04th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 56 |
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20110022343 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALIBRATION AND TESTING OF SCIENTIFIC MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT - There is described herein method and apparatus to produce precision profiles for scientific measurement equipment in general, and in particular clinical laboratory analyzers, and to use those profiles for various purposes in using, designing, calibrating and managing such equipment, for example to carry out critical laboratory testing. In this approach, either the analyzers' quality control data or serial patient data are numerically reduced to generate graphical precision profiles. Precision profiles for serial patient data show increased (im)precision vs time implying increased patient variation over increased time. Precision profiles for quality control data, according to one implementation, can demonstrate three different zones: 1) increased imprecision for quality control determinations that are close spaced (implies the discovery of an error condition and rapid reanalysis, 2) the usual imprecision and 3) a zone of increased imprecision which indicates either a need for a quality control analysis or re-calibration. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022344 | DATA TRANSFORMATION METHODS FOR MULTIPLEXED ASSAYS - Methods to improve the performance of an array assay are described. A correlation between fluorescence intensity-related parameters and negative control values of the assay is determined. The parameters are then adjusted as a function of the correlation. As a result, sensitivity of the assay is improved without changes in its specificity. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022345 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AT LEAST ONE ACTUATOR FOR THRUST REVERSER COWLINGS ON A TURBOJET ENGINE AND METHOD FOR TESTING SAID SYSTEM - The invention relates to a system for controlling at least one actuator ( | 2011-01-27 |
20110022346 | CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEMS - A computerized hardware and software system and a method for processing and storing measured data from various inputs (sensors) that reduces the data memory requirements and data transmission requirements of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and/or refrigeration systems (HVAC&R) by creating a more compact data structure that retains data resolution, as required, based on the intended use of the measured data. The system and method are especially applicable to data processing and storage associated with the monitoring of such thermal equipment and systems but may be used in other data collection of other types of systems where system performance monitoring is desired. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022347 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT GREEN'S FUNCTION USING WEIGHT FUNCTION - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for calculating a temperature dependent Green's function using an appropriate weight function. The apparatus includes a material temperature change information input unit inputting change information of a material temperature; and a temperature dependent Green's function calculation unit receiving the change information of the material temperature through the material temperature change information input unit, calculating a temperature dependent Green's function using a weight function, and outputting the calculated result. According to aspects of embodiments, accuracy in the calculation of a thermal stress value can be improved by designing the weight function such that changes in physical properties of a material that change according to temperature changes are considered. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022348 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECIDE VERTICAL TRAVEL CONDITION USING SENSOR - A method and apparatus for determining a vertical driving state using a sensor which determines the driving state according to a gravity change of a moving object by using an acceleration sensor are provided. The method of determining a driving state using a sensor includes: reading a sensor output signal according to a gravity value of a moving object while being driven, from a sensor which senses a gravity value of the moving object with respect to a direction of gravity; and determining whether the moving object is in a level driving state or inclining/declining-slope driving state by comparing the read sensor output signal with a predetermined reference range. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022349 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING A MOTION PARAMETER - A system for estimating motion parameters corresponding to a user. The system may generally include a receiver operable to receive a signal from an external source, an inertial sensor operable to be coupled with the user and arbitrarily oriented relative to the direction of user motion for generation of a signal corresponding to user motion, and a processing system in communication with the receiver and inertial sensor. The processing system can be operable to utilize the receiver signal to estimate a first parameter corresponding to a first motion parameter type, utilize the inertial sensor signal to estimate a second parameter corresponding to a second motion parameter type, generate a user-specific motion model to correlate the first parameter type and second parameter type using at least the first and second estimated parameters, utilize the inertial sensor signal to estimate a third parameter corresponding to the second parameter type, and utilize the motion model and the third parameter to estimate a fourth parameter corresponding to the first parameter type independent of the receiver signal. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022350 | System for Detecting Orientation of Magnetically Coupled Devices - A device includes a receiving surface to magnetically retain the orientation-dependent device in any one of a plurality of possible orientations. The detection device includes circuitry that detects the relative orientation of the orientation-dependent device based on a magnetic orientation of the orientation-dependent device relative to the detection device. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022351 | CAPACITIVE POSITION SENSOR - A sensor for determining a position for an adjacent object in two dimensions is described. The sensor comprises a substrate with a sensitive area defined by a pattern of electrodes, wherein the pattern of electrodes includes a first group of drive elements interconnected to form a plurality of row electrodes extending along a first direction, a second group of drive elements interconnected to form a plurality of column electrodes extending along a second direction, and a group of sense elements interconnected to form a sense electrode extending along both the first and second directions. The sensor further comprises a controller comprising a drive unit for applying drive signals to the row and column electrodes, and a sense unit for measuring sense signals representing a degree of coupling of the drive signals applied to the row and column electrodes to the sense electrode. Thus a 2D position sensor requiring only a single sense channel is provided. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022352 | BODY MOVEMENT MEASURING DEVICE, MOBILE PHONE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE BODY MOVEMENT MEASURING DEVICE, BODY MOVEMENT MEASURING DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH THE BODY MOVEMENT MEASURING DEVICE CONTROL PROGRAM IS RECORDED - A portable terminal ( | 2011-01-27 |
20110022353 | IMPEDANCE-SCANNING QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE - Method for detecting a change in mass with a quartz crystal impedance-scanning microbalance, which can be connected to an evaluation device, wherein the quartz crystal microbalance is designed to transmit the measurement points recorded at a predetermined data recording rate as raw data to the evaluation device, comprising at least the following steps: linearly fitting the measurement points of the raw data to a fractional rational function and determining at least one resonance frequency from the fitted measurement points of the raw data, wherein a change in the at least one resonance frequency corresponds to an effective change in mass. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022354 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTION-INDEPENDENT OUTLIER DETECTION IN STREAMING DATA - The present invention relates to an iterative method and an apparatus for distribution-independent detection of intermediate outliers and outliers in the distribution tail of streamed data. A considerable sequence of streamed data is sequentially read and subsequently assigned to matching bins. The bins are adaptively allocated when, where and if they are needed. Each bin range expands concurrently with the distribution range of the accumulating items assigned to the bin, adding a margin. For every N'th read item, overlapping or adjoining bins are merged, whereupon the bins are assessed for insider preclusion. Information regarding outliers is extracted from the remaining outlier bins when the entire data sequence has been processed. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022355 | Network Characterization, Feature Extraction and Application to Classification - Methods, systems and apparatus for characterizing networks are presented. For example, a method of characterizing a network represented by a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges is provided. The method may be implemented on a processor device and includes calculating, for example, by the processor device, a passthrough count of at least a portion of the network. The passthrough count includes a count of a number of passthroughs in the at least a portion of the network. A passthrough includes one of the plurality of nodes, a directed edge of the plurality of edges coupled to the one of the plurality of nodes, and another edge of the plurality of edges coupled to the one of the plurality of nodes. At most one of the directed edge and the other edge is directed towards the one of the plurality of nodes. At most one of the directed edge and the other edge is directed away from the one of the plurality of nodes. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022356 | DETERMINING PERFORMANCE SENSITIVITIES OF COMPUTATIONAL UNITS - Performance sensitivities to a change in performance capabilities of computational units of a computer system are determined based on measured utilization metrics for each of the computational units. In order to determine the performance sensitivities, in one approach, the computational units are operated at a first performance level, and respective first utilization metrics are determined. The computational units are then operated at a second performance level and respective second utilization metrics are determined. The sensitivity to performance capability change, e.g., a frequency change, is determined based on the respective first and second utilization metrics. The performance sensitivities of the computational units to a change in performance capability are continually updated in response to, e.g., a process context change of a computational unit or in response to a predetermined period of time elapsing since the last sensitivity to a performance capability change was determined for a computational unit. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022357 | LOCATION DETERMINING SYSTEM - A location measurement system comprises: a GPS receiver for attachment to a person and for determining earth location of the person; a display for attachment to the person; memory for storing map data; a processor configured to process earth location and the map data to instruct display the person's current location with a map on the display. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022358 | DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOME APPLIANCE - A home appliance diagnostic system and method are disclosed. A home appliance outputs product information in the form of a sound signal, which is transmitted to a service center at a remote site over a communication network so that the service center can readily check the state of the home appliance. The home appliance performs a sound signal re-output operation in such a manner that it re-outputs the same product information in the form of a different sound signal. Therefore, it is possible to improve a sound recognition rate, so as to improve fault diagnosis accuracy. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022359 | System and Method for Measuring Greenness of an Information Technology Environment - A computer-implemented method for measuring the “greenness” of an IT environment is provided. The method comprises extracting asset data from a plurality of IT assets located on a network and extracting one or more greenness attributes from each of the plurality of IT assets. Key performance indicators are calculated, using the one or more greenness attributes, for each of the plurality of IT assets, and the key performance indicators are presented to a user in a graphical user interface. According to more particular embodiments, the greenness attributes comprise numerical values representing one or more of power requirements, power consumption, and resource utilization. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022360 | MULTIPLE AXES SCANNING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING RADIATION FROM A RADIATION SOURCE - A three dimensional radiation measurement scanning system includes a circular drive operable with horizontal and vertical drives for moving a radiation detector through first, second and third orthogonal axes in a three dimensional scanning of the detector in a water tank. Motor are coupled to the drives and activated by a controller for providing the movement of the radiation detector which providing radiation field sensing signals for locations of the detector throughout the tank. A reference detector is fixed for comparing its radiation field measurements with those of the scanned radiation detector. An offset mount carries the radiation detector allowing it to be extended beyond the circular ring gear during horizontal movement of the radiation detector and thus position the radiation detector at wall surfaces of the water tank. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022361 | SOUND PROCESSING DEVICE, SOUND PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A sound processing device includes: a nonlinear processing unit that outputs a plurality of sound signals including sound sources existing in predetermined areas by performing a nonlinear process for a plurality of observed signals that are generated by a plurality of sound sources and are observed by a plurality of sensors; a signal selecting unit that selects a sound signal including a specific sound source from among the plurality of sound signals output by the nonlinear processing unit and the observed signal including the plurality of sound sources; and a sound separating unit that separates a sound signal including the specific sound source that is selected by the signal selecting unit from the observed signal selected by the signal selecting unit. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022362 | ENERGY USAGE ANALYSIS IN SERVO DRIVE SYSTEMS - Systems and methods analyze energy consumption of a servo motor driven system during a conceptual design phase thereof. By breaking up loss of the servo motor driven system to its loss constituents, a designer tool is provided, which readily informs a user regarding losses that are created from a particular design. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022363 | ROBUST OPTIMIZATION-BASED DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR RESERVOIR DEVELOPMENT PLANNING - A robust optimization-based decision support tool for reservoir development planning can comprise a source of input data, an optimization model, a high fidelity model for simulating the reservoir, and one or more solution routines interfacing with the optimization model. The optimization model can consider unknown parameters having uncertainties directly within the optimization model. The model can systematically address uncertain data, for example, comprehensively or even taking all uncertain data into account. Accordingly, the optimization model can provide flexible or robust optimization solutions that remain feasible over an uncertainty space. Once the reservoir model is optimized, final development plans may be generated. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022364 | SIMULATION APPARATUS, SIMULATION METHOD, AND SIMULATION PROGRAM - A disclosed device includes a simulation apparatus which simulates a shift in signal characteristics occurring in a wiring pattern formed in a printed wiring board including a first database that stores wiring pattern attribute information and wiring pattern positional information, a second database storing solid lack portion size information and solid lack portion positional information, a third database that stores shift amount information relative to positional relationships between the wiring patterns and the solid lack portions, a shift amount processing unit configured to obtain the shift amount of the signal characteristics in the wiring pattern corresponding to the wiring pattern attribute information which is input based on the wiring pattern positional information corresponding to the wiring pattern attribute information which is input, the solid lack portion positional information, the solid lack portion size information, and the shift amount information. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022365 | MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION DESIGN SUPPORT APPARATUS AND METHOD - An embodiment relates to a multi-objective optimization design supporting technique to reduces the computational complexity of QE/CAD. When the input logical expression generated by a logical-expression-with-qualifier generation unit is satisfied in regard to the sample point included in a certain piece of cell information for each value of the same design parameter, a first cell processing unit does not evaluate the input logical expression on the cell information including other sample points having a value equal to or smaller than the value of a predetermined design variable (for example, a design variable indicating a yield) corresponding to the sample point above, but selects it as the cell information for an output of a logical expression without a qualifier. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022366 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING AND UTILIZING A MASS FLOW SPRINKLER COEFFICIENT - Systems and methods for determining, characterizing and/or predicting the impact of a sprinkler discharge spray on a fire induced mass flow through a vent, preferably a doorway, of a compartment. Provided are systems and methods for determining a sprinkler coefficient that characterizes the ability of a sprinkler to reduce a fire induced mass flow from the compartment. The sprinkler coefficient preferably defines a ratio of a mass flow from a compartment, in the absence of a discharging sprinkler, to the mass flow from a compartment, in the presence of a discharging sprinkler. Accordingly, the systems and methods herein provide for the sprinkler coefficient to define a mass flow equation by accounting for the influence of a discharging sprinkler spray and provide for a new fire induced mass flow calculator. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022367 | Processes for Determining the Strength of a Plate-Type Exchanger, for Producing a Plate-Type Heat Exchanger, and for Producing a Process Engineering System - A process for determining the strength of a plate-type heat exchanger includes computing the temperature stresses of the plate-type heat exchanger within the heat exchanger during its operation by a three-dimensional numerical simulation. Based on the computed temperature stresses, the strength of the plate-type heat exchanger is determined. The process for producing a plate-type heat exchanger with separating plates and profiles of metal uses this strength determination for establishing one or more mechanical parameters of the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger is manufactured with the one or more mechanical parameters. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022368 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WELL PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION - A system, software program, and method to evaluate the performance of a well in a subsurface reservoir are disclosed. A new well module is used to evaluate new wells to be placed in fluid communication with the subsurface reservoir. An existing well module is used to evaluate existing wells that are in fluid communication with the subsurface reservoir. Wells can be evaluated to calculate performance characteristics, optimize performance, resolve any associated performance issues, or a combination thereof. A well screening module is used to quickly calculate properties of a well. A visual display is used to display outputs from the new well module, the existing well module, or the well screening module. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022369 | Modeling States of an Entity - Methods, systems and apparatus for modeling states of an entity are presented. For example, a method, implemented on a processor device, of modeling one or more states of an entity is presented. The method includes obtaining a training dataset for training a model by applying a stimulus to the entity, forming a set of model parameters, and using the set of model parameters to form the model, such that the model is configured to predict at least one of the one or more states of the entity. At least one model parameter of the set of model parameters changes with time as a result of dependency of the at least one model parameter on the stimulus and as a result of time-dependency of the stimulus. The steps of obtaining the training dataset, forming the set of model parameters and using the set of model parameters are implemented on the processor device. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022370 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODELING BONE STRUCTURE FROM COLLAGEN BUNDLE ORIENTATIONS - The present invention relates to the characterization of human bone microstructure that is applicable to methods of characterizing and predicting fracture initiation, propagation, and arrest. These methods involve the collagen orientation in proximity of osteocyte lacunae, such as the lacunar-ECM interface and perilacunar region, and the role that collagen orientation plays in micro-biomechanics. In particular, collagen orientation at the lacuna-matrix interface optimizes the magnitude of stresses during the elastic phase. Further, the role of collagen-apatite orientation at the interface between matrix and osteocyte lacuna delays micro-crack initiation, propagation, and arrest. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022371 | Follicular Unit Transplantation Planner and Methods of its Use - A system for planning transplantation of follicular units in a body surface of a patient includes a user interface comprising a software-controlled processor, a monitor, and an input device, wherein the system is configured for acquiring images of the body surface, processing the images to produce a three-dimensional model of the body surface, displaying a graphic rendering of the body surface model on the monitor, and displaying on the body surface model a proposed recipient area for implanting follicular units based at least in part on an actual or desired physical characteristic of the patient. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022372 | CLOTHING SIMULATION APPARATUS, CLOTHING SIMULATION PROGRAM, AND CLOTHING SIMULATION METHOD - A clothing simulation apparatus precisely determines clothing pressure for bringing a clothing into tight contact with a human body. A fitting part | 2011-01-27 |
20110022373 | MODEL CHECKING OF LIVENESS PROPERTY IN A PHASE ABSTRACTED MODEL - Phase abstraction may be utilized to increase efficiency of model checking techniques. A liveness property may be checked in respect to a phase abstracted model by modifying the liveness property in accordance with the phase abstracted model. A fairness property may be modified to ensure that the fairness property is held by the model checker. A counter-example produced by a model checker is modified to be in accordance to an original model. The counter-example comprises a repetitive behavior. The counter-example may be modified to shorten the repetitive behavior or to apply the repetitive behavior in an earlier cycle of the counter-example. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022374 | Transparent Flow Model Simulation Implementing Bi-Directional Links - The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing a flow model simulation. In an illustrative embodiment, annotated simulation settings are associated with a source model in response to receiving the source model. The annotated simulation settings are derived from at least one of a set of user-defined simulation settings and default simulation settings. The annotated source model is transformed into an internal domain model using a set of links that are generated using a set of link rules. The set of links maps a set of source model elements to a set of internal domain model elements of the internal domain model. Results from a simulation of the internal domain model are mapped back to the source model to identify a context for the results. Thereafter, a target view model is generated from the internal domain model. The target view model includes the results presented in the context of the source model. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022375 | METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING A SIGNAL FROM DISTORTED EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS AND DEVICE FOR ITS IMPLEMENTATION - A method for acquiring ( | 2011-01-27 |
20110022376 | ESD ANALYSIS DEVICE AND ESD ANALYSIS PROGRAM USED FOR DESIGNING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF DESIGNING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - An ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) analysis device includes: a circuit simulation unit; a border cell extraction unit; and a check unit. The circuit simulation unit executes a circuit simulation of design data of a semiconductor integrated circuit including a plurality of circuits of a plurality of power supply systems, to calculate potentials in a plurality of current paths between pads of different two of the plurality of power supply systems, when one of an ESD current and an ESD voltage is applied between the pads. The border cell extraction unit extracts border cells from circuits of the different two of the plurality of power supply systems, wherein the circuits are included in the plurality of circuits, the border cells input and/or output signals between the circuits. The check unit checks an ESD tolerance by calculating a potential difference between the border cells, based on the calculated potentials, the extracted border cells. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022377 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In an information processing device connected to an external device via a network, the external device includes an application platform of an image forming device and the information processing device includes a platform emulator that emulates the application platform. The platform emulator includes an implementing information acquiring part that receives a list of information items of interfaces implemented on the application platform in the external device from the external device and stores the list of information items in a holding part, a determining part that determines, in response to an interface calling request from an application using the platform emulator, whether an interface is implemented in the external device based on the stored list of information items, and an external calling part that transmits, when the interface is implemented, a request of execution of the interface to the external device. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022378 | Translation system using phonetic symbol input and method and interface thereof - This specification provided a translation system using phonetic symbol input and the method and interface thereof. The entered phonetic symbols are used as input information. The input information is compared with the translational explanation in the translation database. When there is a match in the comparison, the corresponding word is loaded and displayed for the user to select. After the word selection, the corresponding translational explanation is loaded and displayed. This increases the convenience in translation. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022379 | On-Demand Language Translation for Television Programs - In an embodiment, a method of providing an on demand translation service is provided. A subscriber may be charged a reduced fee or no fee for use of the on demand translation service in exchange for displaying commercial messages to the subscriber, the commercial messages being selected based on subscriber information. A multimedia signal including information in a source language may be received. The information may be obtained as text in the source language from the multimedia signal. The text may be translated from the source language to a target language. Translated information, based on the translated text, may be transmitted to a processing device for presentation to the subscriber. The received multimedia signal may be sent to a multimedia device for viewing. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022380 | PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION AS A GENERALIZED TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM - Systems and methods are described that facilitate phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT) incorporating bigram (or higher n-gram) language models by modeling bi-phrases as nodes in a graph. Additionally, construction of a translation is modeled as a “tour” amongst the nodes of the graph, such that a translation solution is generated by treating the graph as a generalized traveling salesman problem (GTSP) and solving for an optimal tour. The overall cost of a tour is computed by adding the costs associated with the edges traversed during the tour. Thus, the described systems and methods map the SMT problem directly into a GTSP problem, which itself can be directly converted into a TSP problem. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022381 | ACTIVE LEARNING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RAPID PORTING OF MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS TO NEW LANGUAGE PAIRS OR NEW DOMAINS - Systems and methods for active learning of statistical machine translation systems through dynamic creation and updating of parallel corpus. The systems and methods provided create accurate parallel corpus entries from a test set of sentences, words, phrases, etc. by calculating confidence scores for particular translations. Translations with high confidence scores are added directly to the corpus and the translations with low confidence scores are presented to human translations for corrections. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022382 | Adaptive Reduction of Noise Signals and Background Signals in a Speech-Processing System - An audio input signal is filtered using an adaptive filter to generate a prediction output signal with reduced noise, wherein the filter is implemented using a plurality of coefficients to generate a plurality of prediction errors and to generate an error from the plurality of prediction errors, wherein the absolute values of the coefficients are continuously reduced by a plurality of reduction parameters. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022383 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING NOISY SPEECH SIGNAL, APPARATUS FOR SAME AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A sound quality improvement method for a noisy speech signal according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of estimating a noise signal of an input noisy speech signal by performing a predetermined noise estimation procedure for the noisy speech signal; measuring a relative magnitude difference to represent a relative difference between the noisy speech signal and the estimated noise signal; calculating a modified overweighting gain function with a non-linear structure in which a relatively high gain is allocated to a low-frequency band than a high-frequency band by using the relative magnitude difference; and obtaining an enhanced speech signal by multiplying the noisy speech signal and a time-varying gain function obtained by using the overweighting gain function. Accordingly, the amount of calculation for noise estimation is small, and large-capacity memory is not required. Furthermore, the present invention can be easily implemented in hardware or software, and the accuracy of noise estimation can be increase because an adaptive procedure can be performed on each frequency sub-band. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022384 | WIND TURBINE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INPUTTING COMMANDS TO A WIND TURBINE CONTROLLER - A method and a control system are provided for inputting commands to a wind turbine controller during a service or maintenance procedure. A command orally input by a user is transformed into an electrical signal representing the orally input command. The electrical signal is transformed into an input command signal which is further transformed into a reproduction signal. A user is provided the reproduction signal along with a confirmation request in a form recognized by a user, such as visually or speech representation. After the user confirms the request, a signal based on the input command is sent to the wind tower controller. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022385 | METHOD AND EQUIPMENT OF PATTERN RECOGNITION, ITS PROGRAM AND ITS RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention provides a method and equipment of pattern recognition capable of efficiently pruning partial hypotheses without lowering recognition accuracy, its pattern recognition program, and its recording medium. In a second search unit, a likelihood calculation unit calculates an acoustic likelihood by matching time series data of acoustic feature parameters against a lexical tree stored in a second database and an acoustic model stored in a third database to determine an accumulated likelihood by accumulating the acoustic likelihood in a time direction. A self-transition unit causes each partial hypothesis to make a self-transition in a search process. An LR transition unit causes each partial hypothesis to make an RL transition. A reward attachment unit adds a reward R(x) in accordance with the number of reachable words to each partial hypothesis to raise the accumulated likelihood. A pruning unit excludes partial hypotheses with less likelihood from search targets. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022386 | SPEECH RECOGNITION TUNING TOOL - Systems and methods for tuning a dictionary of a speech recognition system includes accessing a voice mail record of a user, accessing a recorded audio file of a name of the user in the voice mail record spoken by the user, providing the audio file to a speech recognition system, processing the audio file in the speech recognition system and obtaining a text result, determining whether a confidence score of the text result is below a predetermined threshold, and adding, at least, the name of the user to a list of low confidence names. Alternate spellings for the low confidence names can then be added to the dictionary. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022387 | CORRECTING TRANSCRIBED AUDIO FILES WITH AN EMAIL-CLIENT INTERFACE - Methods and systems for requesting a transcription of audio data. One method includes displaying a send-for-transcription button within an email-client interface on a computer-controlled display, and automatically sending a selected email message and associated audio data to a transcription server as a request for a transcription of the associated audio data when a user selects the send-for-transcription button. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022388 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION USING SOCIAL NETWORKS - In an example embodiment, there is disclosed an apparatus comprising an audio interface configured to receive an audio signal, a data interface is configured to communicate with at least one social graph, and logic is coupled to the audio interface and the data interface. The logic is configured to identify a calling party. The logic is further configured to acquire data representative of a called party from the audio signal. The logic is configured to initiate a search of the at least one social graph for the data representative of the called party to identify the called party responsive to acquiring the data representative of the called party. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022389 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING PERFORMANCE OF VOICE RECOGNITION IN A PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method for improving the performance of voice recognition in a portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a voice recognition management unit, and a controller. After recognizing a user's voice and extracting at least one voice parameter, the voice recognition management unit determines if the extracted at least one voice parameter meets a criterion for determining one of success and failure of voice recognition. The controller analyzes a result of the determination by the voice recognition management unit and outputs a result of the analysis. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022390 | SPEECH DEVICE, SPEECH CONTROL PROGRAM, AND SPEECH CONTROL METHOD - In order to speak numerals in a manner readily comprehensible to a user, a speech device includes a voice synthesis portion | 2011-01-27 |
20110022391 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN EXCITATION SIGNAL FOR BACKGROUND NOISE - A method and apparatus for generating an excitation signal for background noise are provided. The method includes: generating a quasi excitation signal by utilizing coding parameters in a speech coding/decoding stage and a transition length of an excitation signal; and obtaining the excitation signal for background noise in a transition stage by generating a weighted sum of the quasi excitation signal and a random excitation signal of a background noise frame. Moreover, the apparatus includes: a quasi excitation signal generation unit and a transition stage excitation signal acquisition unit. Through the synthesizing scheme of comfortable background noise according to the present invention, the transition of a synthesized signal from speech to background noise could be more natural, smooth and continuous, which makes the listeners feel more comfortable. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022392 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A framework is provided which performs location-based analysis using an individual feature such as a stress level obtained based on biological information. An information processing system includes an acquisition unit which acquires frequency power information of a voice inputted at a mobile terminal having a voice communication function, and position information of a base station device that relayed voice communication of the mobile terminal when the voice was inputted; a storage unit which stores the acquired frequency power information and the acquired position information in association with each other; an acceptance unit which accepts designation of an area; and an output unit which identifies the position information related to the designated area, acquires the frequency power information associated with the identified position information with reference to the storage unit, obtains a stress level of a user of the mobile terminal in the designated area based on frequency power information of a frequency greater than or equal to a threshold value within the acquired frequency power information, and outputs the stress level in association with the designated area. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022393 | MULTIMODE USER INTERFACE OF A DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM FOR INPUTTING AND PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION - In a method for multimode information input and/or adaptation of the display of a display and control device, input signals of different modality are detected which are supplied via the device to a voice recognition unit, thus initiating a desired function and/or display as an output signal, which are displayed on the device and/or output by voice output. Touch and/or gesture input signals are provided on or to the device for selection of an object intended for interaction and activation of the voice recognition unit and for the vocabulary which is provided for interaction to be restricted with the selection of the object and/or activation of the voice recognition unit as a function of the selected object, on the basis of which a voice command from the restricted vocabulary is added to the selected object as an information input and/or for adaptation of the display, via the voice recognition unit. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022394 | Visual similarity - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for visual similarity. A method includes receiving a stream of video content, generating interpretations of the received video content using speech/natural language processing (NLP), associating the interpretations of the received video content with images extracted from video content based on timeline, and using the interpretations to obtain interpretations of other images or other video content. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022395 | Machine for Emotion Detection (MED) in a communications device - A system and method monitors the emotional content of human voice signals after the signals have been compressed by standard telecommunication equipment. By analyzing voice signals after compression and decompression, less information is processed, saving power and reducing the amount of equipment used. During conversation, a user of the disclosed methodology may obtain information in various formats regarding the emotional state of the other party. The user may then view the veracity, composure, and stress level of the other party. The user may also view the emotional content of their own transmitted speech. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022396 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND USER INTERFACE FOR AUTOMATICALLY CREATING AN ATMOSPHERE, PARTICULARLY A LIGHTING ATMOSPHERE, BASED ON A KEYWORD INPUT - The invention relates to the automatic creation of an atmosphere, particularly a lighting atmosphere, based on a keyword input such as a keyword typed or spoken by a user. A basic idea of the invention is to enable a user of an atmosphere creation system such as a lighting system to automatically create a specific atmosphere by simply using a keyword which is input to the system. The keyword, for example “eat”, “read”, “relax”, “sunny”, “cool”, “party”, “Christmas”, “beach”, may be spoken or typed by the user and may enable the user to find and explore numerous atmospheres in an interactive and playful way in embodiments of the invention. Finding atmosphere elements related to the keyword may be done in various ways according to embodiments of the invention. The invention allows also a non expert in designing or creating atmosphere scenes to control the creation of a desired atmosphere in an atmosphere creation system. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022397 | SLOT POSITION CODING OF TTT SYNTAX OF SPATIAL AUDIO CODING APPLICATION - Spatial information associated with an audio signal is encoded into a bitstream, which can be transmitted to a decoder or recorded to a storage media. The bitstream can include different syntax related to time, frequency and spatial domains. In some embodiments, the bitstream includes one or more data structures (e.g., frames) that contain ordered sets of slots for which parameters can be applied. The data structures can be fixed or variable. The data structure can include position information that can be used by a decoder to identify the correct slot for which a given parameter set is applied. The slot position information can be encoded with a fixed number of bits or a variable number of bits based on the data structure type. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022398 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSCODING AUDIO DATA - A method and apparatus for transcoding audio data. The method includes determining if AAC joint stereo exists, running a reference AC-3 rematrixing when the AAC joint stereo does not exist, when AAC joint stereo does exist, enabling rematrixing when the number of corresponding AAC bands is greater than half the size of the band, otherwise, running reference AC-3 rematrixing. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022399 | Auto Detection Method for Frame Header - A method for auto-detecting a frame header is provided. By searching and comparing content of input frames and predetermined sync words, decoding efficiency is increased and the probability of incurring program errors is reduced. Once decoding errors occur, an auto-recovery mechanism soon recovers the audio decoding system operation. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022400 | AUDIO RESUME PLAYBACK DEVICE AND AUDIO RESUME PLAYBACK METHOD - An audio playback device includes an interruption-information storage memory which holds frame information at the time of an interruption of playback, a compressed-stream control section which calculates a start position of reading the compressed stream from a recording medium, and reads the compressed stream accordingly, a compressed-stream decode section which decodes the compressed audio stream and transmits decoding information on the frame to the compressed-stream control section as additional resume information, and an output control section which outputs a decoding result. When playback is restarted after an interruption, playback can be restarted without any section not played back in terms of time and without any frequency range not played back, by calculating the start position of reading the compressed stream based on both the additional resume information and the frame information at the time of the interruption, and by reading the compressed stream accordingly. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022401 | SLOT POSITION CODING OF OTT SYNTAX OF SPATIAL AUDIO CODING APPLICATION - Spatial information associated with an audio signal is encoded into a bitstream, which can be transmitted to a decoder or recorded to a storage media. The bitstream can include different syntax related to time, frequency and spatial domains. In some embodiments, the bitstream includes one or more data structures (e.g., frames) that contain ordered sets of slots for which parameters can be applied. The data structures can be fixed or variable. The data structure can include position information that can be used by a decoder to identify the correct slot for which a given parameter set is applied. The slot position information can be encoded with either a fixed number of bits or a variable number of bits based on the data structure type. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022402 | ENHANCED CODING AND PARAMETER REPRESENTATION OF MULTICHANNEL DOWNMIXED OBJECT CODING - An audio object coder for generating an encoded object signal using a plurality of audio objects includes a downmix information generator for generating downmix information indicating a distribution of the plurality of audio objects into at least two downmix channels, an audio object parameter generator for generating object parameters for the audio objects, and an output interface for generating the imported audio output signal using the downmix information and the object parameters. An audio synthesizer uses the downmix information for generating output data usable for creating a plurality of output channels of the predefined audio output configuration. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022403 | SOUND RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A sound recording apparatus having a driving unit generates a sound signal from an input sound, detects the level of the sound signal, adjusts the level of the generated sound signal at an amplification factor corresponding to the detected level, and processes the adjusted sound signal to prevent an amplified sound signal from containing a sound signal generated upon driving the driving unit. The sound recording apparatus controls to replace a sound signal in a predetermined period after instructing driving of the driving unit with a signal calculated from a sound signal in the first period after the predetermined period, and to substantially equalize an amplification factor when driving of the driving unit is instructed and that in the first period. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022404 | DEVELOPMENT OF TRAVEL PLANS INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT INDICATION - To assist in the development of travel plans, at least one first and at least one second user input mechanism is provided via a graphical user interface to a user. In response, first travel inputs and second travel inputs are received and respectively used to derive baseline and revised travel parameters, which travel parameters respectively include a baseline and revised environmental impact indication. The baseline and revised travel parameters, including the environmental impact indications, are presented via the graphical user interface. Difference values between the respective baseline and revised travel parameters may be determined and likewise presented. Furthermore, cost and commute time indications may be determined in a similar fashion, i.e., based on the first and second travel inputs, and subsequently presented. The environmental impact indications may be provided in the form of estimated carbon emissions. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022405 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING CUSTOMER INFORMATION - A system and method of managing customer information. The method includes recording customer information and preferences for interacting with a plurality of providers by a computer, storing the customer information in a profile by the computer, and using the customer information to facilitate interaction between provider computers and the customer by the computer. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022406 | Apparatus and method for providing security in an online gaming and/or digital environment - An apparatus and method for providing security and protecting against loss in an online gaming or digital environment pertaining to the integrity, performance, functionality, usability, or existence of a digital asset, digital identity, and/or digital entity. Processing information for an exchange-of-risk-for-consideration, including a memory device for storing information for generating any one of a probability weighted pricing for a exchange-of-liabilities agreement and an agreement for providing such an exchange-of-risk-for-consideration for any one of loss, damage, interruption, deletion, disruption, corruption, theft, misappropriation, unauthorized copying, unauthorized access, unauthorized use, improper use, defacing, defaming, maligning, misrepresenting, wrongly portraying, impersonating, etc., and/or maintenance relating to the existence, function and/or use of a digital asset, digital identity, or digital entity; and a processor for generating information concerning any one of an probability weighted pricing for a exchange-of-liabilities agreement for providing a exchange-of-liabilities agreement or a exchange-of-liabilities product, and a device for displaying or outputting information concerning the risk exchange probability weighted pricing, the exchange-of-liabilities agreement, or the exchange-of-liabilities product; and the processor generating a data set containing information regarding any one of a liability and/or loss, a potential liability and/or loss, and a risk of loss, associated with the exchange-of-liabilities agreement or the exchange-of-liabilities product; and a processor for processing information to enable derivative credit products and/or services to be written based upon such exchange-of-liabilities agreements and products. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022407 | METHOD FOR ERROR RECOGNITION IN A CONTROL SYSTEM OF A MEDICAL TREATMENT AND/OR DIAGNOSIS DEVICE - A method for error recognition in a control system of a medical treatment and/or diagnosis device includes processing, by the control system, data in a regular operating mode and supplying, by the control system, test data of a test data record to a safety-critical component of the control system in a test mode of the control system. The safety-critical component of the control system is also checked in the test mode of the control system. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022408 | HEALTH PLAN SUBROGATION SYSTEM - A software system for providing assistance to third party healthcare payors and others in recouping funds to which they have a subrogation right. The system generally comprises a web enabled computer server and a dynamic information gathering module for instructing a processor to search a health insurance claims database for all claims of record meeting a specified criteria and display, and a search window for allowing a user to enter a selected black box drug and date range for searching said health insurance claims database. The software application can identify individuals who took a particular drug and had an adverse outcome, and can identify specific diagnoses which can be imputed back to drugs or chemical exposure (such as mesothelioma caused by exposure to asbestos, and liver toxicity caused by acetominophen (including combination drugs containing acetaminophen). The software system assists health insurers in collecting funds subject to a subrogation claim. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022409 | Patient Admission Tracking System - An emergency room tracking system that allows a medical treatment facility official or charge nurse to maintain and notate pertinent information relating to a patient from the moment the patient enters the emergency room until that patient is admitted to the hospital. A unitary spreadsheet display containing specific rows and boxes for multiple patients is used as the official conducts a method of data entry and notation at specified events. In this manner, the spreadsheet will identify sources of emergency room bottlenecks and other problems related to the flow of the emergency care facility. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022410 | HEALTHCARE CHARGE CAPTURE AND INFORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A provider-patient encounter device delivers medical information and services by receiving content from context sponsors, linking the content to service codes and presenting the content to providers. The service codes represent medical procedure codes and medical diagnosis codes. Each service code includes a provider demographic code, a service priority code, and a supplemental service code. The provider-patient encounter device presents a selectable list of service codes and presents content from a context sponsor assigned to a service code when the provider selects the service code from the selectable list of service codes. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022411 | NFC Communications for Implanted Medical Data Acquisition Devices - Implantable and/or wearable medical data acquisition devices ( | 2011-01-27 |
20110022412 | DISTILLATION AND USE OF HETEROGENEOUS HEALTH DATA - Health data may be received in various forms from various sources, and rules may be applied to perform reasoning on the data. In one example, health data from a variety of sources is distilled into a particular representation. Facts (such as conditions with which the patient has been diagnosed, medications that the patient is taking, etc.) are distilled into a particular medical vocabulary. These facts may then be exposed to the expert system through an object model, which applies rules to determine which alerts to issue to a patient. The alerts may then be communicated to the patient. Raw health data may be received in one form, and the raw data may be expressed in one of several standard medical terminologies, so that expert systems that expect to use a particular terminology can perform reasoning on the facts. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022413 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAINTAINING COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL RECORDS - Comprehensive medical records systems and methods are disclosed. A medical records system can comprise a storage device for storing digital data relating to medical records. On the storage device a, a medical record can include information about health problems and episodes, particular medical events, encounters, interventions. Episodes may be tied together through unique identifiers to particular health problems or conditions, which in turn can tied together through unique identifiers to particular patients. Health information can be aggregated on the system to compose comprehensive, longitudinally ordered patient health profiles. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022414 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERSONALLY CONTROLLED SHARING OF MEDICAL IMAGE AND OTHER HEALTH DATA - A method and apparatus for personally controlled sharing of medical image and other health data are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for patient mediated access to patient health information maintained by different healthcare facilities and other health record repositories. The methods includes, using a central key server and a plurality of data servers local to healthcare facilities and other health record repositories. At the central key server, a patient controlled registry of access keys that control access to patient health information maintained by different healthcare facilities is provided. The central key server receives, from a data server of a first healthcare facility, a request for an access key that controls access to health information for a patient maintained by a second healthcare facility. In response to the request, the central key server authenticates credentials of the patient and the first healthcare facility, verifies permission from the patient to release the access key to the first healthcare facility, locates the access key for the health information for the patient at the second healthcare facility, and provides the access key to the first healthcare facility. The access key is used by the data server of the first healthcare facility to obtain health information for the patient directly from the data server of the second healthcare facility after successful authentication and verification by the second healthcare facility. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022415 | System And Method For Improved Medical Billing, Payment, Record Keeping And Patient Care - A system and method for improved medical billing, payment, record keeping and patient care. The system and method includes a patient room computer containing a time clock algorithm, an electronic card reader connected to the patient room computer for reading a patient electronic card and for providing patient information contained on the patient electronic card to the patient room computer, a medical practitioner electronic security key operatively coupled to the time clock algorithm, a digital audio recording and storage device coupled to the patient room computer for recording and storing discussions between a medical practitioner and a patient, and a means for activating the digital audio recording and storage device when a medical practitioner enters a patient room. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022416 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE INSURANCE QUOTE - A method includes a data storage device for receiving, storing, and providing access to building characteristic information, a computer processor for executing program instructions and for retrieving the building characteristic information and hazard information from the data storage device, a memory, coupled to the computer processor, for storing program instructions for execution by the computer processor, a quoting system and a validation engine. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022417 | INSURANCE QUOTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An insurance quoting system comprises a quotation module executable by a processor where the quotation module is configured to receive from a user a request for a rate quote for an insurance product via a website associated with a first broker. The quotation module is also configured to determine whether the first broker is authorized to provide the insurance product to the user and, if the first broker is not authorized to provide the insurance product, automatically locate a second broker authorized to provide the insurance product to the user. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022418 | Arrangement And Approach For Motion-Based Image Data Processing - A system and method for generating a health insurance explanation of benefits for a patient is provided for receiving one or more adjudicated claims from a health insurance company; analyzing the one or more claims in relation to patient information stored in a patient records database; and generating a personalized message to the patient about the patient's health care based on the stored patient information and the adjudicated claims. The personalized message, applied to an EOB generation system associated with the health insurance company, forms a part of an enhanced EOB to be provided to the patient. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022419 | Apparatuses, Methods, and Systems for Providing a Reconfigurable Insurance Quote Generator User Interface - The present disclosure describes an approach to constructing and implementing risk rating products that provides a number of advantages. Instead of hard-coding attributes of a risk rating scheme, which requires the assistance of a trained programming specialist for any modifications, adjustments, or new products, the present invention provides a set of modular tools that assist non-specialists in on-the-fly generation and implementation of risk rating products. The modularity of this approach facilitates the modification and/or updating of a system component without affecting the operation of other components. Described herein are embodiments of system tools configured to read a risk rating scheme data-structure and generate a user interface whereby a user may enter information characteristic of an insurable risk and receive a quote indicative of a price for binding an insurance policy to the candidate risk. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022420 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INSURANCE UNDERWRITING - The systems and methods described herein may automate insurance underwriting by integrating information from multiple online databases and creating decision making advice useful to insurance underwriters. One system includes a client, database, and server. The client allows an underwriter to enter applicant information, enter customized risk modifiers, and receive an underwriting decision. The database provides additional applicant information. This information can include one or more of prescription drug history, credit history, motor vehicle records, and geocentric mortality risk. The server obtains the applicant information, calculates the applicant's risk, and makes an underwriting decision. Another system calculates a prescription drug risk for an applicant from pharmacy benefits management data, drug risk category data, and application data. Another system calculates a geocentric mortality risk for an applicant from census data, mortality data, credit information, and application data. Preset external modifiers are added to systems and methods of calculating risk in order to allow the underwriter to customize the risk results. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022421 | SAFETY EVALUATION AND FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD - Systems and methods are discussed for providing a sensor enhanced employee safety evaluation system. Sensors that monitor employee behavior are placed at the workplace of an insured entity. Data from the sensors are processed to obtain a safety evaluation. Based on the safety evaluation, the insurance provider can adjust the terms of the insurance policy to accurately reflect the risks associated with the insured entity. Feedback based on the safety evaluation is also provided to the insured entity and the employees of the insured entity to promote improvements in safe behavior. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022422 | VEHICLE KEY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A vehicle key system and method which reduces problems with key management, distribution, and collection. The system includes a computer for completing a vehicle rental transaction involving one of a plurality of different vehicles, for determining an encrypted code associated with a vehicle security system of the one vehicle, and for storing the encrypted code in a reusable programmable key to limit use of the key to operating the one vehicle during a rental period defined by the vehicle rental transaction. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022423 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSMITTING ALERTS ON HOTEL DEALS - Disclosed herein are methods and systems for transmitting hotel deal alerts. In one embodiment, a deal alert service receives a request to periodically receive hotel related deals satisfying a specific criteria, such as being from one or more geographic locations. Based on a frequency of the periodic basis, the deal alert service generates a list of hotel deals and sends it to the user during each frequency cycle. The deal alert service transmits the list of hotel deals using a specific transmission mechanism indicated by the user. Additionally, each list item of the list of hotel-deals includes a hyperlink to a primary source offering the hotel and the saving-deal. Upon selecting a list item of the list of hotel-deals, the user is transported to an entity associated with the primary source, through which the user is able to complete a transaction to book a hotel room and receive the posted saving-deal. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022424 | SUCCESSIVE OFFER COMMUNICATIONS WITH AN OFFER RECIPIENT - Successive offer communications are sent to an offer recipient. A first offer communication includes an offer of a merchant and the second offer communication includes an announcement about the offer. The first and second offer communications are each formatted to be rendered by respective communication device, such as a mobile phone of the offer recipient or a Point of Interaction (POI) terminal. The content of the offer communications may be tailored to the offer recipient based on the offer recipient's past transactions within a transaction processing system or a real time geographical location of the offer recipient. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022425 | Automated Internet Based Interactive Travel Planning and Management System - An interactive rapid response Internet accessed air travel management system. The system includes a web-based planning and reservation interface system and an interactive access device. The system responds to details of a member's desired travel, to thereafter act in real time to contact the domains of associated travel service providers to arrange for every aspect of the member's trip, from airline and hotel reservations, ticket issuance, and ground transportation, to restaurant and theater reservations, and any other travel related needs of the member. The system stores identification information to verify access device possession to prohibit unauthorized use of the system and to provide security pre-clearance to system members. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022426 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE BASED AIRLINE TRAVEL PLANNING - Graphical user interface (GUI) based methods and systems to generate and revise travel itineraries, including to permit a user to input or select multiple sequential travel destinations and corresponding dates in a calendar based GUI, to generate a travel itinerary using default itinerary parameters, to display the travel itinerary and user configurable itinerary parameter within the GUI, and to revise the travel itinerary in response to user configured itinerary parameters. An itinerary parameter may be configurable to apply to a selected portion of the itinerary or to the entire itinerary. User selectable options may be displayed in a natural language format. User input may be performed with relatively few actions, and may be performed exclusively or nearly exclusively with a pointing device. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022427 | System and Method for Determining and Reserving Available Parking - A system and method for locating and reserving parking spaces at a desired location is provided. The system and method can be implemented by a phone application or other software using a GPS device in or otherwise coupled to the application. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022428 | Modelling a transport market - A system, method or computer simulates a transport environment by providing a plurality of transport routes within a transport environment. Each transport route has a set of parameters providing a plurality of itineraries, each having one or more transport routes selected from the plurality of transport routes and itinerary properties including the parameters of the one or more transport routes within the itinerary. A plurality of software agents corresponding to passengers is provided. The software agents include an itinerary selector configured to select one of the plurality of itineraries based on a comparison of the itinerary properties and a set of passenger requirements. Information describing the simulated transport environment, following selection of itineraries by the software agents, forms an output. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022429 | Resource reporting - A method of communicating a consumer's usage of a resource is disclosed. The consumer's usage of the resource is compared to usage of the resource by a relevant cohort that is not based solely on geography. A result of the comparison is communicated to the consumer. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022430 | Method and an apparatus for calculating a risk reserve value for a machine - A method and a respective apparatus for calculating a risk reserve value for a machine is provided. A risk reserve value for a machine is a potential penalty the manufacturer of a machine has to pay to the owner or operator of the machine in case the machine does not start at a guaranteed success probability value. The method and respective apparatus can be used in business considerations as well as the construction of machines with regard to provide guarantee values to a customer. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022431 | Adaptive Synchronization of Business Objects - In some implementations, a method includes changing a master business object that is resident at a first location on a network, generating a change message for changing a replicated business object, the replicated business object being based on the master business object and being resident at a second location on the network remote from the first location, determining an update duration for updating the replicated business object, incorporating the change routine into a synchronization message when the update duration is less than a temporal constraint, and transmitting the synchronization message from the first location to the second location to update the replicated business object based on the synchronization message. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022432 | WORK INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND WORK INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - To measure an action of a worker and analyze the measurement data to determine the type of the action and also determine the type of a work, thereby providing information for improving the work itself. A work information processing apparatus ( | 2011-01-27 |
20110022433 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ASSESSING LOCATE REQUEST TICKETS - Locate and/or marking operations involve detecting and/or marking a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area, wherein at least a portion of the dig area is planned to be excavated or disturbed during excavation activities. One or more attributes of a locate and/or marking operation requested in a locate request ticket are assessed to provide one or more ticket assessment outcomes. Ticket information is obtained from the locate request ticket at least in part by parsing the locate request ticket. One or more business rules are applied to at least some of the ticket information to generate the ticket assessment outcome(s) for the attribute(s) of the locate and/or marking operation. The ticket assessment outcome(s) is/are transmitted and/or stored so as to facilitate clearing the locate request ticket and/or dispatching a locate technician to perform the locate and/or marking operation. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022434 | Method for evaluating operational and financial performance for dispatchers using after the fact analysis - A method is provided for evaluating operational and financial performance for dispatchers in power grid control centers associated with utility systems. A comprehensive operating plan is provided that applies after the fact analysis for performance metrics, root-cause impacts and process re-engineering. after the fact analysis of past events and practices is performed. Actual system and resource conditions are captured. the system and resource conditions are supplied to a relational database. A scheduler engine receives the actual system and resource conditions from the relational database and processes it to calculate system performance. At least one of the following is displayed, transmission evaluation application displays, reference and scenario cases and associations between them, results presented with a graphical or tabular displays, comparison results between scenario cases and a reference case, a family of curves where each curve is a performance metric, comparison of scenario input data, study results and statistical analysis and historical data. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022435 | Systems and Methods for Workflow Automation, Adaptation and Integration - Systems and methods for implementing complex and disparate workflows, wherein a flexible framework (system architecture) is used for workflow automation, adaptation and integration. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022436 | RAPID KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AMONG WORKERS - A system and method enable rapid knowledge transfer, for example between a plurality of experts and a plurality of apprentices located remotely from the experts. The system makes use of unique tools to facilitate transfer of knowledge and collaboration between individuals, even among remotely located individuals. An input to the system is a Knowledge Transfer Plan which has been designed to orchestrate the knowledge transfer. The knowledge transfer system integrates a shared repository and collaboration tools for use by the expert and apprentice. The collaboration tools may be accessed through role-specific portals which are automatically created from the Knowledge Transfer Plan. In one embodiment, the system is configured with a World Wide Web-based interface and an integrated suite of tools to support knowledge transfer activities on a global basis to facilitate knowledge transfer among workers engaged in an outsourcing business process. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022437 | ENABLING COLLABORATION ON A PROJECT PLAN - Systems, methods, and software applications for enabling the collaboration on a project plan are described in the present disclosure. A computer readable medium is configured to store instructions that are executable by a processing device. According to one embodiment, among many, the computer readable medium includes logic adapted to enable a member of a project team to submit a proposal for modifying a current project plan to a project manager. The computer readable medium also includes logic adapted to enable the project manager to accept or reject the proposal for modifying the current project plan. Various team members make changes to a single shared copy of the project plan. The changes can be to a respective team member's section of the plan | 2011-01-27 |
20110022438 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING RESOURCE ALLOCATION - Conventional resource allocation process has intrinsic inefficiency because of the resource fragmentation. A solution is provided to defragment the resource so that the customers' requests are better served and provider's resource utilization rate is improved. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022439 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING EVENTS IN A CONFIGURATION OF SOA GOVERNANCE COMPONENTS - Embodiments of the invention are associated with a configuration comprising multiple integrated SOA governance components, and are generally concerned with monitoring and managing events that can or are likely to impact on different components of the configuration. One embodiment of the invention, directed to a method, comprises the steps of detecting a particular event that occurs at a particular SOA governance component of the configuration, and routing information pertaining to the detected event to a pre-specified storage location. The method further comprises operating a monitoring mechanism to selectively monitor the information routed to the location, and to determine from the monitored information that the particular event has occurred at the particular component of the configuration. Responsive to determining that the particular event has occurred at the particular component, the monitoring mechanism is further operated to query each of the remaining SOA governance components, in order to identify each of the remaining components in which the particular event does not exist. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022440 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALLOCATING SUPPLIERS USING GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM AND SUPPLIER CAPABILITY - A system and method for allocating suppliers to customers locate a plurality of suppliers in a geographical information system. Relative capability associated with each of the plurality of suppliers is determined. For each supplier in the plurality of suppliers, the system and method generate lines by linking said each supplier to neighboring suppliers in the plurality of suppliers, establish relative capability points on the lines between said each supplier and the neighboring suppliers, and define boundaries of a coverage region associated with said each supplier based on the relative capability points. A customer located in the coverage region is allocated to the associated supplier of the coverage region. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022441 | SCHEDULING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A scheduling method comprising: compiling non-location specific transport data comprising a plurality of travel options; receiving a user s intended appointment location; identifying the user's location; determining a local time based upon the user's location; determining a suitable travel option specific to the user's location, local time, and the intended appointment location; and communicating the suitable travel option to the user. | 2011-01-27 |
20110022442 | INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR INDUSTRIAL VEHICLES INCLUDING CYCLICAL RECURRING VEHICLE INFORMATION MESSAGE - Industrial vehicles communicate across a wireless environment and the wireless communication, data collection and/or processing capabilities of industrial vehicles are leveraged against robust software solutions to implement enterprise wide vehicle management functions, to integrate industrial vehicle data into existing enterprise workflows and/or to enable trusted third party integration into the enterprise for enhanced asset and/or workflow management. Still further, wireless communication, data collection and/or processing capabilities of industrial vehicles are leveraged with robust software solutions that aggregate and analyze data across multiple enterprises and/or promote the exchange of information between independent entities. | 2011-01-27 |