35th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 66 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140244208 | Method And Device For Determining An Area Cut With A Cutting Roll By At Least One Construction Machine Or Mining Machine - In a method for determining an area milled by at least one construction machine or at least one mining machine by means of a milling drum ( | 2014-08-28 |
20140244209 | Systems and Methods for Activity Recognition Training - Systems and methods are disclosed for classifying an activity. A sensor tracks motion by a user and a classifier recognizes data output sensor as corresponding to an activity. The classifier may be trained or otherwise modified using received information, which may include data from the sensor or information from an external source, such as a remotely maintained database. The device may update a local or remote database using sensor data when in a training mode. The training mode may be implemented automatically when there is sufficient confidence in the activity identification or manually in response to a user input. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244210 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL TIME DETERMINATION OF 3 AXIS ORIENTATION FROM REFERENCE VECTORS WITH VECTOR MISALIGNMENT ESTIMATION - A computer implemented method, program and system for determining the attitude of a vehicle from two sets of local frame and body frame reference vectors utilizing solution equations for Euler sequence angles associated with rotation of a vehicle about a local frame reference vector. In particular, the method, computer program and system determines the attitude at a rate amenable for real time system use in conjunction with a wide array of sensor input sources such as star tracking devices, and provides estimators for the error in the reference vectors usable for surveillance of sensory input quality by flight management systems. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244211 | METHOD AND EQUIPMENT FOR MEASURING MASS INERTIA OF MOVING SURFACES - A method for measuring mass inertia of moving surfaces, comprising the steps of: (a) Alignment of the center of gravity of an assembly ( | 2014-08-28 |
20140244212 | Monitoring Aging of Silicon in an Integrated Circuit Device - A mechanism is provided for determining a modeled age of a mufti-core processor. For each core in a set of cores in the multi-core processor, a determination is made of a temperature, a voltage, and a frequency at regular intervals for a set of degradations and a set of voltage domains, thereby forming the modeled age of the multi-core processor. A determination is made as to whether the modeled age of the multi-core processor is greater than an end-of-life value. Responsive to the modeled age of the multi-core processor being greater than an end-of-life value, an indication is sent that the multi-core processor requires replacement. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244213 | Diagnostic Baselining - Disclosed are methods and devices related to diagnosing a device-under-service (DUS) are disclosed. DUS-related data is received. The DUS-related data is determined to be aggregated into aggregated data based on a determined classification of the DUS-related data. An aggregated-data comparison of the DUS-related data and aggregated data is generated. The aggregated-data comparison can include a statistical analysis of the DUS-related data and/or a differential analysis of DUS-related data taken while the DUS is operating in two or more operating states. A DUS report is generated based on the aggregated-data comparison. The DUS report can include one or more sub-strategies. At least one of the one or more sub-strategies can include a sub-strategy-success estimate. The DUS report can be sent and a DUS-report display can be generated based on the DUS report. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244214 | Method for Localizing Sources of Signals in Reverberant Environments Using Sparse Optimization - Source signals emitted in a reverberant environment from different locations are processed by first receiving input signals corresponding to the source signals by a set of sensors. Then, a sparsity-based support estimation is applied to the input signals according to a reverberation model to produce estimates of the source signals and locations of a set of sources emitting the source signals. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244215 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING MASK PATTERN, NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A method which determines patterns for a plurality of masks to be executed by a processor includes acquiring data on a pattern containing a plurality of pattern elements, and assigning the acquired plurality of pattern elements into masks, decomposing the acquired plurality of pattern elements into patterns of the masks, and calculating an evaluation value for an evaluation index, based on a number of masks, the distances between a plurality of pattern elements in each mask, and an angle of a line connecting a plurality of pattern elements in each mask. In the method, a pattern of each mask is determined based on the calculated evaluation value. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244216 | Method, System and Computer Program Product for Real-Time Detection of Sensitivity Decline in Analyte Sensors - Method, system and computer program product for providing real time detection of analyte sensor sensitivity decline is continuous glucose monitoring systems are provided. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244217 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED OPTICAL DETECTION OF PARTICLES IN FLUID - A number of fluidic-photonic devices for allowing optical detection, systems employing such devices, and related methods of operation and fabrication of such devices are disclosed herein. In at least some embodiments, the devices can serve as flow cytometry devices and/or employ microfluidic channels. Also, in at least some embodiments, the devices are fluidic-photonic integrated circuit (FPIC) devices that employ both fluidic channels and one or more waveguides capable of receiving and/or delivering light, and that can be fabricated using polymeric materials. The fluidic-photonic devices in at least some embodiments are capable of functionality such as on-chip excitation, time-of-flight measurement, and can experience enhanced fluorescence detection sensitivity. In at least some embodiments, the devices employ detection waveguides that are joined by way of a waveguide demultiplexer. In additional embodiments, a variety of techniques can be used to process information received via the waveguides, including an iterative cross-correlation process. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244218 | ARCHITECTURE OPTIMIZATION - A computerized method, system and computer product for automatic architecture generation is disclosed. The computerized method includes receiving a functional description of an architecture of a system, wherein the system architecture includes a plurality of functions and a plurality of functional links between the functions, receiving or defining at least one functional failure case and its maximum allowed failure probability, defining an algebraic function approximating the probability of occurrence of each failure case, automatically generating an optimized architecture using an optimization solver wherein all architecture's one approximated failure probabilities are smaller than the maximum allowed probability for the respective failure cases and outputting the automatically generated architecture. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244219 | METHOD OF CREATING A PIPE ROUTE LINE FROM A POINT CLOUD IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING SOFTWARE - A method, apparatus, system, article of manufacture, and computer program product provide the ability to create a pipe route. A point cloud is obtained into a three-dimensional (3D) modeling application. Cylinders in the point cloud are identified and added as solids overlaying the point cloud. All cylinders that make up the pipe route are identified by system aided selection of two or more of the solids. Automatically, and without additional user input, the selected solids are converted into objects. A continuous pipe route is constructed from the objects. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244220 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING FIT OF AN IMPLANT TO ANATOMY - A system and method for pre-operatively optimizing a fit of an orthopaedic implant relative to a particular individuals anatomy is provided. The method includes: receiving information including a three-dimensional anatomic model of the individuals anatomy; computing a periphery of a simulated resection portion of the anatomic model without reference to any abnormal morphology; identifying a preliminary size for an orthopaedic implant component for use on the simulated resection surface; initially positioning the orthopaedic implant model relative to the simulated resection portion; generating random point sets around the peripheries of the simulated resection portion and the orthopaedic implant model; utilizing a position optimizer to determine whether the position of the orthopaedic implant periphery relative to the simulated resection portion periphery is optimal; determining whether the selected orthopaedic implant model results in overhang; and verifying the position of the orthopaedic implant and/or the size of the orthopaedic implant. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244221 | PARALLEL LINEAR COMPLEMENTARITY SOLVER FOR RIGID BODY DYNAMICS - A system and method for solving linear complementarity problems for rigid body simulation is disclosed. The method includes determining one or more contact constraints affecting an original object having an original mass. The method includes splitting the original object by a total number of the contact constraints into a plurality of sub-bodies. The method includes assigning a contact constraint to a corresponding sub-body. The method further includes solving contact constraints in isolation for each sub-body. The method also includes enforcing fixed joint constraints exactly, such that positions and orientations of each sub-body are identical. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244222 | MODIFIED EFFECTIVE MASS FOR PARALLEL RIGID BODY SIMULATION - A system and method for solving linear complementarity problems for rigid body simulation is disclosed. The method includes determining a plurality of modified effective masses for a plurality of contacts between a plurality of bodies, wherein each modified effective mass term is based on a corresponding number of contacts. A plurality of relative velocities is determined based on the plurality of body velocities determined from a last iteration. A plurality of impulse corrections is determined based on the plurality of modified effective masses and the plurality of relative velocities. A plurality of updated impulses is determined based on the impulse corrections. The plurality of updated impulses is applied to the plurality of bodies based on a plurality of original masses of the bodies, body velocities determined from the last iteration, to determine a plurality of updated velocities of the plurality of bodies. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244223 | Method For Simulating Circuitry By Dynamically Modifying Device Models That Are Problematic For Out-of-Range Voltages - A simulation system ( | 2014-08-28 |
20140244224 | RAPID ASSESSMENT OF SUSPENSION GEOMETRY FOR LOADS - A model of a vehicle suspension includes an indication of a suspension type. A plurality of suspension hard points for modeling output loads are selected. An input point in the suspension is defined, including input loads at the input point. A set of equations is created using the input loads and the selected hard points, each equation representing a load in one of an X, Y, and Z direction in a three-dimensional coordinate system. At least one constraint equation is added to the set of equations. The equations are solved to determine output loads for each of the selected hard points. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244225 | BATTERY STATE OF CHARGE TRACKING, EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT SELECTION AND BENCHMARKING - A method includes calculating a first estimated state of charge (SOC) of a battery at a first time, receiving a voltage value representing a measured voltage across the battery at a second time, calculating a filter gain at the second time, and calculating a second estimated SOC of the battery at the second time based on the first estimated SOC, the voltage value, and the filter gain. Another method includes storing, in a memory, a library of equivalent circuit models representing a battery, determining an operational mode of a battery based on a load associated with the battery, selecting one of the equivalent circuit models based on the determined operational mode, and calculating a state of charge of charge (SOC) of the battery using the selected equivalent circuit model. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244226 | COMPACT OPC MODEL GENERATION USING VIRTUAL DATA - A method, system or computer usable program product for building a fast lithography OPC model that predicts semiconductor manufacturing process outputs on silicon wafers including providing a first principles model of the semiconductor manufacturing process, providing a set of empirical data for storage in memory, utilizing a processor to develop a rigorous model for a process condition from the first principles model and the set of empirical data, and utilizing the processor running the rigorous model to generate emulated data for the process condition to develop a virtual model for predicting the semiconductor manufacturing process outputs. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244227 | METHOD FOR VALIDATING A TRAINING IMAGE FOR THE MULTIPOINT GEOSTATISTICAL MODELING OF THE SUBSOIL - According to the invention, a training image denotes, for each cell of a first three-dimensional grid, a respective type of geological facies assigned to said cell. For each cell of a second three-dimensional grid, the morphology of which is matched to estimated geological horizons, the well data comprise a respective type of geological facies estimated for said cell. Two-dimensional patterns, each of which is defined along a respective geological horizon and includes, in a cell containing the intersection of a well with said geological horizon, the type of geological facies estimated for each cell, are defined. The instances of the identified two-dimensional patterns are counted in the training image so as to verify the ability of the training image to account for correlations between wells. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244228 | CODON OPTIMIZATION OF A SYNTHETIC GENE(S) FOR PROTEIN EXPRESSION - The present disclosure is related to a method of optimization of a nucleotide coding sequence coding for an amino acid sequence, wherein the nucleotide coding sequence is optimized for expression in a host cell. The present disclosure also relates to system for optimizing a nucleotide coding sequence coding for an amino acid sequence, wherein the nucleotide coding sequence is optimized for expression in a host cell. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244229 | Volatile Compound Fingerprint Atlas-Spectrum Model Used for Early Gastric Cancer Diagnosis/ Warning - Volatile organic compounds emitted from gastric cancer cell metabolite is separated and detected using HS-SPME/GC-MS. A volatile compounds fingerprint atlas-spectrum model are disclosed for early gastric cancer diagnosis/warning Volatiles 3-octanone and 2-butanone as indicators of gastric cancer cells which are not contained in the headspace of gastric mucosal cells GES-1. Meanwhile, the ratio of mass to volume to concentration of 4-isopropoxy alcohol, nonanoic acid, and 4-butoxy n-butanol is as follows: 4-isopropoxy alcohol [gastric cancer cells]/[normal gastric mucosa cells]≦0.31; nonanoic acid [gastric cancer cells]/[normal gastric mucosa cells]≦0.36; and 4-butoxy n-butanol [gastric cancer cells]/[normal gastric mucosa cells]≦0.40. The volatile organic compound in cell metabolite to be detected is compared with the fingerprint atlas-spectrum model, so as to implement screening and warning of the early gastric cancer. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244230 | COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING - In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, systems and methods are provided for generating one or more potential configurations corresponding to one or more parameters used for computing infrastructure planning by determining a sizing grammar for each of the one or more potential configurations corresponding to the one or more parameters, interpreting the sizing grammar based on one or more grammar rules to output configuration information for each of the one or more potential configurations, and translating the configuration information for each of the one or more potential configurations based on one or more motif descriptions to output resource information for each of the one or more potential configurations. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244231 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A CONFIGURATION FOR A CONTROL UNIT TEST SYSTEM - A method for performing configuration of a control unit test system with hardware components connected thereto, wherein control units can be tested with the test system in an environment simulated by the test system by means of a model, and wherein the test system comprises at least one computer, in particular a computer executing the model, as well as hardware components, connected to one another by means of at least one network, in which at least a portion of the hardware components comprises a dedicated server (MIS) that, by means of communication, provides access to the configuration data associated with the hardware component, in particular stored in the hardware component, and the model and/or the hardware component is adapted, in particular configured, as a function of the configuration data that are made accessible. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244232 | SIMULATION APPARATUS AND SIMULATION METHOD - A simulation apparatus performs a simulation of a program for executing a plurality of instructions included in an instruction set of a processor. A bus model unit accepts an access request to a memory storing the program, performs arbitration for a bus, and calculates a cycle count of the processor until use of the bus is granted, for each instruction of the program. A cycle count accumulation unit computes a cycle count required for executing the program based on the cycle count for each instruction calculated by the bus model unit. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244233 | EXECUTING A HARDWARE SIMULATION AND VERIFICATION SOLUTION - One embodiment of the present invention provides systems and techniques to execute a hardware simulation and verification solution on a multiprocessor system. The hardware simulation and verification solution can be partitioned into different modules which can include a simulation kernel to simulate changes in signal values, a value change dump module to store the changes in the signal values on a computer-readable storage medium, a functional coverage module to check functionality, a toggle coverage module to check signal toggling, an assertion engine to check complex behaviors, and a testbench module to generate test scenarios. Embodiments of the present invention can execute different modules on different processors, thereby improving performance. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244234 | CHINESE NAME TRANSLITERATION - Chinese name transliteration is described. A Chinese name including a surname followed by a given name is received. The received Chinese name is parsed into a surname and a given name by: identifying any dual-character surnames in the received Chinese name, by referencing a list of known Chinese surnames; identifying any single-character surnames in the received Chinese name, by referencing the list of known Chinese surnames; and identifying, among the remaining characters in the received Chinese name, any characters not belonging to a dual-character or a single-character surname as a given name. The identified surname and the identified given name are transliterated into a Mandarin Pinyin representation. The Mandarin Pinyin representation of the surname and the given name is normalized into a pre-determined representation. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244235 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING MULTIPLE TEXT STREAMS OF A COMMUNICATION IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES - A communication, such as a voice communication, is established between a communication device and a media application. The media application may be, for example, a voice conferencing system or a media server. Some or all of the communication is translated into a plurality of text streams that are in different languages. The plurality of text streams are transmitted to the communication device along with the stream of the communication. The communication device receives the text streams in the different languages and the stream of the communication. A user of the communication device can select a language for displaying one or more of the text streams in the different languages. The text stream associated with the selected language is then displayed to the user in conjunction with the stream of the communication. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244236 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MULTILINGUAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT - A system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by the processor. The instructions when translated by the processor cause the system to perform, including determining an exemplar reference which identifies a managed object stored in a repository residing in an enterprise computing environment. The system can determine a translation group utilizing the exemplar reference. The managed object may represent a content item. The translation group may include the content item and the content item may be multilingual enabled. The system can determine an effective locale for a request for content received from a client device communicatively connected to a web server in the enterprise computing environment, determine a language that is appropriate for the effective locale, and respond to the request for content with the content item or a translation of the content item that is in the language appropriate for the effective locale. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244237 | GLOBAL PRODUCT-SURVEY - During a survey technique, a product survey in an original language is translated into a target language, and any errors in the translation are identified and corrected. Words in the translation that do not translate well or clearly may be reverted back to the original language based on transliteration instructions. This may allow customers to answer the translated product survey in the target language using a user interface (such as a keyboard) based on the original language. After receiving answers from the users to questions in the translated product survey, the answers may be analyzed to determine results of the product survey in the target language. Then, the results may be translated back into the original language. After translation into the original language, the results across multiple target languages can be consolidated and presented. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244238 | NATIVE-SCRIPT AND CROSS-SCRIPT CHINESE NAME MATCHING - Techniques for Chinese name matching are described. A Chinese name is received and is romanized into a Mandarin Pinyin representation. The Mandarin Pinyin representation of the Chinese name is matched against a set of Romanized Chinese names originating from several different Chinese character names. In response to finding a potential match between the Mandarin Pinyin representation and Romanized Chinese name, the original Chinese script for the Romanized Chinese name is retrieved. A native script comparison is applied between the received Chinese name and the original Chinese script for the Romanized Chinese name to obtain a match score. The native script comparison includes character-by-character comparison, character variant look-up, and/or consideration of name component misalignments. The obtained match score is used as a filter to reduce false positives that are generated in the matching of the Mandarin Pinyin representation against the set of Romanized Chinese names. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244239 | IDENTIFYING WORDS FOR A CONTEXT - For identifying words for a context, a monitor module monitors first communications at a digital processing system and determines usage frequencies of a plurality of words in one or more contexts. An identity module identifies a first word in response to a usage frequency for the first word exceeding a use threshold. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244240 | Determining Explanatoriness of a Segment - A technique may include generating a segment from a sentence using a probabilistic model or structure. The probabilistic model/structure may be based on a Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The technique may further include determining an explanatoriness score of the segment using the probabilistic model/structure. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244241 | AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION OF BUSINESS RULES FROM TEXT - The present subject matter relates to an automated classification of business rules. In one embodiment, a method for automated classification of the business rules comprises identifying a business rule from a text document, wherein the business rule comprises one or more rule intents. Further, the method comprises comparing the one or more rule intents in the business rule with rule intents associated with a plurality of rule types in a rule repository. Furthermore, the method comprises classifying the business rule under at least one of the rule types based on the comparison. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244242 | CONTEXT BASED DOCUMENT ANALYSIS - A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying, by a computing device, content in a document, wherein the content includes a language expression. A context of the language expression is determined from a defined range of the content in the document. An action item associated with the language expression is generated based upon, at least in part, the context of the language expression. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244243 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INPUT PREDICTION SERVICE - A method for providing an input prediction service in a first mobile terminal, the method includes receiving a message, from a second mobile terminal, at the first mobile terminal using a first application program, extracting specific text included in the received message, and identifying prediction information based on the extracted text. An apparatus to provide an input prediction service in a first mobile terminal, the apparatus includes a first application program to receive a message from a second mobile terminal, and a recognition unit to extract specific text included in the receive message and to identify prediction information based on the extracted text. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244244 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING FREQUENCY SPECTRUM USING SOURCE FILTER - A frequency spectrum processing apparatus and method using a source filter are disclosed. The frequency spectrum processing apparatus may include a first excitation spectrum generation unit to generate a first excitation spectrum using a tonal excitation spectrum according to an input signal and a gain of the tonal excitation spectrum, a second excitation spectrum generation unit to generate a second excitation spectrum using a non-tonal excitation spectrum according to the input signal and a gain of the non-tonal excitation spectrum, and an output spectrum generation unit to generate an output spectrum using the first excitation spectrum and the second excitation spectrum. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244245 | METHOD FOR SOUNDPROOFING AN AUDIO SIGNAL BY AN ALGORITHM WITH A VARIABLE SPECTRAL GAIN AND A DYNAMICALLY MODULATABLE HARDNESS - The method comprises, in the frequency domain: estimating ( | 2014-08-28 |
20140244246 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING ACCENT INDUCED SPEECH TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS - A system and method is provided for detecting errors in a speech transmission system. A first audio stream is comprised of a plurality of words, upon which a plurality of independent voice-to-text conversions are performed. If it is determined that at least one of the plurality of independent voice-to-text conversions is error free, a text-to-voice conversion of the at least one error-free voice-to-text conversion is performed to create a second audio stream. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244247 | KEYBOARD TYPING DETECTION AND SUPPRESSION - Provided are methods and systems for detecting the presence of a transient noise event in an audio stream using primarily or exclusively the incoming audio data. Such an approach offers improved temporal resolution and is computationally efficient. The methods and systems presented utilize some time-frequency representation of an audio signal as the basis in a predictive model in an attempt to find outlying transient noise events and interpret the true detection state as a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to model temporal and frequency cohesion common amongst transient noise events. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244248 | CONVERSION OF NON-BACK-OFF LANGUAGE MODELS FOR EFFICIENT SPEECH DECODING - Techniques for conversion of non-back-off language models for use in speech decoders. For example, a method comprises the following step. A non-back-off language model is converted to a back-off language model. The converted back-off language model is pruned. The converted back-off language model is usable for decoding speech. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244249 | System and Method for Identification of Intent Segment(s) in Caller-Agent Conversations - Identification of an intent of a conversation can be useful for real-time or post-processing purposes. According to example embodiments, a method, and corresponding apparatus of identifying at least one intent-bearing utterance in a conversation, comprises determining at least one feature for each utterance among a subset of utterances of the conversation; classifying each utterance among the subset of utterances, using a classifier, as an intent classification or a non-intent classification based at least in part on a subset of the at least one determined feature; and selecting at least one utterance, with intent classification, as an intent-bearing utterance based at least in part on classification results by the classifier. Through identification of an intent bearing utterance, a call center for example, can provide improved service for callers through, for example, more effective directing of a call to a live agent. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244250 | CARDIOID BEAM WITH A DESIRED NULL BASED ACOUSTIC DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - An acoustic system includes first one or mole acoustic elements designed and arranged in a first manner to facilitate generation of a first signal that includes mostly undesired audio, substantially void of desired audio, in response to a presence of the desired audio and the undesired audio. Second one or more acoustic elements are designed and arranged in a second complementary manner to facilitate generation of a second signal that includes both the desired and the undesired audio, in response to the presence of the desired audio and the undesired audio. A signal extraction component receives the first signal and the second signal. The signal extraction component further includes an inhibit component. The inhibit component is coupled to the first signal and the second signal. A delay element is coupled to a path of the second signal. The delay element introduces a deterministic delay to the second signal. A value of the deterministic delay is selected to model reverberation of the environment that the system is used in. The first signal is input to the adaptive filter and an output of the inhibit component is in communication with the adaptive filter to control adaptive filtering. An output of the adaptive filter is a first input to an adder and the output of the delay element is a second input to the adder. The adder subtracts the first input from the second input to create an output, which is the desired audio. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244251 | Systems and Methods for Dynamic Re-Configurable Speech Recognition - Speech recognition models are dynamically re-configurable based on user information, background information such as background noise and transducer information such as transducer response characteristics to provide users with alternate input modes to keyboard text entry. The techniques of dynamic re-configurable speech recognition provide for deployment of speech recognition on small devices such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants as well environments such as office, home or vehicle while maintaining the accuracy of the speech recognition. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244252 | METHOD FOR PREPARING A TRANSCRIPT OF A CONVERSION - A method for providing participants to a multiparty meeting with a transcript of the meeting, comprising the steps of: establishing an meeting among two or more participants; exchanging during said meeting voice data as well as documents; uploading at least a part of said voice data and at least a part of said documents to a remote speech recognition server ( | 2014-08-28 |
20140244253 | Systems and Methods for Continual Speech Recognition and Detection in Mobile Computing Devices - The present application describes systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for continuous speech recognition for mobile computing devices. One embodiment includes determining whether a mobile computing device is receiving operating power from an external power source or a battery power source, and activating a trigger word detection subroutine in response to determining that the mobile computing device is receiving power from the external power source. In some embodiments, the trigger word detection subroutine operates continually while the mobile computing device is receiving power from the external power source. The trigger word detection subroutine includes determining whether a plurality of spoken words received via a microphone includes one or more trigger words, and in response to determining that the plurality of spoken words includes at least one trigger word, launching an application corresponding to the at least one trigger word included in the plurality of spoken words. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244254 | FACILITATING DEVELOPMENT OF A SPOKEN NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE - A development system is described for facilitating the development of a spoken natural language (SNL) interface. The development system receives seed templates from a developer, each of which provides a command phrasing that can be used to invoke a function, when spoken by an end user. The development system then uses one or more development resources, such as a crowdsourcing system and a paraphrasing system, to provide additional templates. This yields an extended set of templates. A generation system then generates one or more models based on the extended set of templates. A user device may install the model(s) for use in interpreting commands spoken by an end user. When the user device recognizes a command, it may automatically invoke a function associated with that command. Overall, the development system provides an easy-to-use tool for producing an SNL interface. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244255 | SPEECH RECOGNITION DEVICE AND METHOD, AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - A semiconductor integrated circuit device for speech recognition includes a conversion candidate setting unit that receives text data indicating words or sentences together with a command and sets the text data in a conversion list in accordance with the command; a standard pattern extracting unit that extracts, from a speech recognition database, a standard pattern corresponding to at least a part of the words or sentences indicated by the text data that is set in the conversion list; a signal processing unit that extracts frequency components of an input speech signal and generates a feature pattern indicating distribution of the frequency components; and a match detecting unit that detects a match between the feature pattern generated from at least a part of the speech signal and the standard pattern and outputs a speech recognition result. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244256 | Enhanced Accuracy for Speech Recognition Grammars - Disclosed herein are methods and systems for recognizing speech. A method embodiment comprises comparing received speech with a precompiled grammar based on a database and if the received speech matches data in the precompiled grammar then returning a result based on the matched data. If the received speech does not match data in the precompiled grammar, then dynamically compiling a new grammar based only on new data added to the database after the compiling of the precompiled grammar The database may comprise a directory of names. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244257 | Method and Apparatus for Automated Speaker Parameters Adaptation in a Deployed Speaker Verification System - Typical speaker verification systems usually employ speakers' audio data collected during an enrollment phase when users enroll with the system and provide respective voice samples. Due to technical, business, or other constraints, the enrollment data may not be large enough or rich enough to encompass different inter-speaker and intra-speaker variations. According to at least one embodiment, a method and apparatus employing classifier adaptation based on field data in a deployed voice-based interactive system comprise: collecting representations of voice characteristics, in association with corresponding speakers, the representations being generated by the deployed voice-based interactive system; updating parameters of the classifier, used in speaker recognition, based on the representations collected; and employing the classifier, with the corresponding parameters updated, in performing speaker recognition. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244258 | SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD OF SENTENCE HAVING MULTIPLE INSTRUCTIONS - A voice recognition method for a single sentence including a multi-instruction in an interactive voice user interface, method includes steps of detecting a connection ending by analyzing the morphemes of a single sentence on which voice recognition has been performed, separating the single sentence into a plurality of passages based on the connection ending, detecting a multi-connection ending by analyzing the connection ending and extracting instructions by specifically analyzing passages including the multi-connection ending and outputting a multi-instruction included in the single sentence by combining the instructions extracted in the step of extracting instructions. In accordance with the present invention, consumer usability can be significantly increased because a multi-operation intention can be checked in one sentence. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244259 | SPEECH RECOGNITION UTILIZING A DYNAMIC SET OF GRAMMAR ELEMENTS - Speech recognition is performed utilizing a dynamically maintained set of grammar elements. A plurality of grammar elements may be identified, and the grammar elements may be ordered based at least in part upon contextual information. In other words, contextual information may be utilized to bias speech recognition. Once a speech input is received, the ordered plurality of grammar elements may be evaluated, and a correspondence between the received speech input and a grammar element included in the plurality of grammar elements may be determined. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244260 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING AND REACTING TO USER PERSONALITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM - Techniques are disclosed for recognizing user personality in accordance with a speech recognition system. For example, a technique for recognizing a personality trait associated with a user interacting with a speech recognition system includes the following steps/operations. One or more decoded spoken utterances of the user are obtained. The one or more decoded spoken utterances are generated by the speech recognition system. The one or more decoded spoken utterances are analyzed to determine one or more linguistic attributes (morphological and syntactic filters) that are associated with the one or more decoded spoken utterances. The personality trait associated with the user is then determined based on the analyzing step/operation. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244261 | CONVERSION OF NON-BACK-OFF LANGUAGE MODELS FOR EFFICIENT SPEECH DECODING - Techniques for conversion of non-back-off language models for use in speech decoders. For example, an apparatus for conversion of non-back-off language models for use in speech decoders. For example, an apparatus is configured convert a non-back-off language model to a back-off language model. The converted back-off language model is pruned. The converted back-off language model is usable for decoding speech. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244262 | VOICE SYNTHESIZING METHOD, VOICE SYNTHESIZING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A voice synthesizing apparatus includes a manipulation determiner configured to determine a manipulation position which is moved according to a manipulation of a user, and a voice synthesizer configured to generate, in response to an instruction to generate a voice in which a second phoneme follows a first phoneme, a voice signal so that vocalization of the first phoneme starts before the manipulation position reaches a reference position and that vocalization from the first phoneme to the second phoneme is made when the manipulation position reaches the reference position. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244263 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A USER RECEIVING DEVICE USING VOICE COMMANDS - A system and method includes a language processing module converting an electrical signal corresponding to an audible signal into a textual signal. The system further includes a command generation module converting the textual signal into a user receiving device control signal. A controller controls a function of a user receiving device in response to the user receiving device control signal. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244264 | HUMAN EMOTION ASSESSMENT REPORTING TECHNOLOGY- SYSTEM AND METHOD - The present disclosure describes a novel method of analyzing and presenting results of human emotion during a session such as chat, video, audio and combination thereof in real time. The analysis is done using semiotic analysis and hierarchical slope clustering to give feedback for a session or historical sessions to the user or any professional. The method and system is useful for recognizing reaction for a particular session or detection of abnormal behavior. The method and system with unique algorithm is useful in getting instant feedback to stay the course or change in strategy for a desired result during the session. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244265 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING BROADBAND AUDIO SIGNALS ASSOCIATED WITH NAVIGATION INSTRUCTIONS - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are herein provided for providing broadband audio signal navigation instructions. A method may include determining a broadband audio signal associated with at least one navigation instruction. The method may further include causing the broadband audio signal to be provided to the user. The broadband audio signal may be a representation of an audio signal with components in all frequencies capable of being at least one of perceived or broadcast by a speaker. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244266 | Interaction with a Portion of a Content Item through a Virtual Assistant - Techniques for interacting with a portion of a content item through a virtual assistant are described herein. The techniques may include identifying a portion of a content item that is relevant to user input and causing an action to be performed related to the portion of the content item. The action may include, for example, displaying the portion of the content item on a smart device in a displayable format that is adapted to a display characteristic of the smart device, performing a task for a user that satisfies the user input, and so on. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244267 | INTEGRATION OF USER ORIENTATION INTO A VOICE COMMAND SYSTEM - Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for integrating user orientation into a voice command system. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving audio information spoken by a user during a time period and determining whether the audio information includes a voice command. The method further provides determining a first orientation of the user during the time period and complying with the voice command based on the first orientation. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244268 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VOICE CONTROL OF A MOBILE DEVICE - A method and apparatus for voice control of a mobile device are provided. The method establishes a connection between the mobile device and a voice-control module. Responsive to establishing the connection, the mobile device enters into an intermediate mode; and the voice-control module monitors for verbal input comprising a verbal command from among a set of predetermined verbal commands. The voice-control module sends instructions to the mobile device related to the verbal command received; and the mobile device acts on the received instructions. An apparatus/voice control module (VCM) for voice control of a mobile device, wherein the VCM includes a connection module configured for establishing a connection between the VCM and the mobile device; a monitoring module configured for monitoring for a verbal command from among a set of predetermined verbal commands; and a communications module configured for sending instructions to the mobile device related to the verbal command received. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244269 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ACTIVATING WITH VOICE INPUT - An information processing apparatus that detects a voice command via a microphone in order to activate the device and execute certain applications. The apparatus comprises a digital signal processor (DSP) and a host controller which are responsible for processing the voice commands. The DSP recognizes and processes voice commands intermittently while the host processor is in a sleep state, thereby reducing the overall power consumption of the apparatus. Further, when the DSP is configured to recognize voice commands intended only to activate the device, a memory having a sufficiently lower storage capacity suffices. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244270 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING RESPONSIVENESS OF A VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEM - A system includes a voice converter converting a first voice command into a first electrical command and a command library having library contents. A language responsiveness module (LRM) stores the first electrical command in a temporary set when a first control command cannot be determined from the library contents. A voice prompt module receives a second voice command when the first control command cannot be determined from the library contents. The voice converter converts a second voice command into a second electrical command corresponding to the second voice command. The LRM compares the second electrical command to the command library. The LRM determines a second control command corresponding to the second electrical command in response to comparing the second voice command to the command library and stores the first voice command in the command library after determining the control command corresponding to the second voice command. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244271 | Electronic Devices with Voice Command and Contextual Data Processing Capabilities - An electronic device may capture a voice command from a user. The electronic device may store contextual information about the state of the electronic device when the voice command is received. The electronic device may transmit the voice command and the contextual information to computing equipment such as a desktop computer or a remote server. The computing equipment may perform a speech recognition operation on the voice command and may process the contextual information. The computing equipment may respond to the voice command. The computing equipment may also transmit information to the electronic device that allows the electronic device to respond to the voice command. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244272 | CONTROL METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present invention discloses a control method and an electronic device, which are capable of solving the technical problem in the prior art that it is not rapid enough when controlling a voice recognition engine to enter an operating state. The control method is applied in an electronic device which comprises a voice recognition engine and comprises or is connected to a microphone, wherein the method comprises: acquiring first airflow information collected by the microphone; determining whether the first airflow information satisfies a first preset condition; and controlling the voice recognition engine to enter a second state when the first airflow information satisfies the first preset condition. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244273 | VOICE-CONTROLLED COMMUNICATION CONNECTIONS - Systems and methods for voice-controlled communication connections are provided. An example system includes a mobile device being operated consecutively in listen, wakeup, authentication, and connect modes. Each of subsequent modes consumes more power than a preceding mode. The listen mode consumes less than 5 mW. In the listen mode, the mobile device listens for an acoustic signal, determines whether the acoustic signal includes voice, and upon the determination, selectively enters the wakeup mode. In the wakeup mode, the mobile device determines whether the acoustic signal includes a spoken word and, upon the determination, enters the authentication mode. In authentication mode, the mobile device identifies a user using the spoken command and, upon the identification, enters the connect mode. In the connect mode, the mobile device receives an acoustic signal, determines whether the acoustic signal includes a spoken command and performs one or more operations associated with the spoken command. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244274 | ENCODING DEVICE AND ENCODING METHOD - An encoding device is disclosed in which frequency domain converters ( | 2014-08-28 |
20140244275 | HEALTHCARE MARKETPLACE - Data is obtained from medical service providers. The data includes at least a plurality of available medical service appointments and pricing information. An inquiry for a medical service appointment is received from a user. A number of available medical service appointments are selected based on the inquiry and are then presented to the user. Prices for the available medical service appointments may be included and may be calculated based on current healthcare benefit plan information for the user. In response to a received purchase indication, one of the presented medical service appointments are purchased for the user. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244276 | Systems and Methods for Classifying Healthcare Management Operation - Embodiments include systems and methods for ranking the operations or job functions performed by a healthcare provider. The system may determine the job functions that may be analyzed for the ranking process. The system may analyze how the healthcare provider implements the job functions and determine a ranking of the healthcare provider based, at least in part, on the job function analysis. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244277 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS FROM A REMOTE LOCATION - A system and computer-implemented method for real-time monitoring and management of patients from a remote location is provided. The system comprises one or more patient's communication devices configured to facilitate users to enter patient related data via a healthcare application. The system further comprises an analyzing and processing module, residing in a cloud based environment, configured to receive and process the patient related data. The analyzing and processing module is further configured to send alerts to physicians based on at least one of: the received and the processed patient related data. Furthermore, the analyzing and processing module is configured to facilitate the physicians to access the received and the processed patient related data and provide responses via the healthcare application. Also, the analyzing and processing module is configured to send alerts to the users and facilitate the users to access the responses. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244278 | HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING HEALTH INFORMATION BY USING THE SYSTEM - Provided are a health management system of estimating a disease probability of a user based on information collected from the user and a method of providing health information by using the health management system. The health management system includes a user device collecting and providing health data and living data of a user and a health information processing device calculating a disease probability of the user by performing statistic analysis based on an electric medical record and the health data and correcting the calculated disease probability according to the living data. The living data includes one of location information of the user and social information of the user, which designates a human connection. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244279 | METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DRUG PRICING INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGERS (PBMS) - A system according to certain aspects of the disclosure provides drug pricing information from multiple PBMs to users. For example, the system may obtain, calculate, and/or estimate drug prices that are available under contracts or agreements between PBMs and various pharmacies. These prices may be prices of drugs for purchase at the various pharmacies. In response to requests for prices of particular drugs, the system can display relevant prices. For example, the system displays a price for each pharmacy chain and/or displays prices for a particular geographical area. The users can compare the prices for a particular drug and determine which pharmacy they would like to purchase the drug from. The system can provide a discount coupon that allows the users to purchase the drug at the price listed by the system at the selected pharmacy. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244280 | WEBSITE PROVIDING MEDICAL, DENTAL, VETERINARIAN PROCEDURE COST AND SCHEDULING OPTIONS - A system and method of providing users with pricing and availability options associated with medical, dental and/or veterinary procedures through an Internet website. Upon entering information regarding a desired service and a desired traveling distance associated with a plurality of care providers offering the desired service, a user is provided with a list of options associated with the desired service, including the name of the care provider, the distance to care provider, the cost of the service and scheduling information. Upon selecting one of the options, the selected care provider is informed that the user desires to schedule the desired service based upon the scheduling information. If the selection is approved, the service is scheduled; if not, the user is informed that their selection is unavailable. The method may additionally include the step of asking the user a series of questions associated with the procedure. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244281 | PHYSICIAN PRESCRIPTION PROCESSING - Physicians providing education about prescriptions, storing this information for patient access, and adjudicating prescriptions can be compensated by patients for their efforts avoiding Stark and anti-kickback laws if the compensation is paid separately from a prescription. Additional compensation can be paid to physicians from pharmacies for patient education and adjudication. Adjudication in a physician's exam room increases efficiency, decreases patient sticker shock at pharmacies, assures patients are given the best price on a medical prescription and assures patients that all coupons or discount cards are used. In-office adjudication also allows physician/patient discussion of cost. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244282 | HEALTHCARE DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Methods for hospital, healthcare, and physician data management, and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes collecting provider data from a plurality of data sources and creating a plurality of universal provider profiles (UPPs) from the collected provider data. Each UPP corresponds to a medical provider and includes contact information for the corresponding medical provider. The method includes storing the UPPs, receiving a query, and transmitting a query response in response to the query, the query response including provider contact information from a UPP identified according to the query. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244283 | PATHOLOGY, RADIOLOGY AND OTHER MEDICAL OR SURGICAL SPECIALTIES QUALITY ASSURANCE - Current Electronic Health Systems and Government sponsored International Classification of Diseases (IDC-10) do not have the flexibility to describe diagnoses that are not clearly benign or cancerous and cannot relay recommendations from pathologist, radiologist, or other specialist. Software codes enable any specialty to efficiently communicate additional recommendations with time metrics to their referring sources. A Quality Assurance Module interface provides for communication with patients, physicians, referring specialist, etc. Default time metrics may be used with the QAM. Enhancing communication of recommendations and assuring all parties involved with patient care, improves safety and patients outcomes. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244284 | COMMUNICATION OF MEDICAL CLAIMS - A system provides for documenting and sharing health insurance policy benefits that policy owners are actually receiving to assist patients and care providers in understanding policy coverages and costs. Health Benefits and prescription claims adjudicated by health insurance companies are documented, and adjudication results of the claims are recorded and stored. The adjudication results are organized by specific health insurance companies, and results are published for public access over a global network. Specific health insurance company benefits are continually updated with actual claim results providing real time benefit summaries for physicians to use when treating patients and for patients to compare insurance companies. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244285 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE MANAGEMENT AND DETECTION OF CLIENT COMPLICATIONS - A system and method are presented for relationship management workflow processes. At least one embodiment may apply to process automation to health care. More specifically, the system and method may be applied to patient management of healthcare, such as the management of Diabetes or other medical conditions. Other embodiments may apply to process automation in other areas utilizing management workflow software. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244286 | INSURANCE COMPANY, PHARMACY BENEFITS MANAGERS, PHARMACIES, STATE AGENCIES, FEDERAL AGENCIES, AND QUALITY ASSURANCE REPORTING - Quality assurance reporting enables efficient and concise reports of errors, omissions or deficiencies relating to medical claims and procedures. The system maintains a public record, establishes a communication platform for interested parties, and establishes time metrics for corrective action. A web page standardizes a format for parties to report the errors, omissions or deficiencies. A deficiency report is generated and delivered to a deficient party. The web page publicizes the deficiency report and notifies a controlling authority, and time metrics are defined for follow-up resolution by the deficient party. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244287 | FRONT END REVENUE CYCLE MANAGEMENT MULTI-INTERFACE SOFTWARE AND METHOD - A system for informing a healthcare provider a patient's insurance claim information prior to the patient receiving health services. The system may include the patient entering in pertinent information regarding an insurance claim into a portable computer. The pertinent information is sent to a secure server. The secure server sends the information to an eligibility vendor which either confirms or denies a match of patient information. The match information may be provided to the healthcare provider to determine whether it is proper for the healthcare provider to provide services to the patient. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244288 | Method Of Providing Affordable Prescription-Drug Options Through A Point Of Care System - A software application that analyzes different formularies provides a patient with affordable prescription-drug options through a point of care system. The software application uses a database to store healthcare plan formularies, cash-payment formulary, drug manufacturer copayment-assistance formularies, and drug manufacturer cash-discount formularies. All of the formularies on the database are provided in an interoperable format. The software application will compare and analyze the costs, the exclusion factors, and the discounts from the various applicable formularies for a specific drug and alternative drugs. This analysis will be presented as a certified screen to the prescriber or the patient in order to find the drug option that is both clinically relevant and affordable. The prescription and the certified screen details, less patient identifying information, will be sent as feedback to the benefit providers of those formularies. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244289 | COLD STORAGE SYSTEM FOR STORING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCT CONTAINERS - Intelligent cold storage system for storing pharmaceutical product containers, such as vials, ampules, syringes, bottles, medication tubes, blister packs and cartons, at the point of dispensing. Embodiments of the invention use product identification technology, such as radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags and barcode readers, to uniquely identify containers as they are added to or removed from the cold storage compartment, and automatically retrieve from a local or remote database a variety of details associated with the containers and their contents, such as manufacturing data, expiration dates, time out of refrigeration, inventory levels, safety information, usage statistics, known contraindications and warnings, etc. If the details indicate that there is a problem with a particular pharmaceutical (e.g., that it is counterfeit, expired, suspect, spoiled, recalled or almost depleted), then a message or warning is automatically delivered to a human operator via an attached output device, such as a display screen, speaker or printer. Embodiments of the invention may also be configured to monitor and report temperature faults, power failures and other anomalies associated with the cold storage system or cold storage compartment. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244290 | System and Method For Selecting Healthcare Management - The present invention is directed to a system and method which allows a prospective insured to make an informed decision on healthcare insurance or a specific health care management decision by using a current medical profile to assist in their selection. Based on past medical care, as obtained from payor data, a number of different plans, each having different providers, different deductibles, different maximums, different reimbursement policies, etc., a person can make an informed decision. When a family has different payors for different family members, a proper blend of payors can be more easily selected since the payors (or a single payor) has a medical profile of each family member and also has information on providers in the network, prescription policies, deductibles, maximums, etc. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244291 | OUTCOMES BASED SERVICE PROVIDER NETWORKS - A system and method are provided for determining a composition of a service provider network for providing services according to a workers' compensation insurance plan. The system and method acquires claim information, which describes workers' compensation claims and medical service providers, and determines a metric value for each of the medical service providers, adjusts the metric values, assigns scores based on the adjusted metric values, determines an average of the assigned scores, and generates results data based on the assigned scores. The results data indicates, for each of the medical service providers, whether the medical service provider should be included in the service provider network. The service provider metrics include a metric that relates to an amount paid per claim and a percentage of claims that involved lost time. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244292 | Method for Helping Patients Find Treatments Based on Similar Patients' Experiences - This disclosure describes, among other things, a method for recommending treatments for a condition (e.g., a medical condition). The method may include generating ranking treatments for a condition based on patient information. The patient information may identify one or more characteristics of a patient. The patient information may include clinical and/or non-clinical information. The treatments may be ranked based on a prediction of the degree to which the patient will be satisfied with the treatment. The prediction may be based on the degree to which other patients were satisfied with the treatment. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244293 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROPAGATING LABELS TO PATIENT ENCOUNTER DATA - Methods and systems for propagating labels, such as “good” or “bad”, to unlabeled patient encounter data. Patient encounters, partially labeled but mostly unlabeled, is represented as nodes in a network, and labels are propagated from labeled nodes to unlabeled nodes based on the similarity of the unlabeled nodes to neighboring nodes. The resulting patient encounter data may be used for, for example, a training data set, or for other purposes. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244294 | Apparatus and Method for Network Based Remote Mobile Monitoring of a Medical Event - A server includes a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor. The instructions receive medical event data from a mobile device, an identification for a patient and mobile device parameters. The identification for the patient is matched with medical records and response rules for the patient. The response rules are executed to selectively notify a civic responder and an incident management module. Communications with the patient and specified emergency contacts associated with the patient are coordinated. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244295 | CLINICAL QUALITY ANALYTICS SYSTEM WITH RECURSIVE, TIME SENSITIVE EVENT-BASED PROTOCOL MATCHING - A clinical quality analytics system may include a data storage to store electronic medical record (EMR) data. The system may map events from the EMR data to a process map through a recursive matching process. The mapping may include recursively matching the events to nodes in threads in a map based on event times and thread times. One of the recursions may be selected as a best fit based on metrics determined for the recursions. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244296 | Linking Health Care Applications for Information Management - The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for managing information exchange between medical care applications and an analytical infrastructure for medical care information. The disclosure also describes implementations that manage user access to medical care applications and communications between medical care applications | 2014-08-28 |
20140244297 | SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION OF HEALTH CARE DATA - An apparatus for communicating health care data from a sender to a receiver is provided. The apparatus has a first computer system, a second computer system, and a rules engine. The first computer system has health care data stored therein. The second computer system is in operable communication with, and is configured to extract the health care data from, the first computer system. The rules engine normalizes the extracted health care data to a predefined format. The rules engine defines a plurality of health care data fields in the predefined format, as well as a plurality of relationships between fields of normalized data. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244298 | ELECTRONIC ROOM SIGN FOR HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM - An electronic room sign system is provided for use in a healthcare information technology system that includes an electronic medical records (EMR) system and a real time locating system (RTLS). The electronic room sign system includes a display mounted adjacent a doorway of a room of a patient and a server signaling the display to display information based on information received by the server from the EMR system and from the RTLS. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244299 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING MEDICAL DATA - Method and apparatus for processing medical data. The method for processing indication conditions includes obtaining a plurality of predetermined indication conditions which relate to a plurality of parameters and forming a plurality of conditional segments based on respective values of the plurality of parameters, which respectively correspond to a plurality of combinations of value ranges of the plurality of parameters. The method for processing patient data includes obtaining distribution information of the patient data in the plurality of conditional segments formed above and determining a matching relationship of patient data with at least one indication condition. The apparatuses correspond to the methods. Based on this, a matching relation of patient data with the plurality of indication conditions is determined directly based on distribution of patient data in respective conditional segments, which reduces/avoids chances of inefficiency caused by multiple data acquisitions, conversions, and analysis and improves processing efficiency of patient data. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244300 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING A MASTER PATIENT INDEX INCLUDING DUPLICATE RECORD DETECTION - A system for managing a master patient index is described. The master patient index database is constructed using inverted indices. The inverted index formulation enables faster, more complete and more flexible duplicate detection as compared to traditional master patient database management techniques. A master patient index management system including a remote user interface configured to leverage the inverted index formulation is described. The user interface includes features for managing records in an MPI database including identifying, efficiently comparing, updating and merging duplicate records across a heterogeneous healthcare organization. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244301 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING RESULT OF EXAMINATION OF SPECIMEN FROM MEDICAL DEVICE TO DESTINATION THROUGH MOBILE DEVICE - Provided are a method and system for transmitting the result of examination of a specimen (hereinafter referred to as an examination result) from a medical device to a destination through a mobile device. The method of transmitting the examination result from the medical device to the destination through the mobile device includes: examining the specimen by using the medical device; receiving the examination result from the medical device, wherein the receiving is performed by the mobile device; receiving destination information indicating the destination to which the examination result will be transmitted, wherein the receiving is performed by the mobile device; and transmitting the examination result to the destination corresponding to the destination information, wherein the transmitting is performed by the mobile device. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244302 | AUTOMATED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING THE IMPROPER DISCLOSURE OF DOCUMENTS - An automated system to reduce improper disclosure of documents containing image information for a patient. The system includes an OCR processing tool that passes each document through an OCR module that converts the document image information into text information, and an automated QC process tool that uses the text information to perform a quality control review for patient demographic matching conditions in the documents. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244303 | Parallel Human Time Matrix Image of Causation - A patient monitoring system comprising at least one processor programmed to generate a force binary comprised of at least a first object comprising a force, wherein the force comprises a biologic particle density or a biologic particle density perturbation. In some examples, the force binary also comprises a second object comprised of at least one biologic particle density perturbation induced by the force. In some embodiments, the at least one processor can also generate a plurality of force binaries, link the force binaries to each other to generate a force cascade comprised of linked force binaries, and identify the force cascade. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244304 | System and Method for Generating Quaternary Images of Biologic Force Propagation and Recovery - A patient monitoring system is disclosed comprising at least one processor programmed to process medical data derived from a patient or medical records repository and to compose interconnected cascades of physiological occurrences by linking or grouping four fundamental elements which comprise; a perturbation, at least one perturbation force which is capable of inducing and may have induced the perturbation, a recovery, and at least one recovery force which is capable of inducing and may have induced the perturbation. The four elements are linked or grouped by the processor to generate a quaternary which may be characterized as solved or unsolved. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244305 | PATIENT DIRECTED INTEGRATION OF REMOTELY STORED MEDICAL INFORMATION WITH A BROKERAGE SYSTEM - A brokerage system that identifies a service provider satisfying at least some attributes in a set of patient defined attributes for providing a service is accessed. A request for records corresponding to the patient's health information to a data repository that stores the health records is sent. A graphical user interface that when rendered on a display displays the patient's health information is received. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244306 | Generation and Data Management of a Medical Study Using Instruments in an Integrated Media and Medical System - In general, a computer-implemented method is described for receiving one or more requests to generate a medical study, retrieving from one or more data repositories one or more medical study instruments, receiving a selection of a particular medical study instrument to use in the medical study, generating by one or more computers a list of one or more research collaborators invited to review the medical study, and generating by one or more computers a list of one of more participants invited to join the medical study. Additionally, the computer-implemented method receives from a patient one or more responses to one or more medical assessment questions; and causes one or more computer systems to associate one or more medical study instruments with the patient, with the association based on the one or more responses of the patient to the one or more medical assessment questions. | 2014-08-28 |
20140244307 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROMOTING MOBILE AWARENESS - Methods and systems for promoting mobile awareness are described. In an embodiment, a location associated with a member of a drug benefit plan is accessed. A drug benefit plan action is determined based on the location associated with the member. The drug benefit plan action is an action at least partially at the direction of a pharmacy benefit manager that administers the drug benefit plan. A drug benefit notification is generated based on the drug benefit plan action. The pharmacy notification benefit is associated with the drug benefit plan. Additional methods and systems are disclosed. | 2014-08-28 |