42nd week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 52 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20120265496 | Ethnic-Specific Orthopaedic Implants and Custom Cutting Jigs - An orthopedic implant comprising: (a) a distal femoral component comprising a first condyle bearing surface having a first profile comprising at least three consecutive arcs of curvature; and (b) a proximal tibial component comprising a first condyle bearing surface having a second profile comprising at least three parallel arcs of curvature. The disclosure also includes a method of designing and fabricating an orthopedic implant, the method comprising: (a) evaluating images of distal femurs of a particular ethnicity to extract common shape features exhibited across an ethnicity that are unique to the ethnicity to create an ethnic specific template; (b) designing a distal femoral component comprising a first condyle surface using the ethnic specific template; and, (c) fabricating a distal femoral component embodying the first condyle surface. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265497 | Method for Making a Numerical Three-Dimensional Model of a Structure of Soft and Hard Parts, Three-Dimensional Model and Carrier - The invention relates to a method for making a numerical three-dimensional model of a structure from relatively soft and relatively hard parts, comprising of making by means of penetrating radiation a plurality of numerical sections of the structure located at a mutual distance and representing the absorption for the radiation, storing in a memory the numerical sections and constructing a numerical three-dimensional model of the structure on the basis of the numerical sections stored in the memory, wherein at least during making of the sections at least a part of the relatively soft parts of the structure is provided with a layer of contrast agent with an absorption coefficient for the radiation differing substantially from that of the relatively soft parts. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265498 | System for Supporting Robot Hardware Design and Method Thereof - The present invention relates to a system and a method for supporting robotic hardware design, and the method comprises: loading a template which has information on the mechanical structure, operating mechanism, power transmission and motion data of robot modules; modifying the information for use in a simulator for further designing the robot modules; analyzing the behavior of each robot module according to respective motion data; applying the resulting data to modify each robot module according to simulation API; and controlling the selection/combination of robot parts for simulator assembly according to API and the resulting templates, databases on which robot parts are required and databases for information on selection/combination of robot parts and assembly of each robot module. The above system and method provide an optimal way to design robot hardware and reduce the time required for robot hardware design. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265499 | METHODS OF PREDETERMINING THE CONTOUR OF A RESECTED BONE SURFACE AND ASSESSING THE FIT OF A PROSTHESIS ON THE BONE - Methods for predetermining a contour of a resected bone surface and assessing a fit of a prosthesis on the resected bone surface, for designing prostheses to fit discrete patient populations, and for designing customized prostheses. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265500 | Bravery - “BRAVERY” is an engineering calculation method that offers theoretical solutions rather than numerical solutions, and can be used to simulate the problems encountered in the engineering field, and subsequently to be used in engineering design. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265501 | GENERATION OF OCCUPANT ACTIVITIES BASED ON RECORDED OCCUPANT BEHAVIOR - A method and apparatus for simulating occupant behavior in buildings may be used to predict the energy use of a building structure. The activities of actual building occupants are recorded and provided as an input to the occupant behavior simulation. The occupant behavior simulation generates simulated occupant schedules with similar behavioral patterns. An arbitrary set of factors can be used to select plausible activity types, durations, and numbers of participants during an occupant behavior simulation. The simulated occupant schedules may then be incorporated into a building performance simulation to help architects predict the energy demand associated with different building design options. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265502 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING POWER OUTAGES AND RESTORATION DURING NATURAL AND MAN-MADE EVENTS - A method of modeling electric supply and demand with a data processor in combination with a recordable medium, and for estimating spatial distribution of electric power outages and affected populations. A geographic area is divided into cells to form a matrix. Within the matrix, supply cells are identified as containing electric substations and demand cells are identified as including electricity customers. Demand cells of the matrix are associated with the supply cells as a function of the capacity of each of the supply cells and the proximity and/or electricity demand of each of the demand cells. The method includes estimating a power outage by applying disaster event prediction information to the matrix, and estimating power restoration using the supply and demand cell information of the matrix and standardized and historical restoration information. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265503 | ENERGY CONSUMPTION SIMULATION - Various embodiments of systems and methods for simulating energy consumption for a simulation period are described herein. Realized energy consumption profile values for time slices of a simulation period are retrieved. Prior realized energy consumption profile values from corresponding time slices of consecutive previous calendar periods for time slices of the simulation period for which the realized energy consumption profile values are not available are retrieved. Further, time slices of the simulation period for which the corresponding prior realized profile values are not available are identified. For the identified time slices, an estimation of the unrealized energy profile values is computed using synthetic profile values. Furthermore, retrieved realized energy consumption profile values, retrieved prior realized energy consumption profile values, and estimated unrealized energy profile values are used to simulate energy consumption for the simulation period. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265504 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXPLORING AND UTILIZING SOLUTIONS TO CYBER-PHYSICAL ISSUES IN A SANDBOX - Methods and arrangements for accommodating and synthesizing data for seeking broad-based solutions to complex problems. Logical models with respect to infrastructure in a first location are created. System-level models are created with respect to the logical models, and simulations are performed on the system-level models to verify expected behavior. Feedback is employed from the performed simulations to forecast changes in the system-level models. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265505 | METHOD FOR SIMULATING BEHAVIOR IN A RECONFIGURABLE INFRASTRUCTURE AND SYSTEM IMPLEMENTING SAID METHOD - A technique for simulating behaviors in a reconfigurable infrastructure represented in three dimensions and including interactive objects. Characteristics of an interactive object are described in an object profile, users in the infrastructure simulated by intelligent agents, an agent described in an agent profile including information indicating a main objective of said agent, executing a trajectory calculation process associated with a given agent including at least three steps: (1) profiles of the interactive objects are analyzed; (2) a trajectory is calculated or recalculated with the help of a path-search algorithm; (3) a check is performed to verify whether the trajectory is valid; if the trajectory is valid, the trajectory is taken into account for the movements of the intelligent agent; if the trajectory is not valid, at least one constraint included in an interactive object profile invalidating the trajectory is identified and the process is executed again from the first step. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265506 | GENERATION OF OCCUPANT ACTIVITIES BASED ON RECORDED OCCUPANT BEHAVIOR - A method and apparatus for simulating occupant behavior in buildings may be used to predict the energy use of a building structure. The activities of actual building occupants are recorded and provided as an input to the occupant behavior simulation. The occupant behavior simulation generates simulated occupant schedules with similar behavioral patterns. An arbitrary set of factors can be used to select plausible activity types, durations, and numbers of participants during an occupant behavior simulation. The simulated occupant schedules may then be incorporated into a building performance simulation to help architects predict the energy demand associated with different building design options. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265507 | PROCESS MODEL MERGING - Process model merging receives data representative of a first model that models a first process and a second model that models a second process, and determines, based on the data and a predetermined plurality of basic model manipulation operations, atomic differences in the second model relative to the first model. Compound differences are determined in the second model relative to the first model. A user is informed of the atomic differences and the compound differences. The user is allowed to select a set of the plurality of basic model manipulation operations. A modified first model is obtained by applying the selected set of basic model manipulation operations to the first model. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265508 | Cost Evaluation and Prediction - A mechanism is provided for enabling prediction of a cost between an origin and a destination even in the case of insufficient past route information. Data D, which includes an origin, a destination, and information on cost between these points, is prepared as well as a subroutine for calculating cost c | 2012-10-18 |
20120265509 | Aircraft Emulation System - A mobile aircraft emulation system comprising communications hardware and data processing hardware. The communications hardware is configured for use in an aircraft and to establish a communications link with an airport network data processing system. The data processing hardware is configured for use in the aircraft to run a number of software aircraft parts and exchange information with the airport network data processing system using the communications link. The number of software aircraft parts is configured for use in the aircraft. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265510 | GRID FROM DEPOSITIONAL SPACE - A method can include providing, in a geological domain, a conformal mesh, conformal to geological discontinuities of a geological model, that includes depositional domain coordinates associated with a depositional domain; providing, in the depositional domain, an initial, at least vertically structured, multidimensional grid that includes initial nodes that define grid cells; referencing the conformal mesh to identify a set of grid cells of the initial grid traversed by the geological discontinuities; splitting each of the grid cells in the set to form sub cells, each of the sub cells defined at least in part by one or more new nodes; and assigning geological domain coordinates associated with the geological domain to at least the new nodes to generate a final grid that includes the initial nodes, the new nodes and geological domain coordinates associated with the geological domain. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265511 | Computer Simulation of Physical Processes - Simulating a physical process includes storing, in a computer-accessible memory, state vectors for voxels, where the state vectors correspond to a model and include entries that correspond to particular momentum states of possible momentum states at a voxel. Interaction operations are performed on the state vectors. The interaction operations model interactions between elements of different momentum states according to the model. Move operations performed on the state vectors reflect movement of elements to new voxels according to the model. The model is adapted to simulate a high-Knudsen number flow that has a Knudsen number greater than 0.1. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265512 | UPDATING GEOLOGICAL FACIES MODELS USING THE ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER - The invention relates to a method for history matching a facies geostatistical model using the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) technique. The EnKF is not normally appropriate for discontinuous facies models such as multiple point simulation (MPS). In the method of the invention, an ensemble of realizations are generated and then uniform vectors on which those realizations are based are transformed to Gaussian vectors before applying the EnKF to the Gaussian vectors directly. The updated Gaussian vectors are then transformed back to uniform vectors which are used to update the realizations. The uniform vectors may be vectors on which the realizations are based directly; alternatively each realization may be based on a plurality of uniform vectors linearly combined with combination coefficients. In this case each realization is associated with a uniform vector made up from the combination coefficients, and the combination coefficient vector is then transformed to Gaussian and updated using EnKF. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265513 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DESIGNING STABLE PROTEINS - Methods and computing systems for generating a protein stability lookup table and a predictive model. These methods and systems are useful for predicting the thermal stability of a protein sequence and for predicting mutations that may enhance the thermal stability of a protein given its amino acid sequence and/or three dimensional structure. The protein stability lookup table and a predictive model are based on a combination and analysis of related protein sequences and, where available, protein structure data, and relative stability data from mesophilic and thermophilic organisms and experimentally determined stability changes of wild type proteins and their mutants. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265514 | DESIGN OF MOLECULES - A method for computational drug design using an evolutionary algorithm, comprises evaluating virtual molecules according to vector distance (VD) to at least one achievement objective that defines a desired ideal molecule. In one method the invention comprises defining a set of n achievement objectives (O | 2012-10-18 |
20120265515 | METHOD AND SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ACCELERATING SIMULATIONS - Method, system, and computer program product. The method may include: receiving a model of a circuit that includes logic that is designed to receive sequence information and/or constants from input modules of the circuit. Updating the model or generating a new model that includes an interface and an initialization module. The initialization module may provide, to a hardware accelerator and during an initialization of a simulation of the circuit, the constants and/or the sequence information. The interface may interface between a simulator and a hardware accelerator that includes one or more FPGAs. Generating FPGA code of an amended logic that includes the logic and a programmable module; wherein the programmable module may receive, during the initialization of the simulation, the constants and/or the sequence information, and to provide during the simulation and to the logic, at least one out of the constants and a sequence represented by the sequence information. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265516 | PERIPHERAL DEVICE SIMULATION - An application can be run in an environment on a host machine. The environment can simulate a machine of a different type from the host machine. A series of events can be received from user input. The series of events can simulate a series of input from a target type of physical peripheral device that is different from a type of physical device used to provide the input. The series of events can be provided to the application for processing, and results of the application processing the series of events can be displayed. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265517 | Dedicated Memory Window for Emulation Address - This invention allows code emulation in a memory system by implementing a fixed location and size emulation segment that is only accessible to emulation requests, and may be mapped to any area of the physical memory space by the Extended Memory Controller. All areas of the memory space are visible to the emulation process, whether there is a functional segment mapped to that area or not. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265518 | Software Application for Ranking Language Translations and Methods of Use Thereof - The software application is used to rank language translations and a method to implement those ranked language translations. The language translations are for textual or vocal phrases that a user wants to convert from its original language to a preferred language. The software application will refer to a variety of translation sources in order to create a set of applicable translations for a textual or vocal phrase. The software application will then rank each applicable translation with an accuracy score, which is weighed by three factors: the commonalities between the set of translation sources, a user input process, and a linguistic mapping process. Some methods to implement the ranked language translations include using accelerometer data from a electronic communication device to operate the software application, integrating a moderator into a conversation process, using subtitles in speech bubbles for a video chat, and using location data to communicate with different contacts. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265519 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBJECT DETECTION - A system and method for object detection is provided, which system and method combines parsing and classification technologies for extracting objects, e.g., events, entities or the like, from text. In exemplary embodiment, the output of a parsing technique is transformed into a model suitable as input for classification in order to provide event or entity detection results. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265520 | TEXT PROCESSOR AND METHOD OF TEXT PROCESSING - A text processor and a method of text processing comprises obtaining a plurality of word groups each comprising a sequence of words from a text, determining a frequency of occurrence of each of the word groups within a text corpus, by interrogating a database including the frequency information, and indicating word groups that have a frequency of occurrence that is below a threshold value. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265521 | Methods and systems relating to information extraction - The invention relates to information extraction systems having discriminative models which utilize hierarchical cluster trees and active learning to enhance training. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265522 | Time Scaling of Audio Frames to Adapt Audio Processing to Communications Network Timing - Methods and apparatus for coordinating audio data processing and network communication processing in a communication device by using time scaling for either inbound or outbound audio data processing, or both, in an communication device. In particular, time scaling of audio data is used to adapt timing for audio data processing to timing for modem processing, by dynamically adjusting a collection of audio samples to fit the container size required by the modem. Speech quality can be preserved while recovering and/or maintaining correct synchronizing between audio processing and communication processing circuits. In an example method, it is determined that a completion time for processing a first audio data frame falls outside a pre-determined timing window. Responsive to this determination, a subsequent audio data frame is time-scaled to control the completion time for processing the subsequent audio data frame. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265523 | FRAME ERASURE CONCEALMENT FOR A MULTI RATE SPEECH AND AUDIO CODEC - An audio coding terminal and method is provided. The terminal includes a coding mode setting unit to set an operation mode, from plural operation modes, for input audio coding by a codec, configured to code the input audio based on the set operation mode such that when the set operation mode is a high frame erasure rate (FER) mode the codec codes a current frame of the input audio according to a select frame erasure concealment (FEC) mode of one or more FEC modes. Upon the setting of the operation mode to be the High FER mode, the one FEC mode is selected, from the one or more FEC modes predetermined for the High FER mode, to control the codec by incorporating of redundancy within a coding of the input audio or as separate redundancy information separate from the coded input audio according to the selected one FEC mode. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265524 | Method And Apparatus Of Visual Feedback For Latency In Communication Media - A method and apparatus are provided for visualizing the latency in a conversation between a local speaker and at least one remote speaker separated from the local speaker by a communication medium. A latency estimate is obtained. A timing indication of at least the end of a conversational turn by the local speaker is obtained, and an outbound graphic is displayed, indicating the progress of at least the end-of-turn across the communication medium toward the remote speaker. The outbound graphical indication is displayed with a transit time across the medium that is derived from the latency estimate. An inbound graphic is displayed, indicating the progress across the communication medium toward the local speaker, of a start of a conversational turn by the remote speaker, which is imputed to begin when the remote speaker receives the local speaker's end-of-turn. The inbound graphical indication is displayed with a transit time across the medium that is derived from the latency estimate. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265525 | ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, ENCODER APPARATUS, DECODER APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - In encoding, pitch periods for time series signals in a predetermined time interval are calculated, and a code corresponding thereto is output. In that encoding, the resolutions for expressing the pitch periods and/or a pitch period encoding mode are switched according to whether an index indicating a periodicity and/or stationarity level of the time series signals satisfies a condition indicating high or low in periodicity and/or stationarity. In that decoding, according to whether an index indicating a periodicity and/or stationarity level, the index being included in or obtained from an input code corresponding to the predetermined time interval, satisfies a condition indicating high periodicity and/or stationarity, a decoding mode for a code, included in the input code, corresponding to pitch periods is switched to decode the code corresponding to the pitch periods to obtain the pitch periods corresponding to the predetermined time interval. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265526 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION - An input signal is received. A plurality of electrical characteristics from the input signal is obtained. A plurality of acoustic features is determined from the obtained electrical characteristics and each of the acoustic features being different from the others. At least some of the acoustic features are compared to a plurality of predetermined criteria. Based upon the comparing of the acoustic features to the plurality of predetermined criteria, it is determined when the signal is a voice signal or a noise signal. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265527 | INTERACTIVE VOICE RECOGNITION ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD - An interactive voice recognition electronic device converts a received voice signal to a text, and searches a voice databases to find a matched voice text of the converted text. The matched voice text is taken as a recognized voice text of the voice signal if the matched voice text exists in the voice database. The electronic device obtains a predetermined number of similar voice texts if no matched voice text exists in the voice database. The electronic device converts the predetermined number of similar voice texts to the voice signals, outputs the converted voice signals in turn, and selects one of the similar voice texts as the recognized voice text according to the selection of the user. The electronic device obtains the associated answer text of the recognized voice text in the voice database and converts the answer text to voice signals. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265528 | Using Context Information To Facilitate Processing Of Commands In A Virtual Assistant - A virtual assistant uses context information to supplement natural language or gestural input from a user. Context helps to clarify the user's intent and to reduce the number of candidate interpretations of the user's input, and reduces the need for the user to provide excessive clarification input. Context can include any available information that is usable by the assistant to supplement explicit user input to constrain an information-processing problem and/or to personalize results. Context can be used to constrain solutions during various phases of processing, including, for example, speech recognition, natural language processing, task flow processing, and dialog generation. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265529 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING AND DISPLAYING AN X-RAY IMAGE - A method and system for transcription of spoken language into continuous text for a user comprising the steps of inputting spoken language of at least one user or of a communication partner of the at least one user into a mobile device of the respective user, wherein the input spoken language of the user is transported within a corresponding stream of voice over IP data packets to a transcription server; transforming the spoken language transported within the respective stream of voice over IP data packets into continuous text by means of a speech recognition algorithm run by said transcription server, wherein said speech recognition algorithm is selected depending on a natural language or dialect spoken in the area of the current position of said mobile device; and outputting said transformed continuous text forwarded by said transcription server to said mobile device of the respective user or to a user terminal of the respective user in real time. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265530 | Speech End-Pointer - A rule-based end-pointer isolates spoken utterances contained within an audio stream from background noise and non-speech transients. The rule-based end-pointer includes a plurality of rules to determine the beginning and/or end of a spoken utterance based on various speech characteristics. The rules may analyze an audio stream or a portion of an audio stream based upon an event, a combination of events, the duration of an event, or a duration relative to an event. The rules may be manually or dynamically customized depending upon factors that may include characteristics of the audio stream itself, an expected response contained within the audio stream, or environmental conditions. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265531 | Speech based learning/training system using semantic decoding - An intelligent query system for processing voiced-based queries is disclosed, which uses semantic based processing to identify the question posed by the user by understanding the meaning of the users utterance. Based on identifying the meaning of the utterance, the system selects a single answer that best matches the user's query. The answer that is paired to this single question is then retrieved and presented to the user. The system, as implemented, accepts environmental variables selected by the user and is scalable to provide answers to a variety and quantity of user-initiated queries. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265532 | System For Natural Language Assessment of Relative Color Quality - Embodiments of the invention include a system for providing a natural language objective assessment of relative color quality between a reference and a source image. The system may include a color converter that receives a difference measurement between the reference image and source image and determines a color attribute change based on the difference measurement. The color attributes may include hue shift, saturation changes, and color variation, for instance. Additionally, a magnitude index facility determines a magnitude of the determined color attribute change. Further, a natural language selector maps the color attribute change and the magnitude of the change to natural language and generates a report of the color attribute change and the magnitude of the color attribute change. The output can then be communicated to a user in either text or audio form, or in both text and audio forms. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265533 | VOICE ASSIGNMENT FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH OUTPUT - Text can be obtained at a device from various forms of communication such as e-mails or text messages. Metadata can be obtained directly from the communication or from a secondary source identified by the directly obtained metadata. The metadata can be used to create a speaker profile. The speaker profile can be used to select voice data. The selected voice data can be used by a text-to-speech (TTS) engine to produce speech output having voice characteristics that best match the speaker profile. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265534 | Speech Enhancement Techniques on the Power Spectrum - The method provides a spectral speech description to be used for synthesis of a speech utterance, where at least one spectral envelope input representation is received. In one solution the improvement is made by manipulation an extremum, i.e. a peak or a valley, in the rapidly varying component of the spectral envelope representation. The rapidly varying component of the spectral envelope representation is manipulated to sharpen and/or accentuate extrema after which it is merged back with the slowly varying component or the spectral envelope input representation to create an enhanced spectral envelope final representation. In other solutions a complex spectrum envelope final representation is created with phase information derived from one of the group delay representation of a real spectral envelope input representation corresponding to a short-time speech signal and a transformed phase component of the discrete complex frequency domain input representation corresponding to the speech utterance. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265535 | PERSONAL VOICE OPERATED REMINDER SYSTEM - A personal voice operated reminder system. In one embodiment, the system is worn as a device on the body in a form similar to a watch, bracelet or necklace. In another embodiment the system is a device normally held in a person's pocket or purse, and in another embodiment the system is a method added as an application to already existing devices such as PDAs or cellular telephones. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265536 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING VOICE COMMAND - Disclosed is a technique for processing voice commands. In particular, the disclose technique increases a voice recognition rate without performing a process of inputting separate voice commands by updating a voice command table based on interaction with a user by storing similar commands input by the user once those commands have been confirmed by the user as similar command. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265537 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF A SMOOTH SPEECH SIGNAL FROM A STUTTERED SPEECH SIGNAL - Described herein are methods, systems, apparatuses and products for reconstruction of a smooth speech signal from a stuttered speech signal. One aspect provides for accessing a stored speech signal having stuttering; identifying at least one stuttered region in the stored speech signal; modifying the at least one stuttered region in the stored speech signal; and responsive to modifying the at least one stuttered region, reconstructing a smooth speech signal corresponding to the stored speech signal. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265538 | VOICE REMOTE CONTROL - A device may include a display and logic. The logic may be configured to receive, from a user, a selection f a first control action associated with an application stored in the device, provide, via the display, a number of choices associated with the first control action, and receive, from the user, a word or a phrase to use as a voice command corresponding to the first control action, wherein the word or phrase is selected from the choices. The logic may also associate the word or phrase with the first control action, receive voice input from the user, identify the voice input as corresponding to the word or phrase, and perform the first control action based on the identified voice input | 2012-10-18 |
20120265539 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING A BALANCED MICROPHONE CABLE - This invention enables a microphone to control the device having the microphone input. it includes both ideas related to the microphone as well as the device with the microphone input. It utilizes a standard two conductor shielded microphone cable and does not impact the audio from the microphone when the control operation is being performed. The microphone produces common-mode signals which are detected by the device with the microphone input. These signals provide control of the device with the microphone input. Likewise the device with the microphone input produces common-mode signals which are detected by the microphone. These signals provide control of the microphone visual display indicators. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265540 | AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHOD FOR ENCODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION, METHOD FOR DECODING AN AUDIO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A DETECTION OF A GROUP OF PREVIOUSLY-DECODED SPECTRAL VALUES - An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information includes a arithmetic decoder for providing a plurality of decoded spectral values on the basis of an arithmetically-encoded representation of the spectral values and a frequency-domain-to-time-domain converter for providing a time-domain audio representation using the decoded spectral values. The arithmetic decoder is configured to select a mapping rule describing a mapping of a code value onto a symbol code in dependence on a context state. The arithmetic decoder is configured to determine or modify the current context state in dependence on a plurality of previously-decoded spectral values. The arithmetic decoder is configured to detect a group of a plurality of previously-decoded spectral values, which fulfill, individually or taken together, a predetermined condition regarding their magnitudes, and to determine the current context state in dependence on a result of the detection. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265541 | AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODER, AUDIO SIGNAL DECODER, METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN ENCODED REPRESENTATION OF AN AUDIO CONTENT, METHOD FOR PROVIDING A DECODED REPRESENTATION OF AN AUDIO CONTENT AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR USE IN LOW DELAY APPLICATIONS - An audio signal encoder includes a transform-domain path which obtains spectral coefficients and noise-shaping information on the basis of a portion of the audio content, and which windows a time-domain representation of the audio content and applies a time-domain-to-frequency-domain conversion. The audio signal decoder includes a CELP path to obtain a code-excitation information and a LPD parameter information. A converter applies a predetermined asymmetric analysis window in both if a current portion is followed by a subsequent portion to be encoded in the transform-domain mode or in the CELP mode. Aliasing cancellation information is selectively provided in the later case. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265542 | OPTIMIZED PARAMETRIC STEREO DECODING - A method and decoder are provided for parametrically decoding a stereo digital audio signal. The method includes synthesizing the stereo signal, per frequency sub-band, on the basis of a decoded mono signal ({circumflex over (M)}[j]), arising from a downmix of the stereo signal and from spatial information parameters of the stereo signal, in such a way that the signals obtained have the following form: | 2012-10-18 |
20120265543 | MULTI-CHANNEL SIGNAL ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM - A multi-channel signal encoding method includes: determining a sum of channel level differences (CLDs) of a current frame of a multi-channel signal in a certain frequency band area; determining an average value of sums of channel level differences of at least two frames before the current frame in the certain frequency band area; according to the sum of channel level differences of the current frame of the multi-channel signal in the certain frequency band area, the average value of the sums of channel level differences of at least two frames before the current frame in the certain frequency band area, and a preset threshold, judging whether the channel level differences of the current frame are in a transient state or a non-transient state, and obtaining a judgment result; and according to the judgment result, performing quantization processing on the channel level differences of the current frame of the multi-channel signal. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265544 | Cost-effective resource apportionment technologies suitable for facilitating therapies - Configuration technologies for apportioning resources and communicating indications of potential or actual incentives based on one or more measurements or other objective indications that therapeutic components have been administered to an individual, other attributes of the therapeutic components or the individual, or other such determinants. Techniques for apportioning resources cost-effectively (between providers and other parties, e.g.) and for facilitating or handling implementations thereof or output therefrom. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265545 | Cost-effective resource apportionment technlogies suitable for facilitating therapies - Configuration technologies for apportioning resources and communicating indications of potential or actual incentives based on one or more measurements or other objective indications that therapeutic components have been administered to an individual, other attributes of the therapeutic components or the individual, or other such determinants. Techniques for apportioning resources cost-effectively (between providers and other parties, e.g.) and for facilitating or handling implementations thereof or output therefrom. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265546 | Cost-effective resource apportionment technologies suitable for facilitating therapies - Configuration technologies for apportioning resources and communicating indications of potential or actual incentives based on one or more measurements or other objective indications that therapeutic components have been administered to an individual, other attributes of the therapeutic components or the individual, or other such determinants. Techniques for apportioning resources cost-effectively (between providers and other parties, e.g.) and for facilitating or handling implementations thereof or output therefrom. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265547 | Cost-effective resource apportionment technologies suitable for facilitating therapies - Configuration technologies for apportioning resources and communicating indications of potential or actual incentives based on one or more measurements or other objective indications that therapeutic components have been administered to an individual, other attributes of the therapeutic components or the individual, or other such determinants. Techniques for apportioning resources cost-effectively (between providers and other parties, e.g.) and for facilitating or handling implementations thereof or output therefrom. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265548 | Cost-effective resource apportionment technologies suitable for facilitating therapies - Configuration technologies for apportioning resources and communicating indications of potential or actual incentives based on one or more measurements or other objective indications that therapeutic components have been administered to an individual, other attributes of the therapeutic components or the individual, or other such determinants. Techniques for apportioning resources cost-effectively (between providers and other parties, e.g.) and for facilitating or handling implementations thereof or output therefrom. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265549 | System and Computer Readable Medium for Predicting Patient Outcomes - A processor operates to predict an outcome of a patient. Current physiological information is received from a patient. A similar patient subset is retrieved and the current physiological information is compared to the historical physiological information of the historical records of the similar patient subset. A correspondence is rated between the current and historical physiological information. A selection is made between a first outcome and a second outcome based upon the ratings of the correspondences and a notification is presented that is indicative of the selected first or second outcome. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265550 | COHORT DRIVEN MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC TOOL - A computer implemented method, system, and/or computer program products derives a medical diagnosis for a patient. A current description of a patient is matched to a cohort of persons who each have a substantially similar description as the patient. Possible medical diagnoses, which have been accurate for members of the cohort, are presented for the patient. If one of the secondary medical diagnoses has an unacceptably high potential for an unacceptable outcome if improperly treated, then additional tests are run to rule out that secondary medical diagnosis. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265551 | MEDICAL IMAGE METADATA PROCESSING - Enhanced techniques for the extraction and use of metadata from medical images are disclosed herein. Based on the information in the metadata, specific processing may be performed within an image order management system, radiology information system (RIS), or like system. A radiology read order may be created, pre-populated, and transmitted via a processing system (e.g., a teleradiology image order management system) based on the metadata within the radiology image. For example, this metadata may exist within the header of a DICOM-formatted image data file or a DICOM communication protocol transmission. The processing system may then provide the pre-populated read order back to the source of the medical images for verification and submission. Other processing actions may also occur based on information extracted from the image metadata, such as custom workflows and handling based on an originating facility, or transferring the images to a particular radiologist or location. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265552 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR CLINICAL MANAGEMENT AND ANALYTICS - Devices and methods for clinical management and analytics can include a dashboard configured to be displayed on a device. Dashboards can include one or more graphs including a representation of a total number of patients and a set of the patients that have a common status relative to a metric. One or more of the graphs can include an area that is representative of the set of patients. The area can be selected to display information associated with the set of patients. The information can comprise contact information, demographic information, or health care cost information, for example. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265553 | HEALTH CARE FINANCING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and related computer program product for determining eligibility of a patient to receive health care financial assistance. An embodiment discloses receiving patient data comprising data suitable for applying for health care financial assistance; receiving credit information derived from a credit report of the patient; comparing at least a portion of the patient data and at least a portion of the credit information to respective portions of qualification criteria for each of a plurality of health care financial assistance plans stored in a database within a computer memory; determining if the comparison satisfies the qualification criteria for at least one of the plurality of health care financial assistance plans; and providing notification of eligibility for every one of the plurality of health care financial assistance plans in which the comparison satisfied the qualification criteria. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265554 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED ORAL HEALTH CARE - Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for improving oral health in which a secure database is provided containing medical information specific to and updateable by a patient. The data input by the patient is authenticated at time of input and the patient is provided with real-time access to the database information to obtain suggested behavioral modifications that suggest steps for the patients to take to avoid patient illness, based on a most recent health assessment. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265555 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING THE FLOW AND USAGE OF MEDICAL DEVICES - A system for monitoring the flow and usage of a plurality of medical devices ( | 2012-10-18 |
20120265556 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REMOTE CONTROLLED APPLICATION OF MEDICAL MONITORING AND ATTENTION - The present invention discloses a device useful for monitoring of patient condition and remote treatment administration, comprising: a. at least one portable monitoring means adapted to (i) acquire predetermined parameters from a patient for analysis; and. (ii) store said data in communicable database; b. at least one portable treatment administration means for remote administration of medical treatment; at least one computerized software program either wire or wirelessly connected with said mobile apparatus, adapted to (i) analyze said predetermined parameters acquired by said monitoring means; and, (ii) allow said remote treatment administration by said treatment administration means. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265557 | Electronic Method and System that Improves Efficiencies for Rendering Diagnosis of Radiology Procedures - An electronic method and system for improving radiologists' efficiencies when viewing radiology procedures and rendering diagnosis in a manner that emulates current methods and apparatus. The method of the present invention includes reviewing electronic radiology images and reports contained in a patient's digital master folder (an information object invented to manage the patient's radiology information), comparing images from the current procedure to specific images from prior procedures in a specified order, and dictating the procedure's diagnosis into the digital master folder. The apparatus of the present invention includes a flat panel monitor for the viewing and manipulation of digital master folders, a dictation trackball device for manual and voice enabled operation and navigation of the system, and multiple high-resolution computer monitors functioning as a “light-box” for the viewing of radiology images. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265558 | UNEMPLOYMENT INDICATOR PREDICTION - A method for determining unemployment insurance payment dollars and/or the unemployment rate at some point in the future includes receiving various data and performing a calculation based on such received data. In one embodiment, the unemployment insurance payment dollars can be determined in two quarters in the future by receiving data of percent change in personal consumption expenditures, receiving data of change in non-residential investment, and receiving data of median rent, and then, calculating such future total unemployment insurance payment dollars based on the percent change in personal consumption expenditures data, the change in non-residential investment data, and the median rent data. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265559 | System and Method for Integrating Project Delivery Risk Management - A system and method for managing risk on a project may include storing project information that reflects contract risk allocation provisions and project contingencies. The project may further be insured by a coordinated set of insurance policies. The project information may further include project definitions and terms of the insurance policies. A project participant may be enabled to submit a claim for coverage under the project contingencies or insurance policies that is related to at least one project definition. At least one other project participant may be enabled to submit a response to the submitted claim. Access to the submitted claim and to at least one submitted response to may be provided to a project manager. The project manager may be enabled to submit a decision about the submitted claim. The project participants may be notified of the decision about the submitted claim by the project manager. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265560 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPORTIONING RISK AS BETWEEN PROJECT CONTINGENCIES AND INSURANCE AND AS AMONG PARTICIPATING INSURANCE CARRIERS - A system and method for allocating risk of an insurance policy being issued by a lead insurance carrier for a project may include collecting project information associated with the project being covered by the insurance policy of the lead insurance carrier. The project information may include project provisions, contract contingencies, and insurance terms. Another potential carrier may be offered a percentage of the premium and coverage risk associated with the insurance policy. The project information may be made accessible for viewing by the potential other carrier to consider in connection with taking a percentage of the insurance policy. Information associated with the potential other carrier may be associated with the project information in response to the lead insurance carrier accepting an offer by the potential other carrier for a percentage of the insurance policy. The percentage of the insurance policy risk and premium may be communicated to the other carrier. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265561 | ONLINE MARKETPLACE METHODS FACILITATING LOCAL COMMERCE - A method for online electronic commerce including defining, by a processing unit executing logic, vendor parameters for each at least one of goods and services offered by each vendor, receiving consumer search queries, comparing, with the processing unit executing logic, the vendor parameters with the consumer search queries, and displaying to the consumers for purchase consideration the vendor parameters compatible with the consumer search queries. In some examples, the vendor parameters include a vendor defined product category, a product description, and one or more of local pickup parameters and local delivery parameters. In some examples, the consumer search queries include a consumer desired product category and one or more of local pickup preferences and local delivery preferences. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265562 | De-synchronization monitoring system and method - A method and a system are provided to analyze passenger name records (PNRs) stored in a PNR database (DB). The method includes automatically analyzing each action performed on a PNR stored in the PNR DB. When an action results in an occurrence of a de-synchronization event between the PNR and a corresponding electronic ticket, the method further includes automatically changing a status in the PNR from Established to Orphan. If a final status of the PNR is determined to be Orphan, the method sets a flag in the PNR to enable at least the display of information to an agent, where the displayed information is based on data included in the PNR and is displayed automatically to an agent, and at least indicates the occurrence of the de-synchronization event and a reason for the occurrence of the de-synchronization event. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265563 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMOBILE COLLISION REPAIR - The claimed invention relates to new and improved means for coordinating automobile collision and mechanical repair services. The claimed invention is also adaptable for use with restoration and aftermarket installation services. More specifically, the claimed invention relates to use of a secure website to offer an exclusive, comprehensive and convenient concierge style auto repair solution for modern lifestyle type customers. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265564 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASYNCHRONOUSLY SELLING EVENT TICKETS - Systems and methods for a group of people to purchase tickets are described. The group of people does not necessarily have to purchase such tickets at the same time, yet are able to sit together at the event as a group. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265565 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SEAT RESERVATIONS - This invention relates to an electronic means by which people can select the exact seat or seats they want for any type of event or reserve an appointment for any activity. More specifically, a customer or a ticket re-seller or a venue operator can go, for example, to the internet and select the event or activity for which he wants a ticket or tickets or reserve a time and reserve and order the exact seat or seats or the time of his choosing directly online. The seat or seats or reserved time he selects is then removed from the inventory for that activity or event and made not available for any other buyer and such is so indicated by a graphical representation or other such indicator on the online map or picture representing availability of seating or time for that event. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265566 | Test Portfolio Optimization System - According to one example, a test portfolio optimization system includes a test repository, an activity repository, an exception repository, and an optimization engine. The optimization engine is operable to generate a plurality of test portfolios. Each test portfolio comprises different types of tests of a plurality of tests. The optimization engine is also operable to determine a test cost for each portfolio over the period of time. The test cost for each portfolio is equal to a sum of costs for each test type within the portfolio over the period of time. The optimization engine is also operable to determine an impact per portfolio period of time. The impact per portfolio is equal to a sum of impacts per test type for each test type over the period of time. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265567 | OFFLINE CONVERSION REPORTING - A system can report an occurrence of an offline conversion with respect to an electronic commerce system. The system can then correlate information of the offline conversion with information comprised in one or more communication records to determine whether the offline conversion occurred as a result of a communication feature of the electronic commerce system, such as a click-to-call communication feature or a click-to-chat communication feature. The system can then report the offline conversion, and report that the offline conversion occurred as a result of the communication feature. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT OF AN APPLICATION - Systems and methods consistent with the invention relate to calculating a return on investment score of an application for an organization. In one exemplary implementation, the system and methods may receive a plurality of data items that reflect content created by a user, each of the plurality of data items corresponding to data item categories; receive a plurality of designations associated with the data items; and calculate return on investment scores for the data item categories based on the designations and the data items. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265569 | DETERMINING WORK PLACEMENT PREFERENCES - Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to determine work placement preferences are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving, via a processor, a request for a resource to fill an open position within an organization, the request including a primary resource group for the open position, determining with the processor resource group preferences of resource groups using a structure of the organization that includes functional relationships between the resource groups, calculating weights for the resource group preferences based on respective organizational distances in the structure of the respective resource groups from the primary resource group, determining a target resource group with a greatest calculated weight for a resource group preference from among the resource groups that have at least one available resource, and selecting a resource within the target resource group to fill the open position. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265570 | METHOD FOR CRITICAL PATH SCHEDULING OF ACTIVITY TIME SEGMENTS - A project management scheduling method applies critical path scheduling to separate the duration of each activity of the project into a group of segmented time segments attached to each other. The computer implemented method converts all activity relationships into finish-to-start between time segments without lead or lag times and corrects float and critical path calculations. Additional time segments representing daily events having either a positive or negative effect on time segment duration can be inputted and the project schedule adjusted accordingly. The method can also be employed in the conversion of existing critical path method scheduling systems. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265571 | MATCHING RESOURCES OF A SECURITIES RESEARCH DEPARTMENT TO ACCOUNTS OF THE DEPARTMENT - Systems and methods for allocating limited resources of a securities research department to accounts of the department are disclosed. According to various embodiments, the system includes an account scoring module and a resource matching module. The account scoring module is for generating a score for each account, and the resource matching module is for matching the resources of the department to the accounts based on the scores for each account. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265572 | METHOD FOR EXECUTING A BUSINESS PROCESS BY A STANDARD BUSINESS PROCESS ENGINE - Executing a business process can include providing a context data object including a payload data structure for storing a payload data and automatically splitting an annotated context data object into one or more utility data objects. Responsive to creating a second utility data object, a pre-processing task can be injected into the business process, the pre-processing task using a copy of a first mapping to read data from the predefined data structure instance and to store the read data as payload data in the payload data structure of the first utility data object. Responsive to creating a third utility object, a post-processing task can be injected into the business process. The post-processing task can use a copy of the second mapping to write the payload data of the first utility data object to elements of a predefined data structure instance. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265573 | DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION FOR DATA QUALITY CONTROL IN CROWD SOURCING TASKS TO CROWD LABOR - Systems and methods of dynamic optimization for data quality control in crowd sourcing tasks to crowd labor are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for dynamically monitoring results received from workers for a task distributed for evaluation via a job distribution platform, incrementally assigning additional workers to the task using the results and continuously monitoring additional results to assign any additional workers if needed to meet a quality metric for the task. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265574 | CREATING INCENTIVE HIERARCHIES TO ENABLE GROUPS TO ACCOMPLISH GOALS - A job is divided into tasks belonging to various levels in a hierarchy such that the tasks of one level of the hierarchy depend on the performance of the tasks of another level. The divided tasks are assigned to the respondents and, once the respondents' responses have been determined to be sufficiently accurate, the responses are assembled into a final result. The respondents may be rewarded for completion of their assigned tasks, and the rewards may be structured such that the rewards for the completed tasks create an informal hierarchy amongst the respondents. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265575 | TASK COORDINATION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND TASK COORDINATION SUPPORT METHOD - There is provided a task coordination support system for staffs each holding a mobile terminal in which the task information storage stores information on tasks to be implemented by the staff and task flow information showing constraint on order to implement the tasks, the receiving unit receives sensor information from the mobile terminal, the storage stores received sensor information therein, the estimating unit calculates, for each of the tasks, accuracy at which a predetermined implementation status is reached and estimates a task reached the predetermined implementation status among tasks not yet reached the predetermined implementation status, and the tweet message generator/deliverer generate a message corresponding to an estimated task, determine as a destination of the message a mobile terminal of a staff previously related to the estimated task which is different from the staff in charge of the estimated task and deliver the message to the mobile terminal. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265576 | System and method of making sales calls - A database navigation system for navigation and use of sales target information in a database, wherein a salesperson navigates the database by logging into the secured system. Once logged in, the system displays a Leads Worksheet that lists the sales targets from the database assigned to that user and the name of a prospecting cycle that the user will follow with that target. The prospecting cycle includes several management-defined steps, which actions the user completes using the tools provided. The history of user interaction with target data creates metrics used by the salesperson and management to evaluate performance and generate performance reports. The database navigation system is essentially an automated “cold call” sales prospecting process. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265577 | Methods, Systems, And Computer-Readable Media For Providing Future Job Information - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for providing future job information. According to embodiments, a method for providing future job information is provided. According to the method, a number of non-dispatched jobs within a future time frame for a plurality of buckets and a plurality of turfs is determined. A numeric indicator indicating the number of non-dispatched jobs associated with at least one turf and at least one bucket is displayed. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265578 | COMPLETING TASKS INVOLVING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION BY DISTRIBUTED PEOPLE IN AN UNSECURE ENVIRONMENT - A system receives from a client a job comprising confidential information. The system then distorts the confidential information associated with the job. Next, the system divides the job into multiple discrete tasks such that the distorted confidential information is further divided and the confidential information cannot be deciphered from an individual task. The tasks are then delegated to respondents in different geographical locations with different social preferences. Because of these differences the respondents are unlikely to communicate information about their job with each other. The respondents receive the job securely through their electronic devices, perform the delegated tasks, and provide the system with responses to the tasks through the devices. The system receives the responses for individual tasks, deduces a unified job response from the received responses and transmits the unified response to the client. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265579 | ENABLING A SUPPLIER OF COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE TO ANALYZE AN ASPECT OF BUSINESS - A supplier of computing infrastructure is enabled to analyze an aspect of business with respect to cloud computing business users of the computing infrastructure. A model for a cloud computing business for the cloud computing business users to rent computing items of the computing infrastructure from the supplier is accessed. The model includes inputs, parameters, and knobs. Sensitivity analysis and risk assessment are performed using the model based on any of the inputs, parameters, and knobs. Output describing results of the sensitivity analysis and the risk assessment is provided. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265580 | DEMAND PREDICTION DEVICE AND DEMAND PREDICTION METHOD - A demand prediction device and a demand prediction method capable of performing demand prediction with higher accuracy. A demand prediction server includes a data acquisition unit acquiring estimated population information that indicates population estimated in a predetermined area, a spatial weighing unit acquiring relative distance information that indicates a distance between a position of a prediction reference area included in the predetermined area and a position of a prediction target area for which the number of demands is to be predicted with the prediction reference area as a reference, and a regression analysis unit and a demand prediction unit for, by performing regression analysis using the estimated population information acquired by the data acquisition unit and a residual based on the relative distance information acquired by the spatial weighing unit, predicting the number of demands in the prediction target area. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265581 | System and Method for Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Optimization - A method of optimizing multi-enterprise supply chain agreements using an electronic scenario based option contract includes creating at a buyer computer a plurality of scenarios of forecasted demand for one or more products and communicating from the buyer computer to a seller computer an offer to enter into an option contract for the supply of the one or more products, the option contract including an option corresponding to each of the plurality of scenarios of forecasted demand. The method further includes executing the option contract, receiving at the buyer computer an indication of current buyer demand for at least one scenario associated with the one or more products, and exercising at least a portion of the option in the option contract based at least in part on the indicated buyer demand. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265582 | COMPUTING DEPENDENT AND CONFLICTING CHANGES OF BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS - Changing a business process model involves several aspects: (1) given a set of change operations, dependencies and conflicts are encoded in dependency and conflict matrices; (2) given a change sequence for a process model M, the change sequence is broken up into subsequences such that operations from different subsequences are independent; (3) given a change sequence for a process model V | 2012-10-18 |
20120265583 | METHOD FOR FEE CHARGING POSITION USAGES OF VEHICLES - Method for charging position usages of vehicles in a road toll system including acquiring an identifier of a vehicle device, a transaction value and an identifier of a payment card as a payment transaction, authorization a payment transaction system and transmitting associated authorization data with the vehicle device identifier to a toll server, generating a substitute identifier assigned to the card identifier and transmitting the substitute identifier with the authorization data to the toll server, associating the substitute identifier and the vehicle device identifier based on the respective received authorization data, calculating toll values based on position usages of vehicles, based on the card identifier assigned to substitute identifier, the transmitted toll values and the transaction value. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265584 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CONDUCTING FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS - A method of establishing wireless communications between an interrogator and individual ones of multiple wireless identification devices, the method comprising combining tree search and Aloha methods to establish communications between the interrogator and individual ones of the multiple wireless identification devices without collision. A system comprising an interrogator, and a plurality of wireless identification devices configured to communicate with the interrogator. In a wireless fashion, the respective wireless identification devices having a unique identification number, the interrogator being configured to employ tree search and Aloha techniques to determine the unique identification numbers of the different wireless identification devices so as to be able to establish communications between the interrogator identification and individual devices without ones of the multiple wireless collision by multiple wireless identification devices attempting to respond to the interrogator at the same time. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265585 | LOCATION BASED SYSTEMS FOR ENTRY AND EXIT - A system and methods using applications for entry and exit from registered locations, where a registered location has an associated geo-fence of any size or shape. A registered location may be mobile or stationary. An internet-connected device running an app transmits the current geographic location of the device, and a remote processing center executes a default action when finding correspondence between the geo-fence of a registered location and the current geographic information of an end user's device, and in one embodiment, the default action may be to enter and pay for parking at a registered location. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265586 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MEASURE AND CONTROL POWER CONSUMPTION IN A RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL BUILDING VIA A WALL SOCKET TO ENSURE OPTIMUM ENERGY USAGE THEREIN - A system and method to measure and control power usage within a residential or commercial building plurality having of electrical circuits electrically connected to an over-current protection device to ensure optimum energy usage therein. The system and method includes a power measurement and control device electrically connected to one of the electrical circuits by which a load draws power that is operable to (i) measure an electrical parameter of the electrical circuits, (ii) compare the measured electrical parameter to an ideal electrical parameter, and (iii) adjust power supplied to one or more of the electrical circuits based on the comparison of the measured electrical parameter and the ideal electrical parameter via a wall socket. The adjustment of power may be automatic or manual deactivation, decrease, and/or increase of power supplied to the electrical circuits via the wall socket so that such is equivalent to or less than the ideal electrical parameter. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265587 | INTERACTIVE MARKING SYSTEM - The present invention is a system which enables a marketing team to initiate and sustain directed and interactive communication with thousands or millions of existing or prospective customers. In the preferred embodiment, a marketer accesses a database and selects a group of qualified prospects, using lifestyle dimensions and or demographic information, from a stable group of prospective or existing customers conducting financial transactions online. Once a prospect list is selected, the marketer designs a series of questions, typically using branch and skip logic, and the system deploys the question sequence to the target list in the form of a response-redeemable savings coupon. When prospects are next performing their financial transactions online, they are presented with a lifestyle-relevant coupon which is immediately redeemable by responding to the question/communication. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265588 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING NEW CONNECTIONS IN AN ADVERTISING EXCHANGE - A method, system and computer readable medium for recommending new connections in an advertising exchange. The method identifies participants that share some similarity (e.g. a pre-existing advertising relationship), and on the basis of the features and extent of a similarity, and then suggests or recommends other relationships that can also be shared. The method commences by enumerating a set of producer participants and by enumerating a set of consumer participants where at least two of the members of the set of consumer participants has an ad relationship to at least one of the producer participants. Then, on the basis of a selected feature quantity the extent of the similarity is calculated. When it is found that one consumer is similar to a second consumer (by virtue of at least one shared ad relationship), then the system recommends to the participants one or more additional ad relationships that can be established. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265589 | Method For Collection And Processing For Recycling - A method for recycling recyclable material involving revenue sharing of the value of the recyclable material for individualized users based upon the amount, quality and/or value of the recyclables contributed by each individual user. A system for recycling recyclable material involving a densification apparatus, a processor, and a computer for allowing revenue sharing of the value of recyclable material. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265590 | FLEXIBLE SHIP SCHEDULES AND DEMAND AGGREGATION - Electronic buying and selling systems and methods are provided. In particular, relations among distinct price curves and buyers or potential buyers are disclosed. For instance, a price offered to a system user can vary based on total volume of all people aggregating in private environments, cumulative total order by user, ship date, optimal time, as well as terms and conditions associated with the offer (e.g., no cancellation of order, cancellation possible, payment method . . . ). | 2012-10-18 |
20120265591 | Cost-effective resource apportionment technologies suitable for facilitating therapies - Configuration technologies for apportioning resources and communicating indications of potential or actual incentives based on one or more measurements or other objective indications that therapeutic components have been administered to an individual, other attributes of the therapeutic components or the individual, or other such determinants. Techniques for apportioning resources cost-effectively (between providers and other parties, e.g.) and for facilitating or handling implementations thereof or output therefrom. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265592 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SATISFYING A SHARED ADVERTISING OBLIGATION - A system and method for at least partially satisfying an advertising obligation is provided where a voucher is conveyed or sold to a consumer, the voucher is redeemed with a vendor, and the vendor further redeems the used voucher with an organizer in exchange for credit towards an advertising obligation. Aspects of the system and method are carried out online, with or without an intermediary on behalf of the organizer. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265593 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING POSITIVE BEHAVIOR AND/OR MAKING AWARDS BASED UPON GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION - The system evaluates a set of incentives based upon a variety of factors and/or predetermined rules and consumers are provided incentives when they satisfy one or more criteria of making payments for their transaction accounts. The one or more criteria include making an early payment, paying more than a minimum amount due, and making the payment through an automatic payment scheme. If a received payment satisfies one or more predefined criteria, one or more incentives are selected for the consumer, tracked, and provided to the consumer. The system analyzes payment information to determine attributes and positive (desirable) behavior and provides incentives to the consumer based on such positive behaviors. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265594 | SETTLEMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM - A settlement processing apparatus comprises: an information input unit configured to input commodity-related information; a total amount calculation unit configured to calculate the total amount of the costs of the information-input commodities; a discount indication unit configured to indicate the execution of a discount of a predetermined class; a discount amount calculation unit configured to calculate a discount amount by multiplying the calculated total amount by a given discount rate if the discount indication unit indicates the execution of a discount; and a history storage unit configured to store the calculated discount amount for being able to identify the class of the discount, if the settlement of the commodity or service which is input the information by the information input unit is completed. | 2012-10-18 |
20120265595 | MOBILE DIGITAL MEDIA DOWNLOAD INCENTIVE MANAGEMENT THROUGH MULTIPLE USER ACTION TRACKING - A method for tracking downloads to a computer system is disclosed. Digital media content, such as music, games and applications (“apps”) are widely available with the popularity of mobile computing. Suppliers of such digital media content would appreciate it if their works were more widely disseminated and used. Users or customers may receive an incentive to purchase or to download an application. The incentive may be, for example, a free application, rewards points or a virtual currency. In one method, the user downloads digital media content in two stages. In the first stage, the user activates a first web-based link to download the digital media content. In the second stage, after downloading, the user activates a second web-based link to activate the application or other digital media content. The web-based links include user identifiers that are matched for the user to subsequently receive the incentive. | 2012-10-18 |