| 07th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 52 |
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| 20130041623 | THEFT DETECTION NODES AND SERVERS, METHODS OF ESTIMATING AN ANGLE OF A TURN, METHODS OF ESTIMATING A DISTANCE TRAVELED BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE STOPS, AND METHODS AND SERVERS FOR DETERMINING A PATH TRAVELED BY A NODE - One aspect of the invention provides a theft detection node including: a power source; an accelerometer; a gyroscope; a transmitter; and a microcontroller in communication with the power source, the motion detector, and the transmitter. The microcontroller is programmed to determine whether the theft detection node is being transported and, if the theft detection node is being transported: estimate the distance traveled between successive stops and transmit the estimated distance to a server. Another aspect of the invention provides a method of determining a path traveled by a node. The method includes: generating a Hidden Markov Model having a plurality of hidden states, each hidden state corresponding to a road segment; receiving information from the node about one or more turns and the distance traveled between successive stops; and determining the most likely path for the distance between successive stops and a distance between successive turns. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041624 | CMM MOVING PATH ADJUSTMENT ASSISTING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method is provided to assist adjustment for a movement path of a probe. A coordinate measuring machine includes a probe having a tip for detecting a surface of an object, and a movement mechanism for moving the probe, and measures a shape of the object by allowing the probe tip to scan the surface. A controller controls operation of the coordinate measuring machine by calculating a scanning path for allowing the probe tip to perform scanning movement and the movement path followed by the probe when the probe tip moves along the scanning path, setting control points on a line connecting each position of the probe tip and each corresponding position of the probe accepting a change in position of the control points by a user, and changing the movement path accordingly. An adjustment guide unit in the controller allows the control points to move collectively. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041625 | Advanced Statistical Detection of Emerging Trends - Advanced statistical detection of emerging trends in a process is disclosed, based on a Repeated Weighted Geometric Cumulative Sum analysis, which may be combined with time window-based estimation of proportions and related thresholds. Threshold derivation and significance computation is based on parallel simulation runs with power-exponential tail approximations. A battery of tests using the statistical theory of sequential analysis and change-point theory in combination with targets is used to evaluate non-conforming conditions in a process. Trends in fall-out rates are detected based on non-time-to-failure data that corresponds to counts of failures in consecutive time periods, with possibility of delayed input. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041626 | Hybrid Analysis of Emerging Trends for Process Control - An asymmetric approach is used for evaluating process control data, whereby one approach is used for determining entry into the emerging life cycle phase (i.e., presence of a new defect) and a different approach is used for detecting entry into the other life cycle phases such as cresting and recovering. An evidence curve is created from observed instance data for a particular defect, and the slope of this evidence curve is analyzed programmatically by applying one or more tests, in combination with sequential time-reversed estimation, to determine return-to-normal conditions with a desired level of confidence. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041627 | Compressive Data Gathering for Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks - Techniques for data gathering in large-scale wireless sensor networks are described. A data collection device receives aggregate data from at least one sensor node of a group of N sensor nodes. The aggregate data includes M weighted sums. Each of the M weighted sums includes a respective sum of N products each of which being a product of a respective coefficient and a sensor reading from a respective one of the N sensor nodes. M and N are positive integers and M is less than N. Computation is performed on the aggregate data to recover sensor readings from the N sensor nodes. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041628 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISTINGUISHING ENERGY BANDS OF PHOTONS IN MULTI-ENERGY RADIATION - An apparatus for distinguishing an energy band of a photon in a readout circuit that counts photons in multi-energy radiation incident onto a sensor for each energy band includes an integrator configured to accumulate an electric signal received from the sensor that has undergone photoelectric conversion from the photon; a comparator configured to compare an accumulated electric signal received from the integrator with one of a plurality of threshold values; and a signal processor configured to instruct sequential switching from one of the plurality of threshold values to another one of the plurality of threshold values according to a result of a comparison received from the comparator; and output a digital signal that distinguishes an energy band of the photon based on results received from the comparator of sequential comparisons of the accumulated electric signal with the plurality of threshold values. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041629 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION - Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of arranging three-dimensional virtual designs configured to be manufactured as physical designs on a production batch, the method including: providing the virtual designs, where each virtual design is based on a three-dimensional representation of an object, and where at least a number of the virtual designs belongs to a group, where the virtual designs in a respective group satisfy at least one common criterion; and arranging the virtual designs relative to the production batch. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041630 | SUPPORT OF REMOVABLE COMPONENTS IN A TEETH MODEL MANUFACTURED BY MEANS OF CAM - A computer-implemented method of generating a virtual model of a set of teeth for manufacturing a physical model of the set of teeth includes providing a virtual model of the set of teeth generating a cavity in said gingival part, into which cavity a removable component fits, where the removable component and the cavity are configured to provide a gap at an interface; and providing for supporting and positioning the removable component in the cavity, wherein the area of contact between the removable component and the cavity wall at the interface is controlled by the shape of the adjoining surfaces of the supporting and positioning and the other of the removable component and the cavity wall. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041631 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED CELLULAR AUTOMATA ALGORITHM FOR TRAFFIC FLOW MODELING - An embodiment generally relates to systems and methods for enhanced cellular automata (CA) models. A processing module can generate a traffic model that comprises a set of vehicles. The traffic model can be processed according to the enhanced CA model. In particular, a perceived gap between vehicles in the set of vehicles can be identified. Further, a subsequent velocity of a following vehicle can be calculated based on metrics such as a maximum velocity, the perceived gap, and various time components. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041632 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING OCCUPANT SCHEDULES - Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to the modeling of building occupant behavior. An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for generating interdependent schedules in an occupant simulation model. Within schedules generated in accordance with the present invention may be included activities that require the attendance of other occupants. Disclosed are methods for distributing multi-occupant activities among other occupants of a building. In another embodiment of the present invention, personas are used to generate simulated occupant schedules from a limited number of real-world occupant surveys. Characteristics of the real-world schedules are manipulated so as to fit desired characteristics. Multiple persona models are disclosed. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041633 | HEAT FRONT CAPTURE IN THERMAL RECOVERY SIMULATIONS OF HYDROCARBON RESERVOIRS - A numerical procedure is disclosed to improve the prediction of heat fronts when simulating hot fluid injection in viscous hydrocarbon reservoirs. The mathematical model is composed of the conventional governing equations that describe multiphase fluid flow and energy balance. The reservoir geometry can be partitioned into a regular Cartesian grid or an irregular corner-point geometry grid. The numerical procedure uses the finite different (FD) method to solve the flow equations and the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method to solve the energy balance equation. The proposed FD-DG method is an alternative to the traditional solution procedure that uses the FD method to solve both the flow and the energy equations. The traditional method has the deficiency that it may require excessive number of grid cells to achieve acceptable resolution of the heat fronts. The proposed FD-DG method significantly reduces numerical dispersion near discontinuities in the solution of the energy equation and therefore provides a better capture of the heat fronts. To obtain a desired accuracy in the energy equation solution, the FD-DG method can be orders of magnitude faster than the traditional method. The superiority of the FD-DG method is that it converges on coarser grids while the traditional method requires much finer grids. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041634 | Initial Configuration of a Blank in Sheet Metal Forming Simulation - An improved system and method of creating an initial configuration of a finite element mesh model of a blank sheet metal used in a computer simulation of sheet metal forming process is disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, the finite element mesh model of the blank is initially configured as a flat plate without any weight before performing the gravity loading phase of the simulation. A user-specified initial imperfection is then applied to the initial flat plate model so that a desired bent shape occurs predictably. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041635 | Methods and Systems for Designing Addendum Section of A Die in Sheet Metal Forming - An improved method of creating a computerized numerical model representing addendum section is disclosed. Computerized numerical model is created by placing a plurality of surface patches at disjoint locations along an enclosed trim line of the product design surface and corresponding binder opening line. Each surface patch is bounded with top and bottom edges coincided with the enclosed trim line and the binder opening line, respectively. Each surface patch is further bounded with two side edges connecting corresponding ends of the top and bottom edges. To ensure a continuously smooth transition between the product design surface and the binder surface, a number of parameters are adjusted for each surface patch to obtain a desired surface geometry. Any gap between a neighboring pair of surface patches is filled with a filler patch using a blending procedure that ensures continuous smooth transition from two neighboring side edges of the neighboring pair. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041636 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPARING VERTICAL AXIS TURBINE ARRAYS AND PROVIDING CONFIGURATIONS THEREOF - A method for providing potential flow elements including a vortex to capture rotation of a turbine, a dipole to capture a blockage effect of the turbine, a sink to capture extracted energy from wind by the turbine, and a source to capture recovery of flow due to inflow from around the turbine is described. Methods for providing configurations of a VAWT array based on a desired attribute of the array, using a low-order model when the array is subject to physical constraints are also described. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041637 | THREE DIMENSIONAL MODEL METHOD BASED ON COMBINATION OF GROUND BASED IMAGES AND IMAGES TAKEN FROM ABOVE - A three dimensional model method based on combination of ground based images and images taken from above. An existing 3D model based on images taken from above is matched with images taken from ground level. All images including information about position and attitudes of the camera when the images from ground level and the images taken from above were taken and direction of each pixel. The method offers an automatically carried out imaging solving or at least mitigating occlusion problems. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041638 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE - Provided is a prediction method that includes the step of evaluating activity of a chemical substance on the basis of the energy density of a reactive molecular orbital possessed by the constituent molecule of the chemical substance, the orbital corresponding to the kind of activity that is to be predicted. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041639 | SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING MEMBRANE STRESS ON ARBITRARY-SHAPED CURVILINEAR SURFACE BASED ON CURRENT CONFIGURATION DATA - A stress estimating system includes a polygon data input unit of polygon data modeling a vascular wall, an interactive analysis condition setting unit for setting the tensile force acting on the vascular wall boundary, blood pressure and constraint estimated as proper on the boundary, a stress analysis unit for obtaining two-dimensional stress by solving a mechanical equilibrium equation with respect to the membrane stress on a curvilinear surface of the vascular wall under the condition given by the polygon data input unit and the interactive analysis condition setting unit, and an interactive visualization unit for displaying a distribution of a stress component designated by a system user. Without assuming any symmetry for the curvilinear configuration and stress distribution, a complicated stress distribution is estimated only out of the mechanical equilibrium equation with respect to membrane stress. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041640 | CLASSIFICATION OF RANGE PROFILES - A method and apparatus are provided for classifying range profiles, generated for example by a radar, lidar or sonar. In the method, each in a set of objects of interest is modelled with a probabilistic model. The probabilistic model represents the probabilities of occurrence of different possible sequences of distances between selected features of the object, in different orientations, that are likely to result in peaks of backscatter in a range profile of the object. The probabilistic model is derived from a first probabilistic representation of each selected feature, generated to represent the uncertainty in locating the feature and the uncertainty in observing the feature in a range profile. Classification is achieved by calculating, for each probabilistic model, the probability that the model would generate a given sequence of distances between observed backscatter events in a given range profile. The model generating the given sequence with the greatest probability identifies the object likely to have produced the given range profile. Preferably, the probabilistic models comprise Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041641 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING FRICTION IN A HINGE OF A ROBOT ARM OR MANIPULATOR ARM, AND USE THEREOF IN A TORQUE COMPENSATION METHOD - An identification method for identifying the behavior of a hinge of a robot arm or of a manipulator arm, the method including the steps of selecting a behavior model linking the input torque and the output torque of the hinge depending on operating parameters, and of operating the hinge in such a manner as to measure several (input torque/output torque) operating points, and of performing a regression in order to identify the parameters of the model and thus to determine at least one of the direct or indirect characteristics of the hinge. The behavior model retained includes dry friction having a first component that does not depend on the output torque, and a second component that does depend on the output torque of the hinge. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041642 | TRAFFIC SIMULATION SYSTEM AND TRAFFIC SIMULATION PROGRAM - In a traffic simulation in which vehicle models, which simulate vehicles, are moved in a road system model ( | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041643 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING OCCUPANT SCHEDULES - Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to the modeling of building occupant behavior. An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for generating interdependent schedules in an occupant simulation model. Within schedules generated in accordance with the present invention may be included activities that require the attendance of other occupants. Disclosed are methods for distributing multi-occupant activities among other occupants of a building. In another embodiment of the present invention, personas are used to generate simulated occupant schedules from a limited number of real-world occupant surveys. Characteristics of the real-world schedules are manipulated so as to fit desired characteristics. Multiple persona models are disclosed. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041644 | AUTOMATED UPGRADING METHOD FOR CAPACITY OF IT SYSTEM RESOURCES - Embodiments provide a method for performing an automatic execution of a Box and Jenkins method for forecasting the behavior of said dataset. The method may include pre-processing the dataset including providing one or more missing values to the dataset, removing level discontinuities and outliers, and removing one or more last samples from the dataset, obtaining a trend of the pre-processed dataset including identifying and filtering the trend out of the dataset based on a coefficient of determination methodology, detecting seasonality to obtain a resulting stationary series including computing an auto correlation function of the dataset, repeating the detecting step on an aggregate series of a previous dataset, and removing detected seasonality based on a seasonal differencing process, and modeling the resulting stationary series under an autoregressive-moving-average (ARMA) model. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041645 | RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH CIRCUIT SIMULATOR PROGRAM IS STORED, AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING EYE PATTERN - An eye pattern is generated by: simulating a rising step response to a rising step signal input into the circuit and a falling step response to a falling step signal input into the circuit; analyzing a result of the simulating of the rising step response and the falling step response; generating, on the basis of a result of the analyzing, an upper-part test pattern that defines a shape of an upper part of an eye of an eye pattern and a lower-part test pattern that defines a shape of a lower part of the eye of the eye pattern; and simulating a response to the upper-part test pattern and the lower-part test pattern both input into the circuit. This procedure rapidly generates a precise eye pattern. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041646 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMERGENCY MESSAGE PREVIEW AND TRANSMISSION - In accordance with the embodiments of the present invention, a system and method for enabling preview, editing, and transmission of emergency notification messages is provided. The system includes a controller, a microphone, and a speech-to-text engine for receiving an audio message input to the microphone and for convert the audio message to a text message. The resulting text message is displayed on a local display, where a user can edit the message via a text editor. Text and/or audio notification devices are provided for displaying the edited text data as a text message. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041647 | METHOD FOR DISAMBIGUATING MULTIPLE READINGS IN LANGUAGE CONVERSION - Disambiguating multiple readings in language conversion is disclosed, including: receiving an input data to be converted into a set of characters comprising a symbolic representation of the input data in a target symbolic system; and using a language model that distinguishes between a first reading and a second reading of a character of the target symbolic system to determine a probability that the heteronymous character should be used to represent a corresponding portion of the input data. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041648 | SOUND LOCALIZATION FOR USER IN MOTION - Methods, apparatus, and computer programs for simulating the source of sound are provided. One method includes operations for determining a location in space of the head of a user utilizing face recognition of images of the user. Further, the method includes an operation for determining a sound for two speakers, and an operation for determining an emanating location in space for the sound, each speaker being associated with one ear of the user. The acoustic signals for each speaker are established based on the location in space of the head, the sound, the emanating location in space, and the auditory characteristics of the user. In addition, the acoustic signals are transmitted to the two speakers. When the acoustic signals are played by the two speakers, the acoustic signals simulate that the sound originated at the emanating location in space. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041649 | Method for Creating Chinese Character Scripts and Chinese Character-Based Scripts of Other Languages - A method for learning scripts of Chinese character-based languages includes forming a list of user-recognized symbols in a Chinese character-based language, each of the symbols having an associated key with a respective bridge. A complex Chinese multi-character to be learned and added to the recognized list is identified. A set of the user-recognized symbols within the multi-character is recognized. A mnemonic in a language known to the user is formed for recalling the written form of the multi-character. The mnemonic is based upon the keys and bridges associated with the recognized set of symbols within the multi-character. The mnemonic is used to remember the multi-character and, thereby, add the multi-character to the recognized list. Chinese radicals can be sources associated with icons having a logical similarity thereto. The source has the bridge in upper case and three icons use two combinations of lower/upper case and two lower case letters. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041650 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND/OR METHODS FOR MANAGING SAMPLE SELECTION BIAS - Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method that can include, via a special purpose processor, automatically determining an unbiased estimate of a distribution from occurrence data having an occurrence data sample selection bias substantially equivalent to a background data sample selection bias, the occurrence data related to background data, the background data chosen with the background data sample selection bias, the occurrence data representing a physically-measurable variable of one or more physical and tangible objects or substances. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041651 | Computer Program Product and Computer System for Language-Enhanced Programming Tools - Statements of a computer program expressed using a first source natural language are made meaningful to a programmer familiar with a second target natural language. The first source natural language of the computer program is determined from the programmer, or through analysis, and the second target natural language desired by the programmer is selected. Textual constructs may be parsed, with reference to stored coding conventions to determine meaningful lexical tokens. Such tokens are translated with a translation engine, and displayed to the programmer, desirably using a graphical user interface feature of an integrated development, environment (IDE) for computer programming in a particular programming language. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041652 | CROSS-LANGUAGE TEXT CLUSTERING - Methods are described for performing clustering or classification of texts of different languages. Language-independent semantic structures (LISS) are constructed before clustering is performed. These structures reflect lexical, morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties of texts. The methods suggested are able to perform cross-language text clustering which is based on the meaning derived from texts. The methods are applicable to genre classification, topic detection, news analysis, authorship analysis, internet searches, and creating corpora for other tasks, etc. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041653 | Coefficients Attribution for Different Objects Based on Natural Language Processing - In one embodiment, a system includes one or more computing systems that implement a social networking environment and is operable to parse users' actions that include free form text to determine and store objects and affinities contained in the text string through natural-language processing. The method comprises accessing a text string, identifying objects and affinity declarations via natural-language processing, assessing the combination of objects and context data to determine an instance of a broader concept, and determining an affinity coefficient through a natural-language processing dictionary. Once a database of stored instances and affinities has been generated and stored, it may be leveraged to push suggestions to members of the social network to enhance their social networking experience. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041654 | AUTOMATED SENTENCE PLANNING IN A TASK CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a task classification system that interacts with a user. The task classification system may include a recognizer that may recognize symbols in the user's input communication, and a natural language understanding unit that may determine whether the user's input communication can be understood. If the user's input communication can be understood, the natural language understanding unit may generate understanding data. The system may also include a communicative goal generator that may generate communicative goals based on the symbols recognized by the recognizer and understanding data from the natural language understanding unit. The generated communicative goals may be related to information needed to be obtained from the user. The system may further include a sentence planning unit that may automatically plan one or more sentences based on the communicative goals generated by the communicative goal generator with at least one of the sentences plans being output to the user. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041655 | Systems and Methods for Word Offensiveness Detection and Processing Using Weighted Dictionaries and Normalization - Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for identifying language that would be considered obscene or otherwise offensive to a user or proprietor of a system. A plurality of offensive words are received, where each offensive word is associated with a severity score identifying the offensiveness of that word. A string of words is received. A distance between a candidate word and each offensive word in the plurality of offensive words is calculated, and a plurality of offensiveness scores for the candidate word are calculated, each offensiveness score based on the calculated distance between the candidate word and the offensive word and the severity score of the offensive word. A determination is made as to whether the candidate word is an offender word, where the candidate word is deemed to be an offender word when the highest offensiveness score in the plurality of offensiveness scores exceeds an offensiveness threshold value. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041656 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING SOUND PITCH ACROSS AN AUDIO SIGNAL - A system and method may be configured to analyze audio information derived from an audio signal. The system and method may track sound pitch across the audio signal. The tracking of pitch across the audio signal may take into account change in pitch by determining at individual time sample windows in the signal duration an estimated pitch and an estimated fractional chirp rate of the harmonics at the estimated pitch. The estimated pitch and the estimated fractional chirp rate may then be implemented to determine an estimated pitch for another time sample window in the signal duration with an enhanced accuracy and/or precision. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041657 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING SOUND PITCH ACROSS AN AUDIO SIGNAL USING HARMONIC ENVELOPE - A system and method may be configured to analyze audio information derived from an audio signal. The system and method may track sound pitch across the audio signal. The tracking of pitch across the audio signal may take into account change in pitch by determining at individual time sample windows in the signal duration an estimated pitch and a representation of harmonic envelope at the estimated pitch. The estimated pitch and the representation of harmonic envelope may then be implemented to determine an estimated pitch for another time sample window in the signal duration with an enhanced accuracy and/or precision. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041658 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING A SOUND SIGNAL INCLUDING TRANSFORMING THE SOUND SIGNAL INTO A FREQUENCY-CHIRP DOMAIN - A system and method may be configured to process an audio signal. The system and method may track pitch, chirp rate, and/or harmonic envelope across the audio signal, may reconstruct sound represented in the audio signal, and/or may segment or classify the audio signal. A transform may be performed on the audio signal to place the audio signal in a frequency chirp domain that enhances the sound parameter tracking, reconstruction, and/or classification. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041659 | SPATIO-TEMPORAL SPEECH ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUE BASED ON GENERALIZED EIGENVALUE DECOMPOSITION - Described herein is a speech enhancement method using microphone arrays and a new iterative technique for enhancing noisy speech signals under low signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) environments. Included is the processing of observed noisy speech both in the spatial- and the temporal-domains to enhance the desired signal component speech and an iterative technique to compute the generalized eigenvectors of the multichannel data derived from the microphone array. The entire processing is done on the spatio-temporal correlation coefficient sequence of the observed data in order to avoid large matrix-vector multiplications. Also described is a speech enhancement system having two stages. In the first stage, the noise component of the observed signal is whitened, and in the second stage a spatio-temporal power method is used to extract the most dominant speech component. In both the stages, the filters are adapted using the multichannel spatio-temporal correlation coefficients of the data. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041660 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TAGGING SIGNALS OF INTEREST IN TIME VARIANT DATA - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable storage media for tagging a known signal of interest. Initially, the system classifies the data from an input signal using a short-term classifier, wherein there are at least two classifications available, a first classification of the data as having no identified outputs and a second classification of the data as at least one potential signal of interest, wherein the short-term classifier also bypasses data that is known to be of no interest. After the short-term classifier classifies the inputs, it collapses the input data that is classified as having no identified outputs. This allows the short-term classifier to create time-variant data. Finally, the system will tag a known signal of interest in the time-variant data that was classified as having at least one potential signal of interest. Therefore, a system for tagging a known signal of interest is described. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041661 | AUDIO COMMUNICATION ASSESSMENT - A device may include a communication interface configured to receive audio signals associated with audible communications from a user; an output device; and logic. The logic may be configured to determine one or more audio qualities associated with the audio signals, map the one or more audio qualities to at least one value, generate audio-related information based on the mapping, and provide, via the output device during the audible communications, the audio-related information to the user. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041662 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SERVICES ON A DEVICE USING VOICE DATA - A device and method to control applications using voice data. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting voice data from a user, converting the voice data to text data, matching the text data to an identifier the identifier associated with a list of identifiers for controlling operation of the application, and controlling the application based on the identifier matched with the text data. In another embodiment, voice data may be received from a control device. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041663 | COMMUNICATION APPLICATION FOR CONDUCTING CONVERSATIONS INCLUDING MULTIPLE MEDIA TYPES IN EITHER A REAL-TIME MODE OR A TIME-SHIFTED MODE - A communication application configured to support a conversation among participants over a communication network. The communication application is configured to (i) support one or more media types within the context of the conversation, (ii) interleave the one or more media types in a time-indexed order within the context of the conversation, (iii) enable the participants to render the conversation including the interleaved one or more media types in either a real-time rendering mode or time-shifted rendering mode, and (iv) seamlessly transition the conversation between the two modes so that the conversation may take place substantially live when in the real-time rendering mode or asynchronously when in the time-shifted rendering mode. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041664 | Method and Apparatus for Annotating Video Content With Metadata Generated Using Speech Recognition Technology - A method and apparatus is provided for annotating video content with metadata generated using speech recognition technology. The method begins by rendering video content on a display device. A segment of speech is received from a user such that the speech segment annotates a portion of the video content currently being rendered. The speech segment is converted to a text-segment and the text-segment is associated with the rendered portion of the video content. The text segment is stored in a selectively retrievable manner so that it is associated with the rendered portion of the video content. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041665 | Electronic Device and Method of Controlling the Same - There are disclosed an electronic device and a method of controlling the electronic device. The electronic device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a display unit, a voice input unit, and a control unit configured to output a plurality of contents through the electronic device, receive a voice command through the voice input unit for performing a command, determine which of the plurality of contents correspond to the received voice command, and perform the command on one or more of the plurality of contents that correspond to the received voice command. According to the present invention, multi-tasking performed in an electronic device can be efficiently controlled through a voice command. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041666 | VOICE RECOGNITION APPARATUS, VOICE RECOGNITION SERVER, VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND VOICE RECOGNITION METHOD - A voice recognition apparatus, a voice recognition server, a voice recognition system, and a voice recognition method, in which a general-purpose voice recognition engine may accurately recognize a limited number of words used in a specific area. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041667 | MULTIMODAL DISAMBIGUATION OF SPEECH RECOGNITION - The present invention provides a speech recognition system combined with one or more alternate input modalities to ensure efficient and accurate text input. The speech recognition system achieves less than perfect accuracy due to limited processing power, environmental noise, and/or natural variations in speaking style. The alternate input modalities use disambiguation or recognition engines to compensate for reduced keyboards, sloppy input, and/or natural variations in writing style. The ambiguity remaining in the speech recognition process is mostly orthogonal to the ambiguity inherent in the alternate input modality, such that the combination of the two modalities resolves the recognition errors efficiently and accurately. The invention is especially well suited for mobile devices with limited space for keyboards or touch-screen input. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041668 | VOICE LEARNING APPARATUS, VOICE LEARNING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING VOICE LEARNING PROGRAM - A voice learning apparatus includes a learning-material voice storage unit that stores learning material voice data including example sentence voice data; a learning text storage unit that stores a learning material text including an example sentence text; a learning-material text display controller that displays the learning material text; a learning-material voice output controller that performs voice output based on the learning material voice data; an example sentence specifying unit that specifies the example sentence text during the voice output; an example-sentence voice output controller that performs voice output based on the example sentence voice data associated with the specified example sentence text; and a learning-material voice output restart unit that restarts the voice output from a position where the voice output is stopped last time, after the voice output is performed based on the example sentence voice data. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041669 | SPEECH OUTPUT WITH CONFIDENCE INDICATION - A method, system, and computer program product are provided for speech output with confidence indication. The method includes receiving a confidence score for segments of speech or text to be synthesized to speech. The method includes modifying a speech segment by altering one or more parameters of the speech proportionally to the confidence score. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041670 | SPEECH COMMAND INPUT RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE COMPUTER DISPLAY WITH INTERPRETATION OF ANCILLARY RELEVANT SPEECH QUERY TERMS INTO COMMANDS - In an interactive computer controlled display system with speech command input recognition and visual feedback including means for predetermining a plurality of speech commands for respectively initiating each of a corresponding plurality of system actions in combination with means for providing for each of the plurality of speech commands an associated set of speech terms, each term having relevance to its associated command Also included are means responsive to a detected speech term having relevance to one of the speech commands for displaying a relevant command. The system preferably may display basic speech commands simultaneously along with relevant commands. The means for providing the associated set of speech terms may comprise a stored relevance table of universal speech input commands and universal computer operation terms conventionally associated with system actions initiated by the input commands, and means for relating operation terms of the system with terms in the relevance table. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041671 | Event Driven Motion Systems - A motion system for allowing a person to cause a desired motion operation to be performed, comprising a network, a motion machine, a speech to text converter, a message protocol generator, an instant message receiver, and a motion services system. The motion machine is capable of performing motion operations. The speech to text converter generates a digital representation of a spoken motion message spoken by the person. The message protocol generator generates a digital motion command based on the digital representation of the spoken motion message and causes the digital motion command to be transmitted over the network. The instant message receiver receives the digital motion command. The motion services system causes the motion machine to perform the desired motion operation based on the digital motion command received by the instant message receiver. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041672 | METHOD AND ENCODER AND DECODER FOR SAMPLE-ACCURATE REPRESENTATION OF AN AUDIO SIGNAL - A method for providing information on the validity of encoded audio data is disclosed, the encoded audio data being a series of coded audio data units. Each coded audio data unit can include information on the valid audio data. The method includes: providing either information on a coded audio data level which describes the amount of data at the beginning of an audio data unit being invalid, or providing information on a coded audio data level which describes the amount of data at the end of an audio data unit being invalid, or providing information on a coded audio data level which describes both the amount of data at the beginning and the end of an audio data unit being invalid. A method for receiving encoded data including information on the validity of data and providing decoded output data is also disclosed. Furthermore, a corresponding encoder and a corresponding decoder are disclosed. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041673 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A WIDEBAND SIGNAL USING GUIDED BANDWIDTH EXTENSION AND BLIND BANDWIDTH EXTENSION - An apparatus, method and computer program for generating a wideband signal using a lowband input signal includes a processor for performing a guided bandwidth extension operation using transmitted parameters and a blind bandwidth extension operation only using derived parameters rather than transmitted parameters. To this end, the processor includes a parameter generator for generating the parameters for the blind bandwidth extension operation. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041674 | Method and Apparatus for Compensating Marketing Personnel - A new new compensation method and apparatus have been developed to make the compensation more fair than any other compensation program available. In the present invention, the recruited sales people are rotated into and out of differing compensation levels on a predetermined time frame. There can be up to four different payment areas or vortexes for payment of the sales people. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041675 | Method for Administering A Pharmaceutical Product Donation Program - A method of distributing and tracking donated prescription medicines includes a pharmaceutical donor donating in-kind pharmaceutical products to a non-profit organization which then transfers the donated pharmaceutical products to a pharmaceutical distributor. An electronic record is established indicating a credit with pharmaceutical distributor in favor of the non-profit organization. After a pharmacy has distributed a pharmaceutical to an eligible patient, the pharmacy notifies the non-profit organization of the transaction and the non-profit organization authorizes the pharmaceutical distributor to apply to the credit to the benefit of the pharmacy. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041676 | System and Method for Overriding Claims - Systems and methods for overriding claim denials and approvals are provided that determine that a current claim will be denied and search the purchasing member's claim history for previously approved claims that match the current claim. If a matching claim is found and is dated within a certain predetermined window of time, the current claim is approved. Additionally, when it is determined that a current claim will be approved at a high tier level the member's claim history is searched for a previously approved claim that matches the current claim and a formulary crosswalk analysis is performed. If a matching claim with a lower tier level is found in the member's claim history or the crosswalk analysis determines that a lower tier level is available, the current claim is processed using the lower tier. Claims overridden are digitally stamped for reporting purposes and for subsequent claim matching. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041677 | Dynamic Forms - A computer-implemented method and apparatus for development and use of a medical form. One example system receives a request on a first computer to create the medical form. The medical form includes user selected fields corresponding to patient information. The system further receives signals on the first computer, where the signals describe form fields for the medical form. The system communicates the medical form from the first computer to the first tablet device for display on the first tablet device. The system receives form values, wherein at least some of the form values correspond to information about an appointment. Responsive to receiving a completion signal, the system generates a clinical narrative for the appointment using the completed form values. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041678 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING PATIENT ADHERENCE USING COMBINED EDUCATIONAL COUPONS AND/OR TAILORED EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTS - The present invention relates generally to a method of provisioning a combined educational coupon that includes a) receiving, on a computer apparatus, electronic prescription data for a prescribed substance for a patient; b) the computer apparatus determining educational data relating to the prescribed substance and coupon data relating to the prescribed substance; and c) the computer apparatus generating a single data file comprising the educational data relating to the prescribed substance and the coupon data relating to the prescribed substance. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041679 | ORDER DISPLAY APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ORDER DISPLAY METHOD - An order display apparatus disclosed in this application includes an extracting unit and a generating unit in one aspect. The extracting unit extracts orders having a designated period within the implementation periods thereof, from a storage unit that stores change information indicating the relationships between one order among orders issued by doctors and the other orders among the issued orders, and the implementation period during which the one order is executed. If the orders extracted by the extracting unit include a second order having the change information indicating that the second order has been changed from a first order, the generating unit performs the following operation. The generating unit has the first order and the second order displayed adjacent to each other on a display screen that displays at least some of the extracted orders in accordance with the passage of time during the designated period. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041680 | AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR SELECTING AND ALLOCATING STORED ALLOGENEIC BIOLOGICAL CELLS FOR TRANSPLANTATION, THERAPY AND RESEARCH - The invention relates to a system for the automatic, fast and dynamic mediation of biological cells for transplantation, therapy or research purposes for registers of patients having differing indications between extraction centers or banks (deposits) and clinics, transplantation centers or research institutions, service providers (diagnosis, further processing of the preparations and logistics) and the monitoring and support of the processes of requirements transmission, integration from diagnostics technologies and techniques, to further processing, to delivery and payment of a cell preparation suited for allogeneic transplantation or other biological preparation, to the use of the mediated preparation to tracking of the results in patients and to the provision of said data for statistical and other purposes. The system according to the invention is for the first time able to suggest, online and automatically, complete solution proposals for specific stored transplantations for individual patients in extensive registers of patients and to consider prioritized deposits and to create medicinally and logistically advantageous solution proposals when ordering a plurality of preparations. The system is furthermore for the first time able to automatically integrate and coordinate service providers incorporated in the process, such as logistics companies and further processors of the required preparations, into to the process and can conduct all processes and financial transactions as a central tool (platform). | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041681 | CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM WITH TEMPORAL CONTEXT - A clinical decision support system (CDSS) includes a CDSS module ( | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041682 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING PATIENT MEDICAL RECORDS - A medical form is marked by a clinician during a patient/clinician encounter to generate a record with information related to a current complaint. The form is partitioned into several regions related to patient history, examination and medical decision, respectively. The form is automatically analyzed and using the locations of the marks on the form and a predetermined set of rules, a billing code is generated. The billing code determines the fee to be paid to the clinician or health provider. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041683 | COMPUTER BASED SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING TREATMENT OUTCOMES - This invention relates to computer systems for conducting drug and biomarker discovery, drug development, and personalized medicine, and more generally managing healthcare, and in particular to a system and method for predicting the therapeutic value of a treatment to an individual. The treatment is associated with a function that describes, in a population of individuals, the benefit from a treatment, generally in terms of occurrence of a medical event under treatment, as a function of the risk (e.g., the occurrence of the medical event) without said treatment. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041684 | System And Method Of Identifying When A Patient Undergoing Hemodialysis Is At Increased Risk Of Death By A Logistic Regression Model - Identifying a patient undergoing periodic hemodialysis treatments at increased risk of death by a logistic regression model includes selecting one or more clinical or biochemical parameter parameters associated with a probability of death of the patient while the patient is undergoing periodic hemodialysis treatments, and estimating the probability of death of the patient over a future time interval by a logistic regression model including model coefficients, the model coefficients determined by analyzing data from deceased patients that were previously undergoing periodic hemodialysis treatments, the analysis including a longitudinal analysis backwards in time on the one or more clinical or biochemical parameters of the deceased patients. The patient is identified as having an increased risk of death if the probability of death of the patient is greater than a predetermined threshold probability. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041685 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESES FOR MEDICAL FACTS - Techniques for presenting alternative hypotheses for medical facts may include identifying, using at least one statistical fact extraction model, a plurality of alternative hypotheses for a medical fact to be extracted from a portion of text documenting a patient encounter. At least two of the alternative hypotheses may be selected, and the selected hypotheses may be presented to a user documenting the patient encounter. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041686 | HEALTH CARE BROKERAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE - A health care brokerage service and method comprises a communication service for servicing users, patients and providers through the internet and/or via phone by speech, through user guides. The health care brokerage service also comprises a brokering service that users, patients and providers can utilize for finding each other and broker services of health-care events and a compliance service for enhancing compliance by patients with health-care events, through persistent reminders and through retaining and evaluating compliance history, wherein the system implementation incorporate users interfaces, storage of related data, and the execution of requested services. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041687 | RECREATING THE STATE OF A CLINICAL SYSTEM - A method, system and medium are provided for enabling re-creation of a state of a computing system as it existed at a selected time. A plurality of data elements are tracked including functions and reference information employed in calculating one or more of the data elements. Versions of functions and reference information are also tracked. Thereby, a time at which to recreate the state of the system is selectable and the data elements that were available at or before the selected time are identifiable. And the versions of functions and reference information that were available at the selected time are identifiable. The state of the system at the selected time can thus be reviewed or analyzed as desired. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041688 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING HEALTHCARE ADVERTISEMENTS - A system and method for healthcare advertisements and clinical messaging to healthcare consumers and physicians are disclosed herein. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041689 | MEDICAL RECORD INFORMATION DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS - A display control method receives, from a server, data input to at least one of display setting items that are preset amongst items included in medical record information, displays on a display unit an all-item display screen that displays the display setting items and the received data, and sets input data on the all-item display screen when the input data with respect to another item other than the at least one of the display setting items is accepted. The all-item display screen may be switched to an input item display screen in response to a switch instruction, wherein the input item display screen displays the at least one of the display setting items, the received data, and the other item. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041690 | HEALTH CARD REWARD SYSTEM - A system for the management of the interaction between the patient and health care providers and of the patient's medical records. The patient receives reward points for using the program that involves selecting health-care providers from a preferred list. The system employs a smartcard that securely identifies the patient, securely carries the patient's medical records in memory, and carries the records of the patient's reward points. Each healthcare provider has highly-secure equipment that allows the reading from and writing to the smartcard. The system is managed by a remote central computer system that operates over a global communication network. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041691 | HEALTH MONITORING AND DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND NETWORK-BASED HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND MEDICAL RECORDS MAINTENANCE SYSTEM - Comprehensive health analysis and reporting system that writes patient data, including patient identification information, test results, diagnostic information, and diagnostic results to various storage systems. The computer station establishes a network connection with a health report server, downloads patient data to the health report server which prepares a comprehensive report, and the report is transmitted back to the computer station where it may be distributed to the patient. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041692 | SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION OF HEALTH CARE DATA - A computer system to communicate healthcare data between healthcare participants includes a computer configured to display a personal healthcare record associated with a patient; wherein the personal healthcare record includes normalized data related to the patient and received from a payor computer over the Internet and provider healthcare data related to the patient received from a provider computer over the Internet; wherein the normalized data and the provider healthcare data are of a type that are displayed in separate fields; and wherein the normalized data is in a normalized format of a type that displays healthcare data from one or more sources such that any healthcare data associated with a patient which has the same meaning will be expressed in the same format despite any prior formatting. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041693 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMOBILE TOTAL LOSS CALCULATIONS - Described are computer systems, methods, apparatus, and computer-readable data storage media storing instructions for performing a vehicle total loss calculation. In an embodiment, a computer system for performing total loss calculations includes a total loss engine computer and a storage device operatively coupled to the total loss engine computer. The storage device includes a total loss application program having instructions operative to instruct the total loss engine computer to receive a valid claim number and a state selection entered on a main menu of a total loss calculator application by a user for a vehicle that has been totaled. The instructions also instruct the total loss engine computer to provide access to the user to a plurality of total loss calculator data input fields, selection buttons, and a state guidelines viewer on the main menu, to receive an instruction to calculate a total loss amount based on data entered by the user in the main menu, to determine that all required data has been entered, to calculate a net total amount for the totaled vehicle, and to provide the net total amount to the user. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041694 | Computer Based Method of Pricing Equity Indexed Annuity Product with Guaranteed Lifetime Income Benefits - A computer-based method for determining a set of equity-indexed crediting parameters E for a lifetime-income equity-indexed deposit product provided to a set of owners having a set of dates of birth B, a rider charge C, a lifetime income percentage scale L, a set of profitability requirements R, a principal amount P, and an account value A. The method can include the steps of: establishing the values of C, L, R, P, A and E at a time when said deposit product is purchased; generating a set of yield curve and equity index scenarios consistent with valuation parameters; setting a trial value E | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041695 | Life Insurance Cooperative - A method in a server computer connected over a network to a group of participants, where each participant operates a client computer. The method receives a payment for each participant in the group, associates the payments received for the group with a time period, calculates a designated portion of each payment, and creates a fund for the time period by combining the designated portions of the payments. The method receives a notification for each participant in a subgroup of the group of participants, where the notification indicates that during the time period an event occurred. The method calculates a portion of the fund to disburse to each participant in the subgroup, and disburses the fund to the participants in the subgroup, where the portion of the fund to disburse to each participant in the subgroup is a share of the fund. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041696 | TRAVEL DISCOVERY AND RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A suggestive intelligent recommendation engine enabling customers to discover new travel and entertainment opportunities tied to value enhanced offers from travel service providers through a static or dynamic bid/offer system internal to a travel reservation system. The customer inputs various travel criteria and preferences, and a computer generates travel predictors. A series of master travel itineraries are generated, which include various travel segments for each master itinerary. Each segment includes a number of options for the customer to review, consider, select and delete, and request revisions. The master itineraries are shuffled on an iterative based on the selections of the customer from the segments of the master itinerary. Prices for each selected option are requested form various travel service providers, which are then discounted prior to presentation to the customer. A proposed itinerary payment solution is generated, which may include a monetary portion and a promotional portion. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041697 | RESERVATION DISPLAY SYSTEM - A reservation display system, comprising a server, a terminal configured to receive reservation data and a plurality of display devices, said server being configured to receive reservation data from the terminal, the reservation data comprising information about the reservation of an object or area in the vicinity of at least one of the display devices, the server being configured to host at least one predetermined web page, said at least one predetermined web page being configured to display said reservation data and wherein each display device is configured to wirelessly access a predetermined web page, such that each display device has its own predetermined webpage, each display device being configured to automatically access and display its predetermined webpage such that each display device displays reservation concerning the reservation of an object or area in the vicinity of each display device, the system being further configured to support a reboot operation, such that said display devices automatically reboot after an elapsed time period and wherein each display device automatically displays its predetermined web-page after rebooting. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041698 | COMPUTER METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTCOME-BASED PRICING OF GOODS AND SERVICES - The present invention provides a system and method that allow sellers to offer goods and services at prices that vary depending on what transpires during the event or service. The final price is determined after the event or service based on the occurrence of certain pre-selected attributes. Candidate attributes are potentially associated with the event or service but the outcome or occurrence of the attribute is not knowable by the buyer and seller with certainty at the time of the original purchase. Using the outcome-based pricing (OBP) and settlement system the seller can set prices to minimize significant deviation from a pre-determined revenue plan, or alternatively build-in an increase or even decrease in gross revenues. The present invention allows for the order, payment and final settlement of the purchase transaction, automatically. The preferred embodiment for the OBP pricing and settlement system is via a computer network that includes the Internet. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041699 | SECURE ELEMENT WITH TERMINAL TRANSMITTING DATA TO SOURCE - A method for transmitting data between a mobile communication device and a server. The method includes running a mobile application on the mobile communication device. The mobile application is hosted on the mobile communication device through the server as a Software as a Service (SaaS). The method further includes transmitting data associated with the mobile application between the mobile communication device and the server, in which transmission of the data between the mobile communication device and the server is monitored through the server. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041700 | SERVER NFC TRANSACTIONS - A method for transmitting data between a mobile communication device and a server. The method includes running a mobile application on the mobile communication device. The mobile application is hosted on the mobile communication device through the server as a Software as a Service (SaaS). The method further includes transmitting data associated with the mobile application between the mobile communication device and the server, in which transmission of the data between the mobile communication device and the server is monitored through the server. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041701 | Remittance Method And System For Services - Tokens containing a unique identification code that allow admission/access to entertainment or personal services are distributed. A seller-distributor node on a computer network affects transactions that exchange tokens for payment. The tokens represent remittance for services provided by service providers. For each token obtained through the seller-distributor node, the system allows a variable rate of redemption at the service providers upon use by the (ticket) holder/user. The ticket holder/user selects which one of the providers to request remittance for services at the respective provider's rates. Different rates exist for a same or equivalent service across at least some of the service providers. Rendering of the token enables remittance for service by the ticket holder/user selected service provider at the selected service provider rate. The token may be in the form of an electronic ticket, bar code, email message, electronic message, code number, or machine readable data/code. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041702 | FORECASTING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method includes steps for gathering forecast prognoses from a plurality of forecasting assessment participants and for weighting the participant specific forecast prognoses with a participant specific weighting factor. The participant specific weighting factor is adjusted according to a deviation of the participant specific forecast prognoses from actual outcomes of the forecasting assessments. A machine readable medium includes instructions for executing a forecasting method. A forecasting system includes a computer system and remote computers being coupled to the computer system, the computer system being configured to perform a forecasting method. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041703 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING IMMIGRATION STATUS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing immigration status. A system configured to practice the method identifies a project, such as a work contract. The system identifies a worker assigned to the project, wherein an immigration status of the worker requires the worker to have a visa, such as an H-1B visa, to participate in the project. The system electronically prepares and tracks immigration documentation associated with the visa in order to allow the worker to participate in the project. Then the system determines if an event occurs that impacts the immigration status, and, if the event occurs, the system updates the immigration documentation based on the event. The immigration documentation can include a labor condition application (LCA) and/or a public access file (PAF). The system can prepare the immigration documentation based on information stored in a personal profile of the worker. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041704 | INITIATIVE CONSOLIDATION MANAGEMENT - Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for managing initiative consolidation are presented. According to one or more aspects, information about at least two new projects may be received. Subsequently, the information may be analyzed to identify one or more commonalities between the at least two new projects. Thereafter, it may be determined, based on the identified commonalities, to bundle the at least two new projects for one or more testing phases. In one or more arrangements, receiving information about the at least two new projects may include extracting, from one or more project design documents, a job listing for each project, where each job listing identifies one or more jobs included in each project. In some arrangements, a cost-benefit analysis may be generated to calculate potential savings associated with bundling the at least two new projects for the one or more testing phases. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041705 | DISTRIBUTION NETWORK MAINTENANCE PLANNING - A system, method and computer program product for maintaining an infrastructure of components. The system receives structured data, unstructured data, and infrastructure data from a database. The system runs at least one statistical and optimization modeler with one or more of: the received structured data, the received unstructured data and the received infrastructure data, in order to calculate a health index of at least one component of the infrastructure. The health index represents a health attribute of the at least one component. The system establishes at least one maintenance plan of the infrastructure, based on the calculated health index. Each established maintenance plan is associated with at least one health index. The system compares health indices of the at least one established maintenance plan. The system selects a plan, among the at least one established maintenance plan, whose health index is a maximum among the compared health indices. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041706 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZATION OF RESOURCES - In one example, a method of optimization of resources is provided. The method comprises receiving data related to one or more predetermined parameters and one or more rules for optimization of one or more resources. The method further comprises encoding the received data. In addition, the method comprises generating one or more objective functions, one or more constraints, and one or more output indicators using the received data and the encoded data. Further, the method comprises generating one or more models and sub-models corresponding to the one or more resources. Furthermore, the method comprises generating one or more optimization results associated with the one or more sub-models using a distributed computing framework. The method further comprises generating an aggregated optimized result which is used for optimization of the one or more resources. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041707 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AN INCREMENTAL CONTAINER USER INTERFACE WORKFLOW OPTIMIZER - The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AN INCREMENTAL CONTAINER USER INTERFACE WORKFLOW OPTIMIZER (“WORKFLOW OPTIMIZER”) transforms user action request input via various WORKFLOW OPTIMIZER components into updated incremental container user interface output. In one embodiment, the WORKFLOW OPTIMIZER allows management of active/passive portfolios, integrates with trading desks/brokers, and guides portfolio managers through the trading workflow. Once the WORKFLOW OPTIMIZER receives an indication of a user's progress in a workflow, it determines a workflow sub-flow currently relevant to the user. The WORKFLOW OPTIMIZER also determines sequential actions sufficient to complete the current sub-flow, and relevant actions that are applicable to the current sub-flow that are not sequential actions. Based on this information, the WORKFLOW OPTIMIZER displays an incremental container user interface having a first part comprising user interface components in a sequential order corresponding to sequential actions, and a second part comprising user interface components corresponding to relevant actions. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041708 | COORDINATING CONTENDING RESOURCES - Systems and methods of coordinating contending resources are disclosed. An example of a method includes analyzing information for activities, resources, and usage of the resources for the activities. The method also includes outputting a description of resource utilization by the activities in a time window, the description of resource utilization coordinating contending resources. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041709 | Hybrid Analysis of Emerging Trends for Process Control - An asymmetric approach is used for evaluating process control data, whereby one approach is used for determining entry into the emerging life cycle phase (i.e., presence of a new defect) and a different approach is used for detecting entry into the other life cycle phases such as cresting and recovering. An evidence curve is created from observed instance data for a particular defect, and the slope of this evidence curve is analyzed programmatically by applying one or more tests, in combination with sequential time-reversed estimation, to determine return-to-normal conditions with a desired level of confidence. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041710 | Advanced Statistical Detection of Emerging Trends - Advanced statistical detection of emerging trends in a process is disclosed, based on a Repeated Weighted Geometric Cumulative Sum analysis, which may be combined with time window-based estimation of proportions and related thresholds. Threshold derivation and significance computation is based on parallel simulation runs with power-exponential tail approximations. A battery of tests using the statistical theory of sequential analysis and change-point theory in combination with targets is used to evaluate non-conforming conditions in a process. Trends in fall-out rates are detected based on non-time-to-failure data that corresponds to counts of failures in consecutive time periods, with possibility of delayed input. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041711 | ALIGNING PROJECT DELIVERABLES WITH PROJECT RISKS - Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for aligning project deliverables with project risks are presented. According to one or more aspects, an architectural assessment of a new project may be received at an initial estimation phase of the new project. Subsequently, a rigor worksheet for the new project may be received at the initial estimation phase of the new project. A rigor score for the new project then may be calculated based on the architectural assessment and the rigor worksheet. Thereafter, one or more project deliverables to be imposed on the project may be selected based on the calculated rigor score. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041712 | EMERGING RISK IDENTIFICATION PROCESS AND TOOL - Managing risks may include receiving multiple issues associated with an enterprise where each issue is a future risk or a current risk, storing the issues, aggregating the issues, filtering the issues by executing a predefined rule set to determine a set of issues for analysis, creating a report including the set of issues for analysis, and transmitting the report to a user. Managing risk may also include determining a status of an action item associated with an issue in the set of issues, monitoring open issues and associated action items, and removing any closed issues. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041713 | Supplier Risk Dashboard - A system and method for a supplier risk dashboard is disclosed. A method for determining comprehensive supplier risk includes receiving a first supplier data from a first data source, the first supplier data indicating a plurality of suppliers and one or more risk characteristics associated with each of the plurality of suppliers to an organization. The method further includes receiving a second supplier data from a second data source, the second supplier data indicating a plurality of suppliers and one or more risk characteristics associated with each of the plurality of suppliers to the organization. The method also includes for one or more of the suppliers indicated in the first supplier data, associating one or more risk characteristics indicated in the first supplier data with one or more risk characteristics indicated in the second supplier data. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041714 | Supplier Risk Health Check - A system and method for a supplier risk health check system is disclosed. A method for determining supplier risk includes receiving a first supplier data from a first data source, the first supplier data indicating a plurality of suppliers and one or more risk characteristics associated with each of the plurality of suppliers to an organization. The method further includes receiving a second supplier data from a second data source, the second supplier data indicating a plurality of suppliers and one or more risk characteristics associated with each of the plurality of suppliers to the organization. The method also includes for one or more of the suppliers indicated in the first supplier data, associating one or more risk characteristics indicated in the first supplier data with one or more risk characteristics indicated in the second supplier data. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041715 | RISK EVALUATION SYSTEM USING PEOPLE AS SENSORS - Disclosed is a risk evaluation system that uses people as sensors, wherein a control unit ( | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041716 | METHOD FOR NOTIFYING A SALES PERSON OF A SALES PROSPECT - The present invention is directed to a computer system and method that immediately alerts a sales person with a notification message when the online behavior or usage criteria of a subscriber is met, so that the sales person may follow up on the sales lead before the subscriber loses interest in the commodity or buys elsewhere. With the preferred embodiment, the activity criteria for each subscriber (or a group of subscribers) can be preset by the sales person, so as to selectively quantify degrees of activity that triggers the sending notification messages. With the preferred embodiment records are kept of all the events, including triggers and messages sent in relation to the subscribers and sales persons and these records provide valuable management information for evaluating the efficiency of online marketing campaigns. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041717 | DETERMINING A COMMUNITY RATING FOR A USER USING FEEDBACK RATINGS OF RELATED USERS IN AN ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT - Community ratings are determined for users of an electronic marketplace. In a typical configuration, the community rating of an individual reflect the individual's reputation in the electronic community (e.g. feedback rating) as well as the reputations of the users the individual sponsors and the reputations of each user they sponsor, and so on. Various methodologies are provided for determining a community rating, such as aggregating feedback ratings, or weighting or thresholding these feedback ratings. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041718 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING A SYNCHRONOUS OR ASYNCHRONOUS PROCESS TO DETERMINE A FORECAST - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for selecting a synchronous or asynchronous process to determine a forecast. These mechanisms and methods for such synchronous/asynchronous process selection can enable embodiments to determine forecasts for multiple users (e.g. with hierarchical relationships, etc.) over an arbitrary time interval. The ability of embodiments to provide forecasts that involve such a large amount of data in an effective way can enable forecasting that was otherwise infeasible due to resource limitations. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041719 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE SMART TEXT - Methods and apparatus to generate a performance metric are disclosed. An example method includes identifying a baseline volume and an incremental volume for a first time-frame and a second time-frame, calculating whether a market volume change direction is identical between the baseline volume and the incremental volume during the first time-frame and the second time-frame, and assigning a market change descriptor to the performance metric based on the calculated change direction. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041720 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME SATISFACTION SURVEY FEEDBACK - The present disclosure relates to a system and method for providing virtually real-time or near real-time satisfaction survey feedback received from a customer to allow for corrective action to be taken by an appropriate business agent almost immediately, or preferably within a few hours of the completion of a survey, before the customer has any significant opportunity to provide negative feedback via online media or other communication channels. In an embodiment, the present system and method provides an interactive electronic survey platform—for example a touch screen display or kiosk set up near the lobby of a hotel, or on a mobile platform such as a tablet at a restaurant table—offering an incentive for customers to complete a short interactive satisfaction survey. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041721 | ART EVALUATION ENGINE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC DEVELOPMENT OF AN ART INDEX - A method for automatic development of an art index from repeat sales information and single sales information comprising the steps of: exploring and identifying comparables for individual artists, ensuring that said comparables are of acceptable level of homogeneity, especially regarding tests by art analyst and statistical homogeneity, determining sets of said comparables from information about the artist and/or his/her works, wherein said comparable sets are a group of comparable art objects produced by one artist that have similarities in various attributes, such as year of work, medium, genre, size and/or valuation, correcting of price variations, aberrations and/or outliers of valuation judgements within the comparable sets by using auction catalogues and/or other external sources, reports on provenance, exhibition catalogues, news releases and/or scholarly literature concerning the specific artists and objects, reanalyzing said comparable sets by carrying out an inconsistency check visually and/or in medium, size and price and further correcting price variations, and estimating said art index from said comparable sets. | 2013-02-14 |
| 20130041722 | System and method for computerized resource optimization for insurance related tasks - Disclosed herein are computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and related technologies that may be used for determining the optimal number of Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) that should be engaged by a service provider in order to provide a service to an insurance company. Multiple service level agreements (SLAs) exists between the service provider and the insurance company, each of which indicates that the service provider must complete a given percentage of assigned tasks for the service within a given time period. A resource optimization application (ROA) determines how many FTEs the service provider should employ, in order to complete assigned tasks as required by the SLAs. The ROA determines the number of FTEs based on factors such as an average handling time (AHT) for the tasks, the capacity of the service provider, historical data that describes tasks previously assigned to the service provider, and other factors. | 2013-02-14 |
