Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130185220 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOFTWARE TOOLS WITHIN AN ONLINE PLATFORM FOR ORGANIZING GROUPS AND COMMUNICATING WITH GROUP MEMBERS - A system and method for providing software tools within an online platform for organizing groups and facilitating communications among group members are disclosed. Sub-groups can be created hierarchically below an umbrella group, where information associated with a sub-group is automatically shared with the umbrella group. A standardized set of tools is provided to facilitate philanthropic efforts by charities, companies, schools, and individuals. | 07-18-2013 |
20130218973 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOFTWARE TOOLS WITHIN AN ONLINE PLATFORM FOR ORGANIZING GROUPS AND COMMUNICATING WITH MEMBER CLIENTS OF GROUP - A system and method for providing software tools within an online platform for organizing groups and facilitating communications among member clients of the groups are disclosed. Sub-groups can be created hierarchically below an umbrella group, where information associated with a sub-group is automatically shared with the umbrella group. A standardized set of tools is provided to facilitate philanthropic efforts by volunteer organizations, groups, companies, schools, and individuals. | 08-22-2013 |
20130226708 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOFTWARE TOOLS WITHIN AN ONLINE PLATFORM FOR ORGANIZING GROUPS AND COMMUNICATING WITH MEMBER CLIENTS OF GROUP - A system and method for providing software tools within an online platform for organizing groups and facilitating communications among member clients of the groups are disclosed. Sub-groups can be created hierarchically below an umbrella group, where information associated with a sub-group is automatically shared with the umbrella group. A standardized set of tools is provided to facilitate philanthropic efforts by volunteer organizations, groups, companies, schools, and individuals. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227384 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOFTWARE TOOLS WITHIN AN ONLINE PLATFORM FOR ORGANIZING GROUPS AND COMMUNICATING WITH MEMBER CLIENTS OF GROUP - A system and method for providing software tools within an online platform for organizing groups and facilitating communications among member clients of the groups are disclosed. Sub-groups can be created hierarchically below an umbrella group, where information associated with a sub-group is automatically shared with the umbrella group. A standardized set of tools is provided to facilitate philanthropic efforts by volunteer organizations, groups, charities, companies, schools, and individuals. | 08-29-2013 |
20130298006 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOFTWARE TOOLS WITHIN AN ONLINE PLATFORM FOR ORGANIZING GROUPS AND COMMUNICATING WITH MEMBER CLIENTS OF GROUP - A system and method for providing software tools within an online platform for organizing groups and facilitating communications among member clients of the groups are disclosed. Sub-groups can be created hierarchically below an umbrella group, where information associated with a sub-group is automatically shared with the umbrella group. A standardized set of tools is provided to facilitate philanthropic efforts by volunteer organizations, groups, companies, schools, and individuals. | 11-07-2013 |
20140164277 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION INDEX - A system and method for generating a community contribution index (CCI) for organizations and providing reports pertaining to the CCI for one or more organizations is described. The CCI for an organization is calculated based upon monetary donations provided by the organization and the members associated with the organization and the number of volunteer hours provided by the members. The CCI provides a standardized way to measure an organization's contributions to the community. | 06-12-2014 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120272086 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING THERMAL LOAD BY MONITORING AND CONTROLLING CURRENT FLOW IN A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method and system for reducing thermal load by monitoring and controlling current flow in a portable computing device (“PCD”) are disclosed. The method includes monitoring a temperature of the PCD and determining if the temperature has reached a temperature threshold condition. This temperature threshold condition may be comprised within any one or more of a plurality of thermal policy states, in which each thermal policy state may dictate various thermal mitigation techniques. The thermal policy states may be associated with values that may indicate thermal loading of a PCD. If the temperature has reached the first threshold condition, then electrical current exiting a power supply device may be monitored. If it is determined that the electrical current has exceeded a current threshold condition, such as a maximum current, a hardware device corresponding to the electrical current may be selected for application of a thermal mitigation technique. | 10-25-2012 |
20130090888 | System and method for proximity based thermal management of mobile device - Various embodiments of methods and systems for leveraging a user proximity measurement to determine thermal management policies in a portable computing device (“PCD”) are disclosed. By leveraging the proximity measurement to set temperature thresholds, the quality of service (“QoS”) provided by the PCD can be optimized when touch temperature of the PCD is not a significant factor for user experience. One such method involves monitoring a proximity signal to determine relative physical proximity of the PCD to a user. Based on the user proximity, a temperature threshold associated with a temperature sensor may be set and compared with an actual temperature measurement received from the temperature sensor. Based on the comparison, thermal management policies in the PCD can be evaluated. For instance, if the temperature threshold is higher than the actual measurement, PCD components may be allowed to increase power consumption, even though PCD temperature may rise, thereby optimizing QoS. | 04-11-2013 |
20130167103 | System and Method For Use Case-Based Thermal Analysis of Heuristically Determined Component Combinations and Layouts In A Portable Computing Device - Various embodiments of methods and systems for heuristic determination and thermal analysis of component placement on a printed circuit board (“PCB”) for use in a portable computing device (“PCD”) are disclosed. It is an advantage of embodiments that thermal energy generating components, such as processors, may be heuristically selected and arranged on a selected PCB according to varying layouts and combinations and then evaluated for thermal dissipation efficiency under an assortment of use case scenarios. In this way, users of the system and method may quickly narrow down commercially feasible component layouts, identify the most efficient layouts and then heuristically modify the layouts to develop an optimal arrangement. | 06-27-2013 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090295826 | System and method for interaction of graphical objects on a computer controlled system - A user interface method and system for performing sensemaking tasks using visual information objects. The present invention provides techniques for the system to perform operations for creating, rearranging visual information objects, reallocating display space and scaling user input automatically so that users need not interrupt their creative activities. Such operations are intuitive and non-intrusive. Certain of the behavior results of the operations are specified in contracts associated with each visual information object. | 12-03-2009 |
20100125540 | System And Method For Providing Robust Topic Identification In Social Indexes - A computer-implemented method for providing robust topic identification in social indexes is described. Electronically-stored articles and one or more indexes are maintained. Each index includes topics that each relate to one or more of the articles. A random sampling and a selective sampling of the articles are both selected. For each topic, characteristic words included in the articles in each of the random sampling and the selective sampling are identified. Frequencies of occurrence of the characteristic words in each of the random sampling and the selective sampling are determined. A ratio of the frequencies of occurrence for the characteristic words included in the random sampling and the selective sampling is identified. Finally, for each topic, a coarse-grained topic model is built, which includes the characteristic words included in the articles relating to the topic and scores assigned to those characteristic words. | 05-20-2010 |
20100191741 | System And Method For Using Banded Topic Relevance And Time For Article Prioritization - A system and method for using banded topic relevance and time for article prioritization is provided. Articles of digital information and at least one social index are maintained. The social index includes topics that each relate to one or more of the articles. Fine-grained topic models matched to the digital information for each topic are retrieved. The articles are succinctly classified under the topics using the fine-grained topic models. Each of the articles is relevancy scored within the topic under which the article was classified. The articles are arranged into discrete bands by relevance score. The articles are temporally sorted within the discrete bands. The articles are presented within the discrete bands. | 07-29-2010 |
20100191742 | System And Method For Managing User Attention By Detecting Hot And Cold Topics In Social Indexes - A system and method for managing user attention by detecting hot topics in social indexes is provided. Articles of digital information and at least one social index are maintained. The social index includes topics that each relate to one or more of the articles. Topic models matched to the digital information are retrieved for each topic. The articles are classified under the topics using the topic models. Each of the topics in the social index is evaluated for hotness. A plurality of time periods projected from the present is defined. Counts of the articles appearing under each time period are evaluated. The topics exhibiting a rising curve in the count of the articles that increases with recency during the time periods are chosen. Quality of the articles within the topics chosen is analyzed. The topics including the articles having acceptable quality are presented. | 07-29-2010 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080196575 | Process for creating and viewing digital sheet music on a media device - A novel process and system for presenting and displaying digital sheet music is disclosed. Digitized presentation of sheet music has been enjoyed by technology-savvy musicians and music aficionados for the past few years; however, nothing exists that extends this format into the realm beyond the personal computer, while also preserving the original sound of the master recording. The present invention is a system and process used to create a digital video of digital sheet music that is synchronized to an audio recording, and distributable to multiple media device platforms. The invention enables musicians and music aficionados to hear a song as it is meant to be heard—without synthetic MIDI overlays. The invention also allows the user to see the note being played by observing a real-time display of synchronized digital sheet music. The invention enables transfer of the media file to portable media devices or entertainment/gaming consoles. | 08-21-2008 |
20130319209 | Distribution of Audio Sheet Music As An Electronic Book - An apparatus for synchronized digital sheet music display and audio playback comprises an electronic appliance. The apparatus includes an audio output for playing an audio recording of a piece of music and a display for displaying the piece of music in notation form, including a first portion thereof and comprising elements representing discrete segments of the piece of music that may be identified, displayed, and highlighted. The apparatus further comprises software for controllably playing the recording of and displaying the piece of music, highlighting a second portion of the piece of music within and advancing through the first, and synchronizing the highlighted second portion with the audio played from the audio output. The software further supports an electronic book format, displaying and playing book contents containing both written language and music notation. Audio playback includes both music and a voice reading the language. | 12-05-2013 |
20150082972 | DISTRIBUTION OF AUDIO SHEET MUSIC WITHIN AN ELECTRONIC BOOK - A method of providing synchronized content to a user including: (i) an audio recording of a voice reading written language text and an audio recording of one or more pieces of music; (ii) written language text and music notation content, having elements that can be identified, displayed, and highlighted, the elements representing discrete segments of the written language and music notation content, each of the discrete segments having a beginning and end; and (iii) synchronization data marking beginning and end points in the audio recordings for each element. The method is implemented such that a user may play the audio recording of a voice reading the written language text, and the audio recording of the one or more pieces of music according to the EPUB format, and display the written language text and music notation content according to the EPUB format with synchronization. | 03-26-2015 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080240532 | System and Method for Detection of Fetal Anatomies From Ultrasound Images Using a Constrained Probabilistic Boosting Tree - A method for detecting fetal anatomic features in ultrasound images includes providing an ultrasound image of a fetus, specifying an anatomic feature to be detected in a region S determined by parameter vector θ, providing a sequence of probabilistic boosting tree classifiers, each with a pre-specified height and number of nodes. Each classifier computes a posterior probability P(y|S) where yε{−1,+1}, with P(y=+1|S) representing a probability that region S contains the feature, and P(y=−1|S) representing a probability that region S contains background information. The feature is detected by uniformly sampling a parameter space of parameter vector θ using a first classifier with a sampling interval vector used for training said first classifier, and having each subsequent classifier classify positive samples identified by a preceding classifier using a smaller sampling interval vector used for training said preceding classifier. Each classifier forms a union of its positive samples with those of the preceding classifier. | 10-02-2008 |
20090093717 | Automated Fetal Measurement From Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Data - A fetal parameter or anatomy is measured or detected from three-dimensional ultrasound data. An algorithm is machine-trained to detect fetal anatomy. Any machine training approach may be used. The machine-trained classifier is a joint classifier, such that one anatomy is detected using the ultrasound data and the detected location of another anatomy. The machine-trained classifier uses marginal space such that the location of anatomy is detected sequentially through translation, orientation and scale rather than detecting for all location parameters at once. The machine-trained classifier includes detectors for detecting from the ultrasound data at different resolutions, such as in a pyramid volume. | 04-09-2009 |
20140187942 | Needle Enhancement in Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging - A needle is enhanced in a medical diagnostic ultrasound image. The image intensities associated with a needle in an image are adaptively increased and/or enhanced by compounding from a plurality of ultrasound images. Filtering methods and probabilistic methods are used to locate possible needle locations. In one approach, possible needles are found in component frames that are acquired at the same time but at different beam orientations. The possible needles are associated with each other across the component frames and false detections are removed based on the associations. In one embodiment of needle detection in an ultrasound component frame, lines are found first. The lines are then searched to find possible needle segments. In another embodiment, data from different times may be used to find needle motion and differences from a reference, providing the features in additional to features from a single component frame for needle detection. | 07-03-2014 |
20140221832 | TUNING ULTRASOUND ACQUISITION PARAMETERS - Values for ultrasound acquisition parameters are altered in a manifold space. The number of parameters to be set is reduced using a manifold. Virtual parameters different than the acquisition parameters are used to alter the greater number of acquisition parameters. In a further use, optimum image settings may be obtained in an automated system by measuring image quality for feeding back to virtual parameter adjustment. | 08-07-2014 |