42nd week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 61 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130275082 | Methods and Apparatus for Jammable HCI Interfaces - In exemplary implementations of this invention, a jammable structure functions as an HCI interface. A user provides input by changing the shape of a flexible layer of the jammable structure (e.g., by pressing against it or stretching, twisting or bending it) and receives haptic feedback (e.g., varying stiffness). Sensors are used to determine the shape of the flexible layer. The sensors output data that is indicative of electromagnetic waves that have traveled through the jammable media or of electrical or magnetic phenomena that are produced by the waves. For example, visible or infrared light may be shone through a transparent jammable media to the flexible layer and reflect back to a camera. The media may comprise granular particles (e.g., glass beads) and a liquid (e.g., oil) with matching indices of refraction. Or capacitive sensing may be used to detect the shape of the flexible layer. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275083 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THICKNESS OF PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD - An apparatus for measuring a thickness of at least one insulating layer of a printed circuit board (PCB), the at least one insulating layer having a transmission line located thereon. The apparatus includes an impedance measurement unit configured to input a plurality of input signals to the transmission line, each of the input signals having a respective frequency, to receive output signals from the transmission line, and to determine impedance values of the at least one insulating layer based on the input signals and the output signals; and a thickness calculation unit configured to calculate a thickness of the at least one insulating layer based on the impedance values. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275084 | ESTIMATING A METRIC RELATED TO A SERVICE DEMAND USING A DEFINED FRAMEWORK - In a method for estimating a metric related to a service demand, a framework to be used in evaluating a services ecosystem or a services infrastructure is defined. The framework comprises a matrix of elements, in which the elements comprise a plurality of services and a plurality of services components that are usable in delivering at least one of the plurality of services. In addition, dependencies between the matrix elements are determined using initialization data and the metric related to the service demand is estimated through use of the framework. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275085 | PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND QUANTITATIVE MODELING OF IT SERVICE PROCESSES USING MASHUP PATTERNS - Methods and arrangements for quantitatively modeling service processes. A process is assimilated, the process comprising at least one step. At least one quantitative metric with respect to the process is estimated, and at least one mashup pattern applicable to the process is determined, the at least one mashup pattern comprising at least one mashup pattern applicable to at least one process step. The determining includes recalculating the at least one quantitative metric in consideration of at least one mashup pattern and applying at least one mashup pattern to the process responsive to improvement in the at least one quantitative metric. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275086 | METHOD AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY A NOISE VOLUME FOR A MAGNETIC RESONANCE EXAMINATION - In a method and magnetic resonance apparatus to determine and/or adjust a noise volume for a magnetic resonance examination, a selection of a magnetic resonance sequence for the magnetic resonance examination of a subject to be examined hereby is made and an automatic calculation of an expected noise volume for the magnetic resonance examination is made in a volume determination unit using protocol parameters of the selected magnetic resonance sequence. Information about the expected volume is provided to an operator via a user interface. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275087 | RADIATION DETECTION - A method of and device for processing a radiation pulse are described based on: detecting an event at the detector; producing a pulse; determining for the pulse: a pulse height measurement representative of pulse magnitude; a pulse width measurement representative of pulse duration; assigning the pulse to one of at least two classes based on the determined pulse height/pulse width; applying to each pulse an algorithm specific to its particular class to produce an output pulse height/pulse width profile. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275088 | Systems and methods of updating graphical objects - Systems and methods of updating graphical objects are disclosed. The methods and systems receive polygonal data which describe discrete points on an object. A control mesh and a smoothed version of the control mesh are simultaneously displayed. When the control mesh is edited, the smoothed version is automatically updated by smoothing only a portion of the edited control mesh to generate a smoothed section, and replacing a portion of the smoothed version with at least a selected portion of the smoothed section. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275089 | Systems and Methods of Retopologizing Graphical Data - Systems and methods of updating graphical objects are disclosed. The methods and systems receive polygonal data which described points on an object. A user indicates a length, and retopologized data for a region is automatically generated based on the length such that the retopologized data has fewer geometries than the received polygonal data in the region. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275090 | Methods and Systems For Creating a Computerized Model Containing Polydisperse Spherical Particles Packed In An Arbitrarily-Shaped Volume - Systems and methods for creating a computerized model containing polydisperse spherical particles packed in an arbitrarily-shaped volume are disclosed. To create the computerized model, a plurality of polydisperse spherical particles having statistical properties according the characteristic profile (e.g., minimum and maximum sizes and size distribution) is generated. First portion of the particles is used for forming a border layer within the volume's boundary. Any hole in the border layer is sealed with one or more null-sized particles. Second portion of the particles is used for filling up an interior space in a layer-to-layer scheme from the border layer inwards. The layer-to-layer scheme includes searching a best suitable location from a list of size-ranked candidate locations using power diagrams. Each of the second portion of the particles is allowed to pass through holes in the current layer towards the border layer when possible. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275091 | NON-PROGRAMMER METHOD FOR CREATING SIMULATION-ENABLED 3D ROBOTIC MODELS FOR IMMEDIATE ROBOTIC SIMULATION, WITHOUT PROGRAMMING INTERVENTION - A system to design a virtual 3D model of the working robot so it can be tested in a virtual world is described. The system and the method for using same can be used to test, refine, redesign and improve multiple virtual prototypes of a robot. Once virtually tested, the optimized design specifications are printed out and used to build the optimized robot design. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275092 | Modeling Concrete Structures - A method of modeling concrete construction structures is presented. During a design or engineering phase of a construction product, engineers typically use multiple modeling tools when creating designs. Often the tools use incompatible data formats when exporting or importing concrete structures. Contemplated methods include exporting concrete construction objects as non-concrete objects comprising other materials (e.g., steel) that are compatible with the data formats. The temporary non-concrete objects can be converted via a conversion engine to a desirable format, possibly taking into account coordinate transformations. The non-concrete objects can then be imported into another tool and then changed back to a concrete material. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275093 | DORMER CALCULATOR - A method is disclosed for laying out a dormer that projects outward from a main roof and has a gable end and a dormer roof originating at a dormer point and terminating at an outer edge of the dormer roof near the gabled end. The dormer includes roof sheathing supported by dormer trusses. The dormer trusses include a gable truss and a plurality of valley trusses. The method includes receiving a plurality of dormer inputs from a user. A plurality of layouts for the roof sheathing on the dormer roof are generated as a function of the dormer inputs. One or more layouts are then recommended to a user to reduce a quantity of roof sheathing waste. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275094 | DEDUCTIVE MULTISCALE SIMULATION USING ORDER PARAMETERS - Illustrative embodiments of systems and methods for the deductive multiscale simulation of macromolecules are disclosed. In one illustrative embodiment, a deductive multiscale simulation method may include (i) constructing a set of order parameters that model one or more structural characteristics of a macromolecule, (ii) simulating an ensemble of atomistic configurations for the macromolecule using instantaneous values of the set of order parameters, (iii) simulating thermal-average forces and diffusivities for the ensemble of atomistic configurations, and (iv) evolving the set of order parameters via Langevin dynamics using the thermal-average forces and diffusivities. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275095 | METHOD IMPLEMENTED IN A COMPUTER FOR THE NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES CONTAINING TUNNEL JUNCTIONS - The present invention consists in a method implemented in a computer for the numerical simulation of a semiconductor device which contains (a) tunnel junctions and allows the simulation for all the working range of the tunnel junction. The method is based on a distributed model where the tunnel junction can be integrated in the simulation by means of distributed electronic circuits of a semiconductor device and, specially, of a multijunction solar cell. The said method is used to circumvent the convergence problem existing so far and allows in particular the full description of the experimental behavior of the multijunction solar cells and, by extension, of any kind of semiconductor device containing tunnel junctions. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275096 | Solder Joint Fatigue Life Prediction Method - A solder joint fatigue life predicting method includes: establishing a maximum temperature, a minimum temperature, and a temperature cycle frequency in a field environment; establishing a maximum temperature, a minimum temperature, and a temperature cycle frequency in a laboratory environment for accelerated testing; implementing the accelerated testing to measure test fatigue life until failure of the product; determining exponents for the ramp rate and dwell time in a novel acceleration factor equation which is represented using the ramp rates and dwell times of the field environment and the laboratory environment from profile data of the temperature cycle in the field environment, from profile data of the temperature cycle in the laboratory environment, and from test fatigue life data, and calculating an acceleration factor by plugging these exponents into the acceleration factor equation; and calculating field fatigue life of the product from the calculated acceleration factor and measured test fatigue life. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275097 | AIR FLOW ESTIMATION - A computerised method for estimating air flow within a ventilated room comprising a plurality of air supply units configured to supply air to a plurality of vents arranged across a floor of the room over an air supply plenum, the method comprising the steps of: i) identifying a vent having a minimum distance to any one of the air supply units; ii) for each of a selected number of the air supply units, calculating a contribution of air flow supplied to the identified vent from a sum of ratios of distances between the identified vent and each of the air supply units; and iii) repeating step ii) for a vent having a next minimum distance to any one of the air supply units until a contribution of air flow for each of the plurality of vents is calculated. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275098 | METHOD OF CORRECTING ELECTRON PROXIMITY EFFECTS USING VOIGT TYPE SCATTERING FUNCTIONS - A method for projecting an electron beam used notably in lithography by direct or indirect writing as well as in electron microscopy, is provided. Notably for critical dimensions or resolutions of less than 50 nm, the proximity effects created by the forward and backward scattering of the electrons of the beam in interaction with the target must be corrected. This is traditionally done using the convolution of a point spread function with the geometry of the target. In the prior art, said point spread function uses Gaussian distribution laws. At least one of the components of the point spread function is a linear combination of Voigt functions and/or of functions approximating Voigt functions, such as the Pearson VII functions. In certain embodiments, some of the functions are centered on the backward scattering peaks of the radiation. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275099 | Determining A Limit Of Failure In A Wellbore Wall - A method to determine a drilling fluid density limit involves obtaining a geomechanical model of a target borehole, generating a depth of damage model of the target borehole to describe a relationship between a drilling fluid pressure and a depth of damage representing a modeled amount of yielded rock surrounding the target borehole, where the modeled amount of the yielded rock is calculated using a stress model according to a pre-determined failure criterion, and calculating, using the depth of damage model and the geomechanical model, the drilling fluid density limit as a function of the subterranean formation depth, where the drilling fluid density limit maintains the depth of damage at a target level for the target borehole, where the drilling fluid density limit corresponds to a depth gradient of the drilling fluid pressure, where the target borehole is drilled based at least on the drilling fluid density limit. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275100 | WELLSITE CONTROL EMPLOYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING - According to one aspect, a three-dimensional model of at least a portion of a wellsite is generated. A three-dimensional camera system is calibrated to the three-dimensional model. A draw-works encoder is calibrated. The motion of a component is monitored. The draw-works encoder is recalibrated based on the monitoring. According to another aspect, three-dimensional imaging data sets are received, the three-dimensional imaging data sets being associated with a control volume in which the portion of the wellsite is disposed. A predefined three-dimensional model is augmented with the three-dimensional imaging data sets. According to another aspect, at least one three-dimensional camera employs a first three-dimensional sensing technology that is different from a second three-dimensional sensing technology employed by at least one other three-dimensional camera. A single three-dimensional model is generated by merging respective three-dimensional imaging data sets. At least one system is controlled using the single three-dimensional model. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275101 | Method For Modeling Deformation In Subsurface Strata - A method for modeling deformation in subsurface strata, including defining physical boundaries for a geomechanical system. The method also includes acquiring one or more mechanical properties of the subsurface strata within the physical boundaries, and acquiring one or more thermal properties of the subsurface strata within the physical boundaries. The method also includes creating a computer-implemented finite element analysis program representing the geomechanical system and defining a plurality of nodes representing points in space, with each node being populated with at least one of each of the mechanical properties and the thermal properties. The program solves for in situ stress at selected nodes within the mesh. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275102 | COMPUTER SIMULATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS - A method and system is provided for solving for electromagnetic fields by approximating an electromagnetic function as a sum of basis functions multiplied by coefficients to be determined. The set of equations used to determine the coefficients results from taking derivatives of the action integral with respect to the coefficients (and/or other parameters) and setting the derivative equal to zero, thereby extremizing the action integral. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275104 | SIMULATION METHOD FOR TIRE - A computerized simulation method for evaluating a tire performance is disclosed. Firstly, a simulation of a rolling tire is made by contacting a tire model with a road surface model, and chronological data about node points of the tire model which node points appear in the outer surface of the tire model during rotating are stored. Then, a domain of a fluid is defined, and a simulation of the fluid is made by the use of the chronological data, wherein a small gap is formed between the tire model and the road surface model, and the fluid domain is also defined in the gap. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275105 | FEEDBACK CONTROL USING A SIMLATOR OF A SUBTERRANEAN STRUCTURE - To provide feedback control in a simulation framework, any one of plural output metrics from a simulator of a subterranean structure is selected. A value for the selected output metric is received from the simulator. In response to the received value of the selected output metric and a target value of the selected output metric, at least one setting of the simulator is adjusted by a feedback controller. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275106 | Systems and Methods For Subsurface Reservoir Simulation - Systems and methods for providing a reservoir simulation are based on data from an unstructured grid using a structured grid reservoir simulator. Exemplary methods comprise obtaining an unstructured grid reservoir model comprising a reservoir model discretized on an unstructured grid. A virtual structured grid is defined for the unstructured grid reservoir model. The unstructured grid is aligned with the virtual structured grid by adding cells to the unstructured grid to make the unstructured grid and virtual structured grid have the same number of cells. The virtual structured grid may be represented in the unstructured grid. Structured grid reservoir simulator input data comprising reservoir model data assigned to the virtual structured grid is prepared based on reservoir model data in the unstructured grid model. A structured grid reservoir simulation is performed using the structured grid reservoir simulator input data to produce a reservoir simulation. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275107 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING DYNAMIC DENTAL OCCLUSIONS AND MAKING DENTAL APPLIANCES - Systems and methods for analyzing dynamic occlusion during replicated excursions of virtual three-dimensional representations of a dental patient's occlusal complex are provided. The method may include scanning a patient's jaws and teeth configuration using a medical imaging system such as CBCT, laser scanners, or traditional dental impressions; creating a virtual three-dimensional representation of the patient's occlusal complex; replicating excursions of the virtual three-dimensional representation of the patient's occlusal complex based at least on virtual inter-condylar angles and distances; determining acceptable occlusal contacts and/or malocclusions within the virtual three-dimensional representation of the patient's occlusal complex based at least in part on virtual dynamic occlusion during the replicated excursions, and determining at least one virtual dental appliance and/or orthodontic repositioning of one or more teeth based at least in part on the one or more acceptable occlusal contacts and/or malocclusions within the virtual three-dimensional representation of the patient's occlusal complex. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275108 | PERFORMANCE SIMULATION OF SERVICES - A method for generating a performance simulation of a real service can include scheduling a time for a number of responses to be sent based on a number of response time metrics and determining a delay for the number of responses based on a number of data throughput metrics. The number of responses can then be sent based on the time and the delay. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275109 | Systems and Methods for Optimizing Network Simulations - A system for modeling an optical signal transmission path of an optical network. The system may include a database configured to store a loss value associated with an interplay between a first loss characteristic and a second loss characteristic, the first and second loss characteristics associated with an optical signal within the optical signal transmission path. The system may also include a path computation engine configured to receive the loss value associated with the optical signal from the database and estimate, based on the loss value, a plurality of transmission characteristics of the optical signal transmission path. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275110 | REDUCING REPEATER POWER - A method, system and computer-readable medium for reducing repeater power and crosstalk are provided. The method includes generating a model of a circuit including a plurality of original repeaters connected between at least one source and at least one sink, performing a power optimization analysis on the plurality of original repeaters to change the plurality of original repeaters to low-power repeaters based on predetermined optimization parameters, performing a crosstalk analysis on the model of the circuit including the low-power repeaters to determine whether a crosstalk timing violation exists, and changing at least one of the low-power repeaters to a higher-power repeater when it is determined that a crosstalk violation exists, and leaving the low-power repeaters in the model of the circuit when it is determined that a crosstalk violation does not exist. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275111 | NOISE ANALYSIS DESIGNING METHOD - To provide a simulation technology of ending multiphysics analysis on heat, vibration, and EMC within a practical time and with a low-price computation process at an early stage of product designing, in a noise analysis designing method for an electric device, such as an inverter for automobile, this electric device includes one or more energy sources, a propagation path through which energy from the energy source propagates, and a noise occurring part where an electromagnetic radiated noise occurs due to the energy coming from the propagation path, the method has a step of estimating the occurring noise, such as a occurring radiated noise, by analyzing a path specified by a user by using a calculator, and the path specified by the user is a path of the energy flowing through the propagation path. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275112 | DELTA RETIMING IN LOGIC SIMULATION - Aspects of the present invention are directed to improving the speed of event-driven simulation by manipulating delta delays in a system model to reduce delta cycle executions. The manipulation is performed in a manner that preserves delta cycle accurate timing on selected signals of the system, which may be of interest to a designer. Methods and systems are provided for identifying the signals of interest, and for determining portions of the design that may have delta delays retimed. Preserving the timing on the signals of interest ensures that race conditions and glitches present in the design on the signals of interest are still viewable by the designer. To reduce simulation time, delta delays may be moved from high activity signals to low activity signals, the total number of delta delays may be reduced, or a number of processes executed may be reduced. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275113 | AVAILABILITY MODEL GENERATION DEVICE - The availability model generation device | 2013-10-17 |
20130275114 | COORDINATION SIMULATION SYSTEM AND COORDINATION SIMULATION METHOD - A coordination simulation system, in which a system simulator including a plant model and a CPU simulator that controls by a microcomputer model are configured via a feedback loop, comprises a synchronization adapter that synchronizes the system simulator and the CPU simulator, wherein the synchronization adapter is provided with a function that provides alignment information per control cycle to the microcomputer model in accordance with a synchronizing signal generated in the plant model. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275115 | CROSSTALK EMULATOR FOR XDSL CABLE - A crosstalk emulator for a cable, preferably a xDSL telecommunication cable, represented by several emulation paths each comprising a first segment (L | 2013-10-17 |
20130275116 | Interactive, live-connection, specifically targetable, database-supported, dynamic dialogue management engine - This invention is a Dynamic Dialogue Management Engine that enables a single person to create, monitor, manage, and adapt a dialogue between one source and a plurality of specifically identified, validated, and contacted individuals. A Field Operator engages each such ‘targeted’ individual in a real-time communication using face-to-face geospatially-shared contact or telephony once that specific communications link has been made. This tuple's dialogue is a two-way exchange with the Field Operator taking and reporting data from, and about, the Targeted Individual as well as communicating the information (or asking the specific questions) set by the Communications Manager to the Targeted Individual. All instantiations of the dialogue are aggregated and analyzed using the data gathered through the real world experiences of the Field Operatives with the Targeted Individuals and the dialogue is responsively and dynamically adapted to meet the central purpose thereof by the Communications Manager. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275117 | Generalized Phonetic Transliteration Engine - Methods and systems for transliterating characters from an input alphabet to an output alphabet are described. An input character of an input alphabet is received from a user. The input character is located on a phonetic map. The phonetic map includes each character of the input alphabet and each character of an output alphabet. In the phonetic map, respective characters of the input alphabet are located according to their phonetic similarity. Respective characters of the output alphabet are located within the phonetic map according to their phonetic similarity. And characters of the input alphabet and the output alphabet that are phonetically similar are located nearby one another on the phonetic map. One or more output characters that are near to the input character on the phonetic map are identified. At least one of the one or more output characters are provided for display to the user. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275118 | TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING TRANSLATION CLUSTERS - A computer-implemented technique can include receiving, at a server including one or more processors, a source word in a source language. The technique can include determining, at the server, one or more potential translations for the source word in a target language different than the source language. The technique can include determining, at the server, one or more synonyms for each of the one or more potential translations to obtain a plurality of potential translations. The technique can include determining, at the server, one or more translation clusters using the plurality of potential translations and a clustering algorithm. Each translation cluster can contain all of the plurality of potential translations that have a similar denotation and each of the plurality of translations that have a similar denotation can be included in a specific translation cluster. The technique can also include outputting, at the server, the one or more translation clusters. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275119 | INPUT METHOD, INPUT APPARATUS, AND TERMINAL - The present invention discloses an input method, including: receiving input end indication information sent by an input module, where the input end indication information indicates that input of a character or a word ends; obtaining a location of a cursor; identifying the input character or word forward from the location of the cursor until a first punctuation input before the character or the word is identified; using the identified character or word as a previous text, and querying a word library for a next text associated with the previous text; and outputting the associated next text to a display module for displaying. The input method provided in embodiments of the present invention is capable of associating a next text according to an input previous text for a user to select after the user presses an input end key, for example, the space key, to end the input of a character or a word, so that the input efficiency is increased. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275120 | Process for a Signified Correct Contextual Meaning Sometimes Interspersed with Complementary Related Trivia - A process for displaying a signified correct contextual meaning for a word or phrase having two or more meanings. A user selects the word in a sentence on a computer screen which instantly triggers a nearby pop-up space. The pop-up space presents the two or more meanings of the selected word and one of the meanings is the correct contextual meaning and is encircled, for example. The signified correct contextual meaning is from the work and expertise, for example, of writers or editors. The two or more meanings in the pop-up space can be definitions, other reference materials, pictures, videos, or other meanings. Sometimes a complementary related trivia is presented to enliven the learning experience. The complementary trivia can be related, for example, to the selected word, to the associated information displayed on the screen, or to the pop-up space meanings. The educational process helps a person learn about the correct contextual meaning for words or phrases with two or more meanings, and the fun trivia enlivens the experience. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275121 | KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY - A knowledge storage system is described. A specific embodiment is a computer system comprising a knowledge base of general knowledge in structured form which can be added to and queried by untrained users. Various embodiments include the facility for remote computers to access the knowledge stored in the system, natural language questions to be answered, profile screens giving general knowledge about an object in the system, and methods for distinguishing between reliable and unreliable facts. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275122 | METHOD FOR EXTRACTING SEMANTIC DISTANCE FROM MATHEMATICAL SENTENCES AND CLASSIFYING MATHEMATICAL SENTENCES BY SEMANTIC DISTANCE, DEVICE THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A method of extracting the semantic distance from the mathematical sentence and classifying the mathematical sentence by the semantic distance, includes: receiving a user query; extracting at least one keyword included in the received user query; and extracting a semantic distance by, indexing one or more of natural language tokens and mathematical equation tokens including semantic information, extracting the semantic distance, between the at least one extracted keyword and the one or more indexed semantic information by referring indexed information, and acquiring a similarity of the received user query and the semantic information. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275123 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TEXT DISAMBIGUATION - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but various features of the device provide additional variants that are not based solely on frequency and rather are provided by various logic structures resident on the device. The device enables editing during text entry and also provides a learning function that allows the disambiguation function to adapt to provide a customized experience for the user. The disambiguation function can be selectively disabled and an alternate keystroke interpretation system provided. Additionally, the device can facilitate the selection of variants by displaying a graphic of a special key of the keypad that enables a user to progressively select variants generally without changing the position of the user's hands on the device. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275124 | GENERATION OF PICTORIAL REPORTING DIAGRAMS OF LESIONS IN ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES - The invention relates to a system (SYS) for automatically extracting a location of an abnormality with respect to an anatomical structure from a report, the system comprising a tokenizer (U | 2013-10-17 |
20130275125 | AUTOMATED GLOSSARY CREATION - A method for creating a glossary of terms, the method including identifying data labels in a computer-based document set, tracing any of the data labels to a computer-readable data source external to the computer-based document set, identifying as synonyms different data labels that are traceable to the same data source, and storing any of the data labels in a computer-readable data store. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275126 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO MODIFY A SPEECH SIGNAL WHILE PRESERVING AURAL DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN SPEECH SOUNDS - Methods and systems to modify an audio signal, such as a speech signal, while preserving aural distinctions between sounds of the audio signal. Methods and systems disclosed herein may be implemented with respect to cellular telephones and portable music devices, such as to reduce and/or prevent hearing loss due. Audio modification may include sweeping through one or more frequency ranges of a speech signal and modifying frequencies within the frequency range as a function of a pattern, such as an infinite rising wave pattern. Speech modification may include adding and subtracting one or more equalization curves to and from the speech signal to vary amplitudes substantially without lateral movement in pitch. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275127 | 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. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275128 | CHANNEL DETECTION IN NOISE USING SINGLE CHANNEL DATA - Methods related to Generalized Mutual Interdependence Analysis (GMIA), a low complexity statistical method for projecting data in a subspace that captures invariant properties of the data, are implemented on a processor based system. GMIA methods are applied to the signal processing problem of voice activity detection and classification. Real-world conversational speech data are modeled to fit the GMIA assumptions. Low complexity GMIA computations extract reliable features for classification of sound under noisy conditions and operate with small amounts of data. A speaker is characterized by a slow varying or invariant channel that is learned and is tracked from single channel data by GMIA methods. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275129 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING TIMELY USER CUES PERTAINING TO SPEECH RECOGNITION - An automatic speech recognition engine may generate text or tokens that correspond to audio data. For example, the automatic speech recognition engine may generate first text or first speech tokens corresponding to a first portion of audio data. The automatic speech recognition engine may further generate second text or second speech tokens that correspond to a first portion of the audio data and a second portion of the audio data. The text or speech tokens generated by the automatic speech recognition engine may be provided to a device for presentation thereon. In some embodiments, the automatic speech recognition engine generates the second text or second speech tokens substantially while the first text or first speech tokens are presented on the device. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275130 | SPEECH RECOGNITION APPARATUS, METHOD OF RECOGNIZING SPEECH, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR THE SAME - A speech recognition apparatus includes: a recognition device that recognizes a speech of a user and generates a speech character string; a display device that displays the speech character string; a reception device that receives an input of a correction character string, which is used for correction of the speech character string, through an operation portion; and a correction device that corrects the speech character string with using the correction character string. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275131 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC CREATION OF CONTEXTS - A method and a system for a speech recognition system, comprising an electronic speech-based document is associated with a document template and comprises one or more sections of text recognized or transcribed from sections of speech. The sections of speech are transcribed by the speech recognition system into corresponding sections of text of the electronic speech based document. The method includes the steps of dynamically creating sub contexts and associating the sub context to sections of text of the document template. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275132 | Method and Apparatus for Automatically Building Conversational Systems - A system and method provides a natural language interface to world-wide web content. Either in advance or dynamically, webpage content is parsed using a parsing algorithm. A person using a telephone interface can provide speech information, which is converted to text and used to automatically fill in input fields on a webpage form. The form is then submitted to a database search and a response is generated. Information contained on the responsive webpage is extracted and converted to speech via a text-to-speech engine and communicated to the person. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275133 | Electronic Pen with Printable Arrangement - An electronic pen includes a voice recognition module for converting voice messages to text messages, a digital scanning model for scanning the content of the digital copy and on the paper, a storage module, an interaction and control module, and a printing module for exporting the content selecting from the electronic pen through a sliding movement on the paper. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275134 | INFORMATION EQUIPMENT - An information equipment for displaying shortcut keys for operating the information equipment on a screen and rearranging the displayed shortcut keys on the screen based on a recognition result of an input voice, the information equipment including: a voice recognition processor referring to a recognition dictionary database memory to output text as a recognition result of an input voice; and a shortcut key rearranging mechanism referring to a conversion database memory, where an association relation between a function of the information equipment and text is written, mapping the recognition result text onto a function of the information equipment, and displaying a shortcut key to the function on the display screen. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275135 | Automatic Updating of Confidence Scoring Functionality for Speech Recognition Systems - Automatically adjusting confidence scoring functionality is described for a speech recognition engine. Operation of the speech recognition system is revised so as to change an associated receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve describing performance of the speech recognition system with respect to rates of false acceptance (FA) versus correct acceptance (CA). Then a confidence scoring functionality related to recognition reliability for a given input utterance is automatically adjusted such that where the ROC curve is better for a given operating point after revising the operation of the speech recognition system, the adjusting reflects a double gain constraint to maintain FA and CA rates at least as good as before revising operation of the speech recognition system. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275136 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING SPEECH RECOGNITION ACCURACY - Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for enhancing speech recognition accuracy. The method includes dividing a system dialog turn into segments based on timing of probable user responses, generating a weighted grammar for each segment, exclusively activating the weighted grammar generated for a current segment of the dialog turn during the current segment of the dialog turn, and recognizing user speech received during the current segment using the activated weighted grammar generated for the current segment. The method can further include assigning probability to the weighted grammar based on historical user responses and activating each weighted grammar is based on the assigned probability. Weighted grammars can be generated based on a user profile. A weighted grammar can be generated for two or more segments. Exclusively activating each weighted grammar can include a transition period blending the previously activated grammar and the grammar to be activated. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275137 | WARNING SYSTEM WITH SYNTHESIZED VOICE DIAGNOSTIC ANNOUNCEMENT CAPABILITY FOR FIELD DEVICES - Field devices, including sensors and final elements, are provided with a speech synthesizer and optionally a speech control chip, to sound audible voice maintenance and fault alarms to alert field personnel and, optionally, a voice message upon manual activation of a pushbutton or other switch directing them how to perform the maintenance task or clear the fault. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275138 | Hands-Free List-Reading by Intelligent Automated Assistant - Systems and methods for providing hands-free reading of content comprising: identifying a plurality of data items for presentation to a user, the plurality of data items associated with a domain-specific item type and sorted according to a particular order; based on the domain-specific item type, generating a speech-based overview of the plurality of data items; for each of the plurality of data items, generating a respective speech-based, item-specific paraphrase for the data item based on respective content of the data item; and providing, to a user through the speech-enabled dialogue interface, the speech-based overview, followed by the respective speech-based, item-specific paraphrases for at least a subset of the plurality of data items in the particular order. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275139 | VOICE RESPONSIVE FLUID DELIVERY, CONTROLLING AND MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and methodology of delivery fluids and monitoring their status which is voice actuated. This system has application where a hands-free environment is preferred. Voice commands are given by the user via a Bluetooth® headset and received typically by the user's Smartphone. Voice recognition circuitry is programmed to recognize the simple commands and through complementing electronics, and electro-mechanical and mechanical elements, delivery at corresponding flow rates is accomplished. A further feature allows for respective voice commands to initiate a monitoring function where the status of any particular characteristic of the fluid can be relayed back to the user via the headset. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275140 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING AUDIO SIGNALS AT LOW COMPLEXITY - An audio encoding apparatus is provided that includes a transform unit to transform an audio signal in the time domain into an audio spectrum in the frequency domain; a bit allocation unit to determine the number of allocated bits by using spectral energy in predetermined frequency band units for the audio spectrum; and an encoding unit to determine the number of unit magnitude pulses for factorial pulse coding based on the number of allocated bits for the audio spectrum and to perform factorial pulse coding in the frequency band units for the audio spectrum by using the determined number of unit magnitude pulses. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275141 | PREPROCESSING METHOD, PREPROCESSING APPARATUS AND CODING DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to coding and decoding technologies, and discloses a preprocessing method, a preprocessing apparatus, and a coding device. The preprocessing method includes: obtaining characteristic information of a current frame signal; identifying whether the current frame signal requires no coding operation of removing LTC according to the characteristic information of the current frame signal and preset information; and if identifying that the current frame signal requires no coding operation of removing LTC, performing the coding operation of removing STC for the current frame signal; and if identifying that the current frame signal requires the coding operation of removing LTC, performing the coding operations of removing both LTC and STC for the current frame signal. Through the technical solution provided herein, the coding operation of removing LTC is performed for only part of the input frame signals. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275142 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to a signal processing device, method, and program that may obtain audio at a higher audio quality when decoding an audio signal. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275143 | HEALTHCARE FINANCE MODEL - Systems, methods, and computer program products for implementing a healthcare finance model are disclosed. A method according to the present invention may be embodied in a computer program product. The method may include determining an expected price of a medical scenario for each of a set of providers. A predetermined ranking algorithm may be applied to the providers. Such ranking algorithm may consider at least an expected price of the medical scenario for each of the plurality of providers. The providers may be organized into two or more provider groups based on results of the ranking algorithm. Additionally, a flat insurance payment for service of the medical scenario may be established for each provider group based on their rankings. Providers within each single provider group may have the same insurance payment for the medical scenario. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275144 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS AND MARKET CREATION - In various embodiments, the systems, methods and computer readable media (collectively “systems”) described herein are capable of requesting, collecting, and/or otherwise facilitating self-payment of healthcare related receivables. Moreover, in various embodiments, the systems may create, bundle and/or monetize and sell receivables. In various embodiments, bundles or receivables may be sold in an electronic market place. These bundles may be presented to potential buyers through a dashboard, The system may be capable of evaluating and associated a real-time value with the receivable. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275145 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING AND VIEWING PATIENT DATA - Implementations of the present disclosure provide methods including actions of receiving, by a tablet computing device, one or more signals reflective of patient data associated with one or more patients, the tablet computing device being provided in a patient monitoring system that monitors physiological characteristics of a patient of the one or more patients, at least a first sub-set of the patient data being associated with the patient and being provided from one or more sensors that are responsive to the physiological characteristics of the patient, processing the patient data to generate one or more graphical representations reflective of the patient data, and displaying the one or more graphical representations on a touchscreen display of the tablet computing device. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275146 | CONNECTING CONSUMERS WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS - A request to generate a medical service team for a particular consumer of medical services is received and records including names of one or more medical service providers associated with providing a medical service to the consumer of medical services are retrieved from a data repository. An electronic invitation to join the medical service team associated with providing medical services to the consumer of medical services is sent and responses to the invitation are received. A listing of medical service team members is generated from the responses and the records. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275147 | MEDICAL INFORMATION INTEROPERABILITY TESTING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a medical information interoperability testing apparatus includes a setting information storage unit, a medical information storage unit, an information selection unit and a simulated communication unit. The setting information storage unit stores a plurality of pieces of communication setting information. The medical information storage unit stores medical information containing at least one of patient information, examination information, and image information. The information selection unit selects a piece of communication setting information to be used from the plurality of pieces of communication setting information. The simulated communication unit tests interoperability with a medical device as communication partner according to a medical communication protocol using the medical information and the piece of communication setting information to be used selected by the information selection unit. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275148 | SMART HOSPITAL CARE SYSTEM - A system and associated method for automatically controlling a hospital equipment of in-patient care environment is performed by a module coupled to a classification database, an Inference Engine (IE), a Truth Maintenance System (TMS), and the hospital equipment. Upon admitting a patient, a patient record related to the patient is created and events for the patient are recorded. Based on inference rules of the IE, inferred event data is generated and subsequently control data to manipulate the hospital equipment is generated. Pursuant to new event affecting truth of the inferred event data, the inferred event data may be renewed and new control data based on the renewed inferred event data is created to ensure that the control data is based on the latest event related to the patient. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275149 | CLINICAL QUALITY ANALYTICS SYSTEM - A clinical quality analytics (CQA) system includes a process map toolset, which determines a process map from a protocol for medical treatment guidelines. A mapping module maps formats electronic medical record (EMR) data, which is mapped to the process map. A measurement and evaluation module determines metrics to evaluate a quality of care associated with the protocol and determines a population of the EMR data to use for the evaluation. A CQA engine evaluates the population of EMR data for compliance with the protocol based on the metrics and the process map. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275150 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING PORTABLE HEALTH RECORDS - A system for maintaining portable health records is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of processing subsystems that have a cloud computing architecture, the plurality of processing subsystems comprising a receiving device configured to receive patient data corresponding to one or more of a plurality of patients from at least one healthcare service provider processing subsystem; and a storage module that processes the patient data to store the patient data in a layered data structure format of historical health records and socio-economic condition records. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275151 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AND DISPLAYING PATIENT DATA - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a timeline screen, in response to the user input, processing patient-specific data to determine one or more medical events to be graphically depicted, the one or more medical events being specific to a patient, and displaying the timeline screen on the mobile device, the timeline screen displaying a timeline associated with the patient and comprising at least a portion of the one or more medical events, each medical event comprising summary information, the one or more medical events being displayed in chronological order. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275152 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AND DISPLAYING PATIENT DATA - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a waveform strip screen, in response to the user input, processing patient-specific data to provide waveform data, and displaying the waveform strip screen on the mobile device, the waveform strip screen displaying one or more waveform strips, each waveform strip of the one or more waveform strips being based on the waveform data and graphically depicting a physical waveform strip. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275153 | METHOD OF OPTIMIZING PATIENT-RELATED OUTCOMES - A medical information navigation engine (“MINE”) is provided. In some embodiments, the system computes a current patient encounter vector for a current patient encounter, and then an optimal patient encounter vector is computed by assuming a best case patient encounter in accordance with the organizational objectives. The system is then able to compute the difference between the best case encounter and the current patient encounter. This difference is used to compute a corresponding payoff using an intelligent matrix. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275154 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING POTENTIAL DEGREE OF CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION (CAC) RISK - A method of predicting a potential degree of Coronary Artery Calcification (CAC) risk includes receiving a patient's medical test data relating to CAC; determining a cluster to which the patient's medical test data belong based on an age of the patient; extracting a risk factor score including at least two Coronary Artery Calcification Scores (CACSs) from the medical test data; storing a plurality of prediction models used for predicting a potential degree of CAC risk; and predicting a potential degree of CAC risk at a specific point in time by applying a CACS growth rate of the patient's medical test data calculated using the at least two CACSs of the patient's medical test data and the extracted risk factor score to a prediction model corresponding to the determined cluster to which the patient's medical test data belong among the plurality of prediction models. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275155 | PULSE OXIMETERS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING DATA THEREFROM - A tele-health solution promotes patient wellness and reduces healthcare costs while improving patient compliance. To qualify for home oxygen or CPAP machines, a user must monitor their blood oxygen saturation (SpO | 2013-10-17 |
20130275156 | EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS EMPLOYING CONFIDENTIAL MEDICAL CONTENT - Due to the direct potential impact to patients medical training is exhaustive but also more complex individuals are unique and other sciences applying similar treatment regimens may result in radically different outcomes. Further, the tools for detailed diagnosis absent surgical intervention are complex, expensive, and require significant interpretation. Whilst establishing virtual learning environments would be beneficial in the medical field Government regulations on the privacy of confidential information conflict by restricting the distribution and use of patient medical records. Accordingly, a medical education system would beneficially integrate the different legal and medical educational requirements automatically as well as addressing other situations which are more difficult to manage when one physician contacts another seeking content for a training program. Further, it would be beneficial for such an educational content generator to provide medical professionals with the additional tools and resources to generate, manage, track and supervise the educational process. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275157 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION ASSESSMENT - A method and system for biological information assessment receives uses a set of grouped historic medical test results to generate testing protocol recommendations medical test results for a new patient. Each medical test result represents a measured observation of a portion of a historic patient's body using a first medical testing modality. A score is generated for each of the historic patients based on the results. Based upon the generated scores, the historic patients are grouped into a set of groups corresponding to a range of assessment parameters. When a medical test result is received for a new patient, the medical test result is compared to the range of assessment parameters to determine which of the groups the new patient should be assigned. The new patient is assigned to the determined group and a recommendation for an additional medical testing protocol is generated. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275158 | REMOTE HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM - A data collection system collects and stores physiological data from an ambulatory patient at a high resolution and/or a high data rate (“more detailed data”) and sends a low-resolution and/or downsampled version of the data (“less detailed data”) to a remote server via a wireless network. The server automatically analyzes the less detailed data to detect an anomaly, such as an arrhythmia. A two-tiered analysis scheme is used, where the first tier is more sensitive and less specific than the second tier. If the more sensitive analysis detects or suspects the anomaly, the server signals the data collector to send more detailed data that corresponds to a time period associated with the anomaly. The more specific second tier analyses the more detailed data to verify the anomaly. The server may also store the received data and make it available to a user, such as via a graphical or tabular display. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275159 | Method and Apparatus for Monitoring Physiological Parameter Variability Over Time for One or More Organs - A system is provided for leveraging the power of the analysis of variability over time, and which uses an underlying framework that can handle variability analyses across a distributed system in a consistent manner, in part by constructing a standard variability data file that includes several manifestations of the underlying data acquired using variability monitoring. The consistent and standard data files, along with the underlying framework enables a user to make use of a set of convenient display tools, while a central entity can provide connectivity to the distributed environment and provide a way to update the equipment and software to ensure consistent and relevant analyses. The system can be extended into many environments, including in-patient, out-patient and completely mobile/stand-alone users. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275160 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING AND CONTROLLING EPIDEMICS - A method for analyzing and controlling epidemics in which an initiating signal is received indicative of a list of newly classified carriers of an infectious disease from an authorized health authority. Location data is received for a mobile device and a mobility pattern derived from the received location data is compared with a mobility pattern of first users to determine occurrence of a proximity event, during which one of the first users was spaced from a given carrier less than a predetermined distance. The proximity event is ranked in terms of the likelihood that the given carrier was involved in the transmission of the disease during the proximity event. If the ranking of the proximity event is higher than a predetermined level, the process is repeated for the first user participating in the proximity event and for second users. Corrective action information is then transmitted. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275161 | System and Method for Providing Medical Caregiver and Equipment Management Patient Care - An update message from a first group of one or more clinical devices ( | 2013-10-17 |
20130275162 | MULTI-PARTY TRANSACTION SYSTEM WITH COLLECTIVE RESERVATIONS - Embodiments consistent with the present invention enable multiple users to collectively make reservations for goods or services. One embodiment relates to a method of performing a collective reservation of one or more goods or services by a set of multiple users who are members of a communication context. The communication context may be established by the set of multiple users using instances of a client software application on electronic computing devices and a collective-reservation server. Reservations may be created for multiple sets of items by the multiple users. The reservations may be modified by the multiple users, and the items under a reservation may be purchased by the multiple users. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275163 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A WAITING LIST USING INTERNET-BASED CUSTOMER CHECK-IN - A system can provide for management of a waiting list of customers at a business location for services from a no-appointment, first listed-first served business. A waiting list can be displayed on a user interface that communicates with a processor. The processor can receive customer information from an internet-based customer check-in system through which customer's check-in to the waiting list at a location remote from the business location. The user interface can display the waiting list including information regarding both customers that check-in through the internet-based check-in system and customers that check in manually at the business location giving priority temporal waiting list priority based on a time of check-in for each customer, and can display a dynamically updated calculated estimated wait time for each customer on the waiting list. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275164 | Intelligent Automated Assistant - The intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions. The system can be implemented using any of a number of different platforms, such as the web, email, smartphone, and the like, or any combination thereof. In one embodiment, the system is based on sets of interrelated domains and tasks, and employs additional functionally powered by external services with which the system can interact. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275165 | INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, INFORMATION PROVIDING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information providing apparatus that improves user convenience during a reservation process, by acquiring the remaining numbers of reservation targets matching a user's request, the remaining count increase history of the service matching the user's request, estimating a probability that the remaining numbers of the reservation targets meet or exceed a threshold by an offer period of reservation targets for which the remaining numbers acquired are less than the threshold, among the reservation targets matching the user's request based on the remaining count increase history, and providing information related to the reservation targets matching the user's request, in a display mode matching the estimated probability. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275166 | CLOSED LOOP PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT FOR SERVICE DELIVERY SYSTEMS - A computer implemented method delivers information technology services according to a set of service level agreements. A service request class having a largest control error is identified from a plurality of service request classes. The service request priority of the service request class having the largest control error is then increased to form an updated priority. Service requests for the plurality of service request classes are dispatched in a next control iteration based upon the updated priority. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275167 | METHOD FOR RESEARCHING, CREATING, PRIORITIZING,EVALUATING, TESTING,INVESTING, IMPLEMENTING AND MANAGING NEW SOLUTIONS WITHIN AND AMONG BUSINESSES,PROJECTS OR GOVERNMENT ENDEAVORS - A system for business or project management and planning which particularly relates to a system which provides a system with methodology to support management and the employees in the management of business and governmental organizations in organizing and controlling a project or process and measuring the results of innovative ideas and actions by creating a stimulating environment, providing adequate customizable internal process, analyzing organization's innovation process using key indicators, and allowing for a customizable system that will foster the continuous innovation within an organization. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275168 | CLOSED LOOP PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT FOR SERVICE DELIVERY SYSTEMS - A computer implemented method delivers information technology services according to a set of service level agreements. A service request class having a largest control error is identified from a plurality of service request classes. The service request priority of the service request class having the largest control error is then increased to form an updated priority. Service requests for the plurality of service request classes are dispatched in a next control iteration based upon the updated priority. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275169 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING A NETWORK OF GAMING MACHINES AND DISPATCHING SERVICE PROVIDERS - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method for dispatching a person to a location in a casino to respond to a request for service at the location. A listing of persons who may be dispatched to various locations is stored on in a database. At least some of the persons are associated with a primary qualification for the type of service that he or she may provide. A communication on a network of gaming devices is received indicating that service is required a particular location. A signal is automatically sent to a wireless device carried by a person having an appropriate qualification to provide the service. Player tracking data is also sent to permit the provider to personalize the service. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275170 | INFORMATION GOVERNANCE CROWD SOURCING - A method, computer program product, and system for information governance crowd sourcing by, responsive to receiving a data quality exception identifying one or more data quality errors in a data store, identifying a performance level required to correct the data quality errors, selecting, from a crowd hierarchy, a first one or more crowds meeting the defined performance level, wherein the crowd hierarchy ranks the performance of one or more crowds, and routing, by operation of one or more computer processors, the one or more data quality errors to the selected crowds for correction. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275171 | Systems and Methods for Getting a Baby to Sleep Using Adaptive Adjustments - A system includes a first interface engine and a routine determining engine. The first interface engine interfaces with a scheduling program and retrieves from the scheduling program. The routine determining engine determines a routine from a from the schedules of the users and schedule for the user to execute the routine to get a baby or child to sleep through the night. The routine determining engine determines the routine and the schedule based on the schedules of the user and optimal routine to get a baby or child to sleep through the night. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275172 | MULTI-LAYERED ONLINE CALENDARING AND PURCHASING - A computer-implemented method and system for generating and displaying a calendar containing user-selected events from user-selected categories. A plurality of categories of events are provided. The user can select which categories are of interest, and then select individual events within those categories. Events are overlaid on a calendar unique to the user. Calendars may also be shared among a number of selected users, if desired. Online purchasing and related actions can be associated with each event. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275173 | Real-Time Publishing of Finite Schedules and Real-Time Response to Schedule Changes - A method for real-time publishing of a finite schedule that includes a plurality of activities and a plurality of resources is presented. The method utilizes at least one master schedule derived from an output of the finite schedule and at least one published schedule associated with the at least one master schedule. The at least one master schedule includes at least one master activity instance and the at least one published schedule includes at least one published activity instance. The method creates a schedule mapping table and an activity instance-mapping table. The schedule mapping table stores at least one relationship between the at least one master schedule and the at least one published schedule. Furthermore, the method updates the finite schedule and communicates schedule deviations in real-time with the finite schedule. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275174 | MOBILE AND/OR CLOUD BASED TOOL FOR ENABLING ACCURATE INFORMATION OF NEW AND RETROFIT PROJECTS - A real-time, mobile, energy savings and cost estimation tool may be provided. The energy savings and cost estimation tool may be implemented on a mobile electronic device, such as, but not limited to a laptop computer, tablet, or a smart phone, for example. A user may create a project and define project information using the energy savings and cost estimation tool while at the project site. For example, the user may discuss the project with a potential customer, ask questions about the project to be created or retrofitted, walk around the project site, and enter the project information into the energy savings and cost estimation tool. Using the project information gathered, the energy savings and cost estimation tool may provide real-time feedback, such as an energy usage audit, an energy usage solution design, an energy analysis, and/or a return on investment (ROI) analysis for the project, to the user. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275175 | Methods for Improved Production and Distribution - A computer-implemented system and method for producing and distributing at least one product from at least one plant to at least one customer where discretized plant production data, filtered customer sourcing data, forecasted customer demand data, and forecasted plant electricity pricing data are input into a modified genetic algorithm and an electronic processor solves the modified genetic algorithm and outputs the solution to an interface. The system and method is flexible and can incorporate data as it becomes available to yield intermediate solutions for quick decision making. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275176 | RISK ASSESSMENT OF A SUPPLIER OF AN ORGANIZATION - According to one embodiment of the present invention, risk associated with a supplier of an organization may be assessed. A supplier associated with an organization is identified for risk assessment. The risk assessment comprises a plurality of questions where each question has a priority level. A plurality of selections for the supplier associated with the plurality of questions is determined. A respective selection of the plurality of selections is associated with a respective question of the plurality of questions. A plurality of values associated with the plurality of selections is determined. A respective value of the plurality of values is associated with a respective selection of the plurality of selections. Using a processor, a risk score for the supplier is calculated according to the plurality of values and the priority level of each of the plurality of questions. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275177 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BROKERING DATA PRODUCTS - Systems and methods for data brokering, and more specifically, data brokering regarding a data provider's search-related activities, are described. In at least some implementations, a method in accordance with the present disclosure includes facilitating an arrangement between a data provider and a data consumer regarding one or more data-provider-related search activities, providing a data product to the data consumer in accordance with the arrangement, the data product including information regarding the one or more data-provider-related search activities, receiving a first consideration from the data consumer in accordance with the arrangement, and providing a second consideration to the data provider in accordance with the arrangement. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275178 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING DATA BROKERING ARRANGEMENTS - Systems and methods for data brokering, and more specifically, data brokering regarding a data provider's search-related activities, are described. In at least some implementations, a method in accordance with the present disclosure includes facilitating an arrangement between a data provider and a data consumer regarding one or more data-provider-related search activities, providing a data product to the data consumer in accordance with the arrangement, the data product including information regarding the one or more data-provider-related search activities, monitoring a performance of the data consumer, and providing a consideration to the data provider in accordance with the arrangement. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275179 | Methods, Devices and Systems for Referral Opportunity Identification in Social Media Settings - In some embodiments, opportunities for a customer of a business to recommend the business may be automatically identified within the customer's social media account. The customer may grant a third-party application access to his social media account, which is then monitored or occasionally scanned for keywords that identify opportunities such as open requests for referrals. The customer may be presented with the requests and allowed to post a referral for the business. When the referral results in a new customer for the business, both the existing customer and the new customer may receive a reward, such a voucher for a gift card. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275180 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL-MEDIA GENERATED TRANSIT AGENCY CONTENT - There is a system for social media content for a transit agency, the system comprising a social media manager configured to detect a social media event (SME) relevant to the transit agency, add the SME to a queue of SMEs, characterize the SME, and store the characterized SME. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275181 | SERVICE PROVIDER ANALYTICS - A system, apparatus, computer readable media, and method are disclosed for generating analytics on customers of service provider merchants. In an example, a transaction record associated with an account identifier of a customer that purchased a first service from a first merchant may be processed and a service date for the first service may be determined. Other transaction records comprising the account identifier and that satisfy a temporal filter may be identified. Each of the other transaction records may include transaction data associated with at least one of: (1) purchase of another service to be provided within a first predetermined amount of time of the service date, and (2) purchase of a product within a second predetermined amount of time of the service date. A spending profile including information on the first service, the service date, and the transaction data for each of the other transaction records may be generated. | 2013-10-17 |
20130275182 | SOCIAL AUDIENCE ANALYSIS - Example systems and methods of analyzing a social audience are described. In one implementation, a method receives social audience data associated with multiple users. The method identifies multiple preferences associated with the users based on the social audience data. The method further identifies demographic information associated with at least a portion of the users. At least one characteristic of the users is determined based on the multiple preferences and the demographic information. | 2013-10-17 |