25th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 74 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110153286 | Method and System for Virtual Percutaneous Valve Implantation - A method and system for virtual percutaneous valve implantation is disclosed. A patient-specific anatomical model of a heart valve is estimated based on 3D cardiac medical image data and an implant model representing a valve implant is virtually deployed into the patient-specific anatomical model of the heart valve. A library of implant models, each modeling geometrical properties of a corresponding valve implant, is maintained. The implant models maintained in the library are virtually deployed into the patient specific anatomical model of the heart valve to select an implant type and size and deployment location and orientation for percutaneous valve implantation. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153287 | CONTACT LENS EYE MODEL - A model for testing contact lens designs is used in applications such as methods for designing contact lenses in which one subjects a lens design to the model, determines whether the lens meets its design objectives by application of the model, keeps the lens design if it does, and modifies the lens design if it does not. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153288 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMALLY CONNECTING INTERFACES ACROSS MUTIPLE FABRICS - A method of connecting an interface to a fabric of an electronic device, the interface having a plurality of nets to be connected to corresponding connectors in the fabric includes associating with each of the connectors in the fabric a first variable indicating that the connector belongs to the interface; associating with each of the connectors in the fabric a second variable indicating a number of higher numbered adjacent connectors for the connector in the interface; connecting each of the nets in the interface to a corresponding one of the connectors in the fabric such that the second variable has a non-zero value at exactly one of the corresponding connectors in the interface. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153289 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPECIFYING SYSTEM LEVEL CONSTRAINTS IN A CROSS-FABRIC DESIGN ENVIRONMENT - A method of specifying system level constraints for connecting an interface of an electronic device between first and second fabrics includes specifying one or more first condition relating to a placement of the interface, specifying one or more second condition relating to a connection of a net in the interface between the first and second fabrics, generating one or more first equation expressing the first condition as a function of the location of the connectors, generating one or more second equation expressing the second condition as a function of the location of connectors, generating one or more third equation expressing an optimality criterion for the interface, and outputting the one or more first equation, the one or more second equation and the one or more third equation to a data file in a computer readable format. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153290 | Prespacetime model of elementary particles, four forces and consciousness - A prespacetime model of elementary particles, four forces and consciousness has been formulated, which illustrates how the self-referential hierarchical spin structure of the prespacetime provides a foundation for creating, sustaining and causing evolution of elementary particles through matrixing processes embedded in said prespacetime. The prespacetime model reveals the creation, sustenance and evolution of fermions, bosons and spinless entities each comprised of an external wave function or external object and an internal wave function or internal object located respectively in an external world and internal world of a dual-world universe. The prespacetime model provides a unified causal structure for weak interaction, strong interaction, electromagnetic interaction, gravitational interaction, quantum entanglement, consciousness and brain function. The prespacetime model provides a unique tool for teaching, demonstration, rendering, and experimentation related to subatomic and atomic structures and interactions, quantum entanglement generation, gravitational mechanisms in cosmology, structures and mechanisms of consciousness, and brain functions. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153291 | Prespacetime model for generating energy-momentum-mass relationship, self-referential matrix rules and elementary particles - A prespacetime model is formulated for generating energy-momentum-mass relationship, elementary particles and self-referential matrix rules through hierarchical self-referential spin structure in prespacetime. Key to the present model is: (1) generation of at least one primordial phase distinction in prespacetime, (2) formation of energy-momentum-mass relationship from said phase distinction; (3) formation of external and internal objects from said phase distinction; (4) matrixization of said energy-momentum-mass relationship into matrix rules; (5) matrixization of said internal and external objects into the external and internal wave functions of a particle in the dual world, and (6) interaction of said external object and said internal object through said matrix rules. In particular, working models for generating energy-momentum-mass relationship, self-referential matrix rules, elementary particles and composite particles are described as research aids, teaching tools and games. Further, working model for ether (aether) as a body or medium of prespacetime is also described as research aids and teaching tools. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153292 | FRAMEWORK TO POPULATE AND MAINTAIN A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE INDUSTRY MODEL REPOSITORY - A method for building a service oriented architecture industry model repository comprising: creating a meta-meta-meta model with a topic map based index; pre-populating the meta-meta-meta model with a topic map based index using the data from the physical asset repository and known relationships between topics, associations, and occurrences in topic maps within the meta model service; pre-populating an information model repository common meta-meta model comprising reusing a taxonomy specific to an industry vertical as a common ontology for the topic map based index; pre-populating the at least one topic map meta model with data specific to a particular topic or industry vertical from the physical asset repository; and pre-populating models of the at least one topic map meta model with data specific to a particular topic or industry vertical from the physical asset repository. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153293 | MANAGING AND MAINTAINING SCOPE IN A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE INDUSTRY MODEL REPOSITORY - A method of managing and maintaining scope in a of service oriented architecture industry model repository comprising defining boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation of topics, associations, and occurrences within the SOA IMR; managing boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation within the SOA IMR; and maintaining boundaries and definitions of scope and scope propagation within the SOA IMR. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153294 | METHOD OF THREE DIMENSIONAL RAY TRACING IN THE DYNAMIC RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed is a three dimensional ray tracing method in a dynamic radio wave propagation environment. The method of tracing three dimensional ray in a dynamic radio wave propagation environment, by which cross tests are performed on a plurality of radio wave blocking obstacle surfaces according to a ray tube tracing scheme based on an image method in a simulation area, in which the plurality of radio wave blocking obstacle surfaces are modeled, to detect a radio path between a first point and a second point, the method comprising: defining at least a part of the radio wave blocking obstacle surfaces as valid radio wave blocking obstacle surfaces, the radio wave blocking obstacle surfaces being within a visible region from the first point of which location varies dynamically; and tracing a ray between the first point and the second point by taking into consideration only the defined valid radio wave blocking obstacle surfaces to be simulated. Accordingly, even when both locations of a transmission point and a receipt point vary, a three dimensional ray tracing for radio wave propagation prediction is possible and simulation efficiency can be maintained. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153295 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODELING THE PERFORMANCE OF A GAS TURBINE ENGINE - A method for modeling the performance of a gas turbine engine is provided. The method includes the steps of: 1) providing a processor; 2) inputting flight condition parameter data and engine output parameter data into a gas turbine engine model operating on the processor, which model includes a physics-based engine model that uses the flight condition parameter data to produce estimated engine output parameter data, and determines residuals from the engine output parameter data and the estimated engine output parameter data; 3) partitioning the flight condition parameter data and residuals into training data and testing data; 4) performing a correlation reduction on the training data, which analysis produces correlation adjusted training data; 5) performing an orientation reduction on the correlation adjusted training data, which reduction produces orientation adjusted training data; 6) reviewing the orientation adjusted training data relative to at least one predetermined criteria, and iteratively repeating the steps of performing a correlation reduction and an orientation reduction using the orientation adjusted training data if the criteria is not satisfied, and if the criteria is satisfied outputting the orientation adjusted training data; 7) producing estimated corrections to the orientation adjusted training data using one or more neural networks; 8) evaluating the neural adjusted data using the partitioned testing data; and 9) modeling the performance of the gas turbine using the estimated corrections to the orientation adjusted training data. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153296 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME WELLBORE STABILITY SERVICE - Apparatus and method of conducting a drilling operation are provided. One embodiment of the method includes drilling a borehole, predicting a value of a first parameter relating to the drilling of the borehole using a geomechanical model, estimating a value of a second parameter from measurements taken by a sensor, updating the geomechanical model based at least in part on the estimated value of the second parameter, predicting a second value of the first parameter using the updated geomechanical model, and altering a drilling parameter for drilling the borehole based on the predicted second value of the first parameter. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153297 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE COMPUTER-ASSISTED GENERATION OF A MANIPULATOR PATH - In a method, device and in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for computer-assisted generation of a manipulator path of a computer-controlled manipulator, a processor is loaded with a virtual tool and generates a virtual tool path based in a virtual component and the loaded virtual tool. The processor is also loaded with a virtual manipulator kinematic and generates a virtual manipulator path based on the virtual tool path and the virtual manipulator kinematic. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153298 | VEHICLE ROLLOVER SIMULATION - A system simulates conditions in a vehicle enclosure during a tripped rollover by manipulating an indestructible test article modeling the vehicle. A movable test platform upholding the test article in an unsecured manner is driven by an accurately repeatably programmable propulsion source in a horizontal test-initiation direction. The initiation of motion causes the test platform to tilt downwardly in a rollover direction opposed to the test-initiation direction. A height-adjustable trip block on the test platform is brought to bear against a lower portion of the test article, imparting to the test article rotational motion about a horizontal tipping axis oriented normal to each of the test-initiation direction and the rollover direction. The rotational motion inclines the test article upwardly from the test platform in the rollover direction and ejects the test article from the test platform for capture on an accompanying landing platform. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153299 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIMULATING VISCOELASTIC FLUID IN SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS BASED FLUID SIMULATION - Provided is a method of simulating various viscoelastic fluids having viscosity, elasticity, and plasticity, based on smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), which is widely used in fluid simulation using particles. Artificial forces related with viscosity, elasticity, and plasticity are added to address fundamental numerical limitations of a SPH method due to use of particle approximation and to improve expression of characterized motions of a viscoelastic fluid. Since the artificial forces are added, and parameters are adjusted according to the adding of the artificial forces, a fluid can be realistically expressed, and the control of a fluid motion is facilitated. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153300 | System and Method For Planning A Drilling Operation - A method of planning a drilling operation IS provided that comprises selecting a set of targeted regions based on data from a three-dimensional shared earth model and generating at least one targeted segment within each one of the set of targeted regions The method further comprises defining at least one application agent for the purpose of evaluating the at least one targeted segment within each one of the set of targeted regions based on a potential payout in terms of production of hydrocarbons The exemplary method additionally comprises identifying at least one well trajectory through the at least one targeted segment within each one of the set of targeted regions And the method comprises employing the at least one application agent to evaluate well trajectories based on the potential payout in terms of at least one of production of hydrocarbons, drilling complexity, cost or stability of well planning | 2011-06-23 |
20110153301 | Method for Taking Body Measurements with Digital Clothing - A method comprises steps of: providing body-outlining parameters; editing the body-outlining parameters; creating a body with the edited body-outlining parameters on a window for the digital clothing; and visualizing the created body on the window for the digital clothing. The step of providing the body-outlining parameters may comprise steps of providing: a stature; a crotch height; a head length; an arm length; a bust girth; a waist girth; a head girth; a upper arm girth; a lower arm girth; a knee girth; and a lower leg girth. The step of editing the body-outlining parameters may comprise steps of editing: providing a number for setting a parameter value; and sliding a visual bar on the window for the digital clothing. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153302 | IDENTIFICATION OF DRUG EFFECTS ON SIGNALING PATHWAYS USING INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING - Methods and algorithms for modeling biological interaction networks using integer linear programming (ILP) are provided. Methods to identify the effect of a drug on such interaction networks are also provided. Methods to use ILP-base modeling of biological interaction networks and drug effects to personalize clinical interventions are also provided. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153303 | Static IR (voltage) drop Analyzing Apparatus and Associated Method - A static voltage drop analyzing apparatus applied to a Multi-Threshold Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MTCMOS) transistor is provided. The static voltage drop analyzing apparatus includes a calculating module, a processing module, and a measuring module. The calculating module calculates a voltage drop tolerance according to the voltage drop characteristic of the MTCMOS transistor. The processing module selects a simulation metal layer corresponding to the voltage drop tolerance from a plurality of candidate simulation metal layers, and adds the simulation metal layer into the MTCMOS transistor. The measuring module measures the voltage drop of the simulation metal layer added into the MTCMOS transistor. The measured voltage drop of the simulation layer added into the MTCMOS is substantially the static voltage drop of the MTCMOS transistor. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153304 | CIRCUIT SIMULATION APPARATUS AND TRANSIENT ANALYSIS METHOD FOR PERFORMING TRANSIENT ANALYSIS - A storage section stores a netlist representing a test object circuit. An extracting section extracts, from the netlist stored in the storage section, a subnetlist representing a periodic circuit which is included in the test object circuit and which outputs a periodic output signal corresponding to a periodic input signal. An analyzing section performs transient analysis of the periodic circuit represented by the subnetlist extracted by the extracting section, for one period of the periodic output signal outputted by the periodic circuit. A simulation section performs transient analysis of the test object circuit represented by the netlist stored in the storage section on the basis of the result of the analysis performed by the analyzing section. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153305 | Software extensions to a high level description language simulator to provide infrastructure for analog, mixed-signal, RF modeling and verification - An extension to a simulator ( | 2011-06-23 |
20110153306 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROCESSOR VERIFICATION USING ABSTRACT TEST CASE - According to one aspect of the present disclosure a method and technique for processor verification using an abstract test case is disclosed. The method comprises identifying a format for an abstract instruction of an abstract test case, selecting an instruction from an instruction pool corresponding to the identified format, and generating a real test case for processor verification by modifying the abstract instruction based on the instruction selected from the instruction pool. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153307 | Transitioning From Source Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) Code To Translated Code In A Partial Emulation Environment - In one embodiment, a processor can operate in multiple modes, including a direct execution mode and an emulation execution mode. More specifically, the processor may operate in a partial emulation model in which source instruction set architecture (ISA) instructions are directly handled in the direct execution mode and translated code generated by an emulation engine is handled in the emulation execution mode. Embodiments may also provide for efficient transitions between the modes using information that can be stored in one or more storages of the processor and elsewhere in a system. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153308 | VIRTUALIZATION APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - A virtualization apparatus includes: an emulation manager for searching a basic block cache for an entry with an entry point, and, if there exists no entry with the entry point in the basic block cache, requesting the identification of a basic block corresponding to the entry point; a basic block identifier for identifying the basic block by sequentially analyzing instructions of a source binary in response to a request from the emulation manager; and an instruction replacer for writing an entry of the identified basic block in an replaced instruction table, writing a branch instruction for the entry of the basic block in the source binary, and then branching to the entry point. The apparatus further includes an instruction emulator for executing an instruction of the basic block when a branch to the entry point is made. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153309 | AUTOMATIC INTERPRETATION APPARATUS AND METHOD USING UTTERANCE SIMILARITY MEASURE - Provided is an automatic interpretation apparatus including a voice recognizing unit, a language processing unit, a similarity calculating unit, a sentence translating unit, and a voice synthesizing unit. The voice recognizing unit receives a first-language voice and generates a first-language sentence through a voice recognition operation. The language processing unit extracts elements included in the first-language sentence. The similarity calculating unit compares the extracted elements with elements included in a translated sentence stored in a translated sentence database and calculates the similarity between the first-language sentence and the translated sentence on the basis of the comparison result. The sentence translating unit translates the first-language sentence into a second-language sentence with reference to the translated sentence database according to the calculated similarity. The voice synthesizing unit detects voice data corresponding to the second-language sentence and synthesizes the detected voice data to output an analog voice signal corresponding to the second-language sentence. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153310 | MULTIMODAL AUGMENTED REALITY FOR LOCATION MOBILE INFORMATION SERVICE - In one or more embodiments, one or more methods and/or systems described can perform producing a lattice of object hypotheses based on multiple reference objects from image information; receiving input speech information that includes a request for information associated with at least one reference object of the multiple reference objects; producing a lattice of speech hypotheses based on at least a first possible description included in the speech information; producing a lattice of scored semantic hypotheses based on at least the lattice of object hypotheses and the lattice of speech hypotheses; determining that a single semantic interpretation score of the lattice of scored semantic hypotheses exceeds a predetermined value; and providing requested information associated with the at least the first reference object of the plurality of reference objects. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153311 | Method and an apparatus for automatically providing a common modelling pattern - At least one embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method and/or an apparatus for automatically providing a common modelling pattern as a function of a plurality of stored process models. The common modelling patterns are identified according to three substeps, namely semantic annotation, extraction of pattern based description and composite process pattern mining. The detected common modelling patterns serve as best practice candidates as regards process engineering. At least one embodiment of the present invention finds application in a variety of domains being related to process management, such as process design, process mining and semantic process planning. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153312 | METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY ANSWERING NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTIONS - A computer system and method for automatically answering natural language questions. The system comprises an input to receive said natural language questions; a data store to record linked pairs of questions and corresponding answers; a matcher configured to compare a said received natural language question withsaid linked question and answer pairs and an output to transfer a said received natural language question to a researcher if no matches are found. The system may further comprise a system to link pairs of questions and corresponding answers into groups, to enable the generation of a prototypicalanswer for each group of pairs of questions and answers and to store said prototypicalanswers in said data store; wherein said matcher compares a said received naturallanguage question with a question in said data store having an associated prototypicalanswer and output said associated prototypical answer for said question in response to said matching. Alternatively, said matcher may be configured to output all linked question and answer pairs which matchsaid received natural language question. The system may be further adapted to distribute natural language questions to be answered to researchers by assigning unpopularity scores to each of said natural language questions. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153313 | Method And Apparatus For The Detection Of Impulsive Noise In Transmitted Speech Signals For Use In Speech Quality Assessment - A method and apparatus for performing speech quality assessment in a speech communication system (such as, for example, a VoIP communication system) which detects and measures the presence of impulsive noise is provided. Specifically, in one illustrative embodiment, an autoregressive (AR) model of speech (and, in particular, of the excitation of the vocal tract) is advantageously employed to estimate a short-term variance of the speech excitation, and the standard deviation of the speech excitation (i.e., the square root of the variance) is then advantageously compared to a predetermined threshold to identify whether impulsive noise is present. Then, based on a statistic analysis of any such identified impulsive noise, a speech quality assessment is generated. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153314 | METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING THE SPECTRAL CONTENT OF AN AUDIO SIGNAL - A method for dynamically adjusting the spectral content of an audio signal, which increases the harmonic content of said audio signal, said method comprising translating an encoded digital signal into data bands, creating a psychoacoustic model to identify sections of said data bands that are deficient in harmonic quality, analyzing the fundamental frequency and amplitude of said harmonically deficient data bands, creating additional higher order harmonics for said harmonically deficient data bands, adding said higher order harmonics back to said encoded digital signal to form a newly enhanced signal, inverse filtering said newly enhanced signal, and converting said inverse filtered signal to an analog waveform for consumption by the listener. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153315 | AUDIO AND SPEECH PROCESSING WITH OPTIMAL BIT-ALLOCATION FOR CONSTANT BIT RATE APPLICATIONS - Methods and apparatus for audio and speech processing including generating a plurality of frames, each of the frames comprising a plurality of transform coefficients, and allocating bits to the transform coefficients in each of the frames such that at least two of the transform coefficients in the same frame have different bit allocations and the total number of the bits allocated to the transform coefficients in at least two of the frames is equal. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153316 | Acoustic Perceptual Analysis and Synthesis System - The present invention relates to the field of speech recognition and synthesis, and more specifically to a novel non-phonemically based system for recognizing and synthesizing speech. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153317 | GENDER DETECTION IN MOBILE PHONES - An apparatus for wireless communications includes a processing system. The processing system is configured to receive an input sound stream of a user, split the input sound stream into a plurality of frames, classify each of the frames as one selected from the group consisting of a non-speech frame and a speech frame, determine a pitch of each of the frames in a subset of the speech frames, and identify a gender of the user from the determined pitch. To determine the pitch, the processing system is configured to filter the speech frames to compute an error signal, compute an autocorrelation of the error signal, find a maximum autocorrelation value, and set the pitch to an index of the maximum autocorrelation value. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153318 | Method and system for speech bandwidth extension - There is provided a method or a device for extending a bandwidth of a first band speech signal to generate a second band speech signal wider than the first band speech signal and including the first band speech signal. The method comprises receiving a segment of the first band speech signal having a low cut off frequency and a high cut off frequency; determining the high cut off frequency of the segment; determining whether the segment is voiced or unvoiced; if the segment is voiced, applying a first bandwidth extension function to the segment to generate a first bandwidth extension in high frequencies; if the segment is unvoiced, applying a second bandwidth extension function to the segment to generate a second bandwidth extension in the high frequencies; using the first bandwidth extension and the second bandwidth extension to extend the first band speech signal beyond the high cut off frequency. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153319 | Method and Apparatus to Prepare Listener-Interest-Filtered Works - An embodiment of the present invention is a method of storing a speed contour for use in playback of at least a portion of an audio or audio-visual work including: (a) generating one or more speed contours and/or average speed contours and/or democratic speed contours for the audio or audio-visual work; (b) storing the one or more speed contours and/or average speed contours and/or democratic speed contours in a database; and (c) associating retrieval information with the one or more stored contours in the database. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153320 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ACTIVE NOISE CANCELLING AND VOICE COMMUNICATION DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is a device for active noise cancelling. The active noise cancelling device may include a phase inverter to generate and output a phase-inverted signal from an input voice signal, and an output unit to output the phase-inverted signal to an outside, and to thereby offset the voice signal. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153321 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING SPEECH SOUND FEATURES - Systems and methods for detecting features in spoken speech and processing speech sounds based on the features are provided. One or more features may be identified in a speech sound. The speech sound may be modified to enhance or reduce the degree to which the feature affects the sound ultimately heard by a listener. Systems and methods according to embodiments of the invention may allow for automatic speech recognition devices that enhance detection and recognition of spoken sounds, such as by a user of a hearing aid or other device. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153322 | DIALOG MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION-SEEKING DIALOGUE - A dialog management apparatus and method for processing an information-seeking dialogue with a user and providing a service to the user by prompting the user for a task-oriented dialogue may be provided. A hierarchical topic plan in which pieces of information are organized in a hierarchy according to topics corresponding to services may be used to prompt the user to change an information-seeking dialogue to a task-oriented dialogue, and the user may be provided with a service. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153323 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING EXTERNAL OUTPUT OF A MOBILE DEVICE - A method and system is provided that controls an external output function of a mobile device according to control interactions received via the microphone. The method includes, activating a microphone according to preset optional information when the mobile device enters an external output mode, performing an external output operation in the external output mode, detecting an interaction based on sound information in the external output mode, and controlling the external output according to the interaction. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153324 | Language Model Selection for Speech-to-Text Conversion - Methods, computer program products and systems are described for converting speech to text. Sound information is received at a computer server system from an electronic device, where the sound information is from a user of the electronic device. A context identifier indicates a context within which the user provided the sound information. The context identifier is used to select, from among multiple language models, a language model appropriate for the context. Speech in the sound information is converted to text using the selected language model. The text is provided for use by the electronic device. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153325 | Multi-Modal Input on an Electronic Device - A computer-implemented input-method editor process includes receiving a request from a user for an application-independent input method editor having written and spoken input capabilities, identifying that the user is about to provide spoken input to the application-independent input method editor, and receiving a spoken input from the user. The spoken input corresponds to input to an application and is converted to text that represents the spoken input. The text is provided as input to the application. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153326 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTING AND TRANSMITTING PARAMETERS IN A DISTRIBUTED VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEM - A system and method for extracting acoustic features and speech activity on a device and transmitting them in a distributed voice recognition system. The distributed voice recognition system includes a local VR engine in a subscriber unit and a server VR engine on a server. The local VR engine comprises a feature extraction (FE) module that extracts features from a speech signal, and a voice activity detection module (VAD) that detects voice activity within a speech signal. The system includes filters, framing and windowing modules, power spectrum analyzers, a neural network, a nonlinear element, and other components to selectively provide an advanced front end vector including predetermined portions of the voice activity detection indication and extracted features from the subscriber unit to the server. The system also includes a module to generate additional feature vectors on the server from the received features using a feed-forward multilayer perceptron (MLP) and providing the same to the speech server. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153327 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTITY MATCHING BASED ON PHONETIC AND EDIT DISTANCE MATCHING - According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a matching module is configured to accurately match a probe identity of an entity to a collection of entities. The matching module is configured to match the probe identity of the entity to the collection of entities based on a combination of phonetic matching processes and edit distance processes. The matching module is configured to create phonetic groups for name parts of identities in the collection. The matching module is configured to compare probe name parts of the probe identity to the name parts associated with the phonetic groups. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153328 | OBSCENE CONTENT ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON AUDIO DATA ANALYSIS - Provided is an obscene content analysis apparatus and method. The obscene content analysis apparatus includes a content input unit that receives content, an input data buffering unit that buffers the received content, wherein buffering is performed on content corresponding to a length of a previously set analysis section or a length longer than the analysis section, an obscenity analysis determining unit that determines whether or not the analysis section of audio data extracted from the buffered content is obscene by using a previously generated audio-based obscenity determining model and marks the analysis section with an obscenity mark when the analysis section is determined as obscene, a reproduction data buffering unit that accumulates and stores content in which obscenity has been determined by the obscenity analysis determining unit, and a content reproducing unit that reproduces the content while blocking the analysis section marked with the obscenity mark. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153329 | Audio Comparison Using Phoneme Matching - Audio comparison using phoneme matching is described, including evaluating audio data associated with a file, identifying a sequence of phonemes in the audio data, associating the file with a product category based on a match indicating the sequence of phonemes is substantially similar to another sequence of phonemes, the file being stored, and accessing the file when a request associated with the product category is detected. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153330 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENDERING TEXT SYNCHRONIZED AUDIO - One or more computing devices include software and/or hardware implemented processing units synchronize a textual content with an audio content, where the textual content is made up of a sequence of textual units and the audio content is made up of a sequence of sound units. The system and/or method matches each of the sequence of sound units with a corresponding textual unit. The system and/or method determines a corresponding time of occurrence for each sound unit in the audio content relative to a time reference. Each matched textual unit is then associated with a tag that corresponds to the time of occurrence for the sound unit matched with the textual unit. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153331 | Method for Generating Voice Signal in E-Books and an E-Book Reader - The present invention provides a method for generating voice signal in electronic books (E-books). The method includes the steps of: receiving a voice signal in response to a triggering signal for placing a bookmark; and displaying a functional icon of the bookmark corresponding to the voice signal in a region of the E-book. The present invention also provides a E-book reader, including: a display unit, a receiver unit, and a processing unit, wherein the receiver unit receivers a voice signal in response to a triggering signal for placing a bookmark, and the processing unit is used to display a functional icon of the bookmark corresponding to the voice signal in a region of the E-book. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153332 | Device and Method for Booting Handheld Apparatus by Voice Control - A device for booting a handheld apparatus by voice control includes a base, a power-on device, a trigger switch, and an acoustic sensor. Upon the handheld apparatus being placed at the base to trigger the trigger switch, the trigger switch controls the power-on device to power on the handheld apparatus. After the handheld apparatus is powered on, the acoustic sensor detects a sound of the handheld apparatus and then controls a pressure head of the power-on device to move away. The device and its method for booting a handheld apparatus by voice control come with the advantages of a simple and easy operation and a high efficiency. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153333 | Forward Time-Domain Aliasing Cancellation with Application in Weighted or Original Signal Domain - The present invention relates to methods and devices for forward time-domain aliasing cancellation in a coded signal transmitted from a coder to a decoder. Information related to correction of the time-domain aliasing in the coded signal is calculated at the coder and added in a bitstream sent from the coder to the decoder. The decoder receives the bitstream and cancels the time-domain aliasing in the coded signal in response to the information comprised in the bitstream. The information may be representative of a difference between a frame of audio signal to be encoded in a first coding mode and a decoded signal from the frame including time-domain aliasing effects. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153334 | METHOD FOR EXTRACTING PROBABILITY MODEL VALUE FROM PROBABILITY MODEL TABLE AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING SYMBOL VALUE BY USING THE SAME - A method for extracting a probability model value from a probability model table and a method and apparatus for decoding a symbol value using the same are provided. The method for extracting a probability model value from a probability model table includes: segmenting and reducing a probability model table including a plurality of probability model values; disposing indexes on the basis of the segmented and reduced probability model table; and searching the probability model table for a probability model value by using the disposed indexes. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153335 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNALS - An audio signal processing method is disclosed. The audio signal processing method includes receiving a residual and long term prediction information, performing inverse frequency mapping with respect to the residual to generate a synthesized residual, and performing long term synthesis based on the synthesized residual and the long term prediction information to generate a synthesized audio signal of a current frame, wherein the long term prediction information comprises a final prediction gain and a final pitch lag, the final pitch lag has a range starting with 0, and the long term synthesis is performed based on a synthesized audio signal of a frame comprising a preceding frame. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153336 | MULTI-MODE SCHEME FOR IMPROVED CODING OF AUDIO - The present invention relates to an improved scheme for coding of audio. In particular, the present invention relates to an encoder device and a method for coding an input signal in an encoder system. The method comprises applying a first mode to the input signal to form a first output and applying a second mode to the input signal to form a second output. A first processed output is then formed from at least a part of the first output, and a second processed output is formed from at least a part of the second output. Forming a second processed output comprises estimating a part of the input signal from at least a part of the second output. Then, an optimum mode is determined based on the firstprocessedoutput and the secondprocessedoutput, and the output according to the optimum mode is selected. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153337 | ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF AUDIO/VOICE SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS - An encoding apparatus is provided. The encoding apparatus includes a track structure determiner determining a track structure using frequency coefficients, a frequency coefficient allocator allocating the frequency coefficients to each track according to the determined track structure, and a quantizer quantizing one or more pulses in each track based on a number of frequency coefficients allocated to a corresponding track. The encoding apparatus can prevent the degradation of sound quality by avoiding the problem faced by most sinusoidal quantization techniques using a fixed track structure, i.e., a failure to quantize all pulses due to mismatches between the pulse distribution of frequency coefficients and a track structure. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153338 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEPLOYING PORTABLE LANDMARKS - The different illustrative embodiments provide an apparatus comprising a landmark controller, a landmark deployment system, and a number of portable landmarks. The landmark controller has a landmark position and placement process. The landmark deployment system has a number of manipulative components. The number of portable landmarks are configured to be deployed to a number of locations within a worksite. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153339 | Multi-Site Club Membership - A method for member profile maintenance in a multi-site membership arrangement of two or more affiliate clubs, the member profile including a plurality of member data fields, the method including associating the member profile with a home club and storing the member profile on a home database at the home club, replicating the member profile to one or more affiliate databases at one or more affiliate clubs, and synchronizing information stored on the plurality of member data fields of the member profile between the home database and the one or more affiliate databases upon activation of an update mechanism. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153340 | SPEND DIAGNOSTICS AND LEAD MANAGEMENT - A method and system are used to optimize utilization of a transaction card by a card member. The system and method including generating a first data set based on data stored in a database representing industries of the card members. Generating a second data set representing an average amount charged to a transaction account by the card members in each respective one of the industries based on the first data set. Comparing the average amount charged from the first generating step to an actual amount charged by each individual one of the card members in a respective one of the industries. Communicating a result of the comparison to the card members. Receiving data from the card members based on their receiving of the comparison result. Storing the data in the database or a lead management device, such that the data is updated. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153341 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USE OF AUGMENTED REALITY TO IMPROVE PATIENT REGISTRATION IN MEDICAL PRACTICES - Certain examples provide systems and methods for patient identification. Certain examples provide a patient identification system. The patient identification system includes a data storage to store patient information including patient identifying information associated with one or more patient images and a processor adapted to facilitate identification of a patient. The processor is to receive a camera feed including an image of a patient; perform facial recognition using the camera feed to identify the patient in comparison with information stored in the data storage; retrieve information associated with the identified patient from the patient storage; display the retrieved information in conjunction with the image of the identified patient on a computer screen; and facilitate an electronic action with respect to the identified patient via the computer. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153342 | Nonprescription Medication Consumer Tool - The present invention is a nonprescription medication consumer tool for selecting nonprescription medications which allows an individual to select his or her symptoms and contraindications to determine a suitable nonprescription medication. The symptoms, contraindications and information provided to the individual, such as dosing and warnings, are provided in layperson's terms. The nonprescription medication consumer tool may be available to individuals as a website and/or mobile device application or as part of a vending system or dispensing machine. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153343 | ADAPTABLE MEDICAL WORKFLOW SYSTEM - Examples of systems and methods are provided for adapting a medical workflow implemented at a computer coupled to a hospital network, including receiving a message comprising medical information data, predicting a healthcare worker's workflow using, at least in part, the medical information data; communicating, based on the predicted workflow, a menu comprising one or more medical action options for displaying to the healthcare worker. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153344 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATED MEDICAL CASE RESEARCH AND COLLABORATION - Methods and apparatus for medical case research and collaboration are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving, by a processor, information from a person via a research tool related to one or more health issues of the person; generating a medical case based on the information received from the person; calculating one or more likelihoods associated with one or more potential causes of the health issues, wherein a first one of the likelihoods indicates a probability that a first one of the potential causes of the health issue is an accurate diagnosis; determining whether the one or more likelihoods indicate that the medical case is complex; and when the medical case is complex, granting the person access to a collaboration module. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153345 | Method for operating a hospital information system - A method of operating a hospital information system, and a hospital information system are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method includes providing a taskflow editing tool with a limited number of editing options to a user; creating a taskflow defining a number of tasks and connections of the tasks by the user using the taskflow editing tool; and performing an automated test run of the created taskflow, wherein the automated test run is checked according to a number of criteria and wherein results of the check are reported to the user. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153346 | HEALTH SCREEN AND METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT THE HEALTH SCREEN - The invention relates to a health screen and a method for finding medical deviations, in which patients whose data have at least one desired factor in common are selected as a screening group from the data of the database systems of health service providers. The patient's indicator value describing the data of patients in the screening group is then compared to a norm value describing normal values, and if the patient's indicator value differs from the norm value, a query requiring a reply in machine-readable form is signalled to a third party for receiving a reply to the query, and feedback information is signalled to the database systems of health service providers as triggered by the received reply about the patient who had an indicator value that deviated from the corresponding norm value by at least a predetermined amount. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153347 | Analysis of User Laboratory Test Results - Lab tests may be processed for a user through execution of a lab test coaching engine stored in memory and executable by a processor. The lab test coaching engine accesses user lab test results and processes the user lab test results based on a coaching protocol and user health data. The results of the lab test results are reported to the user and a health care professional and the lab test coaching engine may perform an action based processed lab test results. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153348 | GATHERING, STORING, AND RETRIEVING SUMMARY ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORD INFORMATION FROM HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS - The system and method of the invention describes a unique approach to gathering patient treatment information in summary form from a universe of health care providers, each using any form of patient information management; converting that information to pointers that can be searched by a healthcare provider before or during treatment to determine if further information needs to be acquired from the original provider; and a variety of methods to provide access to detailed healthcare treatment and diagnosis information from the original healthcare provider through an access and display method provided by the healthcare provider housing the records, if available. The system and method envisages one or more providers of repository services, each offering various ways for healthcare providers to update and maintain summary information, and each providing for continual exchange of information among them to ensure complete access to all available information. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153349 | HEALTH CARE DELIVERY MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Health care delivery monitoring systems and methods are described herein. The systems and methods may be used to monitor the delivery of health care bundles to one or more patients. The systems and methods may communicate with a health care worker delivering a health care bundle to provide selected information to the health care worker such as, e.g., one or more instructions regarding delivery of the health care bundle. In addition, the systems and methods described herein may further include the collection of compliance data to provide feedback regarding compliance with health care delivery protocols established within a health care facility. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153350 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR A REMOTE PATIENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method of manufacturing a computer-readable storage medium for a remote patient management system with instructions for causing the execution of a care plan comprising a coaching plan. The method comprises: displaying a list of psychological determinants, receiving a selection of a group of psychological determinants chosen from the list of psychological determinants, generating a list of behavioral models using the group of psychological determinants, receiving a selection of at least one selected behavioral model from the list of behavioral models, determining a time line for the global structure of the coaching plan using the at least one selected behavioral model, compiling a coaching object file using the time line, linking the coaching object file to a library of multi-media content to resolve unresolved symbolic links of the time line, integrating the coaching plan into the care plan, and writing the care plan to the computer-readable storage medium. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153351 | COLLABORATIVE MEDICAL IMAGING WEB APPLICATION - A system and method for acquiring, hosting and distributing medical images for healthcare professionals. The system can include a database for storing private health information split from a medical imaging record. The system can also include a repository for storing at least one anonymized image split from the medical record. The anonymized images are parsed into a schema upon request with the schema provided in response to the request. The schema can define a structure mapping the anonymized images into a study. The personal information can be joined with the anonymized images to form medical imaging records into the study according to the structure. One or more participant devices in communication with the medical information network can provide collaborative features having application level capabilities that access, process, analyze or augment the personal information from the database and the non-personal information from the repository split from the medical imaging records. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153352 | SCHEDULING AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD - Technologies are described herein for coordinating scheduling and communications. Through an implementation of the concepts and technologies presented herein, functionality can be provided for aggregating scheduling and communication information indicating one or more contact modalities, schedules, and responsibilities. The scheduling information can be edited to establish and adjust shifts and duties. The aggregated information can be communicated among various users. Communicating the aggregated information can support the use of various communication modalities to significantly improve accuracy, timeliness, and appropriateness of coordination and communication amongst the users. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153353 | PHARMACY PERSONAL CARE ACCOUNT - A method for providing insurance coverage to a subscriber comprises offering an insurance policy to the subscriber wherein the insurance policy comprises providing allowances to pay for one or more expenses covered by the insurance policy and providing monetary credits to the subscriber for any unused portion of a given allowance where the monetary credits can be used to cover the cost of a subsequent allowed expense. The insurance policy may be a pharmacy benefits plan. The covered expenses may be pharmacy expenses. The allowed expenses may be medical expenses which qualify under Section 213 of the US Internal Revenue Code for payment by an employer without the subscriber having to declare the payment as taxable income. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153354 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PRESCRPTION DATA TO DETECT PATHOGENS - A system for managing prescription data is provided. The system for managing prescription data includes a switch system. The switch system is configured to receive prescription submissions from pharmacy systems, submit the prescription submissions to approval systems, receive responses from the approval systems, and transmit the responses to the pharmacy systems. The switch system is further configured to receive treatment classification data including pathogen groups and pharmaceuticals prescribed to treat symptoms occurring from exposure to each pathogen group. The switch system is further configured to determine normal variations of the prescription submissions, detect anomalous variations of the prescription submissions, and generate a notification in response to detecting an anomalous variation. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153355 | System for Secure Mobile Healthcare Selection - A method, system and device for secure mobile healthcare selection are presented in which a user can, from a mobile device, authorize the comparison of pangenetic (genetic and epigenetic) data with data profiles corresponding to healthcare products, services and service providers to determine which are the most appropriate for a particular consumer. Data masking is used to maintain privacy of sensitive portions of the pangenetic data. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153356 | System, Method and Software for Healthcare Selection Based on Pangenetic Data - A system, method and software for healthcare selection are presented in which a user can authorize the comparison of their pangenetic (genetic and epigenetic) data with data profiles corresponding to health care products, services, and service providers to determine which are the most appropriate for a particular consumer. Data masks can be applied to limit the amount of pangenetic data transmitted for analysis. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153357 | DIAGNOSTICS BENEFITS MANAGEMENT AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A system may receive a proposed medical diagnosis of a patient, and automatically identify potential medical services to be performed with respect to the patient. The identified medical services may be deemed relevant to the proposed medical diagnosis, which the system may determine from a customizable decision table. Further, the system may receive selection of a potential medical service from the identified potential medical services, and present an automated, real-time indication regarding paying entity/plan coverage and estimated cost and/or quality metrics for the selected medical service based on the patient and paying entity/plan of the patient. In addition, the system may facilitate selection of a lab/facility to perform the selected medical service. To communicate across clinicians, labs/facilities and paying entities, the system may employ a catalog of medical services spanning multiple clinicians, labs/facilities or paying entities/plans to thereby integrate their nomenclatures, and may employ a coding system in this regard. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153358 | PROTOCOL COMPLEXITY ANALYZER - The present invention includes a system and methods for planning a medical study. The system for planning a medical study includes a display device and a data store comprising a plurality of medical procedures for at least one of designing and executing a medical study. The system further includes a service delivery device operatively coupled to the display device and the data store. The service delivery device includes a processor and a memory for storing instructions. In response to receiving a request to plan a medical study, the memory causes the processor to (1) select a set of procedures from the plurality of medical procedures; (2) assign a work effort unit for each procedure included in the set of procedures, with the work effort unit based on at least one of procedure type, procedure cost, procedure time, and procedure phase; (3) calculate a complexity level for the set of procedures based on the work effort units; and (4) evaluate whether the complexity level is appropriate for the medical procedure by comparing the calculated complexity level to a threshold level, where the threshold value represents a desirable complexity level for the study. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153359 | GATHERING, STORING, AND RETRIEVING SUMMARY ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORD INFORMATION FROM HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS - The system and method of the invention describes a unique approach to gathering patient treatment information in summary form from a universe of health care providers, each using any form of patient information management; converting that information to pointers that can be searched by a healthcare provider before or during treatment to determine if further information needs to be acquired from the original provider; and a variety of methods to provide access to detailed healthcare treatment and diagnosis information from the original healthcare provider through an access and display method provided by the healthcare provider housing the records, if available. The system and method envisages one or more providers of repository services, each offering various ways for healthcare providers to update and maintain summary information, and each providing for continual exchange of information among them to ensure complete access to all available information. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153360 | Method and Apparatus for Verification of Clinical Trial Adherence - A system and method of confirming administration of medication in a clinical trial is provided. The method comprises the steps of receiving information identifying a particular medication prescription regimen in accordance with the clinical trial, determining one or more procedures for administering such prescription regimen and identifying one or more activity sequences associated with such procedures. Activity sequences of actual administration of such prescription regimen are captured and then compared to the identified activity sequences to determine differences therebetween. A notice is provided if differences are determined. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153361 | Method and Apparatus for Management of Clinical Trials - A system and method of a clinical trial is provided. The system comprises a summary page providing an overview of each clinical trial participant in a graphical format, each clinical trial participant being represented by a unique clinical trial participant identifier and one or more clinical trial participant identifier modifiers applicable to modify one or more of the clinical trial participant identifiers, each modifier indicative of a different status of the particular participant identifier to which it is applied. A zoom selector is provided for zooming in on a subset of the clinical trial participant identifiers included with the summary page. Upon selection of a particular level of zoom, a corresponding amount of detailed information related to the subset of the clinical trial identifiers is provided; the detailed information including at least an indication of the level of compliance of a clinical trial participant to a prescribed clinical trial protocol represented by a corresponding clinical trial participant identifier, and further information related to any particular clinical trial participant identifier modifiers applied to any one of the clinical trial participant identifiers included within the subset. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153362 | Method and mechanism for identifying protecting, requesting, assisting and managing information - A method and mechanism used for or by, individuals, groups, corporations, (profit and non profit), professionals, businesses, schools, governments, institutions, and machines to help, protect, create, design, record, file, document, publish, authenticate, plan, market, personalize, distribute, manufacture, license, franchise, sponsor, advertise, publicize, track, project, calendar, voting, rate, conference, rent, lease, price, request, propose, order, pay, fund, buy, sell, lend, bank, finance, store, insure, barter, gift, repair, service, build, share, check, insure, install, learn, teach, research, promote, collaborate, adopt, think, monitor, manage, remind, administer, broadcast, target spatial points, communicate, manage energy communication, connect like minded people, offer self help, manage group health, combined with data aggregated from a vision engine, hearing engine, touch engine, taste engine, smell engine, with data from the mechanical internet, the life Internet, and fuzzy logical, abductive, inductive, deductive, and backward chaining reasoning, to give forward suggestions, proposals, decisions, information and search in a network and non network. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153363 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PERSONAL HEALTHCARE - A method and system for managing personal health are provided. The system for managing personal healthcare includes: one or more agent devices measuring a plurality of types of physical information of a user; and a manager device receiving the plurality of types of physical information from the agent device, analyzing the correlations between the plurality of types of physical information, generating health management information indicating the correlations between the plurality of types of physical information, and providing the generated health management information to the user. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153364 | GATHERING, STORING, AND RETRIEVING SUMMARY ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORD INFORMATION FROM HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS - The system and method of the invention describes a unique approach to gathering patient treatment information in summary form from a universe of health care providers, each using any form of patient information management; converting that information to pointers that can be searched by a healthcare provider before or during treatment to determine if further information needs to be acquired from the original provider; and a variety of methods to provide access to detailed healthcare treatment and diagnosis information from the original healthcare provider through an access and display method provided by the healthcare provider housing the records, if available. The system and method envisages one or more providers of repository services, each offering various ways for healthcare providers to update and maintain summary information, and each providing for continual exchange of information among them to ensure complete access to all available information. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153365 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING AND DOCUMENTING LACTATION DATA - A system and method of managing and documenting lactation data includes inputting patient lactation data, retrieving, editing, creating, or updating a database to include the patient lactation data in real time, and storing the patient lactation data in a database which can be centrally located to facilitate integration with other medical records. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153366 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRICING AND ISSUING LEVEL PAY DEATH BENEFIT POLICIES - Pursuant to some embodiments, a computer system for pricing a paycheck term policy is provided which includes a processor, a communication device in communication with the processor and receiving an input data set, the input data set including at least an issue age of an insured associated with the policy, a desired death benefit payment amount, an underwriting class associated with the insured, and an interest rate factor. A memory is in communication with the processor and storing program instructions, the processor operative with the program instructions to store a first equation, the first equation defining a present value of cost of death benefit in terms of a plurality of independent variables including the desired death benefit payment amount, a fixed annuity factor, an account value, a present value factor, a probability of survival, and a probability of death, a second equation, the second equation defining a present value of a premium in terms of a plurality of independent variables including the present value factor, the probability of survival factor, the desired death benefit payment amount, the fixed annuity factor, the account value, and the probability of death. The memory stores a third equation, the third equation defining a present value of a cost of return of premium benefit in terms of a plurality of independent variables including a probability of life factor, and a total of premiums paid at a benefit year. The first and second equations are applied to the input data set to generate a pricing dataset for the paycheck term policy, the pricing dataset including at least a present value of a premium and a present value of cost of death benefit. The third equation is applied to the output of said the equation to generate a present value of a cost of return of premium benefit, and the pricing dataset is output. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153367 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LINKING VEHICLES TO TELEMATICS-ENABLED PORTABLE DEVICES - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for transmitting telematics data from a vehicle. The systems include a smartphone holder that provides a communications link between a smartphone and a vehicle computer, through the smartphone dataport and the vehicle onboard diagnostics (OBD) port. The smartphone holder is configured to keep the smartphone in a stable, known position and orientation with respect to the vehicle, such that data from an accelerometer in the smartphone can be calibrated. The smartphone accelerometer data and telematics data from vehicle telematics sensors is then transmitted via the smartphone or stored locally. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153368 | User Interactive Reinsurance Risk Analysis Application - A User Interactive Insurance Risk Analysis Application that is web-based which combines user imported insurance portfolios and geospatial technology with output from user defined actions and simulations providing an analysis tool for dynamic management of catastrophic exposures. The user may configure every aspect of the risk analysis application and use a variety of tools and features to create actions and receive risk information of all layers used for analysis. Precise risk information is given to the user due to the many services and modules which make up the risk analysis application, including a loss calculation service and dynamic, multi-dimensional configurable risk data display. The user receives estimated loss values and may configure which pieces of data analysis the user would like to see and how that data is presented without having to drilldown through all the data in the insurance portfolio. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153369 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADMINISTERING AN ADVANCED INSURANCE COMPONENT-BASED PRODUCT - According to some embodiments, a system may be provided including an insurance component selection platform that transmits data to and receives data from an insurance product component storage unit storing one or more self-descriptive components of an insurance coverage. Each of the stored components may have, for example, associated properties defining attributes of the component and one or more values associated with the properties. The components may be selected via a graphical interface generated by the component selection platform to be included in an insurance coverage product. The components may then be combined within constraints of the properties and values of the individual components. An insurance coverage policy may then be presented based on the combination of components. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153370 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND PRODUCT FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TITLE PROTECTION - The system, method and product of the present invention provides protection against an unknown defect in the title of an intellectual property asset (IPA) having various intellectual property rights (IPRs) associated therewith. Through due diligence, a variety of defects or title encumbrances are identified and investigated, and, if possible, cured. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153371 | Novel Method and Apparatus for Repricing a Reimbursement Claim Against a Contract - A method for repricing a reimbursement claim under at least one contract is provided herein. The method includes converting each contract into a series of contractual terms, where each contractual terms contains qualification codes, calculation codes and priority notes. The method then converts a claim into a series of claim lines, containing claim codes, unit numbers and corresponding charges for the claim codes. The method then begins to compare comparing each claim code, of the claim, against each qualification code, of each contractual term, of a contract and when a qualification code, of a contractual term, is satisfied by a claim code, of a claim line, the method identifies the contractual term as a matching contractual term associated to the claim line. Upon identifying all matching contractual terms, either to the claim line or the entire claim, the method will determine any priority conditions associated to the matching contractual terms, and eliminate any matching contractual terms that are excluded by the priority conditions. The method then calculates the reimbursement amount for the claim by determining the reimbursement charges for the non-excluded matching contractual terms. The method may then determine and make any adjustments depending upon any discount terms for the entire reimbursement amount. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153372 | Extended Web enabled Business to Business Computer System for Rental Vehicle Services - An Internet-enabled rental vehicle reservation management method and system are disclosed. Via the system and method, authorized purchasers can select a rental vehicle service provider from a among a plurality of competitive rental vehicle service providers via at least one graphical user interface (GUI) menu, and the authorized purchasers can further interact with the system and method to (1) automatically book a rental vehicle reservation with a selected competitive rental vehicle service provider without human intervention on the part of personnel of the selected competitive rental vehicle service provider operating the computer system and (2) manage the booked rental vehicle reservation. In an exemplary embodiment, the reservations created and managed through the system and method are replacement rental vehicles and the authorized purchasers are insurance company personnel. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153373 | TWO-LAYER DATA ARCHITECTURE FOR RESERVATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - A reservation management system includes at least one processing node that includes a memory and a processor. The at least one processing node further includes a set of reservation processing and transaction modules that manage and process reservation requests and inquiries. At least one general purpose database is communicatively coupled to the at least one processing node. The at least one general purpose database includes a set of pre-allocated tables of fixed length records. At least one persistent storage device is communicatively coupled to the at least one processing node. The general purpose database persistently stores the set of pre-allocated tables of fixed length records on the at least one persistent storage device. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153374 | REWARD TRAVEL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE AND METHODS - There is disclosed reward travel management software. In an embodiment, reward travel management software includes airline search results by airfare, the airline search results by reward points/miles fare, and a recommendation between the airfare and the reward points/miles fare by a recommendation engine. In another embodiment, reward points/miles management software includes auto rental search results by cash/credit card cost, the auto rental search results by reward points/miles cost, and a recommendation between the cash/credit card cost and the reward points/miles cost by a recommendation engine. In one embodiment, reward points/miles management software comprising product or service search results by cash/credit card cost, the product or service search results by reward points/miles cost, and a recommendation between the cash/credit card cost and the reward points/miles cost by a recommendation engine. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153375 | Method and System for Managing Rental Vehicle Reservations with User Authorization Limits - An Internet-enabled rental vehicle reservation management method and system are disclosed. Via the system and method, authorization limits can be assigned to the users who create and manage replacement rental vehicle reservations through the system, where these authorization limits impose financial commitment monetary limits that the users can make on replacement rental vehicle reservations over a specified period of time. In an exemplary embodiment, these authorization limits are customized on a per user basis. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153376 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING A PLURALITY OF PARTS - The present invention includes a method and system configured to analyze a plurality of parts, each of the parts having at least one part characteristic. The method includes the steps of establishing at least one repository of the part characteristics, establishing a relationship between at least a portion of the parts and a cost characteristic; and, analyzing the portion of the parts in response to the relationship. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153377 | Mixing and Targeting Content Types/Items for Users to Promote Optimization Goals - A social networking system uses information that it obtains from and about its users to select social networking content and advertising for presentation to users in a way that optimizes for one or more optimization goals. Example optimization goals include monetization, user sharing, user engagement, system growth, and user communication. The social networking system may select social networking content and advertising based on their relevance to a particular user. The selected social networking content and advertising may be related to each other to provide a more interesting display to the user. The selected social networking content and advertising may be presented in a supplemental portion of a display, and be selected based on their relatedness to content in the main portion of the display. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153378 | Methods and Systems for Managing Customer Contacts in a Contact Center - A computer-implemented method of reserving resources for a customer contacting a contact center. The method includes the steps of identifying the customer associated with a contact received at the contact center, accessing a customer profile to determine at least one non-agent resource to be associated with the contact based on the customer profile; reserving the non-agent resource for the contact; and allocating the non-agent resource to the contact. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153379 | STAFF ARRANGEMENT SYSTEM AND SERVER - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a skill level of a staff member is discriminated from an actual job log of the staff member, productivity including the skill level, a salary, and combination efficiency with another staff member is calculated, and a staff arrangement plan maximizing a productive efficiency is outputted. A system of calculating an optimum staff arrangement of staff arrangements for a job operated by a plurality of staff members, includes: a record database for a job amount generated during a certain period; a profile database for staff members; a combination-efficiency database for staff members; a skill-level database for staff members; means of acquiring a staff-profile data; means of acquiring a record of a past-generated job amount; means of calculating combination efficiency between staff members; means of predicting a job demand of the job in a specific period, from the record of the past-generated job amount; means of calculating the required number of staff members from the predicted job demand; means of calculating a working shift satisfying the required number of staff members; means of calculating a working-shift matching degree from data of the combination efficiency with the staff member and the working shift; means of performing an arrangement plan corresponding to the required number of staff members by sequentially arranging staff members in descending order of the high matching degree; and means of calculating productive efficiency of the arrangement plan, so that the arrangement plan having the highest productive efficiency is shown. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153380 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF AUTOMATED APPOINTMENT MANAGEMENT - An approach is provided for presenting video assets. A first appointment message from a first service provider system relating to a first appointment with a user is received. Also, a second appointment message from a second service provider system relating to a second appointment with the user. A first calendar entry is generated in response to the first appointment message. A second calendar entry is generated in response to the second appointment message. User profile information corresponding to the user is retrieved to determine one or more user devices that are specified to receive the calendar entries. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153381 | Method and System for Smart Queuing of Test Requests - A system and method for receiving a service ticket, determining a likelihood of success of re-testing the service ticket and performing additional steps, if the likelihood of success is greater than a predetermined re-testing threshold. The additional steps including determining a waiting time of the service ticket, adding the service ticket to a service ticket queue containing a plurality of service tickets, the service ticket queue being sorted by a waiting time of each of the plurality of service tickets, initiating performance of the service ticket, after an expiration of the waiting time, removing the ticket from the queue, if the performance of the service ticket is successful and re-start the waiting time, if the performance of the service ticket is unsuccessful. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153382 | FORECASTING DEMAND AND AVAILABILITY OF RESOURCES OF A MILITARY INSTALLATION - Methods and computer systems for forecasting demand and availability of resources of a geographic region are provided. Physical, operational, traffic and construction data for a geographic region for a specified time period is utilized to compare the operational needs for at least one resource for a geographic region to the available resources to forecast demands and availability of the at least one resource for the geographic region over the specified time period and determine whether the demand for the at least one resource exceeds the availability of the at least one resource. The forecasted demand and availability of the at least one resource for the geographic region for the specified time period is stored and presented. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153383 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED ELICITATION AND AGGREGATION OF RISK INFORMATION - A method and system for the distributed elicitation and aggregation of risk information is provided. The method comprises selecting a risk network, the risk network comprising one or more risk nodes having associated risk information; assigning a role to each risk node, said role indicating a type of user to evaluate the risk node; generating a customized survey to elicit risk information for a risk node based upon the role and the user, wherein an order of questions in the customized survey presented to the user is determined by an ordering criteria; publishing the customized survey to the user; collecting risk information for the risk node from the user's answers to the customized survey; and populating the risk nodes based on the collected risk information. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153384 | Visual comps builder - A user enters search criteria for comparable transactions into a computer system and the computer system generates a scatter plot of deals meeting the search criteria from a transaction database. A computer cache, data tray, or “shopping cart” can be used to save relevant deals which then can be automatically incorporated into an electronically generated comps report. | 2011-06-23 |
20110153385 | DETERMINATION OF DEMAND UPLIFT VALUES FOR CAUSAL FACTORS WITH SEASONAL PATTERNS IN A CAUSAL PRODUCT DEMAND FORECASTING SYSTEM - An improved method and system for forecasting product demand using a causal methodology, based on multiple regression techniques. The causal method uses both historical and future values of causal factors for causal forecasting. Historical values are used to build a causal model, i.e., to determine the influence of the causal factors upon the demand for a product, and future values are used to generate demand uplifts which applied to an initial demand forecast based upon historical product demand. The improved causal method provides different processes for the calculation of demand uplifts associated with seasonal variables, such as temperature, than typical, non-seasonal causal variables, such as product price. Demand uplifts for seasonal variables are determined from the difference between a forecast value for the seasonal variable and an average of corresponding historical, prior-year, values of the seasonal variable, and demand uplifts for non-seasonal variables are determined from the difference between a forecast value for the non-seasonal variable and an average of recent values of the non-seasonal variable. | 2011-06-23 |