22nd week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 50 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120136629 | APPARATUS ABNORMALITY MONITORING METHOD AND SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an apparatus abnormality monitoring method, and it provides a technology that can achieve accurate abnormality detection, cause diagnosis, and others. This system relates to monitoring of a newly-installed apparatus (T) among a plurality of similar apparatuses | 2012-05-31 |
20120136630 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WIND TURBINE INSPECTION - A method and system for inspecting a wind turbine is provided. The method includes providing at least one remotely operated aerial platform (ROAP), providing at least one non-destructive evaluation (NDE) device attached to the ROAP, and providing at least one distance measuring system attached to the ROAP. The distance measuring system is used for determining the distance between the ROAP and at least a portion of the wind turbine. The method also includes positioning the ROAP so that the at least one non-destructive evaluation device captures data used for inspecting the wind turbine. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136631 | SUBORDINATE AND MASTER SENSOR NODES - Apparatus and systems are provided for data signaling between a centralized transceiver and a plurality of sensor nodes. Subordinate sensor nodes transmit data corresponding to sensed physical variables to a master node within a group. The master node within the group transmits the data on to a data acquisition transceiver. Data communications are performed by free-space signaling. Large areas can be monitored by a vast array of such sensors, organized as plural neighborhoods, without the need for wiring, optical fibers or other tangible interconnections. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136632 | SENSOR AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A SENSOR | 2012-05-31 |
20120136633 | OPTIMIZATION-BASED SIMULATED ANNEALING FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PLACEMENT - Generating of the initial temperature value for a simulated annealing process in the placement of circuit components in the physical design of integrated circuit (IC) is based on previous partitioning, if any, of the IC components into bins. An iteration limit value is then assigned equal to the initial temperature value. The simulated annealing process is then performed on a current partitioning of the IC components into bins according to the iteration limit value. The IC components are partitioned further into an exponentially larger total number of smaller bins compared to a previous number of bins. The process is then repeated starting with the operation of generating an initial temperature value for the simulated annealing process until the number of circuit components in each bin is below a specified number. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136634 | LAYOUT SUPPORT DEVICE AND TANGIBLE COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is a layout support device including: a route obtaining unit to obtain, for each of users who use an image forming apparatus, a route in a predetermined area in which the image forming device is installed; a recommended arrangement calculating unit to calculate a recommended arrangement of the image forming device in the predetermined area in accordance with a positional relation between the route of each user obtained by the route obtaining unit and a position in which the image forming device is installed; and a display unit to display the recommended arrangement calculated by the recommended arrangement calculating unit. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136635 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING CONSTRAINT SOLVING THROUGH CONSTRAINT REWRITING AND DECISION REORDERING - Methods and apparatuses are described for assigning random values to a set of random variables so that the assigned random values satisfy a set of constraints. A constraint solver can receive a set of constraints that is expected to cause performance problems when the system assigns random values to the set of random variables in a manner that satisfies the set of constraints. For example, modulo constraints and bit-slice constraints can cause the system to perform excessive backtracking when the system attempts to assign random values to the set of random variables in a manner that satisfies the set of constraints. The system can rewrite the set of constraints to obtain a new set of constraints that is expected to reduce and/or avoid the performance problems. The system can then assign random values to the set of random variables based on the new set of constraints. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136636 | FINITE ELEMENT ADJUSTMENT FOR BASIN FAULTS - A method can include providing finite elements described with respect to a horizontal coordinate axis and a vertical coordinate axis to model a sedimentary basin, identifying a finite element having a horizontal boundary intersected by a fault, subdividing the finite element into two finite elements, and representing the fault along a boundary between the two finite elements. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136637 | ADJUSTING WHEEL DIAMETER - A method and apparatus for adjusting wheel diameter by acquiring a current wheel diameter distribution vector; calculating similarity scores between the current wheel diameter distribution vector and known wheel diameter distribution vector clusters to determine a potential wear rate of the current wheel diameter distribution vector; calculating similarity scores between candidate target wheel diameter distribution vectors and the known wheel diameter distribution vector clusters to determine a potential wear rates of the candidate target wheel diameter distribution vectors; and selecting a target wheel diameter distribution vector from the candidate target wheel diameter distribution vectors, such that the reduction of potential wear rate achieved by switching the current wheel diameter distribution vector to the target wheel diameter distribution vector meets a predetermined condition. Future potential wear rates and the amount of grinding required during train maintenance can be optimized through changing wheel diameter distribution vectors. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136638 | Process and device to determine a structure of an electric power distribution network - The method determines the structure of an electricity distribution system comprising a substation supplying a set of consumers via one or more feeders presenting one or more phases. It comprises the following steps:
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20120136639 | Method for Door Side Intrusion Simulation with Progressive Failures - A method for simulating deformation of a body element of a motor vehicle that occurs during an impact event includes providing a model of the body element that includes an initial load distribution pattern. A first simulation output is generated during a first portion of the impact event using the initial load distribution pattern and includes data indicative of the deformation of the body element. Whether a portion of the body element is in a failure condition is determined based on the first simulation output. If a failure condition is determined, the load distribution pattern of at least a portion of the body element is updated, and a second simulation output including data indicative of the deformation of the body during a second portion of the impact event is generated using the updated load distribution pattern. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136640 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING COLLISION PERFORMANCE OF VEHICLE MEMBER, AND MEMBER COLLISION TEST DEVICE USED FOR SAME - A performance evaluation method of a vehicle member includes a calculation process for performing an analysis using a partial structure CAE model modeling a module where a member of a vehicle to be evaluated and a collision test device for conducting a collision test on the member are combined, and obtaining a value of a collision performance evaluation parameter in the partial structure CAE model; a calculation process for determining a boundary condition of the partial structure CAE model; a calculation process for determining a test condition of a member collision test device based on the boundary condition of the partial structure CAE model; and a test process for conducting a collision test using a physical member collision test device and a physical member, based on the set condition of the member collision test device. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136641 | MACHINE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND METHOD TO CARRY OUT PARALLEL RESERVOIR SIMULATION - A machine, computer program product, and method to enable scalable parallel reservoir simulations for a variety of simulation model sizes are described herein. Some embodiments of the disclosed invention include a machine, methods, and implemented software for performing parallel processing of a grid defining a reservoir or oil/gas field using a plurality of sub-domains for the reservoir simulation, a parallel process of re-ordering a local cell index for each of the plurality of cells using characteristics of the cell and location within the at least one sub-domain and a parallel process of simulating at least one production characteristic of the reservoir. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136642 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus connected to an emulator to arrange a verification model and a verification target includes a compile unit configured to create a first data transfer unit arranged in a computer to transfer data from the computer to the emulator based on a description of a file function of a verification program and a generation unit configured to generate a second data transfer unit that receives the data from the first data transfer unit and transfers the received data to the verification target based on the description of the file function. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136643 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GLOBAL VOLTAGE SECURITY ASSESSMENT IN POWER SYSTEMS - Systems and methods for global voltage security assessment in power systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for assessing voltage security in a power system having a number (i) of buses includes capturing a change in bus voltage and a change in line reactive power for at least some of the buses in the power system, for each of the i number of buses, calculating a voltage assessment index) (Γ | 2012-05-31 |
20120136644 | PREDICTING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE AND CAPACITY USING SOFTWARE MODULE PERFORMANCE STATISTICS - An approach for predicting performance and capacity of an information technology (IT) system before the IT system is built is described, where the predicting uses a database of performance statistics measured for reusable software modules. A performance simulation modeling tool receives a set of performance statistics of a test computer. The set of performance statistics is associated with a set of software modules included in a library of reusable software modules. The set of software modules is required to build a target IT system. The set of performance statistics is received from a database of performance statistics resulting from individual executions on the test computer of each reusable software module in the library. The performance simulation modeling tool predicts computing resources required by the target IT system. The computing resources prediction follows the receipt of the set of performance statistics and precedes the target IT system being built. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136645 | Managing Communication Bandwidth in Co-Verification of Circuit Designs - Related communication signals between a simulator and an emulator are organized into logical channels. The signals in each channel are then be transmitted only as needed, reducing the use of the communication pathways between the simulator and the emulator. Further, the circuit components that will receive the communication signals to be shared on a channel are be physically located close together within the emulator, thereby reducing the time required to select and enable components of the emulator to receive the signals sent by the simulator. Similarly, emulator components that send communication signals to be shared on a channel are physically located close together within the emulator, thereby reducing the time required to select and enable components of the emulator to send these signals to the simulator. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136646 | Data Security System - A method, computer system, and computer program product for translating information. The computer system receives the information for a translation. The computer system identifies portions of the information based on a set of rules for security for the information in response to receiving the information. The computer system sends the portions of the information to a plurality of translation systems. In response to receiving translation results from the plurality of translation systems for respective portions of the information, the computer system combines the translation results for the respective portions to form a consolidated translation of the information. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136647 | MACHINE TRANSLATION APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A technical term dictionary stores terms of a first language and each translated term of a second language. A translation memory stores source sentences of the first language and each target sentence of the second language. A translation unit translates a text of the first language into an output text of the second language by the technical term dictionary and the translation memory. A corresponding translation pair extraction unit extracts, from a source sentence matched with a sentence of the text and a target sentence corresponding to the source sentence stored in the translation memory, a corresponding translation pair comprising a word in the source sentence and a translated word corresponding to the word in the target sentence. An unmatch check unit checks whether the translated word does not match with a translated term corresponding to the word in the output text. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136648 | System and method of prioritizing automated translation of communications from a first human language to a second human language - A method of prioritizing the automated translation of communications includes capturing and inputting into a data processing system a translation-candidate communication rendered in a first human language. A first data set representative of the translation-candidate communication is stored in computer memory and parsed into communication sub-portions. Communication sub-portions are algorithmically selected for translation depending on their relatedness to a predetermined topic as determined by first-language extraction rules. Each selected communication sub-portion is translated to a translated-data-set sub-portion representative of that selected communication sub-portion in the second human language. Translated-data-set sub-portions are subjected to a secondary filtration process in accordance with which their relatedness to the predetermined topic is determined by second-language extraction rules. Translated-data-set sub-portions determined to contain information sufficiently related to the predetermined topic are converted to converted-data-set sub-portions representative of the translated-data-set sub-portions in a human-intelligible format and outputted through a machine-to-human interface. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136649 | Natural Language Interface - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for providing a natural language interface for searching a database. One process includes operations for receiving a natural language query. One or more tokens contained in the natural language query are identified. A set of sentences is generated based on the identified tokens, each sentence representing a possible logical interpretation of the natural language query and including a combination of at least one of the identified tokens. At least one sentence in the set of sentences is selected for searching a database based on the identified tokens. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136650 | SUGGESTING SPELLING CORRECTIONS FOR PERSONAL NAMES - Personal name spelling correction suggestion technique embodiments are presented which provide suggestions for alternate spellings of a personal name. This involves creating a personal name directory which can be queried to suggest spelling corrections for personal names. A hash function that maps any personal name in a particular language and misspellings thereof to similar binary codewords is used to produce one or more binary codewords for each personal name in the directory. The same hash function is used to produce one or more binary codewords from a personal name presented in a query. The personal name directory is employed to identify up to a prescribed number of personal names, each of which has one or more associated binary codewords that are similar to one or more of the binary codewords produced from the personal name query. The identified personal names are suggested as alternate names for the query personal name. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136651 | ONE-ROW KEYBOARD AND APPROXIMATE TYPING - In one aspect, the present invention comprises an apparatus for character entry on an electronic device, comprising: a keyboard with one row of keys; and an electronic display device in communication with the keyboard; wherein one or more keys on the keyboard has a correspondence with a plurality of characters, and wherein the correspondence enables QWERTY-based typing. In another aspect, the invention comprises an apparatus for character entry on an electronic device, comprising: a keyboard with a plurality of keys; and an electronic display device in communication with the keyboard; wherein one or more keys on the keyboard has a correspondence with a plurality of characters, and wherein, for each of the one or more keys, the plurality of characters comprises: (a) a home row character associated with a particular finger when touch typing; and (b) a non-home-row character associated with the particular finger when touch typing. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136652 | METHOD, A COMPUTER PROGRAM AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING SYMBOLS IN A COMPUTER - The invention provides a computer-implemented method of analyzing symbols in a computer system, the symbols conforming to a specification for the symbols, in which the specification has been codified into a set of computer-readable rules; and, the symbols analyzed using the computer-readable rules to obtain patterns of the symbols by determining the path that is taken by the symbols through the rules that successfully terminates, and grouping the symbols according to said paths, the method comprising; upon receipt of a message at a computer, performing a lexical analysis of the message; and, in dependence on lexical analysis of the message assigning the message to one of the groups identified according to said paths. The invention also provides a computer programmed to perform the method and a computer program comprising program instructions for causing a computer to perform the method. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136653 | TRANSFORM CODER AND TRANSFORM CODING METHOD - A transform coding apparatus includes an input scale factor calculating section that calculates an input scale factor having a predetermined number of scale factors associated with an input spectrum as an element, and a codebook that stores a plurality of scale factor candidates having a predetermined number of elements and outputs one scale factor candidate. The transform coding apparatus also includes an error calculating section that calculates an error on a per element basis, a weighted error calculating section that determines a weight on a per element basis and calculates a sum of products of the error and the weight to calculate a weighted error, and a searching section that searches for a scale factor candidate that minimizes the weighted error in the codebook. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136654 | Apparatus And Method For Cancelling Echo In Joint Time Domain And Frequency Domain - Disclosed in the present invention is a method for cancelling echo in joint time domain and frequency domain. The method includes: receiving an input receiver signal and an input transmitter signal; implementing echo cancellation on the received transmitter signal, based on the received receiver signal, by using a first echo canceller which is either a time domain echo canceller or a frequency domain echo canceller, to obtain a first echo-cancelled signal; implementing echo cancellation again on the first echo-cancelled signal, based on the received receiver signal, by using a second echo canceller which is the other one of the time domain echo canceller and the frequency domain echo canceller, to obtain a second echo-cancelled signal; wherein, the filter parameters of the second filter of the second echo canceller is updated based on the second echo-cancelled signal, and the first and second echo canceller respectively include the corresponding first and second filters. By using said method in the present invention, fast response to echo reflecting environment can be achieved with little residual echo, thus the effect of echo cancellation is entirely improved. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136655 | SPEECH PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SPEECH PROCESSING METHOD - A signal portion is extracted per frame having a specific duration from an input signal, thus generating a per-frame input signal. The per-frame input signal in the time domain is converted into a per-frame input signal in the frequency domain, thereby generating a spectral pattern of spectra. Peak spectra having peaks are detected in the spectral pattern. A harmonic spectrum is determined, in the peak spectra, having a harmonic structure showing a relationship between a fundamental pitch and a harmonic overtone. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136656 | Communication System - A method for reducing ringing in a signal output from a filter comprising inputting a signal into a filter; filtering a first portion of the input signal to generate a filtered portion of the output signal; analyzing the filtered portion of the output signal; detecting if ringing is present in the filtered portion of the output signal based on said analysis; and adjusting the filter characteristics to reduce ringing in a subsequent filtered portion of the output signal if it is determined that ringing is present. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136657 | AUDIO CODING DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - An audio coding device includes a time-to-frequency converter that performs time-to-frequency conversion on each frame of a signal in at least one channel included in an audio signal in a predetermined length of time in order to convert the signal in the at least one channel to a frequency signal; a complexity calculator that calculates complexity of the frequency signal for each of the at least one channel. The audio further includes a bit allocation controller that determines a number of bits to be allocated to each of at least one channel so that more bits are allocated to the each of the at least one channel as the complexity of the each of at least one channel increases, and increases the number of bits to be allocated as an estimation error in the number; and a coder that codes the frequency signal. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136658 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZING BROADBAND CONTENT BASED UPON PASSIVE PRESENCE DETECTION OF USERS - Systems and methods for customizing broadband content based upon passive presence detection of users are provided. A sample of ambient audio may be collected by a customer premise device configured to output programming content received from a service provider. One or more audio components associated with the output of the customer premise device may be removed. Following the removal, a remainder of the collected sample may be compared to one or more stored user voice samples. Based at least in part on the comparison, one of an identity of a user or one or more user characteristics may be determined. Based at least in part on the determination, the content output by the customer premise device may be customized. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136659 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREPROCESSING SPEECH SIGNALS - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for preprocessing speech signals to perform speech recognition. The apparatus includes a voiced sound interval detection unit, a preprocessing method determination unit, and a clipping signal processing unit. The voiced sound interval detection unit detects a voiced sound interval including a voiced sound signal in a voice interval. The preprocessing method determination unit detects a clipping signal present in the voiced sound interval. The clipping signal processing unit extracts signal samples adjacent to the clipping signal, and performs interpolation on the clipping signal using the adjacent signal samples. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136660 | VOICE-ESTIMATION BASED ON REAL-TIME PROBING OF THE VOCAL TRACT - A voice-estimation device that probes the vocal tract of a user with sub-threshold acoustic waves to estimate the user's voice while the user speaks silently or audibly in a noisy or socially sensitive environment. The waves reflected by the vocal tract are detected and converted into a digital signal, which is then processed segment-by-segment. Based on the processing, a set of formant frequencies is determined for each segment. Each such set is then analyzed to assign a phoneme to the corresponding segment of the digital signal. The resulting sequence of phonemes is converted into a digital audio signal or text representing the user's estimated voice. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136661 | CONVERTING TEXT INTO SPEECH FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION - The present invention discloses converting a text form into a speech. In the present invention, partial word lists of a data source are obtained by parsing the data source in parallel or in series. The partial word lists are then compiled to obtain phoneme graphs corresponding, respectively, to the partial word lists, and then the obtained phoneme graphs are combined. Speech recognition is then conducted according to the combination results. According to the present invention, computational complexity may be reduced and recognition efficiency may be improved during speech recognition. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136662 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM WITH HUGE VOCABULARY - The invention deals with speech recognition, such as a system for recognizing words in continuous speech. A speech recognition system is disclosed which is capable of recognizing a huge number of words, and in principle even an unlimited number of words. The speech recognition system comprises a word recognizer for deriving a best path through a word graph, and wherein words are assigned to the speech based on the best path. The word score being obtained from applying a phonemic language model to each word of the word graph. Moreover, the invention deals with an apparatus and a method for identifying words from a sound block and to computer readable code for implementing the method. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136663 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RAPID ACOUSTIC UNIT SELECTION FROM A LARGE SPEECH CORPUS - A speech synthesis system can select recorded speech fragments, or acoustic units, from a very large database of acoustic units to produce artificial speech. The selected acoustic units are chosen to minimize a combination of target and concatenation costs for a given sentence. However, as concatenation costs, which are measures of the mismatch between sequential pairs or acoustic units, are expensive to compute, processing can be greatly reduced by pre-computing and aching the concatenation costs. The number of possible sequential pairs of acoustic units makes such caching prohibitive. Statistical experiments reveal that while about 85% of the acoustic units are typically used in common speech, less than 1% of the possible sequential pairs or acoustic units occur in practice. The system synthesizes a large body of speech, identifies the acoustic unit sequential pairs generated and their respective concatenation costs, and stores those concatenation costs likely to occur. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136664 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLOUD-BASED TEXT-TO-SPEECH WEB SERVICES - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for generating speech. One variation of the method is from a server side, and another variation of the method is from a client side. The server side method, as implemented by a network-based automatic speech processing system, includes first receiving, from a network client independent of knowledge of internal operations of the system, a request to generate a text-to-speech voice. The request can include speech samples, transcriptions of the speech samples, and metadata describing the speech samples. The system extracts sound units from the speech samples based on the transcriptions and generates an interactive demonstration of the text-to-speech voice based on the sound units, the transcriptions, and the metadata, wherein the interactive demonstration hides a back end processing implementation from the network client. The system provides access to the interactive demonstration to the network client. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136665 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are an electronic device and a control method thereof, The electronic device includes a text-to-speech unit which converts a text into an audio signal, an audio output unit which outputs an audio corresponding to the converted audio signal; and a controller which controls the audio output unit to reoutput at least one of audios whose output is not completed if there is at least one audio which is not completely output among a plurality of audios output by the audio output unit. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136666 | AUTOMATED PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SYSTEM - An automated personal assistance system employing artificial intelligence technology that includes speech recognition and synthesis, situational awareness, pattern and behavioral recognition, and the ability to learn from the environment. Embodiments of the system include environmental and occupant sensors and environmental actuators interfaced to an assistance controller having the artificial intelligence technology incorporated therein to control the environment of the system. An embodiment of the invention is implemented as a vehicle which reacts to voice command for movement and operation of the vehicle and detects objects, obstructions, and distances. This invention provides the ability to monitor for the safety of operation and modify dangerous maneuvers as well as to learn locations in the environment and to automatically find its way to them. The system may also incorporate communication capability to convey patterns of environmental and occupant parameters and to a monitoring center. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136667 | VOICE ASSISTANT SYSTEM - Methods and apparatuses to assist a user in the performance of a plurality of tasks are provided. The invention includes storing at least one care plan for a resident, the care plan defining a plurality of tasks to be performed for providing care to the resident. Capturing speech inputs from the user, and providing speech outputs to the user to provide a speech dialog with the user reflective of the care plan. Information is captured with a contactless communication interface and is used for engaging the care plan. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136668 | ELEVATOR CONTROL DEVICE - An elevator control device makes call registration by voice recognition by using a microphone outputting a user's voice as a sound signal and includes: an indicator controller that causes an image which specifies one of objects selectable as a call registration object to be displayed; a storage which stores, in advance, the sound signal of a predetermined voice, which is used for designating the call registration object, as a registered sound signal; and a voice recognizing mechanism that compares the sound signal delivered from the microphone with the registered sound signal, and delivers a control signal if these sound signals coincide with each other. The indicator controller outputs registration information, in which the object specified by the image displayed on the indicator is the call registration object, when receiving the control signal sent from the voice recognizing mechanism. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136669 | TRANSCODING METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND SYSTEM - A method, a device, and a system for transcoding between two embedded codecs are disclosed. The method includes: delaying a first encoded stream in input streams for integer number of frames, where the first encoded stream includes a stream of at least one extension layer in the input streams obtained after input signals are encoded by using a first codec; and using the first codec to decode other encoded streams in the input streams to obtain the first decoded signal; and performing delay aligning and adjusting to obtain an adjusted signal so as to reduce the transcoding complexity and enhance quality of the transcoded signals. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136670 | BANDWIDTH EXTENSION METHOD, BANDWIDTH EXTENSION APPARATUS, PROGRAM, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND AUDIO DECODING APPARATUS - To provide a bandwidth extension method which allows reduction of computation amount in bandwidth extension and suppression of deterioration of quality in the bandwidth to be extended. In the bandwidth extension method: a low frequency bandwidth signal is transformed into a QMF domain to generate a first low frequency QMF spectrum; pitch-shifted signals are generated by applying different shifting factors on the low frequency bandwidth signal; a high frequency QMF spectrum is generated by time-stretching the pitch-shifted signals in the QMF domain; the high frequency QMF spectrum is modified; and the modified high frequency QMF spectrum is combined with the first low frequency QMF spectrum. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136671 | MEDICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A medical scheduling system and method associating medical procedures and with medical resources, associating patients with medical procedures to form medical procedure instances, scheduling each medical procedure instance according to the availability of the medical resource associated with the medical procedure and according to medical priorities associated with the patients, the medical procedures and the resources. The A medical scheduling system and method additionally operative to simulate the effect of probable situations and events on the execution of the scheduled operation and to provide decision support information for contingency planning. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136672 | Automated Surgery Notification System - A hospital operating room schedule notification system is described, where a data pipe extracts operating room schedules from the scheduling systems of subscribing hospitals, and makes the operating room schedules available to subscribing surgeons and attending device representatives according to a variety of selectable options. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136673 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DETERMINING CHANGES IN LEVELS OF CARE FOR PATIENTS - An apparatus is provided for determining a change in a level of care for a patient(s). The apparatus includes at least one memory and at least one processor configured to determine that at least one of an admission of a patient to a health care facility, a discharge of the patient from the health care facility, or a transfer of the patient within the health care facility triggered a level of care change event associated with the patient. The processor is also configured to identify a care event(s) for the patient in response to determining that the level of care change event was triggered. The processor is also configured to generate a notification(s) to perform a task(s) associated with the care event(s) for the patient and associate the care event(s) and a task(s) with the triggered level of care change event. Corresponding computer program products and methods are also provided. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136674 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND PRODUCTS FOR TRACKING SURGICAL ITEMS - Methods, systems, and products track equipment used during surgical procedures. An allowable zone associated with a surgical procedure is identified. The allowable zone determines where surgical items may be used during the procedure. A location of a surgical item is determined. When the location is outside the allowable zone, an alarm is triggered to indicate the surgical item is moving outside the allowable zone towards an area in which the surgical item may not be used. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136675 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING FORMULARIES - An system for constructing formularies is disclosed. The system includes a central computer system and at least one additional computer. The central computer system compiles a list of various pharmaceutical products and sort them into different categories. Formularies are then created by selecting individual products or categories of products that will be covered. When prescription claims are received, coverage is either accepted or denied based on whether the products in the prescription claims are covered by the formulary. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136676 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-DOMAIN ANOMALY PATTERN DEFINITION AND DETECTION - Disclosed herein is a multi-domain anomaly pattern definition and detection module. The module receives raw data from different kinds of anomalies from a variety of detection algorithms and generates scores associated with the data. If any scores exceed a threshold, the algorithm gathers further information such as counts or listings of detailed data for a geographic region. The detailed data can include emergency department and lab department data related to a particular health concern such as a respiratory syndrome. Summaries can identify anomalies and numbers of events according to geographic region and utilizing probability algorithms. Other databases such as animal data collected under the Department of Agriculture may also be utilized. The data is presented in a familiar form such as a map or a table such that a subject matter expert may determine whether to further investigate an anomaly as a potential risk, for example, a health risk. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136677 | RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - The present invention relates to a radiation treatment planning system and a corresponding computer program product. The system comprises means for graphically displaying an image representing a target area | 2012-05-31 |
20120136678 | System of Managing Healthcare Information and its Communication and Centralized Searching of Non-Centralized Data to Allow for Patient Control, Choice, and Empowerment - A system, method, and computer code which when executed provides centralized searching of non-centralized data, as well a patient-centric healthcare information communication system that allows for decentralized medical records, team collaboration between providers utilizing different medical records systems, and interpretation of medical tests by remote patient-selected providers. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136679 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WORKFLOW VISUALIZATION AND COMMUNICATION PROCESS TIME MANAGMENT - A tracking and management system for patients in a health care setting to improve efficiency and provide a visual office shown on a display device. A plurality of sensors are located throughout the health care office. The plurality of sensors can be located on patient data record holding devices, on chairs and medical equipment, and inside medical exam rooms. Each sensor communicates information to a central processing unit. Sensors located on the patient data record holding device detect the presence of an individual patient data record in the individual patient data record holder of the patient data record holding device and then transmit a signal to a central processing system. The central processing unit also receives information from an individual patient data record processing device. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136680 | Neuropsychiatric Test Reports - Methods and reports for presenting genetic information that is patient-specific and relevant to treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders, including treatment resistant psychiatric disorders, to aid in patient treatment in a phenotype, genotype or biomarker-specific manner. The methods and reports examine biomarkers for dysfunction of three axes relevant to treating neuropsychiatric disorders and provide interpretive comments to aid in treatment. Combining biomarker information from each of the three axes (the autonomic arousal axis, the emotional valence, attention, reward and executive brain function axis, and the long-term potentiation and long-term depression (LTP-LTD) function axis) provides an unexpectedly comprehensive and effective means for directing treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders, including particularly treatment resistant disorders (TRD). | 2012-05-31 |
20120136681 | Program for Alternative Funding of Employee and Retiree Benefits - An insurance program for funding benefits by maintaining assets in the insurance program that includes an employer or employee owned trust account and at least one life insurance contract or non-cancelable accident and health insurance contract obtained directly or indirectly from a captive insurance company. The life insurance contract or non-cancelable accident and health insurance contract is purchased with assets from the trust account and the captive insurance company is at least partially owned by the employer. When paying or reimbursing benefits, the employer or the trust may pay the benefit and if the employer pays the benefit, the trust may reimburse the employer. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136682 | Engine, System and Method for Maximizing Long-Term Value of Products or Service Items - A software engine, system and method is disclosed for increasing long-term value of at least one item supplied by at least one service provider. The engine, system and method follows a rules set that includes information relating to personal information of potential bidders and bids of the potential bidders. The engine, system and method arrives at a list of recommended bids and reports the list to the service provider. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136683 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING 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. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136684 | FAST, DYNAMIC, DATA-DRIVEN REPORT DEPLOYMENT OF DATA MINING AND PREDICTIVE INSIGHT INTO BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (BI) TOOLS - A Business Intelligence (BI) meta model template is selected based on one or more meta model object types in a model structure. A BI meta model is generated from the selected BI meta model template. One or more BI report specification templates are selected based on a mining model type. A BI report specification is generated from the selected one or more BI report specification templates, a schema of the model structure, and content of the model structure. The BI meta model and the BI report specification are deployed to a BI server for use in generating a BI report using a BI tool at the BI server. In response to a user request for a BI report, the BI report is generated with a BI tool at the BI server that uses the BI meta model and the BI report specification. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136685 | Determining Thresholds of Unexpected Workload Volumes - A computer implemented method allocates resources within a workload management program. A computer identifies a first ratio for a first skill team of plurality of skill teams. The computer determines whether the first ratio for the first skill team exceeds a skill team threshold of the first skill team. Responsive to the computer determining that the first ratio for the first skill team exceeds the skill team threshold of the first skill team, the computer allocates the resources from at least one of the plurality of skill teams other than the first skill team to the first skill team. A computer program product and a computer system for allocating resources within a workload management program are also provided. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136686 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING SUBSTITUTE FULFILLMENT - A system and method for automating the performance of substitute fulfillment. The system includes a server which receives absentee information representing an absent worker via a telephone communication link or an Internet communication link. In response to receiving the absentee information, the system generates a list of potential substitute workers. The system then contacts potential substitute workers until one is found or until the list is exhausted. The system can also post a list of positions that are available on a website allowing potential substitute workers to search for a position. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136687 | System and Method for CAPA Process Automation - The present disclosure involves systems, products, and methods for automatically generating a CAPA plan. One method includes operations for identifying an issue associated with a business system; identifying a set of information associated with the issue including a plurality of evaluation factors defining the issue; identifying a set of weighting values associated with the issue, each weighting values associated with a particular evaluation factor; evaluating the issue based on the plurality of evaluation factors combined with the corresponding weighting value, determining at least one root cause for the issue based on the evaluation results, identifying at least one corrective or preventive action based at least in part on the at least one determined root cause for the issue, and automatically generating the CAPA plan including the at least one determined root cause and the at least one identified corrective or preventive action associated with the issue. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136688 | ASC (Automatic Supervisor and Control system) - The invention describes a system and method for monitoring in a real-time manner the efficiency and/or internal quality level of a company down to the level of individual tasks, the system comprising: a) first plurality of ASC units comprising data acquisition means configured for detecting when each task has been finished; b) second plurality of ASC units allowing quality inspectors to enter quality data on each task; c) a central server connected to the first and second pluralities of ASC units having a processing unit configured for calculating the efficiency and/or quality level of each task, either individually or in a grouped fashion; and d) at least one managing station connected to the central server, the managing station being configured for receiving the efficiency and quality levels calculated by the processing unit. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136689 | EVENT PLANNING WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Social networks often permit users to create events, and to invite one or more contacts of the user to as guests. However, conventional social networks may not sufficiently facilitate users in planning an event for which one or more event details are to be determined. According to the techniques presented herein, a social network may permit users to create an event plan, and may permit guests to submit event plan suggestions for various event plan details of the event plan. The social network may also assist the guests in selecting among the event plan suggestions, e.g., by accepting and tallying votes by the guests among alternative event plan suggestions, by providing event plan suggestions based on search engine results, and by presenting maps of event plan suggestions involving locations. The social network may also accept RSVPs, and may notify guests once a guest arrives at a location of the event. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136690 | Delivery Management Effort Allocation - Techniques for estimating future health of a project are provided. The techniques include defining a set of financial health metrics that represent a proximity of a current state of a project to that of a goal project, defining a parametric evolution model comprising parameters, wherein the parametric evolution model governs a relationship between current data of the set of financial health metrics and current project health in relation to past data of the set of financial health metrics, determining a value of each of the parameters of the parametric evolution model using an optimization problem, and using the value of each of the parameters of the parametric evolution model and the current data of the set of financial health metrics and current project health in relation to past data of the set of financial health metrics to estimate the future health of the project. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136691 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING POSTAL DELIVERY OPERATION LOAD - Disclosed herein is a system and method for objectively and efficiently managing a postal delivery operation load. A system for managing a postal delivery operation load includes: a postal delivery operation load calculator for calculating a postal delivery operation load for each postal delivery unit and for each period based on input postal delivery data; a postal delivery operation load calculation result manager for managing the postal delivery operation load for each postal delivery unit based on the postal delivery operation load calculation result provided by the postal delivery operation load calculator; and a postal delivery operation load adjuster for adjusting and leveling the postal delivery operation based on postal delivery operation load management information provided by the postal delivery operation load calculation result manager. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136692 | WORK MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, PICKING CARRIAGE, WORK PERFORMANCE COLLECTION SYSTEM, REWORK MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, WORKABILITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, REWORK MEASUREMENT MEASURING METHOD, WORK PERFORMANCE COLLECTION METHOD, WORKABILITY MANAGEMENT METHOD AND WORKABILITY MAMAGEMENT PROGRAM - Workability management system including operations of: storing resource identification information for identifying said resource and said work history information in association with each other in a storage medium; extracting said work history information corresponding to said resource identification information from said storage medium when a change occurs in said work history information, updating a change content and storing it into said storage medium; extracting said work history information corresponding to said resource identification information of said resource for judging workability of said resource from said storage medium, taking out total use information of said resource from said work history information, and creating a change with time of said total use information as said casual sequence information; and judging workability of said resource by said casual sequence information. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136693 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A PROCESS OVERVIEW DIAGRAM - Embodiments of the present invention may provide a method for process management. The method may comprise reading information about sub-processes and their respective sub-steps of a main process and displaying a process overview diagram for the main process. The process overview diagram may display a tab for each sub-process and sub-step respectively. Each tab may include an icon indicating the status of a respective sub-process or sub-step. The tab for each sub-step may be displayed underneath and linked to the respective sub-process. The method may further comprise, responsive to a click to select a view level, expanding the tabs for sub-steps to show the person responsible for the respective sub-step, detailed contact information of the responsible person, a description of what needs to be performed and a link to send a quick reminder to the responsible person when the status for the respective sub-step is “in process”. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136694 | TRANSITION PHASE TROUBLE DETECTION IN SERVICES DELIVERY MANAGEMENT - A method, system, and/or computer program product predicts trouble during a transition phase of a current project. Past operational data and past trouble data for past healthy projects and past troubled projects before transition phases is collected. A trouble correlation between the past operational data and the past trouble data is then determined. A set of key metrics that describes a current health of a current project before transitioning from a current phase to a future phase is defined, and values of the set of key metrics for the current project are identified. Identified values of the set of key metrics for the current project are compared to the past operational data for past healthy and troubled projects in order to generate a pattern comparison. This pattern comparison, along with the trouble correlation, is used to generate a predicted quality of transition for the current project. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136695 | Determining Maturity of an Information Technology Maintenance Project During a Transition Phase - Techniques for determining maturity of a delivery process in an information technology maintenance project are provided. The techniques include collecting information during a delivery process, wherein the information comprises operational data, aggregating the collected information for each delivery dimension into one or more aggregate delivery measures, wherein the one or more aggregate delivery measures comprise one or more delivery dimensions, comparing the one or more delivery dimensions against a threshold to determine a level of maturity for each delivery dimension, and determining an overall level of maturity of the delivery process by combining the level of maturity for each delivery dimension. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136696 | Method for the Simultaneous Diffusion of Survey Questionnaires on a Network of Affiliated Websites - The method according to the invention consists of dynamically adapting survey questionnaires to the content of the affiliated Web sites of editors and the specific visitors of said sites. It comprises the dynamic selection of the most appropriate questionnaire for a given survey in function of the content of the site of the editor and/or the specific who visits the Web site of the editor and/or the response rate to the questionnaire. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136697 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT DEPLOYMENT OF WEB APPLICATIONS IN A MULTI-DATACENTER SYSTEM - A system for computing an optimal deployment of at least one web application in a multi-datacenter system comprising a collector for collecting performance measurements with regard to a web application executed in the multi-datacenter system and grouping the performance measurements according to locations of a plurality of clients accessing the web application; a data repository for maintaining at least a performance table including at least the performance measurements grouped according to the plurality of client locations and a service level agreement (SLA) guaranteed to clients in the plurality of client locations; and an analyzer for processing at least information stored in the performance table for generating a recommendation on an optimal deployment of the web application in at least one combination of datacenters in the multi-datacenter system by computing an expected SLA that can be guaranteed to the clients in each combination of datacenters. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136698 | Barcode enabled coupon search, retrieval, presentation and redemption via telecommunications devices - Methods and systems for barcode enabled coupon search, retrieval, presentation, and redemption via telecommunications devices. One system includes using a mobile phone camera to scan product barcodes and retrieve a matching coupon. The system further includes a coupon server that supplies coupon matching bar coder search request, along with supplying and displaying competing sponsor coupons alongside user's primary product coupon. The system further includes the presentation and redemption of said coupon on mobile devices. The system further includes real-time sharing of barcode retrieved coupons with users friends on internet Websites. Finally, the system includes the production of data analytics to predict user shopping habits. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136699 | On-Line System of Coupon Placement and Redemption - A coupon management system in which online or print coupons can be generated by manufacturers and accessed by shoppers wherein a portion of the coupon redemption value is automatically sent to charitable causes that the shopper has pre-selected, and wherein the coupons can be individually tracked to the specific shopper who has redeemed them. In this system, payment is based on actual coupon redemption, rather than on sales of simple print or webpage space, or upon coupons simply being viewed or printed by potential shoppers. This system enables manufacturers to access detailed consumer metrics. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136700 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERSONALIZED PRINTING AND FACILITATED DELIVERY OF PERSONALIZED CAMPAIGN ITEMS - A system, having a corresponding method, for personalized campaign printing and delivery of a printed campaign includes: a processor that stores and processes printing and delivery data and selects printers to execute the printing and shipping of campaign items requested by a plurality of users designing separate personalized campaign items and accumulates, combines and splits the incoming data into at least one batch of items segmented into an air or ground shipping method; splits the batch into at least one smaller batch segmented by shipping code; and determines whether the batch qualifies for a discounted shipping rate. If no, the processor combines the batch with at least another regional batch of the same shipping method into a succeeding larger batch with a shipping code linked to the shipping code of the batch wherein the resulting combined batch qualifies for discounted shipping rate. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136701 | Method and system for faciliating interactive commercials in real time - The present invention discloses a method and a system for facilitating interactive commercials to users. The invention includes a client in the form of an application running on a display device and a server. The client may be in the form of a TV operating system. The method includes extracting audio from a commercial and generating a fingerprint from the extracted audio. The fingerprint as generated is sent by the client to the server. The server includes a database of commercials. After receiving the fingerprint, the server performs matching of the fingerprint with a set of commercials present in the database. Based on the match found, the server displays results. If a match is found, the server sends one or more instructions to the client device to initiate the interactive flow. Otherwise, the server returns an empty string. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136702 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COUPON MANAGEMENT AND REDEMPTION - The present invention provides a system for the electronic management and redemption of coupons. The present invention provides for association of coupons with consumers and storage of the association in an electronic memory. The system further includes one or more periphery devices operable to communicate with said coupon card. The periphery devices receive purchase data from a cash register memory and compare to coupons stored in electronic memory to determine which coupons are redeemable. The system also includes a server computer connected to the periphery devices to collect redeemed coupon information from the periphery devices. A clearing house collects coupon redemption information from all servers in the system to create redemption reports. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136703 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZING REFERRALS - A method and system for organizing referrals from at least one referrer to at least one referee for the purchase of products sold by merchants. The present invention further provides that referrers are compensated when a referee buys a specific product from a specific merchant that was referred to the referee by the referrer. Referrers and merchants, and optionally referees, are able to register with an online site to create a unique profile. For merchants, the unique profile will enable merchants to track products that are referable. For referrers, the unique profile will enable them to track which products they have referred to one or more referees. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136704 | Systems and Methods to Reward User Interactions - In one aspect, a system includes a transaction handler, a data warehouse to store transaction data recording transactions processed at the transaction handler and to store account data identifying an account of a user, and a portal to receive a user selection of a first portion of an advertisement announcing a reward. The portal is to track user interactions associated with the advertisement to determine whether the user is qualified for the reward. Upon a determination that the user has completed the user interactions for the reward, the transaction handler is to provide the reward to the account of the user via statement credit. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136705 | CHARGING FEE BILLING METHOD, CHARGING FEE BILLING SYSTEM, CHARGING STAND DEVICE, AUTOMOBILE-MOUNTED CHARGING DEVICE - In a charging fee billing system according to the invention, a preferential card having preferential information stored thereon is issued, the preferential information allowing for an investor having borne costs required for power storage facilities for use in a commercial power system to receive a discount for electricity fees involved in the charging of an electric automobile. When charging is performed for an electric automobile that is equipped with a preferential card, a charging unit set up at a charging stand acquires preferential information from the preferential card. The charging unit bills a charging fee to which a preferential rate has been applied based on the preferential information acquired from the preferential card. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136706 | Digital Coupon System - Disclosed are various embodiments for a digital coupon system. Digital coupons can be defined by a coupon specification received from a coupon issuer. Digital coupons can be issued to users and redeemed with third party retailer sites and/or point of sale systems. A coupon clearing house application can manage distribution, redemption, reimbursement of retailers and invoicing of coupon issuers. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136707 | Digital Coupon System - Disclosed are various embodiments for a digital coupon system. Digital coupons can be defined by a coupon specification received from a coupon issuer. Digital coupons can be issued to users and redeemed with third party retailer sites and/or point of sale systems. A coupon clearing house application can manage distribution, redemption, reimbursement of retailers and invoicing of coupon issuers. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136708 | Digital Coupon System - Disclosed are various embodiments for a digital coupon system. Digital coupons can be defined by a coupon specification received from a coupon issuer. Digital coupons can be issued to users and redeemed with third party retailer sites and/or point of sale systems. A coupon clearing house application can manage distribution, redemption, reimbursement of retailers and invoicing of coupon issuers. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136709 | COUPON GENERATION AND REDEMPTION SYSTEM - A coupon generation and redemption method that includes displaying on a video display associated with a computing device at least one product on which at least one promotion is available. An input device that is associated with the computing device is used to select at least one of the at least one product for which the consumer desires to receive at least one coupon. The at least one coupon is printed using the computing device. The at least one product referenced in the at least one coupon is purchased. The at least one coupon is redeemed. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136710 | Digital Coupon System - Disclosed are various embodiments for a digital coupon system. Digital coupons can be defined by a coupon specification received from a coupon issuer. Digital coupons can be issued to users and redeemed with third party retailer sites and/or point of sale systems. A coupon clearing house application can manage distribution, redemption, reimbursement of retailers and invoicing of coupon issuers. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136711 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CUSTOMIZED REWARD OFFERS - In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, a method is provided for managing reward offers. A first performance target that is associated with a financial account is determined. Transaction data that is associated with the financial account is received, and a second performance target for the financial account is determined based on the transaction data. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136712 | Digital Coupon System - Disclosed are various embodiments for a digital coupon system. Digital coupons can be defined by a coupon specification received from a coupon issuer. Digital coupons can be issued to users and redeemed with third party retailer sites and/or point of sale systems. A coupon clearing house application can manage distribution, redemption, reimbursement of retailers and invoicing of coupon issuers. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136713 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF TRACKING THE DELIVERY AND POST-DELIVERY STATUS FOR ELECTROMAGNETICALLY TRANSMISSIBLE CONTENTS DELIVERED VIA USER INITIATED AND CONTROLLED HYBRID DELIVERY MODES - The present invention discloses a network communication system that includes a network processing center for receiving and converting an electronic or electro-magnetically transmissible data/content into a physically deliverable object and/or network transmissible content data files for carrying out a hybrid delivery of the data/content by a physical delivery process and/or a network electro-magnetic delivery process to a recipient or an ECRMA. The delivery status of the electronic content and the post-delivery activities are tracked by a variety of mechanisms and the information obtained from the tracking is send back to the content-sender. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136714 | USER INTENT ANALYSIS ENGINE - Techniques are provided by which brand awareness metrics are defined and computed. Such brand awareness metrics may include: Awareness, Consideration, Engagement, and Purchase Intent. Such metrics may correspond to stages of a consumer's online buying behavior and may be computed based, in part, on recordings of interactions the consumer has had with an online advertisement. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136715 | SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION ESTIMATION AND PREDICTION OF ADVERTISING-RELATED DATA - In accordance with the invention, a system, method, and apparatus for analyzing advertisement-related data are presented, which may include receiving data related to an aspect of an advertisement and modeling the aspect of the advertisement with a mathematical model. The mathematical model may include a control-signal-related component, a control-signal-independent component, and an error component. Each component may be updated based on at least one of a control signal, the received data, and a previous state of at least one of the components. An updated model may be created based on the updated components. The system, method, and apparatus may also include predicting the aspect of the advertisement using the updated model. Exemplary aspects of and data related to the advertisement may include one or more of the following: a number of impressions, “clicks,” or “conversions” and/or the impression-to-conversion, impression-to-click, or click-to-conversion ratios. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136716 | BROWSING AND QUALITY OF SERVICE FEATURES - Embodiments are configured to provide browsing and other functionality that can be used to provide viewable data based in part on a current viewable space of a browser interface, but the embodiments are not so limited. In an embodiment, components of a system can operate to communicate viewable data to a browser engine based in part on a configuration of the browser engine and/or a display architecture. In one embodiment, a computing device includes a browser application that can be used to provide data associated with viewable portions of a browser display, wherein the provided data can be used to monetize advertising revenue according to monetization and/or advertising requirements. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136717 | TRANSACTION TRACKING, MANAGING, ASSESSMENT, AND AUDITING DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND NETWORK - An improved processing system for tracking commerce on the Internet provides for subvariable processing and includes web page scanning to discern fraud or improper content to insure proper promotion of select products within the network environment. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136718 | Display of Search Ads in Local Language - Systems, methods, and computer media for providing search results that include advertisements in a local language are provided. Upon receiving a user search query in a first language, a local language associated with the user search query is identified. One or more web pages that are relevant to the user search query are identified. The identified web pages are in the first language. One or more advertisements relevant to the user search query are also identified. The identified advertisements are configured to display in the local language. Search results are then provided that incorporate identified links to relevant web pages in the first language and identified advertisements configured to display in the local language. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136719 | METHOD TO PROVIDE INFORMATION AND CONSUMER-ACCEPTABLE ADVERTISING VIA DATA COMMUNICATIONS CLIENTS - In a data communication system a SMS data communication client operates in known fashion. An additional communication channel is established and data being entered into the client is transmitted to a central server. At the server end the user is identified in a customer database which also stored a profile of the user. Information from an ad database is selected for transmission back to the client in dependence upon the data and profile. Where the information takes the form of advertising, it may be displayed by the client as a truncated indicator during message entry and a fuller composition with active links after sending is completed. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136720 | PRE-SALE DATA BROADCAST SYSTEM AND METHOD - In one embodiment, a method for promoting the sale of a substitute product at the point of sale (POS). Upon the presentation of an original product for purchase by a consumer at a POS terminal, various manufacturers may decide to offer a substitute product to the consumer, prior to completing the purchase of the original product. If the customer accepts the offer, the point of sale terminal completes the sale of the substitute product. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136721 | TARGETING CONTENT TO NETWORK-ENABLED TELEVISION DEVICES - Methods and systems are disclosed herein for managing content, including advertising content, delivered to various network-connected devices, including screens, mobile devices, computers, televisions, radios, and the like, based on usage profiles associated with device-specific identifiers for mobile devices, short-distance wireless technologies for transmission of content and detection of proximity, and content targeting and management techniques. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136722 | Using Clicked Slate Driven Click-Through Rate Estimates in Sponsored Search - A computer-implemented method and system for selecting a subject advertisement in a sponsored search system based on a user's commercial intent (pertaining to the subject advertisement), using techniques for determining intent-driven clicks from a historical database. The method includes steps for aggregating a training model dataset wherein the training model dataset contains a selected history of clicks. Then, selecting from the training model dataset, a clicked slate (further selection of clicks), the clicked slate comprising a set of clicked ads, and calculating an intent-driven click feedback value for the subject advertisement. The method includes techniques for selecting a clicked slate using features corresponding to clicks received within a particular time period (the time period determined statically or dynamically). A system for implementing the method includes aggregating data from a historical database using selectors such as a position selector, a click feature selector, an impression-advertiser-campaign-creative selector, and a commercial intent selector. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136723 | Systems and Methods for Targeted Advertising - Methods of generating recommendations may include obtaining social network data from one or more network resources. Word relationships may be created between selected words in the social network data to produce relationship data. Advertisement or other asset recommendations may be generated for a target user by analyzing browse information of the target user to identify one or more words. Other words in the relationship data may be identified that are related to the words in the target user's browse information. One or more advertisements may be identified having at least one keyword that corresponds to the other words. At least a portion of these advertisements may be selected from a data repository to provide to the target user. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136724 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING NETWORK BASED TARGET ADVERTISING - A telecommunication system implements a method for providing a targeted on-line advertisement to a user accessing a content provider node of the system. The system further comprises an ad selection node and an user identification node. A user signal indicative of an information request is routed through the system to determine a geographic location of the user and/or a demographic profile of the geographic location. An advertiser corresponding to the geographic location and/or demographic profile is thereafter communicated to the user. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136725 | TARGETED MEDIA ADVERTISING OVER NETWORKS - Advertising on networks can include a three-step system in one embodiment of the disclosure. The first step can include the review of search requests, followed by a response linking to a media file containing an advertisement. The second step can be a delivery process. The advertising cannot be considered spam as the user can be redirected towards information that can directly correlate to the users search. The advertising can be done with the full cooperation and volition of the media company or companies involved. The advertisers' contract with the media companies can allow for payment and the media companies can then expose their product to potential buyers. The third step can be contacting an advertising server any time that media file is played. In this third step it can be determined what the optimal advertisement for this media file is. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136726 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTING WITH A USER OVER A NETWORK - A method for a server to interact with a user machine over a network, the method comprising the server receiving user information from the user machine in response to injected content received by said user machine; validating the user information in real-time to produce a validation result; and writing a cookie to the user machine as part of a confirmation page for the user information, said cookie indicating said validation result. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136727 | INFORMATION ACCESS MANAGEMENT - Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to transmit applications to mobile devices. The applications may operate to enable the reception of source and advertising information from a wireless transmitter. Reception may occur at a wireless receiver in a mobile device, as part of a single transmission and without prior solicitation by the mobile device. The source information can identify a source associated with the advertising information. The advertising information is stored in the mobile device when the source information and/or distance information associated with the source information comply with conditions included in a storage policy associated with the mobile device. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 2012-05-31 |
20120136728 | NETWORKED ADVERTISEMENT EXCHANGE - A networked advertisement exchange system is described. The system includes a memory comprising a set of exchange rules, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive, from a client, an advertisement request, send, to each of a plurality of advertisement servers, a right-to-bid request, and receive, from each of the plurality of advertisement servers, a response to the right-to-bid request, each response comprising a bid price or a pass. The processor is also configured to select, based on the set of exchange rules, the winning response from the plurality of responses, and provide, to the client in response to the advertisement request, information for an advertisement associated with the winning response. The advertisement is a video. Methods and machine-readable media are also described. | 2012-05-31 |