| 26th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 67 |
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| 20100169058 | MODELING STRUCTURE FOR SIMULATION OF TRAPEZOIDAL METAL LINE - Embodiments relate to a semiconductor technology, and more particularly, to a modeling structure for simulation of a trapezoidal metal line. The modeling structure for simulation of a trapezoidal metal line includes a top step with a width A, a bottom step with a width B, a middle step with a width equal to an average of the width A and the width B, and a total height C, wherein the middle step has a height equal to a value obtainable by subtracting both a height of the top step and a height of the bottom step from the total height C. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169059 | Layered Personalization - A computer system includes a three-dimensional model of an object such as a piece of jewelry. The model is divided into multiple layers, each of which contains one or more components of the object. Each layer is associated with one or more attribute types, each of which is associated with a corresponding plurality of possible attribute values. The system pre-renders each layer with each possible attribute type and each possible attribute value for that type and layer. The resulting layer renderings may be combined with each other to produce personalized renderings of the entire object without the need to pre-render all possible combinations of attribute values. Responsibility for rendering the layers and the final complete object personalization may be divided between client and server in a variety of ways to increase efficiency. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169060 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODCUT FOR LITHOGRAPHY SIMULATION IN ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION - Disclosed are improved methods, systems, and computer program products for lithographic simulation of an electronic circuit design. Various embodiments of the present invention identifies a mask pattern, performs offline precharacterization for the mask pattern by solving an equation which models a solution for the mask pattern and an interaction between the mask pattern and one or more effects, performs online evaluation based at least upon a parameterized form of the equation, determines a field around the mask pattern based at least upon the act of performing the online evaluation, and stores a result of the act of determining an electromagnetic field around the mask pattern in a tangible computer readable or usable medium | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169061 | SIMULATION APPARATUS FOR A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A simulation apparatus of semiconductor device includes a first calculator, a second calculator, a third calculator, a fourth calculator, and a controller. The first calculator applies a voltage to an area which functions as a virtual electrode, and setting a pseudo-Fermi level of a first carrier in the area functioning as the virtual electrode to calculate a first carrier density. The second calculator analyzes continuous equation of a second carrier to calculate a second carrier density. The third calculator uses the first carrier density as a function of an electrostatic potential, and solving a first equation of the function and a Poisson's equation to calculate an electrostatic potential and the first carrier density expressed by the function. The fourth calculator calculates a current density of the first carrier to calculate a current flowing. The controller controls the voltage applied to the virtual electrode. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169062 | Method and Apparatus for Describing the Statistical Orientation Distribution of Particles in a Simulation of a Mould Filling Process - A method and apparatus for describing the statistical orientation distribution of nonspherical particles in a simulation of a process wherein a mold cavity is filled with a suspension that contains a large number of nonspherical particles. The method and apparatus may be applied to the analysis of an injection molding process for producing a fiber reinforced molded polymer component or of a metal casting process for producing a fiber reinforced metal product. The results of these analyses may be used to determine tension and warping aspects of the component, and to optimize the process conditions used in the production process. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169063 | System and Method of Modeling the Pharmacodynamic Effect to Drugs Delivered to a Patient - A system and method of modeling the pharmacodynamic effect of drugs delivered to a patient. The system includes a model database comprising a first drug interaction model and a second drug interaction model. A processing unit determines a first pharmacodynamic effect and a second pharmacodynamic effect and using a dominance rule to compare the first pharmacodynamic effect and a second pharmacodynamic effect to determine a dominant interaction model. A graphical display connected to the processing unit presents the determined dominant interaction model. The method includes the steps of obtaining first, second, and third drug concentrations, applying a first model that models a first pharmacodynamic effect, applying a second model that models a second pharmacodynamic effect and comparing the first pharmacodynamic effect to the second pharmacodynamic effect to determine which of the first model and the second model is the dominant pharmacodynamic model, and presenting the determined dominant pharmacodynamic model on a graphic display. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169064 | SYSTEM, AN APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR PERFORMING CHIP-LEVEL ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE SIMULATIONS - A modeler for components of an IC under ESD conditions, a method of simulating ESD behavior of an IC and an ESD simulation system. In one embodiment, the modeler includes: (1) a circuit analyzer configured to provide identified ESD cells and circuitry of the IC by comparing component information of the IC with predefined ESD protection elements and predefined circuit topologies and (2) a model generator configured to create linearized models of the identified ESD cells and the identified circuitry based on physical attributes associated with the identified ESD cells and the identified circuitry, wherein a combination of the linearized models represent operation of the IC component under ESD conditions. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169065 | SIMULATING LOSS OF LOGIC POWER STATE DUE TO PROCESSOR POWER CONSERVATION STATE - In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes creation of a randomization list that includes only a subset of the logic states of an integrated circuit (IC). The subset being selectable by signal so as to define logic states that can be randomized for specific events. The randomization list is during simulation to randomize the logic states defined therein to simulate a specific event occurring during operation of the IC. For example, the randomization list may include those signals that can be randomized upon exiting from a powered down state (e.g., deep power down, C6). The signals that can be randomized may be defined by excluding the signals that cannot be randomized (those still receiving power in the C6 mode). The contents of registers of the IC can be confirmed after the randomization and exit from the C6 mode. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169066 | General Framework to Predict Parametric Costs - A method of simulating an information technology (IT) system to produce parametric data includes translating specifications of the IT system from a first modeling language to a second modeling language; incorporating component constraints into the translated specifications; simulating operation of the IT system based on the translated specifications and the component constraints; and generating a report of parametric data based on the simulation. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169067 | Optimization Technology - Predictive modeling, in which a first simulation model that simulates a first policy for managing a set of data is determined based on a pattern representative of the set of data and first operating variables for the first policy. The first simulation model is optimized and first prediction data that estimates performance of the first policy is computed using the optimized first simulation model. A second simulation model that simulates a second policy for managing the set of data is determined based on the pattern and second operating variables for the second policy. The second simulation model is optimized and second prediction data that estimates performance of the second policy is computed using the optimized second simulation model. The first prediction data is compared with the second prediction data, and a determination of whether the first policy is better than the second policy is made. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169068 | SIMULATION PROGRAM AND SIMULATION APPARATUS - A simulation program stored in a computer readable recording medium to execute a simulation of first and second simulation objects is provided. The simulation program includes a storage that stores one of an initial state, a read waiting state and a write waiting state for a channel used for data transfer between the first and second simulation objects; a receiver that receives a read request from the first simulation object to the second simulation object through the channel; a judgment unit which, upon reception of the read request, judges whether a state corresponding to the channel is the read waiting state; a transmitter which transmits data corresponding to the channel stored in a storage area to the first simulation object when judging to be the read waiting state; and a changer that changes the state to the initial state based on the data transmission. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169069 | Composite device emulation - In one embodiment, an apparatus provides a plurality of endpoints, each endpoint corresponding to a function of an emulated device, having at least one buffer to store emulation information corresponding to the emulated device; and logic to perform low level emulation of at least one of the functions corresponding to the plurality of endpoints | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169070 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND EMULATION METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to run an operating system; a reconfiguration module configured to rewrite a capability pointer of a PCI device configuration to set a controller compatible of controlling a non-UART device to be incompatible; a virtualization module configured to virtualize one or more UARTs; and a recognition module configured to cause the operating system to recognize the UARTs virtualized by the virtualization module by altering hardware information. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169071 | UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS (USB) NETWORK TRANSPORT METHODS AND APPARATUS - According to some aspects, a method of performing a Universal Serial Bus (USB) data transfer between a server and a USB device connected over a network, the data transfer including a plurality of transactions between the server and the USB is provided. The method comprises performing at least one of the plurality of transactions between the server and the USB device via a network communication and emulating locally at least one of the plurality of transactions expected to be performed via a network communication to reduce a number of the plurality of transactions that are performed via network communications. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169072 | MULTI-PLATFORM SOFTWARE APPLICATION SIMULATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An exemplary system includes a development subsystem configured to facilitate development of a software application and a simulation subsystem selectively and communicatively coupled to the development subsystem. The simulation subsystem is configured to emulate a plurality of processing device platforms, receive data representative of a selection of at least one of the plurality of processing device platforms, and simulate an execution of the software application by one or more processing devices associated with the at least one selected processing device platform. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169073 | Foldable Wireless Device for Language Translation - A foldable handheld communication device with a clamshell housing which when used is unfolded to cover the mouth area of a user wherein such arrangement allows said device to be portable and be stored in a pocket or purse. Said device comprises a microphone to capture speech, a transceiver to transmit and receive signals, and a loudspeaker to deliver a received translated speech to a person other than said user. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169074 | METHOD OF CONFIGURING USER PREFERENCES ON ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method of configuring user preferences on an electronic device is disclosed. The method includes detecting a geographic location of the electronic device through a network. A local language setting is obtained according to the geographic location, and the local language setting is established as a default language setting of the electronic device. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169075 | ADJUSTMENT OF TEMPORAL ACOUSTICAL CHARACTERISTICS - Embodiments may be a standalone module or part of mobile devices, desktop computers, servers, stereo systems, or any other systems that might benefit from condensed audio presentations of item structures such as lists or tables. Embodiments may comprise logic such as hardware and/or code to adjust the temporal characteristics of items comprising words. The items maybe included in a structure such as a text listing or table, an audio listing or table, or a combination thereof, or may be individual words or phrases. For instance, embodiments may comprise a keyword extractor to extract keywords from the items and an abbreviations generator to generate abbreviations based upon the keywords. Further embodiments may comprise a text-to-speech generator to generate audible items based upon the abbreviations to render to a user while traversing the item structure. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169076 | Text-to-Scene Conversion - The invention relates to a method of converting a set of words into a three-dimensional scene description, which may then be rendered into three-dimensional images. The invention may generate arbitrary scenes in response to a substantially unlimited range of input words. Scenes may be generated by combining objects, poses, facial expressions, environments, etc., so that they represent the input set of words. Poses may have generic elements so that referenced objects may be replaced by those mentioned in the input set of words. Likewise, a character may be dressed according to its role in the set of words. Various constraints for object positioning may be declared. The environment, including but not limited to place, time of day, and time of year, may be inferred from the input set of words. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169077 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR CORRECTING OCR RESULT - Disclosed is a method, system and computer readable recording medium for correcting an OCR result. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for correcting an OCR result, the method including performing character recognition on content including character information using an OCR technique, removing extra carriage return information from the content, outputting the character recognition result, and correcting word spacing on the outputted result. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169078 | Style-checking method and apparatus for business writing - The method is software-based, and carried out on a computer system and cooperating apparatus. It checks written text for problems impairing clarity, conciseness and reader comfort in business documents. One embodiment includes routines for checking writing style in sentences and paragraphs, and for generating informational, critical and commendatory display indicators relating to reader comfort. The routines check subject and verb juxtaposition, verb strength, prepositional phrase use, transition words, unity-creating constructions, gerund use, and sentence variety. The indicators are displayed in the form of highlighted text and diacritical marks. Another embodiment is a method for quantifying reader discomfort. It includes routines for quantifying, reporting and displaying points indicating comfort-impairing problems of the type located by running the routines of the first embodiment. Yet another embodiment includes a method for editing text documents for reader comfort, by locating and fixing problem words and constructions. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169079 | PSYCHOACOUSTIC TIME ALIGNMENT - A method of providing a quality measure for an output voice signal generated to reproduce an input voice signal, the method comprising: partitioning the input and output signals into frames; for each frame of the input signal, determining a disturbance relative to each of a plurality of frames of the output signal; determining a subset of the determined disturbances comprising one disturbance for each input frame such that a sum of the disturbances in the subset set is a minimum; and using the set of disturbances to provide the measure of quality. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169080 | AUDIO ENCODING APPARATUS - An audio encoding apparatus that encodes audio signals of a plurality of channels, includes an adaptive bit allocation control unit that adaptively controls a number of encoding bits assigned to the audio signal of each channel in accordance with perceptual entropy of the audio signal of each of the channels,
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| 20100169081 | ENCODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, AND METHOD THEREOF - An encoding device includes: a frequency region converter which converts an inputted audio signal into a frequency region; a band selector which selects a quantization object band from a plurality of sub bands obtained by dividing the frequency region; and a shape quantizer which quantizes the shape of the frequency region parameter of the quantization object band. When a prediction encoding presence/absence determiner determines that the number of common sub bands between the quantization object band and the quantization object band selected in the past is not smaller than a predetermined value, a gain quantizer performs prediction encoding on the gain of the frequency region parameter of the quantization object band. When the number of common sub bands is smaller than the predetermined value, the gain quantizer non-predictively encodes the gain of the frequency region parameter of the quantization object band. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169082 | Enhancing Receiver Intelligibility in Voice Communication Devices - The intelligibility of speech signals is improved in the many situations where a voice signal is communicated or stored. Means and methods are disclosed for developing a scheme with high voice signal intelligibility without sacrificing the voice quality. The disclosed method comprises certain steps, including, but not limited to: Learning the noise on near-end side and enhancing the far-end voice as a function of the noise type and noise level on the near-end side. The disclosed method and apparatus are especially useful to increase the intelligibility of the communication device's loudspeaker output. The invention includes processing of an input speech signal to generate an enhanced intelligent signal. The FFT spectrum of the speech received from the far-end is modified in accordance with the LPC spectrum of the local background noise to generate an enhanced intelligent signal. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169083 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AND DISPLAY OF VOICE DATA - Apparatus and methods for creating a composite data source having a common data representation from disparate sources of voice data. Data transmission links are established to heterogeneous messaging data sources, requests for voice data is sent using data access protocols, the voice data is received, and a set of voice data transformation rules are selectively applied to the voice data to transform the data into a common data representation. The common data representation can also be used as a source for reporting and graphical displays to monitor the operational aspects of the sources of voice data. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169084 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PITCH SEARCH - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for pitch search. One method includes: obtaining a characteristic function value of a residual signal, where the residual signal is a result of removing a Long-Term Prediction (LTP) contribution signal from input speech signals; and obtaining a pitch according to the characteristic function value of the residual signal. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169085 | MODEL BASED REAL TIME PITCH TRACKING SYSTEM AND SINGER EVALUATION METHOD - The various embodiments herein provide a system and method to track the pitch of a human being in real time using time varying model. According to one embodiment, the input voice is synthesised to obtain a lower order model. The lower model is down sampled and fitted to a time varying 2nd order model. The down sampled signal is passed through a pitch tracking filter, a fading filter and a gradient filter to obtain a pitch signal in real time. The noise included in the pitch signal is removed by passing the acquired pitch signal through a Kalman filter to obtain a smoothened pitch signal in real time. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169086 | SIGNAL COMPRESSION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A signal compression method includes: multiplying an input signal by a window function, calculating original autocorrelation coefficients of a windowed input signal. The method also includes calculating a white-noise correction factor or a lag-window according to the original autocorrelation coefficients, and calculating modified autocorrelation coefficients according to the original autocorrelation coefficients, the white-noise correction factor and the lag-window. The method further includes calculating linear prediction coefficients according to the modified autocorrelation coefficients, and outputting a coded bit stream according to the linear prediction coefficients. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169087 | SELECTIVE SCALING MASK COMPUTATION BASED ON PEAK DETECTION - A set of peaks in a reconstructed audio vector Ŝ of a received audio signal is detected and a scaling mask ψ(Ŝ) based on the detected set of peaks is generated. A gain vector g* is generated based on at least the scaling mask and an index j representative of the gain vector. The reconstructed audio signal is scaled with the gain vector to produce a scaled reconstructed audio signal. A distortion is generated based on the audio signal and the scaled reconstructed audio signal. The index of the gain vector based on the generated distortion is output. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169088 | AUTOMATED DEMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS - A method of generating demographic information relating to an individual is provided. The method includes monitoring an environment for a voice activity of an individual and detecting the voice activity of the individual. The method further includes analyzing the detected voice activity of the individual and determining, based on the detected voice activity of the individual, a demographic descriptor of the individual. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169089 | Voice Recognizing Apparatus, Voice Recognizing Method, Voice Recognizing Program, Interference Reducing Apparatus, Interference Reducing Method, and Interference Reducing Program - A voice recognizing apparatus includes a microphone | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169090 | WEIGHTED SEQUENTIAL VARIANCE ADAPTATION WITH PRIOR KNOWLEDGE FOR NOISE ROBUST SPEECH RECOGNITION - A method for adapting acoustic models used for automatic speech recognition is provided. The method includes estimating noise in a portion of a speech signal, determining a first estimated variance scaling vector using an estimated 2-order polynomial and the noise estimation, wherein the estimated 2-order polynomial represents a priori knowledge of a dependency of a variance scaling vector on noise, determining a second estimated variance scaling vector using statistics from prior portions of the speech signal, determining a variance scaling factor using the first estimated variance scaling vector and the second estimated variance scaling vector, and using the variance scaling factor to adapt an acoustic model. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169091 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS AND CONTENT - An aspect of the present invention is drawn to an audio data processing device for use by a user to control a system and for use with a microphone, a user demographic profiles database and a content/ad database. The microphone may be operable to detect speech and to generate speech data based on the detected speech. The user demographic profiles database may be capable of having demographic data stored therein. The content/ad database may be capable of having at least one of content data and advertisement data stored therein. The audio data processing device includes a voice recognition portion, a voice analysis portion and a speech to text portion. The voice recognition portion may be operable to process user instructions based on the speech data. The voice analysis portion may be operable to determine characteristics of the user based on the speech data. The speech to text portion may be operable to determine interests of the user. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169092 | VOICE INTERFACE OCX - A medical dictation workflow system can be customized from the selection of available user application programs. A voice interface OCX can interface speech technologies with the selected user application programs of the medical dictation workflow system. The medical dictation workflow system may be directed to generating reports through filling out defined fields. The fields can be generated through a tracking system subscribing to a core reporting system and requesting certain information be captured or through a user. The voice interface OCX can provide macros so a user can customize the fields, navigate among the fields, or fill in the fields with data through a voice recognition engine or a wave player control. The data entered into the fields can be automatically entered into corresponding database elements of a database. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169093 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR GENERATING ACOUSTIC MODEL - An information processing apparatus for speech recognition includes a first speech dataset storing speech data uttered by low recognition rate speakers; a second speech dataset storing speech data uttered by a plurality of speakers; a third speech dataset storing speech data to be mixed with the speech data of the second speech dataset; a similarity calculating part obtaining, for each piece of the speech data in the second speech dataset, a degree of similarity to a given average voice in the first speech dataset; a speech data selecting part recording the speech data, the degree of similarity of which is within a given selection range, as selected speech data in the third speech dataset; and an acoustic model generating part generating a first acoustic model using the speech data recorded in the second speech dataset and the third speech dataset. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169094 | SPEAKER ADAPTATION APPARATUS AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A speaker adaptation apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire an acoustic model including HMMs and decision trees for estimating what type of the phoneme or the word is included in a feature value used for speech recognition, the HMMs having a plurality of states on a phoneme-to-phoneme basis or a word-to-word basis, and the decision trees being configured to reply to questions relating to the feature value and output likelihoods in the respective states of the HMMs, and a speaker adaptation unit configured to adapt the decision trees to a speaker, the decision trees being adapted using speaker adaptation data vocalized by the speaker of an input speech. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169095 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A data processing apparatus includes a speech recognition unit configured to perform continuous speech recognition on speech data, a related word acquiring unit configured to acquire a word related to at least one word obtained through the continuous speech recognition as a related word that is related to content corresponding to content data including the speech data, and a speech retrieval unit configured to retrieve an utterance of the related word from the speech data so as to acquire the related word whose utterance has been retrieved as metadata for the content. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169096 | Instant communication with instant text data and voice data - Embodiments of the invention relate to an instant communication method, an instant communication server, a speech server and a system thereof. The instant communication method includes: receiving, by a speech server, text data sent via instant communication software by a first user terminal; transforming, by the speech server, the text data into first speech data; sending, by the speech server, the first speech data via a preconfigured phone number to a corresponding second user terminal; receiving, by the speech server, second speech data sent by the second user terminal; and sending, by the speech server, the second speech data to the first user terminal via the instant communication software. Using embodiments of the invention, website owners can communicate with visitors via a mobile phone or a fixed telephone anytime and anywhere, which may improve the reception of Internet marketing, reduce prerequisite requirements for e-commerce; and connect the Internet and the telecommunication network. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169097 | AUDIBLE LIST TRAVERSAL - Many embodiments may comprise logic such as hardware and/or code to implement user interface for traversal of long sorted lists, via audible mapping of the lists, using sensor based gesture recognition, audio and tactile feedback and button selection while on the go. In several embodiments, such user interface modalities are physically small in size, enabling a user to be truly mobile by reducing the cognitive load required to operate the device. For some embodiments, the user interface may be divided across multiple worn devices, such as a mobile device, watch, earpiece, and ring. Rotation of the watch may be translated into navigation instructions, allowing the user to traverse the list while the user receives audio feedback via the earpiece to describe items in the list as well as audio feedback regarding the navigation state. Many embodiments offer the user a simple user interface to traverse the list without visual feedback. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169098 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF A LIST COMMANDS UTILITY FOR A SPEECH RECOGNITION COMMAND SYSTEM - In embodiments of the present invention, a system and computer-implemented method for enabling a user to interact with a mobile device using a voice command may include the steps of defining a structured grammar for generating a global voice command, defining a global voice command of the structured grammar, wherein the global voice command enables access to an object of the mobile device using a single command, and mapping at least one function of the object to the global voice command, wherein upon receiving voice input from the user of the mobile device, the object recognizes the global voice command and controls the function. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169099 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN ENHANCEMENT LAYER WITHIN A MULTIPLE-CHANNEL AUDIO CODING SYSTEM - During operation a multiple channel audio input signal is received and coded to generate a coded audio signal. A balance factor having balance factor components each associated with an audio signal of the multiple channel audio signal is generated. A gain value to be applied to the coded audio signal to generate an estimate of the multiple channel audio signal based on the balance factor and the multiple channel audio signal is determined, with the gain value configured to minimize a distortion value between the multiple channel audio signal and the estimate of the multiple channel audio signal. The representation of the gain value may be output for transmission and/or storage. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169100 | SELECTIVE SCALING MASK COMPUTATION BASED ON PEAK DETECTION - A set of peaks in a reconstructed audio vector Ŝ of a received audio signal is detected and a scaling mask ψ(Ŝ) based on the detected set of peaks is generated. A gain vector g* is generated based on at least the scaling mask and an index j representative of the gain vector. The reconstructed audio signal is scaled with the gain vector to produce a scaled reconstructed audio signal. A distortion is generated based on the audio signal and the scaled reconstructed audio signal. The index of the gain vector based on the generated distortion is output. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169101 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN ENHANCEMENT LAYER WITHIN A MULTIPLE-CHANNEL AUDIO CODING SYSTEM - During operation a multiple channel audio input signal is received and coded to generate a coded audio signal. A balance factor having balance factor components each associated with an audio signal of the multiple channel audio signal is generated. A gain value to be applied to the coded audio signal to generate an estimate of the multiple channel audio signal based on the balance factor and the multiple channel audio signal is determined, with the gain value configured to minimize a distortion value between the multiple channel audio signal and the estimate of the multiple channel audio signal. The representation of the gain value may be output for transmission and/or storage. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169102 | LOW COMPLEXITY MPEG ENCODING FOR SURROUND SOUND RECORDINGS - The invention provides for the encoding of surround sound produced by any coincident microphone techniques with coincident-to-virtual microphone signal matrixing. An encoding scheme provides significantly lower computational demand, by deriving the spatial parameters and output downmixes from the coincident microphone array signals and the coincident-to-surround channel-coefficients matrix, instead of the multi-channel signals. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169103 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCEMENT OF AUDIO RECONSTRUCTION - An audio signal having at least one audio channel and associated direction parameters indicating a direction of origin of a portion of the audio channel with respect to a recording position is reconstructed to derive a reconstructed audio signal. A desired direction of origin with respect to the recording position is selected. The portion of the audio channel is modified for deriving a reconstructed portion of the reconstructed audio signal, wherein the modifying includes increasing an intensity of the portion of the audio channel having direction parameters indicating a direction of origin close to the desired direction of origin with respect to another portion of the audio channel having direction parameters indicating a direction of origin further away from the desired direction of origin. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169104 | Partially Complex Modulated Filter Bank - An apparatus for processing a plurality of real-valued subband signals using a first real-valued subband signal and a second real-valued subband signal to provide at least a complex-valued subband signal comprises a multiband filter for providing an intermediate real-valued subband signal and a calculator for providing the complex-valued subband signal by combining a real-valued subband signal from the plurality of real-valued subband signals and the intermediate subband signal. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169105 | Discrete time expansion systems and methods - The present invention relates to discrete time expansion systems and methods for expanding a source signal while at least substantially preserving its frequency distribution and obviating a need to smoothen an expanded signal. Such a system may expand the source signal by a preset expansion ratio which is any integer or any real number represented by a ratio of (m+n)/m or (m+n+0.5)/m where m and n are positive integers. The present invention also relates to various methods of expanding the source signal by separating such a signal to multiple sub-signals each in a different frequency range, expanding each sub-signal using different expansion intervals, and generating the expanded signal by superposition of each expanded sub-signals. The present invention also relates to various algorithms and processes for such systems. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169106 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROFILING JURORS - A jury profiling system and method. A profiling system is provided that includes: A profiling system for profiling prospective jurors, comprising: a system for generating a case specific scoring table based on a set of survey data, wherein the survey data includes attribute data for a set of respondents and liability findings from the set of respondents for at least one hypothetical case, wherein the case specific scoring table provides a score for each of a plurality of attribute combinations; an attributed jury pool database for storing a set of attributed juror records; an interface for selecting a potential juror from the attributed jury pool database; and a system for scoring the potential juror by comparing attributes of the potential juror with the attribute combinations in the case specific scoring table. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169107 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATED PERSONAL GENOME MANAGEMENT - Provided are a method and an apparatus for managing data indicating personal genome data. The method includes obtaining property information of a first personal genome data, which indicates genome information of an individual, by analyzing a first personal genome data, and generating integrated data by integrating the first personal genome data and a second personal genome data indicating genome data of the individual based on the obtained property information. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169108 | DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS USED FOR HEALTH-BASED DATA COLLECTION - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates aggregating data with a distributed network for health-related diagnosis. A device can include a sensor for dynamic collection of data, wherein the portion of data is wirelessly communicated from the device to a distributed network. An evaluator can generate a health informative update based at least in part upon an analysis of the dynamically collected data received via the distributed network, wherein the evaluator analyzes a medical condition with a condition-indicative level of the portion of data collected via the sensor. The health informative update can be at least one of a personal update providing information pertaining to an individual-based medical condition or a geographic-based population update providing information related to a medical condition that affects a pre-defined number of individuals within the geographic-based population. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169109 | Managing Patient Care Plans - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing patient care plans are provided. In embodiments, a patient care plan, including at least one order, is input into a patient profile. A user may proactively check for alerts related to the patient care plan or receive alert notification when signing the orders included in the patient care plan. Upon presentation of an alert, the user may re-enter the patient profile to correct input information, cancel the order associated with the alert, override the alert, and the like. In the case the alert is overridden, information related to the reason for overriding the alert is collected and preserved in an alert history for presentation to subsequent users. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169110 | BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A healthcare professional terminal | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169111 | Portable Health & Safety Monitoring Device - A portable health and safety monitoring device integrates real-time usage monitoring and wireless reporting. Wireless communications occur with each opening of a medication compartment which reporting the event time to a host server. The event is displayed online on a website accessible by authorized caregivers. The device optionally contains a global positioning system. In addition, the device optionally but preferably includes a panic button. Actions that are to occur upon actuation of the panic button can be stipulated by authorized caregivers, such as auto-dialing a physician or caregiver when a panic button press occurs. The device beeps when meds are due and immediately reports to the server after a lid opening. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169112 | METHOD FOR EFFECTING COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED DECISION-SUPPORT IN PRESCRIBING A DRUG THERAPY - The method uses a rules database comprising a number of associated rules for prescribing the drug for treatment, where each rule indicates a prescription of the drug suitable for a specific set of patient data. Drug data and patient data are entered into the rules database. The database provides an output of a prescription suitable for the therapy. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169113 | HOSPITAL SERVICE LINE MANAGEMENT TOOL - A method for managing, organizing, integrating, and evaluating a service line of a hospital. Primary goals of the present method include, for example, improving patient care, increasing financial margins, and building volume. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169114 | System and Method for Clinical Intelligent Agents Implementing an Integrated Intelligent Monitoring and Notification System - A method includes: receiving patient specific data; comparing the patient specific data with reference data; producing alerts when the comparison determines that an event requiring action has occurred; and sending the alerts to care providers. An apparatus that implements the method and a computer readable medium including instructions for performing the method are also provided. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169115 | SYSTEM FOR MATCHING INDIVIDUALS WITH HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AND METHODS THEREOF - A system for matching individuals with health care providers and methods thereof. The system is capable of collecting information from health care providers and individuals and thereafter matching individuals with clinical trial providers based upon that information by utilizing coding to eliminate medical terminology ambiguity. The system continually updates the degree of likelihood of a match of a health care provider with an individual based upon individual feedback and clinical trial provider feedback relating to results achieved from treatment provided by a given health care provider. The system also notifies individuals of experimental clinical trials that can be potentially applicable to the individual based upon the information provided by the individual. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169116 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WORKFLOW PROCESSING - Systems and methods for processing a workflow are disclosed. Certain embodiments allow prescreened data to be inserted into a workflow. A user's interpretation of prescreened data can be compared with previously obtained characteristics, enabling the user's interpretive output to be monitored and improved. The disclosed systems and methods have applications including, but not limited to, training, performance analysis, process improvement, and data analysis and data mining in workflows. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169117 | System and Methods For Managing Medication The Administration of A Plurality of Patients - The present invention concerns a system and methods for managing the administration of medication to a plurality of patients who are simultaneously lodged in an institution. The system comprises an information file card which corresponds to each and all patients and a support on which the information file cards may be placed. The method comprises the steps of: providing an information file card for each of the patients; providing a support on which a plurality of information file cards can be placed simultaneously; and arranging the information file cards on the support, in such a manner so as to obtain, in a single display, a quick overview of the medication to be administered to the whole group of patients. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169118 | CENTRALIZED HEALTHCARE DATA MANAGEMENT - A mechanism that allows employers to associate “identity” tokens with a centralized healthcare record is provided. These tokens can be used by wellness applications to target specific behavior related to partnering employers. The innovation also provides for a mechanism that allows employers to review “events” from across the centralized healthcare data ecosystem. These events can be used to track program effectiveness. The events can be fed back into other employer systems such as incentive engines to close the loop with employees. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169119 | Systems and Methods for Delivering Continuous Quality Improvement to Complex Non-Manufacturing Industry - A system and method is disclosed to functionally show how to use a technology-based continuous quality improvement platform with software integration to improve the execution of complex processes in a measurable way. The platform demonstrates how healthcare delivery, as one example of a complex process, is represented as an input-output system (inputs represent determinants of outcomes, and outputs represent the impact those determinants have on specific measures). The software system helps execute tasks, monitors responses (i.e. outputs), learns (by correlating inputs to outputs), and adjusts (by providing practical decision support to users); ultimately these are the basic steps to create a technology based continuous quality improvement methodology for complex systems. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169120 | PATIENT TO DEVICE ASSOCIATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for maintaining an association between a patient and one or more medical devices are provided. Initially, an identification of a patient and at least one medical device may be received. The identification may be received by scanning a barcode, entering an identification into a computing device, or searching a database containing a plurality of patient and medical device identifications. Upon receiving the identifications, the patient and at least one of the medical devices may be associated. This association may be maintained until the patient and the medical devices are disassociated, which may be caused by a variety of occurrences, such as a disassociation by a clinician, a received indication that one of the medical devices is offline, or by a clinician overriding the association in favor of associating that medical device to another patient. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169121 | PATIENT TO DEVICE ASSOCIATION BASED ON SUGGESTED DEVICES - Methods and computer-readable media for associating a patient with one or more medical devices based upon a set of suggested medical devices provided to the user is provided. Initially, an identification of the patient is received, and may be received by scanning a bar code associated with the patient, entering the patient's name into a computing device, or searching for the patient in a database. A set of suggested medical devices may be displayed based on the patient identification, and may be suggested based on one or more of many factors, such as the location of the patient, demographics of the patient, or a diagnosis or medical condition of the patient. A user may select one or more medical devices with which to be associated. The patient and the medical device(s) are explicitly associated, such that the association of the patient and the medical devices(s) is stored. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169122 | IDENTIFICATION OF HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS - Described herein are embodiments directed to displaying presumptive health care infections (HAIs) that may be affecting a patients in health care facilities. Patient data is stored in a database. Software-encoded health care rules for detecting HAIs infections are applied to the patient data and used to classify a patient as having an HAI or community-acquired illness. If an HAI infection is detected, an indication of the HAI is communicated to a remote computer for display in a graphical user interface (GUI) to a clinician. Lists of patients at a given health care facility are communicated to the clinician and organized into groups of patients with HAIs and community-acquired infections. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169123 | HEALTH MONITORING AND DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND NETWORK-BASED HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND MEDICAL RECORDS MAINTENANCE SYSTEM - A health monitoring and diagnostic device (LIFESTREAM cholesterol meter) configured as a self-contained testing and diagnostic unit in a clam-shell type case. One side of the case includes a spring-loaded finger stick and a compartment for carrying one or more packages of disposable items including a test strip, a needle for the finger stick, and an alcohol swipe. The other half of the case includes a test strip reader, a key pad, and a liquid crystal display. The meter reads a test strip carrying a droplet of blood and receives additional diagnostic information from the patient, such as age, gender, weight, and family history of heart disease. Within minutes, the meter displays test results, including total cholesterol levels. The meter also displays additional diagnostic results, such as the patient's “cardiac age,” recommended weight loss, and a cardiac risk assessment. The meter also works in connection with a network-based comprehensive health analysis and reporting system. The meter writes patient data to a smartcard. This patient data typically includes patient identification information, the test results, the diagnostic information, and the diagnostic results. A computer station reads the smartcard and establishes a network connection with a health report server over the Internet. The computer then downloads the patient data to the health report server, which prepares a comprehensive health report. Within minutes, this report is transmitted back to the computer station, where it is printed out and delivered to the patient. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169124 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADMINISTERING HEALTH CARE COST REDUCTION - A system and method for the efficient administration of health care plans, particularly as to the reduction and/or elimination of avoidable medical costs for select individuals who participate in the plan, is disclosed. Existing health care data is processed to determine an indication as to the relative desirability of an intervention in a plan participant's health care regimen. The data is also processed to determine the status of one or more flags, each of which potentially indicates the relative desirability of an intervention in a plan participant's health care regimen. A predictive model is used to determine the status of a flag relating to the likelihood of an insurance plan participant making a disability claim within a certain period of time. The information relating to desirability of an intervention in a plan participant's health care regimen, as well as a plan participant's medical information and claim history, is presented to case managers and/or health care providers in a user-friendly format. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169125 | INSURANCE POLICY MANAGEMENT IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - An invention that manages insurance policies in a virtual universe is provided. In one embodiment, there is an insurance management tool including a rating component configured to assign a rating to an avatar based on a past behavior of the avatar. The insurance management tool further includes an insurance component configured to enable the use of an insurance policy to manage a behavior of the avatar in the virtual universe based on the rating of the avatar. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169126 | Systems and methods for determining optimal pricing ans risk contol monitoring of auctioned assets including the automatic computation of bid prices for credit default swaps and the like - Embodiments of the invention provide an innovative, fully-automated system that facilitates the buying and selling of debt-based derivatives and other assets. The techniques described herein eliminate opaqueness, inefficiencies, and lack of risk monitoring and provide an end-to-end, highly efficient reverse-auction platform that considers many aspects of risk control and other parameters. This is accomplished while computing a true CDS price by incorporating reference entity, primary and secondary insurance company default risks. Furthermore, the reference entity pricing model decouples the borrower from the entity issuing the debt and eliminates rating inflation due to digital discontinuity. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169127 | System and method for managing intellectual property-based risks - Presented herein are methods and systems for managing an entity's risks of patent coverage. More specifically, the present invention is directed to methods and system for insuring an entity against damage awards in patent litigation. The presented methods and systems allow a manufacturer to minimize their exposure to damage awards in patent litigation by conducting pre-emptive analyses and properly allocating funds for royalty payments and/or damage awards. An insurance captive is also established as a risk management tool to insure the manufacturer against excessive damage awards. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169128 | METHODS OF OFFERING AND PROVIDING A VARIABLE LIFE INSURANCE PRODUCT - A variable universal life insurance product that includes a death benefit and associated investment vehicles is selectively offered. A life insurance policy chassis is provided by an insurance company to an asset manager. The asset manager combines the life insurance policy chassis with one or more associated investment vehicles managed by the asset manager to form a variable universal life insurance product. The asset manager selectively makes the insurance product available to respective clients of the asset manager. The insurance company providing service for the death benefit and the asset manager providing service for the associated investment vehicles. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169129 | SYSTEM FOR FUNDING, ANALYZING AND MANAGING LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES FUNDED WITH ANNUITIES - The invention relates to a program that administers a method of funding life insurance policies using annuities that are purchased at least in part using borrowed money, using business and trust structures to reduce and/or eliminate tax. This investing can be done either directly by the policy or through the trust and/or other business entity. As an internal investment of the insurance policy the income generated by the annuity and the inside build-up are non-income taxable to the owner of the policy. The resulting death benefits will also be non-income taxable to the beneficiary. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169130 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PRIORITIZING AND PROCESSING UPDATED INVENTORY INFORMATION FOR EVENT LISTINGS - A system and methods for prioritizing and processing updated inventory information for event listings are described. In one embodiment, a network-based system may receive updated ticket information from a seller for multiple event listings, categorize the updated ticket information from the seller by event, prioritize event categories comprising updated ticket information in accordance with a prioritization policy, and process a prioritized event category comprising updated ticket information for a particular event listing out-of-order with respect to one or more other event categories comprising previously-received updated ticket information for other event listings. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169131 | System and Method For Providing Customized Travel Guides and Itineraries Over a Distributed Network - A system and method are disclosed for providing a customized travel guide and customized travel itinerary, combining segments from multiple travel service providers. The system programmatically creates itineraries, checking for time constraints and interferences. Travelers prioritize activities allowing for a traveler to instruct the service to expand or shrink the trip time to include all activities of highest priority, or vice versa. In addition, the service can make recommendations for activities and scheduling based upon the traveler's profile, other traveler's ratings and recommendations, and similar user profiles. Output can be used in an offline mode, or, upon connecting to the online service, take advantage of automatic alarms and updates should the planned activities data change. With the addition of a GPS locating device, or through tracking the dates of travel, the system is able to present the traveler with only the data most relevant to their location while traveling. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169132 | EXECUTING A BUSINESS TRANSACTION IN AN ENTERPRISE SYSTEM USING BUSINESS DATA OBTAINED FROM HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES - Disclosed is a method and system for receiving business data regarding an entity from various disparate sources, structuring the received data in an enterprise system and executing a business transaction using the structured data. The method involves receiving business data of an entity from a plurality of sources, determining a part of the business data that is relevant to a business process based on a business context from the plurality of sources and mapping the part of the business data to fields of a business object in an enterprise system. Further, a business object instance of the business object is created and a business transaction is executed using the business object instance. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169133 | METHOD TO ENABLE OPTIMIZING TOWARDS GOALS - A method to provide a goal function solution to an optimization problem. The goal function includes weighted parameters and is performed over a series of data instances. The method includes identifying the parameters of the goal. The method also includes estimating the numerical range each parameter weight factor may take by determining the minimal and maximal numerical value for any realistic solution, normalizing all parameters, setting a maximum weight value, setting a numerical weight for each parameter, searching for a goal function solution by searching for a good assignment of weight for each parameter, analyzing the series of instances, averaging the weights of the best goal functions obtained for each data instance to obtain a single goal function, determining whether one goal function is good for all instances and determining whether more than one goal function is required, so that each goal function is appropriate for at least one operational characteristics, and can be activated when the character of each new instance is recognized. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169134 | FOSTERING ENTERPRISE RELATIONSHIPS - The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate, enrich, or nurture relationships in a business enterprise environment. In particular, the architecture can construct a set of profiles associated with entities of the enterprise (e.g., employees, teams, departments, or the enterprise) based upon a wide range of transactions (e.g., behavior, activity, productivity, relationships, explicit or implicit feedback from collaborators . . . ) relating to the entity. Based upon these profiles, the architecture can determine a set of tasks and also identify advantageous relationships, wherein the tasks and relationships are deemed to facilitate accomplishing an objective to benefit the enterprise or entity. In addition, the architecture can nurture or cultivate the advantageous relationships by suggesting suitable behavior or performing opportunistic actions. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169135 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSET BILLING RECONCILIATION MANAGEMENT - An approach is provided that includes assigning a unique identification to each individual of a plurality of individuals, compiling hierarchical data relating the individuals to each other, and collecting service data from one or more service providers relating to the plurality of individuals assigned with unique identifications, where the service data includes service charges associated with services provided to the plurality of individuals. Additionally, the hierarchical data and the service data are merged using the unique identifications to generate a table of service charges of the plurality of individuals in a hierarchical format. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169136 | INFORMATION AGGREGATION FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS - A dynamically developed social networking group is defined within a collaborative platform. Information regarding one or more attributes of one or more members of the group is collected. Anonymized statistical data regarding the group is provided, based upon, at least in part, the information regarding one or more attributes of one or more members of the group. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169137 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO ANALYZE DATA USING A GRAPH - In an example embodiment, systems and methods to analyze data using a graph is shown. The system receives account information that identifies a first account and generates a first graph based on the first account. The graph includes a first score. Next, the system communicates a first interface to a first agent that is selected from a plurality of agents. The first interface includes the first graph. The first graph represents the first account as a first node. The first graph further represents a first plurality of accounts as a first plurality of nodes that include the first node. The first graph further represents a first plurality of account associations between the first plurality of accounts as a first plurality of edges that connect the first plurality of nodes. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169138 | DOCUMENT LIFECYCLE TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE WITH A DOCUMENT PRODUCTION PROCESS - A method for monitoring the status of documents created by a large scale document production and management processes. The production and management process may be comprised of a plurality of different stages including: utilizing a print stream to generate the documents, printing documents on a printer in accordance with the print stream, and forming completed mail pieces on an inserter from the printed documents in accordance with mail piece creation data files. A monitoring system receives information regarding the status of individual documents within these production and management process stages. A user may then select one of the stages for closer inspection of the status of documents. For the selected stage, status of individual documents is displayed | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169139 | Smart Building Unified Managed Solutions - Smart Building Unified Managed Solutions identifies and self heals to resolve inefficient facility environmental variables defined by energy, communications, operations, security, fire, video, video transmission and building controls through a single managed business process solution allowing the facility operators to always have a single view of the entire facility maximizing security and energy savings to the facility including introduction and integration of alternate sources of energy i.e. wind, solar, nuclear. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169140 | Preparing a Time-Sensitive Delivery Request - Some implementations provide a system for preparing a time-sensitive delivery request at least a predefined interval of time before the delivery request is to be forwarded to a supplier. This delivery request may be a request for a component that is to be assembled as part of a production order. This delivery request may be created by a detail-planning system and stored in a resource-planning system. This delivery request may be forwarded to the supplier upon determining that assembly of the production order has reached a first reporting point. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169141 | TIME REQUEST QUEUE - A group scheduling solution offers an organized and formalized solution to the time management problem in which the desired meeting includes one person who is difficult to schedule. In the inventive approach, a scheduling system is provided in which a hard-to-schedule attendee takes over responsibility for setting the start time of an event. In the invention, a workflow is provided, in which the organizer sends a request to the hard-to-schedule person. The request preferably contains the desired duration of the meeting. The request may contain a list of attendees, location, and other details. These requests are maintained in a queue for the hard-to-schedule person. Batching requests in a queue is a key feature of the invention. The hard-to-schedule person, or their proxy, can then review these requests and select a suitable time for the meeting, set this time in a meeting request, thereby causing an update to be sent back to the organizer and the other attendees, thus indicating the appointed time for the meeting. The organizer of the meeting can still update the meeting details, etc. However, any changes in the start time or the duration of the meeting must be made by the hard-to-schedule person or their proxy. The hard-to-schedule person can also decline the meeting entirely. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169142 | USER INTERFACE FOR DISPLAYING AN ITEM OF WORK IN A WORKFLOW CONTEXT - A user interface for use in, e.g., a healthcare computing environment, for displaying an item of work in a workflow context associated with a particular resource is provided In one embodiment, the user interface includes a first workflow context display area configured to display a current workflow state of the item of work and at least one of a past workflow state and a potential future workflow state of the item of work. The user interface may further include a selectable workflow view indicator, whereby following the selectable workflow view indicator allows a user to navigate to a second workflow context display area configured to display an identity of at least one additional resource associated with the item of work and a status of the item of work as it pertains to the additional resource. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169143 | System and method for managing numerous facets of a work relationship - A system and method of managing numerous facets of work relationships. In a preferred form, the system provides end-to-end integration of the contract resourcing process (“requisition to check”) for a multitude of clients and a multitude of service providers. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169144 | Business goal incentives using gaming rewards - Gaming rewards are provided as an incentive for performing business goals. A business goal can be comprised of one or more tasks and a threshold for each task. When one or more participants perform tasks which satisfies the corresponding thresholds, a corresponding gaming reward is awarded to the participants. A business goal may require a single participant to satisfy a single task threshold, multiple participants to satisfy a threshold for one or more tasks, or a single participant to satisfy one or more thresholds for several tasks. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169145 | MANAGING CALENDARING EVENTS - An indication of a meeting being scheduled between a plurality of attendees is received. A first one of the attendees is designated an owner of the meeting. Ownership privileges for the meeting are associated with at least a second one of the meeting attendees. The ownership privileges associated with at least a second one of the meeting attendees are associated based upon, at least in part, a social network defined for the owner of the meeting. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169146 | AUTOMATED SCHEDULING OF TO-DO ITEMS WITHIN A CALENDAR - A computer-implemented method of task scheduling can include receiving an input from a user, wherein the input specifies a task comprising a due date and determining whether the task includes supplemental scheduling information. When the task does not include supplemental scheduling information, a first calendar event corresponding to the task can be created and stored within memory within a calendar of the user scheduled on the date. When the task does specify supplemental scheduling information, at least a first calendar event corresponding to the task can be created and stored, within memory, within a calendar of the user scheduled according to the date and the supplemental scheduling information. Calendar events created for a task that conflict with other calendar events can be dynamically rescheduled. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169147 | Location-based queuing - Queuing to a mobile agents is accomplished by assigning each mobile agents to one of a plurality of location zones based on information received from a tracking system, and maintaining a plurality of location-specific queues of requests, each location-specific queue having one or more of the location zones associated therewith, and each location-specific queue being serviced only by those mobile agents whose assigned location zone matches a location zone of that location-specific queue. On receiving a location-based request for the services of a mobile agent, an optimum queue is selected for the request from among the plurality of location-specific queues based at least in part on a comparison between the request location and a location zone associated with the optimum queue, subject to a servicing constraint that a queue can only be selected as the optimum queue if at least one agent is currently servicing the queue. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169148 | INTERACTION SOLUTIONS FOR CUSTOMER SUPPORT - The present invention provides a system, architecture and process to support new interaction paradigms in customer support. Specifically, the approach of the present invention will unify through a new process and innovative system architecture the two basic methods of in house support and online support. To accomplish this unification, the present invention enables customers to work together as peers in problem resolution by exploiting the customer expertise (they work with the products on a daily basis and often have deep understanding what works/does not work). Among other things, the present invention provides: incentives for customers to participate in this new support; a rating infrastructure in which multiple good ratings helps to become “THE EXPERT” by increasing the score; incentives upon receipt of good ratings and or certain score levels; a problem routing mechanism; Master Data Management (MDM) for insights in customers and products. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169149 | MOTIVATING EQUITABLE BEHAVIOR IN CALENDAR EVENTS - An event scheduling request is received, and a disruption factor is associated with each of a plurality of invitees. The disruption factor is based upon, at least in part, an event parameter and at least one invitee attribute. An event is scheduled based upon, at least in part, the disruption factors associated with each of the plurality of invitees. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169150 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSIGNING STAFF AS A SERVICE IN A SERVICE NETWORK WITHIN A COMPONENT BUSINESS MODEL ARCHITECTURE - A method and system are provided for using a component business model (CBM) architecture to provide a staff assignment service to an enterprise. A staff assignment scenario is described in terms of process steps, and staffing resources and respective commercialization mechanisms required to implement the staff assignment scenario are described in terms of business components in a CBM architecture of the enterprise, the applicable business components forming a staffing service network. For each business component in the staffing service network, functionalities supporting the scenario are identified, and collaborative links among the business components are established, sufficient to enable the service functionalities within the staffing service network to operate so as to assign staff to a project of the enterprise. The staff assignment service is adapted dynamically by repetition of this technique as new scenarios are developed. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169151 | ALARMING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING MALICIOUS ACCESS TO BANK ACCOUNTS - An alarm system and method include setting an alarm password corresponding to the bank account and setting a restricted amount of the bank account, acquiring account information of the bank account if the alarm password is received, and sending the alarm message including the account information to a receiving device of one or more emergency dispatchers. The alarm system and method further include displaying the restricted amount on an account interface provided by a bank server if the account balance is greater than the restricted amount, or displaying the account balance on the account interface if the account balance is less than the restricted amount. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169152 | Streaming advertisements to a computer platform in a secure and targeted manner - In some embodiments targeted messaging and ads are delivered to a target customer in response to end user demographic information and end user computing platform behavior. The delivering is prevented from being overridden by a user or by any software running on the computing platform. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169153 | User-Adaptive Recommended Mobile Content - Techniques are described to provide user-adaptive recommended mobile content. In an example implementation, one or more user-specific parameters are detected on a mobile device. Examples of user-specific parameters may include user behavior on the mobile device, the location of the user and/or mobile device, the behavior of a user's associate as part of a social network, and so on. The user-specific parameters are used to identify recommended content that is relevant to the user-specific parameters, and the user is notified of the recommended content. The recommended content may be accessed via the mobile device. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169154 | SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHOD FOR PRODUCT SELECTION - A system and associated method is provided for assisting a customer in selecting products based on profile information of the customer. Profile information may be obtained directly from the user and from information collected on the customer's mobile device. The profile information can be used to send the customer customized product proposals. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169155 | Widget Development Tool - In an interactive television system, a proposal widget may be included which enables users to submit proposed widgets. Other users may comment on the proposed widgets and the proposal widget may also be used to enable users to see the results of deliberations about the proposed widgets. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169156 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREDITING A CUSTOMER ACCOUNT - Embodiments of the disclosed invention include a system and method for crediting a customer account for having placed a call from the customer on hold during a customer service call. For example, in one embodiment, audible advertisements are played while a customer is on hold during a customer service call. Revenue received from the advertisers associated with the audible advertisements is used to credit the customer account. In some embodiments, the total credit applied to customer accounts for having been placed on hold completely offsets all revenue received from the advertisers of the audible advertisements. Thus, the disclosed embodiments provide a mutual benefit to advertisers and consumers. | 2010-07-01 |
| 20100169157 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING TARGETED ADVERTISING - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for providing targeted advertising. An apparatus may include a processor configured to generate a targeting vector and provide the targeting vector to an advertising platform to permit one or more advertisements to be selected based at least in part upon the provided targeting vector. The processor may be further configured to receive the one or more advertisements from the advertising platform. The processor may additionally be configured to monitor a user's interaction with the received advertisements to determine an effectiveness level of the advertisements. The processor may be further configured to update the targeting vector when the determined effectiveness level is less than a target effectiveness level by modifying the targeting vector to enhance the effectiveness level of advertisements selected based at least in part upon the targeting vector. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 2010-07-01 |
