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20110173021 | AUTOMATED METHOD OF DISPLAYING AND UPDATING THE STATUS OF CLINICAL RESEARCH SITES IN A CLINICAL TRIAL TO IDENTIFY READINESS OF SITES TO ACCEPT PATIENTS - An automated process generates a displayable report of the status of clinical research sites in a clinical trial to identify readiness of sites to accept patients. The clinical trial has a plurality of sites in multiple countries which accept patients. A plurality of electronically tracked site-based milestones and separate country-based milestones are provided for the clinical trial. Each site is associated with a country. The status of the site-based milestones and country-based milestones are electronically tracked in a database. The site-based milestones and the country-based milestones are tracked separately from each other. A displayable report of the status of the electronically tracked site-based milestones and country-based milestones is automatically generated in a processor. The report separately identifies the status of the site-based milestones and the country-based milestones. Also, each site-based milestone is categorized into one of the plurality of milestone groups, and the report shows the status of the site-based milestone groups. | 07-14-2011 |
20110238438 | AUTOMATED METHOD OF GRAPHICALLY DISPLAYING PREDICTED PATIENT ENROLLMENT IN A CLINICAL TRIAL STUDY - An automated method is provided of graphically displaying predicted patient enrollment in a clinical trial study. The study has a plurality of clinical sites for enrolling patients in the study. A database is provided that includes a patient enrollment rate for each clinical site and a date of initial patient enrollment for each clinical site. Clinical site launch data is entered into a user interface display screen, including a target number of patients to be enrolled in the study, and a target date for completing the enrollment of the target number of patients. A graphical display is then generated of a running total number of patients predicted to be enrolled in the study for a succession of time periods from the data that is provided and entered via the user interface display screen. | 09-29-2011 |
20120023413 | VIRTUAL DATA ROOM FOR DISPLAYING CLINICAL TRIAL STATUS REPORTS BASED ON REAL-TIME CLINICAL TRIAL DATA, WITH INFORMATION CONTROL ADMINISTRATION MODULE THAT SPECIFIES WHICH REPORTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR DISPLAY - A system is provided for use in distributing information associated with an investigational product, such as a pharmaceutical drug. The information includes electronic documents associated with the investigational product, and a plurality of different electronic reports based on real-time patient clinical study data of the investigational product. The system includes a database that stores the electronic documents, a virtual data room that is in electronic communication with the database and which includes a memory that stores the electronic reports, an information presentation module, and an information control administration module. The information presentation module causes a display of the information to a user of the virtual data room via a display screen. The electronic reports are generated using the real-time patient clinical study data when requested to be displayed. The information control administration module specifies which electronic reports will be made available to the user. Only the specified electronic reports are selectable for display on the display screen by the user of the virtual data room. In this manner, only the specified electronic reports may be generated for display to a user of the virtual data room. | 01-26-2012 |
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20080199080 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING MATERIAL PROPERTIES USING HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING - Systems and methods are provided for analyzing material properties of an object using hyperspectral imaging. An exemplary method includes obtaining a hyperspectral image of an object; analyzing the hyperspectral image according to an algorithm; and correlating data obtained from the analysis with material properties of the object. | 08-21-2008 |
20110273558 | System and Method for Analyzing Properties of Meat Using Multispectral Imaging - A system and method for obtaining multispectral images of fresh meat at predetermined wavelength bands at a first time, subjecting the images to analysis in an image analysis system comprising a computer programmed to perform such analysis, and outputting a forecast of meat tenderness at a later point in time. Predetermined key wavelength bands are precorrelated with a high degree of prediction of meat tenderness and/or other properties of meat and are used in the multispectral system and method. A system and method for determining the key wavelengths is also disclosed. The multispectral imaging system and method is suitable for use in an industrial setting, such as a meat processing plant. The system and method is useful in a method for determining quality and yield grades at or near the time of imaging in lieu of visual inspection with the unaided human eye, increasing efficiency and objectivity. | 11-10-2011 |
20140293277 | System and Method for Analyzing Properties of Meat Using Multispectral Imaging - A system and method for obtaining multispectral images of fresh meat at predetermined wavelength bands at a first time, subjecting the images to analysis in an image analysis system comprising a computer programmed to perform such analysis, and outputting a forecast of meat tenderness at a later point in time. Predetermined key wavelength bands are precorrelated with a high degree of prediction of meat tenderness and/or other properties of meat and are used in the multispectral system and method. A system and method for determining the key wavelengths is also disclosed. The multispectral imaging system and method is suitable for use in an industrial setting, such as a meat processing plant. The system and method is useful in a method for determining quality and yield grades at or near the time of imaging in lieu of visual inspection with the unaided human eye, increasing efficiency and objectivity. | 10-02-2014 |
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20100027543 | LAYER TWO MAC FLUSHING/RE-ROUTING - A method may include receiving a packet including a destination address, identifying a destination address entry based on the destination address, the destination address entry including an address identifier, comparing the address identifier to an event identifier, determining whether an event occurred based on the comparison, and forwarding the packet on an alternate path if it is determined that the event occurred. | 02-04-2010 |
20100309912 | FORWARDING FRAMES IN A COMPUTER NETWORK USING SHORTEST PATH BRIDGING - Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for forwarding frames in a computer network using shortest path bridging (‘SPB’). The network includes multiple bridges, and each edge bridge is assigned a unique service virtual local area network (‘VLAN’) identifier. One of the bridges receives a frame for transmission to a destination node. The received frame includes a service VLAN identifier for the ingress bridge through which the frame entered the network and a customer VLAN identifier. The one bridge identifies an SPB forwarding tree in dependence upon the service VLAN identifier. The SPB forwarding tree specifies a shortest route in the network from the ingress bridge through the one bridge to the other bridges in the network. The one bridge then forwards the received frame to the egress bridge without MAC-in-MAC encapsulation in dependence upon the SPB forwarding tree and the customer VLAN identifier. | 12-09-2010 |
20110271009 | INTERFACE GROUPING FOR MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL ADDRESS PINNING IN A LAYER TWO NETWORK - An example network device includes a set of interfaces, a control unit, and a forwarding engine. The control unit includes an interface group information repository that stores data defining interface groups. Each interface group includes one or more interfaces. The forwarding engine includes a media access control (MAC) address repository that stores a mapping of a first interface to a source MAC address, and a MAC address management module that determines whether an interface group to which the first interface is assigned is the same interface group as the interface group to which a second interface is assigned. The control unit is configured to receive a layer two (L2) communication via the second interface, wherein the L2 communication includes the source MAC address. The forwarding engine dynamically updates the MAC address repository based on the determination of the MAC address management module. | 11-03-2011 |
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20120222005 | OFF-HEAP DIRECT-MEMORY DATA STORES, METHODS OF CREATING AND/OR MANAGING OFF-HEAP DIRECT-MEMORY DATA STORES, AND/OR SYSTEMS INCLUDING OFF-HEAP DIRECT-MEMORY DATA STORE - Certain example embodiments relate to a highly-concurrent, predictable, fast, self-managed, in-process space for storing data that is hidden away from the garbage collector and its related pauses. More particularly, certain example embodiments relate to improved memory management techniques for computer systems that leverage an off-heap direct-memory data store that is massively scalable and highly efficient. The off-heap store may be provided in connection with a Java-based environment, and garbage collection may be completely or nearly completely avoided for the off-heap store. The off-heap store may be integrated into a tiered storage solution in certain example embodiments. | 08-30-2012 |
20140351549 | OFF-HEAP DIRECT-MEMORY DATA STORES, METHODS OF CREATING AND/OR MANAGING OFF-HEAP DIRECT-MEMORY DATA STORES, AND/OR SYSTEMS INCLUDING OFF-HEAP DIRECT-MEMORY DATA STORE - Certain example embodiments relate to a highly-concurrent, predictable, fast, self-managed, in-process space for storing data that is hidden away from the garbage collector and its related pauses. More particularly, certain example embodiments relate to improved memory management techniques for computer systems that leverage an off-heap direct-memory data store that is massively scalable and highly efficient. The off-heap store may be provided in connection with a Java-based environment, and garbage collection may be completely or nearly completely avoided for the off-heap store. The off-heap store may be integrated into a tiered storage solution in certain example embodiments. | 11-27-2014 |
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20110082856 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING QUERIES - There is provided a computer-implemented method of optimizing a query. An exemplary method comprises receiving a first query configured to generate a result set. The query may comprise an operation for an outer table, a first predicate, and a second predicate. The second predicate may comprise a subquery correlated to the operation. Additionally, the first predicate and the second predicate may be disjunctive. The exemplary method also comprises generating a first query tree representing the first query, and generating a second query tree representing a second query. The second query may be configured to generate the result set, and may not comprise the subquery. The exemplary method additionally comprises generating a query plan based on the second query tree. | 04-07-2011 |
20120130986 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING A DATABASE - One example discloses a database management system that can comprise a memory for storing computer executable instructions and a processing unit for accessing the memory and executing the computer executable instructions. The computer executable instructions can comprise a query data collector to access a query repository table to determine if a first query plan for a first configuration executed on a relational database has a lowest resource cost of execution between the first query plan and a second query plan for a second configuration. The query repository table can include a plurality of query records with annotated query plans, each annotated query plan comprising text sufficient to generate a query plan of a certain form. | 05-24-2012 |
20120296890 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROWSET INSERTS - There is provided a computer-executed method of executing a rowset insert against a database. The method comprises receiving a structured query language statement (SQL) specifying the rowset insert. Additionally, the method comprises raising an error for a first row of the rowset insert. The method also comprises updating a table for a second row of the rowset insert. Further, the method comprises updating a materialized view of the table based on the second row. Additionally, the method comprises performing a commit to the database. The table comprises the second row, and the updated materialized view is consistent with the table. | 11-22-2012 |