07th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 56 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140046604 | GIS ENABLED PIPELINE UPGRADING SYSTEM - Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems and methods for evaluating pipeline using GIS data. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for evaluating pipeline using geographical information system (GIS) data. The method can include receiving component information from a GIS database for one or more components in a pipeline; determining a modified maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOPm) for the one or more components; determining an uprating pressure (MAOPm*) that the one or more components can withstand; and outputting a upgrade recommendation or an uprate recommendation based at least in part on the MAOPm and the MAOPm*. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046605 | LEAK DETECTION IN FLUID CONDUCTING CONDUIT - A method for detecting a leak in a fluid conducting conduit is disclosed. Inlet and outlet flowrates are measured for calculating a time derivative of average temperature of the fluid flowing in the fluid conducting conduit. A predicted difference in flowrate between a flowrate of fluid in the fluid conducting conduit adjacent the inlet and a flowrate of fluid in the fluid conducting conduit adjacent the outlet is calculated based on the calculated time derivative of the average temperature of the fluid flowing in the fluid conducting conduit. The predicted difference in flowrate is compared to a difference between the measured inlet flowrate and the measured outlet flowrate to determine whether a leak exists in the fluid conducting conduit. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046606 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIBEAM DOPPLER ULTRASOUND DISPLAY - There is provided a method for monitoring fluid flow, the method including: acquiring a pulse-echo signal from each of a plurality of spatially adjacent regions; for each of the pulse echo signals, forming a velocity spectrum; combining the plurality of velocity spectra into a composite data set which contains both spatial data and velocity data; and displaying the composite data set so as to present at least one aspect of the velocity data with at least one aspect of the spatial data. By combining both spatial and spectral velocity data into a composite data set and displaying aspects of the spatial data with aspects of the velocity data, the clinician can easily gauge in a quantitative or semi-quantitative way, both the size and velocities of fluid flows. In particular, the technique is useful for assessing valvular regurgitation jets in cardiac blood flows. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046607 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIGNAL GENERATION VIA A TEMPERATURE SENSING CRYSTAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - Disclosed are various embodiments involving correction of signals generated by a crystal oscillator. An age of an integrated circuit or a time of use of the integrated circuit may be determined. A signal generated from a crystal of the integrated circuit may be modified based at least in part on the determined age of the integrated circuit or the determined time of use of the integrated circuit. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046608 | CALCULATING METHOD OF MAGNETIC FORCE CHARACTERISTIC, AND MAGNETIC FORCE CHARACTERISTIC COMPUTING DEVICE - A prestored database indicating a correspondence of δ (depth)/ΔHcJ (coercivity increment) and a prestored database indicating information of Dy diffusion condition (diffusion coefficient, diffusion flux and processing time regarding Dy diffusion) are used to compute distribution of Dy introduction amount in a magnet from shape information of the magnet and information of a Dy introduction face and compute distribution of ΔHcJ in the magnet from the distribution of Dy introduction amount. Regarding a magnet having a coercivity that is distributed non-uniformly, a J/H curve is computed using the computed distribution of ΔHcJ, and a demagnetizing factor at a predetermined temperature is computed using a temperature coefficient. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046609 | METERING CHIP AND METHOD OF METERING - Provided is a metering chip and a method of metering. The metering chip includes a first analog-to-digital converter connected to an output terminal of a current sensor for detecting a power supply current; and a noise canceller connected to an output terminal of the first analog-to-digital converter and can reduce its power consumption and size while accurately detecting a low current than before. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046610 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE POWER OUTPUT BY A PHOTOVOLTAIC INSTALLATION - A method for improving the usability of photovoltaic installations (PV installations) by taking account of shading information of adjacent PV installations for forecasting the power output by a relevant PV installation is provided. In particular, cloud movements and cloud shapes are taken into account. This improves the accuracy of the forecast. Here, it is advantageous that short-term forecasts in relation to e.g. the next 15 minutes are possible and a substitute energy source can be activated accordingly, in good time, prior to a dip in the power output by the PV installation. The invention can be used e.g. in the field of renewable energies, PV installations or smart grids. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046611 | GRAIN BIN CAPACITIVE MOISTURE SENSOR SYSTEM - Each grain bin includes a data collector coupled to multiple capacitive moisture cables, each with multiple sensor nodes spaced along it. Each sensor node includes a pair of longitudinally extending capacitive plates of the capacitive moisture sensor positioned in side-by-side, spaced-apart relationship to form a longitudinally extending gap between the capacitive plates. Positioned within the longitudinal gap between the capacitive plates is a circuit board including a microprocessor, memory, and temperature sensor. An outer housing provides a sealed enclosure that surrounds the circuit board, the capacitive plates, and a longitudinal length of the moisture cable that extends through and seals openings in each longitudinal end of the housing. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046612 | Method for calibrating a sensor for turbidity measurement - A method for calibrating a sensor for measuring turbidity and/or solids content of a medium, wherein the sensor comprises at least one transmitting unit and at least two receiving units. The method comprises the steps of registering at least two measurement signals, which depend on the intensity of light scattered in the medium, wherein the light is sent from the transmitting unit and received by the receiving unit, abstracting the measurement signals to a feature vector, automatic selecting of a calibration model based on the feature vector, wherein the feature vector is transmitted to an earlier trained classifier and the classifier associates the calibration model with the feature vector, and calibrating the sensor with the automatically selected calibration model. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046613 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UTILIZING STAND-ALONE CONTROLLER IN MULTIPLEXED HANDLER TEST CELL FOR INDEXLESS TANDEM SEMICONDUCTOR TEST - A system and method utilize a stand-alone controller for a multiplexed handler test cell in automated and robotic semiconductor test equipment for indexless tandem semiconductor testing. The stand-alone controller is configured such that functions relating to both the handler drivers and the data post-processor of the multiplexed handler tested cell are included within the stand-alone controller. The system and method also include provisions for using a virtual multiplexed handler test cell in a preliminary stage prior to actual implementation of the actual multiplexed handler test cell. This configuration permits the stand-alone controller to control the functions of the multiplexed handlers and to coordinate their activity with the tester. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046614 | WEAR-MONITORING OF A GEARBOX IN A POWER STATION - The invention relates to a method of monitoring a wear of a gearbox in a power station, such as a windmill, water-wheel or tidal power station, the gearbox comprising at least two shafts, cogwheels and bearings as components of the gearbox. The method comprises sensing an angular position at the shafts by a rotational shaft encoder and monitoring the wear of the transmission-unit according to differences of the sensed angular positions and generating a condition signal representative of the wear of the gearbox according to the monitored differences. The monitoring comprises an additional sensing of at least one additional degree of freedom, in particular an axial and/or eccentric displacement, of at least one of the shafts caused by wear of at least one of the components of the gearbox, and generating the condition signal according to the displacement and differences in the at least two degrees of freedom. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046615 | Test Case Crash Recovery - A safe operating region of a complex integrated circuit may be determined by selecting an operating point for the integrated circuit (IC) at a first voltage and first frequency. A test program is executed by a central processing unit (CPU) comprised within the IC to test a portion of the IC. Communication activity between the IC and a host system is recorded to form a data log while the test program is being executed. A crash is detected by storing and examining the data log periodically, and assuming that the test program has crashed when any one of a predetermined set of crash conditions is detected during examination of the data log. The operating point may be iteratively changed and execution of the test program repeated while continuing to check for a crash until a crash is detected. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046616 | CIRCUIT TEST SYSTEM AND CIRCUIT TEST METHOD THEREOF - A circuit test system including a circuit test apparatus and a circuit to be tested is provided. The circuit test apparatus provides a first clock signal. The circuit to be tested includes a plurality of input/output pads and at least one clock pad. At least two input/output pads of the input/output pads are connected to each other to form a test loop during a test mode. The clock pad receives the first clock signal. The circuit to be tested multiplies a frequency of the first clock signal to generate a second clock signal, and the test loop of the circuit to be tested is tested based on the second clock signal during the test mode. The frequency of the second clock signal is higher than that of the first clock signal. Furthermore, a circuit test method of the foregoing circuit test system is also provided. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046617 | DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM TO CONTROL AN IMAGING SYSTEM - A control device of an imaging system has a computer with communication interfaces for central control of the imaging system, and components each having a communication interface for local control of units of the imaging system. The communication interfaces of the components are respectively connected via a connection with an interface of the computer, and a transmitting component, among the components transfers data via the computer to a receiving component, among the components, for the exchange of information between the components. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046618 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING REPLACEMENT COMPATIBILITY OF FIELD DEVICES IN INDUSTRIAL PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS - A method includes identifying device description files corresponding to first and second field devices associated with an industrial process control system. The method also includes comparing multiple field device characteristics of the first and second field devices using the device description files. The method further includes identifying any differences between the device characteristics of the first field device and the device characteristics of the second field device. In addition, the method includes determining a compatibility of the first and second field devices based on any identified differences. The field device characteristics can relate to field device attributes, field device function blocks, and function block parameters of the first and second field devices. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046619 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A TEMPERATURE OF FUEL - A method for determining a temperature of fuel in an injection system, in which the temperature of the fuel is ascertained as a function of a temperature of a coil of a metering unit of the injection system, a total resistance of the circuit of the metering unit being measured, and a proportion of a resistance of the coil in the total resistance of the circuit being calculated, and the temperature of the coil being calculated from the resistance of the coil. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046620 | Wireless Transmission Of Temperature Data For A Geographic Area - A user obtains an individual's body temperature data and transmits the data to a medical monitor (e.g., a medical device) for display. Additional data includes a timestamp and location of the body temperature data. Once the data is transmitted, a user may view the medical monitor for a temperature reading. For example, a doctor may take a patient's temperature and the temperature reading is displayed on a medical monitor. The body temperature data of each patient is detected using a preferred temperature detector, such as a temporal artery thermometer using an arterial heat balance approach. After collecting an individual's body temperature data, the body temperature data can be transferred to a processor. By sending body temperature data for many individuals for a geographic region, the processor can identify a pattern (e.g., a pandemic) in the body temperature data. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046621 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SENSING AND RECORDING DYNAMIC STATE TO ENABLE PERFORMANCE DEVICE TO PRESENT CORRESPONDING PERFORMANCE - An electronic device for sensing and recording a dynamic state to enable a performance device to present a corresponding performance is provided. The electronic device includes a body, a processing unit, a sensing module, and a storage module. The sensing module detects a dynamic state of the body and sends a detected signal to the processing unit. The processing unit carries out a signal recording action for recording the signal detected by the sensing module and storing the signal in the storage module. The processing unit processes or judges the signal. A performance device performs a performance corresponding to the dynamic state of the body. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046622 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND MEASURING IMPACTS IN HANDHELD DEVICES USING AN ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER - A system and method is provided for detecting and measuring impacts in a wireless device. The wireless device has a processor coupled to a memory and an acoustic transducer. The method comprises acquiring data from the acoustic transducer, the data acquisition including the processor taking samples of an electrical input signal supplied to an input of the processor by the acoustic transducer; saving the acquired data in the memory; detecting whether an impact has occurred; and halting data acquisition after the impact is detected. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046623 | Method and device for determining the inclined position of a vehicle - A method for determining the inclined position, includes using a sensor, whose measuring axis is inclined by a pitch angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle, a rate of rotation having a roll rate component and a yaw rate component is measured. Ultimately, a roll angle for describing the inclined position of the vehicle is ascertained from the rate of rotation. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046624 | LOCATION MAPPED BY THE FREQUENCY OF THE LIGHT EMITTED BY AN ARTIFICIAL LIGHT SOURCE - A mobile device may determine its location within an environment having a plurality of light sources in response to the unique frequencies and the predetermined locations of the light sources. For some embodiments, the mobile device can determine its location by detecting the frequencies of light signals emitted from the light sources, providing the determined frequencies as search keys to retrieve the predetermined locations of the light sources from a look-up table, detecting the intensity of light signals emitted from the light sources, correlating the light intensities to distances, and then calculating the position of the mobile device in response to the correlated distances and the predetermined locations of the light sources. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046625 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ANGLE OF ROTATION - A method for determining an angle of rotation between a sensor array and a magnetic field of a magnet, whereby the magnetic field is formed substantially parallel and perpendicular to the rotation axis, and the magnet is arranged rotationally symmetric relative to the rotation axis. A first measurement signal and a second measurement signal are generated by the two subsensors of the first magnetic field sensor unit, and the first measurement signal is assigned a first relation and the second measurement signal is assigned a second relation. A third measurement signal and a fourth measurement signal are generated by the two subsensors of the second magnetic field sensor unit, whereby the third measurement signal is assigned a third relation and the fourth measurement signal is assigned a fourth relation. The angle of rotation is then determined. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046626 | ISING MODEL QUANTUM COMPUTATION DEVICE AND ISING MODEL QUANTUM COMPUTATION METHOD - This computation device and method exponentially shortens a computation time of an NP-complete problem or the like mapped into an Ising model by exponentially shortening a computation time of the Ising mode. For each pair of a plurality of slave lasers, by controlling the intensity, the polarization, and the phase of light exchanged between two slave lasers using an attenuator and a wave plate, the magnitude and the sign of pseudo Ising interaction between two slave lasers are implemented. Then, after the plurality of slave lasers arrive at a steady state, by measuring the polarization of light generated by each slave laser with left-handed circular polarization and right-handed circular polarization used as bases, a pseudo spin of each slave laser is measured. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046627 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATION OF BUILDING WALL AREA - A wall area estimation system generates an estimated wall area measurement of a building based on the received roof measurements (e.g., those generated by, received from or found in a three-dimensional model of the roof) and a reference distance. The reference distance is a measurement indicative of a distance between the roof and a model ground surface placed on an image of the building where the walls of the building meet the ground. This reference distance may be used to determine how for down to extend the walls of the building (e.g., to a ground level) when building a three-dimensional digital model of the building to aid in generating wall area measurements. The resulting wall measurements, roof measurements, measurements of areas missing from the wall used to generate a wall estimate report, or a combined roof and wall estimate report including various different identifiers indicating the different features and measurements based on the three-dimensional model. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046628 | Method for Analyzing at Least a Cutting Emerging from a Well, and Associated Apparatus - The method comprises the following steps: —disposing at least a cutting ( | 2014-02-13 |
20140046629 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING DEPOSITION - The present invention concerns an apparatus for deposition monitoring in a water system comprising a deposition measurement system, a DC power supply connected to a conductive deposition monitoring surface and a counter electrode, the apparatus has a first treatment configuration and a second treatment configuration, wherein one of the treatment configurations removes biofilm from the conductive deposition monitoring surface, and the other treatment configuration removes inorganic scale deposition from the conductive deposition monitoring surface. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046630 | SPECTROSCOPIC APPARATUS AND METHODS - A method of estimating background radiation in spectral data. The method may comprise, iteratively, fitting an analytical curve, such as a spline curve, to reference data, determining an allowable deviation of the reference data from the analytical curve and clipping data points of the reference data or the spectral data that are more than the allowable deviation above the analytical curve to provide the reference data for the next iteration until termination criterion is met. The reference data is initially based upon the spectral data. The method may comprise generating estimates of background radiation of the spectral data, each estimate based upon fitting a different order polynomial to the spectral data, and selecting an order of polynomial to use for estimating background radiation and/or one of the estimates of the background radiation. The method may further comprise estimating the noise in the spectral data from the reference data. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046631 | METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE DATA ACQUISITION - Methods for adaptive data acquisition are disclosed herein. In one aspect, methods for adaptive data acquisition include performing a first sensing method on a signal having a plurality of components to determine the likelihood that a component is not a relevant signal component, retaining a portion of the signal components sensed using the first sensing method that are above a first threshold, performing a second sensing method on the signal components retained above a first threshold to determine the likelihood that a component is not a relevant signal component, wherein the second sensing method is more reliable than the first sensing method at determining the likelihood that a component is not a relevant signal component, and retaining a portion of the signal components sensed using the second sensing method that are above a second threshold. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046632 | DANGER ZONE DETECTION IN BUILDING MODELS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying zones where protections should be installed to prevent people and materials from falling off edges of the building. The system analyzes a building model and building objects completed before a given time, identifies edges of interest for the building objects, determines whether these edges, or their portions, are dangerous, and provides this information to a user. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046633 | SIMULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD CAPABLE OF DESIGNING AND SIMULATING MODEL SEPARATELY - The present invention relates to a simulation apparatus and a method for designing and simulating a model concurrently but separately. The simulation apparatus includes a model designing device configured to design a plurality of simulation models, and a model simulating device configured to be physically separated from but logically connected to the model designing device to simulate the plurality of simulation models designed in the model designing device. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046634 | Facility Design and Management Systems Using Order Processing - A computer-implemented method for processing order information is disclosed. The method includes receiving operational guidelines for controlling workflow of resources at a facility and receiving, by one or more computer processors, order information including a plurality of orders. The method also includes generating, by the one or more computer processors, discrete event simulator commands for fulfilling the orders by applying the operational guidelines to the order information, and simulating the workflow of the resources within the facility to fulfill the orders by executing the discrete event simulator commands. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046635 | Facility Design and Management Systems Using Bi-Directional Cad-Des Interface - A computer-implemented method for automatically communicating updates between a computer-aided-design (CAD) module that generates a representation of the physical structure of a facility and a discrete event simulator (DES) module that simulates processes occurring within the facility is disclosed. The method may include establishing a communication link between the CAD module and the DES module. The method may also include receiving, by a processor, an update to at least one of the representation of the physical structure of the facility generated by the CAD module or the processes simulated by the DES module, and automatically communicating, by the processor, data representing the received update between the CAD module and the DES module over the communication link | 2014-02-13 |
20140046636 | HYBRID LOCAL NONMATCHING METHOD FOR MULTIPHASE FLOW SIMULATIONS IN HETEROGENEOUS FRACTURED MEDIA - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for modeling a fractured medium. The method includes generating, using a processor, a grid for the fractured medium, the fractured medium defining a first fracture and a second fracture, with the first fracture and the second fracture each represented by fracture cells in the grid. The method also includes determining a location where the first and second fractures intersect, the location being at least partially represented by an intersection cell of the fracture cells of the grid. The method further includes redistributing areas of the intersection cell and at least one other fracture cell, such that a size of the intersection cell is increased. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046637 | Facility Design and Management Systems Using Topology Mapping - A computer-implemented method for simulating movement of materials within a facility using predefined software objects is disclosed. The method includes storing a plurality of predefined software objects in a computer memory, each of the predefined software objects including one or more discrete event simulator commands and representing a process performed at a facility. The method also includes receiving, by one or more processors, an instruction to simulate movement of a material within a facility, and linking, by the one or more processors, two or more of the predefined software objects together to represent the movement of the material within the facility. The method further includes executing, by the one or more processors, the linked predefined software objects using a discrete event simulator to simulate the movement of the material within the facility. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046638 | MONITORING AND CONTROL OF CONTACT CENTERS WITH DYNAMIC TEMPORAL DIMENSION - A system with a dynamic temporal dimension for monitoring and control of contact centers, comprising: a scalable simulation service configured with a virtual environment that replicates and is maintained in synchrony with a production contact center environment; an analysis manager; a persistent query service; and a visualizer. The persistent query service receives data from contact center systems and updates virtual tables based on the updates; the analysis manager, sends real-time updates to the visualizer, and the visualizer updates a visualization provided to a user by displaying the real-time updates as a set of past states; and the scalable simulation service performs a time-warped simulation to compute at least a future state of one of the virtual environments and sends a second plurality of updates to the visualizer, and the visualizer updates the visualization provided to the user by displaying the second plurality of real-time updates as a projected future state. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046639 | Forecast-Less Service Capacity Management - A computer implemented method, system, and/or computer program product manages capacity in a service-provider system. A software model of a physical service-provider system is created and stored in memory. A parameter for running the software model with real-time metrics from the physical service-provider system as inputs to the software model is established. If the parameter is met, then the software model is run using the real-time metrics from the physical service-provider system as inputs. A pre-determined action, which adjusts policies for, and capacity in, the service-provider system and is prescribed by a specific model output, is established. If the specific model output, which resulted from using the real-time metrics from the physical service-provider system as inputs for running the software model, is output from the software model, then the pre-determined action is executed. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046640 | Telenostics for medical uses - Telenostics style prognostication algorithms are used in medical prognosis to predict the mean time to an unacceptable result, such as death, or the mean time to a cure or partial cure. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046641 | Materials and Methods for Use in Biomass Processing - Methods and materials for measuring the composition of plant biomass and predicting the efficiency of conversion of such biomass to various end products under various processing conditions are disclosed. For example, methods and materials for identifying plant material having higher levels of accessible carbohydrate, as well as materials and methods for processing plant material having higher levels of accessible carbohydrate are disclosed. Also disclosed are computer-implemented methods and systems that provide improved economic efficiencies to biorefineries. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046642 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION FROM A PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODEL OF BLOOD FLOW - Embodiments include a system for providing blood flow information for a patient. The system may include at least one computer system including a touchscreen. The at least one computer system may be configured to display, on the touchscreen, a three-dimensional model representing at least a portion of an anatomical structure of the patient based on patient-specific data. The at least one computer system may also be configured to receive a first input relating to a first location on the touchscreen indicated by at least one pointing object controlled by a user, and the first location on the touchscreen may indicate a first location on the displayed three-dimensional model. The at least one computer system may be further configured to display first information on the touchscreen, and the first information may indicate a blood flow characteristic at the first location. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046643 | BLOCK DIAGRAM EXPLORER IN A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATED MODELING, SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS - A system for modeling, simulating and analyzing chemical and biochemical reactions includes a modeling environment for constructing a model of a chemical or biochemical system comprising a plurality of chemical reactions. The system also includes a simulation engine accepting as input said constructed model of the chemical or biochemical system and generating as output an expected result. The modeling environment includes a block diagram explorer for displaying a block diagram in a graphical user interface describing the system as a hierarchical network of interconnected blocks. Each block represents a species participating one of the chemical reactions or one of said chemical reactions in the system. The block diagram explorer allows for a user to manipulate and modify the graphical parameters of the block diagram representation to provide insight into the functionality and operation of the system being modeled. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046644 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK MONITORING AND ANALYSIS OF A SIMULATED NETWORK - Systems and methods for monitoring and analyzing components and operation of a simulated network environment including a module configured for storing a predetermined baseline for the simulated network environment, monitoring the simulated network environment during one or more operations, analyzing the monitored operations and the impact of the operations on one or more components of the simulated network environment, and comparing at least one of the monitored operations and impacts of the operations against the predetermined baseline. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046645 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK MONITORING AND ANALYSIS OF A SIMULATED NETWORK - Systems and methods for monitoring and analyzing components and operation of a simulated network environment including a module configured for storing a predetermined baseline for the simulated network environment, monitoring the simulated network environment during one or more operations, analyzing the monitored operations and the impact of the operations on one or more components of the simulated network environment, and comparing at least one of the monitored operations and impacts of the operations against the predetermined baseline. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046646 | MODEL-BASED SCANNER TUNING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods for tuning photolithographic processes are described. A model of a target scanner is maintained defining sensitivity of the target scanner with reference to a set of tunable parameters. A differential model represents deviations of the target scanner from the reference. The target scanner may be tuned based on the settings of the reference scanner and the differential model. Performance of a family of related scanners may be characterized relative to the performance of a reference scanner. Differential models may include information such as parametric offsets and other differences that may be used to simulate the difference in imaging behavior. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046647 | ACTIVE TRACE ASSERTION BASED VERIFICATION SYSTEM - A method is presented for responding to user input by displaying when a circuit has a property expressed by an assertion based on data indicating values of signals of the circuit at a succession of times. The assertion expresses the property as a first sequence of expressions, and separately defines for each expression a corresponding evaluation time relative to the succession of times at which the expression is to be evaluated. The circuit has the property only if every expression of the first sequence evaluates true at its corresponding evaluation time. The method includes displaying a representation of each expression of the first sequence and identifying each variable that caused that expression to evaluate false and distinctively marking that variable's symbol relative to other variable symbols within the display for each expression of the first sequence that evaluates false at its corresponding evaluation time. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046648 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER, END USER SUPPORT AND PERFORMANCE TRACKING DURING A LIFE CYCLE OF ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS - An automated system and method for knowledge transfer, end user support and performance tracking during a life cycle of an enterprise application are disclosed. In one embodiment, knowledge information associated with the enterprise application is captured. Further, a simulated enterprise application is created based on the captured knowledge information. In addition, the end users are allowed to use the simulated enterprise application and actual performance of the simulated enterprise application is tracked. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046649 | ISA BRIDGING INCLUDING SUPPORT FOR CALL TO OVERIDDING VIRTUAL FUNCTIONS - Methods, apparatuses and storage medium associated with ISA bridging with support for virtual functions, are disclosed. In embodiments, at least one computer-readable storage medium may include instructions configured to enable a target device with a target ISA, in response to execution, to provide an ISA bridging layer to the target device to facilitate a library service of a library of the target device to call a virtual function of the library, while servicing an application operating on the target device, where the application has an overriding implementation. The ISA bridging layer may include a loader configured to load the application for execution, and as part of loading the application, detect the virtual function and modify a virtual function table of the application to enable the call. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046650 | TRACE ROUTING NETWORK - Hardware emulation produces relevant and irrelevant trace data. Verification of a design under test requires knowledge of the relevant trace data. Data lines are provided to capture trace data from the hardware emulator's logic elements during emulation. The data lines connect the outputs of these logic elements to the inputs of a configurable interconnect circuit. The configurable interconnect circuit is capable of being programmed to select from a plurality of these inputs to connect a number of the data lines to a scan chain or trace data storage circuit. The configurable interconnect circuit can then selectively connect those data lines carrying relevant trace data to a trace data processing circuit. The trace data processing circuit may be a scan chain, analysis device or storage device or other suitable trace data processing device. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046651 | SOLUTION FOR MAX-STRING PROBLEM AND TRANSLATION AND TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEMS USING SAME - An unweighted automaton B is generated from a weighted finite state automaton (WFSA) A, having the same states as the WFSA and having unweighted transitions corresponding only to the transitions of the WFSA having strictly positive weights. A powerset construction on the unweighted automaton generates a deterministic automaton B′ having states Q. For each state Q′, a set of points L | 2014-02-13 |
20140046652 | CAPTURING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CAPTURING WORDS FOR TRANSLATION USING THE CAPTURING DEVICE - A capturing device of capturing words for translation, using the capturing device, the capturing device includes a light source behind a shield case that emits colored light to cover target words to be translated, and the shield case that shields colored light. The capturing device further includes a collection device that captures an image including the target words. A firmware in the capturing device recognizes the target words, converts the recognized words into corresponding characters, and transmits the converted characters to an electronic device to be translated. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046653 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BUILDING ENTITY HIERARCHY FROM BIG DATA - The various embodiments herein provide a method and a system for building an entity hierarchy. The method comprises extracting a plurality of entities from a bin data, determining a parent entity by understanding a context in which the entity is used, resolving the entities by bringing the synonymous entities together and holding the polysemous entities apart based on a semantic context and a syntactic context and building a hierarchical structure of entities using knowledge repositories, ontologies and language repositories along with natural language processing techniques. The method of extracting entities from the structured data comprises identifying each data point as an entity and identifying entities based on a relationship defined with other entities. The method of extracting entities from unstructured data includes a self-learning process and training based learning process to learn new parent entities from domain specific documents using new entity recognition models. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046654 | TEXT PROCESSING METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method includes hierarchically identifying occurrences of some of the words in the set of sentences; creating a first index for each of some of the words based on the upper hierarchy of occurrences identified for each word; receiving input of a queried word; hierarchically identifying occurrences of the queried word in the set of sentences; creating a second index based on the upper hierarchy of occurrences identified for the queried word; comparing the first index and the second index to calculate an estimated value for the number of occurrences of a word in the neighborhood of the queried word; and calculating the actual value of the number of occurrences of a word in the neighborhood of the queried word based on an upper hierarchy and lower hierarchy of the occurrences on condition that the estimated value is equal to or greater than a predetermined number. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046655 | SYSTEMATIC PRESENTATION OF THE CONTENTS OF ONE OR MORE DOCUMENTS - A method of systematically presenting the contents of at least one document, comprising: (a) a user providing an electronic version of at least one document to a computer; (b) a user accepting or modifying noise words generated by a computer module; (c) generating a list of every non-noise word by means of a computer module wherein the list indicates every page on which a non-noise word appears; and (d) displaying the entire list of non-noise words. In some embodiments, the list of non-noise words further indicates the number of times a word occurs on a page. In some embodiments, the list of non-noise words further indicates each line on which a non-noise word appears. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046656 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM INTELLIGIBILITY TESTING AND OPTIMIZATION - Systems and methods for automatic user specific, condition specific communication system intelligibility testing and optimization are provided. The intelligibility of speech for a particular user is determined using a test of intelligibility administered by an interactive voice response (IVR) application running on a communication server. The intelligibility test can be run for a particular user under different conditions. For each user and/or set of conditions, a set of speech signal adjustment parameters can be determined. A set of speech signal adjustment parameters that will enhance the intelligibility of a speech signal for a user are applied when that user is involved in a communication session. The particular set of speech signal adjustment parameters selected can depend on the communication equipment and/or environment associated with the communication session. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046657 | VOCODER PROCESSING METHOD, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a semiconductor device, a vocoder processing unit requests, after executing a first vocoder process being one of an encoding process and a decoding process and before executing a following second vocoder process being other one of the encoding process and the decoding process, a cache memory to prefetch first program data to be used for the second vocoder process from an external memory. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046658 | FRAME BASED AUDIO SIGNAL CLASSIFICATION - An audio classifier for frame based audio signal classification includes a feature extractor configured to determine, for each of a predetermined number of consecutive frames, feature measures representing at least the following features: auto correlation, frame signal energy, inter-frame signal energy variation. A feature measure comparator is configured to compare each determined feature measure to at least one corresponding predetermined feature interval. A frame classifier is configured to calculate, for each feature interval, a fraction measure representing the total number of corresponding feature measures that fall within the feature interval, and to classify the latest of the consecutive frames as speech if each fraction measure lies within a corresponding fraction interval, and as non-speech otherwise. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046659 | Context Assisted Adaptive Noise Reduction - Methods and apparatuses for context assisted noise reduction are disclosed. In one example, noise data associated with background noise detected by a microphone at a mobile device is received. The noise data is processed to identify whether a threshold noise level has been exceeded. An event notification is transmitted, where the event notification is operable to initiate identifying a location having a reduced background noise. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046660 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VOICE BASED MOOD ANALYSIS - A computer-implemented method for voice based mood analysis includes receiving an acoustic speech of a plurality of words from a user in response to the user utilizing speech to text mode. The computer-implemented method also includes analyzing the acoustic speech to distinguish voice patterns. Further, the computer-implemented method includes measuring a plurality of tone parameters from the voice patterns, wherein the tone parameters comprises voice decibel, timbre and pitch. Furthermore, the computer-implemented method includes identifying mood of the user based on the plurality of tone parameters. Moreover, the computer-implemented method includes streaming appropriate web content to the user based on the mood of the user. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046661 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE TRANSLATIONS OF INFORMATION INTO SIGN LANGUAGE OR OTHER FORMATS - Some embodiments provide methods of providing a translation of information to a translated format comprising: receiving information in a first format; identifying the first format, where in the first format is one of a plurality of different formats configured to be received; processing the information in accordance with the first format and extracting one or more speech elements from the information; identifying, through at least one processor configured to translate the received information, one or more sign language identifiers corresponding the one or more extracted speech elements, wherein at least one of the one or more sign language identifiers directly corresponds to a synonym of at least one of the one or more speech elements; and causing one or more sign language clips corresponding to at least one of the one or more sign language identifiers to be reproduced on a display of a displaying device. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046662 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACOUSTIC DATA SELECTION FOR TRAINING THE PARAMETERS OF AN ACOUSTIC MODEL - A system and method are presented for acoustic data selection of a particular quality for training the parameters of an acoustic model, such as a Hidden Markov Model and Gaussian Mixture Model, for example, in automatic speech recognition systems in the speech analytics field. A raw acoustic model may be trained using a given speech corpus and maximum likelihood criteria. A series of operations are performed, such as a forced Viterbi-alignment, calculations of likelihood scores, and phoneme recognition, for example, to form a subset corpus of training data. During the process, audio files of a quality that does not meet a criterion, such as poor quality audio files, may be automatically rejected from the corpus. The subset may then be used to train a new acoustic model. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046663 | System and Method for Improving Speech Recognition Accuracy Using Textual Context - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for improving speech recognition accuracy using textual context. The method includes retrieving a recorded utterance, capturing text from a device display associated with the spoken dialog and viewed by one party to the recorded utterance, and identifying words in the captured text that are relevant to the recorded utterance. The method further includes adding the identified words to a dynamic language model, and recognizing the recorded utterance using the dynamic language model. The recorded utterance can be a spoken dialog. A time stamp can be assigned to each identified word. The method can include adding identified words to and/or removing identified words from the dynamic language model based on their respective time stamps. A screen scraper can capture text from the device display associated with the recorded utterance. The device display can contain customer service data. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046664 | Secure Device Pairing Using Voice Input - Methods and apparatuses for secure device pairing are disclosed. In one example, a user voice is received simultaneously at a first device and a second device to pair the devices. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046665 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Enhancing Visual Representation To Individuals Participating In A Conversation - A system and method for enhancing visual representation to individuals participating in a conversation is provided. Visual data for a plurality of individuals participating in one or more conversations is analyzed. Possible conversational configurations of the individuals are generated. Each possible conversational configuration includes one or more pair-wise probabilities of at least two of the individuals. A probability weight is assigned to each of the pair-wise probabilities having a likelihood that the individuals of that pair-wise probability are participating in a conversation. A probability of each possible conversational configuration is determined by combining the probability weights for the pair-wise probabilities of that possible conversational configuration. The possible conversational configuration with the highest probability is selected as a most probable configuration. The individuals participating in the conversations based on the pair-wise probabilities with the most probable configuration are determined. Visual representation is enhanced for each individual participating in the determined conversations. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046666 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a dividing unit, an assigning unit, and a generating unit. The dividing unit is configured to divide speech data into pieces of utterance data. The assigning unit is configured to assign speaker identification information to each piece of utterance data based on an acoustic feature of the each piece of utterance data. The generating unit is configured to generate a candidate list that indicates candidate speaker names so as to enable a user to determine a speaker name to be given to the piece of utterance data identified by instruction information, based on operation history information in which at least pieces of utterance identification information, pieces of the speaker identification information, and speaker names given by the user to the respective pieces of utterance data are associated with one another. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046667 | SYSTEM FOR CREATING MUSICAL CONTENT USING A CLIENT TERMINAL - A system for creating musical content using a client terminal, wherein diverse musical information such as a desired lyric and musical scale, duration and singing technique is input from an online or cloud computer, an embedded terminal or other such client terminal by means of technology for generating musical vocal content by using computer speech synthesis technology, and then speech in which cadence is expressed in accordance with the musical scale is synthesized as speech run by being produced for the applicable duration and is transmitted to the client terminal is provided. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046668 | CONTROL METHOD AND VIDEO-AUDIO PLAYING SYSTEM - A control method for a video-audio playing system receiving a video-audio streaming signal is provided. The video-audio streaming signal includes at least a channel-program information. The control method comprises receiving a speech signal and analyzing the speech signal to obtain an acoustic feature of the speech signal. According to the acoustic feature, a speech recognition is performed to determine one of the channel-program information corresponds to the acoustic feature. According to the determined channel-program information, the video-audio playing system executes an operation corresponding to the channel-program information. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046669 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BIOMEDICAL MEASUREMENT WITH VOICE NOTIFICATION FEATURE - A system for biomedical measurement with a voice notification feature includes a biomedical measurement device that generates a command based on at least one of a physiological signal obtained by the biomedical measurement device as a result of a measured physiological condition of a user, and an operation phase of the biomedical measurement device, and a mobile device that is coupled to and separate from the biomedical measurement device. The mobile device receives the command from the biomedical measurement device, generates a voice notification signal according to the command and pre-established voice data, and outputs audibly the voice notification signal. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046670 | AUDIO ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AUDIO DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND MULTIMEDIA DEVICE EMPLOYING THE SAME - Provided is a method of encoding an audio signal. A method of encoding an audio signal includes generating a modified signal of a time domain to compensate a frequency resolution in frame units, analysis-windowing the modified signal of the time domain by using a window type which is designed to have an overlapping section less than 50%, and generating transform coefficients of a frequency domain by transforming the analysis-windowed signal of the time domain. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046671 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT FOR REDUCING ZERO CROSSING DISTORTION AND METHOD THEREOF - An audio signal processing circuit includes an encoding circuit, a first audio conversion circuit, and a second audio conversion circuit. The encoding circuit receives pulse coded modulation signals and generates a first audio signal and a second audio signal accordingly. The first audio conversion circuit generates a first pulse width modulation (PWM) signal according to consecutive values of the first audio signal for configuring a first power stage circuit. The second audio conversion circuit generates a second PWM signal according to consecutive values of the second audio signal for configuring a second power stage circuit. The pulse width of the first PWM signal is configured to be substantially equal to the pulse width of the second PWM signal, and the pulse edges of the first PWM signal and the second PWM signal are configured to be separated by a predetermined time interval to mute the audio signal processing circuit. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046672 | Signal Classification Method and Device, and Encoding and Decoding Methods and Devices - Embodiments of the present invention provide a signal classification method and device, and encoding and decoding methods and devices. The encoding method includes dividing a current frame into a low-frequency band signal and a high-frequency band signal, attenuating the high-frequency band signal or a to-be-encoded characteristic parameter of the high-frequency band signal according to an energy attenuation value of the low-frequency band signal, where the energy attenuation value indicates energy attenuation of the low-frequency band signal caused by encoding of the low-frequency band signal, and encoding the attenuated high-frequency band signal or the attenuated to-be-encoded characteristic parameter of the high-frequency band signal. The technical solutions according to the embodiments of the present invention can improve the effect of combining the low-frequency band signal and the high-frequency band signal at the decoder. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046673 | Multistage IIR Filter and Parallelized Filtering of Data with Same - In some embodiments, a multistage filter whose biquad filter stages are combined with latency between the stages, a system (e.g., an audio encoder or decoder) including such a filter, and methods for multistage biquad filtering. In typical embodiments, all biquad filter stages of the filter are operable independently to perform fully parallelized processing of data. In some embodiments, the inventive multistage filter includes a buffer memory, at least two biquad filter stages, and a controller coupled and configured to assert a single stream of instructions to the filter stages. Typically, the multistage filter is configured to perform multistage filtering of a block of input samples in a single processing loop with iteration over a sample index but without iteration over a biquadratic filter stage index. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046674 | REMOTE COMMAND CENTER FOR PATIENT MONITORING - A remote command center for providing services to geographically dispersed hospitalized patients. A datastore accessible to the remote command center receives patient data from geographically dispersed hospitalized patients. Monitored data elements of geographically dispersed hospitalized patients are also received at the remote command center and stored in the datastore. A smart alert module generates and applies patient specific rules to data elements. If a patient-specific rule for a hospitalized patient has been contravened, an alert is issued from the remote command center. A patient care module displays selected data elements of the hospitalized patients. A decision support module applies decision support algorithms to selected data elements of a hospitalized patient and to user input to provide patient care advice. Patient care advice comprises a diagnosis, a method of treatment, and a laboratory protocol. The decision support module also writes orders for medication, laboratory protocols and surgical procedures. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046675 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AND DISPLAYING MEDICAL PROVIDER INFORMATION - Systems and methods for displaying medical provider information to patients are provided herein. A system is provided that allows patients to select preference criteria for a medical provider and to receive a list of medical providers matching the preference criteria. Cost information relating to each medical provider may also be provided. A system is also provided that allows a medical provider to enter information into the system for a patient to access, wherein the system presents a fixed cost structure that the medical provider uses in determining medical procedure costs, which are in turn provided to a patient. A method is provided for a patient to access the system and obtain information relating to medical providers, including cost information. A method is also provided for a medical provider to enter information that is accessible to patients and to commit to a fixed cost structure for medical procedures. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046676 | IMAGE-BASED VALIDATION SYSTEM FOR PRESCRIPTION FULFILLMENT - A method of verifying fulfillment of a prescription may include receiving an image of a personalized medication package associated with a patient, receiving a patient identifier associated with the patient, and using the patient identifier to identify a medication regimen for the patient. The method may include analyzing the image to identify at least one pill, and for each identified pill, determining one or more physical features of the pill, determining a location of the pill with respect to the personalized medication package, determining whether the determined location of the pill is correct based on the determined physical features and the medication regimen, and in response to determining that the determined location of the pill is not accurate, generating an alert. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046677 | STREAMLINING INPUT OF EXERCISE AND NUTRITION LOGIC USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION - Streamlining input of exercise and nutrition logic. Identifying, for a user location, likely activities by the user, and nutrition or exercise information for those activities. Presenting most likely activities to the user, soliciting user input regarding activities. Updating probable future user activities in response to user input and menus of possible activities. Initially, presenting most likely activities when: most likely to occur at that location, most recently occurring at that location, most likely occurring for similar users, most likely occurring for users having similar preferences in other contexts. On a timeout, selecting activities on behalf of the user, deselecting activities, or adjusting the user's reliability. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046678 | System and Method for Securing the Remuneration of Patient Responsibilities for Healthcare Services in a Revenue Management Cycle - A method is provided for obtaining payment for services provided to a patient by a healthcare service provider. The method includes receiving a description ( | 2014-02-13 |
20140046679 | Online Health Assessment for Identifying Risk Areas - The present invention is directed to providing an online health assessment. The online health assessment collects information from an individual and uses the information to identify areas of a person's lifestyle, nutrition, and/or products that pose the greatest risk to future health. The online health assessment can also make recommendations for addressing the areas of greatest risk, as well as make lifestyle, nutrition, and/or product recommendations for assisting the person in improving his lifestyle to improve the areas of risk. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046680 | Online Health Assessment Providing Lifestyle Recommendations - The present invention provides an online health assessment that collects information from an individual and uses the information to recommend changes to the individual's lifestyle, nutrition, and/or products that will assist the individual to maintain or improve a current level of health. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046681 | Response Message Normalization System - A method for normalizing messages received in response to transaction submissions is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of messages regarding the outcome of transaction submissions; normalizing each received message; linking the normalized message to an internal message that reflects the meaning of the received message; and retaining the transaction-specific elements of the received message in a separate, distinct location. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046682 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING HEALTH PREDICTOR MODELS - A statistical processing system includes a server operably configured with program instructions implementing a plurality of statistical models to at least one of (a) predict a health outcome based on questionnaire responses, (b) assist a patient's choice of therapeutic modality based on questionnaire responses, and (c) assess a health risk or status based on questionnaire responses. Also provided is a research agency communicating with the server and contracted to provide the statistical models using a visual interface communicated by the server. The server is configured to analyze requests received from users relating to a plurality of said statistical models to reduce redundancy in requests for patient data. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046683 | Methods and Systems for Assessing Clinical Outcomes - Described herein are methods and systems useful for characterizing clinical outcomes of a subject. Provided herein includes computer-assessed methods, medical information systems, and computer-readable instructions that can aid an end-user in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of a clinical outcome. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046684 | OPTIMIZATION AND INDIVIDUALIZATION OF MEDICATION SELECTION AND DOSING - The invention provides systems and methods for producing a ranked list of drugs for administration to a patient in need thereof, the ranked list produced by calculating for each drug a score that is the product of a patient vector, a weighting vector, and the drug's column value in a disease matrix. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046685 | AUTOMATIC ALERTS BASED ON USER RESPONSE-DOWN TREND LEVELS - A response down-trend level applicable to a user may be determined based on the user's responses to one or more medication reminders. Different levels of the response down-trend may be associated one or more different parties to alert. The particular parties to alert may be determined based upon the current response down-trend level associated with the user. The response-down trend level associated with a user may be determined by calculating a response-down trend value based on the user's responses to one or more medication reminders and comparing the response-down trend value to one or more threshold value of one or more response-down trend levels. In response to determining that a user has reached a particular response-down-trend level, a party associated with the particular response-down-trend level is contacted. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046686 | Second Opinion Network - Systems and methods are provided to facilitate consultations between a referral source (e.g., labs, pathologists and patients) and a consultant (e.g., pathologist, radiologist, or other digital image analyst). Links between the various referral sources and consultants are established through a scanning center via a data communication network such as the Internet. The referral source sends a slide to the scanning center where the corresponding digital slide is posted for review and analysis by the consultant. Upon completion of the analysis and report, a digital slide conference is conducted through the scanning center that provides a venue for direct communication regarding the consultation. The scanning center may also facilitate payment from the referral source to the consultant. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046687 | SELECTING ALTERNATE RESULTS FOR INTEGRATED DATA CAPTURE - Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for selecting alternate results for integrated data capture are provided. Integrated data capture workflows are initiated from within an electronic medical record (EMR). Data is gathered from the EMR to make available to a case report form. Case report forms are populated with the most recently collected values of data. Indicators are displayed if alternate results for items are available. Selections of indicators are received and closed menus of alternate results for the items are presented. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046688 | FILTERING VALUES IN A CLOSED MENU FOR INTEGRATED DATA CAPTURE - Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for facilitating filtering values in a closed menu for integrated data capture are provided. Integrated data capture workflows are initiated from within an electronic medical record (EMR). Time ranges associated with data from the EMR are received. Data is gathered from the EMR to make available to case report forms. Values associated with the data are presented in closed menu for the time ranges. Selections of the values are received. Case report forms are populated with the selected values. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046689 | AUDIT TRAIL FOR INTEGRATED DATA CAPTURE - Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for facilitating an audit trail are provided. Integrated data capture workflows are initiated from within an electronic medical record (EMR). Selections of data from the EMR are received to make available to case report forms. The case report forms are populated with the selections of data and associated audit information. Selections of alternate results are received. The case report forms are populated with the alternate results and associated alternate result audit information. The case report forms are stored. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046690 | MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF PATIENT INFORMATION - Techniques, systems, and devices, for generating a patient management report based on clinician input and patient data are described. For example, one or more processors may be configured to receive a clinician input selecting at least one reporting characteristic for each of a plurality of diagnostic metrics and organize the diagnostic metrics based on the selected reporting characteristic. In addition, the one or more processors may be configured to receive patient data for at least one patient, determine a value for at least a subset of the diagnostic metrics based on the patient data, and generate a patient management report comprising the diagnostic metrics having a value that exceeds a respective threshold. The diagnostic metrics may be ordered in the patient management report based on the organization. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046691 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VERSIONING ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for electronic health record versioning. Data elements may be tagged with versioning information such as origin and timestamp. Versioning information and history may be available to users, and views showing values that have been changed since a last access time may be displayed. Users may override certain data elements with specific values. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046692 | WEB-BASED REAL-TIME PATIENT TRACKING AND REFERRAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - For those experienced with medical and dental practice management, it is clear that there exists a substantial need for better communication across medical/dental offices as pertains directly to mutual patient treatment and care. The specification herein provides a straightforward way to better serve the patient and improve practice efficiency through the design of a single, centralized system for which to manage all patient referrals in their practice. More specifically the present disclosure comprises a simple, thorough, and straightforward answer to this problem. The methods and management systems are easy to use, reliable, and created by medical/dental personnel for medical/dental personnel to provide cost savings, increase practice production, and most importantly, improve the patient experience. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046693 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING HEALTHCARE RISK RELATED EVENTS - A system for predicting healthcare financial risk including the process of accessing patient data associated with one or more patents, accessing geographic and healthcare system data, filtering the patient data, geographic data, and healthcare system data into clean data, and applying a predictive risk model to the clean data to generate patient profile data and to identify a portion of the patients associated with a level of predicted financial risk. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046694 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNOPTIC ELEMENT STRUCTURED REPORTING - A method for synoptic element structured reporting on a computing device is described. The method includes identifying a clinical context. The method also includes identifying a key question based on the identified clinical context. The method further includes obtaining an answer to the key question. The method additionally includes codifying the answer to produce a codified answer. The method also includes storing the codified answer in a database. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046695 | Device, method, and system for the automated compilation and processing of vital data - Vital data management system (VDMS), for example a patient data management system (PDMS), comprising a VDMS web application ( | 2014-02-13 |
20140046696 | Systems and Methods for Pharmacogenomic Decision Support in Psychiatry - The present invention provides methods and systems or apparatuses, to analyze multiple molecular and clinical variables from an individual diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), in order to optimize medication selection for therapeutic response. Molecular co-variables include polymorphisms in genes including those involved in central control and mediation of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis (HPA) stress response, the density of methylation in regulatory regions of said polymorphic genes, polymorphisms in genes that encode cytochrome P450 enzymes responsible for drug metabolism, and drug-drug and drug-gene interactions. Clinical co-variables include but are not limited to the sex, age and ethnicity of that individual, medication history, family history, diagnostic codes, Pittsburgh insomnia rating score, and Charlson index score. The system makes a determination based on unstructured and structured data types derived from internal and external knowledge resources to determine psychotropic drug choice that best matches the molecular and clinical variation profile of an individual patient. The decision support system provides a therapeutic recommendation for a clinician based on the patient's variation profile. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046697 | MEDICAL INFORMATION NAVIGATION ENGINE (MINE) SYSTEM - A medical information navigation engine (MINE) for transacting medical information by receiving medical information from a medical sources, identifying, mapping, and consolidating the received medical information by a back-end medical processor, presenting access to specific relevant data, based on a user's security privileges, within the identified, mapped, and consolidated medical information, based on user-specific functions or roles by a front-end medical processor, and generating user-customized processed medical information to a plurality of users, with at least a portion of the user-customize processed medical information being provided to each of the plurality of users based on its relevancy to each user's specific function or role and each user's associated security privileges. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046698 | ANIMAL DATA MANAGEMENT - Animal data is stored in memory accessible to a server. The server allows users to access the animal data, such as across a communication network. In some embodiments an identifier for an animal is stored with animal information. The identifier can be used to control access to animal records and to quickly locate animal information associated with a particular animal. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046699 | MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM AND MEDICAL INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a medical information system includes a first storage unit, an extraction unit, a specifying unit, and a second storage unit. The first storage unit stores clinical statuses and character strings expressing the clinical statuses in association with each other. The extraction unit extracts a character string stored in the first storage unit from examination information concerning a target examination. The specifying unit specifies the clinical status associated with the extracted character string on the first storage unit. The second storage unit stores the examination identifier of the target examination and the specified clinical status in association with each other. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046700 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PROVIDING A MARKETPLACE FOR DISTRIBUTING LEADS - Systems and method of providing a web-based marketplace for distributing leads to a network of agents are provided. A method includes receiving data indicative of user identification and user insurance coverage from a plurality of website users, identifying a subset of the plurality of website users that fail to purchase insurance, generating a database that stores the data received from the subset of website users, and generating a price for purchasing the data received from each of the subset of website users. The price is added to the respective website user's data in the database. The method includes transmitting a portion of the database including the price to a third party, and receiving a request to purchase a first website user's data. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046701 | Apparatus and Method for Detecting Driving Performance Data - A system and method for detecting driving performance data is provided. The system and method include a mobile device in electronic communication with a network and one or more sensors for measuring at least one parameter associated with operation of a vehicle. A driving performance engine in electronic communication with the mobile device. The driving performance engine verifies the vehicle and a driver of the vehicle, detects vehicle movement by comparing sensor data obtained by the mobile device with a predefined set of rules, records driving performance data, transmits the driving performance data anonymously to an insurance provider computer system, and receives insurance cost information from the insurance provider computer system based on the driving performance data. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046702 | Methods and systems for providing liquidity options and permanent legacy benefits for annuities - This invention relates to methods and systems that provide annuities with at least one liquidity option that allows the holder of the liquidity option to exercise the option and convert therewith a portion of a value of the annuity into a liquid asset, such as cash or a cash value, based on the value of future income payments, which can include payments that are guaranteed to be paid for the duration of one or more lifetime. The conversion may be in a variety of forms, such as an advance of at least a portion of the future income payments, or in the form a lump sum distribution of at least a portion of a commuted value of the annuity computed based at least in part on the present value, at the time of the conversion, of future income payments for the remainder of the guarantee period. This invention further relates to methods and systems that provide annuities including a liquid legacy benefit option that provide a lump sum distribution of a portion of an annuity premium to a beneficiary at the end of the guarantee period that is substantially certain at the inception of the annuity. | 2014-02-13 |
20140046703 | METHOD, SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND MEDIA FOR MANAGING DEBT SUPPORT - A computer-implemented method, system, apparatus, and media is directed to minimizing a risk associated with an anticipated value of an investment. An insurer establishes a capital structure within a computer memory of a computer system, the capital structure designed to minimize risk and being pledged to fund a default associated with the investment. Establishing the capital structure can include allocating regulatory capital based on a coverage factor multiplied by an average annual depression scenario default percentage for the investment and determining a portion of the capital structure for a pledged insuring investment that produces at least a portion of the cash stream. A determination of whether the established capital structure is sufficient to obtain a minimal target credit rating for the insurer is generated. The desired target rating is electronically provided based on the determination. | 2014-02-13 |