10th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 77 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140067344 | METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF PERFORMANCE OF AN ACCUMULATOR-UNIT - The disclosure relates to a method for determination of a maximum allowable load current of an energy storage cell by means of a substitute model. The Parameters of the substitute model are adapted during the lifetime of the energy storage cell. The substitute model contains two or more RC-elements. The respective parameters of a RC-element preferentially are adapted during separate time intervals. The disclosure further relates to a method for determination of a maximum performance of an accumulator-unit having two or more energy storage cells. The performance is preferentially calculated from a maximum allowable load current of the weakest energy storage cell and the sum of the respective voltages being produced at the energy storage cells at appliance of this maximum current. The disclosure also relates to a control unit for performing the method. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067345 | Methods for the Analysis of Dissociation Melt Curve Data - Methods are provided that operate on raw dissociation data and dissociation curves to generate calibrations of the detected data and to further improve analysis of the data. The data can be taken from each support region of a multi-region platform, for example, from each well of a multi-well plate. Each support region can be loaded with portions of the same sample. In some embodiments, a dissociation curve correction can be calibrated for the sample, prior to a run of an experiment using such sample. In some embodiments, a method is provided for generating a melting transition region of dissociation curves that show the melting characteristics of the sample. In some embodiments, dye temperature dependence correction can be performed on the dissociation curve data to further improve analysis. In some embodiments, a feature vector can be derived from the melt data, and the feature vector can be used to further improve genotyping analysis of the dissociation curves. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067346 | Photoresist Simulation - A processor based method for measuring dimensional properties of a photoresist profile by determining a number acid generators and quenchers within a photoresist volume, determining a number of photons absorbed by the photoresist volume, determining a number of the acid generators converted to acid, determining a number of acid and quencher reactions within the photoresist volume, calculating a development of the photoresist volume, producing with the processor a three-dimensional simulated scanning electron microscope image of the photoresist profile created by the development of the photoresist volume, and measuring the dimensional properties of the photoresist profile. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067347 | ANALYSIS OF ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY (EOR) PROCESSES FOR NATURALLY-FRACTURED RESERVOIRS - A method, apparatus, and program product generate an estimation of an incremental recovery for an Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) process performed on a naturally-fractured reservoir by classifying the naturally-fractured reservoir based upon a set of reservoir properties associated with the naturally-fractured reservoir, and generating an estimation of the incremental recovery for at least one EOR process based on the classification of the naturally-fractured reservoir. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067348 | ARRAY MODELING FOR ONE OR MORE ANALOG DEVICES - Among other things, one or more techniques for creating an array model for analog device modeling are provided. In an embodiment, the array model represents a mean value or a standard deviation value of an analog device characteristic for an analog device based on a physical location of the analog device within a circuit layout, where the physical location is identified using a physical set of coordinates. The physical set of coordinates maps to an array set of coordinates of the array model. In this manner, a mean value and a standard deviation value are obtainable from the array model using the array set of coordinates. The mean value and the standard deviation value are usable to model the analog device, and thus a circuit within which the analog device is used, to obtain a more accurate or realistic prediction of operation or behavior, for example. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067349 | CLUSTERING OF PERSONAL ELECTRONICALLY ENCODED ITEMS - A method performed on an electronic device for clustering personal electronically encoded items. Such items are clustered in response to one or more perspective directives from a user that are received by the device by creating one or more perspectives each representative of a personal area of user interest identified by the user. Responsive to one or more first clustering directives from the user, the system clusters one or more of the user's personal electronically encoded items with one or more of the created one or more perspectives and develops a probability model for managing the user's personal electronically encoded items based on the one or more perspective directives and the one or more first clustering directives. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067350 | METHOD FOR SIMULATING POLYMER MATERIAL - A computer implemented method for simulating a polymer material comprises a simulation process in which a molecular dynamics calculation is performed about polymer models and filler models. The simulation process comprises: a first calculation process in which the molecular dynamics calculation is performed under such condition that, between particles of each polymer model, a first coupling potential not limiting the interparticle distance is defined; and a subsequent second calculation process in which the molecular dynamics calculation is performed under such condition that, between the particles of each polymer model, a second coupling potential P2 limiting the maximum allowable interparticle distance to a predetermined value is defined. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067351 | Method of Estimating Rock Mechanical Properties - A method of estimating at least one mechanical property value of a rock formation in the geologic past. In one embodiment, a correlation model is generated which correlates at least one mechanical property with a porosity value and a composition value relative to a first rock type. An estimation of a past porosity value and a past composition value is then generated for the rock formation at a point of time in the past. A mechanical property value at the point of time in the past is identified in the correlation model based on the estimated past porosity and past composition values. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067352 | PRESENTING ATTRIBUTES OF INTEREST IN A PHYSICAL SYSTEM USING PROCESS MAPS BASED MODELING - A method, computer program product and system for presenting attributes of interest. A decision surface is created using process maps. The process maps are representative of system operational data from a plurality of sensors. A current operating point is identified including a location and a movement characteristic of the operating point. The location and the movement characteristic of the operating point are used to identify an attribute with a final probabilistic value assigned to the attribute. If the final probabilistic value for the attribute crosses a previously-defined threshold, an alarm is generated. The decision surfaces, the process maps, the current operating point, the predicted movement of the operating point, the attributes, and the alarms are visually represented in a data handling system to assist the operator in the real time monitoring and operation of the physical system. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067353 | WELLBORE COMPLETION AND HYDRAULIC FRACTURING OPTIMIZATION METHODS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS - Methods and systems for optimizing wellbore completion and, in particular, methods and systems for optimizing hydraulic fracturing parameters are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of optimizing wellbore completion includes gathering wellbore data, screening and processing the gathered wellbore data, utilizing the screened and processed wellbore data to define an optimized model, and utilizing the optimized model to evaluate combinations of available wellbore completion parameters. In some instances, the optimized model is defined using artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, and/or boosted regression trees. Further, in some embodiments the combinations of available wellbore completion parameters include hydraulic fracturing parameters, such as number of fractures, fracturing fluid type, proppant type, fracturing volume, and/or other parameters. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067354 | Method and System of Suggesting Spinal Cord Stimulation Region Based on Pain and Stimulation Maps with a Clinician Programmer - The present disclosure involves a method of determining stimulation lead placements for a healthcare professional with respect to an implant of a neurostimulator device in a target patient. A human body model is provided. A pain map is generated over the human body model in response to user input. The pain map visually represents body regions of the target patient that are experiencing pain. A dermatome map is provided. The dermatome map includes a visual correlation between regions of a human body and segments of a spinal cord. The pain map is compared with the dermatome map. Recommendations regarding the implant of the neurostimulator device are displayed in response to the comparing. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067355 | Using Haplotypes to Infer Ancestral Origins for Recently Admixed Individuals - Phased haplotype features are used to infer an individual's ancestry. Reference genomic data is obtained for individuals of known ancestral origin. Haplotype features are identified based on consecutive SNPs from each individual. Sample genomic data is obtained for an individual of unknown ancestral origin. The data is phased and divided into features analogous to the features in the reference data. An admixture estimator then performs an admixture estimation based on the observed feature values in the sample data and the reference data. The estimation indicates a contribution of each of the known populations to the genome of the sample individual. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067356 | INFORMATION THEORETIC CACHING FOR DYNAMIC PROBLEM GENERATION IN CONSTRAINT SOLVING - Computer-implemented techniques are disclosed for verifying circuit designs using dynamic problem generation. A device under test (DUT) is modeled as part of a test bench where the test bench is a random process. A set of constraints is solved to generate stimuli for the DUT. Problem generation is repeated numerous times throughout a verification process with problems and sub-problems being generated and solved. When a problem is solved, the problem structure can be stored in a cache. The storage can be based on entropy of variables used in the problem. The problem storage cache can be searched for previously stored problems which match a current problem. By retrieving a problem structure from cache, the computational burden is reduced during verification. Problems can be multi-phase problems with storage and retrieval of problem structures based on the phase level. Caching can be accomplished using an information theoretic approach. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067357 | EVENT DRIVEN SIMULATION OF A SYSTEM MODEL - Methods and systems for simulating a system model are provided. The method includes loading into a computing system the system model that includes a plurality of event generating device models and non-event generating device models, scheduling a next event for each of the event generating device models independent of the next event of each other of the device models, advancing time to an earliest of the scheduled next events that is scheduled at a host device, committing the earliest of the scheduled next events, and replacing the earliest of the scheduled next events with a new next event for the host device. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067358 | DETERMINING AN OPTIMAL GLOBAL QUANTUM FOR AN EVENT-DRIVEN SIMULATION - An apparatus and method for determining an optimal global quantum value for use in event-driven simulations of a device are disclosed herein. The device is simulated using information representative of a device design corresponding to the device, the simulation of the device comprising an event-driven simulation using a provisional global quantum value. Events included in a sequence chart corresponding to the simulation using the provisional global quantum value are compared against expected events. Based on the comparison detecting at least one of the expected events being absent in the sequence chart, providing the optimal global quantum value as being smaller than the provisional global quantum value. Based on the comparison detecting no difference between the events in the sequence chart and the expected events, providing the optimal global quantum value as being larger than the provisional global quantum value. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067359 | AUTOMATED ITERATIVE ERROR SIMULATION - An example system may include error simulation capabilities. In one embodiment, the system obtains a configuration list associated with an application and a simulation trace associated with a first simulation of the application based on a simulation list. The configuration list comprises one or more functions associated with the application and one or more error return values for each function. The simulation list comprises zero or more functions to be executed during the first simulation. The system updates the simulation list based on the simulation trace. The system updates the simulation list based on the configuration list. The system updates the updated simulation list based on the configuration list. Upon determining that the updated simulation list comprises a function associated with the application, the system causes a second simulation of the application to be performed, wherein the second simulation is based on the updated simulation list. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067360 | System And Method For On-Demand Simulation Based Learning For Automation Framework - Systems and methods for on-demand simulation based learning for an automation framework. According to one embodiment, the system or method comprises an automated process in a real computing environment that encounters a novel, divergent, or defined state that the automation cannot handle. The state is replicated in a simulated computing environment which a user interacts with to resolve the simulated issue. The user's actions are captured and replicated in the real computing environment in order to resolve the issue. Optionally, the user's actions are analyzed and added to the automation database or rules. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067361 | LEXICAL AND PHRASAL FEATURE DOMAIN ADAPTATION IN STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION - A translation method is adapted to a domain of interest. The method includes receiving a source text string comprising a sequence of source words in a source language and generating a set of candidate translations of the source text string, each candidate translation comprising a sequence of target words in a target language. An optimal translation is identified from the set of candidate translations as a function of at least one domain-adapted feature computed based on bilingual probabilities and monolingual probabilities. Each bilingual probability is for a source text fragment and a target text fragment of the source text string and candidate translation respectively. The bilingual probabilities are estimated on an out-of-domain parallel corpus that includes source and target strings. The monolingual probabilities for text fragments of one of the source text string and candidate translation are estimated on an in-domain monolingual corpus. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067362 | DIGITAL VOICE MEMO TRANSFER AND PROCESSING - Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer programs for transfer of recorded digital voice memos to a computing system and processing of the transferred digital voice memos by the computing system or another computing system are disclosed. A recording device is configured to record a voice memo from a user and store the voice memo. The recording device is also configured to transfer the recorded voice memo to a computing system. The computing system is configured to translate the transferred voice memo into a computer-readable format and parse the translated voice memo. The computing system is also configured to determine a type of software application to which the voice memo pertains via a preamble, a keyword, or a keyphrase in the translated voice memo. The computing system is further configured to create an item in the determined software application based on the translated voice memo. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067363 | CONTEXTUALLY BLIND DATA CONVERSION USING INDEXED STRING MATCHING - Computer-based tools and methods for conversion of data from a first form to a second form without reference to the context of data to be converted. The conversion may be facilitated by matching source data with external information (e.g., public and/or private schema) that contain rules (e.g., context specific rules) for conversion of the data. The matching may be performed based on an optimized index string matching technique that may be operable to match source data to external information that is context dependent without specific identification of the context of either the source data or the external information identified. Accordingly, the conversion of data may be performed in an unsupervised machine learning environment. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067364 | Feed Translation for a Social Network - A system and method for translating a social feed is disclosed. The system comprises a communication module, a decoding engine and a re-encoding engine. The communication module receives social feed data and a request from a social network application. The social feed data is configured to cause a client to display a social feed in a first language. The request includes data indicating that the social feed should be displayed in a second language. The decoding engine decodes the social feed data to generate decoded social feed data. The re-encoding engine re-encodes the decoded social feed data to cause the client to display the social feed in the second language based at least in part on the request. The communication module sends the translated social feed data to the client. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067365 | LANGUAGE SEGMENTATION OF MULTILINGUAL TEXTS - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method for segmenting a multi-language text. An exemplary method comprises determining an initial probability distribution for sentences in the multi-language text, the initial probability distribution indicating the likelihood of each sentence being in each of a set of languages. A probability of language transitions across sentences may be learned based on the initial probability distribution. Additionally, a highest probability language sequence of sentences in the multi-language text may be determined based on a combination of the probability of language transitions and the prior probability distribution provided by an initial model. Further, web documents are annotated at a sentence by sentence level such that each sentence of a web document is labeled in a given language according to the highest probability language determined. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067366 | TECHNIQUES FOR SELECTING LANGUAGES FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION - A computer-implemented technique includes receiving, at a computing device including one or more processors, a touch input from a user. The touch input includes (i) a spot input indicating a request to provide a speech input to the computing device followed by (ii) a slide input indicating a desired language for automatic speech recognition of the speech input. The technique includes receiving, at the computing device, the speech input from the user. The technique includes obtaining, at the computing device, one or more recognized characters resulting from automatic speech recognition of the speech input using the desired language. The technique also includes outputting, at the computing device, the one or more recognized characters. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067367 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR READING FLUENCY TRAINING - A non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions to be executed by a processor. The code causes the processor to receive a request from a user of a client device to initiate a speech recognition engine for a web page displayed at the client device. In response to the request, the code causes the processor to (1) download, from a server associated with a first party, the speech recognition engine into the client device; and then (2) analyze, using the speech recognition engine, content of the web page including text in an identified language to produce analyzed content based on the identified language, where the content of the web page is received from a server associated with a second party. The code further causes the processor to send a signal to cause the client device to present the analyzed content to the user at the client device. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067368 | DETERMINING SYNONYM-ANTONYM POLARITY IN TERM VECTORS - A document-term matrix may be generated based on a corpus. A term representation matrix may be generated based on modifying a plurality of elements of the document-term matrix based on antonym information included in the corpus. Similarities may be determined based on a plurality of elements of the term representation matrix. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067369 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ACQUIRING USER RELATED INFORMATION USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES - Systems and methods for acquiring information associated with a user by using NLP techniques are disclosed. One or more phrases are classified in one or more categories at least partly on the basis of a period for which a product has been used by the user, the user's experience with the product, preferences of the user, or needs of the user by applying one or more natural language processing (NLP) techniques. The one or more phrases are extractable from an electronic publication at least partly on the basis of on a predefined set of verbs, a predefined set of domain-specific terms, and terms indicative of temporal information. One or more terms from the classified phrases are extracted, in which the one or more terms are indicative of the information about the user. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067370 | LEARNING OPINION-RELATED PATTERNS FOR CONTEXTUAL AND DOMAIN-DEPENDENT OPINION DETECTION - A method for extracting opinion-related patterns includes receiving a corpus of reviews, the reviews each including an explicit rating of a topic. The reviews are partitioned among a predefined plurality of classes, based on the ranking. Syntactic relations are identified in each review. The syntactic relations may each include an adjective and a noun. A set of patterns is generated, each of the patterns having at least one of the identified syntactic relations as an instance and the patterns clustered into a set of clusters based on a set of features. At least one of the features is based on occurrences, in the predefined classes, of the instances of the patterns. A polarity is assigned to ones of the clusters and propagated to patterns in the respective clusters. The polarity-labeled patterns can each be instantiated as a contextual rule for opinion mining. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067371 | CONTEXT SENSITIVE AUTO-CORRECTION - Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for adaptively autocorrecting text according to context. Text may be received at a mobile electronic device that was input by a user. The received text may be displayed at a display component of the mobile electronic device. An auto-correct dictionary is selected from a plurality of auto-correct dictionaries. The auto-correct dictionary may be selected based at least on usage information that is representative of a usage context of the mobile electronic device. The displayed text is auto-corrected according to the selected auto-correct dictionary. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067372 | SCORING PREDICTIONS BASED ON PREDICTION LENGTH AND TYPING SPEED - A method that includes receiving an input, determining, by the processor, a likelihood that a predicted string associated with the received input matches an intended input string, where the determination is a function of at least one of a length of the predicted string and a typing speed associated with the received input, and displaying the predicted string. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067373 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCED PHONETIC INDEXING AND SEARCH - The subject matter discloses a method two phase phonetic indexing and search comprising: receiving a digital representation of an audio signal; producing a phonetic index of the audio signal; producing phonetic N-gram sequence from the phonetic index by segmenting the phonetic index into a plurality of phonetic N-grams; and producing an inverted index of the plurality of phonetic N-grams. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067374 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PHONETIC SEARCHING OF DATA - A method for phonetically searching media including a plurality of audio tracks is disclosed where each audio track is indexed to provide a phonetic representation of the audio track. The method comprises obtaining a text search query and searching for the text query against a set of reference documents to obtain a sub-set of pseudo-relevant documents. The pseudo-relevant documents are examined for a set of search expressions characterizing the pseudo-relevant documents. A phonetic representation corresponding to at least some of the set of search expressions is provided and for each of the phonetic representations of the search expressions, the indexed phonetic representations for one or more of the plurality of audio tracks is phonetically searched to provide any indicators of the incidence of the search expression within the one or more audio tracks. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067375 | Human-to-human Conversation Analysis - Customer support, and other types of activities in which there is a dialogue between two humans can generate large volumes of conversation records. Automated analysis of these records can provide information about high-level features of, for example, the workings of a customer service department. Analysis of these conversations between a customer and a customer-support agent may also allow identification of customer support activities that can be provided by virtual agents instead of actual human agents. The analysis may evaluate conversations in terms of complexity, duration, and sentiment of the participants. Additionally, the conversations may also be analyzed to identify the existence of selected concepts or keywords. Workflow characteristics, the extent to which the conversation represents a multi-step process intended to accomplish a task, may also be determined for the conversations. Characteristics of individual conversations may be combined to obtain generalized or representative features for a set of a conversation records. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067376 | Method and system for understanding text - A query answer engine converts a query and answers into a non-natural language forming units that correspond to words, symbols, numbers and spaces and combinations of the above, and establishes the contextual meaning of the units utilizing read, recognize and relate processes to populate a query matrix and an answer matrix with 3-valued points corresponding to the read, recognize and relate values of a unit. The two matrices are cross correlated to yield a robust answer to a query taking into account context. The conversion of text to units uses contextual meaning parametric tables, databases, libraries, rules and an engine for determining the focal point of a query or an answer. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067377 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS TEXT GENERATION - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described herein that are configured to generate a situational analysis text. In some example embodiments, a method is provided that comprises generating a set of messages based on one or more key events in a primary data channel and one or more significant events in one or more related data channels in response to an alert condition. The method of this embodiment may also include generating a situational analysis text based on the set of messages and the relationships between them. In some example embodiments, the situational analysis text is configured to linguistically express the one or more key events, the one or more significant events, and the relationships between the one or more key events and the one or more significant events. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067378 | Expert Conversation Builder - An expert conversation builder contains a knowledge database that includes a plurality of dialogues having nodes and edges arranged as directed acyclic graphs. Users and authors of the system interface with the knowledge database through a graphical interface to author dialogues and to create expert conversations as threads traversing the node in the dialogues. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067379 | AUTOMATIC SENTENCE EVALUATION DEVICE USING SHALLOW PARSER TO AUTOMATICALLY EVALUATE SENTENCE, AND ERROR DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF THE SAME - An automatic sentence evaluating device using a shallow parser. A simple grammatical error and an error in sentence structure are detected by generating a string of parts of speech using n-gram for a composed input sentence and parsing the generated string of parts of speech on the basis of a rule (shallow parsing) defined according to a connective relationship between adjacent parts of speech, and a corrected draft is proposed for the detected errors to thereby increase accuracy of sentence evaluation, and an error detection apparatus and a method for the same. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067380 | METHOD TO ASSIGN WORD CLASS INFORMATION - An assignment device ( | 2014-03-06 |
20140067381 | Time-Shifting Distribution Of High Definition Audio Data - A system may time-shift the distribution high-definition (HD) audio. The system can obtain an audio stream from a specified audio source, transcode the audio stream into an HD audio stream, and store the HD audio stream in a memory. The system may later forward the stored HD audio stream to a destination device, which can be a communication device linked to the system through a local telephone network or a remote communication device. The system can also store HD audio when a local communication device receives an incoming call request that interrupts a current HD audio distribution process. The system may resume distribution of the HD audio after processing the incoming call request from a point when the distribution was interrupted. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067382 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING EVENT IN MONITORING AREA - In a method for detecting an event occurred in a monitoring area, the method defines a reference characteristic parameter for a specific event, and stores the reference characteristic parameter in a storage device of the computing device. The method further obtains a voice stream of the specific event from an IP camera through a wireless network in real time, and extracts a characteristic parameter from the voice stream using a predefined algorithm. The method compares the extracted characteristic parameter with the reference characteristic parameter, and determines that the specific event occurs in the monitoring area if the extracted characteristic parameter accords with the reference characteristic parameter. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067383 | ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A disclosed adjustment apparatus includes: a calculation unit that calculates a ratio between a first frequency characteristic in a first frequency bandwidth of voice signals and a second frequency characteristic in a second frequency bandwidth of the voice signals, which is higher than the first frequency bandwidth, and calculates an adjustment amount for adjusting at least a portion of a frequency characteristic of the voice signals so that the calculated ratio approaches a predetermined reference, when the calculated ratio does not satisfy the predetermined reference; and a modification unit that modifies at least the portion of the frequency characteristic of the voice signals according to the adjustment amount. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067384 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CANCELING VOCAL SIGNAL FROM AUDIO SIGNAL - Provided is a method of canceling a vocal signal, wherein the method includes obtaining a difference signal between two audio signals; and smoothing the frequency of the difference signal. Also provided is a device for canceling a vocal signal, the device including a subtracter which obtains a difference signal between two audio signals; and a frequency smoothing unit which smoothes a frequency of the difference signal. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067385 | SOUND PROCESSING DEVICE, SOUND PROCESSING METHOD, AND SOUND PROCESSING PROGRAM - A sound processing device includes a separation unit configured to separate at least a music signal and a speech signal from a recorded audio signal, a noise suppression unit, a music feature value estimation unit, a speech recognition unit, a noise-processing confidence calculation unit, a music feature value estimation confidence calculation unit, a speech recognition confidence calculation unit, and a control unit configured to calculate at least one behavioral decision function of a speech behavioral decision function associated with speech and a music behavioral decision function associated with music based on a noise-processing confidence value, a music feature value estimation confidence value, and a speech recognition confidence value and to determine behavior corresponding to the calculated behavioral decision function. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067386 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NOISE REDUCTION - A method for noise reduction is provided including: beamforming audio signals sampled by a microphone array to get a signal with an enhanced target voice and a signal with a weakened target voice; locating a target voice in the audio signal sampled by the microphone array; determining a credibility of the target voice when the target voice is located; updating an adaptive filter coefficient according to the credibility, and filtering the signal with the enhanced target voice and the signal with the weakened target voice according to the updated adaptive filter coefficient to get a signal with reduced noise; and weighing a voice presence probability by the credibility, and enhancing the signal with reduced noise according to the weighed voice presence probability. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067387 | Utilizing Scalar Operations for Recognizing Utterances During Automatic Speech Recognition in Noisy Environments - Scalar operations for model adaptation or feature enhancement may be utilized for recognizing an utterance during automatic speech recognition in a noisy environment. An utterance including distorted speech generated from a transmission source for delivery to a receiver, may be received by a computer. The distorted speech may be caused by the noisy environment and channel distortion. Computations using scalar operations in the form of an algorithm may then be performed for recognizing the utterance. As a result of performing all of the computations with scalar operations, computational complexity is very small in comparison to matrix and vector operations. Vector Taylor Series with diagonal Jacobian approximation may also be utilized as a distortion-model-based noise robust algorithm with scalar operations. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067388 | ROBUST VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION IN ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTS - A method and a system for robust voice activity detection under adverse environments are provided. The apparatus includes a controller for controlling a signal receiving module, a signal blocking module, a silent/non-silent classification module for discriminating silent blocks by comparing a temporal feature to a threshold, a total variation filtering module for enhancing voiced portions and reducing an effect of background noises, a frame division module for dividing a filtered signal into small frames, a residual processing module for estimating a noise floor, a silent/non-silent frame classification module, a voice/non-voice signal frame classification module based on autocorrelation features of a total variation filtered signal, a binary-flag merging and deletion module, a voice endpoint detection and correction module, and a voice endpoint storing/sending module. A decision-tree is arranged based on time and memory complexity of feature extraction methods. The system is able to determine voice region endpoints under different adverse environments. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067389 | Apparatus and Method for Queuing Jobs in a Distributed Dictation/Transcription System - A distributed dictation/transcription system is provided. The system provides a client station, dictation manager, and dictation server connected such that the dictation manager can select a dictation server to transcribe audio from the client station. A job queue at the dictation manager holds the queues the audio to be provided to the dictation servers. The dictation manager reviews all jobs in the job queue and send audio with a user profile matching a user profile already uploaded to the dictation server regardless of whether the matching audio is next in the job queue. If alternative audio has been pending over a predetermined amount of time or has a higher priority, the alternative audio is sent to the dictation server. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067390 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Transcribing Verbal Messages - A computer-implemented system and method for transcribing verbal messages is provided. Verbal messages each comprising audio content are received. Automatically recognized text is generated for the audio content of at least one of the verbal messages. A turn-around processing time is applied to the verbal message. The automatically recognized text and verbal message are transferred to a human agent when an expected processing time of the verbal message satisfies the turn-around processing time. At least a portion of the automatically recognized text is replaced with manual transcription from the human agent. The automatically recognized text and manual transcription are provided as a text message. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067391 | Method and System for Predicting Speech Recognition Performance Using Accuracy Scores - A system and method are presented for predicting speech recognition performance using accuracy scores in speech recognition systems within the speech analytics field. A keyword set is selected. Figure of Merit (FOM) is computed for the keyword set. Relevant features that describe the word individually and in relation to other words in the language are computed. A mapping from these features to FOM is learned. This mapping can be generalized via a suitable machine learning algorithm and be used to predict FOM for a new keyword. In at least embodiment, the predicted FOM may be used to adjust internals of speech recognition engine to achieve a consistent behavior for all inputs for various settings of confidence values. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067392 | CENTRALIZED SPEECH LOGGER ANALYSIS - A method of providing hands-free services using a mobile device having wireless access to computer-based services includes receiving speech in a vehicle from a vehicle occupant; recording the speech using a mobile device; transmitting the recorded speech from the mobile device to a cloud speech service; receiving automatic speech recognition (ASR) results from the cloud speech service at the mobile device; and comparing the recorded speech with the received ASR results at the mobile device to identify one or more error conditions. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067393 | MODEL LEARNING DEVICE, MODEL GENERATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a model learning device learns a model having a full covariance matrix shared among a plurality of Gaussian distributions. The device includes a first calculator to calculate, from training data, frequencies of occurrence and sufficient statistics of the Gaussian distributions contained in the model; and a second calculator to select, on the basis of the frequencies of occurrence and the sufficient statistics, a sharing structure in which a covariance matrix is shared among Gaussian distributions, and calculate the full covariance matrix shared in the selected sharing structure. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067394 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DECODING SPEECH - The system and method for speech decoding in speech recognition systems provides decoding for speech variants common to such languages. These variants include within-word and cross-word variants. For decoding of within-word variants, a data-driven approach is used, in which phonetic variants are identified, and a pronunciation dictionary and language model of a dynamic programming speech recognition system are updated based upon these identifications. Cross-word variants are handled with a knowledge-based approach, applying phonological rules, part-of-speech tagging or tagging of small words to a speech transcription corpus and updating the pronunciation dictionary and language model of the dynamic programming speech recognition system based upon identified cross-word variants. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067395 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENGAGING AN AUDIENCE IN A CONVERSATIONAL ADVERTISEMENT - A system and method are described for engaging an audience in a conversational advertisement. A conversational advertising system converses with an audience using spoken words. The conversational advertising system uses a speech recognition application to convert an audience's spoken input into text and a text-to-speech application to transform text of a response to speech that is to be played to the audience. The conversational adverting system follows an advertisement script to guide the audience in a conversation. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067396 | SEGMENT INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE, SPEECH SYNTHESIS DEVICE, SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD, AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS PROGRAM - A segment information generation device includes a waveform cutout unit cuts out a speech waveform from natural speech at a time period not depending on a pitch frequency of the natural speech. A feature parameter extraction unit extracts a feature parameter of a speech waveform from the speech waveform cut out by the waveform cutout unit. A time domain waveform generation unit generates a time domain waveform based on the feature parameter. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067397 | USING EMOTICONS FOR CONTEXTUAL TEXT-TO-SPEECH EXPRESSIVITY - Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods that improve audible emotional characteristics used when synthesizing speech from a text source. Systems and methods herein use emoticons identified from a source text to provide contextual text-to-speech expressivity. In general, techniques herein analyze text and identify emoticons included within the text. The source text is then tagged with corresponding mood indicators. For example, if the system identifies an emoticon at the end of a sentence, then the system can infer that this sentence has a specific tone or mood associated with it. Depending on whether the emoticon is a smiley face, angry face, sad face, laughing face, etc., the system can infer use or mood from the various emoticons and then change or modify the expressivity of the TTS output such as by changing intonation, prosody, speed, pauses, and other expressivity characteristics. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067398 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROCESSOR-READABLE MEDIA FOR AUTOMATICALLY VOCALIZING USER PRE-SELECTED SPORTING EVENT SCORES - A method and system for vocalizing user-selected sporting event scores. A customized spoken score application module can be configured in association with a device. A real-time score can be preselected by a user from an existing sporting event website for automatically vocalizing the score in a multitude of languages utilizing a speech synthesizer and a translation engine. An existing text-to-speech engine can be integrated with the spoken score application module and controlled by the application module to automatically vocalize the preselected scores listed on the sporting event site. The synthetically-voiced, real-time score can be transmitted to the device at a predetermined time interval. Such an approach automatically and instantly pushes the real time vocal alerts thereby permitting the user to continue multitasking without activating the pre-selected vocal alerts. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067399 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REPRODUCTION OF DIGITAL CONTENT - The present invention relates to a method and system of aurally reproducing visually structured content by associating specific audio formatting elements with visual formatting elements of the content. A method and system for reproducing visually structured content by associating abstract visual elements with visual formatting elements of the content is also described. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067400 | PHONETIC INFORMATION GENERATING DEVICE, VEHICLE-MOUNTED INFORMATION DEVICE, AND DATABASE GENERATION METHOD - In a word string information DB, when phonetic information automatically generated from written notation information matches regular phonetic information, only the written notation information is registered, or, when the phonetic information automatically generated does not match the regular phonetic information, the written notation information and the regular phonetic information are registered. A word string information retrieving unit | 2014-03-06 |
20140067401 | PROVIDE SERVICES USING UNIFIED COMMUNICATION CONTENT - Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to using intelligence within unified communication content to facilitate, services. A semantic store including unified communication content is queried. Then, results of the query are determined. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067402 | DISPLAYING ADDITIONAL DATA ABOUT OUTPUTTED MEDIA DATA BY A DISPLAY DEVICE FOR A SPEECH SEARCH COMMAND - A speech search method performed by a display device, the method including outputting media data including audio data, receiving a speech search command for additional data about the outputted media data from a user, the speech search command including at least one query word, determining whether the at least one query word matches a query term that is full and searchable, when the at least one query word matches the query term that is full and searchable, performing a search for the additional data using the query term, and when the at least one query word does not match the query term that is full and searchable, determining the query term from a predetermined amount of the audio data prior to receiving the speech search command and performing the search for the additional data using the query term. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067403 | MANAGING SPEECH INTERFACES TO COMPUTER-BASED SERVICES - A method of managing speech interfaces to computer-based services includes beginning a first speech session that is carried out in a vehicle over a short-range wireless connection between a vehicle occupant and a mobile device; detecting an initiation of a second speech session while the first speech session is being carried out; determining an assigned priority level of the first speech session relative to an assigned priority level of the second speech session; and when the assigned priority level of the second speech session has a higher priority than the assigned priority level of the first speech session, carrying out a session-appropriate action on the first speech session. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067404 | INTENSITY STEREO CODING IN ADVANCED AUDIO CODING - A system and method for selectively applying Intensity Stereo coding to an audio signal is described. The system and method make decisions on whether to apply Intensity Stereo coding to each scale factor band of the audio signal based on (1) the number of bits necessary to encode each scale factor band using Intensity Stereo coding, (2) spatial distortions generated by using Intensity Stereo coding with each scale factor band, and (3) switching distortions for each scale factor band resulting from switching Intensity Stereo coding on or off in relation to a previous scale factor band. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067405 | ADAPTIVE AUDIO CODEC SELECTION DURING A COMMUNICATION SESSION - A method for adaptive audio codec selection during a communication session is disclosed. The method can include negotiating a set of audio codecs for use during the communication session. The method can further include defining multiple audio tiers. Each audio tier can be associated with a network condition and can define an audio codec from the set of audio codecs for use in the associated network condition. The method can also include using a first audio codec during the wireless communication session. The method can additionally include determining a changed network condition selecting a second audio codec by determining the audio tier corresponding to the changed network condition. The method can further include, in response to the changed network condition, switching from the first audio codec to a second audio codec that is defined by an audio tier having an associated network condition corresponding to the changed network condition. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067406 | FACILITATING A TRANSACTION AMONG A SURGICAL PROVIDER, AN ITEM PROVIDER, AND A PAYOR - Methods and systems using a computer system for facilitating a transaction among a surgical provider, a medical device provider, and a payor are disclosed. A cost to provide medical devices needed for an identified procedure is estimated. Revenue to an entity that controls the computer system may also be estimated. Medical devices actually used in the surgical procedure are identified. A request may be submitted to the payor for reimbursement of costs associated with the devices actually used. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067407 | PERSONAL USER DASHBOARD - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a personal user dashboard are described. In one embodiment, a method includes extracting, from one or more databases, case processing information about adverse events processed by a group of users. The one or more databases store data about a plurality of adverse events processed by the group of users. The example method may also include calculating metrics using the case processing information. The metrics are performance indicators about processing of the plurality of adverse events by the group of users. The method includes displaying, on a graphical user interface (GUI), user metrics for a user of the group of users. The user metrics are displayed by filtering confidential data from the metrics. The access privileges of the user are limited to a user level access to prevent access to group level data. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067408 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USE IN TRAINING MEDICAL TREATMENTS TO HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS - A medical event information system includes at least one client computer, a memory area configured to store at least one property of an object, and a server system communicatively coupled to the client computer and the memory area. The memory area is configured to store data associated with a plurality of medical events, wherein each medical event resulted in a legal assertion being made by a patient following a surgical procedure. The server system is communicatively coupled to the at least one client computer and to the memory area. The server receives data including at least information relating to each patient associated with each medical event, information associated with errors relating to the medical event, and information relating to the outcomes of each medical event. The server identifies at least one action, that if corrected would have changed the outcome of each of the medical events identified. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067409 | Apparatus and method for providing medical support - A decline notification receiving section of a management server of a medical support apparatus receives a decline notification from an external support terminal of a medical support staff (decliner) who declines or stops participating in medical support. A substitute medical staff requesting section accesses a medical support staff database in which data of medical support staffs is stored, creates a candidate list of substitute medical staffs capable of providing the medical support in place of the decliner, and transmits the candidate list to the decliner's external support terminal. The decliner selects a substitute medical staff from the candidate list and transmits data of the selected substitute medical staff to a substitute medical staff data receiving section. A terminal management section starts managing an external substitute terminal of the selected substitute medical staff as a terminal for providing the medical support to an in-hospital terminal. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067410 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MEDICAL SUPPORT - When a support request comment is transmitted from an in-hospital terminal of a primary care physician, a distribution server transmits a support request including initial data to each support terminal which a support medical staff uses. A time limit is set on the initial data. After the transmission of the support request, remarks of participants in a medical support consultation and examination images are distributed only to the participants' support terminals. The time limit for the initial data transmitted to the each participant's support terminal is extended. The time limit for the initial data transmitted to the support terminal of a nonparticipant is not extended. Access to the initial data on the support terminal is disabled when the time limit is reached. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067411 | Predefined Input for Clinician Programmer Data Entry - The present disclosure involves a method of entering data in a portable electronic device. A request is received from a healthcare professional to perform data entry in an input field. The request is received via a touch-sensitive user interface of the portable electronic device. In response to the request, a plurality of predefined suggestions is displayed as candidates for the data entry. A selection of one of the plurality of predefined suggestions by the healthcare professional is then detected. Thereafter, the selected predefined suggestion is automatically entered as the data entry in the input field. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067412 | MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT DEVICE, MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention provides a diagnosis support system for presenting medical support information on a case. The system includes an inference unit, an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a display control unit. The inference unit identifies a diagnostic name of the case and obtains its inferred probability in accordance with medical information including a set having a plurality of elements. The acquisition unit acquires an influence of each of first subsets contained in the set and an influence of each of second subsets contained in each of the first subsets upon the inferred probability. The determination unit determines, in accordance with the influence of each of the first subsets and the influence of each of the second subsets, a subset of the plurality of elements that is to be displayed. The display control unit allows a display unit to display the identified diagnostic name and the determined subset. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067413 | OPERATING ROOM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS - An operating room management system is for monitoring operating rooms. The operating room management system may include a server, and access devices, each access device being associated with a respective operating room. Each access device may communicate with the server, receive input regarding a current status for a procedure associated with the respective operating room, and display a local status interface including a performance characteristic for the procedure associated with the respective operating room. The operating room management system may include a display communicating with the server and displaying a global status interface including the current status and the performance characteristic of the operating rooms. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067414 | SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING MEDICAL INFORMATION - Provided is a system for processing medical information. The system for processing medical information includes a spatial affected-part information generator configured to generate spatial affected-part information on a region designated by a user in a patient body map, and a medical patient information generator configured to generate medical patient information including the spatial affected-part information. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067415 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEALTHCARE OPTION SELECTION - The present invention is adapted to provide real health-care decision analysis, risk analysis, and option analytics to individual participants, the need for which has arisen from the passage of the Affordable Care Act. The system and process simulate, optimize and visualize individual health plan options. The optimization utility uses the carrier component pricing, actuarial value calculations and phantom rate development as the basis of valuation for each of the medical and pharmacy benefit plan design permutations. Employer sponsored insurance funding, legislated premium tax credits and cost sharing reductions and individual account based funding are all factored into the process. A detailed preference analytics algorithm is used to formulate the appropriate individual risk profile in order to map the options. The individual has the ability to simulate customized scenarios as part of the tier paths defined in the Affordable Care Act. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067416 | APPARATUS FOR QUANTIFYING AND DISPLAYING A PATIENT'S TIME BUFFER, BLOOD TREATMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - An apparatus configured to quantify and display a time buffer for at least one patient during a blood treatment session is described. A blood treatment apparatus which includes such an apparatus or is in signal communication therewith, and a method for quantifying and presenting the time buffer for at least one patient at a blood treatment session are also described, as well as a computer program, a computer program product and a digital storage medium. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067417 | Novel Method and Apparatus For Repricing a Reimbursement Claim Against a Contract6 - A method for repricing a reimbursement claim under at least one contract is provided herein. The method may include a combination of steps such as: converting each contract into a series of contractual terms; converting a claim into a series of claim lines, containing claim codes, unit numbers and corresponding charges for the claim codes; comparing claim codes and contractual terms and identifying matches therebetween; determining any priority conditions associated to the matching contractual terms, and eliminate any matching contractual terms that are excluded by the priority conditions; calculating the reimbursement amount for the claim by determining the reimbursement charges for the non-excluded matching contractual terms; and determining and making any adjustments depending upon any discount terms for the entire reimbursement amount. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067418 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A PATIENT AND A CARE PROVIDER - A method for facilitating communication between a patient and a care provider is disclosed. The method includes providing a repository for storing a patient records and care provider records, wherein each care provider record includes information identifying progress notes generated by the care provider, and providing, to a first user, information identifying a first plurality of progress notes relating to a first patient and generated by a first care provider of the first patient. When an indication is received from the first user including information identifying a selected progress note of the first plurality of progress notes, a comment associated with the selected progress note, and a request to post the comment to the first care provider, a notification including the information identifying the selected progress note and the comment is transmitted to a user system associated with the first care provider. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067419 | MEDICAL SUPPORT DEVICE AND SYSTEM - A medical support device distributes medical information of a patient to external terminals of supporters and a hospital terminal of a doctor in charge of the patient, and shares the medical information and comments to support diagnosis and treatment of the doctor. An information sending section distributes the medial information to the external and hospital terminals. An information receiving section receives response information made by the supporter in response to the distribution information. A relation display controller displays the distribution and response information in a related manner. An importance determining section determines the degree of importance of the distribution and response information. A display style changer changes a display style of the distribution and response information in the external and hospital terminals in accordance with the degree of importance to emphasize the important information. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067420 | MEDICAL SUPPORT DEVICE AND SYSTEM - A medical support device distributes medical information of a patient to external terminals the supporters have, and shares comments from the supporters to support diagnosis and treatment of a doctor in charge of the patient. In the medical support device, an information sending section distributes the information to the external terminals. An information receiving section receives response information sent from the doctor or the supporter in response to the distributed information. A relation display controller displays the distributed and response information in a related manner. An importance determining section determines the degree of importance of the distributed information. When the degree of importance of the distributed information equals or exceeds a threshold value, a reception state setting section suspends transmission of new information from the external terminals and a hospital terminal and puts the terminals in a ready-to-receive state. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067421 | Data Synchronization Between Two or More Analyte Detecting Devices in a Database - An analyte measurement system includes one or more handheld analyte meters and/or measurement devices and a means for collecting data, preserving data integrity, and uniquely identifying patient data received from multiple sources. For example, provided herein is a means to uniquely identify patients and their data when the data is collected from one or more measurement devices. By providing a way to allow the patients to use multiple sources to collect data, the system described herein provides patients with more flexibility, which should encourage better compliance to protocols. Further, by having a way to uniquely identify patients' data without requiring a patient to only use one analyte meter, for example, data can be centralized and analysis can be done with more assurance that all of the patient's data is being considered in the analyses. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067422 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CLINICAL INFORMATION IN REAL TIME, METHOD FOR PROVIDING CLINICAL INFORMATION IN REAL TIME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM ON WHICH A PROGRAM PERFORMING SAME IS RECORDED - The present invention relates to a system for providing clinical information in real time, to a method for providing clinical information in real time, and to a storage medium on which a program performing same is recorded. According to the present invention, the advantage of providing ultrasonic images of an unborn child in real time without an additional storage medium is that the level of clinical service provided to a pregnant woman and her family can be improved. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067423 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AND/OR PROVIDING HEALTHCARE INFORMATION AND/OR HEALTHCARE-RELATED INFORMATION WITH OR USING AN ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORD OR ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORDS - A computer-implemented method, including receiving and storing a note, comment, or message, transmitted from a first communication device used by an individual, a patient, or a caregiver for same, in an electronic health record, transmitting the note, comment, or message, to a second communication device used by a provider, receiving information regarding an examination finding, a diagnosis, a treatment, or a treatment plan, transmitted from the second communication device or a third communication device used by the provider, processing, with a computer, the information regarding an examination finding, diagnosis, treatment, or treatment plan, generating a report containing information regarding the examination finding, diagnosis, treatment, or treatment plan, storing the report in the electronic healthcare record, generating an insurance claim or request for payment, and transmitting the insurance claim or request for payment to a fourth communication device used by an insurer or a payer. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067424 | AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION AND DOCUMENTATION OF CO-MORBIDITIES FROM PATIENTS ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM - An inventive system and method for identifying and documenting co-morbidities is provided. The method can include selecting co-morbidity-related clinical data in accordance with one or more rules, said clinical data selected for a patient from the history data of the patient, pushing the selected clinical data to a display on a display device, displaying the selected clinical data on the display device along with the one or more rules, analyzing the displayed selected clinical data in accordance with the displayed one or more rules, validating the displayed selected data and storing the validated data. In one aspect, the method can further comprise sending the validated data to billing and/or printing the validated data. In one aspect, the clinical data can comprise one or more of laboratory data, EKG data, Echo data and radiology data. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067425 | PATIENT INFORMATION SOFTWARE SYSTEM INCLUDING INFUSION MAP - An infusion map system includes a memory storing at least infusion mapping instructions, and a processor that executes the stored instructions. When the processor executes the infusion mapping instructions, the infusion map system performs a displaying function that displays at least a portion of an electronic medical record associated with a patient and a diagramming function that receives the electronic medical record and generates an infusion map showing all intravenous drugs being administered to the patient. For each of the drugs, the infusion map further illustrates a route of administration for the drug. An order administering function performed by the system allows a user to alter the infusion map, and a record updating function of annotating the electronic medical record to correspond to the altered infusion map. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067426 | Dynamic Pairing of Devices with a Medical Application - Mobile or embedded devices are dynamically paired with medical applications. By displaying identifying information associated with the medical application and capturing the display with a sensing device, the identifying information may be used by a server to route sensed data from the sensing device to the medical application for the patient. Barcodes or other identifying information may be used. The mobile device may be a smart phone, allowing smart phones to be dynamically paired with the medical application as desired by the user. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067427 | USE OF INTERNET SITE AS A REGISTRY FOR RESULTS OF MEDICAL TESTS - Results of medical tests for sexually transmissible diseases (STDs) or other medical conditions such as drug use are posted to a registry site accessible by a subscriber and any authorized guest of the subscriber. The medical test results are associated with a verification of the subscriber's identity. The verification may be in the form of a driver's license number, or other indicia of identification, recorded when a test sample was drawn by a testing lab affiliated with the registry site. Results of the test performed by the testing lab are automatically posted to the registry site, along with the customer ID assigned to the subscriber when registering with the registry site, and the verification of the subscriber's identity. Subsequently, the subscriber and any authorized guest or prospective sexual partner can access the subscriber's test results and the verification of the subscriber's identity by entering a predefined password or other access code, thereby enabling the guest, who may be a prospective sexual partner, to verify a medical condition asserted by the subscriber. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067428 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND ARTICLE TO PROVIDE AN INSURANCE WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems and methods automate and manage the workflow within the insurance industry, including the development of line of business task lists and task scheduling for insurance agents, insurance brokers, insurance underwriters, and insurance carriers. Tasks are selected based on a selected line of business and due dates for each task are determined based times allocated precedent to an engagement due date or subsequent to a task list creation date. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067429 | PHOTO GUIDE FOR VEHICLE - A device and method for assisting a user in photographing a vehicle for documenting a condition of the vehicle. The method includes receiving information regarding the vehicle and displaying a graphic overlay of the vehicle. A video image of the vehicle is captured with a camera and is displayed with the graphical overlay. The video image of the vehicle is aligned with the graphical overlay of the vehicle and the image of the vehicle is stored. The graphical overlay can be oriented on the screen in a manner so that the stored image of the vehicle is captured at a predetermined horizontal angle, vertical height and/or vehicle size. The photograph of the vehicle can be attached to an insurance estimate. Standardizing the horizontal angle, vertical and/or vehicle size of the photographed vehicle promotes consistency and uniformity in the estimating process. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067430 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING COMPLEX INSURANCE CLAIMS AT ACCOUNT LEVEL - Provided are systems and methods for administering insurance payments for a loss event that implicates multiple liability insurance policies. In particular, the systems and methods may be used to allocate various portions of an insurance payment across multiple liability insurance policies. The systems and methods further monitor payments allocated to an insurance policy to ensure that the payments allocated to the insurance policy do not exceed defined limits. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067431 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING DEVICES FOR INJURIES UNDER WORKER'S COMPENSATION COVERAGE - A computer system including a server and software, for example, provides items and services for injuries under workman's compensation coverage through a web portal. An automated request to provide an item is transmitted from the server over the network setting a specific price, such that the one or more of a plurality of providers is capable of accepting the automated request using the network connected to the server. A care cart may be customizable by the adjuster or the adjuster's employer. Items are added to automatically by the system to a care cart using an automated algorithm relating specific items to both an injury code and a zip code, and the system transmits the care cart to the adjuster portal and presents the adjuster with options. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067432 | LOCATION-BASED RECOVERY DEVICE AND RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICES AND DATA - A device and software utilizing Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) technologies for monitoring and recovering portable computing devices and, a method and system for acquiring such devices, protecting data on such devices, and for compensating owners of devices. A GPS mechanism of the invention provides real time tracking of missing devices that may be coordinated with security agencies to intercept and recover missing computing devices. When a stolen device is unrecoverable, the invention may receive a signal to initiate data recovery where a wireless network is available to recover data for the owner. Alternatively, the GPS mechanism instructs the device to encrypt or destroy stored data files to prevent commercial espionage or privacy violations. The invention discloses a software system and method for computing a purchase price of the GPS mechanism, computing compensation for loss of the device and lost data. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067433 | Method and System for Insurance Claims Adjustment - The invention relates to a system and method that allows for the labeling of images associated with a property damage insurance claim, the labels subsequently used to automatically generate documents associated with the claims adjustment process. More specifically, a claims adjuster uses a specialized interface to select sentence fragments and tags to generate labels for images and pictures of the insured's damaged property or to directly import into a claims estimating platform. The labels are then saved to a separate file and are later imported back into the program to be used to generate claims estimates, activity reports, and/or narratives. The invention automates and streamlines the claims adjustment process and provides the user with an all in one solution for documenting a claim and for creating the claims estimate and other documents needed to close the insurance claim. The system also allows an insured to access and enter information related to their policy or claims. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067434 | Methods and Systems for Providing Risk Profile Analytics - A risk profile system determines a risk profile of a driver of a vehicle using improved driver metrics. Driver characteristics of a driver are determined as the driver encounters one or more locations that have an associated weighted accident history. The determined driver characteristics of the driver are compared to a normal distribution curve of driving characteristic data at one or more of the locations encountered by the driver. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067435 | REVENUE DRIVEN SPLITTING OF GROUP TRAVEL REQUESTS INTO MULTIPLE SUBGROUPS - A method, apparatus and program product utilize a revenue driven approach to split a group travel request into multiple subgroups. By doing so, group travel requests that might otherwise be rejected due to lack of availability for a certain quantity of travelers, or that might otherwise present a significant risk of lost revenue due to last minute cancellations that preclude reallocation to individual bookings, may be split into multiple subgroups in a manner that optimizes expected revenue for a travel provider. In addition, a method, apparatus and program product integrate a group quote component or module into an inventory system to facilitate the generation of group quotes based at least in part on a displacement cost for a reference travel provider that is reflective of the displacement of a group quantity from individual bookings. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067436 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEMAND RESPONSE PAYMENT OPTIONS - Systems and methods for demand response transit systems using periodic passes as optional payment for transit services. Booking transit services may include determining if the passenger has a periodic pass and whether such periodic pass can be used to fully or partially pay for such booking. Historical costs and use of periodic passes, having certain characteristics, can further be used to set future prices of such periodic passes. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067437 | BOOKING MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR AMUSEMENT PARKS - A booking management method for amusement parks determine if a facility is bookable or not at first. If the facility is bookable, visitors can book the facility via a device in the amusement park, such as a handheld device. Then they can more around anywhere in the amusement park until they obtain an admission message. When the visitor obtains the admission message, the visitor can go to the facility. Therefore, this booking management system is a fantastic way to reduce waiting time and can maximize visitors enjoyment of their visit. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067438 | POST-ACQUISITION CUSTOMIZATION OF BUNDLED PACKAGES FOR FULFILLMENT - The fulfillment of a predetermined package of one or more package items to a customer is disclosed. A unique fulfillment code corresponding to the predetermined package is received from the customer, as the package may have been previously acquired by the customer. Each package item has a defined monetary value range, and for each of the package items, one or more selectable options therefore in the defined monetary value range is retrieved. A form including each of the selectable options is transmitted to the customer, and a selection of one of the options is received thereafter. Each of the received selections is used for delivering a corresponding instrument representative thereof. The instrument is presentable to a vendor for settlement in exchange for provision of the selected option to the customer. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067439 | TRAVEL DATA INGESTION AND SESSIONIZATION IN A MULTI-TENANT CLOUD ARCHITECTURE - A travel sessionizer captures raw event data from a user device, the raw event data representing user shopping behavior, and parses the raw event data into one or more travel sessions. Each of the one or more travel sessions represents shopping behavior for a single user corresponding to a specified date range. The travel sessionizer denormalizes the one or more travel sessions to organize travel session data by individual property days, where each individual property day represents travel session data corresponding to a separate property on a given day. The travel sessionizer then provides the individual property day data to a profit optimization module for further processing. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067440 | Transmitting an Automatic Request Based on Location - A system has a device connected to a network and an access point. The access point is configured to communicate with the portable computing device using a wireless communication protocol. The access point is further configured to receive from the portable computing device identification information of the portable computing device. The access point is further configured to transmit a location of the access point and the identification information to the device. The device determines a service provider based on the location and based on a prior user transaction, the prior user transaction determined based on the identification information, and automatically transmits a request to the service provider. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067441 | RESERVATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and system for reserving a time slot to gain access to a resource, such as an attraction, ride, show or event, as may be found in an amusement park. A portable module is used to determine a time when the user is able to access the resource based on reservation requests and throughput, without need for a docking station or continuous communication with a central database of all reservations and queue times. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067442 | TRAVEL PACKAGES INCLUDING SEPARATELY PURCHASED TRAVEL ITEMS - A user of a personal computing device may identify multiple travel items of interest displayed for purchase by a network-based travel service. However, the user may not desire to purchase the travel items in a single purchase. Upon making a travel purchase that includes a first travel item that does not include a second travel item corresponding to the first travel item, the user may employ the network travel package service to search for second travel items corresponding to the first travel item, select from discounted travel packages including the first travel item and second travel items returned from the search, and purchase a discounted travel package. Beneficially, multiple travel items may be purchased separately while obtaining a package discount as compared to the stand-alone price of the travel items. | 2014-03-06 |
20140067443 | BUSINESS PROCESS TRANSFORMATION RECOMMENDATION GENERATION - Embodiments include an apparatus for managing processes including a processing circuit for obtaining process data corresponding to a plurality of processes from at least one of storage, an external device, and a user, and for performing a method. The method includes parsing the process data to identify key features of the plurality of processes and recognizing, by the processor, commonality among two or more of the plurality of processes based on the key features. The method further includes generating suggestions for transforming one or more of the plurality of processes based on the commonality among the two or more of the plurality of processes. | 2014-03-06 |