41st week of 2008 patent applcation highlights part 50 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20080249705 | Realtime delivery system for updated map data - A realtime map data delivery system delivers the updated map data to navigation systems in an XML format through various communication means. The realtime map data delivery system includes a map data supplier server which generates, in realtime, map data in a predetermined format every time when the map data is updated, a map data delivery server which retrieves, in realtime, updated portions of map data and converts the updated map data to an extensible markup language format (updated XML map data) and stores the updated XML map data for delivery, and a navigation system which has XML format map data and accesses the map data delivery server through a communication network and downloads the updated XML map data to update the XML format map data. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249706 | METHOD FOR THE ANTICIPATED ASCERTAINMENT OF A BEND ON A PORTION OF ROAD, AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM - A system and method for the anticipated detection of a bend on a portion of road taken by a motor vehicle comprising the following steps: establishing, by means of a first system, called as the navigation system, a first set of information on the bend in question, the first set of information being associated with a first confidence index; establishing, by means of a second system, called as the image processing system, a second set of information on the bend in question, the second set of information being associated with a second confidence index; and establishing, from the first set of information and the second set of information and by taking into account the first confidence index and the second confidence index, a third set of information on the bend in question. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249707 | Spot Searching Device, Navigation Apparatus, Spot Searching Method, Spot Searching Program, and Information Recording Medium Having Spot Searching Program - Enabling a partial update of data for spot search and improvement of update operation efficiency. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249708 | Method and apparatus for displaying route guidance list for navigation system - A method and apparatus for a navigation system displays a route guidance list that lists information on roads that intersect with a calculated route to the destination in an organized and simplified manner. The method includes the steps of calculating a route to a destination specified by a user, retrieving information on intersecting roads that intersect with the calculated route; and displaying a route guidance list which lists road names on which the calculated route is established and a distance associated with the intersecting road. The route guidance list shows one integrated road name if there are two or more identical road names consecutively on the calculated route and an overall distance of the identical road names that intersect with the calculated route. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249709 | Method and apparatus for inputting data indicating tentative destination for navigation system - A method and apparatus for inputting a tentative destination which is proximate to an intended destination when the address data for the intended destination is not found in the map database. The method includes the steps of allowing a user to specifying an intended destination in the navigation system and searching address data for the intended destination, notifying the user that the address data is not found in the map database, selecting a method for inputting data indicating a tentative destination which is considered proximate to the intended destination, allowing the user to specify the tentative destination through the selected input method, and determining a location of the tentative destination and detecting address data indicating the location of the tentative destination. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249710 | On-Vehicle Navigation System - An on-vehicle navigation system reliably performs guidance of a necessary exiting authorized section while avoiding the guidance of a needless exiting authorized section on a plural-lane road having a normal lane and a special lane where advancing from the normal lane in a predetermined advancing authorized section and exiting to the normal lane in a predetermined exiting authorized section are authorized. After discriminating whether the vehicle is driving in the special lane of the plural-lane road based on whether a characteristic object has been detected by a characteristic object detecting section, the guidance of an exiting authorized section is avoided in the case where the vehicle deviated from a recommended route including a special lane, and the guidance of an exiting authorized section is performed in the case where the vehicle deviated from a recommended route not including a special lane and drives in a special lane. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249711 | VEHICLE NAVIGATION APPARATUS - A disclosed vehicle navigation apparatus enables the issuance of an accurate and quick guidance. Voice uttered by an occupant of a vehicle is collected by a voice collecting unit and transmitted to an external facility by a voice transmitting unit. The external facility generates destination information based on the received voice, and transmits the destination information back to a destination information receiving unit of the apparatus. Based on the received destination information, the apparatus issues a guidance. The apparatus further includes a destination extracting unit by which the voice collected by the voice collecting unit is subjected to voice recognition in order to extract a destination from the collected voice. A tentative guidance is then issued based on the extracted destination until the destination information is received by the destination information receiving unit from the external facility. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249712 | Portable Navigation Device - A portable navigation device comprises a GPS module severing to receive the positioning signals transmitted from satellites; a data manipulation module serving to process the positioning signal received from the GPS module, and at least including a central process unit and a database, the central process unit being coupled to the GPS module, and the database severing to store the information of map, navigation software; an operating module being coupled with the central process unit, and including a panel for setting the navigation data of the destination and the functions of the navigating software; a projection module being coupled with the central process unit, and including a head up display for displaying the mobile information of a vehicle in a common mode or the easy navigation information in a navigation mode, and then the mobile or the navigation information being projected onto the projection member of a windshield glass of the vehicle. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249713 | GPS POSITION ACCURACY USING FEEDBACK FROM A MAP DATABASE - A mapping software feedback correction system for use with GPS receivers and GPS enabled devices. A Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver in accordance with the present invention comprises a Radio Frequency (RF) section, the RF section adaptable to receive at least one GPS signal from at least one GPS satellite; and a baseband section, coupled to the RF section, wherein the baseband section performs calculations to determine a geoposition of the GPS receiver based on the at least one GPS signal, wherein the geoposition is determined based on a mapping software correction factor. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249714 | Method for predicting rate of penetration using bit-specific coefficients of sliding friction and mechanical efficiency as a function of confined compressive strength - A method for predicting the rate of penetration (ROP) of a drill bit drilling a well bore through intervals of rock of a subterranean formation is provided. The method uses an equation based upon specific energy principles. A relationship is determined between a bit-specific coefficient of sliding friction μ and confined compressive strength CCS over a range of confined compressive strengths CCS. Similarly, another relationship for the drill bit is determined between mechanical efficiency EFF | 2008-10-09 |
20080249715 | Method for identifying markers - The invention is a method for identifying markers associated with the presence of a predetermined characteristic comprising accumulating spectral data from a sample known to have a predetermined characteristic, identifying a spectral feature which is indicative of the predetermined characteristic, and identifying a marker associated with the spectral feature. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249716 | Computer-Aided Color Paint Formula Adjusting System and Method Thereof - A color paint formula adjusting system and the method thereof are provided, which allow a user to log onto with a stand-alone or a network, input color paint and adjust it. By computer-aided computing of mix ratio of resin, the color paint is made satisfactory to requirements of physical and chemical properties, with the color unchanged, wherein the color paint is manufactured by mixing a plurality of colored pastes. And colored paste content data and color paint mix ratios are stored in a database. The mixture contents input by the user and the amounts thereof to be added are corrected by color paint formula adjusting system. Using the systems and the methods of the present invention, the user just needs to input the formula ratios and a total amount of the color paint to be compounded, and then content amounts of color paint formulas that satisfying the requirements of physical and chemical properties can be obtained, without repeated attempts or profound experience. It is easy to operate, and waste of cost due to improper compounding is avoided, and furthermore, it satisfies the requirements of physical and chemical properties more precisely. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249717 | Method and apparatus for chromatographic data processing - A chromatographic analyzer is provided for facilitating curve fitting by means of the linear least-square method for a chromatogram that contains a plurality of overlapping peaks. The present invention is characterized by a chromatographic data processor for executing data processing of a chromatogram obtained by separating a sample to be measured using a column and detecting the separated sample, wherein fitting processing is executed to each peak in an arbitrary time region having the plurality of peaks of the chromatogram starting from the front side of the time region or from the back side of the time region, and the processed peaks are subtracted from the chromatogram in the time region so that the plurality of peaks in the chromatogram can be separated from one another. Thus, the plurality of overlapping peaks, particularly three or more overlapping peaks in the chromatogram can be easily separated from one another only by defining some setting conditions. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249718 | Method, Device and Program for Presenting Inner Force Sense and Program - A force feedback method for presenting a force sense to an operator by jetting gas or liquid from a nozzle of jetting means according to a position or an orientation of a receiver is disclosed. In the force feedback method, the receiver is provided with an inclined side surface unit shaped to be inclined, outward from a center part of the receiver, with respect to an axis line of the receiver, and the force feedback method provides a force, to the receiver, including a component perpendicular to a jet direction of the gas or the liquid, by jetting the gas or the liquid to the inclined side surface unit. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249719 | Measuring Device and Method for Measuring the Arching of an Elongate Body - The present invention relates to a measuring device ( | 2008-10-09 |
20080249720 | COMPOSITE RISER WITH INTEGRITY MONITORING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An integrity monitoring system for monitoring degradation in a composite riser string. The system includes composite riser structures incorporating strain and vibration sensors to measure changes in the stiffness strain on a first orientation and on a second orientation. The system can also include monitoring modules attached to each individual riser and devices to transfer the data from the monitoring module to the surface controller. Additionally, the monitor system can provide for an alarm when predetermined warning limits are exceeded. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249721 | Predicting changes in hydrofrac orientation in depleting oil and gas reservoirs - Stress rotation due to depletion can be estimated in reservoirs having an impermeable reservoir boundary. More specifically, the isotropic change in stress due to depletion, and the uniaxial stress resulting from a change in pore pressure across an impermeable boundary are both modeled as perturbations to an initial stress state. These perturbations can result in a rotation of the principal stress directions. Estimates of the stress rotation are helpful for hydraulic fracturing operations, because fracture tends to occur in a plane perpendicular to the least principal stress. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249722 | Method for Determination of Strain Distribution in Components - A method for determination of strain distribution in components, in particular in gas turbine components, is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes: a) vibrational excitation of the component and measured recording of a vibrational amplitude distribution of the component for a number of measured points by means of a vibrometer, each measuring point being determined by three coordinates and the measured vibrational amplitude distribution of each measuring point being a vectorial parameter; b) smoothing of the vibrational amplitude distribution recorded by measurement for each measuring point; c) definition of polygonal elements, wherein each measuring point forms a corner of at least one element; d) calculation of a tensor strain condition for each of the polygonal elements from the tensor vibrational amplitude distributions present in the corners of the elements; and e) calculation of the strain distribution in the corners of the elements from the strain conditions of the elements. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249723 | INTELLIGENT, SELF-PROPELLED AUTOMATIC GRID CRAWLER HIGH IMPEDANCE FAULT DETECTOR AND HIGH IMPEDANCE FAULT DETECTING SYSTEM - A self-propelled, automated, autonomic grid crawler which, when attached to a wire, moves along the wire to sense conditions of the wire. The grid crawler includes a central processing unit (CPU), working memory, such as random access memory (RAM), persistent money, such as read only memory (ROM) and hard drive (HD), sensor electronics, a wireless interface, a location device, such as a global positioning satellite (GPS) receiver, motive power system, and a battery. The sensor electronics serves to sense various types of faults. The CPU analyzes the data from the sensor electronics using pre-analysis and pre-qualification algorithms, which are stored in the HD. Depending on the results of the analysis, the CPU transmits information to the central station, either directly or indirectly via mounted docking devices, that potentially indicates a fault including the location of the fault as determined by the GPS receiver. The pre-processing and pre-qualifying of the data at the autonomic grid crawler limits the amount of data that needs to be transmitted to the central station, thereby saving battery power. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249724 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF BATTERY CAPACITY ESTIMATION - In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for battery capacity estimation. A profile table may be used that relates a plurality of battery profile values with a plurality of operating parameter values. The profile table may be accessed to translate one or more measured operating parameters into one or more corresponding battery profile values. One or more of the battery profile values may be adjusted by a correction factor to generate a corrected battery profile value. The available capacity of the battery may be calculated using the corrected battery profile value. The correction factor may then be automatically calibrated by using an estimated battery profile value calculated from the one or more measured operating parameter. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249725 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR DETERMINING AN ESTIMATED COMBINED BATTERY STATE-PARAMETER VECTOR - A system, a method, and an article of manufacture for determining an estimated combined battery state-parameter vector are provided. The method determines the estimated combined battery state-parameter vector based on a plurality of predicted the combined battery state-parameter vectors, a plurality of predicted battery output vectors, and a battery output vector. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249726 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR DETERMINING AN ESTIMATED COMBINED BATTERY STATE-PARAMETER VECTOR - A system, a method, and an article of manufacture for determining an estimated combined battery state-parameter vector are provided. The method determines the estimated combined battery state-parameter vector based on a plurality of predicted the combined battery state-parameter vectors, a plurality of predicted battery output vectors, and a battery output vector. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249727 | Systems and Methods for Determining Variations in Voltages Applied to an Integrated Circuit Chip - Systems and methods for determining local voltages provided by a power distribution network to an integrated circuit chip by applying an external voltage to a power distribution network, firing a set of current sources distributed across the chip and measuring local voltages on the chip. The current sources may, for example, comprise a clock tree carrying a free-running clock signal, or multiple individual current source structures. The voltages may be measured, for instance, by units comprising voltage controlled oscillators (VCO's) coupled to counters which determine the corresponding oscillation frequencies and registers which store the resulting oscillation counts. The measured voltages may be used to identify non-uniformities in the voltage applied across the chip, as well as to determine local differences in the resistance of the power distribution network. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249728 | METHOD FOR DETECTING DEFECTS ON THE BACK SIDE OF A SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER - The invention relates to a method for detecting defects on the back side of a semiconductor wafer. The brightness distribution of the color values is essentially a normal distribution. An average value and surroundings can be defined using the determined normal distribution, which are criteria for the occurrence of a defect. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249729 | Systems and methods for real time hot mix asphalt production - A computer-implemented system performs analysis on a construction material mixture includes accessing a server located on a wide-area-network; sending information collected from the material mixture to the server; applying one or more test methodologies to the collected information; generating one or more reports from the test methodologies; and sending the one or more reports to a project manager. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249730 | System and Method For Determining Characteristics of a Moving Material by Using Microwaves - The present invention is related to a system for determining characteristics of a material. The system comprises means for sending and measuring microwave radiation, whereby the microwave radiation is used for determining the characteristics of the material | 2008-10-09 |
20080249731 | FITTING MEASURED DATA POINTS TO TOLERANCE ZONES HAVING REGARD FOR THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE MEASUREMENTS - Measurement data collected within a measurement frame of reference is fitted to geometric tolerance zones having regard for the uncertainties of the measurement. Geometric freedoms for fitting the measurement data are exploited to fit uncertainty zones associated with the measurement data within the tolerance zones. Typically, the measurement data is multidimensional and the uncertainty zones have different sizes. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249732 | System, method and medium calibrating gyrosensors of mobile robots - Provided are a system, method and medium calibrating a gyrosensor of a mobile robot. The system includes a camera to obtain image data of a fixed environment, a rotation angle calculation unit to calculate a plurality of angular velocities of a mobile robot based on an analysis of the image data, a gyrosensor to output a plurality of pieces of raw data according to rotation inertia of the mobile robot and a scale factor calculation unit to calculate a scale factor that indicates the relationship between the pieces of raw data and the angular velocities. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249733 | PLASMA INSENSITIVE HEIGHT SENSING - A method for determining a distance between a first piece and a second piece includes measuring, at the first or second piece, a first signal at a first frequency, and measuring, at the first or second piece, a second signal at a second frequency. The second frequency is different from the first frequency. The distance is determined based on the measured first and second signals. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249734 | Method of Making a Decision on the Status of a Mechanical System Using Input and Response Data Acquired In Situ - An in-situ monitoring system is engaged with a mechanical system for which it is desired to assess or monitor the in-situ performance of the mechanical system. The in-situ monitoring system includes at least one input sensor and at least one output sensor for collecting data corresponding, respectively, to input into, and output from, the mechanical system. The monitoring system also includes an analyzer that utilizes the input and output data to generate an in-situ response representation of the mechanical system. The in-situ representation may be used to make a decision regarding the status of the mechanical system, e.g., to replace all or part of it, to adjust it or to do nothing. In one embodiment, the analyzer is programmed to adapt to the operating conditions of the mechanical system by automatically selecting which one of a number of target representations should be used to characterize the in-situ representation. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249735 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING TILT OR SHIFT OF WAFER TRANSFERRED ONTO HOT PLATE IN REAL TIME, AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING BAKING PROCESS OF WAFERS IN REAL TIME - A method for detecting a tilt or a shift of a wafer on a hot plate is described. A temperature variation of the hot plate is measured directly after the wafer is transferred onto the hot plate. The temperature variation is analyzed to determine whether or not a tilt or a shift of the wafer has occurred. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249736 | Multi-Mode Acceleration-Based Athleticism Measurement System - A multi-mode athleticism movement measurement system includes an athlete-borne acceleration sensor and an athleticism processing device to determine athleticism information based upon one or more timing measurements from the athlete-borne acceleration sensor, the athleticism information corresponding to any of multiple athleticism measurement modes available on athleticism processing device and selectable by a user. A data link between the athlete-borne acceleration sensor and the athleticism rating processing device transmits the one or more timing measurements from the athlete-borne acceleration sensor to the athleticism rating processing device. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249737 | OSCILLATING SCANNING PROBE WITH CONSTANT CONTACT FORCE - A method for scanning a surface of a workpiece using a scanning probe | 2008-10-09 |
20080249738 | METHOD OF DETERMINING A DIMENSION OF A SAMPLE OF A CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS - An apparatus for determining a volume of a construction material sample is provided, comprising at least one sample-interacting device configured to interact with the construction material sample so as to determine at least one surface characteristic thereof. A computer device is configured to be capable of receiving the at least one surface characteristic from the at least one sample-interacting device, and to manipulate the at least one surface characteristic so as to form a three-dimensional representation of the construction material sample. The computer device is further configured to determine the volume of the construction material sample from the three-dimensional representation thereof. By determining the mass of the construction material sample, the density of the construction material sample can be provided. An associated method is also provided. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249739 | Apparatus for Determining Diameter of Parabolic Antenna and Method Therefor - Provided are an apparatus and method for determining a diameter of a reflector antenna. The apparatus includes a setting unit for setting up electrical characteristic values of the reflector antenna upon receipt thereof from outside, a parameter input unit for receiving a frequency, an antenna diameter variable value, antenna efficiency, Edge Taper (ET), and an Edge Of Coverage (EOC) angle as parameters for each of multiple frequencies to be accommodated in the reflector antenna, a graph generator for generating, on one rectangular coordinate, a graph representing the relationship between an antenna diameter and EOC directivity with respect to the EOC angle based on the parameters for each frequency received through the parameter input unit, an antenna diameter determination unit for determining an antenna diameter that simultaneously meets the preset EOC directivities for the frequencies to be accommodated in the reflector antenna by using the graph generated by the graph generation unit, and a graph output unit for mapping and outputting the graph generated by the graph generation unit on one rectangular coordinate with an antenna diameter axis and an EOC directivity axis to thereby represent the antenna diameter determined by the antenna diameter determination unit on the graph. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249740 | Device to Determine the Road Followed By a Person on Foot - Device to determine the road followed by a person on foot, comprising at least three inertia sensors attached to the body of the person, one sensor to the torso and one sensor to each leg respectively, and which measure the absolute orientation of the part of the body concerned to which they are attached; a device which make it possible to determine the instant at which the person concerned takes a step; an arithmetic unit with which the sensors and the above mentioned means are connected, with arithmetic unit comprises a first algorithm which makes it possible, on the basis of a number of body dimensions of the person concerned and on the basis of the signals coming from the above mentioned sensors, to determine at least the step distance for every step as well as the cumulative step distance as of a certain starting point. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249741 | IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD FOR DISPLAYING SURFACE SHAPE - An image display method for displaying a surface shape by measuring the surface shape of an object surface of a work piece to be measured with a contact probe placed on a machine and displaying the surface shape of said object surface on a screen based on measured shape data of the object surface, the method having: measuring a multiplicity of measuring positions on the object surface to be measured with the probe while relatively moving the probe on the object surface in order to obtain continuous shape data of the object surface; and displaying the surface shape of the object surface in real time based on the continuous shape data. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249742 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DATA ANALYSIS - A method and apparatus for data analysis according to various aspects of the present invention is configured to automatically select one or more outlier identification algorithms for identifying statistical outliers in test data for components. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249743 | LOAD CALCULATING DEVICE AND LOAD CALCULATING METHOD - There is provided with a load calculating device including: a variable acquiring unit configured to acquire, as monitoring variables, a detected value by a sensor monitoring a state of a circuit board and a performance characteristic obtained by a tool monitoring performance of the circuit board; a first storage configured to store a first statistical model that is one of a regression model, an occurrence frequency distribution and a probability distribution; a second storage configured to store a second statistical model that is one of a regression model, an occurrence frequency distribution and a probability distribution; and an arithmetic processor configured to calculate the intermediate variable from the monitoring variables acquired by the variable acquiring unit according to the first statistical model and calculate the physical quantity from calculated intermediate variable according to the second statistical model. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249744 | Method of Diagnosing System, Method of Operating Aggregating System For System Diagnosis, and Aggregating System For System Diagnosis - The invention provides a method of diagnosing a system, a method of operating an aggregating system for system diagnosis and an aggregating system for system diagnosis, which are suitable for evaluating effectiveness of system improvement. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249745 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGEMENT OF AN ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE TO ACHIEVE A TARGET LIFE OBJECTIVE - A method for determining a preferred operating gradient for use in attaining a life objective for an electrical energy storage device is disclosed. A present state-of-life of the electrical energy storage device is provided and a life target for the electrical energy storage device is established as a predetermined limit in a predetermined metric at a predetermined state-of-life of the electrical energy storage device. A state-of-life gradient is then determined with respect to the predetermined metric which converges the state-of-life of the electrical energy storage device to the life target. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249746 | APPARATUS OF CAPACITY LEARNING FOR COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS - The present invention provides a system for determining a metric of capacity in computing systems and computer applications. Capacity in this sense refers to the ability of computer systems and computer applications to perform work. Many applications and multi-hop system strategies could benefit from understanding the amount of work a particular system or application is capable of performing. A metric such as this can be very difficult to calculate due to widely varying system hardware, operating system architectures, and application behavior/performance. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249747 | Oilfield equipment identification method and apparatus - In combination, an identifier assembly is mounted to a tubular of a drill string to uniquely identify the tubular. The identifier assembly is provided with a radio-frequency-identification tag having a unique identification code stored therein, and means for mounting the radio-frequency-identification tag to the tubular such that the radio-frequency-identification tag is disposed outside of an arcuate external perimeter of the tubular. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249748 | Painting process color analysis - A method and implementing computer system are provided for enabling a user to determine a starting glaze color for fired tiles in processes where there is a color change from a starting glaze color to a finished or fired tile color. In an exemplary embodiment, a tile painting application is illustrated and includes a camera arranged to take an image of a fired or finished tile that has been painted, glazed and fired in a tile kiln. The color of the fired tile is determined from the image or picture of the fired tile, and a color change database is accessed to determine the starting or bisque color glaze. Related painting process information, including the pre-firing glaze color, the fired glaze color and other tile firing parameters, is accessed from the database and is selectively displayed to a user. The user is then enabled to reproduce the fired tile using the retrieved bisque glaze color and the firing parameters. In another embodiment, a fired tile is divided into smaller segments for analysis. Each segment is analyzed and the fired color for each segment is determined and used in retrieving the starting glaze color and firing parameters for each segment of the tile. The user is thereby enabled to reproduce the fired tile on a segment-by-segment basis. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249749 | INTERACTIVE TRUSS OBJECTS IN COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN MODELS - Embodiments of the invention provide a computer-aided design (CAD) application configured for generating interactive truss objects in a CAD model. In one embodiment, a truss creation tool allows the user to select a truss family and the endpoints of the truss. Based on these selections, the truss creation tool generates a layout and structural members of a truss. The truss may be maintained as an interactive object within the CAD model. Thus, a user may edit the truss object, resulting in the regeneration of the truss layout and the regeneration of the structural elements of the truss. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249750 | Acoustic structure of porous material - Empirical equations for porous material to describe the frequency property of the microstructure and predict their sound absorption performance. These empirical equations systematically establish a solid system that relates the porosity, the flow resistance and the air mass to their frequency property and describe how to predict sound absorption coefficient in different thickness. These empirical equations reveal that the microstructure are not uniform across the thickness when the materials are exposed to the sound field. The flow resistance is one of the microstructure and is found to be a step function of the frequency. An interchangeability between the thickness and the frequency was established to predict sound absorption coefficient. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249751 | Method and Apparatus for Modeling Atherosclerosis - The invention encompasses novel computer models of atherosclerosis and systems for predicting development and progression of atherosclerosis as well as associated cardiovascular risk. In particular, the computer model of atherosclerosis comprises a) a cholesterol metabolism module; b) an atherogenesis module; and c) a plaque stability module. The computer model optionally further comprises a cardiovascular risk module. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249752 | PREDICTION OF TRENDS BASED ON HISTORY VALUES OF AN OBSERVABLE - The proposed prediction of trends is based on history values of an observable. In more detail, a mathematical model is fitted on history values of an observable, said mathematical model having a ratio factor defined as a ratio between a number of history values used for calculation of a given observable value and a number of observable values modelled simultaneously. Information defining a minimum forecast horizon and a maximum forecast horizon together with respective ratio factor values is received, together with information defining a desired forecast horizon. A desired ratio factor value corresponding to the desired forecast horizon is determined based at least on said desired forecast horizon and said minimum and maximum forecast horizons together with said respective ratio factor values. The desired ratio factor value is used in fitting said mathematical model on said history values of said observable. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249753 | Apparatus, method and program storage device for determining high-energy neutron/ion transport to a target of interest - An apparatus, method and program storage device for determining high-energy neutron/ion transport to a target of interest. Boundaries are defined for calculation of a high-energy neutron/ion transport to a target of interest; the high-energy neutron/ion transport to the target of interest is calculated using numerical procedures selected to reduce local truncation error by including higher order terms and to allow absolute control of propagated error by ensuring truncation error is third order in step size, and using scaling procedures for flux coupling terms modified to improve computed results by adding a scaling factor to terms describing production of j-particles from collisions of k-particles; and the calculated high-energy neutron/ion transport is provided to modeling modules to control an effective radiation dose at the target of interest. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249754 | GENERATION OF A LIBRARY OF PERIODIC GRATING DIFFRACTION SIGNALS - A method of generating a library of simulated-diffraction signals (simulated signals) of a periodic grating includes obtaining a measured-diffraction signal (measured signal). Hypothetical parameters are associated with a hypothetical profile. The hypothetical parameters are varied within a range to generate a set of hypothetical profiles. The range to vary the hypothetical parameters is adjusted based on the measured signal. A set of simulated signals is generated from the set of hypothetical profiles. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249755 | Modeling Cerebral Aneurysms in Medical Images - Methods and systems for modeling cerebral aneurysm and their incoming and outgoing vessels from 3D image data are disclosed. Aneurysms and vessels are segmented from their background using a graph-cuts method. Begin and end of vessels are determined. Construction of a centerline of the incoming and outgoing vessels using a measure of vesselness in calculating a minimum cost path in a graph with nodes being representation of pixels is also disclosed. Vessel surface models are constructed from sub-voxel cross-sectional segmentation. The interpolation of vessels inside an aneurysm based on smooth continuity is disclosed. Selection of endo-vascular stents based on interpolation results is also provided. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249756 | Method and system for integrating computer aided design and energy simulation - A software system and method for providing interoperability between computer aided design and energy simulation. The method includes preparing an electronic construction plan, extracting structure information from the electronic construction plan, executing an energy simulation using at least a portion of the structure information, and displaying an energy efficiency analysis of the construction plan through a user interface. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249757 | Method and Apparatus for Grid Project Modeling Language - A method and apparatus for modeling grid projects, such that their network and node resources may be readily determinable for simulation, scheduling, and control purposes. A model of a grid project is generated using a standardized grid project modeling language that sets forth a sequence of grid project phases. Within each phase, there may be any number of descriptions of parallel activities that need to be performed, such as, CPU processing, network activity, both, or even nested “sub” phases. Each of the descriptions specifies the properties of the described activities, such as the quantity of CPU required, network traffic expected, prerequisites, dependencies, activity splitting limits and characteristics, reliability actions, etc. The grid project model is parseable by the present invention to determine the various phases of a grid project and the various characteristics of each phase. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249758 | PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DEFINING AND RECORDING MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM EVENT COUNTS OF A SIMULATION UTILIZING A HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE - According to one method of simulation processing, instrumentation code, such as an runtime executive (rtx), receives one or more statements describing an count event and identifying the count event as an outlying count event. While simulating a design utilizing the HDL simulation model, occurrences of the outlying count event are counted to obtain a count event value. Simulation result data obtained from simulating the design is then received and processed. In the processing, the count event value is recorded within a data storage subsystem responsive to a determination of whether or not the count event value of the outlying count event exceeds a previously recorded count event value. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249759 | USB Device Simulator - Techniques for simulating universal serial bus (USB) video devices are described. In one example, a document containing a USB video device descriptor set is loaded by a device simulator application. The document is parsed and the descriptor set is extracted. The descriptor set is then used to define a simulated USB video device. A device simulation framework simulates a USB device attachment to a computing device and video data is streamed from the simulated USB video device to the computing device. A video driver associated with the computing device processes the video data as if the data originated from USB video device hardware. Multiple different USB video devices may be simulated and different collections and configurations of video data can be utilized. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249760 | Customizable machine translation service - Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for providing a translation service. The method comprises providing a translation interface accessible via a network. The translation interface receives specialized data associated with a domain from a member. A text string written in a source language is received from the member via the translation interface. A domain-based translation engine is selected. The domain-based translation engine may be associated with a source language, a target language, and a domain. The text string is translated into the target language using, at least in part, by the selected domain-based translation engine. The translated text string is transmitted to the member via the Internet. In some embodiments, a translation memory is generated based on the specialized data. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249761 | System and method for the automatic generation of grammatically correct electronic medical records - A system and method for automatically generating grammatically correct electronic medical records is disclosed. The system of an example embodiment includes an input component to receive an input from a user, to map the input to a corresponding sentence fragment, and to retrieve a sentence identifier corresponding to the input. The system further includes an output component to locate the sentence identifier in an output template, and to insert the sentence fragment in the output template at a location indicated by the sentence identifier. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249762 | CATEGORIZATION OF DOCUMENTS USING PART-OF-SPEECH SMOOTHING - A method and system is provided for classifying documents based on the subjectivity of the content of the documents using a part-of-speech analysis to help account for unseen words. A classification system trains a classifier using the parts of speech of training documents so that the classifier can classify unseen words based on the part of speech of the unseen word. The classification system then trains a part-of-speech model using the parts of speech of the n-grams of training data and labels of the training documents, and trains a term model using the term unigrams and labels. To classify a target document, the classification system applies the part-of-speech model to the part-of-speech n-grams of the target document and the term model to term n-grams of the target document. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249763 | USER-TAILORABLE ROMANIZED CHINESE TEXT INPUT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Methods and systems for romanizing Chinese ideograms allow a user to create a personalized spelling dictionary that converts a user's desired roman-alphabet spelling to an equivalent Chinese character. A phonetic combination from a standard Chinese dialect is selected. The user defines a roman alphabet equivalent of the selected phonetic combination that fits the way the user pronounces the phonetic combination in the user's own dialect or idiolect. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249764 | Smart Sentiment Classifier for Product Reviews - A sentiment classifier is described. In one implementation, a system applies both full text and complex feature analyses to sentences of a product review. Each analysis is weighted prior to linear combination into a final sentiment prediction. A full text model and a complex features model can be trained separately offline to support online full text analysis and complex features analysis. Complex features include opinion indicators, negation patterns, sentiment-specific sections of the product review, user ratings, sequence of text chunks, and sentence types and lengths. A Conditional Random Field (CRF) framework provides enhanced sentiment classification for each segment of a complex sentence to enhance sentiment prediction. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249765 | Audio Signal Decoding Using Complex-Valued Data - A decoder particularly, but not exclusively, for MPEG-1 layer III data signals, in which recovered spectral coefficients are transformed into time domain signal components, the time domain signal components then being transformed, using a forward transform which is orthogonally modulated with respect to the forward transform that was used at the encoder, to produce a set of second spectral coefficients. In this way, the first and second spectral coefficients may be used as complex-valued spectral coefficients which are amenable to post-processing. In the preferred embodiment, the complex-valued frequency components are, after post-processing, transformed to the time domain using an odd-frequency modulated Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT). | 2008-10-09 |
20080249766 | Scalable Decoder And Expanded Layer Disappearance Hiding Method - A scalable decoder which does not frequently switch the band of the decoded signal even if the signal in an expanded layer in band scalable encoding disappear and does not give any strangeness or discomfort to the subjective quality. If frame disappearance does not occur, the signal is a signal (S | 2008-10-09 |
20080249767 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING FRAME ERASURE RELATED ERROR PROPAGATION IN PREDICTIVE SPEECH PARAMETER CODING - Predictive encoding methods, predictive encoders, and digital systems are provided that encode input frames by computing quantized predictive frame parameters for an input frame, recomputing the quantized predictive frame parameters wherein a previous frame is assumed to be erased and frame erasure concealment is used, and encoding the input frame based on the results of the computing and the recomputing. In embodiments of these methods, encoders, and digital systems, two phase codebook search techniques used in the encoding process are provided that compute the predictive parameters in the first phase, and the predictive parameters assuming the prior frame is erased in the second phase. In the second phase, a frame erasure concealment technique is used in the computation of the predictive parameters. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249768 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPEECH COMPRESSION - Methods, encoders, and digital systems are provided for predictive encoding of speech parameters in which an input frame is encoded by quantizing a parameter vector of the input frame with a strongly-predictive codebook and a weakly-predictive codebook to obtain a strongly-predictive distortion and a weakly-predictive distortion, adjusting a correlation indicator based on a relative correlation of the input frame to a previous frame, wherein the correlation indicator is indicative of the strength of the correlation of previously encoded frames, and encoding the input frame with the weakly-predictive codebook unless the correlation indicator has reached a correlation threshold. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249769 | Method and Apparatus for Determining Audio Spatial Quality - Techniques for evaluating the audio quality of an audio test signal are disclosed. These techniques provide a quality analysis that takes into account spatial audio distortions between the audio test signal and a reference audio signal. These techniques involve, for example, determining a plurality of audio spatial cues for an audio test signal, determining a corresponding plurality of audio spatial cues for an audio reference signal, comparing the determined audio spatial cues of the audio test signal to the audio spatial cues of the audio reference signal, and determining the audio quality of the audio test signal. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249770 | Method and apparatus for searching for music based on speech recognition - Provided is a method and apparatus for searching music based on speech recognition. By calculating search scores with respect to a speech input using an acoustic model, calculating preferences in music using a user preference model, reflecting the preferences in the search scores, and extracting a music list according to the search scores in which the preferences are reflected, a personal expression of a search result using speech recognition can be achieved, and an error or imperfection of a speech recognition result can be compensated for. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249771 | System and method of voice activity detection in noisy environments - An efficient voice activity detection method and system suitable for real-time operation in low SNR (signal-to-noise) environments corrupted by non-Gaussian non-stationary background noise. The method utilizes rank order statistics to generate a binary voice detection output based on deviations between a short-term energy magnitude signal and a short-term noise reference signal. The method does not require voice-free training periods to track the background noise nor is it susceptible to rapid changes in overall noise level making it very robust. In addition a long-term adaptation mechanism is applied to reject harmonic or tonal interference. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249772 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY IN A MOBILE TERMINAL - An apparatus and a method for enhancing speech intelligibility in a mobile terminal. A complex spectrum calculator calculates complex spectra of one input frame of an input speech signal by Fourier transform, a speech level calculator calculates its instant levels, an average speech level calculator calculates an average speech level of the speech frame using the instant levels, if the input frame is a speech frame, a scaling factor calculator calculates scaling factors by comparing the average speech level with the instant levels, an HPF characteristic calculator calculates amplitude characteristics using the scaling factors, a HPF high-pass-filters the complex spectra using the amplitude characteristics, a synthesizer converts high-pass-filtered signals to time signals by inverse Fourier transform and synthesizes the time signals, and a combiner outputs an enhanced intelligibility speech signal by combining the synthesized time signal with the input frame. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249773 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF SPEECH FEATURES FOR SCORING HIGH ENTROPY SPEECH - A method and system for automatically generating a scoring model for scoring a speech sample are disclosed. One or more training speech samples are received in response to a prompt. One or more speech features are determined for each of the training speech samples. A scoring model is then generated based on the speech features. At least one of the training speech samples may be a high entropy speech sample. An evaluation speech sample is received and a score is assigned to the evaluation speech sample using the scoring model. The evaluation speech sample may be a high entropy speech sample. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249774 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPEECH SPEAKER RECOGNITION - Disclosed is a method for speech speaker recognition of a speech speaker recognition apparatus, the method including detecting effective speech data from input speech; extracting an acoustic feature from the speech data; generating an acoustic feature transformation matrix from the speech data according to each of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), mixing each of the acoustic feature transformation matrixes to construct a hybrid acoustic feature transformation matrix, and multiplying the matrix representing the acoustic feature with the hybrid acoustic feature transformation matrix to generate a final feature vector; and generating a speaker model from the final feature vector, comparing a pre-stored universal speaker model with the generated speaker model to identify the speaker, and verifying the identified speaker. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249775 | Information exchange system and method - A method receives a request for information regarding a product or service from a user. The received request is provided to a speech processing system which attempts to generate an automated response to the received request. If the speech processing system generates a response to the received request, that response is provided to the user. However, if the speech processing system does not generate a response to the received request, the user is referred to an advisor to handle the received request. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249776 | Methods and Arrangements for Enhancing Machine Processable Text Information - The invention relates to methods and arrangements for enhancing machine processable text information which is provided by at least machine processable text data. On the basis of synthetic speech, i.e. speech generated by a machine, prosody-related information and/or text-related information is determined and added to given text information. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249777 | Method And System For Control Of An Application - The invention describes a dialog management system and method for control of an application (A | 2008-10-09 |
20080249778 | Communications Using Different Modalities - Communications between users of different modalities are enabled by a single integrated platform that allows both the input of voice (from a telephone, for example) to be realized as text (such as an interactive text message) and allows the input of text (from the interactive text messaging application, for example) to be realized as voice (on the telephone). Real-time communication may be enabled between any permutation of any number of text devices (desktop, PDA, mobile telephone) and voice devices (mobile telephone, regular telephone, etc.). A call to a text device user may be initiated by a voice device user or vice versa. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249779 | SPEECH DIALOG SYSTEM - A speech dialog system includes a signal input unit that receives an acoustic input signal. A voice activity detector compares a portion of the received signal to a noise estimate to determine if the signal includes voice activity. A speech recognizer processes signals containing voice activity to determine if the signal contains speech. An output unit modifies signals when output of the system substantially coincides with the delivered speech. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249780 | VOICE GUIDANCE SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE - A voice guidance system for a vehicle includes a transmitter, a tuner, a touch sensor, a smart ECU, a D-seat speaker, and a P-seat speaker, which are all mounted in a vehicle. It is used for an in-vehicle system, such as a smart entry system, which performs intercommunication with a portable unit. In this guidance system, a smart ECU stores in a memory information indicating that a user has performed predetermined operation with the smart entry system. When it is determined that a user will use the smart entry system, the following processing is performed: voice guidance about the operation procedures for the system is outputted from a driver seat speaker or a passenger seat speaker when information indicating that the user has performed the predetermined operation in the past is not stored in the memory; and voice guidance is disabled when information indicating that the user has performed the predetermined operation is stored. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249781 | Voice business client - The subject mater herein relates to computer software and client-server based applications and, more particularly, to a voice business client. Some embodiments include one or more device-agnostic application interaction models and one or more device specific transformation services. Some such embodiments provide one or more of systems, methods, and software embodied at least in part in a device specific transformation service to transform channel agnostic application interaction models to and from device or device surrogate specific formats. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249782 | Web Service Support For A Multimodal Client Processing A Multimodal Application - Web service support for a multimodal client processing a multimodal application, the multimodal client providing an execution environment for the application and operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of user interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the application stored on an application server, includes: receiving, by the server, an application request from the client that specifies the application and device characteristics; determining, by a multimodal adapter of the server, modality requirements for the application; selecting, by the adapter, a modality web service in dependence upon the modality requirements and the characteristics for the device; determining, by the adapter, whether the device supports VoIP in dependence upon the characteristics; providing, by the server, the application to the client; and providing, by the adapter to the client in dependence upon whether the device supports VoIP, access to the modality web service for processing the application. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249783 | Layered Code-Excited Linear Prediction Speech Encoder and Decoder Having Plural Codebook Contributions in Enhancement Layers Thereof and Methods of Layered CELP Encoding and Decoding - A layered code-excited linear prediction (CELP) encoder, an Adaptive Multirate Wideband (AMR-WB) encoder and methods of CELP encoding and decoding. In one embodiment, the encoder includes: (1) a core layer subencoder and (2) at least one enhancement layer subencoder having an adaptive-gain multiplier configured to apply a gain for an adaptive contribution to excitation and a fixed-gain multiplier configured to apply a gain for a fixed contribution to the excitation that is separate from the gain for the adaptive contribution. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249784 | Layered Code-Excited Linear Prediction Speech Encoder and Decoder in Which Closed-Loop Pitch Estimation is Performed with Linear Prediction Excitation Corresponding to Optimal Gains and Methods of Layered CELP Encoding and Decoding - A layered code-excited linear prediction (CELP) encoder, an Adaptive Multirate Wideband (AMR-WB) encoder and methods of CELP encoding and decoding. In one embodiment, the encoder includes: (1) a core layer subencoder and (2) at least one enhancement layer subencoder, at least one of the core layer subencoder and the enhancement layer subencoder having first and second adaptive codebooks and configured to retrieve a pitch lag estimate from the second adaptive codebook and perform a closed-loop search of the first adaptive codebook based on the pitch lag estimate. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249785 | Intellectual Property Creation Assisting Method by Cooperative Intellectual Property Management System, Information Providing System Added with Sub-License Management Function, and Computer Program - To provide an assisting method for creating an intellectual value together with information requesters. Second intellectual property management systems SLs | 2008-10-09 |
20080249786 | IDENTIFYING INADEQUATE SEARCH CONTENT - Systems and methods for identifying inadequate search content are provided. Inadequate search content, for example, can be identified based on statistics associated with the search queries related to the content. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249787 | ORGANIZATIONAL CONSENSUS SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A computer-assisted method of determining whether an agreement threshold as to a composition of a topic list has been reached by a plurality of participants. The method includes at least one of adding, modifying and deleting, by at least one of the participants, an entry on the topic list and calculating an agreement score relating to a percentage of the participants that agree as to the composition of the topic list. The method also includes comparing the agreement score with the agreement threshold, creating a final topic list when the agreement score is greater than or equal to the agreement threshold and repeating the method when the agreement score is less than the agreement threshold. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249788 | METHOD FOR DEVELOPING AN OBJECTIVE OPINION - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for deriving an objective opinion profile. A method includes receiving a request from an entity, such as a buyer or a seller, and retrieving data regarding that entity from trusted sources. The data regarding the entity from the trusted sources may include publicly available data, such as credit reports, financial reports, market data aggregators, electronic marketplaces, court filings, police records, and governmental records. The objective opinion profile can be built from the data retrieved from the trusted sources and displayed to the requesting entity. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249789 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ROYALTY OFFERS TO MINERAL INTEREST OWNERS - A system and method provides potential offers for royalty interest to royalty interest owners. A determination is made from public records of a potential money offer for a particular royalty interest. This information is stored within a database. Royalty interest owners of a particular royalty interest are provided with an access code enabling access to the money offer for a particular royalty interest. A server enables the display of the potential money offer to the royalty interest owner using a graphical user interface presented to the royalty interest owner via an Internet browser. The display of the graphical user interface is enabled responsive to the entry of access code by the royalty interest owner. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249790 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGEMENT OF OIL AND GAS MINERAL INTERESTS - A system for managing mineral interests includes at least one database for storing data records relating to oil and gas mineral interest. A server enables generation of a graphical user interface at a plurality of locations over an open network. The graphical user interface enables creation and editing of data records stored in the at least one database from the plurality of locations and the editing may occur over the open network. The graphical user interface further enables viewing of data records from the plurality of locations over the open network. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249791 | System and Method to Document and Communicate On-Site Activity - A system to assist plant maintenance and inspection using an enterprise system and automatic notifications. A worker can generate a form related to maintenance or inspection of a piece of equipment, upon which automatic notifications can be transmitted to the relevant parties such as a technician. An automatic notification of the incident can also be sent as a pop up notification to particular person's computer. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249792 | System and method for providing professional services - A method and system for providing personal services to a customer on a recurring basis. In one embodiment, upon first providing personals services to achieve a desired result for the customer, a customer record is created containing objective and subjective data associated with the provision of services to the customer. Upon a subsequent visit to a service location, a customer's record can be retrieved and referred to by the service provider in order to ensure consistency in the result of the services provided to the customer from visit to visit. In an exemplary embodiment, the method and system are utilized by a plurality of hair styling businesses, each of which having access to a central database of customer records, thus enabling a customer to patronize any of the plurality of businesses while being assured of a measure of consistency in the result of the services provided. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249793 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A CUSTOMER RISK ASSESSMENT USING DYNAMIC CUSTOMER DATA - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for generating a customer risk assessment score. In one embodiment, the process parses dynamic data associated with a customer to identify patterns of events. The dynamic data comprises metadata describing an appearance and behavior of the customer. The patterns of events are analyzed to identify risk assessment factors for the customer. A risk assessment analysis is dynamically performed using the risk assessment factors for the customer to generate a risk assessment score for the customer while the customer is shopping in a retail facility. The risk assessment score indicates a potential risk posed by the customer to the retail facility. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249794 | Systems and Methods of Designing, Simulating, Manufacturing and Marketing Tufted Materials - Aspects of the invention relate to systems and methods that allow tufted material designers to design within the bounds of what is possible. The invention provides a design tool that bridges the gap between the aesthetic designs or inspiration in the minds of designers and the capabilities of multiple tufting alternatives (e.g., different machines, different setups, etc.). So, for a given desired aesthetic appearance (e.g., a picture of a coconut), a designer can use the design tool to simulate what is possible through various tufting alternatives. In certain embodiments, for a given aesthetic or inspiration, the designer can test what the aesthetic would look like when implemented under the alternative potential configurations. The tool further allows the designer to limit the group of potential configurations by specifically selecting certain constraints (e.g., selecting a particular machine). | 2008-10-09 |
20080249795 | System and method for evaluating office buildings for leasing - A system and method for calculating the amount of space that a user will be required to lease in various office buildings and providing a comparison so that the user can make educated decisions and pre-qualifications as to whether the building will be a viable leasing option for the user. In so doing, the system and method provide the user with relative values and target rental rates of the office buildings by considering the buildings' efficiency and corresponding amount of space the tenant will be required to lease. The calculated relative values and target rental rates may be used by tenants to evaluate building choices for leasing. The system may be configured on a network computer system or a standalone computer. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249796 | Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) location based commercial prospect conferencing - An automated system for matching a calling potential buyer on a VoIP phone with a prospective commercial business within their current area. The buyer may accept or reject connection with a best available prospective business to be automatically presented with the next prospective business as ranked by the presenting business locating service. The location of the potential buyer is provided or obtained, and the best available business selected from the database based on proximity to the buyers current location. A secondary prioritization may be applied to highest bidding businesses. The business finding module establishes a VoIP conference bridge, and invites the buyer and best available business. A pre-recorded message may be played into the conference bridge or directly to the buyer or business. The businesses may be ranked based on how much they pay or bid to be presented first to potential buyers. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249797 | Framework for modeling real estate assets based on genetics - Real estate assets are part of a category of assets called heterogeneous assets. Each property is different and as a result it is difficult to derive a consistent pricing model for real estate assets. The specification presents an innovative framework for modelling real estate assets. This framework based on genetics enables the identification and standardization of relevant factors to be used in pricing and hedging real estate assets. The model defines a new concept of randomness called multi-factorial causal random walk to be used for modelling real estate prices. This concept represents for real assets what the random walk based on the Brownian motion is for financial assets. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249798 | Method and System of Ranking Web Content - A system and method for searching web content and cross-site popularity ranking based on a direct measure of popularity. Rank may be determined based on the number of unique page views, in addition to a number of parameters including, but not limited to, aggregate of all users over all periods of time, search within a particular category or search space, among users or authors or both in a particular geography, and within a particular time interval. The system and method avoids fraudulent determination of cross-site popularity ranking such as inflated popularity. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249799 | Automated sales support method & device - A system and method for notifying salespersons of customer communications including a target item is provided. Individual customers are mapped to one or more salespersons. Target items of interest to a salesperson are defined and a salesperson is associated with a customer. For each salesperson, on-line communication channels are monitored for the occurrence of a communications involving a customer associated with the salesperson and including a target item defined by the salesperson. When such an occurrence happens, a notification is directed to the salesperson. Salesperson access to the system and customer access to the on-line communication channels requires authorization. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249800 | HEALTH CARE ECONOMICS MODELING SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for electronically managing health care rate exhibits, the method comprising receiving standardized fee schedules for a plurality of health related services, and creating rate exhibits from the received standardized fee schedule. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249801 | Distributed System for Monitoring Patient Video, Audio and Medical Parameter Data - A system for use by a portable processing device operating in a distributed patient monitoring system for visually monitoring patients and patient parameters uses multiple portable processing devices in different remote locations. The system includes an authentication processor enabling a user to obtain access authorization to access patient data in response to entry of identification data using a portable processing device of the multiple portable processing devices in different remote locations. A user interface, in response to the access authorization, enables a user to, initiate execution of a clinical information system providing a user with a clinical application display image identifying multiple different patients in corresponding multiple different locations and select a particular patient of the multiple different patients in the clinical application display image. A data processor uses an identifier of the particular patient in acquiring access information associated with the particular patient from a repository and uses the access information in acquiring live video and vital sign parameters of the particular patient from a room associated with the particular patient. A display processor initiates generation of data representing an image sequence comprising a composite image including a first area showing acquired live video of the particular patient and a second area presenting acquired vital sign parameters of the particular patient in response to user selection of an image element associated with the particular patient of the multiple different patients in the clinical application display image. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249802 | Intelligent medical device - A medical touch terminal literacy system and method used to display particular parts of the human anatomy, conditions, ailments and diseases. The delivering service is done by a touch screen terminal operated by a physician and/or health professional to a patient with a medical condition. The touch screen terminal will also be displaying information promoting health awareness. The systems main purpose is to improve health communication/awareness and includes the ability to make the patient obtain and understand basic and/or complicated health information. The system focuses on health information with simple medical images and terminology, which presents clear and concise communication between a health professional and their patient (s). This system has the capability of prescription writing and printing through the terminal on the touch screen keyboard display and includes a medical library. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249803 | System and method for creating a marketing analysis model - A method of producing a marketing report, wherein the marketing report is based on at least one or more patient information data-sets and one or more purchasing information data-sets, can include the steps of receiving a first patient information data-set from a patient, transmitting a patient association request to a purchase tracking module, wherein the patient association request includes a portion of the first patient information data-set, and the purchase tracking module is configured to store purchasing information data-sets. The method can include receiving a patient association confirmation, wherein the patient association confirmation acknowledges the association of a portion of the first patient information data-set with a purchasing information data-set stored in the purchase tracking module, scheduling a time for transmission of a first educational information data-set to the patient and transmitting the first educational information data-set at the properly scheduled time to the patient. | 2008-10-09 |
20080249804 | Method for Managing Medical Information Online - Disclosed is a method for managing medical information online, in which documents of various formats created by physicians during or after treatment, nursing notes created by nurses during or after nursing service, and other various notes or reports created by clinical laboratory staff during or after physical examinations performed on the patients are presented through a network and a variety of information input through the network is comprehensively managed to be later given users having access rights to the information, thereby enabling the users to share the variety of information. | 2008-10-09 |