37th week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 58 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120232859 | METHOD ANS SYSTEMS FOR RESERVOIR MODELING, EVALUATION AND SIMULATION - Fluid property modeling that employs a model that characterizes asphaltene concentration gradients is integrated into a reservoir modeling and simulation framework to allow for reservoir compartmentalization (the presence or absence of flow barrier in the reservoir) to be assessed more quickly and easily. Additionally, automated integration of the fluid property modeling into the reservoir modeling and simulation framework allows the compositional gradients produced by the fluid property modeler (particularly asphaltene concentration gradients) to be combined with other data, such as geologic data and other petrophysical data, which allows for more accurate assessment of reservoir compartmentalization. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232860 | GENERATING A SIMULATED FLUID FLOW OVER AN AIRCRAFT SURFACE USING ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION - A fluid-flow simulation over a computer-generated aircraft surface is generated using a diffusion technique. The surface is comprised of a surface mesh of polygons. A boundary-layer fluid property is obtained for a subset of the polygons of the surface mesh. A pressure-gradient vector is determined for a selected polygon, the selected polygon belonging to the surface mesh but not one of the subset of polygons. A maximum and minimum diffusion rate is determined along directions determined using a pressure gradient vector corresponding to the selected polygon. A diffusion-path vector is defined between a point in the selected polygon and a neighboring point in a neighboring polygon. An updated fluid property is determined for the selected polygon using a variable diffusion rate, the variable diffusion rate based on the minimum diffusion rate, maximum diffusion rate, and angular difference between the diffusion-path vector and the pressure-gradient vector. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232861 | Adaptive Newton's Method For Reservoir Simulation - A method of performing a simulation of a subsurface hydrocarbon reservoir. The reservoir is approximated by a reservoir model having a plurality of cells. Each cell has an equation set representing a reservoir property. An initial guess is provided to a solution for a system of equations formed using the equation set for each of the cells. An iterative root-finding method and the initial guess are used to solve for a solution to the system of equations. When the number of non-converged cells is greater than a predetermined amount, neighboring converged cells are added to the non-converged cells. Parts of the method are repeated, substituting the solved solution for the initial guess and the equation sets corresponding to the non-converged cells for the first system of equations, until substantially all equation sets satisfy the convergence criterion. The solved solution is outputted as a simulation of the subsurface reservoir. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232862 | Method and Apparatus for Computer Modeling of the Interaction Between and among Cortical and Subcortical Areas in the Human Brain for the purpose of predicting the effect of drugs in psychiatric & cognitive diseases - A computer model of a diseased human brain includes inputs representing a drug and outputs representing the clinical effect of that drug on psychiatric and cognitive diseases. Diseases that can be modeled include psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, ADHD, autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance abuse and cognitive deficits therein and neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Mild Cognitive impairment, Parkinson's disease, stroke, vascular dementia, Huntington's disease, epilepsy and Down syndrome. The computer model preferably uses the biological state of interactions between and among cortico and subcortical areas of the human brain, to define the biological processes related to the biological state of the generic synapse model, the striatum, Locus Coeruleus, Dorsal raphe, hippocampus, amygdala and cortex, as well as certain mathematical relationships related to interactions among biological variables associated with the biological processes and to correlations between the biological variables and clinical effects on a clinical scale. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232863 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING ADSORBENT PERFORMANCE - A method for predicting selective performance of an adsorbent is disclosed. The adsorbent is selected from a list of metals and/or metal cations for use in removing contaminants as thiophene derivatives in hydrocarbon feed. The metals or metal cations are identified from a list having a positive value for E | 2012-09-13 |
20120232864 | Analyzing Anticipated Value and Effort in Using Cloud Computing to Process a Specified Workload - Workloads that are and are not appropriate for transformation and processing on a cloud computing environment are identified. A user entity is provided with a measurement of at least one of the value which will be realized, and the effort which will be required. A plurality of attributes is specified. Input data represents the extent to which the user entity processing system possesses the given attribute. The input data for each attribute is employed to derive a corresponding numerical parameter value, which are to compute a final score. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232865 | Systems and Methods for the Quantitative Estimate of Production-Forecast Uncertainty - Systems and methods for updating posterior geological models by integrating various reservoir data to support dynamic-quantitative data-inversion, stochastic-uncertainty-management and smart reservoir-management. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232866 | METHOD FOR REAL TIME COMPUTATION OF THE STATE VARIABLES OF A HYBRID DIFFERENTIAL-ALGEBRAIC PROCESS MODEL - Method for real time computation of the state variables of a hybrid differential-algebraic process model (DAP) in succeeding time steps on a process computer with a process interface, the process computer detecting at least one process variable of a physical process and/or producing output for influencing the physical process, the hybrid DAP being solved at least by a integrator functionality, a condition evaluation functionality and identification of a condition change by a consistency detection functionality for structure decision variables, and depending on the result parts of the hybrid DAP being active or inactive. Prompt computation is possible when a condition of the hybrid DAP changes by the consistency detection functionality being carried out in a sorted consistency handling function (KHF), in the case of a condition change, first and third parts of the sorted KHF being carried out only once and only a second part thereof being carried out repeatedly. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232867 | DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON DEPLOYMENT SIMULATION - Methods, apparatus, and computer readable media for designing an effective and efficient directed energy weapon system. A method for designing a directed energy weapons system may include modeling an environment and postulating a directed energy weapons system deployment. The capability of the postulated directed energy weapon system deployment to defend a target aircraft against a missile threat within the environment may then be simulated. The postulated directed energy weapon system deployment may be iteratively improved based on simulation results. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232868 | FORECAST-LESS SERVICE CAPACITY MANAGEMENT - A computer implemented method, system, and/or computer program product manages capacity in a service-provider system. A software model of a physical service-provider system is created and stored in memory. A parameter for running the software model with real-time metrics from the physical service-provider system as inputs to the software model is established. If the parameter is met, then the software model is run using the real-time metrics from the physical service-provider system as inputs. A pre-determined action, which adjusts capacity in the service-provider system and is prescribed by a specific model output, is established. If the specific model output, which resulted from using the real-time metrics from the physical service-provider system as inputs for running the software model, is output from the software model, then the pre-determined action is executed. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232869 | INDUSTRIAL SIMULATION USING REDIRECTED I/O MODULE CONFIGURATIONS - A simulation environment for running a process simulation used to validate an industrial control program. The simulation environment exposes the I/O module configurations defined in the control program and retrieves module configuration information therefrom. This I/O module configuration information is combined with generic, module-specific I/O module profiles to create a pool of available controller I/O points, which can be selectively associated with I/O points in the simulation to create an I/O point mapping. During control program validation, simulated I/O data is exchanged between the process simulation and the I/O module instances in the controller in accordance with the I/O point mapping. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232870 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAPPING COMPONENT BASES USING A CHEMICAL PROCESS SIMULATOR - A method includes identifying a simulated input flow stream associated with a chemical processing facility. The input flow stream includes an input component basis with multiple components having one or more properties that differ. The method also includes converting the input flow stream into a simulated output flow stream, which includes an output component basis that differs from the input component basis and comprises a single, active group of oil components and zero or more pure components. A pure component property of a pure component in the input flow stream could be combined with an oil component property of an oil component in the input flow stream. A pure component property of a pure component in the input flow stream could also be transferred to a pure component in the output flow stream without combination. An oil component property of an oil component in the input flow stream could further be mapped to an oil component property of the single output oil component. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232871 | METHOD FOR 3-D GRAVITY FORWARD MODELING AND INVERSION IN THE WAVENUMBER DOMAIN - A method for determining spatial distribution of a property within a volume of subsurface formations includes generating an initial model of spatial distribution of a property of the formations using available data related to the property distribution within the volume. A forward model is generated in the wavenumber domain of spatial distribution of a potential field. Measurements of a physical parameter having a potential field obtained at spaced apart locations above the volume and/or in at least one wellbore penetrating the volume are entered. A revised model of spatial distribution of the potential field is generated by interpolating the measurements of the parameter. The interpolating is performed in the wavenumber domain. A revised model of spatial distribution of the physical property is generated by inversion in the wavenumber domain of the revised potential field model. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232872 | MODELING HYDRAULIC FRACTURES - A method for modeling hydraulic fractures of a well. The method includes receiving a reservoir model that describes petrophysical properties of a subsurface of the earth near a reservoir. The method then receives one or more mechanical properties of the reservoir and generating a geomechanical model of the reservoir based on the reservoir model and the mechanical properties. After generating the geomechanical model of the reservoir, the method generates a three dimensional (3D) representation of the hydraulic fractures based on the geomechanical model and the reservoir model. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232873 | Systems and Methods for Improved Positioning of Pads - Systems and methods for the automated positioning of pads and orienting of slot templates for the pads. The systems and methods also include automated adjustment of well path plans from a pad to selected well targets. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232874 | BIOLOGICAL DATA NETWORKS AND METHODS THEREFOR - A system and method for facilitating simulation of a biological process within a network including a plurality of nodes is disclosed herein. The method includes receiving, at a first of the plurality of nodes, processing results generated at a second of the plurality of nodes. The method further includes performing, with respect to at least the processing results, a function related to the simulation of the biological process and thereby generating additional processing results. In addition, the method includes sending the additional processing results to a third of the plurality of nodes. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232875 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING OPERATION OF SUBSTRUCTURES OF A CHEMICAL PROCESSING PLANT - A method includes obtaining information defining a superstructure associated with a chemical processing facility. The superstructure includes simulated processing elements representing chemical processing elements within the chemical processing facility. The superstructure also includes flow streams representing flows of material between the chemical processing elements. The method also includes identifying a substructure within the superstructure, where the substructure is associated with active simulated processing elements and active flow streams within the superstructure. The method further includes generating a graphical display identifying the superstructure for presentation on a display. Active and inactive simulated processing elements have different indicia in the graphical display, and active and inactive flow streams have different indicia in the graphical display. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232876 | Method for Computer-Aided Analysis of an Automation Plant - A method for computer-aided analysis of an automation plant to which a plurality of networked devices are assigned, wherein information pertaining to the networked devices including their device types and interconnections is acquired and a network topology is generated which represents the networking of the devices. A respective device is then assigned, according to its device type, to one hierarchy level of a plurality of hierarchy levels defined for the automation plant. A topology of the automation plant is then displayed on a user interface on which a section is provided for each hierarchy level, where devices assigned to a respective hierarchy level are disposed as elements in a section provided for the respective hierarchy level and are interconnected based on the networking according to the network topology. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232877 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THERMAL MANAGEMENT BY QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF COOLING CHARACTERISTICS OF DATA CENTER - The invention provides a method and system for quantitative determination of cooling characteristics of a data center by calculating thermal influence indices. The invention further provides a method and system for providing effective thermal management in a data center using quantitative determination of cooling characteristics of a data center. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232878 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING METALLIC FAULTS AFFECTING COMMUNICATIONS LINKS - One exemplary aspect is to detect the presence of one or more types of faults affecting DSL communications. Upon their detection, a message can be generated that recommends corrective action. Furthermore, another exemplary aspect is to estimate the rate impact of the detected fault in some cases. One exemplary aspect of certain embodiments is to detect the presence of one or more faults that affect DSL communications, and upon their detection, generating, for example, a message that recommends corrective action. In this context, a fault can be one or more metallic faults, malfunctioning modems, or something else that affects the measured attenuation but is not normally attributable to normal DSL transmission lines. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232879 | DATA CENTER EFFICIENCY ANALYSES AND OPTIMIZATION - Method, system and computer program product for estimating the overall energy efficiency of a data center over a period of time. In one embodiment, a computer processor coupled to computer readable memory is configured to receive time parameters indicating the period of time over which the overall energy efficiency of the data center is to be estimated, receive component parameters indicating the performance characteristics of data center components and the operational interactions between the data center components, simulate the operation and interaction of the data center components based, at least in part, on the component parameters for the period of time over which the energy efficiency is estimated, and output results of the simulation to estimate the overall energy efficiency of the data center. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232880 | PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF A PROGRAM MODEL - An apparatus and a computer-implemented method performed by a computerized device comprising: receiving a model describing an aspect of a computer program; and determining comparative performance assessment of a property of the model by operating the model. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232881 | Trace Routing Network - Hardware emulation produces relevant and irrelevant trace data. Verification of a design under test requires knowledge of the relevant trace data. Data lines are provided to capture trace data from the hardware emulator's logic elements during emulation. The data lines connect the outputs of these logic elements to the inputs of a configurable interconnect circuit. The configurable interconnect circuit is capable of being programmed to select from a plurality of these inputs to connect a number of the data lines to a scan chain or trace data storage circuit. The configurable interconnect circuit can then selectively connect those data lines carrying relevant trace data to a trace data processing circuit. The trace data processing circuit may be a scan chain, analysis device or storage device or other suitable trace data processing device. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232882 | METHOD FOR PATTERNIZED RECORD OF BILINGUAL SENTENCE-PAIR AND ITS TRANSLATION METHOD AND TRANSLATION SYSTEM - an method for patternized record of bilingual sentence-pair, for recording a source sentence and a corresponding target sentence onto the record medium in mapping manner, wherein, recording the source sentence into the first part in the record medium, and recording the target sentence into the second part in the record medium; the regular unit and patternized unit are recorded in the target sentence (the second part); in the patternized unit, the content of target portion and the corresponding source information, such as, the content of source portion, and POS, attribute and/or serial number of unit of the source portion, or any combination of the above-mentioned informations. The translation method and translation system base on bilingual patternized sentence-pair are also disclosed. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232883 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATING SENTENCES BETWEEN LANGAUGES - A method and computer system for translating sentences between languages from an intermediate language-independent semantic representation is provided. On the basis of comprehensive understanding about languages and semantics, exhaustive linguistic descriptions are used to analyze sentences, to build syntactic structures and language independent semantic structures and representations, and to synthesize one or more sentences in a natural or artificial language. A computer system is also provided to analyze and synthesize various linguistic structures and to perform translation of a wide spectrum of various sentence types. As result, a generalized data structure, such as a semantic structure, is generated from a sentence of an input language and can be transformed into a natural sentence expressing its meaning correctly in an output language. The method and computer system can be applied to in automated abstracting, machine translation, natural language processing, control systems, Internet information retrieval, etc. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232884 | METHOD, PROGRAM AND SYSTEM FOR FINDING CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN TERMS - A computer implemented method, system, and product for finding correspondence between terms in two different languages. The method includes the steps of: creating a technical term set and a general term set for each of i) a first language and ii) a second language, creating two bipartite graphs, where each graph corresponds to one of the two languages, and connects the technical term set and general term set of each language, respectively, with weighted links based on corpus information, creating a third bipartite graph by creating weighted links between general terms in the first language and general terms in the second language by using a translation dictionary, creating an association matrix M corresponding to the three bipartite graphs, calculating a similarity matrix Q by calculation of an inverse matrix, and outputting correspondence between the technical term sets of the first and second language on basis of the similarity matrix. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232885 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUILDING DIVERSE LANGUAGE MODELS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for collecting web data in order to create diverse language models. A system configured to practice the method first crawls, such as via a crawler operating on a computing device, a set of documents in a network of interconnected devices according to a visitation policy, wherein the visitation policy is configured to focus on novelty regions for a current language model built from previous crawling cycles by crawling documents whose vocabulary considered likely to fill gaps in the current language model. A language model from a previous cycle can be used to guide the creation of a language model in the following cycle. The novelty regions can include documents with high perplexity values over the current language model. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232886 | COMPUTER NETWORK, COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, CLIENT, AND SERVER FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE-BASED CONTROL OF A DIGITAL NETWORK - The present application relates to a computer network, a computer-implemented method, a computer program product, a client, and a server for natural language-based control of a digital network. In one aspect, the computer network for natural language-based control of a digital network may comprise: a digital network operable to provide sharing of access to a network between a plurality of devices connected in the digital network; a client installed in the digital network and operable to provide a unified natural language interface to a user to control the digital network using natural language; a server connected to the client over the network and operable to process a user request of the user performed through the unified natural language interface; and one or more software agents operable to execute at least one action on at least one of the plurality of devices based on the processed user request. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232887 | INFORMATION EXTRACTION ACROSS MULTIPLE EXPERTISE-SPECIFIC SUBJECT AREAS - Techniques are disclosed for bridging terminology differences between at least two subject areas. By way of example, a computer-implemented method includes executing the following steps on a computer. A first affinity measure is computed between a first term in a first corpus, corresponding to a first subject area, and a bridge term. A second affinity measure is computed between a second term in a second corpus, corresponding to a second subject area, and the bridge term. A third affinity measure is computed between the first term and the second term based on the first affinity measure and the second affinity measure. The bridge term is a term that appears in both the first corpus and the second corpus. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232888 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONCEALING FRAME ERASURE AND VOICE DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING THE SAME - An apparatus and method for concealing frame erasure and a voice decoding apparatus and method using the same. The frame erasure concealment apparatus includes: a parameter extraction unit determining whether there is an erased frame in a voice packet, and extracting an excitement signal parameter and a line spectrum pair parameter of a previous good frame; and an erasure frame concealment unit, if there is an erased frame, restoring the excitement signal and line spectrum pair parameter of the erased frame by using a regression analysis from the excitement signal and line spectrum pair parameter of the previous good frame. According to the method and apparatus, by predicting and restoring the parameter of the erased frame through the regression analysis, the quality of the restored voice signal can be enhanced and the algorithm can be simplified. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232889 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING PACKET LOSS OR FRAME ERASURE CONCEALMENT - A method for performing packet loss or Frame Erasure Concealment (FEC) for a speech coder receives encoded frames of compressed speech information transmitted from an encoder. The method determines whether an encoded frame has been lost, corrupted in transmission, or erased, synthesizes properly received frames, and decides on an overlap-add window to use in combining a portion of the synthesized speech signal with a subsequent speech signal resulting from a received and decoded packet, where the size of the overlap-add window is based on the unavailability of packets. If it is determined that an encoded frame has been lost, corrupted in transmission, or erased, the method performed an overlap-add operation on the portion of the synthesized speech signal and the subsequent speech signal, using the decided-on overlap-add window. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232890 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISCRIMINATING SPEECH, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an apparatus for discriminating speech/non-speech of a first acoustic signal includes a weight assignment unit, a feature extraction unit, and a speech/non-speech discrimination unit. The first acoustic signal includes a user's speech and a reproduced sound. The reproduced sound is a system sound having a plurality of channels reproduced from a plurality of speakers. The weight assignment unit is configured to assign a weight to each frequency band based on the system sound. The feature extraction unit is configured to extract a feature from a second acoustic signal based on the weight of each frequency band. The second acoustic signal is the first acoustic signal in which the reproduced sound is suppressed. The speech/non-speech discrimination unit is configured to discriminate speech/non-speech of the first acoustic signal based on the feature. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232891 | SPEECH COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND ROBOT APPARATUS - This invention realizes a speech communication system and method, and a robot apparatus capable of significantly improving entertainment property. A speech communication system with a function to make conversation with a conversation partner is provided with a speech recognition means for recognizing speech of the conversation partner, a conversation control means for controlling conversation with the conversation partner based on the recognition result of the speech recognition means, an image recognition means for recognizing the face of the conversation partner, and a tracking control means for tracing the existence of the conversation partner based on one or both of the recognition result of the image recognition means and the recognition result of the speech recognition means. The conversation control means controls conversation so as to continue depending on tracking of the tracking control means. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232892 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ISOLATING AND PROCESSING COMMON DIALOG CUES - A method, system and machine-readable medium are provided. Speech input is received at a speech recognition component and recognized output is produced. A common dialog cue from the received speech input or input from a second source is recognized. An action is performed corresponding to the recognized common dialog cue. The performed action includes sending a communication from the speech recognition component to the speech generation component while bypassing a dialog component. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232893 | MULTI-LAYERED SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A multi-layered speech recognition apparatus and method, the apparatus includes a client checking whether the client recognizes the speech using a characteristic of speech to be recognized and recognizing the speech or transmitting the characteristic of the speech according to a checked result; and first through N-th servers, wherein the first server checks whether the first server recognizes the speech using the characteristic of the speech transmitted from the client, and recognizes the speech or transmits the characteristic according to a checked result, and wherein an n-th (2≦n≦N) server checks whether the n-th server recognizes the speech using the characteristic of the speech transmitted from an (n−1)-th server, and recognizes the speech or transmits the characteristic according to a checked result. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232894 | DEVICE FOR RECONSTRUCTING SPEECH BY ULTRASONICALLY PROBING THE VOCAL APPARATUS - The invention provides a portable device for recognizing and/or reconstructing speech by ultrasound probing of the vocal apparatus, the device including at least one ultrasound transducer ( | 2012-09-13 |
20120232895 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISCRIMINATING SPEECH, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an apparatus for discriminating speech/non-speech of a first acoustic signal includes a weight assignment unit, a feature extraction unit, and a speech/non-speech discrimination unit. The weight assignment unit is configured to assign a weight to each frequency band, based on a frequency spectrum of the first acoustic signal including a user's speech and a frequency spectrum of a second acoustic signal including a disturbance sound. The feature extraction unit is configured to extract a feature from the frequency spectrum of the first acoustic signal, based on the weight of each frequency band. The speech/non-speech discrimination unit is configured to discriminate speech/non-speech of the first acoustic signal, based on the feature. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232896 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION - A voice activity detection apparatus ( | 2012-09-13 |
20120232897 | Locating Products in Stores Using Voice Search From a Communication Device - A user can locate products by dialing a number from any phone and accessing an automatic voice recognition system. Reply is made to the user with information locating the product using a store's product location data converted to automatic voice responses. Smart phone and mobile web access to a product database is enabled using voice-to-text and text search. A taxonomy enables product search requests by product descriptions and/or product brand names, and enable synonyms and phonetic enhancements to the system. Search results are related to products and product categories with concise organization. Relevant advertisements, promotional offers and coupons are delivered based upon search and taxonomy elements. Search requests generate dynamic interior maps of a products location inside the shoppers' location, assisting a shopper to efficiently shop the location for listed items. Business intelligence of product categories enable rapid scaling across retail segments. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232898 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING AN AUTOMATED DATA-COLLECTION IN SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS - The invention relates to a system and method for gathering data for use in a spoken dialog system. An aspect of the invention is generally referred to as an automated hidden human that performs data collection automatically at the beginning of a conversation with a user in a spoken dialog system. The method comprises presenting an initial prompt to a user, recognizing a received user utterance using an automatic speech recognition engine and classifying the recognized user utterance using a spoken language understanding module. If the recognized user utterance is not understood or classifiable to a predetermined acceptance threshold, then the method re-prompts the user. If the recognized user utterance is not classifiable to a predetermined rejection threshold, then the method transfers the user to a human as this may imply a task-specific utterance. The received and classified user utterance is then used for training the spoken dialog system. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232899 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF A SPEAKER BY PHONOGRAMS OF SPONTANEOUS ORAL SPEECH AND BY USING FORMANT EQUALIZATION - A system and method for identification of a speaker by phonograms of oral speech is disclosed. Similarity between a first phonogram of the speaker and a second, or sample, phonogram is evaluated by matching formant frequencies in referential utterances of a speech signal, where the utterances for comparison are selected from the first phonogram and the second phonogram. Referential utterances of speech signals are selected from the first phonogram and the second phonogram, where the referential utterances include formant paths of at least three formant frequencies. The selected referential utterances including at least two identical formant frequencies are compared therebetween. Similarity of the compared referential utterances from matching other formant frequencies is evaluated, where similarity of the phonograms is determined from evaluation of similarity of all the compared referential utterances. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232900 | SPEAKER RECOGNITION FROM TELEPHONE CALLS - The present invention relates to a method for speaker recognition, comprising the steps of obtaining and storing speaker information for at least one target speaker; obtaining a plurality of speech samples from a plurality of telephone calls from at least one unknown speaker; classifying the speech samples according to the at least one unknown speaker thereby providing speaker-dependent classes of speech samples; extracting speaker information for the speech samples of each of the speaker-dependent classes of speech samples; combining the extracted speaker information for each of the speaker-dependent classes of speech samples; comparing the combined extracted speaker information for each of the speaker-dependent classes of speech samples with the stored speaker information for the at least one target speaker to obtain at least one comparison result; and determining whether one of the at least one unknown speakers is identical with the at least one target speaker based on the at least one comparison result. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232901 | AUTOMATIC SPOKEN LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION BASED ON PHONEME SEQUENCE PATTERNS - A language identification system that includes a universal phoneme decoder (UPD) is described. The UPD contains a universal phoneme set representing both 1) all phonemes occurring in the set of two or more spoken languages, and 2) captures phoneme correspondences across languages, such that a set of unique phoneme patterns and probabilities are calculated in order to identify a most likely phoneme occurring each time in the audio files in the set of two or more potential languages in which the UPD was trained on. Each statistical language model (SLM) uses the set of unique phoneme patterns created for each language in the set to distinguish between spoken human languages in the set of languages. The run-time language identifier module identifies a particular human language being spoken by utilizing the linguistic probabilities supplied by the SLMs that are based on the set of unique phoneme patterns created for each language. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232902 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION MODELING FOR MOBILE VOICE SEARCH - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for generating an acoustic model for use in speech recognition. A system configured to practice the method first receives training data and identifies non-contextual lexical-level features in the training data. Then the system infers sentence-level features from the training data and generates a set of decision trees by node-splitting based on the non-contextual lexical-level features and the sentence-level features. The system decorrelates training vectors, based on the training data, for each decision tree in the set of decision trees to approximate full-covariance Gaussian models, and then can train an acoustic model for use in speech recognition based on the training data, the set of decision trees, and the training vectors. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232903 | KITCHEN AND/OR DOMESTIC APPLIANCE - The invention relates to a kitchen and/or domestic appliance comprising input means, which are connected to a voice-recognition system, for acoustic operator commands. The invention is characterised in that means for executing command-dependent actions are provided and that the voice-recognition system is used to identify and check the authorisation of a user. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232904 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING A WORD IN SPEECH INPUT TEXT - A method and apparatus for correcting a named entity word in a speech input text. The method includes recognizing a speech input signal from a user, obtaining a recognition result including named entity vocabulary mark-up information, determining a named entity word recognized incorrectly in the recognition result according to the named entity vocabulary mark-up information, displaying the named entity word recognized incorrectly, and correcting the named entity word recognized incorrectly. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232905 | METHODOLOGY TO IMPROVE FAILURE PREDICTION ACCURACY BY FUSING TEXTUAL DATA WITH RELIABILITY MODEL - A method and system for developing reliability models from unstructured text documents, such as text verbatim descriptions from service technicians. An ontology, or data model, and heuristic rules are used to identify and extract failure modes and parts from the text verbatim comments associated with specific labor codes from service events. Like-meaning but differently-worded terms are then merged using text similarity scoring techniques. The resultant failure modes are used to create enhanced reliability models, where component reliability is predicted in terms of individual failure modes instead of aggregated for the component. The enhanced reliability models provide improved reliability prediction for the component, and also provides insight into aspects of the component design which can be improved in the future. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232906 | 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. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232907 | System and Method for Delivering a Human Interactive Proof to the Visually Impaired by Means of Semantic Association of Objects - A system and method for delivering a Human Interactive Proof, or reverse Turing test to the visually impaired; said test comprising a method for restricting access to a computer system, resource, or network to live persons, and for preventing the execution of automated scripts via an interface intended for human interaction. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232908 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AVOIDING PARTIAL COLLAPSE IN MULTI-BLOCK AUDIO CODING - Embodiments are described of a multi-block coding scheme for an audio signal to prevent partial collapse conditions from causing pre-echo compression artifacts. An audio codec includes a segmentation component partitioning the audio signal into a plurality of tiles, wherein each tile comprises data from a particular segment of time and a particular set of frequencies of the audio signal; a band energy component determining an energy value for each tile corresponding to a signal component in a respective tile; an encoder flag tracking component marking a tile as not collapsed or collapsed based on the energy value in that tile; and a decoder flag tracking component filling all tiles marked as collapsed with pseudorandom noise at an estimated energy level. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232909 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TWO-STEP SPREADING FOR TONAL ARTIFACT AVOIDANCE IN AUDIO CODING - Embodiments are directed to an audio coding scheme implemented in a codec that eliminates birdie artifacts generated by transform coding methods. A frequency coefficient spreading method invertibly rotates a spectrum of coefficient values based on a defined rotation angle, The rotated spectrum is then quantized, and the rotation operation is then reversed so that a previously sparse spectrum (i.e., one with few non-zero values) becomes one that has many non-zero values. The method arranges the coefficients for a particular partition into a linear array and computes a gain factor for the partition. A rotation angle of between 0 and π/4 for successive pairs of coefficients of the linear array based on the gain factor is then derived. One or more rotation operations are then applied to successive pairs of coefficients in the linear array using a specific rotation angle and a stride length for each rotation operation. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232910 | SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY CREATING AND RENDERING AUDIO OBJECTS - Embodiments of systems and methods are described for providing backwards compatibility for legacy devices that are unable to natively render non-channel based audio objects. These systems and methods can also be beneficially used to produce a reduced set of audio objects for compatible object-based decoders with low computing resources. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232911 | OPTIMIZATION OF MP3 AUDIO ENCODING BY SCALE FACTORS AND GLOBAL QUANTIZATION STEP SIZE - An iterative rate-distortion optimization algorithm for MPEG I/II Layer-3 (MP3) encoding based on the method of Lagrangian multipliers. Generally, an iterative method is performed such that a global quantization step size is determined while scale factors are fixed, and thereafter the scale factors are determined while the global quantization step size is fixed. This is repeated until a calculated rate-distortion cost is within a predetermined threshold. The methods are demonstrated to be computationally efficient and the resulting bit stream is fully standard compatible. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232912 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Audio Coding - The invention relates to a method and an apparatus in which samples of at least a part of an audio signal of a first channel and a part of an audio signal of a second channel are used to estimate a time delay between said part of the audio signal of said first channel and said part of the audio signal of said second channel. The method includes windowing the samples; performing a time-to-frequency domain transform; and determining an inter-channel time delay between said part of the audio signal of the first channel and said part of the audio signal of said second channel on the basis of the frequency domain representations. There is also disclosed a method and an apparatus for decoding the encoded samples. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232913 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR BIT ALLOCATION AND PARTITIONING IN GAIN-SHAPE VECTOR QUANTIZATION FOR AUDIO CODING - Embodiments are generally directed to systems and methods for bit allocation and band partitioning for gain-shape vector quantization in an audio codec. An audio codec implements a method that uses an implicit, dynamic scheme to allow an encoder and decoder to recreate a series of bit allocation decisions for gain and shape without transmitting additional side information for each decision, based on the number of bits that are left remaining and available in a given packet. For implementation in practical codecs, the band comprising the allocation of bits for the shape is recursively split into equal partitions until the number of bits allocated to each partition is less than the maximum codebook size. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232914 | MARKETPLACE FOR MARKET INFORMATION - Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to receive raw provider data in machine-readable form, where the raw provider data is associated with and provided by data contributors according to incentives made available to the data contributors. Additional activity may include filtering the raw provider data to provide filtered provider data, verifying that data taken from the filtered provider data meets a predefined level of trustworthiness, transforming at least some of the trustworthy data by formatting the data as is, or in summary analysis form according to one of multiple reporting formats to provide formatted data, and publishing the formatted data to at least one subscriber. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232915 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A UTILITY METER NETWORK - Embodiments of the invention provide a method for monitoring a utility meter network. The method includes receiving data from a front-end utility application suite that communicates with one or more utility meters and storing the data in one or more databases. The method includes organizing the data according to the utility meter from which the data originated and processing the data using one or more rules to detect patterns and correlations indicative of one or more suspicious events. In some embodiments, the processed data is stored in a database and a report is produced if patterns and correlations indicative of one or more suspicious events are detected. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232916 | VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - Digital media content-on-demand hosting/delivery system for using an n-tier, multi dimension dynamic data technology to distribute digital content and manage information and comprising separate delivery and end-user systems with separate but compatible software, the hosting/delivery system being sub-divided into distributed hosting clusters serving small groups of users, ensuring local balance and overcoming diversity of connection/streaming speeds of end users. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232917 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS RESERVATION AND ORDERING FROM A MOBILE DEVICE - The system and method for wireless reservation and ordering from a mobile device includes a server that provides a relational database accessible to a client mobile device via a Wi-Fi interface. A browser operable on the client mobile device accesses the relational database to provide a catalog of restaurants, coffee shops, hospitals, malls, barber shops, and the like, from which the user can view menus, receive offers, make reservations, order items and services. The proximity requirement of Wi-Fi makes the system a Location Based Service (LBS). | 2012-09-13 |
20120232918 | ELECTRONIC DATA CAPTURE, DOCUMENTATION, AND CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM - An electronic data capture, documentation and clinical decision support system (EDDS) includes a user display and input device, where the device is configured to include symbolic language including icons, the icons being controllable based upon user input. Multiple input data feeds are provided from one or more external databases, and preferably from a user input device. A display presentation system cohorts or otherwise organizes the data received via the input data feeds. An external device control system serves to provide wireless remote control of medical devices. Optionally, a clinical decision support system for providing clinical information to the user, such as providing a diagnosis, suggested treatment, medication or other medical action. The recommended clinical action may be implemented automatically, or upon the further authorization of the medical professional. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232919 | Methods, Apparatuses and Systems for Analyzing Healthcare Data - Systems, methods and apparatuses for analyzing healthcare data are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system for analyzing healthcare data may include a data access module configured to access healthcare data. In some embodiments, the system may further include a server in data communication with the data access device. The server may be configured to execute a rule, the rule comprising one or more rule elements, on the healthcare data to create analyzed healthcare data. In some embodiments, executing the rule may include, correlating each rule element with an object model element. In some embodiments, executing the rule further may include, defining the object model elements correlated to the rule elements using one or more localization indexes linked to the accessed healthcare data. In some embodiments, the server is further configured to return the analyzed healthcare data to an output data location. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232920 | Method and System For Identifying The Appropriate Health Care Provider In Which to Assign Outcome Data From An Inpatient Case - Included are embodiments for identifying the appropriate healthcare provider in which to assign outcome data from an inpatient case. Some embodiments include compiling inpatient cases for a healthcare facility, determining an attributable case by matching attribution indicator data for each of the inpatient cases with case data for each of the inpatient cases, and scoring physician activities based on the attribution indicator data. Some embodiments include attributing the inpatient cases to a physician, based on the scoring and providing the attribution to a user. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232921 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENSURING INTEGRITY OF CLINICAL TRIAL RESULTS - The system and method utilize the inter-relationship of items in a psychological instrument or instruments and have been demonstrated empirically to detect problematic conceptualizations of constructs. Scores from the instruments are submitted for review. The scores are analyzed by a computer program that compares item level scores with expected values based on the item inter-relationships. If inconsistencies are discovered a flag is generated. If inconsistencies are deemed actionable then remedial action or contact is scheduled with the site-based clinician or “rater” who conducted the patient assessment using the instrument or instruments. The site-based clinician is contacted and an information exchange about the case occurs in which the site-based clinician provides an overview of symptom presentation. This symptom presentation is then matched to the item level scores on the instrument to determine if it was scored in a manner consistent with the conceptual basis for the items. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232922 | Methods For Delivering A Drug To A Patient While Preventing The Exposure Of A Foetus Or Other Contraindicated Individual to the Drug - Novel methods for delivering a drug to a patient while preventing the exposure of a foetus or other contraindicated individual to the drug. Embodiments are provided in which the involved prescribers, pharmacies and patients are registered in one or more computer databases. Embodiments are also provided in which registered patients receive counseling information concerning the risks attendant to foetal exposure to the drug. Male patients and female patients who are not pregnant may, in certain circumstances, receive the drug. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232923 | CATEGORIZATION OF INFORMATION USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND PREDEFINED TEMPLATES - A computer implemented method for generating a report that includes latent information, comprising receiving an input data stream that includes latent information, performing one of normalization, validation, and extraction of the input data stream, processing the input data stream to identify latent information within the data stream that is required for generation of a particular report, wherein said processing of the input data stream to identify latent information comprises of identifying a relevant portion of the input data stream, bounding the relevant portion of the input data stream, classifying and normalizing the bounded data, activating a relevant report template based on said identified latent information, populating said template with template-specified data, and processing the template-specified data to generate a report. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232924 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING MEDICAL IMPAIRMENTS - The present invention provides a method of verifying a medical impairment, comprising receiving a medical diagnosis of an injury, the numeric permanent impairment rating resulting from an evaluation of a permanent impairment, and comparing that permanent impairment rating to a statistically evaluated probable impairment rating of the injury. Depending on the results of the comparison, the assessed impairment rating may be reevaluated, in some cases by a trained impairment evaluator, and others by an expert medical staff. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232925 | OFFERING DRUG SAMPLES THROUGH ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS - A facility fulfills drug samples to prescribers in several different manners. A prescriber can request drug samples through an electronic medical record application, an electronic prescribing application, or a mobile application, which are sent to or printed for patients who in turn go to a pharmacy to obtain the free medications. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232926 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF PATIENT ADMISSION RATES - An automated method, as well as computer-implemented systems, apparatus and software products, to predict patient demand in a medical facility. A database contains historical data of patient demand during one or more past time periods. At least two distinguishing characteristics are associated ( | 2012-09-13 |
20120232927 | SYSTEM FOR THE CONTROL AND INTEGRAL MANAGEMENT OF THE MEDICAL RECORDS OF PATIENTS IN HEALTH CARE CENTRES, HOSPITALS, OUTPATIENT CENTERS AND THE GENERAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM - SYSTEM FOR CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF PATIENT MEDICAL RECORDS IN HEALTH CENTERS, HOSPITAL, MEDICAL CARE CENTERS AND WITHIN THE GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM AS A WHOLE which essentially consists of a monitoring operation and management of the CAC system (Continuum Assisted Care) and resolution of incidents in the flow of information between doctors and patients, that is based on the rapid creation and easy access to disease monitoring protocols. This is a private relationship between doctor and patient that is automated and simplified through the proprietary CAC Platform System and can not be characterized in any case as a medical act. The services are related to the CAC process support, oversee and monitor the correct flow of information to be produced once the monitoring and control relationship between doctors and patients is established, whose order of performance is:
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20120232928 | ARRANGEMENT FOR IDENTIFICATION OF MEDICAL STATUS - An arrangement for identification of the medical status of a person in case of an accident, said arrangement including: a database where information regarding a specific persons medical status and/or medicaments taken on a regular basis by the person of relevance in case of emergency treatment is stored; passive identification means that make it possible to single out a person and collect the relevant information in the database for the identified person; a signal network for transmitting the required information to and from the database; a scanning device that is able to scan one or more injured persons to read the identification means, said scanning device also includes a transmitter/receiver communicating with the database and displays information; an auto reply service provider that verifies the scanned and transmitted request from the scanning device to the database, retrieves the information from the database and sends it to the scanning device. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232929 | MOBILE DEVICE-BASED SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED, REAL TIME HEALTH RECORD EXCHANGE - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for accessing electronic medical records are provided in which a portable computing device uniquely associated with a user authenticates an identification of the user and automatically retrieves information corresponding to the user from electronic healthcare records systems using the identification. The retrieved information may be combined with other information and electronically delivered to a healthcare provider. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232930 | Clinical Decision Support System - A clinical decision support system performs a similarity search to determine the probable outcome of applying on a current patient those clinical actions that were performed on similar patients. The system analyzes stored electronic health records of similar patients so as to recommend diagnostic and therapeutic steps for the current patient. The system receives the health record of the patient, determines which clinical actions were already applied on the patient, generates classifiers associated with potential future clinical actions, generates a success value for each health record of another patient using the classifiers, displays the health record of the other patient having the greatest success value, and indicates a proposed clinical action that is to be applied on the patient. The system also calculates a quality value indicating the probability that a sequence of clinical actions that were applied to a similar patient will be successful if applied to the patient. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232931 | PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM - A patient monitoring system for determining a health coaching parameter of a patient, the patient monitoring system comprising: A. a health professional user interface; B. a patient user interface; C. a patient database comprising an electronic health record belonging to the patient; D. a domain model comprising a knowledge base for a medical condition; E. a template database comprising at least one template form for constructing at least one question and possible responses to the at least one question about the medical condition using the domain model, wherein the at least one template form comprises a mapping for each of the possible responses to determine a value for the health coaching parameter; F. a computing device comprising: at least one processor, memory, and one or more programs; wherein the one or more programs are stored in memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors; wherein the one or more programs comprise instructions for: receiving a request for a health coaching parameter from the health professional user interface; retrieving the knowledge base for the medical condition; constructing the at least one question and the possible responses using the knowledge base and the at least one template form; receiving a response from the patient user interface; determining the value for the health coaching parameter using the response and the mapping; recording the value of the health coaching parameter in the electronic health record; selecting a subset of the knowledge using the response; and providing the patient with the subset of the knowledge base using the patient user interface. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232932 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING CREDIT INSURANCE POLICIES - A system and method for optimizing insurance policies are disclosed. The system and method include a goal module that receives qualifying information for a customer's current credit insurance policy or policies and uses the qualifying information to determine one or more actual coverage amounts for which one or more debtors qualify under that customer's current insurance policy or policies, a compliance module that receives compliance information for the customer's current insurance policy or policies and uses the compliance information to identify any actions that need to be taken to prevent the one or more debtors that qualify for the actual coverage amount from falling out of compliance with the customer's current insurance policy or policies, and a marketplace module that aggregates market information for a plurality of insurers and identifies one or more other insurance policies that provide coverage for one or more debtors that do not qualify for an actual amount of coverage greater than or equal to a desired amount of coverage and/or that are out of compliance with the customer's current insurance policy or policies. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232933 | CORPORATE WELLNESS CERTIFICATION METHOD - A renewable preventative health care wellness certification that may be recognized as sufficient proof that an insured individual member of a health insurance policy has enrolled, studied, and proficiently become educated on course content regarding health and wellness to satisfy a standard exam score. The certification may be recognized by the insurance carrier and may qualify the insured individual for a reduction in the individual's health insurance premium rate. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232934 | AUTOMATED INSURANCE POLICY FORM GENERATION AND COMPLETION - Automated insurance policy form generation and completion includes electronically receiving one or more forms and receiving an indication that a particular form is an overflow form for a particular base form. The relationship between the overflow form and base form is recorded based on the received indication and the fields on the base form and overflow form are tagged according to a naming convention. The number of overflow forms to use is determined based on an amount of received data and by using the naming convention to determine a number of available fields on the base form and overflow forms. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232935 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING INSURANCE POLICIES - An apparatus and method for optimizing insurance policies are disclosed. The apparatus and method include a processing device that is configured to import the various terms and conditions from one or more insurer systems and to import accounts receivable information from one or more customer systems, the processing device being in electronic data communication with the one or more insurer systems and the one or more customer systems via a network connection; a compliance module that is configured to instruct the processing device to import the various terms and conditions from the one or more insurer systems, to import the accounts receivable information from the one or more customer systems, to identify overdue accounts receivable and time periods for which those accounts receivable have been overdue, and to compare the terms and conditions to the time periods to determine if the customer is not in compliance with any of one of the various terms and conditions, and to generate an alert when the customer is not in compliance with any one of the various terms and conditions; and a graphical user interface in electronic data communication with the processing device that is configured to generate a graphical display that includes the overdue accounts receivable identified by the processing device. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232936 | Reference Pricing of Health Care Deliverables - Embodiments of methods and systems for providing a payer with a platform for reference pricing of health care deliverables are disclosed. One method includes identifying a set of one or more health care deliverables to which reference pricing is to be applied, and setting a reference price for each health care deliverable of the set. For this embodiment, setting the reference price includes providing the payer with analysis of negotiated rates for the health care deliverable across at least one of geographies, demographics, and centers of excellence, and allowing the payer to set the reference price for each health care deliverable based on the provided analysis. The method further includes receiving a health care deliverable request from a user who is covered by the payer, retrieving the set reference price corresponding to the health care deliverable request, and providing the set reference price or out-of-pocket cost to the user. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232937 | REAL-TIME IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR MEDICAL SAVINGS PLANS - In general terms, embodiments of the present invention relate to methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for providing health or flexible spending account information in association with products identified in an augmented reality environment. In some embodiments, a method is provided that includes: (a) receiving information associated with an image, where the image was captured by a mobile device; (b) determining, based at least partially on the information associated with the image, that the image shows a product that qualifies for purchase under a medical savings plan; and (c) presenting, via the mobile device, information that indicates that the product qualifies for purchase under the medical savings plan. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232938 | INSURANCE PRODUCT, RATING SYSTEM AND METHOD - In the present invention, an insurance product, rating system and method generally relates to a rating and pricing system for quantifying the risk that the annual savings will not fall below specified levels associated with implementing and maintaining economic improvements. The product, system and method can be applied to various industries, including, power generation, petro-chemical, manufacturing and refining facilities. Various embodiments disclosed herein relate to a method for pricing an insurance policy for insuring a minimum level of return on investment. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232939 | Method for Rendering Layer Images and Providing Information - A User Interactive Insurance Risk Analysis Application that is web-based which combines user imported insurance portfolios and geospatial technology with output from user defined actions and simulations providing an analysis tool for dynamic management of catastrophic exposures. The user may configure every aspect of the risk analysis application and use a variety of tools and features to create actions and receive risk information of all layers used for analysis. Precise risk information is given to the user due to the many services and modules which make up the risk analysis application, including a loss calculation service and dynamic, multi-dimensional configurable risk data display. The user receives estimated loss values and may configure which pieces of data analysis the user would like to see and how that data is presented without having to drilldown through all the data in the insurance portfolio. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232940 | System and Method for Standardized and Automated Appeals Process - A system and method for automating and standardizing an appeals process, facilitating both business-to-business (i.e., insurance companies to providers) and business-to-consumer (i.e., insurance companies to patients) relationships, and educating users on the healthcare industry and patient rights. The system and method provides automated and standardized electronic communication for any business with a regulated or contractual appeals or grievance process. In one application, the system and method provide electronic communication between patients, providers, and insurance plans; convenient access to an “anytime” appeals process; and an efficient follow-up and appeals status tracking There are standardized forms for the appeal, and the provider appeal format is compatible with current billing forms. The system includes an on-line web site with the ability to manage “behind the scenes” the overall appeals process, including data collection, data management, correspondence generation, process status tracking, and individualized client accounts. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232941 | Determining composite service reliability - The reliability of a composite service having service components is determined, where the composite service can fail only where underlying resources fail. The composite service is represented as a plurality of continuous-time Markov chains (CTMC's). Each CTMC corresponds to a resource. A product of the CTMC's is constructed. The product encompasses composite service states. Steady-state probabilities for the product are determined. Each steady-state probability corresponds to a likelihood that a corresponding state will be a steady state. For each state of the composite service, a reward structure is determined. The reward structure corresponds to a likelihood that the state will successfully use the resources without failure. The reward structure is determined for a given state based on the given state's steady-state probability and based on discrete-time Markov chains (DTMC's) corresponding to the service components. The reliability of the composite service is determined based on the reward structure of each state. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232942 | CONTROL AND TRACKING SYSTEM FOR MATERIAL MOVEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE - A system and method is provided for monitoring, tracking and/or coordinating the movement of items and/or equipment aboard a vessel. More particularly, a system and method is provided for controlling material flow, planning, reporting, scheduling, and inventory tracking of items throughout a vessel. The system comprises a computer infrastructure configured to receive item identification from remote sources and provide transporting instructions based on the item identification and predetermined criteria to operators for movement of cargo within a vessel. The system also includes at least one external device configured to at least receive the transporting instructions from the computer infrastructure. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232943 | AUTOMATIC OPTIMAL TAXICAB MOBILE LOCATION BASED DISPATCHING SYSTEM - The invention discloses a method and system for real-time automatic optimal dispatching of a plurality of taxicabs to passenger pick-up locations. The system uses optimization model to optimally dispatch taxicab vehicles in order to minimize total clients waiting time and to maximize taxicab business profitability. The optimization is performed based on the data on currently available taxicabs and their location, and based on the data on new clients orders and clients' pick-up locations, wherein the data on available taxicabs and their locations is obtained by the cell phone/GPS means from taxicab in-car devices and the data on clients' pick-up locations is obtained from clients cell phones/GPS-based devices. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232944 | RESOURCE SKILL COMPLIANCE OPTIMIZATION - Methods, apparatus, and computer readable media with executable instructions stored thereon for optimizing resource skill compliance are provided. Example methods of the present disclosure can include identifying jobs, skills corresponding to the jobs, and resources corresponding to the skills. A job skill level is associated with each skill of each job, and a resource skill level is associated with each skill of each resource. An individual skill compliance is determined by computer for each skill of each resource with respect to each skill of each job based on the resource skill level relative to the job skill level. A resource skill compliance is determined by computer for each resource with respect to each job as a total of the individual skill level compliances for each skill corresponding to each job, and resources are assigned by a computer to jobs in a manner that optimizes a total of the resource skill compliances for those resources assigned to jobs. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232945 | LIGHTWEIGHT PRIVACY PROTECTION PROTOCOL, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR RFID AND SENSOR BASED LOGISTICS TRACK AND TRACE DATA SHARING OVER BUSINESS SUBCONTRACTING RELATIONSHIPS - Subcontracting is a common practice in logistics industry for delivering goods from a consigner to a consignee, meaning that a prime logistics service provider, e.g. a third-party logistics company, usually outsources its contracted logistics service from the consigner to specialized companies to execute individual logistics operations. In the present disclosure, a light-weight privacy protection mechanism is introduced for these enterprises with subcontracting relationships to share logistics track and trace data captured with Auto-ID systems equipped with RFID readers, sensors, or global positioning devices. The mechanism consists of a set of protocols designed for the involved stakeholders to register and cancel subcontracting relationship, to set up and clear outsourced logistics job, to upload, update and clear the job data, to track the job execution progress and trace the job execution history, and a method and system to implement these protocols. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232946 | Methods and Systems for a Multi-Party Customizable Calendar - A method and system for a real time multi-person scheduling system for creating and tracking the availability of persons, places, or things which may be required for an appointment. The scheduling system where an appointment can be created and tracked in real time and the system is configured to allow for remote access and amendments to an appointment through data transmission protocols. The scheduling system further providing for the tracking of persons, places, or things, such that parties to the appointment may track their hours and pay an attendee of an appointment or bill a client for the time expended. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232947 | AUTOMATION OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT PROCESSES AND ASSETS - Various embodiments are directed towards automating business processes and assets. A generated application may have entity propagation rules that allocate costs among objects in a model. Entity propagation rules may define how resources may be allocated and distributed among objects in a model. In at least one of the various embodiments, entity propagation rules may be defined to allocate resources based on formulas. in at least one of the various embodiments, the formulas used to allocate resources may include filters and matching rules. Further, in at least one of the various embodiments, matching rules may be based database referential matches. Entity propagation rules may distribute resources using formulas that may have terms based on multiple properties from the participating objects. In at least one of the various embodiments, the filter and matching formulas may be used to select the source items and the destination items if allocating resources between objects. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232948 | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE RISK MODELING - A system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for modeling IT infrastructure risk factors. The non-transitory computer readable medium having stored instructions, which when executed by a processor may cause the processor to generate a plurality of risk matrices, where an external process of a customer of an IT supplier is mapped to an IT infrastructure element of the IT supplier and a business process of a client of the customer is mapped to the external process of the customer, perform a risk analysis using the plurality of matrices to determine a criticality value for the IT infrastructure element in relation to the business process, and cause a presentation of the criticality value. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232949 | Tracking and Using Clinical Trial Protocol Feasibility Information - Systems and methods are disclosed for managing information from a feasibility study of a clinical trial protocol. Data relationships in a database can be utilized to, for example, formulate bids for managing a clinical trial protocol, track information about a feasibility study, output reminder notifications regarding overdue documents in connection with the feasibility study, provide information for use in site start-up or other processes implemented in conducting the clinical trial protocol, and allow feasibility study information to be analyzed after a clinical trial protocol has been conducted. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232950 | SPEND ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHOD - System and method for spend analysis are provided. The method includes identifying a spend category and associating a cost component model to the spend category. The cost component model indicates one or more cost contributors to the spend category. The method also includes receiving market information associated with at least a subset of the one or more cost contributors in the cost component model and outputting an analysis of spend associated with the spend category in relation to the cost component model. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232951 | SENDING PRODUCT INFORMATION BASED ON DETERMINED PREFERENCE VALUES - Determining which product information to send to a user based on a determined preference value is disclosed, including: determining pieces of user action data that are associated with a current information collection period, the user, and the product category; determining a new visit quantity associated with the current information collection period; determining an updated cumulative visit quantity associated with the product category based at least in part on the new visit quantity associated with the current information collection period; determining a total duration value associated with the product category based at least in part on a duration value associated with the current information collection period; determining a visit interval value associated with the product category and the current information collection period; and determining a long-term preference value associated with the user for the product category. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232952 | INVENTORY PRICE OPTIMIZATION - A method for selectively adjusting a price associated with an inventory stock keeping unit (SKU) stored in a catalog database of a plurality of inventory SKUs is disclosed. At least a subset of the plurality of inventory SKUs in the catalog database are retrieved. A total sales volume value of a sum of each of the sale quantity values associated with the inventory SKUs is generated. An ordered list of the retrieved inventory SKUs based upon a ranking of the associated sale quantity values is generated. Each of the retrieved inventory SKUs are assigned to a one of a plurality of sales segment categories that is based upon the total sales volume value. There is a step of generating a revised price value for each of the associated inventory SKUs in a selected one of the assigned sales segment categories. A revised list of the retrieved inventory SKUs with the revised price values substituted for the initial price values. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232953 | System and Method for Tracking Merchant Performance Using Social Media - An electronically implemented method for consumer marketing using social media, including providing a computing system comprising a processor and a data storage component, wherein the data storage component comprises instructions to cause the processor to: generate an electronic consumer engagement module comprising at least one consumer response component configured to solicit a feedback response from at least one consumer; electronically display the consumer engagement module to at least one consumer response component on a social media platform; and receive an electronic consumer response to the consumer response component from the at least one consumer through the social media platform. The method further includes establishing a performance benchmark based at least in part on the feedback response from the at least one consumer. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232954 | PROVIDING SOCIAL IMPACT INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH IDENTIFIED PRODUCTS OR BUSINESSES - Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods and apparatuses for capturing a real-time video stream using a mobile computing device, determining, using a computing device processor, which images from the real-time video stream are associated with goods and businesses consistent with a predetermined social impact, and presenting on a display of the real-time video stream, one or more indicators, each indicator being associated with an image determined to be consistent with a predetermined social impact. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232955 | System and Method for Capturing Information for Conversion into Actionable Sales Leads - The present invention relates to business-to-business marketing organizations who participate in lead-generation activities via their company website. More particularly, the invention provides a target lead-generation system and method that targets the right businesses using real-time predictive and behavioral analytics and website traffic data and connects businesses to potential customers and suppliers to drive business revenue. Even more particularly, the invention provides a system and method for real-time searching and matching of data input into website registration forms by website visitors, provides for real-time cleansing and appending of attribute rich company demographic and firmographic data to the website form and to the marketing database. The resulting information is then available for use by other systems such as marketing automation systems and CRM systems. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232956 | CUSTOMER INSIGHT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Example systems and methods of identifying customer insights are described. In one implementation, a method generates seed data associated with a likely advertisement audience, and generates sets of interests and demographic clusters based on the seed data. An advertisement campaign is launched based on the sets of interests and the demographic clusters. The demographic clusters are divided into smaller clusters based on advertisement campaign results. The method then identifies interests associated with individuals engaging with specific advertisements. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232957 | DYNAMIC MARKETING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided herein are systems and methods for providing access to marketing data via a reduced-complexity marketer GUI for dynamically defining market segments for use in marketing campaigns. | 2012-09-13 |
20120232958 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC VENUE DEMOGRAPHICS AND MARKETING - Systems and methods for acquiring, managing, providing, and/or utilizing information identifying and/or descriptive of patrons of a venue are provided. | 2012-09-13 |