content items. A user content item history including a list identifying a previously acquired content item may be received. Content item metadata may be received including a correlation between the previously acquired content item and a content item for which an identifier was received, and a correlation between a content item for which an identifier was received and fulfillment of a future objective. A joint probability may be determined for each content item based on the user content item history and the content item metadata, including the probability that the content item will be acquired by the user after being recommended to the user and that a future objective will be fulfilled after the content item is acquired by the user. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363503 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROPOSING MEDIA FOR A WEB PAGE - Systems and methods provide a website builder tool capable of searching an image database to provide one or more proposed items of media for inclusion in a web page. The proposed media may correspond to one or more of the following: A keyword within the text input by the user for the web page; A language of the text; A theme genre assigned to the web page; or A geographical region associated with the web page. The proposed media can be presented to a user via an media selection user interface for selection as web page media for inclusion in the web page. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363504 | DYNAMICALLY IDENTIFYING AND EVALUATING COMPONENT HIERARCHY FOR RENDERING CONTENT COMPONENTS ON A WEBPAGE - A method to perform component-based rendering of a webpage includes identifying a component hierarchy from which to render the webpage. A set of components are selected from the component hierarchy as an evaluation component set. The evaluation component set is evaluated by determining that a particular component of the evaluation component set does not include a data request for data item to be used in the rendering of the webpage. Responsive to the determination, least one child component of the particular component is identified within the component hierarchy. The child component is added to the evaluation component set. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363505 | RECEPTION DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD IN RECEPTION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - It is possible to access a presentation control information (HTML document) element contained in a transport media stream from an HTML application side. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363506 | AUTOMATED SELECTION OF IMAGES FOR WEB PAGES - In various embodiments, a method, a system, and a computer-readable medium are disclosed for creating a pool of images available for display, such as in one or more web pages. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes selecting images for a markup language document by determining a pre-determined number, N, of images to display in the markup language document, encoding an instruction in the markup language document to be executed by one or more hardware-based processors to select N images for insertion into the markup language document, retrieving the N images from a group of images, and placing the N retrieved images in the markup language document. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363507 | Guest Browser - One embodiment of a guest browser system, among others, includes a guest browser interface configured to provide an address bar interface for accepting a network address for retrieving a first web page. The guest browser interface is rendered from code of a second web page, where content of the second web page is rendered by an installed web browser. The system further includes a guest browser engine configured to retrieve contents of web pages. The guest browser engine is built from code provided by the second web page and is used to update content of the second web page with content from the first web page. Other systems and methods are also provided. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363508 | GRID-BASED ANALYSIS OF GEOSPATIAL TRAJECTORIES - Described herein is a framework for analyzing geospatial trajectory data. In accordance with one aspect, a grid model of a geographical area of interest is generated in response to a user event. The grid model includes a grid having a plurality of rows and columns of cells, in which the cells may be identified by unique cell numbers. Geospatial trajectory data of users may be mapped to the cells in the grid to generate mapped data with unique cell numbers associated to the geospatial trajectory data. The mapped data may further be analyzed to identify cell transitions based on the mapped data. Identifying the cell transitions includes determining cell density sequences and cell dwell-time sequences of the users. The cell density and cell dwell-time sequences may further be analyzed to perform a similarity analysis. Results of the similarity analysis may be presented to the end-user device of a user. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363509 | Entity Generation Using Queries - Disclosed are embodiments of methods and/or systems for introducing new entities into a knowledge graph based at least in part on patterns of queries and/or use cases. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363510 | INDEXED SHAPED GRAPH CREATION - Index shaped graph creation can receive a number of bit-strings through a communication link. Index shaped graph creation can create a binary tree from a number of nodes that represent the number of bit-strings. Index shaped graph creation can define an index table based on the binary tree that includes the number of bit-strings and a number of indexes for the number of bit-strings. Index shaped graph creation can create a shaped graph based on the binary tree, wherein the shaped graph compresses a portion of the number of nodes. Index shaped graph creation can convert the shaped graph into an indexed shaped graph by assigning each of a compressed number of nodes in the shaped graph an offset value that can be associated with the number of indexes in the index table. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363511 | UTILIZING REFERENCE/ID LINKING IN XML WRAPPER CODE GENERATION - Utilizing reference/identification (ID) linking in extensible markup language (XML) wrapper code generation in a data processing system. A code generator receives a type document and reference/ID constraints document and accesses the reference/ID constraints document to translate between XML structures and object structures. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363512 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING CONNECTOR DESIGN - A system for optimizing connector design includes at least one digital model, an operating interface, an orthogonal table generating module, a model generating module, a definite element analysis module, a taguchi calculating module and a report module. A method for optimizing connector design is described hereinafter. Choose the digital model, and choose a target analysis element, a quality characteristics, tolerances of terminal thickness, tolerances of butting dimensions, orthogonal table format, and key dimensions and tolerances of the digital model. Generate multiple test parameters, and generate multiple groups of test models according to the digital model, the tolerances of terminal thickness, the tolerances of butting dimensions and the test parameters. Proceed a definite element analysis to get the parameters of the insertion and withdrawal forces according to the test models. Proceed a taguchi calculation to get relation variances, and make an analysis report according to the relation variances. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363513 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DESIGNING PRODUCTS - In a method for generating a product design, a description of i) a product to be designed, and/or ii) one or more design objectives are received and analyzed to determine a design function that corresponds to the description and characterizes the product. Combinations of sub-functions that match the determined design function are determined. A plurality of components that implement the design sub-functions are determined. One or more models that correspond to one or more candidate designs that implement the determined design function are constructed from sub-models corresponding to the determined plurality of components. The one or more models are evaluated with regard to one or more design objectives. A report is generated that provides i) information regarding performance of at least one candidate design with regard to the one or more design objectives, and/or ii) an indication that no candidate design meets the one or more design objectives, when appropriate. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363514 | CAD Data Processing Device and Processing Method - The present invention provides a processing device and a processing method capable of optimization of CAD data merge and of minimizing an omission and an error in the merging operation. The processing device for three-dimensional CAD data having a plurality of elements and attribute data associated with each of the plurality of elements includes means for reading a plurality of pieces of CAD data, attribute extraction means for extracting the attribute data from first CAD data, correspondence relation extraction means for extracting a correspondence relation using positional information included in the first CAD data and second CAD data, attribute attachment means for attaching the attribute data extracted from the first CAD data to the second CAD data based on the extracted correspondence relation, and means for outputting the data provided with the attribute data. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363515 | A METHOD FOR EFFICIENT DESIGNING AND OPERATING COOLING INFRASTRUCTURE IN A DATA CENTER - A method and system is disclosed for maintaining Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of a new data center constant or within narrow range around efficient level during ramping up stage of the data center. The method comprises of capturing a plurality of design and operational parameters of the data center, computing an efficient design for the data center at full occupancy, and maintaining the Power Usage Effectiveness constant or within narrow range around efficient level at a current occupancy during a ramp up period of the data center. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363516 | TOPOGRAPHY SIMULATION APPARATUS, TOPOGRAPHYSIMULATION METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In one embodiment, a topography simulation apparatus includes a division module configured to divide topography of a substance of a semiconductor device into first to n-th layers, where n is an integer of two or more. The apparatus further includes a flux calculation module configured to calculate, for each of the first to n-th layers, a flux of particles which reach a surface of the substance in each layer. The apparatus further includes a topography calculation module configured to calculate, for each of the first to n-th layers, an amount of change of the topography of the substance in each layer based on the flux. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363517 | TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING PHYSICAL LAYOUTS OF IN SILICO MULTI MODE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS - This disclosure relates generally to computerized systems and methods of producing a physical representation of an in silico Integrated Circuit (IC) having an in silico Multi-Mode Redundant (MMR) pipeline circuit. An IC layout of the in silico IC is initially generated with the electronic design automation (EDA) program. Multi-Mode Redundant Self-Correcting Sequential State Element (MMRSCSSE) layouts are then rendered immotile while initial redundant Combinational Logic Circuit (CLC) layouts are removed from the IC layout after the MMRSCSSE layouts have been rendered immotile. By first placing the MMRSCSSE layouts and then rendering them immotile, the remaining logic can be placed again and optimized without compromising critical node spacing. As such, the described method provides for a more efficient way to create the IC layout of the in silico IC while maintaining critical node spacing. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363518 | DYNAMIC OPERATING PROCEDURES FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE - An occurrence of an emergency event can be detected. Parameters corresponding to performance of a first plurality of tasks performed in accordance with an existing operating procedure in response to the emergency event can be monitored. Based on the parameters a first performance rank for the existing operating procedure can be determined. A dynamic operating procedure comprising a second plurality of tasks can be generated, the dynamic operating procedure configured to define a response to the emergency event. Performance of each of the second plurality of tasks contained in the dynamic operating procedure can be simulated and, based on the simulation, a second performance rank for the first dynamic operating procedure can be determined. At least the first performance rank for the existing operating procedure, the first dynamic operating procedure, and the second performance rank for the dynamic operating procedure can be output. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363519 | CONSISTENCY OF VISUAL DISCOVERIES - Actual values of statistical signatures are computed. The actual values of statistical signatures correspond to analytical elements of a sample dataset. The computed actual values are discretized by assigning bucket values to the computed actual values. An aggregate score based on the assigned bucket values are computed. The assigned bucket values correspond to the analytical elements. The analytical elements of the sample dataset are ranked, based on the computed aggregate score. Combination of analytical elements is identified, and cumulative rank is computed based on the individual ranks of the analytical elements in the combination. The combinations of analytical elements are automatically displayed in a user interface associated with automatic visual discoveries. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363520 | Methods and Systems for Calculating and Evaluating Value of Information for Reservoir Fluid Models Derived from DFA Tool Data - A method for deriving VOI for a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir fluid model based on DFA data (“true fluid model”) versus an “incorrect fluid model” includes calculating first, second and third objective functions that are based on NPV(s) of simulated production by a reservoir simulator with different configurations. For the first objective function, the simulator is configured with the incorrect fluid model and control variables that are optimized to derive a first group of control variable values. For the second objective function, the simulator is configured with the true fluid model and the first group of control variable values. For the third objective function, the simulator is configured with the true fluid model and control variables that are optimized to identify a second group of control variable values. The objective functions can be deterministic, or can include statistics that account for uncertainty. A visualization of such results with uncertainty is also described. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363521 | Conducting a Sensor Network Survey - A method of conducting a sensor network survey comprising, with a processor: determining a number of daily operations to perform in a survey, determining a number of fixed parameters of the daily operations; determining a number of control parameters of the daily operations, determining flow times of the daily operations using a queue equation, determining a total flow time of the daily operations, executing a simulation module to determine at least one scenario, and outputting the at least one scenario to an output device. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363522 | NETWORK SWITCH SIMULATION - A simulated network switch is created based on configuration parameters. The simulated switch may send messages to a remote controller located on a computer separate from a simulated switch machine running the simulated switch, and receive replies from the remote controller responsive to the messages. Performance metrics for the remote controller may be determined based on the message and the replies. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363523 | PDC BITS WITH MIXED CUTTER BLADES - Downhole drilling tools designed and manufactured to minimize or reduce imbalance forces and wear by disposing cutting elements in cutter groups and cutter sets in a level of force balance and by placing impact and/or wear resistant cutters on blades subject to high impact forces and/or large loadings. Manufacturing costs may be reduced by placing inexpensive cutters on blades not subject to high impact forces and/or loadings. Some embodiments comprise designing downhole tools with combinations of thicker blades to receive high impact forces and/or loadings with thinner blades. Some embodiments comprise designing downhole drilling tools with optimized fluid-flow properties. Designing methods may comprise performing simulations on a designed tool, evaluating respective forces acting on cutters during simulated engagement with a downhole (uniform and transitional) and/or evaluating wear on cutters and bit, and/or CFD simulations to evaluate fluid-flow optimization on a tool. Various cutter layout procedures and algorithms are described. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363524 | STRESS RELIEF IN A FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION FOR SPRINGBACK COMPENSATION - A finite-element-analysis simulator may simulate a pre-bend operation of an object design, performed to a raw material in forming an object, to produce simulated pre-bend results, adjust stress tensor components of the simulated pre-bend results to eliminate residual elastic deformation from the simulated pre-bend results, and complete object simulation of the raw material using the adjusted simulated pre-bend results. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363525 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING REUSABLE GEOMETRY SEQUENCES FOR MULTIPHYSICS MODELING - A system generates a customized application data structure for modeling physical systems. The system includes a processor, an input device, optionally a display device, and a memory device. The processor is adapted to embed a multiphysics model data structure in the application data structure. The multiphysics model data structure comprises a representation of models of physical systems. Geometry data representing geometry subroutines and call data representing geometry subroutine calls are added to the embedded multiphysics model data structure. Data representing application features are added to the application data structure. Each application feature comprises one or more of (i) first data representing a form feature, or (ii) second data representing an action feature. A customized application data structure is generated providing a customized modeling of the physical systems using a modeling operation, a geometry of the one or more models of physical systems, an application feature, and a geometry subroutine. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363526 | Simulation Scheme Including Self Heating Effect - A method includes receiving input information related to devices of an integrated circuit. A first simulation of the integrated circuit is performed over a first time period. Average temperature changes of the devices over the first time period are calculated. A second simulation of the integrated circuit is performed over a second time period using the average temperature changes of the devices. The first simulation and the second simulation are executed by a processor unit. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363527 | Multi-rate Parallel Circuit Simulation - Methods and systems are disclosed related to multi-rate parallel circuit simulation. In one embodiment, a computer implemented method of partitioning the circuit into a plurality of partitions, wherein each partition is represented by a set of linear differential equations, determining a simulation time step for each partition of the plurality of partitions, grouping the plurality of partitions into multiple groups, wherein each group includes one or more partitions having simulation time steps within a predefined range of each other, and solving the multiple groups with their corresponding simulation time steps in parallel. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363528 | CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENT FOR MODELING - One or more circuit arrangements and techniques for modeling are provided. In some embodiments, a circuit arrangement includes at least one of a first current source, a second current source, a first diode, a second diode, and a switching component. In some embodiments, the switching component includes a bipolar junction transistor (BJT). In some embodiments, the circuit arrangement is integrated into a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device. When the circuit arrangement is integrated into a MOS device, at least one of a substrate current leakage, a junction breakdown, or a diode reverse recovery (DRR) effect is predictable for the MOS device. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363529 | Method for Creating Switch Reluctance Motor Memory Sensor Model - A method for creating a switch reluctance motor memory sensor model. A switch reluctance motor memory sensor circuit model is formed by two current transmitters AD | 2015-12-17 |
20150363530 | LSI DESIGN METHOD - Buffers on a clock tree are reduced, as long as there is enough set-up margin, in order to reduce power consumption in the clock tree. An FF group coupled to a partial tree, which is a part of the clock tree and expanded from the branch point being focused on, is defined as the target FF and the other FFs are defined as non-target FFs. The target buffer of an elimination candidate and the target and non-target FFs are defined so as not to change the slack in principle in a signal propagation path between the non-target FFs even if the buffer is eliminated. The buffer which can be eliminated is specified within a range in each signal propagation path which has a start point at the non-target FF and an end point at the target FF and in each signal propagation path between the target FFs. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363531 | OPTIMIZATION OF INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PHYSICAL DESIGN - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for optimizing an integrated circuit design is provided. The method may include identifying one or more nets crossing a boundary between a parent block, having parent logic, and a child block, having child logic. The method may include inserting interior buffers on the nets inside of the child block and exterior buffers on the nets outside of the child block and inside of the parent block, wherein the interior buffers and the exterior buffers define a buffer pair for each of the nets. The method may further include determining a first placement for the parent logic and a second placement for the child logic, such that the buffers of the buffer pair for each net are placed substantially near to one another. The method may further include determining pin locations for the child block based on the second placement. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363532 | OPTIMIZATION OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FOR A RETICLE TRANSMISSION PROCESS WINDOW USING MULTIPLE FILL CELLS - Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods of controlling reticle transmission. A process window for reticle transmission is received. For a given design, default fill cells of a default fill pattern are inserted in unused areas of an integrated circuit (IC). A pattern density is computed for each tile of an IC at each appropriate level, such as metallization levels and contact levels. An IC reticle transmission (RT) is computed for an area corresponding to an entire (or area of) IC or reticle. If the integrated circuit RT is outside of the process window, then the tiles that have an individual tile RT that is outside of the process window are identified and ranked into groups. Default fill cells in one group of tiles are replaced with replacement fill cells having an appropriate pattern and pattern density, and an updated IC RT parameter is computed until the updated IC RT parameter is within the process window. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363533 | VOLTAGE AND CURRENT LIMITS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE BASED ON TEMPERATURE RANGE - A design verification system simulates operation of an electronic device to identify one or more power characteristic vs. temperature (PC-T) curves for the electronic device. Each of the one or more PC-T curves indicates, for a particular reliability characteristic limit, a range of power characteristic values over a corresponding range of temperatures that are not expected to result in the reliability characteristic limit being exceeded. Based on the one or more PC-T curves, the design verification system sets a range of power characteristic limits, over a corresponding range of temperatures, for the electronic device. During operation, the electronic device employs a temperature sensor to measure an ambient or device temperature, and sets its power characteristic (voltage or current) according to the measured temperature and the power characteristic limits. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363534 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POST-OPC VERIFICATION - A method for post-OPC verification including of several steps is provided. First, a pre-OPC layout of an integrated circuit (IC) is received. Then, a first OPC procedure is performed to obtain a post-OPC layout of the IC. After that, a first extraction process is performed on the pre-OPC layout and a second extraction process is performed on the post-OPC layout to respectively obtain a first netlist and a second netlist by using a processor. Next, a verification process is performed by using the processor to determine whether an electrical network of the first netlist and an electrical network of the second netlist are identical. The verification process is then terminated if the electrical network of the first netlist and the electrical network of the second netlist are identical. An apparatus for post-OPC verification is also provided. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363535 | SILICON WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE WITH ARBITRARY GEOMETRY ON BULK SILICON SUBSTRATE, RELATED SYSTEMS AND PROGRAM PRODUCTS - Various embodiments include a silicon-based optical waveguide structure locally on a bulk silicon substrate, and systems and program products for forming such a structure by modifying an integrated circuit (IC) design structure. Embodiments include implementing processes of preparing manufacturing data for formation of the IC design structure in a computer-implemented IC formation system, wherein the preparing of the manufacturing data includes inserting instructions into the manufacturing data to convert an edge of the at least one shape from a <110> crystallographic direction to a <100> crystallographic direction. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363536 | CORRECTING FOR STRESS INDUCED PATTERN SHIFTS IN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING - Apparatus, method and computer program product for reducing overlay errors during a semiconductor photolithographic mask design process flow. The method obtains data representing density characteristics of a photo mask layout design; predicts stress induced displacements based on said obtained density characteristics data; and corrects the mask layout design data by specifying shift movement of individual photo mask design shapes to pre-compensate for predicted displacements. To obtain data representing density characteristics, the method merges pieces of data that are combined to make a photo mask to obtain a full reticle field data set. The merge includes a merge of data representing density characteristic driven stress effects. The density characteristics data for the merged reticle data are then computed. To predict stress-induced displacements, the method inputs said density characteristics data into a programmed model that predicts displacements as a function of density, and outputs the predicted shift data. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363537 | Extracting Comprehensive Design Guidance for In-Line Process Control Tools and Methods - Methods and systems for extracting comprehensive design guidance for in-line process control of wafers are provided. One method includes automatically identifying potential marginalities in a design for a device to be formed on a wafer. The method also includes automatically generating information for the potential marginalities. The automatically generated information is used to set up process control for the wafer. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363538 | DESIGN SUPPORT DEVICE, DESIGN SUPPORT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A design support device having a permissible power supply fluctuation deriving unit and a target impedance deriving unit. The permissible power supply fluctuation deriving unit derives the fluctuation in the power supply voltage that is permissible on the basis of jitter-voltage correlation information, which indicates the correlation between the power supply voltage fluctuation generated in an I/O buffer and the jitter generated by the power supply voltage fluctuations, and jitter constraint information, which is for stably transmitting a signal, for the generated jitter. The target impedance deriving unit derives a target impedance in the permissible range of impedance for a power supply circuit, on the basis of information on the signal operating current flowing through the power supply circuit of the I/O buffer, and the power supply voltage fluctuation. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363539 | STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC BIASING TO IMPROVE ESD ROBUSTNESS OF CURRENT MODE LOGIC (CML) DRIVERS - An integrated circuit having a CML driver including a driver biasing network. A first output pad and a second output pad are connected to a voltage pad. A first driver is connected to the first output pad and the voltage pad. A second driver is connected to the second output pad and the voltage pad. A first ESD circuit is connected to the voltage pad, the first output pad, and the first driver. A second ESD circuit is connected to the voltage pad, the second output pad, and the second driver. The first ESD circuit biases the first driver toward a voltage of the voltage pad when an ESD event occurs at the first output pad, and the second ESD circuit biases the second driver toward the voltage of the voltage pad when an ESD event occurs at the second output pad. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363540 | LAYOUT MODIFICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method comprises providing a non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium storing a partial netlist of at least a portion of a previously taped-out integrated circuit (IC) layout, representing a set of photomasks for fabricating an IC having the IC layout such that the IC meets a first specification value. A computer identities a proper subset of a plurality of first devices in the IC layout, such that replacement of the proper subset of the first devices by second devices in a revised IC layout satisfies a second specification value different from the first specification value. At least one layout mask is generated and stored in at least one non-transitory machine readable storage medium, accessible by a tool for forming at least one additional photomask, such that the set of photomasks and the at least one additional photomask are usable to fabricate an IC according to the revised IC layout. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363541 | EDA TOOL AND METHOD FOR CONFLICT DETECTION DURING MULTI-PATTERNING LITHOGRAPHY - A method includes accessing data representing a layout of a layer of an integrated circuit (IC) having a plurality of polygons defining circuit patterns to be divided among a number (N) of photomasks over a single layer of a semiconductor substrate, where N is greater than two. The method further includes inputting a conflict graph having a plurality of vertices, identifying a first and second vertex, each of which is connected to a third and fourth vertex where the third and fourth vertices are connected to a same edge of a conflict graph, and merging the first and second vertices to form a reduced graph. The method further includes detecting at least one or more vertex in the reduced having a conflict. In one aspect, the method resolves the detected conflict by performing one of pattern shifting, stitch inserting, or re-routing. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363542 | Methods for Controlling Microloading Variation in Semiconductor Wafer Layout and Fabrication - Problematic open areas are identified in a semiconductor wafer layout. The problematic open areas have a size variation relative to one or more neighboring open areas of the layout sufficient to cause adverse microloading variation. In one embodiment, the adverse microloading variation is controlled by shifting a number of layout features to interdict the problematic open areas. In another embodiment, the adverse microloading variation is controlled by defining and placing a number of dummy layout features to shield actual layout features that neighbor the problematic open areas. In another embodiment, the adverse microloading variation is controlled by utilizing sacrificial layout features which are actually fabricated on the wafer temporarily to eliminate microloading variation, and which are subsequently removed from the wafer to leave behind the desired permanent structures. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363543 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DESIGNING AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM - An industrial automation system design tool may receive data associated with an industrial automation system. The data may include a type of the industrial automation system or operational information relating to the industrial automation system. The industrial automation system design tool may then generate a list of one or more industrial automation components based on the data, such that the industrial automation components may perform one or more operations for the industrial automation system. The industrial automation system design tool may then display the list of the one or more industrial automation components on a display device. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363544 | Drill Bit Design - A drill bit ( | 2015-12-17 |
20150363545 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED DESIGN OF MULTI-BODY MACHINE - A system for automated design of a machine having multiple driven bodies is disclosed. The system may have a multi-body database with at least one of a parts section and a launch code section. The system may also have one or more processors configured to cause a listing of components selectable for inclusion within a machine to be shown on a display device, and to receive a selection of an input component and the multiple driven bodies from the listing via an input device. The processors may also be configured to retrieve data regarding the selected input component and the multiple driven bodies from the at least one of the parts section and the launch code section, and to generate a design for at least one new support component in the machine based on the input component, the multiple driven bodies, and the data. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363546 | EVOLUTIONARY MODELS OF MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS TO PREDICT OFFSPRING FITNESS PRIOR TO CONCEPTION - A system, device and method for receiving multiple aligned genetic sequences obtained from genetic samples of multiple organisms of one or more different species. A measure of evolutionary variation may be computed for one or more alleles at each of one or more aligned genetic loci. The aligned genetic loci in the multiple organisms may be derived from one or more common ancestral genetic loci or may be otherwise related. The measure of evolutionary variation may be a function of variation in alleles at corresponding aligned genetic loci in the multiple aligned genetic sequences. One or more likelihoods may be computed that an allele mutation at each of the one or more genetic loci in a simulated virtual progeny will be deleterious based on the measure of evolutionary variation of alleles at the corresponding aligned genetic loci for the multiple organisms. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363547 | SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACH TO THERAPY - A method comprising analyzing multiple component data between or among categories of individuals to develop therapeutic lead compounds through analysis of biochemical networks linking the genome, transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, gut microbiome and environmental factors. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363548 | SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACH TO THERAPY - A method comprising analyzing multiple component data between or among categories of individuals to develop therapeutic lead compounds through analysis of biochemical networks linking the genome, transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, gut microbiome and environmental factors. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363549 | DATA ANALYSIS DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR - The computational cost for a mapping process performed in analyzing genome/exome/transcriptome is reduced by sorting all cyclic permutations or suffixes of all read sequences to allow a search to be performed on the basis of any base sequence as a key. Also performed is computing and storing, for each base position in a genome sequence, the minimum length for uniqueness (MLU) at which a partial sequence starting from the base position becomes unique in the genome. In analysis of variations, a target region is scanned to inspect the number of matching read sequences that contain a partial sequence with a length of MLU and thus estimate the position of a variation, and then, the read sequences are collected at a position where the possibility of a variation having occurred is high to perform comparison analysis of the sequences. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363550 | METHODS FOR GENOME ASSEMBLY AND HAPLOTYPE PHASING - The disclosure provides methods to assemble genomes of eukaryotic or prokaryotic organisms. The disclosure further provides methods for haplotype phasing and meta-genomics assemblies. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363551 | PROCESS FOR IDENTIFYING RARE EVENTS - A method for identifying a subpopulation of specific cells among a large population of cells, includes:
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20150363552 | iCarenetwork - System and method for a secure HIPPA compliant communications computing platform for real time exchanging and sharing of health and health care related information during or in between health care events along with a supporting community based application that allows members to interact with other members and nonmembers based on member set permission settings. This platform and application can also allow third party application, software and hardware development through an API (Application Program Interface) | 2015-12-17 |
20150363553 | MEDICAL REGISTRY - An embodiment relates to a computer implemented system for correlating medical data, the system comprising: first module comprising a first algorithm configured to collect patient inputted data provided by a first patient through a user device in communication with the first module; a second module comprising a second algorithm configured to collect data from one or more databases in communication with the second module; a social network electronic communication platform comprising a social network algorithm configured to create a social network environment that allows a plurality of patients, including the first patient, to interact and collaborate with each other; a storage medium for storing data collected from at least the first and second modules; at least one processor, which is in communication with the social network electronic platform, configured to correlate the patient inputted data with data from the one or more databases and communicate a result based on correlating the patient inputted data with data from the one or more databases to the first patient. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363554 | CONFIGURING ACCESSIBILITY SETTINGS FOLLOWING A MEDICAL CHANGE - In an approach to configuring accessibility settings on an electronic device, a first computing device receives a first electronic data including at least one medical change made to an electronic medical record corresponding to a user. The first computing device determines at least one accessibility settings recommendation for an electronic device of the user, based, at least in part, on the received first electronic data. The first computing device sends a second electronic data comprising the at least one accessibility settings recommendation to the electronic device of the user. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363555 | HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM - This document generally describes computer-based technology to provide health information systems that can be customized for any healthcare specialty and/or application. For example, the disclosed computer-based technology can be used in specialties such as imaging centers, radiology group practices, and/or other ambulatory clinics, and can be used for business, financial, and/or clinical applications (e.g., practice management (PM), radiology information systems (RIS), electronic medical records (EMR), electronic health records (EHR)). | 2015-12-17 |
20150363556 | Healthcare Facility Management and Information System - A method, system, computer program product and apparatus related to managing and disseminating information in a health care facility is disclosed. The system may comprise a plurality of input devices, a processor connected to the input devices and a plurality of electronic output devices connected to the processor. The output devices may include a master patient information display, an electronic patient room information display, a master precaution display, a patient hourly rounding display and an individual room precaution display. The method may comprises receiving from at least one input device data associated with a plurality of patients, and displaying for each patient the information, based on the data received, that is associated with each patient, and then updating on each output device the information when it changes. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363557 | SECURE COMMUNICATIONS - A system for providing secure communications may include a management system to receive first information, the first information being received via a first secure connection, analyze the received information to form analyzed information, and provide the analyzed information, a processor device to receive the analyzed information, the analyzed information being received via a second secure connection between the processor device and the management system, and perform an action based on the analyzed information, and a clearinghouse device to receive second information, the second information being received via a third secure connection between the clearinghouse device and each provider device of a plurality of provider devices, process the second information to form the first information, and provide the first information to the management system via the first secure connection. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363558 | Method of Determining Predisposition to Endometriosis - The present invention relates to novel genetic markers associated with endometriosis and risk of developing endometriosis, and methods and materials for determining whether a human subject has endometriosis or is at risk of developing endometriosis and the use of such risk information in selectively administering a treatment that at least partially prevents or compensates for an endometriosis related symptom. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363559 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT - Systems and methods are described herein for the prioritization of possible treatment options based on biomarkers, such as (but not limited to) tumor and germline-based genomic variants. The system and methods may thereby identify patient and the status of a biomarker in the treatment options tailored to a patient, in particular to his/her clinical, molecular, and/or genetic condition. Furthermore, the system and method provides a means for prioritizing the possible treatment options based on the extraction and contextualization of clinical and molecular knowledge. The system gathers and/or accesses biomarker information and transforms the information into prioritized, clinically actionable options identified for a specific patient case. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363560 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDICAL DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS - We describe a method of predicting the response of a patient to a medical procedure, the method comprising: inputting acute phase response (APR) biomarker data defining a level of an acute phase response (APR) biomarker in said patient at a succession of biomarker measurement times following said medical procedure, said APR biomarker data defining a biomarker time course representing an evolution over time of said acute phase response; and processing said APR biomarker data to determine a derivative with respect to time of said time course from said APR biomarker data to provide APR time series data; determining a prediction of the response of said patient to said medical procedure from said APR time series data. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363561 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING THE PROXIMITY OF A PROCESS REQUIREMENT METRIC TO A SYSTEM PROCESS REQUIREMENT - Methods and systems are presented for indicating the proximity of a process requirement metric to a corresponding system process requirement in a physiological monitor. Metrics are determined based on a received physiological signal, such as a PPG signal. At least one of the metrics is compared to a corresponding system process requirement, such as a threshold, which can be used to trigger a system process, such as an alarm, a recalibration, or a measurement. The proximity of the metric to the corresponding system process requirement is calculated and indicated. Indicating the proximity to a system process requirement may provide valuable information to clinicians and allow them to manually trigger system processes, such as measurements or recalibrations, when a metric is close to a system process requirement for a significant period of time. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363562 | System and Method for Automated Deployment and Operation of Remote Measurement and Process Control Solutions - The present disclosure describes systems and methods that generate fully automated network deployment, configuration, installation, and operation of a remote measurement and process control solution which interfaces with a vertical business process, such as, for example, remote medical processes and/or collaborative telehealth systems. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363563 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED DEPLOYMENT OF REMOTE MEASUREMENT, PATIENT MONITORING, AND HOME CARE AND MULTI-MEDIA COLLABORATION SERVICES IN HEALTH CARE AND TELEMEDICINE - Various exemplary methods and systems for automated deployment of remote measurement, patient monitoring, and home care and multi-media collaboration services in health care and telemedicine are provided. In general, a system can allow automated deployment and simplified installation by non-technical personnel of sensor-based remote monitoring and process automation solutions. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363564 | Remote Medical Analysis - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for remote medical analysis. Advances in mobile devices offer a way to connect animals and veterinarians in ways other than physical proximity. Using a phone's camera to take photos or and/or video and send those to a veterinarian allows greater degree of detail to be communicated in triaging or diagnosing or follow-up for an animal. Additionally, the camera could be used to conduct a video chat between an animal owner and a veterinarian allowing real-time viewing and conversation between the two parties. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363565 | MONITOR REMOTE CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM THEREOF USING MOBILE TERMINAL - A monitor remote control method and system thereof using a mobile terminal. The system comprises: a mobile terminal, a monitor terminal and a network terminal. The mobile terminal comprises an instruction setting unit for inputting setting instructions and sending the setting instruction to the network terminal. The network terminal comprises a data and instruction receiving unit for receiving the setting instructions, and a wireless connection unit for building a wireless connection between the mobile terminal and the monitor terminal. The monitor terminal comprises a setting execution unit for receiving and executing the setting instructions sent by a data and instruction sending unit of the network terminal. The system enables medical staffs when away from bedside to know information and parameter conditions of patients in real time and to set the settings of the monitor. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363566 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IMPROVE LUNG FUNCTION PROTOCOLS - An example method includes: classifying lung function risk based on patient attributes and a clinical protocol; generating alarms and incentives for compliance with the clinical protocol based on patient attributes, clinical protocol, and patient lung function risk; determining an orientation and position of a clinical device based on tagged feature(s) of the clinical device compared to identified patient feature(s); monitoring patient interaction with the clinical device; identifying a deviation from the clinical protocol based on the monitored patient interaction, a patient biometric indicator, and a desired setpoint state in the protocol; when a deviation is identified, providing feedback proportional to the deviation, the feedback including an adjustment with respect to the clinical protocol and/or the clinical device; and triggering at least one alarm and/or incentive based on deviation and feedback, wherein the alarm/incentives differs based on whether and to what extent deviation is identified and feedback. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363567 | COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH ASSESSMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Embodiments of the invention include a system and a method for providing a comprehensive overview of a patient's health record. In an embodiment, the invention includes normalizing data from previously administered assessments and calculating an overall health score. Other embodiments are also included herein. | 2015-12-17 |
20150363568 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING PATIENT READMISSION RISK AND SELECTING POST-ACUTE CARE INTERVENTION - Techniques for determining and outputting post-acute care recommendations that use information that is available when a patient is admitted, which is obtained through patient questionnaires and automatically-extracted patient history data, to determine a risk score and/or recommend post-acute care. Such techniques may be incorporated into systems, methods and computer program products for determining and outputting post-acute care recommendations based upon readmission risk scores. For example, a sample process for determining and outputting recommendations may include receiving admission data relating to a patient, receiving assessment information regarding the patient, determining a readmission risk score for the patient, determining a post-acute care recommendation for the patient based on the readmission risk score and one or more patient covariates, and outputting the post-acute care recommendation. | 2015-12-17 |